Cost of building a pyramid?

[Khadaji]

How much would the materials to build a pyramid cost today?

[crazyjoe]

I dunno, but you could probably look up building figures for the Luxor hotel and casino…

[T_SQUARE]

@Khadaji

How much would the materials to build a pyramid cost today?

How big? What do you want it made of? Do you want mystical powers or regular?

[The_Hamster_King]

I asked the same question back in 2004!

$5 billion seemed to be the consensus back then.

[Fear_Itself]

Dunno about the materials, but this guy says he can build it without modern technology or hordes of slaves:

I could build The Great Pyramid of Giza, using my techniques and primitive tools. On a twenty-five year construction schedule, (working forty hours per week at fifty weeks per year, using the input of myself to calculate) I would need a crew of 520 people to move blocks from the main quarry to the site and another 100 to move the blocks on site. For hoisting I need a crew of 120 (40 working and 80 rotating). My crew can raise 7000 lb. 100 ft. per minute. I have found the design of the pyramid is functional in it’s own construction. No external ramp is needed.

[Rube_E.Tewesday]

@Fear Itself

Dunno about the materials, but this guy says he can build it without modern technology or hordes of slaves:

Plus, he’ll paint it for $29.95. No ups! No overs!

[Khadaji]

@Pochacco

I asked the same question back in 2004!

$5 billion seemed to be the consensus back then.

Thanks. Aeschines answered the heart of what I was trying to ask, which is how much would the material cost. By his figures: 600 Million.

@Aeschines

If the stone cost $100 a ton (and each block was over a ton–I can’t imagine these things being cheap), that would be $600M right there.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

Khadaji starts his do-it-yourself project, visits Home Depot, HD Manager does the Happy Dance, film at 11.