giant limestone blocks
Limestone.
5000 pound stone
Egyptians Used big bricks of limestone To build pyramids! These bricks weighed 1,000 Lbs
Use them? Well, tourists visit them, so I suppose the people who sell camel rides around the pyramids etc. are "using" them to make a living.
crafts people, scribes and thousands of slaves
Assume square pyramids. Use the smaller of the two as the apex of a hexahedron that is a square frustum of the right measurements.
You can use any thing. At long you do it right.
They used it to make correct angles in the pyramids.
In order to make a cube out of pyramids, one would need a minimum of 6 pyramids.
They did use hammers to build pyramids. They also used other tools like chiesls, dolerite, trowels, drills, polishing stones, mallets in saws.
Yes, when the slaves built the pyramids they had to use whips to make the slaves work.
In Cario, Egypt lol