For so long I've been looking for an "ah-ha" or "Keep It Simple Stupid" theory about ancient egypt and I finaly found it. Your in depth anaylysis style, scientific methodology, and how you consistently back up the narration with hard to find visual evidence all deserve a nobel prize.
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Sir, I may have found something! I have just realized, that the three granite blocks plugging the ascending passage each have masses of 1,05m*1,05m*1,52m*2,75t/m3=4,61t The portcullis granites have a mass of 1,16m*1,16m*0,55m*2,75t/m3=2,09t To hold a 2,09t mass hanging with a counterweight on rollers on a 26,1 degree slope (slope of the grand gallery) you need 4,64t ! This the exact the mass of the plugging blocks. I think that the three plugging granite blocks were the counterweights for the three portcullis granite blocks! Considering the completely worn edge of the upper step at the top of the great gallery and the contaminated sides of the longitudal groov it seems reasonable that the granite blocks were on the floor, probably on some kind of rollers, as the bottom 10cm of the groove did not have this black grease. The insets in the walls and the longitudal groove along the walls at half height are still questions.
Would be super smart to design the plugging blocks with multiple purposes. Primary use would be as a counterweight, and secondary to be a plug in case of disaster, or overthrow or some other collapse of the civilization. Eliminating unnecessary excess space and mechanisms for huge counterweights somewhere else.
Looks like they were weights to help move the blocks up the sled during building. I think they were meant to stay open as well, but had nothing to do with a tomb or visitation. The unfinished queens chamber with the closed air ducts were likely open during the building but many of these features only seem to facilitate the building. Although, if you believe water and tonal generation played a role and you need travel areas for water or air pockets.. How do we know that there may be missing pieces and unearthed tunnels connecting and Nile channels that acted as feeders and bleeders? It’s too easy to see this as a purpose built machine. And when the outer casing was intact I bet that structure could be like a big pressure vessel..
Since anthropology is the study of human behavior it makes sense that our best anthropologic theories invoke a sense of "oh ok, that makes sense. That's probably what I would do to im their situation".
@@justinsemple7454 I came here hopeful but was sadly disappointed. I agree with your sentiment, but didn't find it here. There is actual evidence published almost two years ago that hardly anyone is covering. So that's what I was expecting, Looks to me like someone has spent a lot of time and effort and time is money as they say, putting a puzzle together with out all the pieces. What kind of leader would force thousands or hundreds of thousands of loyal subjects to build a contraption this mass-ive this ego driven symbol of greatness ...To protect a few valuables and a body, for as long as possible. Which didn't work because it must have been pilfered, There's no evidence, They - took it. This story has more holes than swiss cheese. I feel so embarrassed for the guy behind the curtain. Modern people, 1800's ish on, located and busted out those holes in the pharaoh's and queen's chambers. It is a resonator those were meant to be sealed. Try beating on a drum that has no drum skin... Impossible. No one is going to break in to it because it would be benefiting the entire population. Only someone bent on destruction would disable it. For Good or For Evil. There are too many factors to continue right now, but the evidence we have confirmed up until 2018 just doesn't leave room for sociopathic slave driver transitioning to a soul. Quite the opposite if some new theories pan out. I really have to go and with yt hiding so much I don't really know if anyone will read this. Just take this piece and dwell on it... search the etymology for Chemist ..most won't so i'll through you a bone. AL- in Arabic is "the" + Chemist =Alchemist Alchemy was the "chemistry" of the Middle Ages and early modern times, involving both occult and natural philosophy and practical chemistry and metallurgy. In 1560 they knew this. Alchemy- From the land of Khem, khemet, al-kimiya, (khemeioa found c.300 C.E), Khemia- Land of Black Earth Much Love
I came up with a plausible idea of how the pyramids were constructed. Basically, the builders used the sides of the pyramids as the ramp. A temporary smooth facing 'ramp', very similar to the finished smooth pyramid exterior, would have been built on at least two sides, opposite of each other, as the pyramid was built. This 'ramp' would only need to have been about 20 or so feet wide. I say "temporary" ramp because the stones pulled up on them would have worn the surface of the stones - but they could have been re-surfaced and reused. Sand spread in front of the stones would reduce friction. Or maybe the temporary ramp sitting on the 'steps' of the pyramid could have been made of wood, with wooden skids under the stones being pulled up to reduce friction. Adding water would reduce friction even more. The way it would work, is ropes would have been draped over a log pulley near the top edge of the pyramid, crossed over to the opposite side, gone over another pulley, and down the pyramid on the opposite side. The workers own weight helping pull downhill would have made it much easier *and faster* to pull the blocks up the opposite side. When the workers reached the bottom, they would attached their ropes to the *next stone,* and a 2nd group of workers on the opposite side would pull it up, as the first group climbed up to prepare to repeat the process. There could have easily been two additional groups of workers on the other two sides working at the same time. The stones all the way to the top, including the capstone, could have been raised this way. The idea is simple and effective.
@@FLPhotoCatcher Or gravity wasn’t a mystery in the golden age, as it seems to be today. And giants although well documented throughout history are too taboo to even suggest. The pyramids harnessed the power of falling water by resonance. Breaking into the walls to find these secret “tunnels” most definitely would prevent it from working. New evidence is being covered up and theories like the one presented here are not helping us to understand. My previous comment was about that. But no doubt it is hidden under newest. Which means no one is going to scroll through thousands of comments to see it.
Brilliant logic. No more Indiana Jones style traps. The Pharaoh’s power and ingenuity on display. And yet, even with all the pretentious display, a humble admission that all barriers will eventually fall. As I said before, I’m not an Ancient Egyptian aficionado. I realize now that I never paid much attention to Pyramid design because it all seemed so messy. But in one video you have instilled in me an admiration for these ancient architects and their clever and practical designs. Thank you again for your efforts. I will certainly continue watching.
Well...if he paid for someone to guard the place at night, he wouldn't need to be so worried. And he would certainly have expected the whole area to be pretty damn busy for the foreseeable future. There would have been guards, surely. Sure...one day the money ran out, people stopped using the site, the guards couldn't be paid, etc...but nothing is forever. He woulda known that day was coming, surely. So any security measures are just delaying the inevitable. But we don't know what Khufu believed. Even when you know what someone's religion is, you don't know what they BELIEVE. If he was like most people with power, religion was just a tool, and he knew it was all crap all along. Seems weird to build a pyramid for some afterlife crap you don't believe in. And what did they think happens to a guy in the afterlife if his body and treasures back on Earth are destroyed? I think there's a good chance Khufu was never in there. A switcheroo could be pulled if he was worried about his eternal afterlife being cut short by grave robbers. So regardless of Khufu's religious beliefs (or lack of), I think all we can say is that the dude still wanted to have a huge fuckoff triangle in the desert. So I really don't believe the pyramid was just some resurrection machine he believed would beam him up. Cus like I said....dude KNEW with 100% certainty, that the day would come when robbers got in, or the whole pyramid was eroded to nothing. Unless their belief is that you just gotta upload the pharoah and his treasures once, and they get copied to the cloud. But then why not just let the body and treasures be taken out, and the pyramid be reused? So...maybe it's encrypted! Like, it only works for Khufu, cus it's HIS special magic resurrection machine, an once he's uploaded, he's safe forever, but the bandwidth is a bit low, so he needs to be safe for a long time, but not forever, maybe. Or maybe all it really meant to him in private, was that he gets a huge monument that will show everyone he was badass, an make his name live on for a long time. But then I'dd expect the casing stones to have - at the very least - had a lengthy inscription about the size of his wiener, written all the way around the course closest to eye level. I dunno how many of the casing stones are accounted for an not butchered. A kid who bummed a cigarette off me told me that Muhammed Ali stole all the casing stones and used them to build the mosques in Cairo. If that's true, I can't imagine any inscriptions of any kind not being thouroughly erased before they even started to re-dress the stone. So I think that's the real mystery of the Great Pyramid. Not the "how" but the "why".. For the other Giza pyramis, the "why" could just be, "Because Khufu". But Khufu went first, so he can't say that. And I'm sure by then he's seen that no tomb is safe from robbers. Maybe he had an assistant promising HIS tomb would be protected by powerful magical spells. Maybe he was just a pampered, dumb rich person. I kinda despise him for not leaving a diary.
@@ashscott6068 lmfao....there's a lot to think about here...like who hosted their cloud??? I mean surely it must have been AWS...They wouldn't have chosen google or microsoft...Clearly that must've been the case because, they are no fools.
it's not about hiring guards once and eventually they go home, it's about creating a monument that inspires awe, and through that inspires adherence to a temple cult, so that people keep coming, keep donating offereings, keep paying their respects, so that a priestly order can use that awe driven pull to run a cult, that endures. They hire guards because keeping the pyramid and it's temple complex secure protects their prestige and the mystery of the pyramid, once or twice a year they lift the portcullis for a ceremony inside the pharoah's chamber, but only the most generous donators from the highest stations who have proven themselves for years get that honor, and tales of their visit to the king's chamber and how impressive it was, and how close to the gods they felt keeps the common folks and aspiring nobles coming to the temple at the base of the pyramid on a regular basis The pyramid was an investment, it was a spiritual amusment park infrastructure build out so that the cult of the pharoah would thrive for an eternity and keep watch over his treasures while they did it. @@ashscott6068
One of the most rational and compelling arguments I have heard of the available evidence. Very impressive. Thank you for your work and for not taking your audience... for granite. :)
Since some of your videos before I had the feeling, that this explanation could be the most logical I heard before! At one evening in Egypt 29 years ago I had the chance to be one of the last visitors in the great Pyramid and I was completely alone in the king's chamber! I still remember these feelings and this explanation fits best to them. Thank you so much for your ongoing work!
I, like many others, stumbled upon your channel through a certain streamer and his passion for this subject, and your videos. You are credit to the scientific community, and have regenerated a child-like interest in something so far from my life, that I haven't felt for ages. Thnak you.
As you mentioned before, this is the one you will be remembered for. It is common wisdom that the most simple solution is often the correct one -> but especially in the field of egyptology, it rarely seems to be practiced that way. Everything seems to obvious once you point it out. It's kind of hard to believe that it has taken this long to reach this conclusion. Well done!
It blows my mind how much I love this channel. Egyptology isn't even a particular interest of mine, but I can't stop watching these videos. It's just so good. This is top tier work and so relaxing and educational
I started the video with my own thoughts and beliefs clouding my judgement. But as you explained all your theories it all started to make sense. A masterpiece of a video, and it’s changed my view on these great structures forever.
I have always enjoyed the puzzles and solutions worked out over recorded history, especially regarding ancient builders and engineers. The Egyptian pyramid societies captured my imagination as it has so many competent and clever analysts over the milinea. As technology and research began to make rapid progress over my lifetime, I had hoped that I would live long enough for a reasonable explanation for the Egyptian Pyamid Societies and their relationship to their marvelous constructs to emerge. Sadly the insulting and varied parochial, biased, and absurd alien explanations explanations caused me to give up such hope. Now, over a single Thanksgiving evening watching your videos, the curtain has been lifted and each element of the mystery now makes perfect sense! The genius of the construction elements for their intended purpose validates mankind both then and now. Thank you for validating the voice inside my head and heart which rejected the nonsense those many experts had foisted upon us, and for restoring my faith in common sense and reason! Well done indeed!
I just love how your whole brand is not taking history for granted/granite. It's really clever. Your first principles approach is really knocking it out of the park. Well done!
