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.
Between 10,000 and 100,000 depending on the source. The ancient Greek historian and traveller Herodotus (c.450BC) was told it took 100,000 slaves 20 years to build the Great P â¦ yramid. Modern sources put the number at 10,000. Smaller pyramids built earlier and later must have took less time and fewer people to build.