I'm retired and didn't have time to research when I was working. I am absolutely fascinated by all the new info on all these mysteries. Thank you for your work.
So excited I found your channel! I love the reasonable application and your logical thought process on the evidence we do see. Thank you for your work. Can't wait for your next video
Perhaps a helpful comment Love this channel, though the diagrams could possibly use a few remarks of orientation ("looked at from the side," looked at from the top") or arrows; it's difficult to orient the diagrams in the few seconds that they're visible.
Totally agree with you regarding the prism stone. If disguise was the objective, in the dim flickering torchlight of would be thieves, a false ceiling could be textured to mach the rest of the tunnel. A heavy wooden frame supporting a false ceiling would be both practical and efficient. The notches high up, would allow a deep frame to be jammed in tight, taking advantage of the maximum surface area offered by the walls. This would allow a relatively think false plaster ceiling that could (at a pinch) not sound hollow when tapped, yet weigh a small fraction of a solid stone.
If the marks had been to place a ladder, in that position they would reduce the space to ascend by half, the marks would have to be at the base. They would only work in that position if they attached a handrail or two guides so that the royal trousseau did not touch the stone. I used google translator.
@@tanner1985 I think the notches could have been there for measuring the precise width of the narrowing corridor, they would allow a yardstick/cubitstick to be placed against a real reference. Measuring tapers is tricky compared to other measurements, especially precise acute tapers. Deviating from the design width by a tenth of an inch would result in whole inches deviation of where the granite plugstone would seat.
I was also going to comment on the same issue - odd location to place the ladder at midway in the height of the passage effectively cutting it in half.
The ladder or ramp could be designed in such a way where the supports rise up to the notches whilst maintaing full depth. Also the measurement theory is odd. I dont think the builders had issues precisely measuring to the point they would cut rough notches like that ...
Just the genius that shows when explaining the “beam notches” is incredible to think about when considering the state of human kind in the age this was constructed. They were simply brilliant and I can’t imagine how they knew to do this let alone thousands of other seemingly simple but cheeky tricks they used. It’s as if they had built thousands of pyramids and this was no prototype, but a mass produced model slapped together in a hard days work. Everything pre-planned and coming together like an orchestra of well trained laborers who had all done it before. It’s mind boggling to think one person, crew, or even organization could retain such precision when so many different hands took place in the construction. One would think at some point “****up frank” would have messed something up. But it seems as if the entire crew were of one mind. Stunning.
Another video by HfG talks about the evolution of pyramids beginning with the mastabas which led to the Step Pyramid to the Red Pyramid and on to the Great Pyramid.
"The state of human kind" According to the education system we've enjoyed during our lives. Its obvious that this was built by a highly intelligent group. Not the comical looking, bold junkies from the more modern dynastic egyptians.
Going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids and other ancient sites there is on the top of my bucket list! My uncle went to Egypt while he was in the navy. He always told me how amazing those sites are.
Love all your videos. I was wondering about the tunnel dug in the great pyramid in the 9th century and what it reveals potentially about the interior structure of the pyramid. Are the blocks different sizes as you progress in? How well are interior blocks shaped? Are they fitted tightly together? Is there a way to determine which direction the tunnel was dug?
The more detail you understand the more you wonder how amazingly organised these people were, Be good if you could do one on how these people actually worked inside as they built, the heat, light, air etc so hard to imagine working on it, boggles the mind 🤪
I misread prism as pyramidon,(the stone to stand atop of the pyramid) so was more interested than I expected. A new perspective is always a useful tool because I am not sure how or if this incredibly large structure is aligned , or if the Giza plateau potential can now be realised ( affected by precession?). The 'relieving chambers' are curious...
@@elamite66 The ancient Egyptians chisels in Cairo museum have 3% arsenic present in the copper, too much for a natural impurity and is called arsenical bronze.
@@elamite66 l am not being adversarial, we all seek knowledge and the age you speak of was a an anglocentrc term although England had excellent tin mineral deposits did they not have this technology? Tin makes superior bronze with greater corrosion capability it is possible that this technology was brought back to the from the Trojan Wars to the UK although Roman Catholicism by the Vatican has controlled history for 4 millenia
something i've been thinking about is: if you have hidden rooms within a structure, it's more likely that robbers will cause unnecessary extra damage, tearing up every surface looking for concealed passages meanwhile, making rooms that are obvious but very difficult to access (e.g. with granite plugs) means that most break-in efforts will be concentrated around those obstacles, potentially saving the rest of the structure
I agree with you on everything except the idea that the notches were for a ladder. I'm looking at that diagram and I just can't fathom any reason why a ladder would be mounted in the center of the passage and not at the bottom. Such a ladder would be in its own way. Also the fact that the notches are flush with the bottom of the blocks seems more than mere coincidence.
Only thought about the holes being used for a ladder is why would they be in the middle? Seems like a ladder would be better mounted towards the bottom of the opening.
It's a good question. Perhaps it made grave goods easier to grab from above being hunched over in the corridors. It's also possible the ladder had some sort of unusual configuration different from modern ladders with the lateral supports offset in some way. But the main point is that the notches could only support human weight, not megalith weight.
Discovering your channel is the best treasure i found this year. Your video and explanations are 110%! Can i ask you a question: who are you and what do you do in life? You sure sounds like someone who probably studied in history/archeology/engineering or maybe it's a big hobby of yours?
It’s been a lifelong passive interest, but the past few years I decided to get serious because nobody else was doing the research I felt was important. The big turning point was Egypt started opening up more sites to tourism so I can get quality imagery that is essential for both analysis and presentation.
The man is trash - arrogant, myopic, jingoistic... he's basically a goon masquerading as an academic. If he was American or European (or, say, Japanese), he would have been laughed out of the discipline decades ago.
Very interesting and well articulated. I especially appreciate the rational approach and lack of “woo”. I’d love to see a video on what you think about The Labyrinth.
@@DocBree13 I don’t know of any book, but I watched a video by UnchartedX here on RUclips called: “Finding Ancient Egypt’s Lost Labrynth” and a couple others. NASA allowed a group of researchers to use one of their high dollar satellites to do a LIDAR survey and found it!
I managed to take a flash photo in the Grand Gallery back in the day. The restriction on using flash didn’t make sense as it wasn’t like there was any paintings to possibly fade. So I accidentally forgot which hand had the proper camera and which had the disposable. I don’t regret snapping the picture.
Beautiful video and description.. Congratulations. Only one technical question: What is preventing this Prism stone from falling down? Just the notches? I wonder..
Maybe it was a thin facing slab. It looks like it would support itself if one edge was inserted first then slid to lean against the other side. There may be a missing lip.
A concealing method would be ludicrous unless they expected the "robbers" (personally I never believed this was a tomb") had a way to levitate massive objects. Raising the granite blocks to the top of a pyramid using ramps and either people or animals to move them with water or sand to reduce friction then letting gravity work going down into the blockage slope is one thing. Trying to force the blocks back up an ENCLOSED ramp without massive machinery is quite another.