So brilliant... I love picking locks... you learn very quickly that the most expensive lock is not un-pickable but that it takes many mors hours to pick than a cheap lock... thus the likelihood of getting caught much higher. But then to make it so that the tomb always have people in it would be the greatest security feature ever... brilliant
Agreed - and it's not lost on me that this isn't just a lock to pick, it's a lock on a colossal scale, a lock that nobody could reasonably expect to ever pick in secrecy. If you're trying to loot a pyramid, you need more than just a handful of trusted experts to run a quick heist and escape before anyone notices! You would be expecting to be seen, you would be looting the tomb in plain sight. You'd need to invest hours at the shortest, but more likely days, weeks, or months of time to crack the lock... you'd be making a great deal of noise doing it, chiseling through solid rock for days and days. You'd need highly specialized knowledge about how the pyramids were built, knowledge perhaps handed down over generations from a relatively small number of buildings looted previously. You'd need specialists and experts, sure, but you'd also need a small army of henchmen to do the manual labor of chiseling through stone and moving the debris out of the way, and then carrying off the treasure... you'd need guards to protect the loot, and someone trustworthy to watch and restrain the guards so that your own guards don't rob you while watching your robbers. You'll need money and expensive equipment - it won't be cheap to crack this lock! You'd need times of unrest and chaos that will allow you to march an organized tomb raiding party into one of the biggest and most obvious and surely well-populated landmarks in the area, through most of ancient Egyptian history... there surely couldn't have been many times in Egyptian history that would have encouraged a tomb raid of this scale: these dynasties lasted a long time in relative stability, changes were typically rare and slow-moving, those moments that would have made a tomb raid possible would have surely been nearly apocalyptic ages of calamity, war, and chaos. Unless, perhaps, the end of each Pharaoh's reign held the chance of providing the chaos tomb-looters needed to operate in relative freedom for a few weeks in large numbers in the open, until order could be restored.... Still, in short, these were gigantic locks, or rather monumental safes, built for storing valuables for the long haul, with the primary security feature being simply that it was too big, complicated, expensive, and obvious a job for common safe-crackers to ever be able to pull while Ancient Egypt was stable, confident, and secure. That alone is quite an achievement! That it's also an extremely difficult safe to crack even after pharaohs have fallen, Egypt is in disarray, armies are marching in conquest, empires are rising and falling around the looting armies, and time, technology, security, wealth and effort are on the looters' side, is even more remarkable: it's been thousands of years, and well-educated modern explorers with a great deal of wealth and support behind them still don't quite know how the original security really worked, nor how it was even designed and installed, and had to go through a great deal of trouble to get a closer look at the building long after other adventurers basically tore these vaults apart trying to get inside! We're talking about safes on the scale of the largest buildings ever built until practically yesterday in historical terms, using barely more than stone-age technology and what must have been a difficult writing system to transfer technological information with, still resulting in some fairly sophisticated locks for their age. These pyramids are quite a series of technological accomplishments by any measure - it's no wonder that so many people want to just shake their heads, and mutter "it was aliens!" No, I don't think it was aliens, it was well within the reach of ancient people, but knowing what they were going for and how they were getting it done, and knowing that they basically had one arm tied behind their backs by the requirement that the pyramids could be reopened at any time by those who know the trick, really makes me appreciate just how big an achievement the pyramids really were!
Excellent video, as always! It makes more sense that these monuments were symbolic temples of admonition than tombs "attempting to hide" a dead King and his treasure. Wonderful presentation and congratulations on this efficient and pragmatic theory! It's one of the few that makes any sense to me.
The worst nightmare for a mummy is to get destroyed. Their whole mindset was immortality since the mummy is eternal if untouched. You build the pyramid as if it’s a puzzle that takes very long time to solve while the sarcophagus is hidden somewhere else but with no attention at all.
@@kreteraketeLet's take one pyramid, The Great Pyramid; the granite quarry is 300 miles away, all the blocks are different. If 10 were cut, dressed, transported, placed, a day... it would take over 630 years to construct... that's one pyramid, not taking anything else that Egypt has, into account. It was not 'Egyptian' nor for 'mummies'. Whatever did it and why, is not human only and not for any frickin tomb.
I really enjoyed this explanation and obvious genius! It dramatically changes the perspective. If you think of the King's Chamber as his throne room and all the stone design and structure surrounding as the "security" with special passageways .. leading directly to important spaces .. even some hidden places honor the king's genius. I wonder what the great void above the grand gallery will reveal?
I would add that the very fact that the channels people walk in cause them to be bent over in submission for long periods of time as they approach the queen's chamber and the king's chamber / grand gallery.
Do you think the builders woke up one day and decided, let's build a pyramid ? It is evident they were built by an extremely advanced civilization for purposes unknown. Probably energy production and distribution ! !!!
@@JOKing-ku8jg History is fake and was deliberately falsified to hide the truth The truth about building the pyramids is found in the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad with conclusive evidence There are giants who inhabited the Earth thousands of years ago and they are the ones who built this monument The height of our master Adam was 37 meters, and the creation after him was similar to his creation. Then the size of the creation decreased until it reached where we are now. The Prophet Muhammad did not visit Egypt, but God revealed the Qur’an to him, and everything was mentioned in the Qur’an in clear detail With all impartiality, reason and clear logic The pyramids could not be built except by humans who had tremendous strength, which made them lift all these stones with ease 89- Al-Fagr / 7 and 8 إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلۡعِمَادِ (7) [With] Iram[1915] - who had lofty pillars,[1916] [1915]- Another name for the first people of ʿAad, to whom Prophet Hūd was sent. [1916]- Supporting their tents or buildings.
ٱلَّتِي لَمۡ يُخۡلَقۡ مِثۡلُهَا فِي ٱلۡبِلَٰدِ (8) The likes of whom had never been created in the land? 26- ash-shuara / 128 أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ (128) Do you construct on every elevation a sign,[1055] amusing yourselves, [1055]- i.e., a symbol or indication of their wealth and power. They used to build lofty structures along the road to be seen by all who passed by. 41- Fussilat / 15 فَأَمَّا عَادٞ فَٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ بِغَيۡرِ ٱلۡحَقِّ وَقَالُواْ مَنۡ أَشَدُّ مِنَّا قُوَّةًۖ أَوَلَمۡ يَرَوۡاْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَهُمۡ هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنۡهُمۡ قُوَّةٗۖ وَكَانُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يَجۡحَدُونَ (15) As for ʿAad, they were arrogant upon the earth without right and said, "Who is greater than us in strength?" Did they not consider that Allāh who created them was greater than them in strength? But they were rejecting Our signs Please read the Qur’an carefully and you will find everything you are looking for
Your last two videos have been amazing. I am just now getting to view them. I like how you keep things simple and not try to over guess, or guess at things that are no longer there. The great pyramid being more of a temple site for worship than just a burial site is an amazing idea. I like it.
It was not design for people. Majority of the shafts are way too short for humans and you have to crouch walk all the way up the shaft to get to the grand gallery. It makes no sense for humans to be inside. Some of the shafts in the pyramid are only 8 inches wide.
This makes perfect sense! It was, and always will be a tourist attraction, and now, just like when the Pyramids were first built, the more you pay, the more you get to see! That’s a great payment incentive for the Priests to maintain the Pyramids in perpetuity. Cheers!
Yes. Rational reasons. The best explanation I've seen yet. No aliens, no magnets, no razor blades. Just a tomb, with general reasons for the why. Maybe not exact reasons, but broad brush strokes. I like it. Thanks HfG. I've watched each video you've made since you started. I've waited each one. This one is the best so far. Go ahead. Throw yourself out there. You're good at this.
@@Azarien just do a little search on the coordinates of the longitude (or is it latitude) location on Google earth. Check the speed of light. Did you also know that Isaac Newton used the measurements from the pyramid to formulate the theory of gravity? It was much more than a tomb. And this guy looks like a clown believing it was built in khufus reign
@@_I__AM__GOD_ They got there by being lifted up by people. The details of that are engineering, not really Egyptology. Why they put that effort in is more interesting in the long run.
I've always entertained alternative theories about Pyramids, even the conspiratorial ones, just to jog my mind. That's why I appreciate this channel, because it does not settle for naive explanations and digs deeper, resting its arguments on solid evidence from as many sources as possible.
One of my first projects for school, as a young teen, was regarding the Great Pyramid and how it may have been built (back in the late 1970s). At the time, I had a great deal of trouble trying to decipher all the different theories (I was naïve enough to think there was an actual explanation) and ended up having to pick one from the encyclopedia and just one other book that agreed with it. Over the years, I've never lost interest, and have heard everything under the sun, since. The videos you present are the most eye-opening explanations I've ever seen, and make a lot of sense.
There's a significant error here 14:46 in the description of how to use levers: The assumption that levers can always only be moved down until they are horizonta. If I had to solve this task using levers (and I'm no more than an average German engineer) I'd use a team with at least 2 levers utilizing several pivot blocks of various heights. This way the portcullis can be walked upwards all the way by alternating levers and pivot points. The far end of the levers can always travel the full height from ceiling to floor, making pretty quick work of the task at hand. One other problem, however was not addressed here: weight of the portcullis and what material to make the levers of. I strongly assume that the tip of a wood lever might not have been strong enough to pry the portcullis up from the floor. Maybe this could be achieved by hammering wedges underneath? So, were the portcullis sitting on an entirely even floor?
Or were they ever lowered completely every time? About wedges: Sliding a wedge between two stones seems contradictory, i would slide the wedge between two oily wood pieces, or animal hide, for it not to rub directly on the stone.
I had the exact same thought, there's no reason you couldn't use the full meter clearance for levering the blocks all the way up, recessing the bottom of the blocks into the floor would be a much better countermeasure. But we know they had copper tools by the way, so they wouldn't necessarily rely only on wooden levers. This kind of break some of the theory here, it must somehow be easier to use the ropes and pulleys to open the "doors" than to just use levers to make it worth the effort. As someone said in another comment maybe the granite plugs where used as counterweights to lift them making it decently fast and easy with the right tools (pulleys and ropes) and they where just not as concerned about people doing it without permission because they always had guards outside so no one could enter with such tools unnoticed? But if so why even bother with such big heavy "doors"?
@@77MIlesLong @TheMoneypresident Please don't get me wrong, I'm just pointing out what appears obvious to _me,_ that doesn't necessarily mean I'm right. After all, those slabs of stone may have been meant to be movable, just as described by *HfG.* I deeply respect the work done to present these findings and I appreciate the down-to-earth theories that don't try to explain everything with stars, aliens and esoteric mysticism. Here's another thought why the portcullis were ultimately destroyed: I imagine they could easily get stuck and jammed by some debris falling into the recesses. If that was the case a lever simply wouldn't do the job anymore.
Thank you for thinking "outside the pyramid," err, "box." This series should be shown in every Egyptology, architecture and archeology course. Well done!
I visited Egypt in 1989 at the time the Berlin Wall came down. I visited the peramids I and I must say you have answered many of the things that puzzled me on my looking back at the construction. Thank you wonderful diagrams.
This is an amazing theory. I've been fascinated by Egyptology since I was a little kid, for almost 40 years. I've always wanted the Great Pyramid to be something more worthy of the intelligence and effort of the people who created it, not just a fancy pile of rocks to put a dead body in. Your theory rings more true to my gut feeling that there must have been more to it, while being a more grounded explanation than aliens or ancient power plants. The simplicity of your explanation for the Queen's chamber left my mouth hanging open. I'm dying to know if you have any speculation on what the voids they've recently detected could be.
I am gonna bet that anything further found will only help to understand the processes used to construct it and since having nothing to do with its function were sealed up.
I always come back to this video because of how good and different of an explanation you give. I remember sitting in class and listening to my teacher say that the air shafts in the king and queens chamber were to guide the Pharaoh's soul, or that the pyramids would be sealed forever and thinking "That can't be right, they built all that inside just to lock it up for noone to see?" This hypothesis shows Egyptian people as much closer to how we think and interact with monuments
I see this as a somewhat rare occasion where this sort of "amateur work" actually finds its mark. I'm reminded of Houdin's realization(s) as the closest comparison. I think you will be acknowledged for your observations and the model you've built from them. 'Pyramids as (open) temples' isn't a fresh idea, but I see your work as closing many, if not all, loopholes that have been (reasonably) used against it. Superb -- keep up the good work. I'd be writing a paper for submission if I were you.
I've been inside several pyramids and the first thing you notice is that they were definitely not designed for humans to walk around in. With the exception of the later work on the interior of the Pyramid of Menkaure, the others have no man-sized archways, shafts or tunnels and no steps. If the architects had regular visitors in mind, they could have made it much easier for them to enter and leave - a simple horizontal tunnel from the exterior would suffice.
They were large solar power stations generating energy from solar light. That is the reason they seem to be giant machines! As for their names, as Khufu, does Hoover dam happen to be a tomb of President Hoover? A pyramid almost sounds like "Fire Within" which would be true of a light powered generator station?
This video has truly left my mind reeling; it’s such a very satisfying proposition. (I’ve never been satisfied with the notion that the embossed split leaf, the round grooves of the western upper wainscoting and their functional implications within the antechamber portcullis were part of a one time use mechanism for closing up the Kings Chamber. Though I admit I had no thesis or argument for my doubts beyond my dissatisfaction that the complexity overwrought the purported function.) Still the video so rebukes the dogma I’ve read about with fascination since I was a child it’s hard to accept. I need to sit with it and mull it over a bit more I think.
This makes so much sense, I've always thought there had to be better ways to close your pyramid than some really well-made super square granite block. If you really don't want anyone to come in you would plug up the entire passage or better still, destroy the passage so that it is maximumly difficult to dig through. But instead they appear to be wasting a lot of time and effort making these super nice passages and doorways that's only supposed to be used once?
Wonderful video. Couldn’t the same system of counterweights proposed by Houdin be used in the grand gallery to allow even a single person to use their bodyweight to lift the portcullis stones? A great deal of manpower doesn’t seem necessary. Also, this theory makes it even more likely that there are some further unfound chambers for funerary goods. Exciting!
Even as someone not that invested in archeology or pyramids, this definitely fulfilled the warning in the start of the video. It's an incredible theory and huge game changer.
@@_I__AM__GOD_ Riiiight.. Am.. Either you didn't pay any attention to virtually anything being said, nor explained. Or you're just too daft and uninterested to zoom out a bit and see the full picture. Those are the only two options that really comes to mind right now. But perhaps you would be so kind, as to deliver us a third one? As your comment rings very hollow, and leaves anyone reading it quite clueless, as to how this "opinion" of yours, formed. Ps. Also.. What mysteries are you more specifically referring to here?
