Gender: Male. Usage: Gaius, of Latin origin, is not a popular first name. It is more often used as a boy (male) name. People having the name Gaius are in general originating from France, Greece, United Kingdom. Meaning:
Herodotus was told by his Egyptian guides that it took twenty years for a force of 100,000 oppressed slaves to build the pyramid (with another 10 years to build a stone causeway that connected it to a temple in the valley below). Stones were lifted into position by the use of immense machines.
The ancient Greek scholar Herodotus who lived around 450BC when the  Great Pyramid was already 2000 years old, was told that it took  100,000 slaves twenty years to build.  â¦  Most modern historians accept the twenty years but believe it was  more like 20,000 or 30,000.