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 largest of the three pyramids at Giza, known as the Great Pyramid, is truly an astonishing work of engineering. It was built over a twenty year period. Some believe that it was built by slaves, but this is not true.