Building the Great Pyramid of Giza, c. 2560 BCE | Calm Bedtime History

The limestone plateau rises from the western desert, eight kilometres southwest of the city that Egyptians will one day call Giza. In the season of Akhet, when the Nile spreads across its valley, twenty thousand workers gather where nothing stood two decades before. They have come to finish a mountain built by human hands, its white casing already catching the dawn light as the final block is drawn toward the summit.