I visited this pyramid in 2017. My guide explained that no tourists go to this pyramid, so of course I wanted to see it. There was absolutely no one on the road out to it. We parked at an abandoned police check point near the pyramid. My guide stayed behind at the lone table & chair at the check point. Walking up to it, alone without a person insight, was an experience that I will never forget. It was like stepping back in time.
You're the smart one! I had a similar experience in Japan. A cold dreary day, off season, and I wandered around the Castle all to myself. Weird and wonderful! THX
Just saw this mentioned in a previous GRANITE video - the first I've seen of this channel. It only got a few seconds of screen time, but I was enthralled. It's beautiful. What a cool experience your visit was, too. 'Off the beaten path' can lead to those blissful travel moments that make time freeze. Paz y luz. ☆
I've been inside most of the major pyramids in Egypt and the Bent was the most difficult to access and very interesting. Climbing down an 80 meter shaft was difficult at my age (71 at the time) but well worth it. Thanks for another interesting video.
@@hutchman0823 1) Among the "true" pyramids, with the burial chambers embedded in its internal structure, the Great Pyramid of Giza is undoubtedly the most fascinating in every way. It is also the most crowded, without a doubt. Although I have not visited the bent pyramid (because when I went to Dahshur 23 years ago it was closed), since I learned the details of its internal structure from books, I always considered it the second most fascinating, and the videos available since its opening gave me confirmation about that. In third place I would place the red pyramid of Dahshur, which I was able to visit then. The Meidum pyramid is essential to understand the transition between the ancient step pyramids and the true pyramids. Unis and Teti pyramids stand on their own right, as examples of mortuary texts. The Menkhaure pyramid is really interesting too. 2) Among the pyramids of the Middle Kingdom, the one of Sesostris II in El Lahun is undoubtedly recommended. Due to the complexity of its interior structure, the "black" pyramid of Amenehmet III at Dahshur is also fascinating, although it has never been open to the public. 3) Among the pyramids with the ancient "pit" system inherited from the mastabas, the step pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara stands out, and it will certainly be worthwhile (if the guards allow it) a trip to Abu Rawash to visit the remains of the pyramid of Djedefre, Khufu's son and successor.
You hardly ever hear about the other pyramids of Giza, let alone pyramids outside the area. It’s crazy how there’s still original wood even. I really liked this video! Thank you
I have always loved the bent pyramid. For one, it has a lot of it's external case stones still remaining, showing how the builders intended these these things to look in finished form. Secondly I love it as an example of being human, of flawed engineering, learning from mistakes. having a vision but due to structural issues making adjustments. Lastly, I love it as an example that aliens did NOT build the pyramids, because why would some advanced alien race build a flawed structure.
@@1Stormrider1 The alien explanation is just a easy way for those that can't investigate, reason, research, measure, test, etc the fact that humans could and did build the various megalithic structures. Why would an advanced alien society, having figured out how to travel the vastness of space, land on a planet and build a bunch of giant stone structures. Just because it's fun? And on top of it, stone structures with very dubious construction methods and materials. For example, if aliens had some advanced way to cut stone, why didn't they use the same method to cut perfect blocks for the pyramids interior blocks, instead they are full all kids of different sizes that the Egyptian builders could put in to fill up the bulk of the pyramids. If aliens were so great at building, why did the Meydum (black) pyramid collapse. Using an alien explanation is discrediting those ancient people that figured out a way to build these structures, despite us not having a wiki page that explains exactly how it was done, there are plenty of clues that have been and are being discovered that they were indeed human made.
@@zzdoodzzalien involvement in such a thing is just ridiculous, an ancient, advanced human-like species that originated on earth much more possible- and it’s quite clear we are still only scratching the surface on this lost piece of history, personally I would search the entire area and try and find things that don’t jump out at you like the pyramids themselves. I’m more interested in hidden underground passages and places that nobody in the modern world has ever seen before. There is probably an unreal amount of stuff hidden under that sand.
As an Engineer, and Contractor for 40 years, it never ceases to amaze me, that we look to archeologiests to explain something they have so little basic knowledge about. Enjoyed the video, you raise many valid questions.
It's amazing that the ancient Egyptians had so much knowledge to build these magnifying pyramids, yet today brilliant college educated architects have different options on how they were built. It will always be a mystery.
Man power….. brute force…..People only think about the designers of these projects, not the manpower required…. No electric tools/massive machines…..Pure physical graft
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I expect that many archeologists, especially the ones who investigate ancient architecture, know a thing or two about architectural engineering. Much like archeologists who investigate ancient human remains know a thing or two about human biology. There are many specialist fields within archeology, just as there are many specialist fields within engineering. One engineer may be able to manufacture a turbine blade, another may be able to build a reservoir.
@@Fuzzmo147yup. It’s absolutely astonishing what they were able to accomplish back then! I bet it if we tried to do this today with the same tools we couldn’t get it done
There is no reason to call this a failed pyramid. On the contrary, it is a complex design and it has been completely finished, including all the casing stones. The underground structure is amazing in its complexity. I find it difficult to believe it would have served only as a tombe, as these chambers are far too complicated. We probably will never know its purpose or which rituals have been performed here.
Agree.. and Mainstream Archeologists ignored the possibility that these ancient structures are all about Steam Engineering..m.ruclips.net/video/oTLKkeCbr_c/видео.html
It certainly wasn't designed to facilitate easy access though. It almost puts me in mind of the access to 40,000 year old cave paintings which was likely a sort of rite of passage though in that case probably for young teens, which helps explain all the big breasted females in the graffiti there if that art was mostly done by ~14 year olds. Youths would've had an easier time here too but it doesn't really seem to fit with what we know of ancient Egyptian culture. Perhaps if these edifices served as billboards to the power of Pharoh and the state outwardly while the internal spaces might've been for initiating acolytes for the priests. I strongly suspect both the bent and Medeum pyramids were originally stepped structures. The Bent pyramid may have looked just like an enlarged version of the later sun temples with a shorter spire before being expanded and cased. Medeum just looks like someone tried to turn a similar core into a pyramid only for their efforts to collapse as only the inner core had a strong foundation. The apparently later sun temples might've been recreations of older structures already there or the result of Dynastic Egypt remembering the original styles of these structures though no record now survives.
I feel we have to think that this structure had a function but not to do with rituals like burial of a pharao. It's more like an ancient and very complex machine imo
Is complex in one sense, but in another frame you have this huge structures, the largest in the world for millennia, and there's just a few rooms and passages. It's a tremendous feat, and a lot went into them, but all that stone didn't but them much functionality.
my feeling as a building designer about the function of "mysterious" functions of diving tunnels and blind chimneys is this: it is about moisture control. They knew the burial chamber had to be as dry as possible at all times. Of course, they took the dryest spot to build on, and the shape and size of the pyramid helped to keep rain as far away as possible. The door was placed high, so, in a freak rainfall event water would not come flowing in. But, for in case it did, they made this uptich at the end of the tunnel, so inflowing water could not reach the chamber. Then, if water ever would reach the inside of the monument, it had to be able to evaporate out. Maybe they knew that a perforated rock gives a dryer place. Even if the end of the chimneys are closed, they provide a way for water vapour to diffuse out of the bottom and be absorbed by the upper stone mass. The baking sun does the rest. They dont need to be open, better not, because that would be a way for moist air to come in. I think it is just this: climate control, preventing fluids from reaching the center + ventilating upwards into the stone mass.
@@ElJeFe556 yes "they have" lol. Djoser's pyramid was found to contain mummy parts, the red pyramid had mummy parts, and many queens pyramids were found with bones or fragments of human remains. You're just lying on the internet for no reason.
Very interesting! So many archaeological mysteries in Egypt. also thank you for not having distracting/ irritating sound effects in the background. Keep up the good work
I have had a hard time with the explanation for this being "bent" to help "fix" it. It has always looked to me like the top of an obelisk. I really appreciate your work on this video. You are showing the contrasts between the oldest pictures and modern ones and I appreciate that. It seems to also be one of the most multiple room and level(s) of any of the pyramids. You asked what we would like to see ... more details on this pyramid such as a study of how much wood has been found inside the pyramid and have they done dendrochronological dating? That seems interesting to me because it would offer some dates of construction. So much within this structure seems altered or added to or well, not as simple and straightforward as the Giza pyramids and I'd like to see a detailed drawing of what is there now. What I'd really love is a block by block inspection documentary - formed into a kit where we rebuild these structures block by block and I bet that can be done on computers. THANK YOU for sharing this and you are amazing - fresh and detailed. Spot on!
I agree with everything you said here. I am very skeptical of these crudely drawn cartouches in these pyramids which they use to attribute to a specific pharaoh. If modern egyptologist would get out of the way and allow actual engineers and scientists to do thorough explorations, I believe it would draw more tourism and attention because of what the would discover.
So many insanely intricate video game maps and models have been made but the closest is Serious Sam? So sad. Can't shake the feeling these pursuits are a waste of time. Can't stop though. Was there a threat behind all these constructions? Free beer and easy access to bedroom partners can only buy so much. Oh well, to be continued...
@@tsriftsal3581 It isn't "free beer", it's wages. Not all wages are paid in coins and paper. A Roman's salary was supposedly paid in salt. You wouldn't consume all the beer or salt yourself, you'd barter it for food, clothing or whatever, same as we spend coins and paper on the things we need.
I’m really glad you’re starting to get the recognition you should for these videos! The amount of research, hard work, and passion that go into them is simply amazing ❤
Man you have the best channel on the subject of the pyramids on RUclips or anywhere else. You discuss things that no one else even considers. I will never be able to go to the pyramids and I've always had questions about them that no one else talks about. I really appreciate everything you do. Please keep em coming, I look forward to each and every one. Thank you
I visited the Bent Pyramid last year and found it to be a truly enigmatic structure. This video captures the awe - and at times, claustrophobia - I felt when exploring its bizarre corridors and chambers. It is a true mystery and I do agree as you have stated in this video that it is "convenient" to label this pyramid as a "failure". The narrative informs us that cracks were found in the lower foundations and therefore the slope was modified to accommodate those "errors". And yet there it stands, 4,000 years later! GREAT video!! I felt like I was back inside the pyramid again! Thank you!
I think it's more of a success story in that they completed the pyramid in a way that has stood the test of time, rather than just scrapping it and using the blocks in a new project.
The Pyramids were nothing to do with the Egyptians - they are advanced Power Plants that were destroyed in a huge cataclysm at least 12,000 years ago and they were built using advanced technology with power tool marks still on them today. The ENGINEER Chris Dunn has reversed engineered the Great Pyramid at Giza and shows what each part of the Pyramid did and the chemicals used to get the Pyramid to vibrate etc to generate power in his excellent book The Giza Power Plant and he also exposes the advanced ancient technology used in his book re that subject as well. Brien Foerster also exposes all of this advanced ancient technology and sites all over the world in his books and on his RUclips channel.
@@williamwoods8022 And yet with such full fledged understanding of such power plants he isn't running his Tesla and house from a little pyramid power spot in his back yard. . .
@@williamwoods8022 Funny you should mention Chris Dunn as he was on the tour I attended when I went to Egypt. He's a great guy with a wicked sense of humor and I got to spend some time with him and even helped him carry one of his specialized measuring tools. I have both of his books, one of which you mentioned, and truly appreciate his astonishing theories. I have always believed that there was more to the pyramids and the Serapeum (Chris calls the Serapeum the "smoking gun") than meets the eye and in fact, upon traversing the internal passages of both the Bent Pyramid and Khufu's Pyramid, got the sense that they were, "functional" in some form or another. Nevertheless, I admire Chris for his well thought out and damn near brilliant theories, but I do not necessarily ascribe to all of them. Keeping an open mind to be able to entertain both traditional and more fringe or esoteric theories is very important to me.
After watching this video and the points you raised... its amazing no one else in Egypt is pursuing the questions alone from this video. Love this channel
@@TommyAmun you actually get to find stuff out on this channel. Guys straight forward and pragmatic in his own style. Ticks all the boxes for me. Channels like this are the diamonds in RUclips. Sometimes you need a break from murder docs and caving incidents.
Thank you for your attention to the Bent Pyramid! I love it when other pyramids besides the Great Pyramid are discussed! Thank you! One of the things that has always frustrated me about anything to do with Egyptian pyramids is the continuous focus on The Great Pyramid. I have always been of the attitude that "Hey, just over there is another pyramid (Khafre's) that's almost the same size. Anybody interested in that?" and here, the Bent Pyramid, and it's sister the Red Pyramid are among many others all over that area. It's like, people like to marvel at how many stones were carved and transported to make the Great Pyramid, some transported as far as 500 miles away, and to me, that only serves further to the ACTUAL marvel of how ALL these massive structures were made! Thinking about how many stones it took to make the Great Pyramid....how about how many stones it took to build ALL them MF'ers!!! And yet for some reason or another, all these other pyramids are at best an afterthought to the GP and not nearly taken as the true marvel they all are when considered together. At least that's how it seems to me.
I look forward to every video you release and watch them as soon as they appear in my feed. You have IMO the most logical analysis of egyptian archeological history on RUclips.
I think this is your best video. You do a great job of explaining enough to make us realize how intriguing this all is while leaving us wanting more. I hope you do make more videos on this structure in particular.
Maybe the chimney is for hauling out rubble from the tunnelling and also for allowing light into the tunnel (before they started laying any blocks). The 8 metre section filled with rubble, below the bottom level could be a type of ‘French drain’ to allow rainwater to be absorbed slowly into the rock and not flood the working part of the tunnel.