By know after looking at all of the pyramids not just the great pyramid i get the distinct impression that the commoners of egypt went into the pyramids regularly. I feel like that would explain a lot. They enter the chambers at the bottom knowing their old god pharaoh lies above them. They use it as a spiritual place and to project power. During their reign the pyramid symbolizes the monarchs hold on the nations and in death they become temples. It makes even more sense with all of the other old kingdom pyramids where the last chamebr is above the others. You walk in until you are physically prevented from going further so you are both very close and very distant from your resting pharao.A genius and quite simple idea and design.
I love your videos and once again I will be waiting for the next one. Then it is only necessary to investigate if it was physically possible to introduce the three granite blocks that plugged the ascending corridor in the 26th dynasty with the pyramid already built many centuries before or if they were already there from the beginning. What is clear is that these questions must be thoroughly investigated. Thanks for the content once again.
The best explanation for how the ancient Egyptians were able to build such massive structures in such a short time is that they built on top of an existing structure. This doesn't diminish the abilities of the Egyptians but it would help explain how they were able to complete the huge structure in 20 - 30 years time.
I do like your written in stone (or lack thereof) approach and enjoy your narration. Stone, paper, papyrus, clay or the stars if it fits and supports the single set of events that constitute the past it is golden if it doesn't fit it may be fiction or the place it does fit hasn't been discovered yet. Five hundred and some moons ago I read Zecharia Sitchin's "12th Planet" since then I've read most of his books. In my humble opinion chapter eight "The Pyramid Wars" and chapter ten "The Prisoner In The Pyramid" of Sitchin's "The Wars of Gods and Men" would row your boat or rock your boat, it may be you've already read this book in any case cheers and keep up the good work!
@@mikeheffernan Hi Mike, the only fiction book written by Sitchin that I am aware of is "The Lost Book of Enki" . Please inform me of who you think discredited Sitchin and if they did so the evidence they used to accomplish that. Cheers.
Your point about pyramids NOT being secret actually answers the biggest question people have about them: why did Egyptians stop building pyramids? Because the largest stone structure that you can see from miles away cannot be hidden by definition. The underground tomb actually can be at least somewhat clandestine... It also has to do with cult of Amun, the Hidden One, becoming more popular, so the methods of worship evolved towards more less visible, private sites (not that they didn't make HUGE temples like Karnak, just that tomb complexes weren't aiming to be sky high and got shifted towards valleys and lowlands). Tl;dr: secrecy, at least symbolic, became major part of Egyptian burial rituals in later dynasties, which changed royal burials from pyramids and mastabas to underground tombs.
Makes you wonder, who was the first person to say, "I need stone for my project. Hey, there's a big pile of cut stones sitting there and no one is using it..."
The idea that the notches on either side of the granite block were used to support a ladder, etc before final blocking doesn’t make sense, because you could simply lag the ladder on the floor of the ascending corridor.
@@HistoryforGRANITE no, if you put a ladder in the notches, it’s end would be halfway up above the floor of the ascending corridor. If put on the floor of it as I suggest, you could achieve a more gentle slope and a heavy object would exit near the floor, which would be better for both heavy objects and people. So the notches don’t make sense for a ladder.
After 3 videos I have decided to subscribe. very interesting work you do. Since there are quite a few interesting constructions in Egypt I expect many interesting videos in future. Thank You
Have you come across the work of Joseph Davidovits from the French Geopolymer Institute? Definitely worth looking into IMO. Provides the easiest solution to the problem of quarrying, cutting, transporting and lifting large stones, at least for the limestone. It is also the only way I can see of building with polygonal masonry that makes any sense.
The fact that the Stone of the Pregnant Woman exists as it does dismisses the idea of geopolymer used. Besides, it's not possible to make geopolymer blocks that are that big, and to create geopolymer blocks you have to grind all material to a very fine powder first.
I wonder if the angle of the ascending passageway and the Grand Gallery was chosen as the minimum slope at which the granite plugging blocks would reliably slide down into place against the friction of the limestone.
With regard to the 4 air shafts.Ancient architects hypotheses that the reason the 2 Queens chamber shafts end equally short of the outer edge is because the pyramid may have been built ( effectively) twice.The first one smaller and the second enlarged.This two burial chambers. This makes a lot of sense to me.
Compared to other burial chambers in Egypt, why would someone build thees enormous constructions? How long would it take to build them with the technology of the Egyptians and with the tools of that time. I do not belive it would have been possible.
If I understand correctly those three plugs blocked the only access to the chambers? How do you supposed they would have been lowered into place from the outside? Looking at the seams between the bottom plug and the walls, there is no way you will ever convince me that those stones were cut with primitive tools to match each other so perfectly. One of the problems with fitting two things together like that is you need to place them together to check the fit, separate them and make small adjustments, over and over. In my experience this is quite a chore even with soft materials like wood and aluminium, let alone gigantic blocks of granite. I'm also highly skeptical of your idea about the notches being to hold a ladder. A ladder would stay put perfectly well without notches above (notches in the floor would be far more practical), and placing it smack in the middle of the corridor as in your diagram would be kinda dumb. Also, the notches appear to line up perfectly with the bottom surface of the plug, too perfectly to not have more significance than just a ladder holder - I mean how long would it take to carve out each notch, and why bother making them so nicely square, or so large? I agree that there is no reason to think the plug was camouflaged though.
Excellent reasoning. I doubt very much there are chambers yet to be discovered. I have spent many hours alone inside the GP, the interior architecture is so spectacular it is highly unlikely that it is all a decoy for treasure hunters.
There are slots, notches, and grooves and there was very likely different/multiple uses for them. It’s not an easy reconstruction, but I’m optimistic the Big Void will help solve that mystery - if we ever get a look inside.
@@HistoryforGRANITE Yeah, i also hope that the Big Void will shed more light on this matter, but i personally think that it would turn out that these chambers were used practically for the purpose of the construction of the Kings chamber with its huge granite beams.
@@Gravitacionimanevar This is a likely scenario, but the GG may have had a similar function for lower courses. So a comparison of the two will be extremely useful!
The square slot holes along the sides of the GrandGallery floor were used for the wooden track & rollers to be placed as to create a Counterweight run up and down the Grand Gallery. It was a used to Counterweight lift all the granite for the Kings Chamber
If I had designed that junction, the concealing limestone would also have been tapered to fit when placed in from above, and finished flush with the rest of the top of the tunnel. So I assume the builders would have done the same. Are you aware of the idea that AlMamun dug his tunnel to get something out, rather than as a way in?
Thank God someone has a brain around here!! There is no way that the caliph Al mamun blindly dug a tunnel that ended exactly were the ascending corridor and the descending corridor meet up. I’m thinking he found a way to get in using the original entrance under the Chevrons. Then once he found what he wanted to take out he realized it was too big to remove on the angle that the descending corridor makes to exit the pyramid. Does he dug out his own exit to remove this item that he was trying to take out the great pyramid. Of course the caliph never spoke about what he removed in any of his ventures because he didn’t want to look like a thief stealing treasure.
