1001 Mysteries of the Bent Pyramid
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2022
- The Bent Pyramid of Dahshur may be the most mysterious pyramid ever constructed. It was entirely off-limits for half a century, but now we can take a look inside.
Never formally surveyed in the modern era, the pyramid has countless anomalies and unique features that deserve study. The Bent Pyramid has become a scapegoat for the narrative that the builders didn’t know how to construct megaliths yet, but upon closer examination that argument falls apart.
With too many subjects to choose from, this video takes you on a complete tour of the substructure and highlights many interesting elements. What questions can we take away from this examination? The portcullis will receive a special video in the future, but first I need a photo from behind the open one!
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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.
kudos to you for exploring at age 71 ! too many elderly don't want to leave the comfort of their home and as a young man it's really discouraging to see
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
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
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.
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 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 ❤
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
The ingenuity and skill of the Egyptian pyramid builders never fails to amaze me. Thank you for posting this fascinating video.
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'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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
19:58 The great Bent Pyramid protector. I love your videos. I’ve binged 5 so far since finding your channel this morning.
Great documentary. I never knew how interesting the bent pyramid is! Very complex structure.
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.
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!
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 🇨🇦
More please! Always found this to be a very interesting structure and never thought it “failed”.
😀 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. 👍
Whenever I see videos of these pyramids, by the way these are amazing videos of the pyramids you have here, I just feel completely awed and my brain is impossibly unable to wrap itself around the idea of building something like this It’s the same feeling as when I ponder the mysteries of the universe and it’s vastness
I like your comment and I agree. If you like to be amazed check out Randall Carlson's mega flood/comet strike evidence. It's incredible.
The structure itself is almost as amazing as your video about it.. so well put together and an inspiration to all.
Great way to start the weekend! I’ve been looking forward to a Bent Pyramid video. Glad you plan more on the subject.
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!
Fascinating content! More, please!
You are about to be binged. Loved that cheers.
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.
This channel, with such intriguing contents like these made me realise just how much I've been taking History for Granite for granted.
I watched all of your videos in a span of 4 days. Very educational and entertaining!
Fantastic video! Glad I found this channel!
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.
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!
This is amazing what a great job. Better than any TV documentary
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.
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
This is one of the best pyramids to visit. It is well preserved showing the outer casing as it was intended. It is not for the faint-hearted but well worth it. I noticed the hole halfway up the outer wall of the pyramid the last time I was there.
Thank you for showing me the insight into why it is there.
This is such a great channel!! Glad I just found it!!
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 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.
I've been very much looking forward to a new video coming out. Thank you 🙂
Wonderful video. I look forward to any additions you have.
Fascinating, thanks for the video. Looking forward to seeing more. 👍
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.
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.
Thanks for the impressive productions. Better than much information on tv.
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.
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
super nice! thx for the hard work.
What a fascinating video!
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.
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.
Again absolutely fascinating thank you
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'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.
Incredible video man, a lot of details I didn't know. Totally agree this pyramid was not a failure👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thank you for taking your time to make this video. It’s very obvious you spent a great deal of time writing the script and editing this for all to enjoy. You did a wonderful job of being completely non bias and state opinions as just that, and for that you are an excellent narrator for historical films. I rarely leave messages on people’s videos, but you needed to know how nice it was to watch something that was moving at the right speed and very thorough leaving me satisfied and not seeking more and more information.
Most interesting! Thanks for posting.
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.
@@tylerwitte714your second comment was sarcasm I assume? Also, what new findings are discovered with new tech?
@@stadtjer689 ground penetrating radar ofc
Amazing... thank you... and yes it is overwhelming with questions... and a good signoff point with the comparison with the Great Pyramid. I imagine no treasures/burials were ever found within it chambers? I suspect they have been long gone since it appears to have been looted many times in its 4.5K years existence. It is one amazing construction, that's for sure! Looking forward to your many follow-up videos about this incredible building and its secrets as they are revealed.
love it. this opening is better than your current opening saying. it feels more we are on a journey together.
great video and reat links; keith hamilton work is fantastic
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?
Watched twice now. More about any stones meant to be moved or pivoted would be great. That stuff is fascinating.
Fascinating watch, well reasoned.
I am terrified to leave bubble America....but if I did...it would be to Egypt(maybe Turkey too, since I am already out). Your videos are high quality detailed both in video and narration. Thanks for reinvigorating my love of the pyramids and their mysteries 🙂
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 video .Thanks for this information.
Thanks for a very good overview of this relic.
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 🙂
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
The photography was very good throughout the video. A side note, the photo with the bat (19.36) is awesome!
Well put together thank you 👏
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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The interior is a good candidate for millimeter scanning and data analysis. Perhaps training an AI program to find patterns might also be a good idea. Could show what shape interior structures might have had.
It likely already has had this treatment from one university or several since LIDAR scanning has become more affordable.
AI might figure a lot of things out w no Ego to dissuade it.
Thanks! Your videos are amazing and I am addicted!!!
Thank you so much!
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.
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
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
Fourth time watching this, ur my fave on the platform bro! If you’d ever be down to do a video on either of the pyramids of Amenemhat III I would be overjoyed lol
Mystery overload, not sure I can take it... so much work to be done!
difficult to see this pyramid as failed, the form is very visually balanced and pleasing. perhaps a design change did occur halfway up though i find it hard to imagine anything on a project of this scale being done ad-hoc. pure speculation since i don't know enough about this, or any other pyramid, to be certain. great video and a very interesting look into this amazing building. i'd like to see more of everything.
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.
This pyramid is crazy and full of questions compared to the other much more studied pyramids.
fantastic video!!!!
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.
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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!
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
Superior analysis Sir!
man... how do ppl not want to go to this pyramid??? this was facinating!
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.