Wrong , why don`t you actual read about it from actual Egyptologists, because unless the Egypt boss of the pyramids and antiquities say's yes you don't get any where, Which is why the owner of channel uses every body else's research and not his own , Because he has no qualifications and can only get to the pyramid's as a fucking tourist like the rest of us. I call youtuber like this arse as child abusers. The day is getting closer where posting unfounded claims on a public assessable social media platform will get you hung for child abuse. Posting videos that are not true and available for children with out clear precise warnings is global child abuse. The sooner arseholes like this are hung the sooner mankind can release the choke of ignorance that has been around all but Australia's neck for 2,000 years.
Why would you need to remove rubble from tunnelling? Think of the corbelled blocks. Would you tunnel out a volume and then drag blocks down into the area? Or dig a large pit and build the corbelled ceilings inside and then fill around the blocks? The rooms and passages are lined with blocks but they are below ground level. So behind the blocks must by solid rock. So the question is; "What's between the blocks and the solid rock?" What is often ignored is that when building a pyramid, all passages and rooms are open to the sky. So, for example, they didn't have to move the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid's King's Chamber through the passages, they put it in place and built the room around it. In a similar fashion they might have dug a pit, built the rooms and then erected a pyramid on top. No real tunnelling is required except in the initial stages.
@@JohnJ469 What's between the blocks and the solid rock? my answer to that would be nothing if the blocks line the excavated tunnels & rooms. if the stone is the same it's possible they were made in situ from whatever was dug out, though that would require some very careful manoeuvering and logistics, probably impractical for all but the smallest blocks. not convinced about building around a sarcophagus. would you leave your most prized possession in the middle of a modern building site, even with all the health and safety regulations we have now? now imagine that with a once living god being surrounded by ancient builders working with massively unwieldy stone blocks, and all the tools and dust and dirt and workers and noise everywhere.. pretty undignified. not to mention that you completely remove the hugely important aspect of a burial ceremony in a magnificent, completed structure, and the fact the building would need to continue long after the burial, which in itself would be pretty anticlimactic.
In all honesty.. THAT should have been 1st place. Yours was so much better in concept and finish by far! I’ve been making dioramas for years and would never have come up with such a beautiful design. Incorporating the area where these models come to life (the cutting mat, tools and table) was genius to include. You’re very talented.. the making of the paint labels.. just wow! Great work. ❤👍
I found this to be one of your most interesting trips. This pyramid has always been the most interesting to me and your placement in the time line, earlier than I had been led to believe, presents some fresh thoughts. I may have miss it, I'll have to watch it video again, but it would have been nice to have had larger planer views of the internal layout as it was confusing with your east, west, etc. directions as you went through the rooms and corridors. I'm looking forward to your next video.
I had no idea at all about the Bent Pyramid, apparently. When I read about it before, years ago, it was said that is was a failed pyramid, because the Egyptians hadn't mastered the art yet of building a proper pyramid. This video was a eye opener and I know I'll have to watch it more than once to pick up all the new information. Thanks to you I have learned much more than one new thing today!
When Martin Sweatman did his review of all papers regarding younger dryas cause, he carefully went into describing the time range probabilities of the various pieces of evidence. Some evidence of timing of events sequence was more reliable and precise than others. It would be nice to see a similar analysis of pyramid Construction chronology. The Bent Pyramid should be dated accurately from the logs built into the pyramid.
I think that this pyramid is splendidly bended, allowing greater mass and more faces. Bent may not be popular with platonic purists but it seems perfect to me, beautiful in its style and simplicity.
Subbed. Fantastic work. These neglected and ignored pyramids deserve just as much attention as Giza. I've been wanting more info about some of the others in this sort of detail for a long time. You put it together fantastic. Thank you for your work.
Given the 3 great Pyramid’s have held up to date and these other “failed “ pyramids haven’t and are far less superior in every way then the 3 great pyramids it makes u wonder if the “failed “ pyramids where the Dynastic’s trying to replicate the 3 great pyramids which are far older and from another earlier civilization just a theory tho
Yes, this channel is unreal. I'm glad that archeology lends itself to more slow-paced deep dive videos where people can still talk normally and where it's not implied that the attention span is < 2 minutes. Subbed!
Wow what a video! Dispite no actual video footage this was amazing! This has solidified my want to visit these marvels as a bucketlist item. I cannot wait to see more of your content!
Man! I love this channel! Who knew the pyramids of Sneferu were so fascinating?! When you get through with these, could you put on your "to do" list the Pyramid of Djedefre? I watched a program on that years ago and found it really interesting. Of course, it's been all but dismantled, but I'll just bet there are some interesting stories to uncover.
Your work is a REFRESHING and GROUNDED view , with much more rational explanations than the VAST majority of theories and discussions regarding the wonderful pyramids ! Thanks !
Your work here is so valuable. I appreciate you keeping away from wild speculations and hyperbole. You stay close to the facts at hand, and also thank you for not having a silly soundtrack of mysterious flute music or whatever. Really solid work.
I think regardless of whether this structure forms a perfect pyramid (as we conceive of it) or not it’s impossible to argue it was a failure that was abandoned. It underwent so many complicated completion steps and its internal arrangements are so extensive that it seems improbable to the point of discredit that the bent pyramid could have been seen as failed by its builders.
I'd like to see a closer look at the smooth casing stones. Their design, fit, application and purpose. I greatly enjoyed your exam of the bent pyramid design and construction. From childhood I heard it was a design mistake rectified during construction to keep it from falling down. You have exposed this myth for me. Looking forward to more episodes from your series.
The casing stones of the Bent Pyramid are the most interesting because of how many 'patched repairs' there are. But one mistake that's always made is comparing the nearby Red Pyramid casing stones because only a few survive, and they are next to where the temple would be on the lowest course. So those stones would be made to look the best on the entire pyramid. So there's no apples-to-apples comparison between the two.
12:00 The description of your "chimney to nowhere" fits exactly the description of a temporary ventilation shaft designed to be later securely sealed off: ends at ground level, was sealed off with granite blocks at ground level, and two unused tiled limestone blocks of the correct size to further shut off the ventilation shaft when it was no longer needed. It goes nowhere now because a pyramid was later built over its exit. It might have also been used as a shaft to lower things down. But I think ventilation was its prime use, given your description of it.
I'd be willing to bet that some architect had the clever idea of using it as the entrance for the burial, hence the unused blocking stones. Why bother with those if you're going to pave the whole thing over with a million tons of limestone? The designer probably initially intended that there would be access to that shaft, which could then be blocked in before Sneferu said "You are not putting my mummy in a basket and lowering it down a hole."
Super glad i found this channel. I watch a ton of Ancient/Arch/History videos and this is incredibly well done. Super descriptive and content that people would definitely be curious about. The photos/vids used are strategic to the content and show more than Ive seen in 45minutes documentaries. So much ive never seen before. the most descriptive reasonings and also provide open ended questions
Love your videos!! As there is no way I can visit and see for myself anymore to see these amazing structures through your specialist eyes is such a pleasure. The inscription you illustrate does not seem to be off the same quality as inscriptions in the many tombs in Egypt and I assume the wooden logs have been preserved by the dryness of desert. I also wonder if this pyramid, as well as many others, could actually have been built by the old kingdom Egyptians. That is a real mystery to me as well as all the other mysteries that you point out in your videos. Many thanks!! David 🇨🇦
Those originally finished corridors were very impressive! We are so used to seeing even the best of ancient structures in rough conditions of ruin. But those corridors looked just like they did the day the pyramid was sealed!
Crazy to realize, right? They have been in that exact same shape for 4500 years. You can literally imagine the worker’s hands resting on the exact same surfaces that we’re seeing. It’s as good as a Time Machine as we’ll ever have
Thank you for this in depth documentary, I have never considered it a failed design. Always thought that it was deliberately constructed in this way for some technical purpose we haven't yet discovered.
Seems pretty absurd that the powerful that were trying to send a message would leave their mistakes on show for everyone. And if we are to believe that these were burial chambers, which the Egyptians supposedly needed built in a specific way to enable/facilitate spectral travel to the afterlife... seems even further from acceptable to simply change course/design in the middle of construction.
I think the stone piles/steps were from loopers. I also think they absolutely did use large elevation changes as an obstacle. I also think the upper entrance that was sealed was used to move items in then sealed with the hope it would not be found since someone would need to climb so far up the smooth outside of the pyramid and know exactly where that entrance was to get in. On top of that, it would be very hard to get items back out and back down safely that far in the past. I'm not sure about the redirections because the horizontal ones I don't see as a way to stop falling rocks. I believe the well shafter and the tunnels connecting chambers with redirections were not original but instead a part of a good looting scheme later on. I think the redirections were arguments and corrections to digging instructions. How the looters knew the direction to dig though is a very good mystery to me. The surfaces of these tunnels, redirections, and the places they connect all seem out of character for the original builders. Also, I believe that even though there was a window between two blockages like you mentioned, I definitely still think those blockages were obstacles because the vertical distance to the window would still imply that a looter had gotten to that point with enough supplies to get up to the window (only to run into a second obstacle) I also agree that I don't think this pyramid was seen as a mistake, I think it was fully in use with valuables and the dead inside of it. I think that this pyramid shows a significant amount of work, design, and obstacles all to protect specific areas and that the idea of them pouring all that time and effort into a pyramid that they would leave empty purely for a small amount of slippage is ridiculous. Speaking of, like you mentioned, there was also that small visible correction for slippage that I believe was not just a done once then ignored kind of situation but instead that that was the actual amount of slippage at the time which was all that needed corrected and that the rest of the slippage occurred from then to now which is why it was not even attempted to be corrected. The small open area on the side of the well in the great pyramid I believe was a place for them to put their dirt/rubble before moving on. While digging at the top with more angled tunnels, they could have hauled material up and out much easier, once they were down so far, it became impossible to do so. The walls being made of rubble that is stuck together I think is just a product of the very large rubble piles being in that location for so long. All just guesses and food for thought
The chambers and shafts in the pyramids were not dug to create the, the stones that make up the construction were placed in such a man er that the chambers and tunnels were there once construction of the area they reside in was complete, so there would be no rubble and whatnot like you mention...... Unless I'm misunderstanding what your trying to say....... Also you really think these pyramids ever hekdnthe dead in them?? I don't think there has been any found within the pyramids have there?? I feel it's pretty obvious that the pyramids were never intended to be tombs for anything and if they were used as such that they were later on repurposed to be such
😀 Thanks again for your in depth analysis of what you’ve found relating to this pyramid. I confess that this structure seems far more confounding than i was expecting, well done for laying out your findings so interestingly. 👍
I went inside that pyramid in august of this year. Took alot of pictures and was in complete awe most of the time. That pyramid is the hardest of them all to explore. The entrance is long and tight. You are bending all the way down and up. Inside quite huge but some places narrow too. Thank God for the wooden stairs they have made. I am a big man and that pyramid was exhausting. After this pyramid I could no longer muster the energy to enter the red pyramid wich also was on my to do list. Guess I just have to go back to Egypt cause I really want to see the red one inside too
Fascinating video! Thank you so much for detailing so many of this ancient structure's mysteries. I'd love to know how deep the chimney goes and whether there are any additional rooms or spaces at the bottom. Why are the wooden beams embedded in the structure if they aren't supporting? And have they been carbon dated to establish a definite age for the pyramid? The questions go on and on!
conniebenny: The embedded wooden beams could mean all the stones are artificial stones, or poured cement concrete. The cement concrete idea could also be derived from the erosion on all the pyramid stones. No natural stones will erode like these pyramid stones. Natural stones do erode but human eyes cannot see, while the erosion on the pyramid stones is very easily seen.
@@legpol i keep hearing about "concrete" that looks exactly like a natural rock -- enough to confuse scientists ! after many years of work w concrete beginning in 1972 until 2020 i find that inconceivable. if the original builders were advanced enough to produce such illusion why do it ? it sounds like ancient stories of vehicles made to look like biological creatures - vishnu and his garuda shiva and his bull.... makes my head spin a bit. maybe the "vehicles" were/are actual living friends of the main actors many temples still have one nice perch for garuda ! respect. funny: the main guy Lord Krishna... just popped in and out . maybe He can tell us what was going On inside here . .
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 : Your experience in the concrete is very valuable. I believe you will be able to tell us something about erosion. When we see erosion in the pyramid stones, what will we conclude, please?
Geopolymers use a diferent chemical hardening process than concrete and shouldn't be confused they are not the same thing. People confuse the two for obvious reasons. As for design philosophy I've heard the construction of buildings was the manifestion of the will of "pharohs" on earth and held to be sacred, that the structure should mirror the natural environment. And the the geopolymers mimics natural stone to the point of being almost indistinguishable in many cases.
Wow, very cool! Is the stone slab in the eastern part of the upper corridor (leading to the upper chamber) only held open by a wooden beam?? If so, from what period is the beam?? Thank you!
The big beam is modern, but there is a smaller wooden wedge as well which may be ancient. Even without the wood blockage, I think the stone is jammed and would not move further without considerable help.
A refreshing analysis! Two things I want to note though: The "access tunnel" is suspiciously square for a a simple hole dug by looters. It definitely warrants further investigation. Additionally, the shafts which were once filled are also suspiciously smooth and square. Given the asymetrical blocks found in all pyramids, I find it hard to believe they simply threw square blocks down the shaft.
Have more than one pyramid been subjected to Muon Scanning and if so could you go into this in one of your upcoming episodes? Very interesting stuff, keep it coming.
They did a preliminary scan of the Bent Pyramid to prove the muography could see the upper chamber from below. But this was only a control study, and they didn't gather nearly as much data from it.