@@Superknullisch So how were the 3 blocks that prevent entry to the ascending passage placed in entrance of the passage in the GP? And being placed, how did the visitors ascend? By the Grotto? The only solution I see that agrees with the theory in this video is that the 3 blocks were left waiting in the great gallery or in the queens chamber since the construction and after, at same point in history, someone could place them...
Best video of all. I'm "digging" the new tone, and thank you for all your efforts. None of us are where we are without those who proceed us in their quest for answers. Well done.
Absolutely brilliant!!! I truly hope your work becomes widely recognized by mainstream Egyptology. The first time I watched a video of yours over a year ago I knew you had the kind of fresh eyes and open mind that was needed to crack these riddles of humanity.
Videos alone are not an accepted form of academic research. Boi needs to present it in thesis form with all supporting sources. Which I doubt he will do as more than likely he is just repeating views already held by others in the community, albeit obscurely to the average RUclips viewer for which they would be brand new. Not that I am saying he plagiarised someone else, but "mainstream Egyptology" as you call it encompasses a vast amount of paper research over a period of more than 2 centuries with thousands of individuals working on it that the average person could never get through in their lifetime without considerable help - and it's fairly likely that this subject has already been addressed at least once already.
Endless conjectures have been made, but contrary to your assumption this has only made the work more difficult. Sifting through endless fabrications and filtering out the false information was way more work than scrutinizing the physical evidence. Every solution looks easy in hindsight, but I assure you this was not.
There are many examples for cultures that visit their dead, even we do it today. Why not visit your god king, maybe even have a ritual for the transfer of power from one to another. I thought of this for years and I was really thrilled to see this video. Literally goosebumps. Thanks you for doing so much research. This video feels like the culmination of moste of the things you covered before. One thing that’s not really clear is the bottom chamber. I always wondered if this “unfinished” look had some meaningful symbolism to it that is yet to uncover.
@@mnomadvfx Your first sentence perfectly explains why nobody before him has figured this out. Your second sentence shows that people like you are the functional equivalent of the blocking stones-you just sit there trying to block all who attempt to discover the truth with a massive amount of tan stuff. And the first word of your second sentence gives me a pretty good idea of what you are, how you got to be that way, and how many people you enjoy hurting. Flip it around-what do you know that might you contribute to helping him refine, prove, or disprove his theory?
You present a VERY strong thesis here. It makes SO much sense, with no "weird hoops" or ad hoc answers. You have convinced me. Hope, your explanation becomes (at least a big part of) the officiel story told some day in the future. As with many other ground breaking thesises/theories there might be slight changes added later on, but you may very well have revealed the "Relativity theory" of the Great Pyramid. It is up there with Einstein's work in giving straight forward, convincing, well backed up explanations to all observations. GREAT WORK!
wow! even the location of the sarcophagus is on the far back wall and not centered in the room because the center was for the visitors! Amazing theory you came up with! this is going to change things forever
Been waiting for some longer videos from you. I've went through your whole collection and still need more. Thank you for the work you do and look forward to the longer style videos.
28:24 for the plugs : if the blocks slide in from the outside then I guess, you can carve a notch in the block, attach ropes, and have as many people as you want waiting outside to pull out the plugs ? Or have counterweight outside to help ? And repeat the process ? But if the pyramid is pulged from the inside then you have to go in a narrow shaft that can barely fit 3 or 4 people and try to push the cumulated weight of several granit blocks... maybe that Is why the Egyptians didn't bother plugging from outside...
I can't read through the ~2000 comments to see if anyone has pointed this out, but you have imagined a limitation in the levering process that doesn't exist. This has led you to the erroneous conclusion that three successive blocking slabs would make entrance by prying almost impossible. You have correctly pointed out that one way of raising the blocking slab would be to raise the fulcrum after each few small lifting stages as the block is raised. Your drawing at about 12:43 illustrates this. But this drawing also illustrates the fatal flaw in your understanding about how the levering process would be carried out. That drawing shows the block raised half way with red arrows indicating that the lever can only be pulled halfway to the floor. Why? Why would you stop with the lever arm only halfway to the floor? With the proper fulcrum design the lever can be pulled down all the way to the floor. You may have presumed that this limitation exists because of the shape of the fulcrum you drew, which for some reason has changed from the round shape you showed at the beginning of the process to a shape with an extended flat top. No one would ever use a fulcrum shaped like that because when the lever arm got to the horizontal position it would begin to pivot around the edge of the fulcrum farthest from the slab, drastically lowering the mechanical advantage of the long lever arm. Instead you would want the fulcrum to have the same kind of round top you showed initially or, better, a narrow round top with a small radius of curvature, perhaps with a sheet of metal between it and the wooden lever to prevent the fulcrum tip from chewing into the wood lever during use. Using a fulcrum like this, the process of lifting the slab, blocking it in position, raising the fulcrum and lifting again can be repeated indefinitely, using the full height of the passageway to swing the lever arm at each stage. In fact, by putting wood or stone spacers between the working end of the lever and the slab, the slab can be recessed into the ceiling and then blocked in place there. In practice, spacers would probably be used earlier in the lifting process to avoid having to raise the fulcrum too high. But however however it's accomplished, the important point here is that by a combination of raising the fulcrum and using spacers the lever arm can be moved from the ceiling to the floor at all stages of the lifting process, enabling each blocking slab to recessed into the ceiling if desired.
This seems to me to be an argument in favour of the portcullis stones being designed to afford short term protection and also to allow regular access. The method you describe would require hours of work on the part of robbers, sufficient I would imagine to frustrate an attempt to lever a way in overnight. And, on the other hand, the existence of methods to lever up the stones given a day or so would suggests that the pyramid builders would not rely on the portcullis stones alone permanently to seal off the treasures within.
You are correct that with ideal tools and knowledge, levering up the full height of the portcullis is possible. But the ancients had many constraints, not the least of which would be possessing and transporting the necessary plundering equipment into the pyramid. With a straight wooden lever and crude, modestly stackable fulcrums the difficulty still increases with height. At the very least it would slow you way down, and the time of attack was the key point in the video - not that levering HAD to be constrained but that it probably was.
There is literally a giant temple directly in front of the Great Pyramid. The basalt floor and some columns are all that remains. Several pyramids still have their temples intact, directly in front of the pyramid's entrance.
Maaan I don’t know how many times I have watched it and it transports me in that magical place in time when this all was being calculated and done, that still can’t be explained for sure and I am sure I will watch it again and again
I find it very inspiring the way you use this channel to promote your research ideas. The arguments presented in this and other video's are very compelling, and you have completely convinced me that the pyramids were designed to facilitate public visitors, not to keep them out. One of these days I will hopefully put some of my own original research ideas on my channel.
I was enthralled. A well-constructed theory, founded in logic and solid research. And, compelling conclusion which follows Occam's Razor - all thoroughly satisfying my scientific brain. I applaud you.
A truly 'scientific brain' is never thoroughly satisfied or else we would still be believing that the fuzzy nebula observed by early astronomers were structures inside the Milky Way galaxy instead of one of the billions of Galaxies existing outside our own. Or the 'Luminiferous Ether" explained and proposed by Newton and James Clerk Maxwell but proved totally wrong. Science is full of countless examples of tremendous leaps of knowledge by truly 'scientific brains' that were never thoroughly satisfied by the status quo. 😃😃😃😃😃That being said, here's another thing not many people know. In a Perfect experiment with 2 different weights it can prove that heavier things fall faster then lighter ones. But you need God's own stopwatch and measuring tape to be able to see it. And only if the 2 different weights are dropped separately one at a time. If they are dropped together, the 2 objects fall at the exact same velocity reaching their destination at exactly the same time.
"The goal is simply to be less wrong than what came before." One of the best lines I've heard in a VERY long time! That being said, great video. Very insightful and thought provoking.
Intriguing, as always. Your previous video, about the channels being airshafts, already hinted me towards the conclusion in this video: that the great pyramid is not so much a tomb as it is a temple, to be visited for many years after its construction. It all makes perfect sense. 👍
Excellent, well thought, video! I appreciate you! Your concept that the portuculises were made for regular operation so the pyramids were for continuous use, not one use tombs, make sense to me. Likewise the channels being for ventilation. But the scale and grandeur of the pyramids still awes me and I can't imagine a civilization of the time able to even conceive it, much less build it. To me the scale of the builder village nearby would only be enough to just refurbish the pyramid, perhaps repairing/replacing the outer layer of limestone; that is a task that might have been accomplished in the 20 years of construction. All that said, your revelation of the security mechanisms of the pyramid greatly limit its potential purpose in my mind, so I am left with a bigger (wonderful) mystery! Thank you again!!
It's like I'm watching Columbo for Egypt. You brilliantly look at the same thing everyone else looks at and decipher it in a way that makes complete sense.
@@ManwithNoName-t1oStill, records were left on the walls of other structures that were of the dynastic period. It's inexplicable that these structures would have remained free of homage to the persons they were alleged to have honored. Something doesn't add up.
Maybe similar to churches now, it was not their style to plaster the walls with writing at that time. And hieroglyph decoration got popular in later centuries.
As we know, there was once a V - shaped notch at the step at the top of the grand gallery, which was almost certainly the result of a rope being repeatedly drawn across it, and I believe this would support the idea that the portcullis system was opened at least several times. I hypothesize that the grand gallery is the shape that it is so that it could accommodate either a contingent of people to open the portcullis, and / or that there may have been some sort of mechanism, even a simple sled which might have been used with a series of smaller weights that could be handled by few people to open the portcullis. This might help explain the scratch marks and discoloration seen on the sides of the 'benches' in the grand gallery. I'm not sure I subscribe to Houdin's idea of the system being used to move all the blocks up the pyramid, but I think a simple sled with stone weights that could be moved by a few people over the course of a few hours or days would suffice to open the portcullis, and this could all be removed later. If the doors were propped open, this would mean the door would need to be drawn open completely, and then sat back down on whatever was used to block it open. This could easily be accomplished by moving a few weights around. Perhaps the idea was that once the King's chamber was sealed (after some prescribed time), the Queen's chamber would then become the primary place of worship, and that may simply have never been finished for reasons unknown to me, or it was finished in some way, and was just looted in antiquity. perhaps it was adorned floor to ceiling with something very beautiful, and was looted. This might explain why the king's chamber was smoothed, but not adorned with anything. The idea that the kings chamber was sealed not too long afte the king's death would also help explain the missing block that would have covered the entrance to the queens chamber. As people were going to the king's chamber, they would have needed to walk over that areas, but once the king's chamber was sealed, the block would not be necessary as the foot traffic would just go straight into the queens chamber, which really means it was never meant to be the queen's chamber, but was instead a worship room. Just some thoughts. Thanks for considering my ideas. Edit: It has just occured to me that the 'pockets' on the sides of the grand gallery might have been used to store the stones that were removed as the sled or sleds were relieved of weight, allowing the portcullis to function. You wouldn't need to add or remove them all to get the door to open / closed, just enough to get it moving. This of course, makes me wonder what the purpose would be, as a couple of looters might just use the system by moving the weights on to the sled, but if it were only meant for short term security, this may have been effective. Once the royal family who cared (and had the resources to command the portcullis to be opened) stopped visiting, there would be no need to open it again. still, an interesting thought experiment, I think.
@34:40 This video brought me to tears! Oh my god, man! Especially this quote! "it's not a mountain of stone to keep people out its amount of stone to keep people coming inside" ❤
Ever since I discovered that there was a movable entrance door, it seemed that the pyramid was always meant for worshippers to visit. Like a museum, they needed guards and security. Once they fell out of use, the last priest probably set the blocking stones before leaving for good
That would mean that: A) the builders somehow knew that there would be a "last priest" and the pyramid would go "out of use", in order to pre-load the plugging stones in the pyramid for an un-defined future eventuality that they couldn't possibly foresee or plan for (in fact, arguably they would have built the worship site for an eternity, it would be insulting to pre-plan for an eventuality when such an important worship site would go out of use) And B) that every single visitor entered the grand gallery only to immediately need to climb over several large granite plugs in the way
@@skuripandaburns3489Assuming that the north face chaimber above the entrance was the original entrance, it would continue in a level straight line directly to the bottom of the grand gallery above the blocking stones (and level with the passageways to the Queen's Chaimber) Visitors would have been using _that_ route and not ascending up from the descending passage.
@@skuripandaburns3489 The video speaks to a more pragmatic view though. tomb security by codifying it in Egyptian culture through awe and reverence. No different from the reason WE aren't going out and smashing up grave stones and tombs in OUR TIME. The idea that these sacred, enterable monuments wouldn't be plugged at some point, at fear of invasion or rebellion or other calamity is quite naiive.