I'm not comfortable with the idea of them leaving those notches in the wall right in front of the plug that they "just used for ladders" when the pyramid was open for visitors, the tunnels, chambers and the outside beautifully finished with masterful masonry, plaster, paint etc. Why not have the plug cover up the notches? Doesn't sit right with me. Either the "prism" block didn't fill the entire void but was only a hands width thick or there was some other cover hung from those notches; maybe a painting that shows the pharaohs journey to the underworld or something like that. Even if they didn't bother to conceal any security measures, which does make sense, they would've made it look really nice I'm sure - fit for a king.
Perhaps the notches were there to support another kind of camouflage - maybe they built something out of wood and then used plaster to cover the side of the wood facing the corridor? It would be light weight enough for the notches to be enough to hold it. I mean, think of it from someone who does want to hide it. Do you go through insane lengths to add a heavy stone in a place where there are no supports or do you try at least to camouflage it the best you can with the materials you can use? The reason the gaps are right below the plugging stones is not to be ignored. Sure no solution was likely going to last as long as stonework but who knows how long they thought they'd have to "defend" the entrance for anyway ...
Well done! Great attention to detail. The granite plugs were part of a sled/counterweight system in the grand gallery. They simply left the counterweight blocks in place to make the passage difficult to clear if discovered. I don't see why they would bother with plaster or mortar, when the granite itself would be a deterrent, as you pointed out. Access passages in use today are the 'maintenance circuit', used during the construction. The 'royal circuit' has yet to be opened, but we know where it is. The end-point is the king's chamber. There is one granite wall block that has been obviously slid into place later, and it is not loadbearing. It is barely larger than the sarcophagus cross-section. The starting-point is an opening behind the odd 'saddle-stone', above the current opening to the lower passage. Between these 2 points must be a corridor that the king's body would have traveled in the final internment ceremony. Possibly with an antechamber along the way. I have studied details of Egyptian pyramid construction for 40+ years, and always down for discussing the topic.
You are describing Houdin's internal layout theory which has many astute observations, but I do think there is room for improvement. Keep watching to find out how!
@@HistoryforGRANITE I do think Houdin is on the right track. We'll never know until the voids are investigated. Could be easily done in the 'notch' on the NE corner. According to the model made by Houdin with Dassault Systemes, investigated by Bob Brier, the inner passage would be exposed by moving only a couple stones from that enclave.
Yes it is clear that the one non loaded granite block in the Kings chamber hides some sort of passageway.Sadly I’m certain the authorities won’t pull it out for fear of damaging it ( no conspiracy theories here).But even for the sake of boosting tourism they should do it imho.
I don't think those 3 stones at the bottom were for a counterweight. That I think was in the hidden chamber above the gallery. But then I think the whole thing was a water powered machine. Water pouring down the shaft to the subterranean shaft would have created vacuum above in the well shaft. Which ports nicely up to the split in both chambers. Stone pistons in the chamber shafts could have pulled ropes outside the pyramid creating 2 cranes, if there were exterior spools. Vacuum, invisible power, the same power that stops your car. That's why the King's chamber had a lip to prevent the last stone from getting pulled in. The stone ball found was a bleed down valve that covered an orifice to slow the works in one direction, down. Found inside a shaft that I believe contained a piston. Everything else was fished out of the shafts, when they officially decommissioned. There's also a point in one of the shafts that looks like a gutter. That was a stopping point for the piston. It reached that point and air would flow around the piston. Softly stopping the machine. That's also why the shafts were a smooth limestone, "polished." The different chamber designs were based on one being an up the other a down. The vacuum pulled through the backside of the King's chamber through the hidden works to a stone the exact size as the sarcophagus height and width. The "sarcophagus" was a stone valve. It never had a lid, was designed for air to flow through the inside when the sarcophagus reached either end of travel, again stopping the whole machine gently, preventing over travel. The sarcophagus got jammed, was pushed into the chamber. The corner broken it was hopelessly damaged and left in place, looking like an empty coffin. Along the way, the mechanisms were removed, making it safer for inevitable explorers. The subchamber drain was expertly plugged, with perhaps some natural process helping it look like it was never finished.
@@pgtmr2713 The Khufu sarcophagus had a dovetail lid and holes for securing pins, same as what we see still intact in Khafre's pyramid. There is no evidence suggesting an airtight seal, vacuum, pumps, electricity or any of the hydraulics technology required for your assertions. You believe it is a machine to do what, exactly? We do see lots of pyramids around Egypt and they are all used as tombs or tomb markers. Pyramid Texts and the Diary of Merer confirm their use as tombs, aside from them being part of necropolis complexes and obviously exaggerated mastabas. If Houdin's theories are correct, we should even find evidence of a second internal counterweight ramp in opposition to the Grand Gallery. We already see evidence of such a ramp cut into the bedrock under the northeast corner of Khafre's pyramid, which was filled with stones during that pyramids construction.
If I were designing a pyramid tomb which I wanted to guaranty my pharaoh remains secure for eternity I’d place the tomb in the centre, but make the passageways supported by wood and burn them out once laid to rest. The resulting corridor collapses would make it almost impossible to reach the burial chamber.
Well, the ancients were in and out of the Great Pyramid all the time and Herodotus was told that there was nothing of interest to see in there, just a wet basement chamber with rats scurrying around. Nobody saw either entrance to the chambers above in all that time. I've got to believe both were cleverly concealed, and the legend of Al-Mamun suggests that the lentil falling off the ceiling was what led the robbers to find the corridor. Also broken up stone blocks can be seen in old photos of the corridors that probably came from the concealing stones. All of that was cleared out by modern Egyptians as well as the Greek, Latin, Arab and English graffiti that were written on all the walls. I don't buy the theory that the granite blocks were just left like that because people would have suspected there was something above.
Where might I find some of the original photos of stones seen in the corridors? I am curious to see them. I hope they were documented before being removed because they were significantly informative.
@@gandolph999Look through some of the earlier videos on the Ancient Architects page at ruclips.net/user/AncientArchitects . Besides tons of sand clogging up the corridors, you can see there are pieces of granite blocks in 100-year-p;d photos.
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I keep finding videos of yours covering the granite plugs. But still have not found how they were actually installed, other than being slided into place from the grand gallery.
Cool Channel... I've never been to Egypt.... but seen the Peruvian works with stone... it's really not understood until you see it and touch it in person.
@@drum420 did you know that there are possible findings of a sphinx and pyramid near the dead sea. So you where very close. Except for the letter T. Also babylonia was a place of pre great pyramid dynasty further to the east. Was that where their knowledge came from? Who knows...
Is there any evidence that the notches are as old as the pyramid itself, as you assume ? They could be added any time as a support to pry or dislodgde the block, the block even seems to have some marks here.
I would hazard a guess that the 'notches' may well have been to hold a temporary, small support beam which in turn supported several posts long enough to sit on the floor below and allow the first stone to be slid down and come to rest slightly above or onto the tops of the posts, where it could be adjusted with wedges to ensure correct alignment . The timbers etc then removed after the other two stones were slid into place. An access ladder would surely have been leaned against the floor of the ascending shaft rather than a small beam halfway up the face of the opening?
Admittedly I´m not that familiar with these structures, but how do we know there are 3 stones? We can access stone 1 from below and stone 3 from atop, but how do we know there is a third stone? and its not 1 long stone?