It’s crazy to me that this hasn’t been done. The tech is there, why is no one willing to finance such an undertaking? We are literally looking at one of the most intelligent early civilizations here. Finding anything at all would be such an enrichment of our known history
If you draw a line straight down from the bend, the triangle that's formed is a 3/6/9 right angle triangle. The bottom part of the bend is a trapezoid, which is half of a hexagon. There was no mistake. This is a giant geometry lesson...
The chimney looks like it was part of a pulley system elevator, to avoid having to take large items up the stone stairs. I believe the holes in the floor are not traps but a spot that workers could jump into to use their body weight to aid in lifting heavy objects. The flaps in the floor are essentially resting points when they reach a certain point, or fail safes. I'm not convinced the walls were polished but more like well worn down. I believe they sent the large things down, then up rather than in the front to 1) Keep the main entrance small 2) stop from blocking people in during construction. The slip would have been an issue if it was caused by moving the extra weights inside the structure. It could also be that it didn't need corrected because they were already done with the large objects.
My first reaction to this is that an underground burial chamber was constructed to have a tomb ready just in case. Then, the pyramid was constructed on top, with access requirements changing throughout the project.
It’s not a bad idea. I see similarities there for Khufu and Khafre as well. But the Bent Pyramid’s “backup” space is considerably more grand than Khufu or Khafre bothered to design.
@@HistoryforGRANITE a giant mastaba with a huge pyramid ( to the sun?) added later? I agree that’s a plausible explanation. Are you suggesting ( in the last part) that the room had a false floor that later collapsed? I have often wondered whether all the ‘true’ pyramids were constructed initially as step pyramids then had the gaps back filled/ built from the top down. If you look at the plundered satellite pyramids at Giza they were clearly initially built as step constructions as it’s clearly visible!
@@HistoryforGRANITE The best ideas I've heard are the power plant (Dunn) and the geopolymer (Davidovitz)... The small stacked blocks might have been to tune the chamber to the right volume/frequency. The ruined chamber could have been ruined by some kind of acid. So it could have been a big battery or power plant like Christopher Dunn theorizes. It's totally crazy to think it was built as a burial for anything. The blocks look almost identical to what Davidovitz and his team made by hand. The bat mummy was probably just a dead bat, since there were plenty in there. The military post out there is also telling. The slipped masonry is probably not slipped, probably served a purpose.
Nobody in the last 3000 years have been buried inside a Pyramid and if this was the way to go then why not. Nothing to do with tombs EVER. Also I am recruiting for a new Pyramid and I just need the funds, manpower, designs, tools, permits, ect.........................................
Fascinating. Thanks for your considerable work. I'm always curious about the 'robbers' of these structures. Who were they? When did their incursions occur? What was their motivation? (Was it to reuse what they found for other pharos, or for the 'monetary' value?) How did they achieve what they did, without being discovered? Or were the robbers state/dynasty sponsored? As you say: so many questions
I don’t believe there is any evidence of the pyramids ever holding treasure. We jus assume they where robbed long ago because they where empty when we went in there. Or maybe that’s just the explanation they want you to follow..
Fascinating video! There’s so many intriguing aspects to the bent pyramid! With regards to the chimney, was this not an initial dig down / exploration tunnel by the builders before the rest of the bedrock structures were formed?
I would love to see some content on the unfinished Baka pyramid. I'm not sure how much info is out there for it as I understand that it is/was a no-go area for archeologists due to proximity to military base. I would think that a great deal about construction methods might be gleaned from seeing something mid-construction. It would be interesting to know why they abandoned the construction as well. Thanks for the intriguing content. This is one of my few subscribed channels and I'm always pleased when I see new content has been posted. Thanks for your in-depth analysis and commentary.
That's a big challenge, for sure. I have about 100 documents in my queue that need translation, but if you want to give it a try the only primary source is Barsanti which can be found here: archive.org/details/annalesduservice78egyp archive.org/details/annalesduservice1112egyp
I'm a layperson as far as egyptology goes. But I did work inspecting buildings for a few years. Photos of unfinished construction are always far more informative than seeing the completed building with all the finishing obscuring "everything important." If you want to know how these things were built, and you cannot find the plans, diagrams, and instructions, look at what is unfinished and uncomplete.
Great content! Please never stop until all these mysteries are answered. It seems like a lot of things are happening now, and we are finding new things and re-exploring and using tech to find new things.
Utterly fascinating, but I'd like to have seen more diagrams showing the position of internal structures in relation to the overall shape - for example the pair at 23.58, Bent Pyramid compared to Great Pyramid. The BP one is beautifully detailed but I've lost any idea of where it is in the structure. The GP one shows where the various parts are. It would have been useful to accompany each (or most) of the BP drawings with a simple, maybe small, diagram of where it is within the whole.
Definitely agree!! I watched another of HfG's videos this week which continuously showed the discussed area on a ground plan of the pyramid (think it was the Red Pyramid?) and it was SO helpful in keeping track of where we were at any time! Creating that sort of graphic for each internal structure tour video must take some considerable extra time & effort, I'd imagine, but it would definitely be a huge help for viewers who haven't been there...?
Amazing! I wonder if it was built with the spiral pattern inside the hull, because of the similarities to the great pyramid of giza? Thank you for keeping us updated 🙂
To me, the upper and lower chimney seem awfully interesting and if there is more data/more information to extract, I´d love to have an in depth view on the chimney, its window and all structural remarkabilities associated with those features.
These are machines, the depth of this chambers and the size of the pyramid along with the energy source placed on the bottom was used for the generation of energy. These pyramids had different purposes and that is why they have different shapes. Think about the shape of wine glasses the the frequencies you get out of them. The entire planet is covered with different sound frequencies and we use them for different reasons and their properties can help us in all sorts of applications. They were built way before the Egyptians.
The "bent pyramid" is fascinating to learn about. The builders obviously had a completely different kind of technology in construction of such an interesting structure. My question is, has the wood been carbon dated?, and have any samples been analyzed for any chemical residue on the surface of the blocks? It would be good to know more about all these amazing structures.
The wood in the Bent Pyramid has not been dated to my knowledge. I'd really like a dating of the firewood in the excavation near the upper chamber as well!
Ended here after fairly randomly seeing a picture of the bent pyramid. Just imagining that this was built 4500 years ago, and withstood the test of time quite well blows my mind.
Fascinating video thank you very much! Can you communicate your thoughts on the fantastic condition of the Bent Pyramid casing stones compared to other pyramids?
Great stuff!! Sounds like the mainstream community have pigeon holed this monument and moved on. The fact that it never collapsed, still has most of its casing and had a satelite pyramid(with a proto grand gallery) proves it was a well planned and finished project. The theory that its change of angle is due to instability is just that. A better theory is the pyramid is based on the geometry of the pentagon and hexagon. Sacred geometry Decoded youtube channel had videos on this and secrets in plain sight the documentary has a segment on this. The fact that Khufus, Khafres and Menkares pyramids are based on geometric principles lends weight to this. Keep up the good work m8!!!
Regarding the tunnel: based on the chisel marks being vertical on the curved roof blocks instead of horizontal leads me to guess that these blocks were shaped before being put into place. It seems like it would be unnecessarily difficult to shape them overhead using vertical strikes within the small space unless there was some incentive to bring a large object through after construction.
I've watched every one of your videos, top-notch! Here is a theory I've been working on that I'm hoping you can help me rule out. I believe the interior architecture of the 4th dynasty pyramids reflect hydrological features, almost in their entirety. I feel like the prevailing perception of how the pyramids and the tombs contained within functioned takes a very human-centric view. However, I think these structures were not tailored for regular human visitors. If you step back and look at this very objectively, considering the descending corridors, the different passageways and shafts, portcullises, corbelled chambers, large stones that can pivot to block a mysterious passageway, they are all consistent with grand-scale plumbing features. These seem equivalent to pipes, culverts, valves, one-way valves, drain catches, and drains-features designed with the flow of water in mind, not the flow of humans. For example, in each of these cases, the corridors slope at a considerable grade all the way to some sort of subterranean chamber with drain-like features. An assortment of large rocks piled together presumably as a sort of filter. Passageways show increasing levels of damage and water erosion as you descend through the interior. I think there is a pretty compelling case to revisit the function aspect. The paths where water would travel are often free from jagged edges intruding, are often, if not always, mortared, and are always chiseled in the flow direction. If one were to supply water into most of these structures, it would generally flow down to the drain without significant pooling. Descending passages were designed to prevent buckling that could have resulted in pooling. The surfaces intended to be exposed to water were usually much harder forms of stone. There are really many clues that seem to point to the same thing. Here's my thinking: having a river-like feature feature would be very attractive to a pharaoh who drew great significance from the river during the time when the climate was becoming more arid. I figure one would want a "river to the afterlife", so to speak. Regardless of the reasoning, I think the evidence might support this actual function. To exemplify using the Great Pyramid, I think the king's chamber specifically was intended to fill up with water, at least to just below the edge of the ceremonial sarcophagus. It would then flow out around or over the "mysterious granite block" that was likely placed in the entry passage. The water would then form a "river" down the center of the gallery, leaving a dry ledge on one side (for maintenance workers, I presume). Water would then travel down and into the well shaft, into the subterranean chamber, and out the low point that serves as the drain. In this case, it seems that the water would have been supplied through the star shafts. Erosion and watermark, salt leaching, etc., seem pretty consistent with this. Oddly, I think they decided to deliberately decided, perhaps at the last minute, to skip the water feature in Queen's chamber, but this is pretty speculative. I would love to investigate this theory a little further with your assistance. Cheers! Tom
I actually have a pretty thorough write-up of this that goes into a lot of detail about specific ways to support or disprove this from available evidence. You certainly have a much better handle on the body of data available. Thank you very much for your time.
1) Egypt was far less arid in the 4th dynasty than it is now, and the shift did not start until after the 4th dynasty 2) the pyramids are very close to an already existing River (the Nile) which had spiritual significance. The body of the deceased crossed the Nile from East to West to symbolize the dead's travel into the Afterlife. There is no need for additional riverine symbolism. 3) there is no references in Ancient Egyptian texts, or any ancient texts, that point to the pyramids having an aquatic function, contemporary or later 4) the pyramids are built of limestone, which is pretty reactive to water and can take significant damage overtime, making it not an ideal choice for the kind of construction you're referring to 5) I've never heard of any water damage besides moisture from the air, human breath, biological processes such as bat feces, or occassional rains, affecting the pyramids 6) since ancient times, they were understood to be tombs 7) they contain sarcophagi 8) the premise of mummification is dehydration of the body. Having the burial of a king be saturated with water would defeat the existing purpose of the pyramids. We know of other ways that the Ancient Egyptians worked with irrigation and expanded the reach of the Nile (canals, shadoofs, floodbasin agriculture), none of these are ever associated with pyramids.
I'm far from an expert on pyramids, or architecture, but the cut-out you're saying is generally accepted as having been for a door looks to me to be exactly what I would want if I had to move something long and heavy (e.g. a sarcophagus, or a heavier than average building block) down that corridor. If you think of it like trying to move a giant couch / table, without that cut-out you're going to have to push the couch up a ramp to that corridor. Then, you're going to have to lift the back end of the couch much higher than the height of anyone at the bottom of that ramp to send the couch into the corridor level with the floor. With that cut-out, you could bring the couch through the corridor's entryway at the same angle as you brought it up the ramp. Then, you could use the floor as a fulcrum, have people inside the corridor pull down on the front of the couch, while people can push the back of the couch upwards from a much higher point on the ramp to level it out once it's already halfway into the corridor.
Sounds like a case study on the rest of Egypt. Beautiful place, awesome history and so much to offer to the world, screwed up by selfishness, incompetence and neglect. Thank you for the look inside a place that I will never be able to see for myself.
I went to Egypt last year, and went in this pyramid as well as the red pyramid. I wish I had seen the video prior to my visit. It would have given me things to look for. I question that they were built at about the same time - using my cell phone compass app it's apparent they don't face due east equally. The red is 6 degrees off which makes me think it was older. The bent is dead on. Perhaps the magnetic pole had shifted to its current location explaining why the bent is dead on. We know the magnetic pole is currently shifting, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. And yes, a cell phone app is not the best tool for this, however. I checked it in several locations and go the same result. G
I look forward to these in-depth videos about other pyramids. It also seems to me that there is plenty of original wood in these pyramids to do carbon dating to put to rest any dramatic age claims.
Wouldn't carbon dating the wood only tell you how old the tree was rather than when the pyramid was built? The pyramid could be younger than the surroundings ones but used wood from an older source, wouldn't you struggle be able to distinguish if this was the case?
@@legpol “pyramid was constructed with cement concrete”, I take it your name is a play on words of “leg puller” as your comment is right up there with the idiocy of the “aliens built it” league. Very funny.
@@bmxerqf882 wood doesn’t last long without preservation or being put in the bottom of a pyramid so carbon dating might give a pretty accurate date of the pyramid, if you’re suggesting the wood may have been taken from a much older structure where it was preserved for a very long time then, yes, it could give a misleading date of the place in which it is used.
Great video. I guess no one has ever bothered to carbon date the wood inside? I assume it would also be possible to do dendrochronology on the wood to see what years the trees were alive.
What's the impact of the heavy stones on the ground below? How much have they settled over the centuries? Thanks for making a great contribution to Egyptology.
not much. There is only a few meters of sand before you hit bedrock. The pyramids that haven't been built on the bedrock would long ago have compacted the sand to be equivalent to rock.