@@skuripandaburns3489 Finally someone who's not a sycophant who can point out the obvious holes in this nonsense theory. Obviously the Egyptians would never have trust the 'last priest' to perform such a key fuction as actually plugging the pyrimid, such a person some hypothetical centuries into the future would certainly be more likely to LOOT rather then seal the pyrimid. The Pyrimid would have been plugged promptly after the burrial. Their is no way they would have allowed visitors in, that would have inevitably result in damage and theft of the grave goods.
That does make sense. The follow-up question I would have is who would be visiting the grave and how often would it be opened up. There will probably never be a conclusive answer. Was it just priests who performed some ritual once a year? Or was it open to the public throughout most of the days? My gut feeling would be, that it was closer to the first than to the second option.
First we had the original conventional explanations. Then the alternative unconventional "theories". Now, finally, something that makes sense. Thank you.
Well done. I'm speechless .I wish I had 10% of your spatial orientation to understand the engineering of pyramid building. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!!
Ab- so- lute- ly FASCINATING!!! My mind is officially BLOWN!!!! Effectively the same reasons why the grand cathedrals were built/ designed so majestically, so awe inspiring. One cannot help but be overwhelmed by the immensity of the structure thereby making one feel so small. How else should one feel entering a space of worship to a diety? Bravo, old boy, BRAVO I say!!!!
Great video but few questions that are not clear to me... 1. If the intention was to keep the KC "visitable" with the mechanism of the openable then: - Why were the granite plugs planned in place? It must have been part of the original design due to the mechanist that stop the stones. Also it would be impossible to carry those into the pyramid once the grand gallery was closed. It is a wierd to think that ancient egyptians put so much effort to such a complitacted design to make it a "temporary" thing. If it was designed to be temporary why simply not close down the portcullis after the mourning period (or whatever) - Why it's not the case for the other 2 pyramids in Giza? - If the king really wanted this tomb to be a sacrad place to visit I assume the opportuniy was rather for the rich, governant officials, priests, etc... not for the regular people. If so why do such inconvenient corridors? We see that they could build convenient corridors (nort face corridor with 2 meter width and height or the grand gallery itself!). For anybody to visit the King's chamber in ancient times would needed to enter the pyramid, walk down 28 meters in a 1 meter by 1.3 meter small, airless corridor, then start crawl upwards in a similar tiny corridor (assuming there was some ladder at the block ascending passage) that does not even have stairs carved into the original floor, just to reach the grand gallery. Oh, and ofc without artifical ligh source, so either with a candle or a torch... From there the struggle continues in the Grand Gallery (at least there is enough space) till they reach the KC. Also without stairs carved into the flooring. I belive in your earlier videos you even mentioned how dangerous was this trip only a few hundred years ago. How do we expect this 4000 years ago from an older priest? Or anybody from the royal family? - Not to mentioned the 3 granite plugging stone must have been laying in the grand gallery somewhere, probably obstructing the movement of visitors. I am no pharao but if I wanted my subordinates and family to visit me "in my grave" why not just build a simple, straight corridor with convenient dimensions (e.g.: like the north face corridor?) that straight leads to the grand gallery. And make some stairs for them, so it's easier to walk up. The architects shouldn't have any problem with that as they are confident enough to build (even build 2 if we count the big void) a massive, spacious corridor in the middle of the biggest pyramid. They could just simply build the whole grand gallery down to ground level for even easier access. As things looks like now I am not convinced that Khufu really wanted his burial site to be visited....
The plug stones may have been counter-weights for the portcullis stones and then became plug stones. A designed failure point. If the knowledge of how to keep it working was ever lost the stones would become plugs when the rigging failed. Making the entry and exit physically arduous could deter visitors with sticky fingers. Maybe there was a human powered wooden sled that moved people up and down. In a truly dark environment a single candle is surprisingly bright once your eyes adjust. It's hard to imagine lots of people moving throughout the pyramid though, but maybe that was part of the mystic. I can only imagine what it would evoke in a person. It would be a memorable experience....as it still is today.
Well what's ground level to us is not what's ground level to them, also it was probably to see the him after death or rituals ect for a period of time or yearly ect then to be plugged for ever from the outside
Why are castles and palaces built with so large amount of stairs and chambers and secret doors even if the king wants his people/ family to visit him. Why not just build a simple straight corridor with convenient dimensions? Why did ancient Chinese emperor build at huge as Terracotta Army that guards his grave even tho he obviously wanted people to visit the grave?
Besides the plugs being permanent, the only additional thing illogical to me about his argument, is that If portcullis stones sealing the entrance were intended to be opened for public visitation, where is the evidence that they were opened repeatedly? Should be very easy to see: a wear pattern between the sliding doors and the walls demonstrating that they were repeatedly opened for the public to access. I have never heard of any evidence that this pattern exists, but if they were opened repeatedly, this wear pattern would be distinct and as irrefutable as ballistic forensics. To the contrary, it seems like the portcullis stones were lowered permanently, which contradicts the entire premise of the conclusion that the tomb was indented to be a Disneyland which only closed down at night. I'm not really interested in Egypt, but I do like arguments to make logical sense, and I find some illogical thoughts in the presentation.
From what we know of ancient Egyptian society, they had some pretty strange ideas (from our perspective) about the nature of existence, the powers that govern that existence and the afterlife. That thought process introduces a factor that we will probably never fully understand and thus the behaviour it inspired will remain, to a large degree, a mystery.
Congratulations! I have watched your every video for over 2 years with increasing fascination and excitement but this tops them all by far! Your warning at the beginning was very prophetic, I will never, ever view the pyramids the same way again having watched this particular video. I thank you so very much for that! As this video rolls out across the RUclips Universe your tens of thousands of fans will be doing what I did, the virtual equivalent of a standing ovation. I immediately joined your channel because $5 a month is nothing compared to the gratitude I feel for what you presented here. This video, combined with your last one about the purpose of the air shafts, has cemented your place now for all of history as a premier egyptianologist! I am so thrilled to have witnessed your rise to that position at the very top! It may take years for the knowledge you have revealed here to percolate to the surface and become part of common understanding of our past but it will. “Truth waits for eyes unclouded by judgment.” I am taking the time to make this comment to honor the years of struggle that you went through to set aside ALL of your preconceived ideas and judgments so you could examine the known facts from a completely new and fresh perspective. WELL DONE!!!!
“sycophancy: a person who uses flattery to win favour from individuals wielding influence.” I totally agree that it is an over-the-top amount of flattery because that's how I honestly feel but I fail to see any way that this amounts to me trying to win any sort of favor, I'm just a nobody in this world of RUclips comments, so you're labeling me that way is obviously very inaccurate.
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I don't know what you do for a living, what I do know is that you're a great youtuber, you've set up a very interesting channel, I'm devouring your videos one after the other... I hope you do a job related to archaeological investigations, because you're a genius. Thank you!
Great video as always. You've been on a roll lately. I can still remember when you were the new kid on the block. But I'll push back a little on your conclusions. I think that the important observation you make here is that the portcullises were intended to be opened and closed on an ongoing basis, rather than a permanent seal to the chamber. (And this is, after all, the intent of most portcullises). This is actually very much in keeping with the impression that I have always had about pyramid architecture in general, namely that things seemed to have been designed to make it inconvenient to get around in them, but that they were nevertheless intended to be entered. After all, they even decorated some of the entrances. This isn't what you do if you're trying to seal something permanently. Similarly, many have speculated that the point of the robber's tunnel was that whatever object they were trying to remove was too large to fit through the Descending Passage. Where I disagree is in the speculation about the overall purpose. I just don't buy the conventional wisdom of the pyramids having been constructed as burial chambers. And actually, I tend to think that the operational portcullises are evidence against rather than in favor of it. (Although they could be consistent with the King's Chamber being a family crypt, where you'd periodically open it to bring in another body). I don't know if there's any record of the Egyptians worshiping dead pharaohs up close and personal like this. I'd kind of expect them to consider that kind of proximity to be a sacrilege. Rather, they seemed to consistently seal and disguise tombs. The dead pharaoh was there all by himself with all of his stuff, isolated from the world. The interesting question is what they might have been doing in the King's Chamber. The air shafts suggest that they'd be there for a while, and thus need fresh air. The portcullises that they could only be there during authorized times.
To me, this is the obvious conclusion from your previous videos consideration of the air channels. The only problem I had with it was the granite at the bottom of the grand gallery, but now you have cleared that up for me too! I can't disagree with any of your conclusions. Fantastic work. Perhaps the three granite blocking stones were in some way a counter-weight to facilitate lifting the portcullis stones? Thanks for all that you do ♥
That would be pretty smart. If the plugging blocks served as counterweight to lift the portcullis stones, then letting them go down the tunnel to plug it permanently would also make it much more difficult to lift the portcullis blocks afterwards.
The problem of the granite plugs inside the grand gallery remains: were visitors that ascended into the grand gallery expected to climb over the plugs?
Brilliant stuff as always! Many thanks for sharing your hard work and years-long analysis. It all makes complete sense. One thought occurs to me however, if the Great Pyramid's burial chamber was designed to be accessible, perhaps any treasures buried with Khufu remain inside the pyramid, perhaps safely stored to this day in a deliberately inaccessible area designed and built that way during construction? The big void perhaps?
How many Americans believe that one day Washington DC will be a ruin, and the US a forgotten ancient civilization? Americans worried about this for a century or so. The older the country, the less likely it seems to the people that it will be transitory. Assuming that human beings are always human beings with the same brains and thought processes, and considering that Egypt was already ancient when the pyramids were built, it would not be a surprise to find that the Pharaohs and their people believed that Egypt would always exist. It still exists, and their one mistake was in not foreseeing the numerous changes in regimes, cultures and religions in their future.
You're still assuming it was accessible as a tomb and meant for Khufu. Consider this, Masonic ritual of resurrection from a simulated tomb. Consider that Osiris' story was resurrection. Consider it was meant to be limited accessible as an initiatory temple.
@@dustinholt7308they put those things together, so maybe it was just a hobby when they were done. But no, they weren't moving them daily, was most likely just when they wanted to close shop like the video suggests.
Found this channel yesterday and just watched every video for two days. Brilliant analysis. Also it’s so nice to hear an American voice doing length measurement in metres and not adding feet and inches to placate the last three countries in the world still using imperial, but let the side down in this one by using pounds for weight instead of tonnes. Using pounds for weight is like measuring the distance from New York to london in inches, impossible to comprehend. Apart from that keep up the incredibly good work. 👏
That's why funeral chamber is clean/got no hieroglyphs like Unas Pyramid. Has been used like a cathedral, same way we do it today just safeguarded and opened when needed !
Amazing video, your work and research and presentation is phenomenal. I've seen every video on your channel and this explanation as to the "why" behind the design of the Great Pyramid has been slowly building up to be more and more clear. This video seems like a final chapter in a saga that's been slowly unfolding. The most satisfying part about this theory is that it gives a sense of intelligence and sensibility back to the pyramid builders. This all feels so much more relatable, which is something that is missing from other theories. I cannot wait to see what comes next!
While I agree that clearly the kings chamber was designed to be opened and closed, I think you went a bit too far with the idea that it was designed to be accessible to everyone. If it was meant to be a place of worship for everyone and attract tons of people they wouldn't have made the passages so narrow that you have to crawl through them and no lighting and not much air for alot of people. They probably wanted a very small group of people to be able to open the chamber occasionally for religious reasons. Maybe priests enter once every few years to do a blessing or something but I highly doubt they wanted it to be accessed all the time by anyone. And as for the queens and subterranean chambers I also find it hard to believe that they started making them just in case their design with the portcullis's didn't work. If they weren't sure the design for the thing securing the kings chamber would work I think they would have made a new design not preemptively worked on backup places of worship and then abandon them before they've even finished the whole pyramid. The egyptians seemed too much like perfectionists to just make a backup plan "just in case" their whole design didn't work and then quit on them halfway through and leave it unfinished. It seems more likely they were going to be additional burial chambers and then for whatever reason they had to plug the pyramid up for security and thats why they never got finished.
What an incredible conclusion to come to. This makes the most sense to me out of most that I've heard of in Egyptology. I hope Zahi Hawass is subscribed!
At 15:04 you were explaining how the first stone could only be levered up about half the height of the passage. By adding material on top of the lever as the stone gets higher you could lever it up the full height of the passage or higher if you were so inclined. You would lever the stone up 5 cm and add dunnage to keep it from coming back down, then reset your lever to the ground level and add a 5cm block of material between the stone and the lever. Pry it u another 5 cm, replace the 5 cm of dunnage with 10 cm of dunnage and reset your lever with a 10 cm block this time.
The takeaway is not that circumvention couldn't be done, but that the pharaoh (or whomever was interred in the pyramid) expected to be venerated and worshipped by living people. They provided a space of worship within the pyramid for parishioners and the portcullises were designed as a repeatably openable and closable security system so that the parishioners could worship at the grave of their god (think of the modern day Lenin's mausoleum or Chairman Mao's sarcophagus). It was expected that if anyone wanted to loot the tombs they wouldn't have enough time to get the job done between the veneration sessions. The real security is in the fact that the portcullises couldn't be circumvented in the expected time between veneration sessions by members of their 'cult'. What the pharaoh's didn't bank on was that their groupies would give up on the veneration sessions a few millennia too soon. Who could have guessed that the strength of the orders that an authority figure gives wanes after they're dead? The decision was taken to use technically complicated, potentially insecure portcullises (that could be opened and closed for the living to pass) rather than much easier granite plugs that would stay closed permanently and be much more secure. When you look at the engineering smarts that went into a monument that has lasted multiple millennia the assumption that the builders were 'naive' would definitely be the naive assumption.
