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.
Franz LÃ¶hner calculates a total number of 6'700 workers, which were necessary to build Khufu's pyramid (including preparation and planning, quarry work, transportation by ship and on land and building the pyramid).