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The earliest existing description of the pyramids was written by the Greek historian Herodotus. After visiting Egypt in the fifth century BC, Herodotus described the four faces of the Great Pyramid as being covered with highly-polished limestone, with joints so fine that they were almost . Four centuries later, the geographer Strabo wrote of a perfectly , hinged stone located on the north face of the pyramid. The stone could be raised to form an entrance, but when was indistinguishable from the surrounding stone. The hidden entrance apparently gave access to a narrow passage that more than 350 feet into a damp, vermin-infested pit carved out of the bedrock directly beneath the base of the pyramid. However, by the 1st century AD, the of this door had been lost.
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