Yes, I agree. It was the only statement for me that felt a bit lacking. I had exactly the same idea, it is not a must that you can only use a single lever, no support material or can’t readjust the lever itself. The point still stands, of course, but I don’t see this as proof why there a 3 doors exactly of this particular design.
@@lormerod1 I know what the takeaway is, I watched the whole video. It's an interesting idea and a lot more intuitive than the traditional theories. I just felt that particular piece was weak. If we're going to credit the Egyptians with engineering smarts then perhaps they'd also be able to come up with my 15 second solution to their puzzle. I'm guessing they had a different reason for the 3 doors. Perhaps the engineers knew full well about the weakness but only needed to satisfy the kings cursory overview.
That thought also occurred to me but once the block is lifted about waist height you encounter a leverage problem. The amount of force you can apply to the lever becomes equal to the weight available. The limited space limits the number of people able to apply weight to the lever. I think his estimates of how high you can raise the blocks in this manner are right.
I’m going to have to disagree with the lever problem at 15:15 - you could lever the stone up just a few inches, chock it with a small stone and remove lever, then repeat. You don’t need to be able to lever the whole stone the entire available amount each time, only nudge it upwards an inch each time. You could also lever the lever itself off the ceiling for the last few inches.
Is it possible that the three plugging stones were three counter weights of the portcullis stones? Using the length of the grand gallery to slide them back and forth with a small team of people to open the doors?
Bravo! as usual... but I think you overlooked one thing regarding the levering of the triple portcullises... shims. By alternating two levers and using shims of increasing size, you could raise the portcullises higher. A little more work perhaps but I don't think it's much harder than any other levering operation. Triple portcullises however do still increase the amount of work and time to complete a levering operation and that may have been enough to justify their use and still fit your theory.
I agree fully. I think the logic in that section is flawed. Levering action doesn't need a wide arc. Resetting the lever position via shims or other methods would behave exactly like a modern ratchet wrench. You just need enough play to move the object high enough for the next shim (or ratchet tooth).
Yes! I've lifted some pretty heavy things using blocks and levers. You just keep adding blocks under the thing and under the lever incrementally increasing the height little by little. Plus, the graphic seemed to imply that the working end of the lever can't swing lower than the fulcrum which is strange. You could lever those blocks higher than the shaft ceiling
I have no dog in this hunt... I don't care if you are right or not. I love your videos and I hope you solve all the mysteries. I have 4 observations and I know they may be just wrong because I am not an expert,. I have never seen the Pyramids for real. 1 ..... I would think you could remove the ropes, rollers or what ever operates the Ports ...there by sort of taking the keys. Without them operating the gates would be impossible unless you could make replacements... thus at least slowing robbers down. 2... I have lifted overhead weight this way and I'm sure it is still possible in the pyramid , to lift the gates with progressively longer wooden shafts by hammering them in once you leverage the gates high enough to get under them .. kind of wedging poles in place raising the gate as high as it could go. 3 ... If the the Egyptains built for human access, wouldn't the avenues of access be tall and big enough for comfort and traffic. .?? 4 ... The thing that bothers me most of all theories is.. after the death of Pharaoh, everyone had to crawl, stoop, and contort to get themselves ( and grave goods) into the chambers...This just doesn't sound dignified enough to me.... but I don't know of course.
Curious, Wasn't there many out side attempts to locate "the Hidden access", and if this was meant to be visited by the masses wouldn't there have been a grand accessible access made in the planning and the architecture design...example.. Ground level Ornate people sized access opening with stairs and light in a dark tunnel with no fire torches or soot on walls? Although credit due for your theory of an re accessible door( more plausible but for what reason... unknown) and Still no Evidence of a tomb BUT that of SOMETHING of immense value..
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I have followed Egyptology for 35 years. I discovered your work about nine hours ago. You are my favorite scholar on the subject.
For so long I've been looking for an "ah-ha" or "Keep It Simple Stupid" theory about ancient egypt and I finaly found it. Your in depth anaylysis style, scientific methodology, and how you consistently back up the narration with hard to find visual evidence all deserve a nobel prize.
Sir, I may have found something! I have just realized, that the three granite blocks plugging the ascending passage each have masses of 1,05m*1,05m*1,52m*2,75t/m3=4,61t
The portcullis granites have a mass of 1,16m*1,16m*0,55m*2,75t/m3=2,09t
To hold a 2,09t mass hanging with a counterweight on rollers on a 26,1 degree slope (slope of the grand gallery) you need 4,64t ! This the exact the mass of the plugging blocks.
I think that the three plugging granite blocks were the counterweights for the three portcullis granite blocks!
Considering the completely worn edge of the upper step at the top of the great gallery and the contaminated sides of the longitudal groov it seems reasonable that the granite blocks were on the floor, probably on some kind of rollers, as the bottom 10cm of the groove did not have this black grease. The insets in the walls and the longitudal groove along the walls at half height are still questions.
Would be super smart to design the plugging blocks with multiple purposes. Primary use would be as a counterweight, and secondary to be a plug in case of disaster, or overthrow or some other collapse of the civilization. Eliminating unnecessary excess space and mechanisms for huge counterweights somewhere else.
I was wondering about this, thanks for doing the math!
Looks like they were weights to help move the blocks up the sled during building. I think they were meant to stay open as well, but had nothing to do with a tomb or visitation. The unfinished queens chamber with the closed air ducts were likely open during the building but many of these features only seem to facilitate the building.
Although, if you believe water and tonal generation played a role and you need travel areas for water or air pockets.. How do we know that there may be missing pieces and unearthed tunnels connecting and Nile channels that acted as feeders and bleeders? It’s too easy to see this as a purpose built machine. And when the outer casing was intact I bet that structure could be like a big pressure vessel..
actualy you almost get it.. work further buddy-.-. you are closest from all those ppl there-.- meaby you found real purpose
I like they way you think :D
Its so interesting how the most mind-blowing theories always have a mundane quality to them. For me, thats what makes them ring true.
Since anthropology is the study of human behavior it makes sense that our best anthropologic theories invoke a sense of "oh ok, that makes sense. That's probably what I would do to im their situation".
@@justinsemple7454 I came here hopeful but was sadly disappointed. I agree with your sentiment, but didn't find it here.
There is actual evidence published almost two years ago that hardly anyone is covering.
So that's what I was expecting,
Looks to me like someone has spent a lot of time
and effort
and time is money as they say,
putting a puzzle together with out all the pieces.
What kind of leader would force thousands
or hundreds of thousands
of loyal subjects to build a contraption this mass-ive
this ego driven symbol of greatness
...To protect a few valuables and a body,
for as long as possible.
Which didn't work
because it must have been pilfered,
There's no evidence,
They - took it.
This story has more holes than swiss cheese.
I feel so embarrassed for the guy behind the curtain.
Modern people, 1800's ish on, located and busted out those holes
in the pharaoh's and queen's chambers.
It is a resonator those were meant to be sealed.
Try beating on a drum that has no drum skin...
Impossible.
No one is going to break in to it because it would be benefiting the entire population.
Only someone bent on destruction would disable it. For Good or For Evil.
There are too many factors to continue right now, but the evidence we have confirmed up until 2018 just doesn't leave room for sociopathic slave driver transitioning to a soul.
Quite the opposite if some new theories pan out.
I really have to go and with yt hiding so much I don't really know if anyone will read this.
Just take this piece and dwell on it... search the etymology for Chemist
..most won't so i'll through you a bone.
AL- in Arabic is "the" + Chemist =Alchemist
Alchemy was the "chemistry" of the Middle Ages and early modern times, involving both occult and natural philosophy and practical chemistry and metallurgy.
In 1560 they knew this.
Alchemy- From the land of Khem, khemet, al-kimiya, (khemeioa found c.300 C.E),
Khemia- Land of Black Earth
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I came up with a plausible idea of how the pyramids were constructed. Basically, the builders used the sides of the pyramids as the ramp. A temporary smooth facing 'ramp', very similar to the finished smooth pyramid exterior, would have been built on at least two sides, opposite of each other, as the pyramid was built. This 'ramp' would only need to have been about 20 or so feet wide. I say "temporary" ramp because the stones pulled up on them would have worn the surface of the stones - but they could have been re-surfaced and reused. Sand spread in front of the stones would reduce friction. Or maybe the temporary ramp sitting on the 'steps' of the pyramid could have been made of wood, with wooden skids under the stones being pulled up to reduce friction. Adding water would reduce friction even more.
The way it would work, is ropes would have been draped over a log pulley near the top edge of the pyramid, crossed over to the opposite side, gone over another pulley, and down the pyramid on the opposite side. The workers own weight helping pull downhill would have made it much easier *and faster* to pull the blocks up the opposite side. When the workers reached the bottom, they would attached their ropes to the *next stone,* and a 2nd group of workers on the opposite side would pull it up, as the first group climbed up to prepare to repeat the process. There could have easily been two additional groups of workers on the other two sides working at the same time.
The stones all the way to the top, including the capstone, could have been raised this way.
The idea is simple and effective.
@@FLPhotoCatcher you should make a video with some diagrams to better illustrate your idea
@@FLPhotoCatcher Or gravity wasn’t a mystery in the golden age, as it seems to be today.
And giants although well documented throughout history are too taboo to even suggest.
The pyramids harnessed the power of falling water by resonance.
Breaking into the walls to find these secret “tunnels” most definitely would prevent it from working.
New evidence is being covered up and theories like the one presented here are not helping us to understand.
My previous comment was about that.
But no doubt it is hidden under newest. Which means no one is going to scroll through thousands of comments to see it.
Brilliant logic. No more Indiana Jones style traps. The Pharaoh’s power and ingenuity on display. And yet, even with all the pretentious display, a humble admission that all barriers will eventually fall. As I said before, I’m not an Ancient Egyptian aficionado. I realize now that I never paid much attention to Pyramid design because it all seemed so messy. But in one video you have instilled in me an admiration for these ancient architects and their clever and practical designs. Thank you again for your efforts. I will certainly continue watching.
Many thanks, it's been a pleasure sharing the work.
Well...if he paid for someone to guard the place at night, he wouldn't need to be so worried. And he would certainly have expected the whole area to be pretty damn busy for the foreseeable future. There would have been guards, surely. Sure...one day the money ran out, people stopped using the site, the guards couldn't be paid, etc...but nothing is forever. He woulda known that day was coming, surely. So any security measures are just delaying the inevitable. But we don't know what Khufu believed. Even when you know what someone's religion is, you don't know what they BELIEVE. If he was like most people with power, religion was just a tool, and he knew it was all crap all along. Seems weird to build a pyramid for some afterlife crap you don't believe in. And what did they think happens to a guy in the afterlife if his body and treasures back on Earth are destroyed? I think there's a good chance Khufu was never in there. A switcheroo could be pulled if he was worried about his eternal afterlife being cut short by grave robbers. So regardless of Khufu's religious beliefs (or lack of), I think all we can say is that the dude still wanted to have a huge fuckoff triangle in the desert. So I really don't believe the pyramid was just some resurrection machine he believed would beam him up. Cus like I said....dude KNEW with 100% certainty, that the day would come when robbers got in, or the whole pyramid was eroded to nothing. Unless their belief is that you just gotta upload the pharoah and his treasures once, and they get copied to the cloud. But then why not just let the body and treasures be taken out, and the pyramid be reused? So...maybe it's encrypted! Like, it only works for Khufu, cus it's HIS special magic resurrection machine, an once he's uploaded, he's safe forever, but the bandwidth is a bit low, so he needs to be safe for a long time, but not forever, maybe. Or maybe all it really meant to him in private, was that he gets a huge monument that will show everyone he was badass, an make his name live on for a long time. But then I'dd expect the casing stones to have - at the very least - had a lengthy inscription about the size of his wiener, written all the way around the course closest to eye level. I dunno how many of the casing stones are accounted for an not butchered. A kid who bummed a cigarette off me told me that Muhammed Ali stole all the casing stones and used them to build the mosques in Cairo. If that's true, I can't imagine any inscriptions of any kind not being thouroughly erased before they even started to re-dress the stone.
So I think that's the real mystery of the Great Pyramid. Not the "how" but the "why".. For the other Giza pyramis, the "why" could just be, "Because Khufu". But Khufu went first, so he can't say that. And I'm sure by then he's seen that no tomb is safe from robbers. Maybe he had an assistant promising HIS tomb would be protected by powerful magical spells. Maybe he was just a pampered, dumb rich person. I kinda despise him for not leaving a diary.