A 5 fold block-puzzle, each block 400kg so rather easy to handle for those skilled masons would be sufficient to be placed as a camouflage schism block, the 2 shallow nockholes are strong enough to hold the entire block in place. A simple mix of plaster added would cover the small gaps.
I don't think ground penetrating radar works, but some researchers tried to detect cosmic particles called Muons. I think they placed special plates of film over a long time to detect patterns. That's how they found the void above the King's chamber in the great pyramid.
1:36 the corner where the prism block should have been is rounded. This rounding was intentional. Either the corner of the joint was chipped away (and would be rough and irregular with pick marks) or the rounding was part of the original construction (and would be smooth).
Base on an experiment that limestone block can be made artificially (Joseph Davidovits) can we take that prism cavity was filled by wet limestone concrete turn hard over time? If so the shallow notches is suffice to keep the block stay put.
Accounts of the forced entry by al Mahmud mention a loud thud during the excavation. Interesting to check if the other two pyramids have corresponding prism stones.
Chisel rock for the placement of a ladder?? This cannot be the real reason. More like a main stream archeological explanation. You usually have much better explanations. Thanks as always.
If they simply dropped those huge granite plugs down the shaft then there would be hell to pay when they accelerated down and hit the narrow part. The blocks at the narrow passage would have been severely fractured. Instead perhaps the two notches held a barrier door that held back sand filling the shaft. This way the granite plugs could have been lowered down the shaft by slowly draining the sand out through a sand drain opening in the door. After the granite plugs are in their final resting place, then the door could be removed. The need to carefully lower the granite plugs down the shaft would explain why the solid prism piece could not be used. Perhaps the two notches were then used to hold a special prism block designed with self locking extensions that popped out when in place. For example, if the prism block had a hole drilled through it from notch to notch with 10 inch long copper plugs that fit inside each hole. Then a mechanism that pushes the copper plugs outward into the two notches to hold the prism block in place. The mechanism that pushes the two copper plugs out is in between the two copper plugs and extends out the top of the prism block through another hole drilled into the block. The mechanism is activated by pressing the prism block up against the granite block. The granite block pushes down on a lever or rod sticking out of the prism top which then presses against the copper plugs from inside the drilled hole. Once the prism block is pushed in place, the copper plugs can not be retracted without removing the granite block. The fact that the sarcophagus lids had locking mechanisms make this very plausible.
The 3 granite stone plugs were once the Counterweight stones used in the Grand Gallery. Once they built the Kings Chamber the Counterweight stones were slid down the Accending entrance.
@@pizzalover472 Removed before they finished the ceiling of the gallery I'd say. Making the granite plugs fit that tunnel precisely is such a difficult job I think they were content with 3 plug blocks.
You say the notches would not be sutiable, due to the weight of a solid blocks bearing upon it. But that demands that a solid block, rather than hollow concealment, would be required.
Its unbelievable even to this day people still can't agree as to what they were built and used for, they sure did go to unbelievable efforts to build whatever these are, so I guess it's a tip of the hat to this very day of how clever they were, these builders.
I mean it is for sure they where used as tombs by the later egyptians, however i don´t think they were constructed for that purpose, mainly because the constructin does not make sense as a tomb, it is so diffrent from any other assured burrial building by any other culture, so who, how and for what purpose constructed the original pyramids remains indeed a mystery.
I'm retired and didn't have time to research when I was working. I am absolutely fascinated by all the new info on all these mysteries. Thank you for your work.
I really enjoy your channel. I love learning about ancient architecture. Hope this small contribution helps out.
Thank you kindly, it does!
So excited I found your channel! I love the reasonable application and your logical thought process on the evidence we do see. Thank you for your work. Can't wait for your next video
Yes good thinking and logic are not usually applied to this subject. Great channel.
Perhaps a helpful comment Love this channel, though the diagrams could possibly use a few remarks of orientation ("looked at from the side," looked at from the top") or arrows; it's difficult to orient the diagrams in the few seconds that they're visible.
Totally agree with you regarding the prism stone.
If disguise was the objective, in the dim flickering torchlight of would be thieves, a false ceiling could be textured to mach the rest of the tunnel.
A heavy wooden frame supporting a false ceiling would be both practical and efficient. The notches high up, would allow a deep frame to be jammed in tight, taking advantage of the maximum surface area offered by the walls. This would allow a relatively think false plaster ceiling that could (at a pinch) not sound hollow when tapped, yet weigh a small fraction of a solid stone.
Right with you on this point. Fascinating to ponder on the truth behind these small details. Thanks!
If the marks had been to place a ladder, in that position they would reduce the space to ascend by half, the marks would have to be at the base.
They would only work in that position if they attached a handrail or two guides so that the royal trousseau did not touch the stone. I used google translator.
I was going to write the same observation. So the notches were not for a ladder.
@@tanner1985 I think the notches could have been there for measuring the precise width of the narrowing corridor, they would allow a yardstick/cubitstick to be placed against a real reference. Measuring tapers is tricky compared to other measurements, especially precise acute tapers. Deviating from the design width by a tenth of an inch would result in whole inches deviation of where the granite plugstone would seat.
I was also going to comment on the same issue - odd location to place the ladder at midway in the height of the passage effectively cutting it in half.
@@michaelweryk6237 Exact!
The ladder or ramp could be designed in such a way where the supports rise up to the notches whilst maintaing full depth. Also the measurement theory is odd. I dont think the builders had issues precisely measuring to the point they would cut rough notches like that ...
Just the genius that shows when explaining the “beam notches” is incredible to think about when considering the state of human kind in the age this was constructed. They were simply brilliant and I can’t imagine how they knew to do this let alone thousands of other seemingly simple but cheeky tricks they used. It’s as if they had built thousands of pyramids and this was no prototype, but a mass produced model slapped together in a hard days work. Everything pre-planned and coming together like an orchestra of well trained laborers who had all done it before. It’s mind boggling to think one person, crew, or even organization could retain such precision when so many different hands took place in the construction. One would think at some point “****up frank” would have messed something up. But it seems as if the entire crew were of one mind. Stunning.
Another video by HfG talks about the evolution of pyramids beginning with the mastabas which led to the Step Pyramid to the Red Pyramid and on to the Great Pyramid.
"The state of human kind" According to the education system we've enjoyed during our lives. Its obvious that this was built by a highly intelligent group. Not the comical looking, bold junkies from the more modern dynastic egyptians.
Going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids and other ancient sites there is on the top of my bucket list! My uncle went to Egypt while he was in the navy. He always told me how amazing those sites are.
Love all your videos. I was wondering about the tunnel dug in the great pyramid in the 9th century and what it reveals potentially about the interior structure of the pyramid. Are the blocks different sizes as you progress in? How well are interior blocks shaped? Are they fitted tightly together? Is there a way to determine which direction the tunnel was dug?
I will definitely be making a video about the robber’s tunnel that addresses some of those questions.
Is there any writing or hieroglyphs describing how the pyramids were built!
Another thoroughly interesting story, thank you. I would like to know more about the 'niche' at 10:48, I've always been fascinated by it being there.