I would like to know if it is at all reasonable to consider the bent shape was intentional from the start. It does appear to be a transition point between a step pyramid and a pyramid-pyramid. I'd like to know the evidence that the builders recognized an error halfway through construction and corrected for it.
Thank you. Very interesting. When I was in Egypt the so called Bent Pyramid was off limits. You certainly put forward important issues that need further investigation. It's exciting how much we still have to learn and not just accept the paradigm established by present day Egyptologists.
I find it odd that people still think these structures were tombs even though no mummies have ever been found inside ANY pyramid. They look a lot more like giant machines to me. From the charring found in certain chambers, I think they may have been fire-driven, massive water pumps for irrigation. I wish we could explore all of the chambers so that accurate 3D models could be made and tested.
get some education and you''ll learn that such pumps are impossible and even so impractical since you can easily construct irrigation canals that extend from the nile.
I've never heard about this pyramid until I saw this video. Thanks for informing me! I'd hate to get off topic but does anyone else think the narrator sounds like Alan from Smiling Friends?
My thoughts on the chimney is that it was a vertical shaft that would have served as an air vent and may have been topped with a poppet haulage winch to remove debris. The window would have been access for the chamber during it's construction. If you had fifty or more people working underground a good air supply would have been needed. It would have been capped once finished and the blocking stones were probably meant to be closed when completed. Even then you couldn't get good help
@@DieselRamcharger absolutely! It is sad that in this day and age that people are still so ignorant that they think that our "civilization" is the only one who could build thing's. Look around you and consider what would be around in ten or a hundred thousand years to show what our time could do. All concrete structures with steel reinforcement will have corroded and turned to dust. All plastics will have degraded to nothing, satellite's will have collided and be burnt up in re entry. All that will be left is lake's "the remains of open cut mines", and some poorly carved heads of gods on my Rushmore. Nothing to show there were cars plains space craft or internet. The next time a major wipeout happens, whomever is left will spend generations trying to survive and forget all that was known and will again sit in the shelter of a cave and begin the process of inventing everything, including the wheel while all the time feeling the are the only ones in time who could think or invent. By all means stick with your god's or aliens
Excellent as always. What I didn't understand is which chamber is the reputed burial chamber? Is there one at all? Fascinated to learn of the two separate 'systems' inside the pyramid. 😀
It wasn't the bent pyramid of Dahshur that failed, it was the ruined pyramid of Meidum that collapsed during construction. It is beleived that collapse caused by too steep an angle in the sides influenced the builders of the Dahshur pyramid to make the mid construction adjustement at Dahshur. keeping Occum's razor in mind, seems way more belivable that they were still learning than to get hung up on fantastical possibilities. Thanks, I'll go now 🙂
Good point - The Bent Pyramid being bent precisely because the builders were smart and realised they were being too ambitious with their retrofit cladding
7:58 has anyone ever proposed the idea that the ancients tried to set a sort of trap or barrier by suddenly digging upward? With the original tunnel going down, then diverting up suddenly, it creates a small spot where water could pool up. With the room above the bend, so long as you don't add too much water, it'd be really hard for them to get through something like that in that time period. It's still hard to get through wet tunnels and caves today. The issues with the efficacy are 1. the seal of the rocks and how long it would hold the water. There will be losses due to leakage or evaporation, until the cavern is saturated. 2. The dedication of thieves. I would not doubt that people would have taken the time to empty the trap bucket by bucket, knowing what literal treasures lie behind it.
Like Giza pyramid I doubt there has ever been any treasure. Kings and queens have been buried in the valley of the kings where the treasure is. They have found different gases in Giza pyramid, making it more likely they used it to create and trap gas for some usage. With the different chambers and tunnels it could have been used for sorting lighter and heavier gases and the tunnel going down and suddenly up could have been a water lock like used today, to filter gases.
@@HaxerFlaxer um. Not likely. A good number of natural gasses are flammable, and they had no other light than torches or other flames. If you didn't know, you create a explosive device when you confine something with stored potential energy and an ignition source. While it was a neat thought to credit them with more science than they had, though. Those gasses found probably accumulated over time in those chambers in Giza. Rocks do degas. Limestone is a reactive rock, and would let of some gasses over time with exposure to water and CO2, which could combine to form carbonic acid. CO2 is in the air, and anyone breathing there, like during construction or other uses like putting treasure in there, would be releasing it to be trapped. CO2 is heavier than air, so it would settle on the surface of the water, reacting with it. The carbonic acid would then release gasses as it slowly dissolves the rocks. There are pools of water in these chambers. Like, in the walking area, so to assume that was for gathering gasses is a bit off. Why fill your walking path with water?
Just a thought on the cut out just inside of the doorway... wouldn't that be needed to manoeuvre sarcophagi in? Or anything else of a large and long block like shape.
Again, outstanding video! However I do believe that the pyramid of Giza had an entry that WAS designed to be hidden, so at Giza at least that narrative is fully justified and can be fully demonstrated. But back to Dashur. I feel that this building is so complex that its difficult to embrace everything about this pyramid, but I think some things are apparent. First and foremost shows Dashur as a giant building experiment, so to speak, a building used to test ideas by the engineers experimenting with pyramid structure in their quest for the perfect building under the lash of the driving Sneferu, with some hard lessons learned along the way. There is the obvious problem with engineering the slope of the pyramid, but there is also apparent the reluctance of engineers to place internal rooms above ground into massive piles of stone and divorced from the sure embrace of a tomb in Mother Earth, designers forced to push their architectural skills upward so to speak into the design opportunities afforded by the manmade portions of the pyramid itself. This was a challenge they met with poor results. Yes, they did exploit here the concept of creating structural space by using corbels as a way to stabilize space under immense masonry loads, but poor condition of the upper chamber I think attests by its spalling and damage and need for reinforcement to the lack of adequate structural shielding from the load around it. The reluctance of the engineers to exploit the pyramid structure for architectural experimentation is shown by the comparatively small roof area exposed to the masonry structure as the diminishing corbelling progresses inwards and upwards in the lower chamber complex, the top of the chamber just peeking above the level of bedrock, so to speak. This means that unlike the Grand Gallery at Giza, the side corbelling in the lower structure was not subject to lateral masonry pressure as you brilliantly pointed out. And that's the reason, partially, that they tunneled underground, because that ensured long term structural stability. But they couldn't stay there; pharaoh wouldn't let them. He wanted fancier and higher. Because there is another reason, increased security. Why did the engineers design a cathedral like lower chamber with features suggesting a corbelling box when they structurally didn't need to? There may have been at least two reasons: one is to complement the design of the load bearing chamber above, but the other has to do with security of the burial (or botched attempt as a tomb). In your video you said that the presence of upper openings would have blown the secret of their use, but the secret itself wasn't important. It was the fact that the entrances were so high up that may have inhibited or were designed to inhibit easy access from one chamber to another. BTW the presence of openings high up on the faces of these pyramids, generally on the north but curiously also here on the west, always presupposes a straight ramp leading up from the desert floor to the openings or entries, EVEN AT KHUFU'S PYRAMID. At least one straight utility and ceremonial access into the pyramids similar to the causeways to the memorial temples. These ramps, however, were dismantled after the final burial rites and closure of the structure, because of course they were no longer needed. Another thing is the unfinished state of the pyramid and its wild passageways suggesting that it was never used. The untriggered portcullises clinch the case, because they would have been used and triggered if the tomb HAD been used. They kept repairing the pyramid in different ways but the deteriorating upper chamber installed in a final effort to make the pyramid useful (along with ad hoc tunnels between spaces to tie everything together) attest to the fact they finally had to give up and abandon the structure. It's like a botched Van Gogh canvas. Also, the Pyramid Texts Pyramid and Khufu's pyramid have stunning finished interiors, but the Dashur Pyramid is like an abandoned North Korean tower hotel with the unfinished floor spaces gathering dust in the penthouse. This suggests it was never ready for Pharaoh to move into.
I'm not convinced elevating chambers into the superstructure had to be for a pharaoh's vanity. They might have thought chambers would be safer at higher elevations due to less weight upon them. If you're trying to avoid putting chambers entirely below ground with tunneling, then perhaps getting them up high was the next best thing.
@@HistoryforGRANITE But I believe that this strategy of moving chambers higher up to lessen load STILL didn't solve the problem of the extreme weight that existed on the rooms, even higher up in the pyramid. Witness the huge lengths made by the designer's of Khufu's tomb to protect that space with its huge granite beams. If the rooms were safer underground, why move them up and out into the masonry if they didn't have to if not for vanity's sake? ---It's because Pharaohs wanted a higher view of the Nile!:) The condition of the upper chamber at Dashur I think attests to the fact they still hadn't gotten it right with their weight calculations and underestimated the pyramid's load on the upper chamber. BTW this is why I think that the void above the Grand Gallery is part of a larger structural scheme with granite beams to protect the entry to Khufu's chamber and the roof of the Grand Gallery that we see, again because of the huge problem of weight higher up in the pyramid which if these spaces did not have now hidden reinforcement above would have crushed these areas like a bug.
@@scottzema3103 Actually, there are those who think that the state of the upper chamber is not due to weight calculation errors that have precipitated the deterioration of its state, but to conditioning works on the walls of the false vault as they successively raised the level of the chamber floor (at least twice above the original level). As the available upper space became more and more constrained with these elevations, the builders were recutting the stone courses roughly to give that space the appearance of a smooth-walled burial chamber, and not merely an alcove under a corbelled roof. The last recut would have been abandoned, leaving the upper end courses unsupported and exposed to slow, gradual detachment. Although, for my part, I have never stopped wondering if part of the deterioration of the upper chamber ceiling could not be due to the destructive action of a band of robbers, who had acted here on the roof of the chamber, just as others acted on the floor of the red pyramid. Perhaps they were trying to find the entrance to a tunnel located high up in the false vault, just as there is in the lower chamber or in the second chamber of the red pyramid?
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I visited this pyramid in 2017. My guide explained that no tourists go to this pyramid, so of course I wanted to see it. There was absolutely no one on the road out to it. We parked at an abandoned police check point near the pyramid. My guide stayed behind at the lone table & chair at the check point. Walking up to it, alone without a person insight, was an experience that I will never forget. It was like stepping back in time.
Thanks for sharing!
I can't even imagine having a surreal experience of that magnitude. That's ABSOLUTELY incredible. Thanks for sharing this story forreal
The fact you are on your own, just you and the pyramid is a daunting thought
You're the smart one! I had a similar experience in Japan. A cold dreary day, off season, and I wandered around the Castle all to myself. Weird and wonderful! THX
Just saw this mentioned in a previous GRANITE video - the first I've seen of this channel. It only got a few seconds of screen time, but I was enthralled. It's beautiful. What a cool experience your visit was, too. 'Off the beaten path' can lead to those blissful travel moments that make time freeze.
Paz y luz. ☆
I've been inside most of the major pyramids in Egypt and the Bent was the most difficult to access and very interesting. Climbing down an 80 meter shaft was difficult at my age (71 at the time) but well worth it. Thanks for another interesting video.
It is my dream to go to the pyramids. Which one is the most exciting/fascinating to visit?
You can go in them!?
Well done 💪
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1) Among the "true" pyramids, with the burial chambers embedded in its internal structure, the Great Pyramid of Giza is undoubtedly the most fascinating in every way. It is also the most crowded, without a doubt. Although I have not visited the bent pyramid (because when I went to Dahshur 23 years ago it was closed), since I learned the details of its internal structure from books, I always considered it the second most fascinating, and the videos available since its opening gave me confirmation about that. In third place I would place the red pyramid of Dahshur, which I was able to visit then. The Meidum pyramid is essential to understand the transition between the ancient step pyramids and the true pyramids. Unis and Teti pyramids stand on their own right, as examples of mortuary texts. The Menkhaure pyramid is really interesting too.
2) Among the pyramids of the Middle Kingdom, the one of Sesostris II in El Lahun is undoubtedly recommended. Due to the complexity of its interior structure, the "black" pyramid of Amenehmet III at Dahshur is also fascinating, although it has never been open to the public.
3) Among the pyramids with the ancient "pit" system inherited from the mastabas, the step pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara stands out, and it will certainly be worthwhile (if the guards allow it) a trip to Abu Rawash to visit the remains of the pyramid of Djedefre, Khufu's son and successor.
@@adamdewees2476 oldest standing tourist trap, in the world!
You hardly ever hear about the other pyramids of Giza, let alone pyramids outside the area. It’s crazy how there’s still original wood even. I really liked this video! Thank you
I have always loved the bent pyramid. For one, it has a lot of it's external case stones still remaining, showing how the builders intended these these things to look in finished form. Secondly I love it as an example of being human, of flawed engineering, learning from mistakes. having a vision but due to structural issues making adjustments. Lastly, I love it as an example that aliens did NOT build the pyramids, because why would some advanced alien race build a flawed structure.
@@zzdoodzz why are you assuming those aliens are not flawed like we are?
@@1Stormrider1 The alien explanation is just a easy way for those that can't investigate, reason, research, measure, test, etc the fact that humans could and did build the various megalithic structures. Why would an advanced alien society, having figured out how to travel the vastness of space, land on a planet and build a bunch of giant stone structures. Just because it's fun? And on top of it, stone structures with very dubious construction methods and materials. For example, if aliens had some advanced way to cut stone, why didn't they use the same method to cut perfect blocks for the pyramids interior blocks, instead they are full all kids of different sizes that the Egyptian builders could put in to fill up the bulk of the pyramids. If aliens were so great at building, why did the Meydum (black) pyramid collapse. Using an alien explanation is discrediting those ancient people that figured out a way to build these structures, despite us not having a wiki page that explains exactly how it was done, there are plenty of clues that have been and are being discovered that they were indeed human made.
