How The Great Pyramid Was Really Built To this day, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt remains one of the seven wonders of the world. In fact, the Great Pyramid is the only surviving wonder of the world ("Wonders of the World"). The gigantic size of this pyramid can amaze almost all people who see this ancient monument. Many curious people stand in wonder at its base and try to imagine how it was constructed. Other people try to understand why the pyramid was even built. The Nile river became the center of all civilization in the arid desert of the Egyptian countryside. Nomadic hunters, ten to twenty thousand years ago, migrated to the Nile valle