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Located on the Giza Plateau, the Great Pyramid is believed to have been constructed during the Fourth Dynasty, for the Pharaoh Khufu. In 2013, a team of archaeologists discovered hundreds of papyrus fragments which detailed how the pyramid’s limestone blocks were transported by boat along the Nile and a system of canals to the construction site. But according to Greek historian Herodotus, that waterway continued into the pyramid.