@@zzdoodzzalien involvement in such a thing is just ridiculous, an ancient, advanced human-like species that originated on earth much more possible- and it’s quite clear we are still only scratching the surface on this lost piece of history, personally I would search the entire area and try and find things that don’t jump out at you like the pyramids themselves. I’m more interested in hidden underground passages and places that nobody in the modern world has ever seen before. There is probably an unreal amount of stuff hidden under that sand.
@@zzdoodzz the bend in the bent pyramid was built that way by no mistake, it was def done on purpose
As an Engineer, and Contractor for 40 years, it never ceases to amaze me, that we look to archeologiests to explain something they have so little basic knowledge about.
Enjoyed the video, you raise many valid questions.
It's amazing that the ancient Egyptians had so much knowledge to build these magnifying pyramids, yet today brilliant college educated architects have different options on how they were built. It will always be a mystery.
Man power….. brute force…..People only think about the designers of these projects, not the manpower required…. No electric tools/massive machines…..Pure physical graft
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I expect that many archeologists, especially the ones who investigate ancient architecture, know a thing or two about architectural engineering. Much like archeologists who investigate ancient human remains know a thing or two about human biology. There are many specialist fields within archeology, just as there are many specialist fields within engineering. One engineer may be able to manufacture a turbine blade, another may be able to build a reservoir.
@@Fuzzmo147yup. It’s absolutely astonishing what they were able to accomplish back then! I bet it if we tried to do this today with the same tools we couldn’t get it done
There is no reason to call this a failed pyramid. On the contrary, it is a complex design and it has been completely finished, including all the casing stones. The underground structure is amazing in its complexity. I find it difficult to believe it would have served only as a tombe, as these chambers are far too complicated. We probably will never know its purpose or which rituals have been performed here.
Agree.. and Mainstream Archeologists ignored the possibility that these ancient structures are all about Steam Engineering..m.ruclips.net/video/oTLKkeCbr_c/видео.html
It certainly wasn't designed to facilitate easy access though. It almost puts me in mind of the access to 40,000 year old cave paintings which was likely a sort of rite of passage though in that case probably for young teens, which helps explain all the big breasted females in the graffiti there if that art was mostly done by ~14 year olds. Youths would've had an easier time here too but it doesn't really seem to fit with what we know of ancient Egyptian culture. Perhaps if these edifices served as billboards to the power of Pharoh and the state outwardly while the internal spaces might've been for initiating acolytes for the priests.
I strongly suspect both the bent and Medeum pyramids were originally stepped structures. The Bent pyramid may have looked just like an enlarged version of the later sun temples with a shorter spire before being expanded and cased. Medeum just looks like someone tried to turn a similar core into a pyramid only for their efforts to collapse as only the inner core had a strong foundation. The apparently later sun temples might've been recreations of older structures already there or the result of Dynastic Egypt remembering the original styles of these structures though no record now survives.
Look at mortuary structure development from Predynastic times onward.
I feel we have to think that this structure had a function but not to do with rituals like burial of a pharao. It's more like an ancient and very complex machine imo
Is complex in one sense, but in another frame you have this huge structures, the largest in the world for millennia, and there's just a few rooms and passages. It's a tremendous feat, and a lot went into them, but all that stone didn't but them much functionality.
my feeling as a building designer about the function of "mysterious" functions of diving tunnels and blind chimneys is this: it is about moisture control. They knew the burial chamber had to be as dry as possible at all times. Of course, they took the dryest spot to build on, and the shape and size of the pyramid helped to keep rain as far away as possible. The door was placed high, so, in a freak rainfall event water would not come flowing in. But, for in case it did, they made this uptich at the end of the tunnel, so inflowing water could not reach the chamber.
Then, if water ever would reach the inside of the monument, it had to be able to evaporate out. Maybe they knew that a perforated rock gives a dryer place. Even if the end of the chimneys are closed, they provide a way for water vapour to diffuse out of the bottom and be absorbed by the upper stone mass. The baking sun does the rest. They dont need to be open, better not, because that would be a way for moist air to come in.
I think it is just this: climate control, preventing fluids from reaching the center + ventilating upwards into the stone mass.
Counting that in egypt back then water was really prevalent in the area
Makes sense.
Strange that they have never, EVER, found anyone buried in ANY pyramid, isn't it....
@@ElJeFe556no, no it isn’t
@@ElJeFe556 yes "they have" lol. Djoser's pyramid was found to contain mummy parts, the red pyramid had mummy parts, and many queens pyramids were found with bones or fragments of human remains. You're just lying on the internet for no reason.
Very interesting! So many archaeological mysteries in Egypt. also thank you for not having distracting/ irritating sound effects in the background. Keep up the good work
Amen.
I have had a hard time with the explanation for this being "bent" to help "fix" it. It has always looked to me like the top of an obelisk. I really appreciate your work on this video. You are showing the contrasts between the oldest pictures and modern ones and I appreciate that. It seems to also be one of the most multiple room and level(s) of any of the pyramids. You asked what we would like to see ... more details on this pyramid such as a study of how much wood has been found inside the pyramid and have they done dendrochronological dating? That seems interesting to me because it would offer some dates of construction. So much within this structure seems altered or added to or well, not as simple and straightforward as the Giza pyramids and I'd like to see a detailed drawing of what is there now. What I'd really love is a block by block inspection documentary - formed into a kit where we rebuild these structures block by block and I bet that can be done on computers. THANK YOU for sharing this and you are amazing - fresh and detailed. Spot on!
I agree with everything you said here. I am very skeptical of these crudely drawn cartouches in these pyramids which they use to attribute to a specific pharaoh. If modern egyptologist would get out of the way and allow actual engineers and scientists to do thorough explorations, I believe it would draw more tourism and attention because of what the would discover.
So many insanely intricate video game maps and models have been made but the closest is Serious Sam? So sad. Can't shake the feeling these pursuits are a waste of time. Can't stop though.
Was there a threat behind all these constructions? Free beer and easy access to bedroom partners can only buy so much. Oh well, to be continued...
@@tsriftsal3581 It isn't "free beer", it's wages. Not all wages are paid in coins and paper. A Roman's salary was supposedly paid in salt. You wouldn't consume all the beer or salt yourself, you'd barter it for food, clothing or whatever, same as we spend coins and paper on the things we need.
Teotihuacan in Mexico has a bent pyramid, too. The bend occurred much lower in the structure.
@@nagualdesign oh, I'm sorry. Didn't know you were there. Thank you.
I’m really glad you’re starting to get the recognition you should for these videos! The amount of research, hard work, and passion that go into them is simply amazing ❤
Man you have the best channel on the subject of the pyramids on RUclips or anywhere else. You discuss things that no one else even considers. I will never be able to go to the pyramids and I've always had questions about them that no one else talks about. I really appreciate everything you do. Please keep em coming, I look forward to each and every one. Thank you
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Agreed. Absolutely fascinating.
You can add an extra one of those heart likes from me. I feel the same way.
I visited the Bent Pyramid last year and found it to be a truly enigmatic structure. This video captures the awe - and at times, claustrophobia - I felt when exploring its bizarre corridors and chambers. It is a true mystery and I do agree as you have stated in this video that it is "convenient" to label this pyramid as a "failure". The narrative informs us that cracks were found in the lower foundations and therefore the slope was modified to accommodate those "errors". And yet there it stands, 4,000 years later! GREAT video!! I felt like I was back inside the pyramid again! Thank you!
I think it's more of a success story in that they completed the pyramid in a way that has stood the test of time, rather than just scrapping it and using the blocks in a new project.
with bats in there i bet the smell was amazing
The Pyramids were nothing to do with the Egyptians - they are advanced Power Plants that were destroyed in a huge cataclysm at least 12,000 years ago and they were built using advanced technology with power tool marks still on them today. The ENGINEER Chris Dunn has reversed engineered the Great Pyramid at Giza and shows what each part of the Pyramid did and the chemicals used to get the Pyramid to vibrate etc to generate power in his excellent book The Giza Power Plant and he also exposes the advanced ancient technology used in his book re that subject as well. Brien Foerster also exposes all of this advanced ancient technology and sites all over the world in his books and on his RUclips channel.
@@williamwoods8022 And yet with such full fledged understanding of such power plants he isn't running his Tesla and house from a little pyramid power spot in his back yard. . .
@@williamwoods8022 Funny you should mention Chris Dunn as he was on the tour I attended when I went to Egypt. He's a great guy with a wicked sense of humor and I got to spend some time with him and even helped him carry one of his specialized measuring tools. I have both of his books, one of which you mentioned, and truly appreciate his astonishing theories. I have always believed that there was more to the pyramids and the Serapeum (Chris calls the Serapeum the "smoking gun") than meets the eye and in fact, upon traversing the internal passages of both the Bent Pyramid and Khufu's Pyramid, got the sense that they were, "functional" in some form or another. Nevertheless, I admire Chris for his well thought out and damn near brilliant theories, but I do not necessarily ascribe to all of them. Keeping an open mind to be able to entertain both traditional and more fringe or esoteric theories is very important to me.
After watching this video and the points you raised... its amazing no one else in Egypt is pursuing the questions alone from this video. Love this channel
Wow, I didn`t expect this one to have so much to see inside. I hope to see more in depth videos about all of these features.
This is my new favorite archaeology/ancient history channel on youtube. Really interesting videos, thanks for making them & keep up the good work
and guaranteed ufo free
I'll take your word for it and subscribe for more content
World of Antiquity is also a good channel.
What Mason said! Watched most of the videos in the last 2 days and will watch them all.
@@TommyAmun you actually get to find stuff out on this channel. Guys straight forward and pragmatic in his own style. Ticks all the boxes for me. Channels like this are the diamonds in RUclips. Sometimes you need a break from murder docs and caving incidents.
The ingenuity and skill of the Egyptian pyramid builders never fails to amaze me. Thank you for posting this fascinating video.
Thank you for your attention to the Bent Pyramid! I love it when other pyramids besides the Great Pyramid are discussed! Thank you!
One of the things that has always frustrated me about anything to do with Egyptian pyramids is the continuous focus on The Great Pyramid. I have always been of the attitude that "Hey, just over there is another pyramid (Khafre's) that's almost the same size. Anybody interested in that?" and here, the Bent Pyramid, and it's sister the Red Pyramid are among many others all over that area. It's like, people like to marvel at how many stones were carved and transported to make the Great Pyramid, some transported as far as 500 miles away, and to me, that only serves further to the ACTUAL marvel of how ALL these massive structures were made! Thinking about how many stones it took to make the Great Pyramid....how about how many stones it took to build ALL them MF'ers!!! And yet for some reason or another, all these other pyramids are at best an afterthought to the GP and not nearly taken as the true marvel they all are when considered together. At least that's how it seems to me.
I look forward to every video you release and watch them as soon as they appear in my feed. You have IMO the most logical analysis of egyptian archeological history on RUclips.
I think this is your best video. You do a great job of explaining enough to make us realize how intriguing this all is while leaving us wanting more. I hope you do make more videos on this structure in particular.
Maybe the chimney is for hauling out rubble from the tunnelling and also for allowing light into the tunnel (before they started laying any blocks). The 8 metre section filled with rubble, below the bottom level could be a type of ‘French drain’ to allow rainwater to be absorbed slowly into the rock and not flood the working part of the tunnel.
I’m thinking a water well or water storage system perhaps ?
Wrong , why don`t you actual read about it from actual Egyptologists, because unless the Egypt boss of the pyramids and antiquities say's yes you don't get any where, Which is why the owner of channel uses every body else's research and not his own , Because he has no qualifications and can only get to the pyramid's as a fucking tourist like the rest of us.
I call youtuber like this arse as child abusers. The day is getting closer where posting unfounded claims on a public assessable social media platform will get you hung for child abuse.
Posting videos that are not true and available for children with out clear precise warnings is global child abuse.
The sooner arseholes like this are hung the sooner mankind can release the choke of ignorance that has been around all but Australia's neck for 2,000 years.
Perhaps the whole thing is waste from mining/tunneling, as per Curious Being’s (RUclips channel) hypothesis?
Why would you need to remove rubble from tunnelling? Think of the corbelled blocks. Would you tunnel out a volume and then drag blocks down into the area? Or dig a large pit and build the corbelled ceilings inside and then fill around the blocks? The rooms and passages are lined with blocks but they are below ground level. So behind the blocks must by solid rock. So the question is; "What's between the blocks and the solid rock?"
What is often ignored is that when building a pyramid, all passages and rooms are open to the sky. So, for example, they didn't have to move the sarcophagus in the Great Pyramid's King's Chamber through the passages, they put it in place and built the room around it. In a similar fashion they might have dug a pit, built the rooms and then erected a pyramid on top. No real tunnelling is required except in the initial stages.
@@JohnJ469 What's between the blocks and the solid rock? my answer to that would be nothing if the blocks line the excavated tunnels & rooms. if the stone is the same it's possible they were made in situ from whatever was dug out, though that would require some very careful manoeuvering and logistics, probably impractical for all but the smallest blocks.
not convinced about building around a sarcophagus. would you leave your most prized possession in the middle of a modern building site, even with all the health and safety regulations we have now? now imagine that with a once living god being surrounded by ancient builders working with massively unwieldy stone blocks, and all the tools and dust and dirt and workers and noise everywhere.. pretty undignified. not to mention that you completely remove the hugely important aspect of a burial ceremony in a magnificent, completed structure, and the fact the building would need to continue long after the burial, which in itself would be pretty anticlimactic.