The more detail you understand the more you wonder how amazingly organised these people were,
Be good if you could do one on how these people actually worked inside as they built, the heat, light, air etc so hard to imagine working on it, boggles the mind 🤪
Hard and skilled work.
Shouldn't be as bad as coal mines in modern era though.
Incredible vid I sincerely hope you continue this series, I’m hooked
I misread prism as pyramidon,(the stone to stand atop of the pyramid) so was more interested than I expected. A new perspective is always a useful tool because I am not sure how or if this incredibly large structure is aligned , or if the Giza plateau potential can now be realised ( affected by precession?). The 'relieving chambers' are curious...
NOT BRONZE AGE.................................................CHALCOLITHIC (COPPER) AGE
@@elamite66 The ancient Egyptians chisels in Cairo museum have 3% arsenic present in the copper, too much for a natural impurity and is called arsenical bronze.
@@elamite66 l am not being adversarial, we all seek knowledge and the age you speak of was a an anglocentrc term although England had excellent tin mineral deposits did they not have this technology? Tin makes superior bronze with greater corrosion capability it is possible that this technology was brought back to the from the Trojan Wars to the UK although Roman Catholicism by the Vatican has controlled history for 4 millenia
Your use of logic is impressive and I think the best way forward
something i've been thinking about is:
if you have hidden rooms within a structure, it's more likely that robbers will cause unnecessary extra damage, tearing up every surface looking for concealed passages
meanwhile, making rooms that are obvious but very difficult to access (e.g. with granite plugs) means that most break-in efforts will be concentrated around those obstacles, potentially saving the rest of the structure
Unlikely but fingers crossed that maybe there's another untouched tomb within, maybe of the real Khufu or his relatives
@@BasileosHerodou another? These pyramids were never tombs
@@BasileosHerodou there has never been a mummy found in any pyramid. There is no evidence these were tombs.
@@abassett22 yall love to echo this idea lol
@@jamesandrews8698 yes, We love to echo the truth.
Every time I see those nubs on the great pyramid, I think about the Inca walls that have the same feature.
I agree with you on everything except the idea that the notches were for a ladder. I'm looking at that diagram and I just can't fathom any reason why a ladder would be mounted in the center of the passage and not at the bottom. Such a ladder would be in its own way. Also the fact that the notches are flush with the bottom of the blocks seems more than mere coincidence.
Only thought about the holes being used for a ladder is why would they be in the middle? Seems like a ladder would be better mounted towards the bottom of the opening.
It's a good question. Perhaps it made grave goods easier to grab from above being hunched over in the corridors. It's also possible the ladder had some sort of unusual configuration different from modern ladders with the lateral supports offset in some way. But the main point is that the notches could only support human weight, not megalith weight.
@@HistoryforGRANITE Right. Thanks for the video and the reply. Good luck with your channel. 👍
Discovering your channel is the best treasure i found this year. Your video and explanations are 110%! Can i ask you a question: who are you and what do you do in life? You sure sounds like someone who probably studied in history/archeology/engineering or maybe it's a big hobby of yours?
It’s been a lifelong passive interest, but the past few years I decided to get serious because nobody else was doing the research I felt was important. The big turning point was Egypt started opening up more sites to tourism so I can get quality imagery that is essential for both analysis and presentation.
I’m getting the sense that you are not a fan of Zahi Hawass.
Who is?
The man is trash - arrogant, myopic, jingoistic... he's basically a goon masquerading as an academic. If he was American or European (or, say, Japanese), he would have been laughed out of the discipline decades ago.
@@lanzloczZahi Hawass is
Zahi is slowing progress and discoveries, he loves atention, is like a dictator of antequieties of egypt
He rose to prominence in Egyptology through a regime very similarly to a political dictator as well 🤔@@jetlui87
Very interesting and well articulated. I especially appreciate the rational approach and lack of “woo”. I’d love to see a video on what you think about The Labyrinth.
Can you give more info about the labyrinth or book you’re talking about?
@@DocBree13 I don’t know of any book, but I watched a video by UnchartedX here on RUclips called: “Finding Ancient Egypt’s Lost Labrynth” and a couple others. NASA allowed a group of researchers to use one of their high dollar satellites to do a LIDAR survey and found it!
I managed to take a flash photo in the Grand Gallery back in the day. The restriction on using flash didn’t make sense as it wasn’t like there was any paintings to possibly fade. So I accidentally forgot which hand had the proper camera and which had the disposable. I don’t regret snapping the picture.
Can you share a link to your photo ?
@@IS-uh5yj yeah, nah, sorry it was back last century with a film camera so I don’t have it digitally
Very interesting idea, did tge guards take your disposable?
Too bad scanners don't exist
@@drum420 nope they didn’t.
Beautiful video and description..
Congratulations.
Only one technical question:
What is preventing this Prism stone from falling down?
Just the notches?
I wonder..
Talking about the pyramids is like placing a bet, but never finding out who wins.
Maybe it was a thin facing slab. It looks like it would support itself if one edge was inserted first then slid to lean against the other side. There may be a missing lip.
Almost 200K Subs! I've been watching since you started out and then began collaborating with Ancient Architects!
NEED MORE PYRAMID VIDEOS WITH 4K FOOTAGE
Thank you my fine fellow.
You are producing great content! Keep it coming brother, and keep on changing lives!
A concealing method would be ludicrous unless they expected the "robbers" (personally I never believed this was a tomb") had a way to levitate massive objects. Raising the granite blocks to the top of a pyramid using ramps and either people or animals to move them with water or sand to reduce friction then letting gravity work going down into the blockage slope is one thing. Trying to force the blocks back up an ENCLOSED ramp without massive machinery is quite another.
By know after looking at all of the pyramids not just the great pyramid i get the distinct impression that the commoners of egypt went into the pyramids regularly. I feel like that would explain a lot. They enter the chambers at the bottom knowing their old god pharaoh lies above them. They use it as a spiritual place and to project power. During their reign the pyramid symbolizes the monarchs hold on the nations and in death they become temples. It makes even more sense with all of the other old kingdom pyramids where the last chamebr is above the others. You walk in until you are physically prevented from going further so you are both very close and very distant from your resting pharao.A genius and quite simple idea and design.
I agree there is a theme of public/private separation in the substructures.
@@HistoryforGRANITE
Closing the ascending passage with 15 tons of granite blocks. How did they do it?ruclips.net/video/Ru2K1b9IvPY/видео.html
Would definitely keep going with the channel, doing an amazing job
I love your videos and once again I will be waiting for the next one. Then it is only necessary to investigate if it was physically possible to introduce the three granite blocks that plugged the ascending corridor in the 26th dynasty with the pyramid already built many centuries before or if they were already there from the beginning. What is clear is that these questions must be thoroughly investigated.
Thanks for the content once again.
The best explanation for how the ancient Egyptians were able to build such massive structures in such a short time is that they built on top of an existing structure. This doesn't diminish the abilities of the Egyptians but it would help explain how they were able to complete the huge structure in 20 - 30 years time.