@@ashscott6068 lmfao....there's a lot to think about here...like who hosted their cloud??? I mean surely it must have been AWS...They wouldn't have chosen google or microsoft...Clearly that must've been the case because, they are no fools.
it's not about hiring guards once and eventually they go home, it's about creating a monument that inspires awe, and through that inspires adherence to a temple cult, so that people keep coming, keep donating offereings, keep paying their respects, so that a priestly order can use that awe driven pull to run a cult, that endures. They hire guards because keeping the pyramid and it's temple complex secure protects their prestige and the mystery of the pyramid, once or twice a year they lift the portcullis for a ceremony inside the pharoah's chamber, but only the most generous donators from the highest stations who have proven themselves for years get that honor, and tales of their visit to the king's chamber and how impressive it was, and how close to the gods they felt keeps the common folks and aspiring nobles coming to the temple at the base of the pyramid on a regular basis
The pyramid was an investment, it was a spiritual amusment park infrastructure build out so that the cult of the pharoah would thrive for an eternity and keep watch over his treasures while they did it. @@ashscott6068
Pyramids were built with the stone blocks excavated to dig the Suez Canal.
One of the most rational and compelling arguments I have heard of the available evidence. Very impressive. Thank you for your work and for not taking your audience... for granite. :)
Thank you very much. I think this video will always be my favorite.
Since some of your videos before I had the feeling, that this explanation could be the most logical I heard before! At one evening in Egypt 29 years ago I had the chance to be one of the last visitors in the great Pyramid and I was completely alone in the king's chamber! I still remember these feelings and this explanation fits best to them. Thank you so much for your ongoing work!
This has to be one of the most cogent, reasonable, and sensible explanations I've heard. This channel keeps getting better.
100% agree
I, like many others, stumbled upon your channel through a certain streamer and his passion for this subject, and your videos.
You are credit to the scientific community, and have regenerated a child-like interest in something so far from my life, that I haven't felt for ages.
Thnak you.
As you mentioned before, this is the one you will be remembered for. It is common wisdom that the most simple solution is often the correct one -> but especially in the field of egyptology, it rarely seems to be practiced that way.
Everything seems to obvious once you point it out. It's kind of hard to believe that it has taken this long to reach this conclusion.
Well done!
Thank you so much! The hardest part was always convincing myself. It's not easy to say that everyone else has been wrong for so long.
It blows my mind how much I love this channel. Egyptology isn't even a particular interest of mine, but I can't stop watching these videos. It's just so good. This is top tier work and so relaxing and educational
I too get sucked into these videos and find it very relaxing as well.
I started the video with my own thoughts and beliefs clouding my judgement. But as you explained all your theories it all started to make sense. A masterpiece of a video, and it’s changed my view on these great structures forever.
I have always enjoyed the puzzles and solutions worked out over recorded history, especially regarding ancient builders and engineers. The Egyptian pyramid societies captured my imagination as it has so many competent and clever analysts over the milinea. As technology and research began to make rapid progress over my lifetime, I had hoped that I would live long enough for a reasonable explanation for the Egyptian Pyamid Societies and their relationship to their marvelous constructs to emerge. Sadly the insulting and varied parochial, biased, and absurd alien explanations explanations caused me to give up such hope. Now, over a single Thanksgiving evening watching your videos, the curtain has been lifted and each element of the mystery now makes perfect sense! The genius of the construction elements for their intended purpose validates mankind both then and now. Thank you for validating the voice inside my head and heart which rejected the nonsense those many experts had foisted upon us, and for restoring my faith in common sense and reason! Well done indeed!
I just love how your whole brand is not taking history for granted/granite. It's really clever. Your first principles approach is really knocking it out of the park. Well done!
OUTSTANDING!
The pyramids were tourist attractions all along.
Congratulations: you've shaken Egyptology!
🤣😂🤣😂 n I 💭 the piramids were some energy source
@@alvarosolano-jb1qqugh you people can’t shut up can you
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That's why they were built to accept both visa and MasterCard at the entrance. . .
@@Bassillixx
and poured in the 30s
So brilliant... I love picking locks... you learn very quickly that the most expensive lock is not un-pickable but that it takes many mors hours to pick than a cheap lock... thus the likelihood of getting caught much higher.
But then to make it so that the tomb always have people in it would be the greatest security feature ever... brilliant
Agreed - and it's not lost on me that this isn't just a lock to pick, it's a lock on a colossal scale, a lock that nobody could reasonably expect to ever pick in secrecy.
If you're trying to loot a pyramid, you need more than just a handful of trusted experts to run a quick heist and escape before anyone notices!
You would be expecting to be seen, you would be looting the tomb in plain sight. You'd need to invest hours at the shortest, but more likely days, weeks, or months of time to crack the lock... you'd be making a great deal of noise doing it, chiseling through solid rock for days and days. You'd need highly specialized knowledge about how the pyramids were built, knowledge perhaps handed down over generations from a relatively small number of buildings looted previously. You'd need specialists and experts, sure, but you'd also need a small army of henchmen to do the manual labor of chiseling through stone and moving the debris out of the way, and then carrying off the treasure... you'd need guards to protect the loot, and someone trustworthy to watch and restrain the guards so that your own guards don't rob you while watching your robbers. You'll need money and expensive equipment - it won't be cheap to crack this lock!
You'd need times of unrest and chaos that will allow you to march an organized tomb raiding party into one of the biggest and most obvious and surely well-populated landmarks in the area, through most of ancient Egyptian history... there surely couldn't have been many times in Egyptian history that would have encouraged a tomb raid of this scale: these dynasties lasted a long time in relative stability, changes were typically rare and slow-moving, those moments that would have made a tomb raid possible would have surely been nearly apocalyptic ages of calamity, war, and chaos. Unless, perhaps, the end of each Pharaoh's reign held the chance of providing the chaos tomb-looters needed to operate in relative freedom for a few weeks in large numbers in the open, until order could be restored....
Still, in short, these were gigantic locks, or rather monumental safes, built for storing valuables for the long haul, with the primary security feature being simply that it was too big, complicated, expensive, and obvious a job for common safe-crackers to ever be able to pull while Ancient Egypt was stable, confident, and secure. That alone is quite an achievement!
That it's also an extremely difficult safe to crack even after pharaohs have fallen, Egypt is in disarray, armies are marching in conquest, empires are rising and falling around the looting armies, and time, technology, security, wealth and effort are on the looters' side, is even more remarkable: it's been thousands of years, and well-educated modern explorers with a great deal of wealth and support behind them still don't quite know how the original security really worked, nor how it was even designed and installed, and had to go through a great deal of trouble to get a closer look at the building long after other adventurers basically tore these vaults apart trying to get inside!
We're talking about safes on the scale of the largest buildings ever built until practically yesterday in historical terms, using barely more than stone-age technology and what must have been a difficult writing system to transfer technological information with, still resulting in some fairly sophisticated locks for their age. These pyramids are quite a series of technological accomplishments by any measure - it's no wonder that so many people want to just shake their heads, and mutter "it was aliens!" No, I don't think it was aliens, it was well within the reach of ancient people, but knowing what they were going for and how they were getting it done, and knowing that they basically had one arm tied behind their backs by the requirement that the pyramids could be reopened at any time by those who know the trick, really makes me appreciate just how big an achievement the pyramids really were!
One of your best videos. I feel the culmination of years of research poured into this great view of pyramids
Thanks 4 your hard work in making these useful work
Seems like your research might have taken as long as it took to build the pyramids…
So the pyramids the " lights" are basically CATHEDRALS!
That makes so much sence.
"you shall remember me, for I will provide you eternal employment as tour guides!"
I like this explanation. ❤
Khufu's ultimate Legacy
@@JoelRSmith LOL
too funny!
😂😂😂 better than todays government
I have seen thousands Egyptiology videos in my life.
And although I wasn’t aware at the time, I was waiting for this one.
Genius! Bravo!
Excellent video, as always! It makes more sense that these monuments were symbolic temples of admonition than tombs "attempting to hide" a dead King and his treasure. Wonderful presentation and congratulations on this efficient and pragmatic theory! It's one of the few that makes any sense to me.
correct. when you go inside of the pyramid, there are no hieroglyphics, consistent with those in other temples etc...just empty
And considering how many religions build temples and churches containing bones of their saints which are very much on display...
The worst nightmare for a mummy is to get destroyed. Their whole mindset was immortality since the mummy is eternal if untouched. You build the pyramid as if it’s a puzzle that takes very long time to solve while the sarcophagus is hidden somewhere else but with no attention at all.
@@kreteraketeLet's take one pyramid, The Great Pyramid; the granite quarry is 300 miles away, all the blocks are different. If 10 were cut, dressed, transported, placed, a day... it would take over 630 years to construct... that's one pyramid, not taking anything else that Egypt has, into account. It was not 'Egyptian' nor for 'mummies'. Whatever did it and why, is not human only and not for any frickin tomb.
@@jeremybartlett1706you are esoteric and without scientific knowledge 😂
You just fixed Egyptology. You deserve an honory doctorate. Bravo.
I'm curious; how did he fixed Egyptology?
@@NickTriHard Did you not watch the video?
I really enjoyed this explanation and obvious genius! It dramatically changes the perspective. If you think of the King's Chamber as his throne room and all the stone design and structure surrounding as the "security" with special passageways .. leading directly to important spaces .. even some hidden places honor the king's genius. I wonder what the great void above the grand gallery will reveal?
@@bernielove3019 I watched the video.
What did he fix or which new idea did he propose?
*Literally nothing.*
I would add that the very fact that the channels people walk in cause them to be bent over in submission for long periods of time as they approach the queen's chamber and the king's chamber / grand gallery.
Duuuyde you blew my mind 🤯 I had no idea
Edit: you deserve so much recognition. The right mind for the right subject, well done my friend 👏
From a young man that observes the bent & red pyramid from his room window ,
" tons " of thanks .
❤
what are some of the best underrated pyramids to visit besides the giza, step, red, bent, and miadum pyramids?
Sorry buy nah
@@-jank-willson ramses 2 is nice to see it is not a pyramid but stil a amazing building
Do you think the builders woke up one day and decided, let's build a pyramid ? It is evident they were built by an extremely advanced civilization for purposes unknown. Probably energy production and distribution ! !!!
@@JOKing-ku8jg History is fake and was deliberately falsified to hide the truth
The truth about building the pyramids is found in the Holy Qur’an and the Sunnah of the Prophet Muhammad with conclusive evidence
There are giants who inhabited the Earth thousands of years ago and they are the ones who built this monument
The height of our master Adam was 37 meters, and the creation after him was similar to his creation. Then the size of the creation decreased until it reached where we are now.
The Prophet Muhammad did not visit Egypt, but God revealed the Qur’an to him, and everything was mentioned in the Qur’an in clear detail
With all impartiality, reason and clear logic
The pyramids could not be built except by humans who had tremendous strength, which made them lift all these stones with ease
89- Al-Fagr / 7 and 8
إِرَمَ ذَاتِ ٱلۡعِمَادِ
(7) [With] Iram[1915] - who had lofty pillars,[1916]
[1915]- Another name for the first people of ʿAad, to whom Prophet Hūd was sent.
[1916]- Supporting their tents or buildings.
ٱلَّتِي لَمۡ يُخۡلَقۡ مِثۡلُهَا فِي ٱلۡبِلَٰدِ
(8) The likes of whom had never been created in the land?
26- ash-shuara / 128
أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ
(128) Do you construct on every elevation a sign,[1055] amusing yourselves,
[1055]- i.e., a symbol or indication of their wealth and power. They used to build lofty structures along the road to be seen by all who passed by.
41- Fussilat / 15
فَأَمَّا عَادٞ فَٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ بِغَيۡرِ ٱلۡحَقِّ وَقَالُواْ مَنۡ أَشَدُّ مِنَّا قُوَّةًۖ أَوَلَمۡ يَرَوۡاْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَهُمۡ هُوَ أَشَدُّ مِنۡهُمۡ قُوَّةٗۖ وَكَانُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يَجۡحَدُونَ
(15) As for ʿAad, they were arrogant upon the earth without right and said, "Who is greater than us in strength?" Did they not consider that Allāh who created them was greater than them in strength? But they were rejecting Our signs
Please read the Qur’an carefully and you will find everything you are looking for
This should be in the news!!! It all makes sense 😮
Yes you're right it's perfect for CNN (The Fake News)!!!
The “news” isn’t there to inform you though.
Your last two videos have been amazing. I am just now getting to view them. I like how you keep things simple and not try to over guess, or guess at things that are no longer there. The great pyramid being more of a temple site for worship than just a burial site is an amazing idea. I like it.
Are you kidding me - dropping this out of nowhere like this? Very nice and consistent explanations!
The pyramids seem so much more human when thought of as places designed for people to keep visiting over years and years. Fascinating.
And we still do :D
But where are the hieroglyphs and inspiring imagery then?
It was not design for people. Majority of the shafts are way too short for humans and you have to crouch walk all the way up the shaft to get to the grand gallery. It makes no sense for humans to be inside. Some of the shafts in the pyramid are only 8 inches wide.