I've visited the Bent Pyramid back in 2019, I had no idea how complex it was inside. Great video!
Do you have any pictures from inside you can share with us?
@@ok-pj4eu No
Lucky u 😅
@@ok-pj4eu Hi, the day I visited, the Bent Pyramid was closed, so I only have pictures from the outside. I did enter the Red Pyramid.
No you didn't.
In all honesty.. THAT should have been 1st place. Yours was so much better in concept and finish by far! I’ve been making dioramas for years and would never have come up with such a beautiful design. Incorporating the area where these models come to life (the cutting mat, tools and table) was genius to include. You’re very talented.. the making of the paint labels.. just wow! Great work. ❤👍
I found this to be one of your most interesting trips. This pyramid has always been the most interesting to me and your placement in the time line, earlier than I had been led to believe, presents some fresh thoughts.
I may have miss it, I'll have to watch it video again, but it would have been nice to have had larger planer views of the internal layout as it was confusing with your east, west, etc. directions as you went through the rooms and corridors.
I'm looking forward to your next video.
I had no idea at all about the Bent Pyramid, apparently. When I read about it before, years ago, it was said that is was a failed pyramid, because the Egyptians hadn't mastered the art yet of building a proper pyramid. This video was a eye opener and I know I'll have to watch it more than once to pick up all the new information. Thanks to you I have learned much more than one new thing today!
19:58 The great Bent Pyramid protector. I love your videos. I’ve binged 5 so far since finding your channel this morning.
When Martin Sweatman did his review of all papers regarding younger dryas cause, he carefully went into describing the time range probabilities of the various pieces of evidence. Some evidence of timing of events sequence was more reliable and precise than others. It would be nice to see a similar analysis of pyramid Construction chronology. The Bent Pyramid should be dated accurately from the logs built into the pyramid.
Awesome video. Getting a detailed tour and step by step is refreshing. Not being talked to like a child is also refreshing. Keep them coming!
Awww- da wittle baby doesn't wike to be talked to wike a baby!? a caca poopoo?!
Wittle baby maybe need his diaper change? Yes he does. YES HE DOES. Ochie Poochie!
Thanks! Your videos are amazing and I am addicted!!!
Thank you so much!
I think that this pyramid is splendidly bended, allowing greater mass and more faces.
Bent may not be popular with platonic purists but it seems perfect to me, beautiful in its style and simplicity.
Subbed. Fantastic work. These neglected and ignored pyramids deserve just as much attention as Giza. I've been wanting more info about some of the others in this sort of detail for a long time. You put it together fantastic. Thank you for your work.
Same. Facinating stuff.
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Given the 3 great Pyramid’s have held up to date and these other “failed “ pyramids haven’t and are far less superior in every way then the 3 great pyramids it makes u wonder if the “failed “ pyramids where the Dynastic’s trying to replicate the 3 great pyramids which are far older and from another earlier civilization just a theory tho
Yes, this channel is unreal. I'm glad that archeology lends itself to more slow-paced deep dive videos where people can still talk normally and where it's not implied that the attention span is < 2 minutes. Subbed!
Wow what a video! Dispite no actual video footage this was amazing! This has solidified my want to visit these marvels as a bucketlist item. I cannot wait to see more of your content!
I’m really fascinated by these photographs. It’s rarely seen in big documentaries, shedding light to things only accessible to experts in the field.
Man! I love this channel! Who knew the pyramids of Sneferu were so fascinating?! When you get through with these, could you put on your "to do" list the Pyramid of Djedefre? I watched a program on that years ago and found it really interesting. Of course, it's been all but dismantled, but I'll just bet there are some interesting stories to uncover.
Your work is a REFRESHING and GROUNDED view , with much more rational explanations than
the VAST majority of theories and discussions regarding the wonderful pyramids ! Thanks !
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Your work here is so valuable. I appreciate you keeping away from wild speculations and hyperbole. You stay close to the facts at hand, and also thank you for not having a silly soundtrack of mysterious flute music or whatever. Really solid work.
Silly is conclusion without proof, and he uses this quite a few times throughout the video. Either you weren't listening, or you're densely gullible.
@@bujfvjg7222 charming comment.
More please! Always found this to be a very interesting structure and never thought it “failed”.
I think regardless of whether this structure forms a perfect pyramid (as we conceive of it) or not it’s impossible to argue it was a failure that was abandoned. It underwent so many complicated completion steps and its internal arrangements are so extensive that it seems improbable to the point of discredit that the bent pyramid could have been seen as failed by its builders.
I'd like to see a closer look at the smooth casing stones. Their design, fit, application and purpose. I greatly enjoyed your exam of the bent pyramid design and construction. From childhood I heard it was a design mistake rectified during construction to keep it from falling down. You have exposed this myth for me. Looking forward to more episodes from your series.
The casing stones of the Bent Pyramid are the most interesting because of how many 'patched repairs' there are. But one mistake that's always made is comparing the nearby Red Pyramid casing stones because only a few survive, and they are next to where the temple would be on the lowest course. So those stones would be made to look the best on the entire pyramid. So there's no apples-to-apples comparison between the two.
Great documentary. I never knew how interesting the bent pyramid is! Very complex structure.
12:00 The description of your "chimney to nowhere" fits exactly the description of a temporary ventilation shaft designed to be later securely sealed off: ends at ground level, was sealed off with granite blocks at ground level, and two unused tiled limestone blocks of the correct size to further shut off the ventilation shaft when it was no longer needed. It goes nowhere now because a pyramid was later built over its exit.
It might have also been used as a shaft to lower things down. But I think ventilation was its prime use, given your description of it.
I'd be willing to bet that some architect had the clever idea of using it as the entrance for the burial, hence the unused blocking stones. Why bother with those if you're going to pave the whole thing over with a million tons of limestone? The designer probably initially intended that there would be access to that shaft, which could then be blocked in before Sneferu said "You are not putting my mummy in a basket and lowering it down a hole."
Super glad i found this channel. I watch a ton of Ancient/Arch/History videos and this is incredibly well done. Super descriptive and content that people would definitely be curious about. The photos/vids used are strategic to the content and show more than Ive seen in 45minutes documentaries. So much ive never seen before. the most descriptive reasonings and also provide open ended questions
Love your videos!! As there is no way I can visit and see for myself anymore to see these amazing structures through your specialist eyes is such a pleasure. The inscription you illustrate does not seem to be off the same quality as inscriptions in the many tombs in Egypt and I assume the wooden logs have been preserved by the dryness of desert. I also wonder if this pyramid, as well as many others, could actually have been built by the old kingdom Egyptians. That is a real mystery to me as well as all the other mysteries that you point out in your videos. Many thanks!! David 🇨🇦
Those originally finished corridors were very impressive! We are so used to seeing even the best of ancient structures in rough conditions of ruin. But those corridors looked just like they did the day the pyramid was sealed!
Crazy to realize, right? They have been in that exact same shape for 4500 years. You can literally imagine the worker’s hands resting on the exact same surfaces that we’re seeing. It’s as good as a Time Machine as we’ll ever have
I’ve always loved the bent pyramid. It looks so unique and I think it’s so cool that they still found a way to finish it.
Perhaps they intentionally made it that way just to show off their superior design skills?
Thank you for this in depth documentary, I have never considered it a failed design. Always thought that it was deliberately constructed in this way for some technical purpose we haven't yet discovered.
Seems pretty absurd that the powerful that were trying to send a message would leave their mistakes on show for everyone. And if we are to believe that these were burial chambers, which the Egyptians supposedly needed built in a specific way to enable/facilitate spectral travel to the afterlife... seems even further from acceptable to simply change course/design in the middle of construction.
Might've been for aesthetic reasons.
I think the stone piles/steps were from loopers. I also think they absolutely did use large elevation changes as an obstacle. I also think the upper entrance that was sealed was used to move items in then sealed with the hope it would not be found since someone would need to climb so far up the smooth outside of the pyramid and know exactly where that entrance was to get in. On top of that, it would be very hard to get items back out and back down safely that far in the past. I'm not sure about the redirections because the horizontal ones I don't see as a way to stop falling rocks. I believe the well shafter and the tunnels connecting chambers with redirections were not original but instead a part of a good looting scheme later on. I think the redirections were arguments and corrections to digging instructions. How the looters knew the direction to dig though is a very good mystery to me. The surfaces of these tunnels, redirections, and the places they connect all seem out of character for the original builders. Also, I believe that even though there was a window between two blockages like you mentioned, I definitely still think those blockages were obstacles because the vertical distance to the window would still imply that a looter had gotten to that point with enough supplies to get up to the window (only to run into a second obstacle) I also agree that I don't think this pyramid was seen as a mistake, I think it was fully in use with valuables and the dead inside of it. I think that this pyramid shows a significant amount of work, design, and obstacles all to protect specific areas and that the idea of them pouring all that time and effort into a pyramid that they would leave empty purely for a small amount of slippage is ridiculous. Speaking of, like you mentioned, there was also that small visible correction for slippage that I believe was not just a done once then ignored kind of situation but instead that that was the actual amount of slippage at the time which was all that needed corrected and that the rest of the slippage occurred from then to now which is why it was not even attempted to be corrected. The small open area on the side of the well in the great pyramid I believe was a place for them to put their dirt/rubble before moving on. While digging at the top with more angled tunnels, they could have hauled material up and out much easier, once they were down so far, it became impossible to do so. The walls being made of rubble that is stuck together I think is just a product of the very large rubble piles being in that location for so long. All just guesses and food for thought
The chambers and shafts in the pyramids were not dug to create the, the stones that make up the construction were placed in such a man er that the chambers and tunnels were there once construction of the area they reside in was complete, so there would be no rubble and whatnot like you mention...... Unless I'm misunderstanding what your trying to say....... Also you really think these pyramids ever hekdnthe dead in them?? I don't think there has been any found within the pyramids have there?? I feel it's pretty obvious that the pyramids were never intended to be tombs for anything and if they were used as such that they were later on repurposed to be such
😀 Thanks again for your in depth analysis of what you’ve found relating to this pyramid. I confess that this structure seems far more confounding than i was expecting, well done for laying out your findings so interestingly. 👍
I went inside that pyramid in august of this year. Took alot of pictures and was in complete awe most of the time. That pyramid is the hardest of them all to explore. The entrance is long and tight. You are bending all the way down and up. Inside quite huge but some places narrow too. Thank God for the wooden stairs they have made. I am a big man and that pyramid was exhausting. After this pyramid I could no longer muster the energy to enter the red pyramid wich also was on my to do list. Guess I just have to go back to Egypt cause I really want to see the red one inside too
So they built the pyramid on top 🤔 once the chamber chimneys were finished right, never designed to go back in.
The photography was very good throughout the video. A side note, the photo with the bat (19.36) is awesome!
Fascinating video! Thank you so much for detailing so many of this ancient structure's mysteries. I'd love to know how deep the chimney goes and whether there are any additional rooms or spaces at the bottom. Why are the wooden beams embedded in the structure if they aren't supporting? And have they been carbon dated to establish a definite age for the pyramid? The questions go on and on!
conniebenny: The embedded wooden beams could mean all the stones are artificial stones, or poured cement concrete. The cement concrete idea could also be derived from the erosion on all the pyramid stones. No natural stones will erode like these pyramid stones. Natural stones do erode but human eyes cannot see, while the erosion on the pyramid stones is very easily seen.
@@legpol i keep hearing about "concrete" that looks exactly like a natural rock -- enough to confuse scientists !
after many years of work w concrete beginning in 1972 until 2020 i find that inconceivable.
if the original builders were advanced enough to produce such illusion why do it ?
it sounds like ancient stories of vehicles made to look like biological creatures - vishnu and his garuda shiva and his bull....
makes my head spin a bit.
maybe the "vehicles" were/are actual living friends of the main actors many temples still have one nice perch for garuda ! respect.
funny: the main guy Lord Krishna... just popped in and out .
maybe He can tell us what was going On inside here . .
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 : Your experience in the concrete is very valuable. I believe you will be able to tell us something about erosion. When we see erosion in the pyramid stones, what will we conclude, please?
Geopolymers use a diferent chemical hardening process than concrete and shouldn't be confused they are not the same thing. People confuse the two for obvious reasons. As for design philosophy I've heard the construction of buildings was the manifestion of the will of "pharohs" on earth and held to be sacred, that the structure should mirror the natural environment. And the the geopolymers mimics natural stone to the point of being almost indistinguishable in many cases.
13:52 I want every single one examined further with as much time as you want and in extreme detail 🤔❤️
Literally was thinking the same thing. Like wow wow wow. Slow down. Go back to that weird precise corner stone what looks like it was 10tones.
Wow, very cool! Is the stone slab in the eastern part of the upper corridor (leading to the upper chamber) only held open by a wooden beam?? If so, from what period is the beam?? Thank you!
The big beam is modern, but there is a smaller wooden wedge as well which may be ancient. Even without the wood blockage, I think the stone is jammed and would not move further without considerable help.
@@HistoryforGRANITE Thank you!
We need to know more about the “chimney” and why they didn’t finish excavating down.
Clogged by a fat man in a red suit
I wonder if it was because they predicted a cave-in
A refreshing analysis! Two things I want to note though: The "access tunnel" is suspiciously square for a a simple hole dug by looters. It definitely warrants further investigation.
Additionally, the shafts which were once filled are also suspiciously smooth and square. Given the asymetrical blocks found in all pyramids, I find it hard to believe they simply threw square blocks down the shaft.
My thought on the access tunnel is that if the pyramid was built in stages, the tunnel could have been a later addition.