Closing the ascending passage with 15 tons of granite blocks. How did they do it?ruclips.net/video/Ru2K1b9IvPY/видео.html
I do like your written in stone (or lack thereof) approach and enjoy your narration. Stone, paper, papyrus, clay or the stars if it fits and supports the single set of events that constitute the past it is golden if it doesn't fit it may be fiction or the place it does fit hasn't been discovered yet. Five hundred and some moons ago I read Zecharia Sitchin's "12th Planet" since then I've read most of his books. In my humble opinion chapter eight "The Pyramid Wars" and chapter ten "The Prisoner In The Pyramid" of Sitchin's "The Wars of Gods and Men" would row your boat or rock your boat, it may be you've already read this book in any case cheers and keep up the good work!
Thanks for the reading tip. $7.99 for a new copy on Amazon.
Sitchin basically wrote science-fiction and he has been thoroughly discredited.
@@mikeheffernan Hi Mike, the only fiction book written by Sitchin that I am aware of is "The Lost Book of Enki" . Please inform me of who you think discredited Sitchin and if they did so the evidence they used to accomplish that. Cheers.
@@lanzlocz Google “Sitchin debunked”
Your point about pyramids NOT being secret actually answers the biggest question people have about them: why did Egyptians stop building pyramids? Because the largest stone structure that you can see from miles away cannot be hidden by definition. The underground tomb actually can be at least somewhat clandestine...
It also has to do with cult of Amun, the Hidden One, becoming more popular, so the methods of worship evolved towards more less visible, private sites (not that they didn't make HUGE temples like Karnak, just that tomb complexes weren't aiming to be sky high and got shifted towards valleys and lowlands).
Tl;dr: secrecy, at least symbolic, became major part of Egyptian burial rituals in later dynasties, which changed royal burials from pyramids and mastabas to underground tombs.
Perhaps covering the plugs, wasn't about concealment, but simply aesthetics?
Makes you wonder, who was the first person to say, "I need stone for my project. Hey, there's a big pile of cut stones sitting there and no one is using it..."
The idea that the notches on either side of the granite block were used to support a ladder, etc before final blocking doesn’t make sense, because you could simply lag the ladder on the floor of the ascending corridor.
The ladder may have been for large, awkward grave goods that needed to take a gentler turn upwards.
@@HistoryforGRANITE no, if you put a ladder in the notches, it’s end would be halfway up above the floor of the ascending corridor. If put on the floor of it as I suggest, you could achieve a more gentle slope and a heavy object would exit near the floor, which would be better for both heavy objects and people. So the notches don’t make sense for a ladder.
The notches could have been used for mounting crystals which were illuminated by the electricity in the stones.
yeah i agree it seems from the picture the ladder / ramp would take up half the entrance , maybe the beam slot for a pully
After 3 videos I have decided to subscribe. very interesting work you do. Since there are quite a few interesting constructions in Egypt I expect many interesting videos in future.
Thank You
Have you come across the work of Joseph Davidovits from the French Geopolymer Institute? Definitely worth looking into IMO. Provides the easiest solution to the problem of quarrying, cutting, transporting and lifting large stones, at least for the limestone. It is also the only way I can see of building with polygonal masonry that makes any sense.
Check out ronwyatt he has a good explanation as well
The fact that the Stone of the Pregnant Woman exists as it does dismisses the idea of geopolymer used. Besides, it's not possible to make geopolymer blocks that are that big, and to create geopolymer blocks you have to grind all material to a very fine powder first.
Found your channel recently and love your sober analytical veiw point, thank you😁
I wonder if the angle of the ascending passageway and the Grand Gallery was chosen as the minimum slope at which the granite plugging blocks would reliably slide down into place against the friction of the limestone.
With regard to the 4 air shafts.Ancient architects hypotheses that the reason the 2 Queens chamber shafts end equally short of the outer edge is because the pyramid may have been built ( effectively) twice.The first one smaller and the second enlarged.This two burial chambers.
This makes a lot of sense to me.
Compared to other burial chambers in Egypt, why would someone build thees enormous constructions? How long would it take to build them with the technology of the Egyptians and with the tools of that time. I do not belive it would have been possible.
@@arnehofoss9109 Yet, the structure exists.
Another gem, your backlog is a thing of beauty.
Egyptology sadly won’t move forward until Dr Hawaas has passed on.
Hate to say this but I agree, as much as ambassador to ancient Egypt he has been I feel now he holds back on lots of things.
That's SO true! He's a very horrible liar
When he does finally pass on, I feel there will be a wealth of knowledge either released or quickly found
If I understand correctly those three plugs blocked the only access to the chambers? How do you supposed they would have been lowered into place from the outside? Looking at the seams between the bottom plug and the walls, there is no way you will ever convince me that those stones were cut with primitive tools to match each other so perfectly. One of the problems with fitting two things together like that is you need to place them together to check the fit, separate them and make small adjustments, over and over. In my experience this is quite a chore even with soft materials like wood and aluminium, let alone gigantic blocks of granite. I'm also highly skeptical of your idea about the notches being to hold a ladder. A ladder would stay put perfectly well without notches above (notches in the floor would be far more practical), and placing it smack in the middle of the corridor as in your diagram would be kinda dumb. Also, the notches appear to line up perfectly with the bottom surface of the plug, too perfectly to not have more significance than just a ladder holder - I mean how long would it take to carve out each notch, and why bother making them so nicely square, or so large? I agree that there is no reason to think the plug was camouflaged though.
Closing the ascending passage with 15 tons of granite blocks. How did they do it?ruclips.net/video/Ru2K1b9IvPY/видео.html
Is there a site at Giza which models the layout of the interior corridors? I heard there was north and east of the great pyramid.
Very good Chanel !!! Looking for more content.
Excellent reasoning. I doubt very much there are chambers yet to be discovered. I have spent many hours alone inside the GP, the interior architecture is so spectacular it is highly unlikely that it is all a decoy for treasure hunters.
7:57 That shot of the bat is perfectly timed.
And hilarious.
The notches might have been to anchor a sign, “Low Ceiling, Watch Your Head.”
What do you think of the slots on the benches in the Grand gallery? What could they have been used for?
There are slots, notches, and grooves and there was very likely different/multiple uses for them. It’s not an easy reconstruction, but I’m optimistic the Big Void will help solve that mystery - if we ever get a look inside.
@@HistoryforGRANITE Yeah, i also hope that the Big Void will shed more light on this matter, but i personally think that it would turn out that these chambers were used practically for the purpose of the construction of the Kings chamber with its huge granite beams.
@@Gravitacionimanevar This is a likely scenario, but the GG may have had a similar function for lower courses. So a comparison of the two will be extremely useful!
They may have been used to mount crystals which glowed bright light due to the electrical charge in the gallery.
The square slot holes along the sides of the GrandGallery floor were used for the wooden track & rollers to be placed as to create a Counterweight run up and down the Grand Gallery. It was a used to Counterweight lift all the granite for the Kings Chamber
Pleaw make more videos, they are great to watch and always very interesting!
Awesome video! New sub here! Very well done videos! Binge-watching now.