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Most rulers of old preferred everyone to approach them on their knees or at least bent.
Pyramids seem more human..You been chongin more weed than me...They seem like big rocks stuck ontop of each other to me 😂😂❤❤
@@MarkoKraguljacDidn't you know they were big power plants that zoomed the annunacki to bs land and back..
This makes perfect sense! It was, and always will be a tourist attraction, and now, just like when the Pyramids were first built, the more you pay, the more you get to see! That’s a great payment incentive for the Priests to maintain the Pyramids in perpetuity. Cheers!
Yes. Rational reasons. The best explanation I've seen yet. No aliens, no magnets, no razor blades. Just a tomb, with general reasons for the why. Maybe not exact reasons, but broad brush strokes. I like it. Thanks HfG.
I've watched each video you've made since you started. I've waited each one. This one is the best so far. Go ahead. Throw yourself out there. You're good at this.
He doesnt explain anything lol, Like how they got all those blocks there in the first place. WEAK Video.
Have you watched all of his videos? Some of them do speculate about construction methods. This one is more about "why" rather than "how".
@@Azarien just do a little search on the coordinates of the longitude (or is it latitude) location on Google earth. Check the speed of light.
Did you also know that Isaac Newton used the measurements from the pyramid to formulate the theory of gravity?
It was much more than a tomb. And this guy looks like a clown believing it was built in khufus reign
@@_I__AM__GOD_ that wasn't the intention here
@@_I__AM__GOD_ They got there by being lifted up by people. The details of that are engineering, not really Egyptology. Why they put that effort in is more interesting in the long run.
your work has left me speechless! it's just incredible, everything ties together under your explanation and it makes so much more sense.
I've always entertained alternative theories about Pyramids, even the conspiratorial ones, just to jog my mind. That's why I appreciate this channel, because it does not settle for naive explanations and digs deeper, resting its arguments on solid evidence from as many sources as possible.
One of my first projects for school, as a young teen, was regarding the Great Pyramid and how it may have been built (back in the late 1970s). At the time, I had a great deal of trouble trying to decipher all the different theories (I was naïve enough to think there was an actual explanation) and ended up having to pick one from the encyclopedia and just one other book that agreed with it. Over the years, I've never lost interest, and have heard everything under the sun, since. The videos you present are the most eye-opening explanations I've ever seen, and make a lot of sense.
Also, I've watched this 3 times in a row and every time, I noticed another little nugget I missed before. That's good stuff, man. Good stuff.
This is by far the best pyramid channel, thanks Buddy
There's a significant error here 14:46 in the description of how to use levers: The assumption that levers can always only be moved down until they are horizonta.
If I had to solve this task using levers (and I'm no more than an average German engineer) I'd use a team with at least 2 levers utilizing several pivot blocks of various heights. This way the portcullis can be walked upwards all the way by alternating levers and pivot points. The far end of the levers can always travel the full height from ceiling to floor, making pretty quick work of the task at hand.
One other problem, however was not addressed here: weight of the portcullis and what material to make the levers of. I strongly assume that the tip of a wood lever might not have been strong enough to pry the portcullis up from the floor. Maybe this could be achieved by hammering wedges underneath? So, were the portcullis sitting on an entirely even floor?
Exactly. This guy has never used a hammer 🔨
I thought the same - carpenter here
Or were they ever lowered completely every time?
About wedges: Sliding a wedge between two stones seems contradictory, i would slide the wedge between two oily wood pieces, or animal hide, for it not to rub directly on the stone.
I had the exact same thought, there's no reason you couldn't use the full meter clearance for levering the blocks all the way up, recessing the bottom of the blocks into the floor would be a much better countermeasure.
But we know they had copper tools by the way, so they wouldn't necessarily rely only on wooden levers.
This kind of break some of the theory here, it must somehow be easier to use the ropes and pulleys to open the "doors" than to just use levers to make it worth the effort. As someone said in another comment maybe the granite plugs where used as counterweights to lift them making it decently fast and easy with the right tools (pulleys and ropes) and they where just not as concerned about people doing it without permission because they always had guards outside so no one could enter with such tools unnoticed? But if so why even bother with such big heavy "doors"?
@@77MIlesLong @TheMoneypresident Please don't get me wrong, I'm just pointing out what appears obvious to _me,_ that doesn't necessarily mean I'm right.
After all, those slabs of stone may have been meant to be movable, just as described by *HfG.*
I deeply respect the work done to present these findings and I appreciate the down-to-earth theories that don't try to explain everything with stars, aliens and esoteric mysticism.
Here's another thought why the portcullis were ultimately destroyed: I imagine they could easily get stuck and jammed by some debris falling into the recesses. If that was the case a lever simply wouldn't do the job anymore.
Thank you for thinking "outside the pyramid," err, "box." This series should be shown in every Egyptology, architecture and archeology course. Well done!
thinking "outside the pyramid," err, "box." Well said... I wish I had thought of that!
Not "outside the box" if he just agrees with other long dead, "archeologists" who made guesses based on false theory.
I visited Egypt in 1989 at the time the Berlin Wall came down.
I visited the peramids I and I must say you have answered many of the things that puzzled me on my looking back at the construction.
Thank you wonderful diagrams.
Whew.
I’ve always agreed that the best explanation is the one that answers questions the best. This makes a lot of pieces fit. Bravo. Bravo.
This is an amazing theory. I've been fascinated by Egyptology since I was a little kid, for almost 40 years. I've always wanted the Great Pyramid to be something more worthy of the intelligence and effort of the people who created it, not just a fancy pile of rocks to put a dead body in. Your theory rings more true to my gut feeling that there must have been more to it, while being a more grounded explanation than aliens or ancient power plants. The simplicity of your explanation for the Queen's chamber left my mouth hanging open. I'm dying to know if you have any speculation on what the voids they've recently detected could be.
I am gonna bet that anything further found will only help to understand the processes used to construct it and since having nothing to do with its function were sealed up.
I always come back to this video because of how good and different of an explanation you give. I remember sitting in class and listening to my teacher say that the air shafts in the king and queens chamber were to guide the Pharaoh's soul, or that the pyramids would be sealed forever and thinking "That can't be right, they built all that inside just to lock it up for noone to see?"
This hypothesis shows Egyptian people as much closer to how we think and interact with monuments
I see this as a somewhat rare occasion where this sort of "amateur work" actually finds its mark. I'm reminded of Houdin's realization(s) as the closest comparison. I think you will be acknowledged for your observations and the model you've built from them. 'Pyramids as (open) temples' isn't a fresh idea, but I see your work as closing many, if not all, loopholes that have been (reasonably) used against it. Superb -- keep up the good work. I'd be writing a paper for submission if I were you.
I've been inside several pyramids and the first thing you notice is that they were definitely not designed for humans to walk around in. With the exception of the later work on the interior of the Pyramid of Menkaure, the others have no man-sized archways, shafts or tunnels and no steps. If the architects had regular visitors in mind, they could have made it much easier for them to enter and leave - a simple horizontal tunnel from the exterior would suffice.
They were large solar power stations generating energy from solar light. That is the reason they seem to be giant machines! As for their names, as Khufu, does Hoover dam happen to be a tomb of President Hoover? A pyramid almost sounds like "Fire Within" which would be true of a light powered generator station?
Best video of all time! Most rational interpretation of design and function of a pyramid I have ever heard. It passes the nose test.
This video has truly left my mind reeling; it’s such a very satisfying proposition. (I’ve never been satisfied with the notion that the embossed split leaf, the round grooves of the western upper wainscoting and their functional implications within the antechamber portcullis were part of a one time use mechanism for closing up the Kings Chamber. Though I admit I had no thesis or argument for my doubts beyond my dissatisfaction that the complexity overwrought the purported function.) Still the video so rebukes the dogma I’ve read about with fascination since I was a child it’s hard to accept. I need to sit with it and mull it over a bit more I think.
This makes so much sense, I've always thought there had to be better ways to close your pyramid than some really well-made super square granite block. If you really don't want anyone to come in you would plug up the entire passage or better still, destroy the passage so that it is maximumly difficult to dig through.
But instead they appear to be wasting a lot of time and effort making these super nice passages and doorways that's only supposed to be used once?
Maximally*
Wonderful video. Couldn’t the same system of counterweights proposed by Houdin be used in the grand gallery to allow even a single person to use their bodyweight to lift the portcullis stones? A great deal of manpower doesn’t seem necessary. Also, this theory makes it even more likely that there are some further unfound chambers for funerary goods. Exciting!
Never thought I’d look at an archaeology video as a risky click 😂 totally worth it!!! Thanks so much for your amazing work and attention!
Even as someone not that invested in archeology or pyramids, this definitely fulfilled the warning in the start of the video. It's an incredible theory and huge game changer.
What did I miss? It explains and reveals Nothing about the Mysteries of these pyramids.
@@_I__AM__GOD_ Riiiight.. Am.. Either you didn't pay any attention to virtually anything being said, nor explained. Or you're just too daft and uninterested to zoom out a bit and see the full picture. Those are the only two options that really comes to mind right now.
But perhaps you would be so kind, as to deliver us a third one? As your comment rings very hollow, and leaves anyone reading it quite clueless, as to how this "opinion" of yours, formed.
Ps. Also.. What mysteries are you more specifically referring to here?
You missed everything, fool. @@_I__AM__GOD_
@@Superknullisch So how were the 3 blocks that prevent entry to the ascending passage placed in entrance of the passage in the GP? And being placed, how did the visitors ascend? By the Grotto? The only solution I see that agrees with the theory in this video is that the 3 blocks were left waiting in the great gallery or in the queens chamber since the construction and after, at same point in history, someone could place them...
@@Superknullisch For starters, how come it's built on the speed of light longitude line
Best video of all. I'm "digging" the new tone, and thank you for all your efforts. None of us are where we are without those who proceed us in their quest for answers. Well done.
Absolutely brilliant!!! I truly hope your work becomes widely recognized by mainstream Egyptology. The first time I watched a video of yours over a year ago I knew you had the kind of fresh eyes and open mind that was needed to crack these riddles of humanity.
Videos alone are not an accepted form of academic research.
Boi needs to present it in thesis form with all supporting sources.
Which I doubt he will do as more than likely he is just repeating views already held by others in the community, albeit obscurely to the average RUclips viewer for which they would be brand new.
Not that I am saying he plagiarised someone else, but "mainstream Egyptology" as you call it encompasses a vast amount of paper research over a period of more than 2 centuries with thousands of individuals working on it that the average person could never get through in their lifetime without considerable help - and it's fairly likely that this subject has already been addressed at least once already.
Endless conjectures have been made, but contrary to your assumption this has only made the work more difficult. Sifting through endless fabrications and filtering out the false information was way more work than scrutinizing the physical evidence. Every solution looks easy in hindsight, but I assure you this was not.
There are many examples for cultures that visit their dead, even we do it today. Why not visit your god king, maybe even have a ritual for the transfer of power from one to another. I thought of this for years and I was really thrilled to see this video. Literally goosebumps. Thanks you for doing so much research. This video feels like the culmination of moste of the things you covered before. One thing that’s not really clear is the bottom chamber. I always wondered if this “unfinished” look had some meaningful symbolism to it that is yet to uncover.
@@mnomadvfx this is 2024. A good theory is a good theory. It doesn't need peer review. If it stands it stands. But he figured it out first.
@@mnomadvfx Your first sentence perfectly explains why nobody before him has figured this out.
Your second sentence shows that people like you are the functional equivalent of the blocking stones-you just sit there trying to block all who attempt to discover the truth with a massive amount of tan stuff.
And the first word of your second sentence gives me a pretty good idea of what you are, how you got to be that way, and how many people you enjoy hurting.
Flip it around-what do you know that might you contribute to helping him refine, prove, or disprove his theory?
And that my friend is a MASTERPIECE of a video!
Good job!
You present a VERY strong thesis here. It makes SO much sense, with no "weird hoops" or ad hoc answers.
You have convinced me. Hope, your explanation becomes (at least a big part of) the officiel story told some day in the future. As with many other ground breaking thesises/theories there might be slight changes added later on, but you may very well have revealed the "Relativity theory" of the Great Pyramid.
It is up there with Einstein's work in giving straight forward, convincing, well backed up explanations to all observations.
GREAT WORK!
WOW!!!!!! Mind blown!!!! Excellent analysis and work. And kudos for challenging the established assumptions!
finally someone tells it like it is. I have always felt the grand gallery was built to be seen, not hidden.
If this is so, where is all the ornateness on the wall? I don't understand why that is missing
well there are 2 grand galleries if the big void is what we think it is.
@@jorny32 for the ornateness you need to go to the pyramid of Unas, all will be revealed.
He is wrong.
It was very smart. Done practical to build pyramid but also made grandiouse to that could see it.
Such a simple explanation that makes sense . Thank you !
Great episode. Thank you for the effort in researching and producing this video.
I've officially taken History for Granite.
I agree completely and now my world view has shifted, thank you.
They know nothing
What a video that was !!!