Have more than one pyramid been subjected to Muon Scanning and if so could you go into this in one of your upcoming episodes? Very interesting stuff, keep it coming.
They did a preliminary scan of the Bent Pyramid to prove the muography could see the upper chamber from below. But this was only a control study, and they didn't gather nearly as much data from it.
It would be awesome if they did muon scans of all the pyramids not to mention around the base of the Sphinx and its surroundings.
It’s crazy to me that this hasn’t been done. The tech is there, why is no one willing to finance such an undertaking? We are literally looking at one of the most intelligent early civilizations here. Finding anything at all would be such an enrichment of our known history
If you draw a line straight down from the bend, the triangle that's formed is a 3/6/9 right angle triangle. The bottom part of the bend is a trapezoid, which is half of a hexagon. There was no mistake. This is a giant geometry lesson...
Sorry, what bend exactly?
I hate math.
@@stadtjer689i assume the bend on the outside of the bent pyramid that gives it its name
Fascinating as always, such an amazing structure, would love to visit it some day.
The chimney looks like it was part of a pulley system elevator, to avoid having to take large items up the stone stairs.
I believe the holes in the floor are not traps but a spot that workers could jump into to use their body weight to aid in lifting heavy objects. The flaps in the floor are essentially resting points when they reach a certain point, or fail safes. I'm not convinced the walls were polished but more like well worn down.
I believe they sent the large things down, then up rather than in the front to 1) Keep the main entrance small 2) stop from blocking people in during construction.
The slip would have been an issue if it was caused by moving the extra weights inside the structure.
It could also be that it didn't need corrected because they were already done with the large objects.
You've worked it all out with the help of a water pipe and an armchair ...fantastic
@@oftin_wonghe clearly said “I believe”. Everyone is entitled to shape their own theories.
@@stadtjer689 sure they are
And I'm entitled to crush those theories using the same rule
@@oftin_wong What’s stopping you? I’m looking forward to reading your comment.
@@oftin_wong8 months…. doesn’t look like you’ve crushed any theories brotha 😃
My first reaction to this is that an underground burial chamber was constructed to have a tomb ready just in case. Then, the pyramid was constructed on top, with access requirements changing throughout the project.
It’s not a bad idea. I see similarities there for Khufu and Khafre as well. But the Bent Pyramid’s “backup” space is considerably more grand than Khufu or Khafre bothered to design.
@@HistoryforGRANITE
a giant mastaba with a huge pyramid ( to the sun?) added later? I agree that’s a plausible explanation.
Are you suggesting ( in the last part) that the room had a false floor that later collapsed?
I have often wondered whether all the ‘true’ pyramids were constructed initially as step pyramids then had the gaps back filled/ built from the top down.
If you look at the plundered satellite pyramids at Giza they were clearly initially built as step constructions as it’s clearly visible!
@@HistoryforGRANITE The best ideas I've heard are the power plant (Dunn) and the geopolymer (Davidovitz)... The small stacked blocks might have been to tune the chamber to the right volume/frequency. The ruined chamber could have been ruined by some kind of acid. So it could have been a big battery or power plant like Christopher Dunn theorizes. It's totally crazy to think it was built as a burial for anything. The blocks look almost identical to what Davidovitz and his team made by hand. The bat mummy was probably just a dead bat, since there were plenty in there. The military post out there is also telling. The slipped masonry is probably not slipped, probably served a purpose.
Nobody in the last 3000 years have been buried inside a Pyramid and if this was the way to go then why not. Nothing to do with tombs EVER. Also I am recruiting for a new Pyramid and I just need the funds, manpower, designs, tools, permits, ect.........................................
As long as its a tomb its not a bad idea!
Fascinating. Thanks for your considerable work.
I'm always curious about the 'robbers' of these structures. Who were they? When did their incursions occur? What was their motivation? (Was it to reuse what they found for other pharos, or for the 'monetary' value?) How did they achieve what they did, without being discovered? Or were the robbers state/dynasty sponsored?
As you say: so many questions
I don’t believe there is any evidence of the pyramids ever holding treasure. We jus assume they where robbed long ago because they where empty when we went in there. Or maybe that’s just the explanation they want you to follow..
The robbers were in the last 100yrs took the good stuff. Egypt is very corrupt...
The archeologists are the robbers. But they are professionals and have the power to take it and sell it lol. There they are the true robbers
Fascinating video! There’s so many intriguing aspects to the bent pyramid! With regards to the chimney, was this not an initial dig down / exploration tunnel by the builders before the rest of the bedrock structures were formed?
It could have been an initial dig location, but the closing stones suggest a more significant function was planned.
I would love to see some content on the unfinished Baka pyramid. I'm not sure how much info is out there for it as I understand that it is/was a no-go area for archeologists due to proximity to military base. I would think that a great deal about construction methods might be gleaned from seeing something mid-construction. It would be interesting to know why they abandoned the construction as well. Thanks for the intriguing content. This is one of my few subscribed channels and I'm always pleased when I see new content has been posted. Thanks for your in-depth analysis and commentary.
That's a big challenge, for sure. I have about 100 documents in my queue that need translation, but if you want to give it a try the only primary source is Barsanti which can be found here:
archive.org/details/annalesduservice78egyp
archive.org/details/annalesduservice1112egyp
I'm a layperson as far as egyptology goes. But I did work inspecting buildings for a few years. Photos of unfinished construction are always far more informative than seeing the completed building with all the finishing obscuring "everything important."
If you want to know how these things were built, and you cannot find the plans, diagrams, and instructions, look at what is unfinished and uncomplete.
I've been very much looking forward to a new video coming out. Thank you 🙂
The structure itself is almost as amazing as your video about it.. so well put together and an inspiration to all.
Great content!
Please never stop until all these mysteries are answered.
It seems like a lot of things are happening now, and we are finding new things and re-exploring and using tech to find new things.
It was probably a prototype reactor that was then overused and would have imploded
@@drippy_pics9086 yes, there's lots of proof of this.
@@Ocshredder714your second comment was sarcasm I assume? Also, what new findings are discovered with new tech?
@@stadtjer689 ground penetrating radar ofc
I visited these Pyramids in the 1970's, and often thought the chambers may have been built first, and then surrounded by the exterior walls.
I was thinking the same thing
Utterly fascinating, but I'd like to have seen more diagrams showing the position of internal structures in relation to the overall shape - for example the pair at 23.58, Bent Pyramid compared to Great Pyramid. The BP one is beautifully detailed but I've lost any idea of where it is in the structure. The GP one shows where the various parts are. It would have been useful to accompany each (or most) of the BP drawings with a simple, maybe small, diagram of where it is within the whole.
Definitely agree!! I watched another of HfG's videos this week which continuously showed the discussed area on a ground plan of the pyramid (think it was the Red Pyramid?) and it was SO helpful in keeping track of where we were at any time! Creating that sort of graphic for each internal structure tour video must take some considerable extra time & effort, I'd imagine, but it would definitely be a huge help for viewers who haven't been there...?
Amazing! I wonder if it was built with the spiral pattern inside the hull, because of the similarities to the great pyramid of giza? Thank you for keeping us updated 🙂
To me, the upper and lower chimney seem awfully interesting and if there is more data/more information to extract, I´d love to have an in depth view on the chimney, its window and all structural remarkabilities associated with those features.
These are machines, the depth of this chambers and the size of the pyramid along with the energy source placed on the bottom was used for the generation of energy. These pyramids had different purposes and that is why they have different shapes. Think about the shape of wine glasses the the frequencies you get out of them. The entire planet is covered with different sound frequencies and we use them for different reasons and their properties can help us in all sorts of applications. They were built way before the Egyptians.
Where is the record or evidence for the devices that they powered?
Watched twice now. More about any stones meant to be moved or pivoted would be great. That stuff is fascinating.
The "bent pyramid" is fascinating to learn about. The builders obviously had a completely different kind of technology in construction of such an interesting structure. My question is, has the wood been carbon dated?, and have any samples been analyzed for any chemical residue on the surface of the blocks? It would be good to know more about all these amazing structures.
The wood in the Bent Pyramid has not been dated to my knowledge. I'd really like a dating of the firewood in the excavation near the upper chamber as well!
They should date that
Ended here after fairly randomly seeing a picture of the bent pyramid. Just imagining that this was built 4500 years ago, and withstood the test of time quite well blows my mind.
Fascinating video thank you very much!
Can you communicate your thoughts on the fantastic condition of the Bent Pyramid casing stones compared to other pyramids?
So much to talk about, kid in a sweet shop, especially the well preserved upper shaft it's in mint condition, Amazing
I have! In this video - ruclips.net/video/pZxmkNESTpM/видео.html
Great stuff!! Sounds like the mainstream community have pigeon holed this monument and moved on. The fact that it never collapsed, still has most of its casing and had a satelite pyramid(with a proto grand gallery) proves it was a well planned and finished project. The theory that its change of angle is due to instability is just that. A better theory is the pyramid is based on the geometry of the pentagon and hexagon. Sacred geometry Decoded youtube channel had videos on this and secrets in plain sight the documentary has a segment on this. The fact that Khufus, Khafres and Menkares pyramids are based on geometric principles lends weight to this. Keep up the good work m8!!!
Regarding the tunnel: based on the chisel marks being vertical on the curved roof blocks instead of horizontal leads me to guess that these blocks were shaped before being put into place. It seems like it would be unnecessarily difficult to shape them overhead using vertical strikes within the small space unless there was some incentive to bring a large object through after construction.
I've watched every one of your videos, top-notch!
Here is a theory I've been working on that I'm hoping you can help me rule out. I believe the interior architecture of the 4th dynasty pyramids reflect hydrological features, almost in their entirety. I feel like the prevailing perception of how the pyramids and the tombs contained within functioned takes a very human-centric view. However, I think these structures were not tailored for regular human visitors. If you step back and look at this very objectively, considering the descending corridors, the different passageways and shafts, portcullises, corbelled chambers, large stones that can pivot to block a mysterious passageway, they are all consistent with grand-scale plumbing features. These seem equivalent to pipes, culverts, valves, one-way valves, drain catches, and drains-features designed with the flow of water in mind, not the flow of humans.
For example, in each of these cases, the corridors slope at a considerable grade all the way to some sort of subterranean chamber with drain-like features. An assortment of large rocks piled together presumably as a sort of filter. Passageways show increasing levels of damage and water erosion as you descend through the interior. I think there is a pretty compelling case to revisit the function aspect. The paths where water would travel are often free from jagged edges intruding, are often, if not always, mortared, and are always chiseled in the flow direction. If one were to supply water into most of these structures, it would generally flow down to the drain without significant pooling. Descending passages were designed to prevent buckling that could have resulted in pooling. The surfaces intended to be exposed to water were usually much harder forms of stone. There are really many clues that seem to point to the same thing.
Here's my thinking: having a river-like feature feature would be very attractive to a pharaoh who drew great significance from the river during the time when the climate was becoming more arid. I figure one would want a "river to the afterlife", so to speak. Regardless of the reasoning, I think the evidence might support this actual function.
To exemplify using the Great Pyramid, I think the king's chamber specifically was intended to fill up with water, at least to just below the edge of the ceremonial sarcophagus. It would then flow out around or over the "mysterious granite block" that was likely placed in the entry passage. The water would then form a "river" down the center of the gallery, leaving a dry ledge on one side (for maintenance workers, I presume). Water would then travel down and into the well shaft, into the subterranean chamber, and out the low point that serves as the drain. In this case, it seems that the water would have been supplied through the star shafts. Erosion and watermark, salt leaching, etc., seem pretty consistent with this. Oddly, I think they decided to deliberately decided, perhaps at the last minute, to skip the water feature in Queen's chamber, but this is pretty speculative.
I would love to investigate this theory a little further with your assistance.
Cheers!
Tom
I actually have a pretty thorough write-up of this that goes into a lot of detail about specific ways to support or disprove this from available evidence. You certainly have a much better handle on the body of data available. Thank you very much for your time.
Conspiracy: they were controlling the flow of water to create electricity
@@roachmastert check out my comments some good ideas that correlate with your ideas. It almost certainly held water.
1) Egypt was far less arid in the 4th dynasty than it is now, and the shift did not start until after the 4th dynasty 2) the pyramids are very close to an already existing River (the Nile) which had spiritual significance. The body of the deceased crossed the Nile from East to West to symbolize the dead's travel into the Afterlife. There is no need for additional riverine symbolism. 3) there is no references in Ancient Egyptian texts, or any ancient texts, that point to the pyramids having an aquatic function, contemporary or later 4) the pyramids are built of limestone, which is pretty reactive to water and can take significant damage overtime, making it not an ideal choice for the kind of construction you're referring to 5) I've never heard of any water damage besides moisture from the air, human breath, biological processes such as bat feces, or occassional rains, affecting the pyramids 6) since ancient times, they were understood to be tombs 7) they contain sarcophagi 8) the premise of mummification is dehydration of the body. Having the burial of a king be saturated with water would defeat the existing purpose of the pyramids. We know of other ways that the Ancient Egyptians worked with irrigation and expanded the reach of the Nile (canals, shadoofs, floodbasin agriculture), none of these are ever associated with pyramids.
I'm far from an expert on pyramids, or architecture, but the cut-out you're saying is generally accepted as having been for a door looks to me to be exactly what I would want if I had to move something long and heavy (e.g. a sarcophagus, or a heavier than average building block) down that corridor. If you think of it like trying to move a giant couch / table, without that cut-out you're going to have to push the couch up a ramp to that corridor. Then, you're going to have to lift the back end of the couch much higher than the height of anyone at the bottom of that ramp to send the couch into the corridor level with the floor. With that cut-out, you could bring the couch through the corridor's entryway at the same angle as you brought it up the ramp. Then, you could use the floor as a fulcrum, have people inside the corridor pull down on the front of the couch, while people can push the back of the couch upwards from a much higher point on the ramp to level it out once it's already halfway into the corridor.