If I had designed that junction, the concealing limestone would also have been tapered to fit when placed in from above, and finished flush with the rest of the top of the tunnel. So I assume the builders would have done the same.
Are you aware of the idea that AlMamun dug his tunnel to get something out, rather than as a way in?
I will make a video on the robber’s tunnel that I’m sure you will enjoy!
This..
@@HistoryforGRANITE yes please!
The movie site: smart observation.
Thank God someone has a brain around here!! There is no way that the caliph Al mamun blindly dug a tunnel that ended exactly were the ascending corridor and the descending corridor meet up. I’m thinking he found a way to get in using the original entrance under the Chevrons. Then once he found what he wanted to take out he realized it was too big to remove on the angle that the descending corridor makes to exit the pyramid. Does he dug out his own exit to remove this item that he was trying to take out the great pyramid. Of course the caliph never spoke about what he removed in any of his ventures because he didn’t want to look like a thief stealing treasure.
I'm not comfortable with the idea of them leaving those notches in the wall right in front of the plug that they "just used for ladders" when the pyramid was open for visitors, the tunnels, chambers and the outside beautifully finished with masterful masonry, plaster, paint etc. Why not have the plug cover up the notches? Doesn't sit right with me.
Either the "prism" block didn't fill the entire void but was only a hands width thick or there was some other cover hung from those notches; maybe a painting that shows the pharaohs journey to the underworld or something like that. Even if they didn't bother to conceal any security measures, which does make sense, they would've made it look really nice I'm sure - fit for a king.
I’m happy t find your channel. I appreciate your analytical approach. Thanks and keep up the quality work!
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Great video and makes complete sense, which i find lacking in today's Egyptologists.
Perhaps the notches were there to support another kind of camouflage - maybe they built something out of wood and then used plaster to cover the side of the wood facing the corridor? It would be light weight enough for the notches to be enough to hold it.
I mean, think of it from someone who does want to hide it. Do you go through insane lengths to add a heavy stone in a place where there are no supports or do you try at least to camouflage it the best you can with the materials you can use? The reason the gaps are right below the plugging stones is not to be ignored. Sure no solution was likely going to last as long as stonework but who knows how long they thought they'd have to "defend" the entrance for anyway ...
Security by secrecy has always been a failed strategy used by hopeful humans.
And famously the saying goes, "Hope is not a strategy".
The Ancient Egyptians were very aware of this fact.
Fresh and interesting topics, great narrative and visuals, I love it man. Great stuff
All this needs is 40 + minutes long videos.
@@pittypatterputzzler5311 honestly i think 20 minutes is perfect
Well done! Great attention to detail.
The granite plugs were part of a sled/counterweight system in the grand gallery. They simply left the counterweight blocks in place to make the passage difficult to clear if discovered. I don't see why they would bother with plaster or mortar, when the granite itself would be a deterrent, as you pointed out.
Access passages in use today are the 'maintenance circuit', used during the construction.
The 'royal circuit' has yet to be opened, but we know where it is.
The end-point is the king's chamber. There is one granite wall block that has been obviously slid into place later, and it is not loadbearing. It is barely larger than the sarcophagus cross-section.
The starting-point is an opening behind the odd 'saddle-stone', above the current opening to the lower passage.
Between these 2 points must be a corridor that the king's body would have traveled in the final internment ceremony. Possibly with an antechamber along the way.
I have studied details of Egyptian pyramid construction for 40+ years, and always down for discussing the topic.
You are describing Houdin's internal layout theory which has many astute observations, but I do think there is room for improvement. Keep watching to find out how!
@@HistoryforGRANITE I do think Houdin is on the right track. We'll never know until the voids are investigated.
Could be easily done in the 'notch' on the NE corner.
According to the model made by Houdin with Dassault Systemes, investigated by Bob Brier, the inner passage would be exposed by moving only a couple stones from that enclave.
Yes it is clear that the one non loaded granite block in the Kings chamber hides some sort of passageway.Sadly I’m certain the authorities won’t pull it out for fear of damaging it ( no conspiracy theories here).But even for the sake of boosting tourism they should do it imho.
I don't think those 3 stones at the bottom were for a counterweight. That I think was in the hidden chamber above the gallery. But then I think the whole thing was a water powered machine. Water pouring down the shaft to the subterranean shaft would have created vacuum above in the well shaft. Which ports nicely up to the split in both chambers. Stone pistons in the chamber shafts could have pulled ropes outside the pyramid creating 2 cranes, if there were exterior spools. Vacuum, invisible power, the same power that stops your car. That's why the King's chamber had a lip to prevent the last stone from getting pulled in. The stone ball found was a bleed down valve that covered an orifice to slow the works in one direction, down. Found inside a shaft that I believe contained a piston. Everything else was fished out of the shafts, when they officially decommissioned. There's also a point in one of the shafts that looks like a gutter. That was a stopping point for the piston. It reached that point and air would flow around the piston. Softly stopping the machine. That's also why the shafts were a smooth limestone, "polished." The different chamber designs were based on one being an up the other a down. The vacuum pulled through the backside of the King's chamber through the hidden works to a stone the exact size as the sarcophagus height and width. The "sarcophagus" was a stone valve. It never had a lid, was designed for air to flow through the inside when the sarcophagus reached either end of travel, again stopping the whole machine gently, preventing over travel. The sarcophagus got jammed, was pushed into the chamber. The corner broken it was hopelessly damaged and left in place, looking like an empty coffin. Along the way, the mechanisms were removed, making it safer for inevitable explorers. The subchamber drain was expertly plugged, with perhaps some natural process helping it look like it was never finished.
@@pgtmr2713 The Khufu sarcophagus had a dovetail lid and holes for securing pins, same as what we see still intact in Khafre's pyramid.
There is no evidence suggesting an airtight seal, vacuum, pumps, electricity or any of the hydraulics technology required for your assertions.
You believe it is a machine to do what, exactly?
We do see lots of pyramids around Egypt and they are all used as tombs or tomb markers.
Pyramid Texts and the Diary of Merer confirm their use as tombs, aside from them being part of necropolis complexes and obviously exaggerated mastabas.
If Houdin's theories are correct, we should even find evidence of a second internal counterweight ramp in opposition to the Grand Gallery. We already see evidence of such a ramp cut into the bedrock under the northeast corner of Khafre's pyramid, which was filled with stones during that pyramids construction.
If I were designing a pyramid tomb which I wanted to guaranty my pharaoh remains secure for eternity I’d place the tomb in the centre, but make the passageways supported by wood and burn them out once laid to rest. The resulting corridor collapses would make it almost impossible to reach the burial chamber.
Great channel, I need more videos :)
Well, the ancients were in and out of the Great Pyramid all the time and Herodotus was told that there was nothing of interest to see in there, just a wet basement chamber with rats scurrying around. Nobody saw either entrance to the chambers above in all that time. I've got to believe both were cleverly concealed, and the legend of Al-Mamun suggests that the lentil falling off the ceiling was what led the robbers to find the corridor. Also broken up stone blocks can be seen in old photos of the corridors that probably came from the concealing stones. All of that was cleared out by modern Egyptians as well as the Greek, Latin, Arab and English graffiti that were written on all the walls. I don't buy the theory that the granite blocks were just left like that because people would have suspected there was something above.
