Stone to Silicon

Tools & manufacturing · c. 2,560 BCE

Great Pyramid of Giza

2.3 million blocks laid with a precision error under 0.1 percent.

Built for Khufu about 2560 BCE, it stood 146 m tall and was the tallest human-made structure for nearly 4,000 years. It shows state-scale logistics, surveying and copper-tool masonry.

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Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 3

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