Sounds like a case study on the rest of Egypt. Beautiful place, awesome history and so much to offer to the world, screwed up by selfishness, incompetence and neglect. Thank you for the look inside a place that I will never be able to see for myself.
Incredible video man, a lot of details I didn't know. Totally agree this pyramid was not a failure👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I went to Egypt last year, and went in this pyramid as well as the red pyramid. I wish I had seen the video prior to my visit. It would have given me things to look for. I question that they were built at about the same time - using my cell phone compass app it's apparent they don't face due east equally. The red is 6 degrees off which makes me think it was older. The bent is dead on. Perhaps the magnetic pole had shifted to its current location explaining why the bent is dead on. We know the magnetic pole is currently shifting, so it's not out of the realm of possibility. And yes, a cell phone app is not the best tool for this, however. I checked it in several locations and go the same result. G
I guess what gets me the most about these structures is the absolute massive amount of work required to make them, for seemingly little purpose.
I look forward to these in-depth videos about other pyramids. It also seems to me that there is plenty of original wood in these pyramids to do carbon dating to put to rest any dramatic age claims.
Eric Swartz : I think those wood pieces should mean the pyramid was constructed with cement concrete instead of with natural stones.
The wood could've been put in later to reduce lateral pressure, so carbon dating will give a min possible age but not a max possible age
Wouldn't carbon dating the wood only tell you how old the tree was rather than when the pyramid was built? The pyramid could be younger than the surroundings ones but used wood from an older source, wouldn't you struggle be able to distinguish if this was the case?
@@legpol “pyramid was constructed with cement concrete”, I take it your name is a play on words of “leg puller” as your comment is right up there with the idiocy of the “aliens built it” league. Very funny.
@@bmxerqf882 wood doesn’t last long without preservation or being put in the bottom of a pyramid so carbon dating might give a pretty accurate date of the pyramid, if you’re suggesting the wood may have been taken from a much older structure where it was preserved for a very long time then, yes, it could give a misleading date of the place in which it is used.
Great video. I guess no one has ever bothered to carbon date the wood inside? I assume it would also be possible to do dendrochronology on the wood to see what years the trees were alive.
Hardly original. When they used to be in service they were flooded and didn't make as hospitable places to tour back then
good point!
What's the impact of the heavy stones on the ground below? How much have they settled over the centuries? Thanks for making a great contribution to Egyptology.
not much. There is only a few meters of sand before you hit bedrock. The pyramids that haven't been built on the bedrock would long ago have compacted the sand to be equivalent to rock.
I would like to know if it is at all reasonable to consider the bent shape was intentional from the start. It does appear to be a transition point between a step pyramid and a pyramid-pyramid. I'd like to know the evidence that the builders recognized an error halfway through construction and corrected for it.
I had no idea that the Bent Pyramid was so complex internally.
There is a story here waiting to be told.
Trust me pyramid was had more function than we know
Thank you. Very interesting. When I was in Egypt the so called Bent Pyramid was off limits. You certainly put forward important issues that need further investigation. It's exciting how much we still have to learn and not just accept the paradigm established by present day Egyptologists.
I find it odd that people still think these structures were tombs even though no mummies have ever been found inside ANY pyramid. They look a lot more like giant machines to me. From the charring found in certain chambers, I think they may have been fire-driven, massive water pumps for irrigation. I wish we could explore all of the chambers so that accurate 3D models could be made and tested.
get some education and you''ll learn that such pumps are impossible and even so impractical since you can easily construct irrigation canals that extend from the nile.
I've never heard about this pyramid until I saw this video. Thanks for informing me! I'd hate to get off topic but does anyone else think the narrator sounds like Alan from Smiling Friends?
Does the gliff (sp) match when the pyramid was built or a different time?
Do we truly know that the bent pyramid wasn’t built to be bent
We do not. It very well could have been planned all along.
If a tomb you'd want it different than the rest. I'd say shows there level of understanding not there lack of.
I think it looks more striking that the regular pyramids.
No idea. But it sure is ugly. Glad they put an end to that
are you suggesting the ancient Egyptians gave out participation trophies to everyone?
My thoughts on the chimney is that it was a vertical shaft that would have served as an air vent and may have been topped with a poppet haulage winch to remove debris. The window would have been access for the chamber during it's construction. If you had fifty or more people working underground a good air supply would have been needed. It would have been capped once finished and the blocking stones were probably meant to be closed when completed. Even then you couldn't get good help
@@DieselRamcharger absolutely! It is sad that in this day and age that people are still so ignorant that they think that our "civilization" is the only one who could build thing's. Look around you and consider what would be around in ten or a hundred thousand years to show what our time could do. All concrete structures with steel reinforcement will have corroded and turned to dust. All plastics will have degraded to nothing, satellite's will have collided and be burnt up in re entry. All that will be left is lake's "the remains of open cut mines", and some poorly carved heads of gods on my Rushmore. Nothing to show there were cars plains space craft or internet. The next time a major wipeout happens, whomever is left will spend generations trying to survive and forget all that was known and will again sit in the shelter of a cave and begin the process of inventing everything, including the wheel while all the time feeling the are the only ones in time who could think or invent. By all means stick with your god's or aliens
This is amazing what a great job. Better than any TV documentary
Excellent as always. What I didn't understand is which chamber is the reputed burial chamber? Is there one at all? Fascinated to learn of the two separate 'systems' inside the pyramid. 😀
Most would presume the upper chamber behind the portcullis would be a burial chamber. But the portcullis was never closed...
It wasn't the bent pyramid of Dahshur that failed, it was the ruined pyramid of Meidum that collapsed during construction. It is beleived that collapse caused by too steep an angle in the sides influenced the builders of the Dahshur pyramid to make the mid construction adjustement at Dahshur. keeping Occum's razor in mind, seems way more belivable that they were still learning than to get hung up on fantastical possibilities. Thanks, I'll go now 🙂
Good point - The Bent Pyramid being bent precisely because the builders were smart and realised they were being too ambitious with their retrofit cladding
HfG's video on Meidum shows it did not collapse. The ruin is due to later quarrying of the materials.
love it. this opening is better than your current opening saying. it feels more we are on a journey together.
Did i get that right, the shaft going down 8m into the rock was not completely excavated but just filled with rubble again?
7:58 has anyone ever proposed the idea that the ancients tried to set a sort of trap or barrier by suddenly digging upward? With the original tunnel going down, then diverting up suddenly, it creates a small spot where water could pool up. With the room above the bend, so long as you don't add too much water, it'd be really hard for them to get through something like that in that time period. It's still hard to get through wet tunnels and caves today. The issues with the efficacy are 1. the seal of the rocks and how long it would hold the water. There will be losses due to leakage or evaporation, until the cavern is saturated. 2. The dedication of thieves. I would not doubt that people would have taken the time to empty the trap bucket by bucket, knowing what literal treasures lie behind it.
Like Giza pyramid I doubt there has ever been any treasure. Kings and queens have been buried in the valley of the kings where the treasure is. They have found different gases in Giza pyramid, making it more likely they used it to create and trap gas for some usage. With the different chambers and tunnels it could have been used for sorting lighter and heavier gases and the tunnel going down and suddenly up could have been a water lock like used today, to filter gases.
@@HaxerFlaxer um. Not likely. A good number of natural gasses are flammable, and they had no other light than torches or other flames. If you didn't know, you create a explosive device when you confine something with stored potential energy and an ignition source.
While it was a neat thought to credit them with more science than they had, though. Those gasses found probably accumulated over time in those chambers in Giza. Rocks do degas. Limestone is a reactive rock, and would let of some gasses over time with exposure to water and CO2, which could combine to form carbonic acid. CO2 is in the air, and anyone breathing there, like during construction or other uses like putting treasure in there, would be releasing it to be trapped. CO2 is heavier than air, so it would settle on the surface of the water, reacting with it. The carbonic acid would then release gasses as it slowly dissolves the rocks. There are pools of water in these chambers. Like, in the walking area, so to assume that was for gathering gasses is a bit off. Why fill your walking path with water?
Just a thought on the cut out just inside of the doorway... wouldn't that be needed to manoeuvre sarcophagi in? Or anything else of a large and long block like shape.
Again, outstanding video! However I do believe that the pyramid of Giza had an entry that WAS designed to be hidden, so at Giza at least that narrative is fully justified and can be fully demonstrated.
But back to Dashur. I feel that this building is so complex that its difficult to embrace everything about this pyramid, but I think some things are apparent. First and foremost shows Dashur as a giant building experiment, so to speak, a building used to test ideas by the engineers experimenting with pyramid structure in their quest for the perfect building under the lash of the driving Sneferu, with some hard lessons learned along the way. There is the obvious problem with engineering the slope of the pyramid, but there is also apparent the reluctance of engineers to place internal rooms above ground into massive piles of stone and divorced from the sure embrace of a tomb in Mother Earth, designers forced to push their architectural skills upward so to speak into the design opportunities afforded by the manmade portions of the pyramid itself. This was a challenge they met with poor results. Yes, they did exploit here the concept of creating structural space by using corbels as a way to stabilize space under immense masonry loads, but poor condition of the upper chamber I think attests by its spalling and damage and need for reinforcement to the lack of adequate structural shielding from the load around it. The reluctance of the engineers to exploit the pyramid structure for architectural experimentation is shown by the comparatively small roof area exposed to the masonry structure as the diminishing corbelling progresses inwards and upwards in the lower chamber complex, the top of the chamber just peeking above the level of bedrock, so to speak. This means that unlike the Grand Gallery at Giza, the side corbelling in the lower structure was not subject to lateral masonry pressure as you brilliantly pointed out. And that's the reason, partially, that they tunneled underground, because that ensured long term structural stability. But they couldn't stay there; pharaoh wouldn't let them. He wanted fancier and higher.
Because there is another reason, increased security. Why did the engineers design a cathedral like lower chamber with features suggesting a corbelling box when they structurally didn't need to? There may have been at least two reasons: one is to complement the design of the load bearing chamber above, but the other has to do with security of the burial (or botched attempt as a tomb). In your video you said that the presence of upper openings would have blown the secret of their use, but the secret itself wasn't important. It was the fact that the entrances were so high up that may have inhibited or were designed to inhibit easy access from one chamber to another. BTW the presence of openings high up on the faces of these pyramids, generally on the north but curiously also here on the west, always presupposes a straight ramp leading up from the desert floor to the openings or entries, EVEN AT KHUFU'S PYRAMID. At least one straight utility and ceremonial access into the pyramids similar to the causeways to the memorial temples. These ramps, however, were dismantled after the final burial rites and closure of the structure, because of course they were no longer needed.
Another thing is the unfinished state of the pyramid and its wild passageways suggesting that it was never used. The untriggered portcullises clinch the case, because they would have been used and triggered if the tomb HAD been used. They kept repairing the pyramid in different ways but the deteriorating upper chamber installed in a final effort to make the pyramid useful (along with ad hoc tunnels between spaces to tie everything together) attest to the fact they finally had to give up and abandon the structure. It's like a botched Van Gogh canvas. Also, the Pyramid Texts Pyramid and Khufu's pyramid have stunning finished interiors, but the Dashur Pyramid is like an abandoned North Korean tower hotel with the unfinished floor spaces gathering dust in the penthouse. This suggests it was never ready for Pharaoh to move into.
I'm not convinced elevating chambers into the superstructure had to be for a pharaoh's vanity. They might have thought chambers would be safer at higher elevations due to less weight upon them. If you're trying to avoid putting chambers entirely below ground with tunneling, then perhaps getting them up high was the next best thing.
@@HistoryforGRANITE But I believe that this strategy of moving chambers higher up to lessen load STILL didn't solve the problem of the extreme weight that existed on the rooms, even higher up in the pyramid. Witness the huge lengths made by the designer's of Khufu's tomb to protect that space with its huge granite beams. If the rooms were safer underground, why move them up and out into the masonry if they didn't have to if not for vanity's sake? ---It's because Pharaohs wanted a higher view of the Nile!:) The condition of the upper chamber at Dashur I think attests to the fact they still hadn't gotten it right with their weight calculations and underestimated the pyramid's load on the upper chamber. BTW this is why I think that the void above the Grand Gallery is part of a larger structural scheme with granite beams to protect the entry to Khufu's chamber and the roof of the Grand Gallery that we see, again because of the huge problem of weight higher up in the pyramid which if these spaces did not have now hidden reinforcement above would have crushed these areas like a bug.
@@scottzema3103 Actually, there are those who think that the state of the upper chamber is not due to weight calculation errors that have precipitated the deterioration of its state, but to conditioning works on the walls of the false vault as they successively raised the level of the chamber floor (at least twice above the original level). As the available upper space became more and more constrained with these elevations, the builders were recutting the stone courses roughly to give that space the appearance of a smooth-walled burial chamber, and not merely an alcove under a corbelled roof. The last recut would have been abandoned, leaving the upper end courses unsupported and exposed to slow, gradual detachment. Although, for my part, I have never stopped wondering if part of the deterioration of the upper chamber ceiling could not be due to the destructive action of a band of robbers, who had acted here on the roof of the chamber, just as others acted on the floor of the red pyramid. Perhaps they were trying to find the entrance to a tunnel located high up in the false vault, just as there is in the lower chamber or in the second chamber of the red pyramid?