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.
How long did it take to build a pyramid? It could take up to 20 or more years to build In building the pyramids, how did the Egyptians get the heavy/huge blocks of stone in place? Workers used sleds, wooden rollers and levers. They dragged & pushed the huge blocks up ramps of packed rubble to the level they were working on.