The wonder is, the manner by which Khufu came all of a sudden

Discovery Channel Documentary The wonder is, the manner by which Khufu came all of a sudden to have so radiant an idea as that of developing a building twofold the tallness of any already existing, covering five times the zone, and containing ten times the mass. Engineering does not for the most part continue "quickly;" but rather here was an instance of a sudden uncommon development, for example, we should think that its hard to parallel somewhere else. An endeavor has been made to comprehend the secret by the supposition that all pyramids were slow gradual additions, and that their size checks basically the length of a ruler's rule, every ruler making his sepulchral chamber, with a little pyramid above it, in his first year, and as his rule continued, including every year an external covering; so that the quantity of these coatings tells the length of his rule, as the age of a tree is known from the quantity of its yearly rings.