Where might I find some of the original photos of stones seen in the corridors? I am curious to see them.
I hope they were documented before being removed because they were significantly informative.
@@gandolph999Look through some of the earlier videos on the Ancient Architects page at ruclips.net/user/AncientArchitects . Besides tons of sand clogging up the corridors, you can see there are pieces of granite blocks in 100-year-p;d photos.
@@danpetitpas Many thanks.
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Very professional. I like your work!
Great work as always
I keep finding videos of yours covering the granite plugs. But still have not found how they were actually installed, other than being slided into place from the grand gallery.
That video isn’t too far off.
what do you think of the perfect granite blocks , extraction and transportation ??
...to the end? You kept me enthralled the whole way! Just long enough, too!!!!
how about the celing in the grand gallery?? it looks weird not proportinal to other Stepping of stone openings such doors... etc...
Cool Channel... I've never been to Egypt.... but seen the Peruvian works with stone... it's really not understood until you see it and touch it in person.
Your work is fascinating. Thank you for making these videos.
Off topic: in what degree does the sphinx look onto / over the nile?
Dead east
@@drum420 did you know that there are possible findings of a sphinx and pyramid near the dead sea. So you where very close. Except for the letter T.
Also babylonia was a place of pre great pyramid dynasty further to the east. Was that where their knowledge came from? Who knows...
How would the 3 plugging blocks have been released to slide down the assending passage without trapping someone behind them?
might have been done by having large wooden beams in place and then setting them on fire.
Is there any evidence that the notches are as old as the pyramid itself, as you assume ?
They could be added any time as a support to pry or dislodgde the block, the block even seems to have some marks here.
I would hazard a guess that the 'notches' may well have been to hold a temporary, small support beam which in turn supported several posts long enough to sit on the floor below and allow the first stone to be slid down and come to rest slightly above or onto the tops of the posts, where it could be adjusted with wedges to ensure correct alignment . The timbers etc then removed after the other two stones were slid into place. An access ladder would surely have been leaned against the floor of the ascending shaft rather than a small beam halfway up the face of the opening?
Silly question here: how do you enter the ascending pasage if it's plugged at the bottom?
Admittedly I´m not that familiar with these structures, but how do we know there are 3 stones? We can access stone 1 from below and stone 3 from atop, but how do we know there is a third stone? and its not 1 long stone?
A 5 fold block-puzzle, each block 400kg so rather easy to handle for those skilled masons would be sufficient to be placed as a camouflage schism block, the 2 shallow nockholes are strong enough to hold the entire block in place. A simple mix of plaster added would cover the small gaps.
Do granite penetrating scanning devices exist and if so how precise are they, also have they ever been used on the pyramids?
I don't think ground penetrating radar works, but some researchers tried to detect cosmic particles called Muons. I think they placed special plates of film over a long time to detect patterns. That's how they found the void above the King's chamber in the great pyramid.
1:36 the corner where the prism block should have been is rounded. This rounding was intentional.
Either the corner of the joint was chipped away (and would be rough and irregular with pick marks) or the rounding was part of the original construction (and would be smooth).
Base on an experiment that limestone block can be made artificially (Joseph Davidovits) can we take that prism cavity was filled by wet limestone concrete turn hard over time? If so the shallow notches is suffice to keep the block stay put.
The notches are an alignment marker. Stones were proved level and designed to collapse and seal the interior, slowly..
What is that outline on the Prism stone? It dosen't look natural. It also seems to be pointing down..
Accounts of the forced entry by al Mahmud mention a loud thud during the
excavation. Interesting to check if the other two pyramids have corresponding
prism stones.
Fantastic..... thank you Very interesting 👍👍
Who slid the blocks down, and how did the workers get out afterwards?
The workers did. And they escaped likely through the well-shaft.
Do you have a video about the desecration?
I'm puzzled as to who pushed the 3 granite blocks into the corridor and where did they go after?
im thinking they were put into place when the builders were at that level in the construction ???
Chisel rock for the placement of a ladder?? This cannot be the real reason. More like a main stream archeological explanation.
You usually have much better explanations.
Thanks as always.
If they simply dropped those huge granite plugs down the shaft then there would be hell to pay when they accelerated down and hit the narrow part. The blocks at the narrow passage would have been severely fractured. Instead perhaps the two notches held a barrier door that held back sand filling the shaft. This way the granite plugs could have been lowered down the shaft by slowly draining the sand out through a sand drain opening in the door. After the granite plugs are in their final resting place, then the door could be removed. The need to carefully lower the granite plugs down the shaft would explain why the solid prism piece could not be used.
Perhaps the two notches were then used to hold a special prism block designed with self locking extensions that popped out when in place. For example, if the prism block had a hole drilled through it from notch to notch with 10 inch long copper plugs that fit inside each hole. Then a mechanism that pushes the copper plugs outward into the two notches to hold the prism block in place. The mechanism that pushes the two copper plugs out is in between the two copper plugs and extends out the top of the prism block through another hole drilled into the block. The mechanism is activated by pressing the prism block up against the granite block. The granite block pushes down on a lever or rod sticking out of the prism top which then presses against the copper plugs from inside the drilled hole. Once the prism block is pushed in place, the copper plugs can not be retracted without removing the granite block. The fact that the sarcophagus lids had locking mechanisms make this very plausible.
The 3 granite stone plugs were once the Counterweight stones used in the Grand Gallery. Once they built the Kings Chamber the Counterweight stones were slid down the Accending entrance.
3 remained there. How many were behind them that were extracted through the robbers tunnel? I bet one per notch in the grand gallery.
@@pizzalover472 Removed before they finished the ceiling of the gallery I'd say. Making the granite plugs fit that tunnel precisely is such a difficult job I think they were content with 3 plug blocks.
It is a machine that sends ionization energy into the Atmosphere to bond the 02 and C02 ions to make H20 (see:jacobs ladder)...
Looks like a big ofen to me
You say the notches would not be sutiable, due to the weight of a solid blocks bearing upon it.
But that demands that a solid block, rather than hollow concealment, would be required.
Its unbelievable even to this day people still can't agree as to what they were built and used for, they sure did go to unbelievable efforts to build whatever these are, so I guess it's a tip of the hat to this very day of how clever they were, these builders.
I mean it is for sure they where used as tombs by the later egyptians, however i don´t think they were constructed for that purpose, mainly because the constructin does not make sense as a tomb, it is so diffrent from any other assured burrial building by any other culture, so who, how and for what purpose constructed the original pyramids remains indeed a mystery.
They didn't need something that massive too bury someone in ! That just ridiculous in my opinion so I have not a clue why they built such structures.
@@cliffordskeen4368 what are obelisks for? What is their purpose?
@@histguy101 you tell me and we will both know😄
They were tombs. This is universally agreed upon
You have not concidered metal rod's/clamps of bronze or copper,or Evan a decorative bronze plate,great content ,thankyou
I don't get it? Why are we so sure the prism stone would have been lifted into place instead of just being dropped in before the other plugs?