Building famous pyramids of Giza required a huge effort, and scientists continue to uncover new details about how these monuments were made.
Now, researchers have discovered how they were fed the thousands of workers who have made ​​the Egyptian pyramids. Scientists have discovered the remains of a massive catering operation in the city where the workers lived, at a short distance from the pyramids.
City workers is approximately 400 meters south of the Sphinx, here living people who built the pyramid of Pharaoh Menkaure, the third and final pyramid of Giza.
The site is also known by its Arabic name, Heit el-Ghurab being called 'Lost City of the Pyramid Builders ".
Until now, researchers have discovered a cemetery near where the bodies are builders, a corral located south of where they were kept and slaughtered animals and many animal bones.
Based on the discovered bones, nutritional data and other findings from the site, archaeologists estimate that every day they were killed about 1,800 pounds of meat from cows, sheep and goats to feed manufacturers.