>>2462583>Should we have wanted the pyramids in London, they would be here today.The Great Pyramid alone contains 6 million tonnes of material, whereas a typical large ship in the late Victorian period when Great Britain was exploring Egypt archaeologically had a tonnage of around 1,200.
Therefore, it would have required 5,000 trips (actually, I'm not even counting the crew, supplies, ballast, etc., so I'm being exceptionally generous) from Egypt to England in such a ship in order to bring back the largest pyramid.
And naturally, some fraction of those ships would sink/be lost en route. So even if attempting to sail the Great Pyramid to England wouldn't have bankrupted the British Empire several times over (it would), you would still not have all of it. About 10% would be missing.
