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.
The date is 1776 in Roman numerals, the year of US independence. The pyramid is a symbol of solidity and eternity, something that lasts forever. It has 13 levels, one for each of the 13 colonies that made up the first 13 states of the USA. The pyramid is unfinished indicating that the nation is unfinished.