# Cost of building a pyramid? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 16, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235 "2007-03-16T17:50:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235/1 "2007-03-16T17:50:22Z")
How much would the materials to build a pyramid cost today? ---
**Author:** ![crazyjoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f14d63/32.png) [@crazyjoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crazyjoe)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235/2 "2007-03-16T18:39:11Z")
I dunno, but you could probably look up building figures for the Luxor hotel and casino… ---
**Author:** ![T\_SQUARE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de053/32.png) [@T\_SQUARE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/T_SQUARE)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235/3 "2007-03-16T18:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] How much would the materials to build a pyramid cost today? [/QUOTE] How big? What do you want it made of? Do you want mystical powers or regular? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235/4 "2007-03-16T18:47:02Z")
[I asked the same question back in 2004!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=262227&highlight=pyramid) $5 billion seemed to be the consensus back then. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235/5 "2007-03-16T18:56:23Z")
Dunno about the materials, but [this guy says he can build it without modern technology or hordes of slaves](http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/Page1.htm): > [@](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f0a364/32.png) [@Rube\_E.Tewesday](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rube_E.Tewesday)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235/6 "2007-03-16T19:08:34Z")
[QUOTE=Fear Itself] Dunno about the materials, but [this guy says he can build it without modern technology or hordes of slaves](http://www.theforgottentechnology.com/Page1.htm): [/QUOTE] Plus, he’ll paint it for $29.95. No ups! No overs! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2007, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235/7 "2007-03-16T19:57:12Z")
[QUOTE=Pochacco] [I asked the same question back in 2004!](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=262227&highlight=pyramid) $5 billion seemed to be the consensus back then. [/QUOTE] Thanks. [Aeschines](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=4978573&postcount=2) answered the heart of what I was trying to ask, which is how much would the material cost. By his figures: 600 Million. [QUOTE=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. [/QUOTE] ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2007, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cost-of-building-a-pyramid/396235/8 "2007-03-17T01:04:39Z")
**Khadaji** starts his do-it-yourself project, visits Home Depot, HD Manager does the Happy Dance, film at 11.