From Egypt we love your channel. Welcome to your country Egypt any time.
wow! even the location of the sarcophagus is on the far back wall and not centered in the room because the center was for the visitors! Amazing theory you came up with! this is going to change things forever
It makes sense. This is something we not only do today, but have done regularly since at least the Middle Ages
Been waiting for some longer videos from you. I've went through your whole collection and still need more. Thank you for the work you do and look forward to the longer style videos.
28:24 for the plugs : if the blocks slide in from the outside then I guess, you can carve a notch in the block, attach ropes, and have as many people as you want waiting outside to pull out the plugs ? Or have counterweight outside to help ? And repeat the process ? But if the pyramid is pulged from the inside then you have to go in a narrow shaft that can barely fit 3 or 4 people and try to push the cumulated weight of several granit blocks... maybe that Is why the Egyptians didn't bother plugging from outside...
I can't read through the ~2000 comments to see if anyone has pointed this out, but you have imagined a limitation in the levering process that doesn't exist. This has led you to the erroneous conclusion that three successive blocking slabs would make entrance by prying almost impossible.
You have correctly pointed out that one way of raising the blocking slab would be to raise the fulcrum after each few small lifting stages as the block is raised. Your drawing at about 12:43 illustrates this. But this drawing also illustrates the fatal flaw in your understanding about how the levering process would be carried out. That drawing shows the block raised half way with red arrows indicating that the lever can only be pulled halfway to the floor. Why? Why would you stop with the lever arm only halfway to the floor? With the proper fulcrum design the lever can be pulled down all the way to the floor.
You may have presumed that this limitation exists because of the shape of the fulcrum you drew, which for some reason has changed from the round shape you showed at the beginning of the process to a shape with an extended flat top. No one would ever use a fulcrum shaped like that because when the lever arm got to the horizontal position it would begin to pivot around the edge of the fulcrum farthest from the slab, drastically lowering the mechanical advantage of the long lever arm.
Instead you would want the fulcrum to have the same kind of round top you showed initially or, better, a narrow round top with a small radius of curvature, perhaps with a sheet of metal between it and the wooden lever to prevent the fulcrum tip from chewing into the wood lever during use.
Using a fulcrum like this, the process of lifting the slab, blocking it in position, raising the fulcrum and lifting again can be repeated indefinitely, using the full height of the passageway to swing the lever arm at each stage. In fact, by putting wood or stone spacers between the working end of the lever and the slab, the slab can be recessed into the ceiling and then blocked in place there. In practice, spacers would probably be used earlier in the lifting process to avoid having to raise the fulcrum too high.
But however however it's accomplished, the important point here is that by a combination of raising the fulcrum and using spacers the lever arm can be moved from the ceiling to the floor at all stages of the lifting process, enabling each blocking slab to recessed into the ceiling if desired.
No heart. I think you made him big mad lol.
This seems to me to be an argument in favour of the portcullis stones being designed to afford short term protection and also to allow regular access. The method you describe would require hours of work on the part of robbers, sufficient I would imagine to frustrate an attempt to lever a way in overnight. And, on the other hand, the existence of methods to lever up the stones given a day or so would suggests that the pyramid builders would not rely on the portcullis stones alone permanently to seal off the treasures within.
You are correct that with ideal tools and knowledge, levering up the full height of the portcullis is possible. But the ancients had many constraints, not the least of which would be possessing and transporting the necessary plundering equipment into the pyramid. With a straight wooden lever and crude, modestly stackable fulcrums the difficulty still increases with height. At the very least it would slow you way down, and the time of attack was the key point in the video - not that levering HAD to be constrained but that it probably was.
So many words to say so little
Wrong
brilliant. i have difficulty imagining the great pyramid not being a massive pilgrimage site, bringing people from far & wide to pay their respects.
Yes! people pilgrim there and then stop and look from the outside? no way! we go inside today and like he said, that's exactly what it's made for.
There is literally a giant temple directly in front of the Great Pyramid. The basalt floor and some columns are all that remains. Several pyramids still have their temples intact, directly in front of the pyramid's entrance.
Maaan I don’t know how many times I have watched it and it transports me in that magical place in time when this all was being calculated and done, that still can’t be explained for sure and I am sure I will watch it again and again
I find it very inspiring the way you use this channel to promote your research ideas. The arguments presented in this and other video's are very compelling, and you have completely convinced me that the pyramids were designed to facilitate public visitors, not to keep them out. One of these days I will hopefully put some of my own original research ideas on my channel.
I was enthralled. A well-constructed theory, founded in logic and solid research. And, compelling conclusion which follows Occam's Razor - all thoroughly satisfying my scientific brain. I applaud you.
I sent him an email a year ago with this theory. Sucks that he didnt at least mention that, or me. I have the email too. I can prove it.
A truly 'scientific brain' is never thoroughly satisfied or else we would still be believing that the fuzzy nebula observed by early astronomers were structures inside the Milky Way galaxy instead of one of the billions of Galaxies existing outside our own. Or the 'Luminiferous Ether" explained and proposed by Newton and James Clerk Maxwell but proved totally wrong. Science is full of countless examples of tremendous leaps of knowledge by truly 'scientific brains' that were never thoroughly satisfied by the status quo.
😃😃😃😃😃That being said, here's another thing not many people know. In a Perfect experiment with 2 different weights it can prove that heavier things fall faster then lighter ones. But you need God's own stopwatch and measuring tape to be able to see it. And only if the 2 different weights are dropped separately one at a time. If they are dropped together, the 2 objects fall at the exact same velocity reaching their destination at exactly the same time.
@@aeonsun No one cares bro.
@@aeonsun
Sending such material without posting it first on your own channel first to date it is the height of folly.
@@mnomadvfx i dont have a channel
Such a great,well thought video. I love your work and thank you for the obvious effort,time and knowledge you put in to all your videos.
"The goal is simply to be less wrong than what came before." One of the best lines I've heard in a VERY long time!
That being said, great video. Very insightful and thought provoking.
Great line!
Intriguing, as always. Your previous video, about the channels being airshafts, already hinted me towards the conclusion in this video: that the great pyramid is not so much a tomb as it is a temple, to be visited for many years after its construction. It all makes perfect sense. 👍
Excellent, well thought, video! I appreciate you! Your concept that the portuculises were made for regular operation so the pyramids were for continuous use, not one use tombs, make sense to me. Likewise the channels being for ventilation. But the scale and grandeur of the pyramids still awes me and I can't imagine a civilization of the time able to even conceive it, much less build it. To me the scale of the builder village nearby would only be enough to just refurbish the pyramid, perhaps repairing/replacing the outer layer of limestone; that is a task that might have been accomplished in the 20 years of construction. All that said, your revelation of the security mechanisms of the pyramid greatly limit its potential purpose in my mind, so I am left with a bigger (wonderful) mystery! Thank you again!!
It's like I'm watching Columbo for Egypt. You brilliantly look at the same thing everyone else looks at and decipher it in a way that makes complete sense.
I still have to wonder, why no hieroglyphics or artwork inside them? If it was a place meant for worship and revisiting, or rejoicing a once pharaoh.
the feeling of being in the middle of a MASSIVE pyramid was its power
@@ManwithNoName-t1oStill, records were left on the walls of other structures that were of the dynastic period. It's inexplicable that these structures would have remained free of homage to the persons they were alleged to have honored. Something doesn't add up.
@@matthewwoelfle5533 Maybe the walls were lined with gold. We have no idea how exactly they decorated the walls
@@ManwithNoName-t1o of course but nothing has been found. Not a single piece of decoration not a single drawing or a carving
Maybe similar to churches now, it was not their style to plaster the walls with writing at that time. And hieroglyph decoration got popular in later centuries.
As we know, there was once a V - shaped notch at the step at the top of the grand gallery, which was almost certainly the result of a rope being repeatedly drawn across it, and I believe this would support the idea that the portcullis system was opened at least several times. I hypothesize that the grand gallery is the shape that it is so that it could accommodate either a contingent of people to open the portcullis, and / or that there may have been some sort of mechanism, even a simple sled which might have been used with a series of smaller weights that could be handled by few people to open the portcullis. This might help explain the scratch marks and discoloration seen on the sides of the 'benches' in the grand gallery. I'm not sure I subscribe to Houdin's idea of the system being used to move all the blocks up the pyramid, but I think a simple sled with stone weights that could be moved by a few people over the course of a few hours or days would suffice to open the portcullis, and this could all be removed later. If the doors were propped open, this would mean the door would need to be drawn open completely, and then sat back down on whatever was used to block it open. This could easily be accomplished by moving a few weights around. Perhaps the idea was that once the King's chamber was sealed (after some prescribed time), the Queen's chamber would then become the primary place of worship, and that may simply have never been finished for reasons unknown to me, or it was finished in some way, and was just looted in antiquity. perhaps it was adorned floor to ceiling with something very beautiful, and was looted. This might explain why the king's chamber was smoothed, but not adorned with anything. The idea that the kings chamber was sealed not too long afte the king's death would also help explain the missing block that would have covered the entrance to the queens chamber. As people were going to the king's chamber, they would have needed to walk over that areas, but once the king's chamber was sealed, the block would not be necessary as the foot traffic would just go straight into the queens chamber, which really means it was never meant to be the queen's chamber, but was instead a worship room. Just some thoughts. Thanks for considering my ideas.
Edit: It has just occured to me that the 'pockets' on the sides of the grand gallery might have been used to store the stones that were removed as the sled or sleds were relieved of weight, allowing the portcullis to function. You wouldn't need to add or remove them all to get the door to open / closed, just enough to get it moving. This of course, makes me wonder what the purpose would be, as a couple of looters might just use the system by moving the weights on to the sled, but if it were only meant for short term security, this may have been effective. Once the royal family who cared (and had the resources to command the portcullis to be opened) stopped visiting, there would be no need to open it again. still, an interesting thought experiment, I think.
@34:40 This video brought me to tears! Oh my god, man! Especially this quote! "it's not a mountain of stone to keep people out its amount of stone to keep people coming inside" ❤
"only the living can protect the dead" ❤
I have a powerful “Giggidy” right then
I just entered the great pyramid yesterday and it was not easy. There’s no way those tight narrow passages were meant for regular foot traffic.
@@haaggus priests
Same thing.
Ever since I discovered that there was a movable entrance door, it seemed that the pyramid was always meant for worshippers to visit. Like a museum, they needed guards and security. Once they fell out of use, the last priest probably set the blocking stones before leaving for good
That would mean that:
A) the builders somehow knew that there would be a "last priest" and the pyramid would go "out of use", in order to pre-load the plugging stones in the pyramid for an un-defined future eventuality that they couldn't possibly foresee or plan for (in fact, arguably they would have built the worship site for an eternity, it would be insulting to pre-plan for an eventuality when such an important worship site would go out of use)
And
B) that every single visitor entered the grand gallery only to immediately need to climb over several large granite plugs in the way
Those are good points. @@skuripandaburns3489
@@skuripandaburns3489Assuming that the north face chaimber above the entrance was the original entrance, it would continue in a level straight line directly to the bottom of the grand gallery above the blocking stones (and level with the passageways to the Queen's Chaimber) Visitors would have been using _that_ route and not ascending up from the descending passage.
@@skuripandaburns3489 The video speaks to a more pragmatic view though. tomb security by codifying it in Egyptian culture through awe and reverence. No different from the reason WE aren't going out and smashing up grave stones and tombs in OUR TIME. The idea that these sacred, enterable monuments wouldn't be plugged at some point, at fear of invasion or rebellion or other calamity is quite naiive.
@@skuripandaburns3489 Finally someone who's not a sycophant who can point out the obvious holes in this nonsense theory. Obviously the Egyptians would never have trust the 'last priest' to perform such a key fuction as actually plugging the pyrimid, such a person some hypothetical centuries into the future would certainly be more likely to LOOT rather then seal the pyrimid. The Pyrimid would have been plugged promptly after the burrial. Their is no way they would have allowed visitors in, that would have inevitably result in damage and theft of the grave goods.
That does make sense. The follow-up question I would have is who would be visiting the grave and how often would it be opened up.
There will probably never be a conclusive answer. Was it just priests who performed some ritual once a year? Or was it open to the public throughout most of the days?
My gut feeling would be, that it was closer to the first than to the second option.
First we had the original conventional explanations. Then the alternative unconventional "theories". Now, finally, something that makes sense. Thank you.
Well done. I'm speechless .I wish I had 10% of your spatial orientation to understand the engineering of pyramid building. Looking forward to watching more of your videos!!
Ab- so- lute- ly FASCINATING!!! My mind is officially BLOWN!!!!
Effectively the same reasons why the grand cathedrals were built/ designed so majestically, so awe inspiring. One cannot help but be overwhelmed by the immensity of the structure thereby making one feel so small. How else should one feel entering a space of worship to a diety?
Bravo, old boy, BRAVO I say!!!!
Great video but few questions that are not clear to me...
1. If the intention was to keep the KC "visitable" with the mechanism of the openable then:
- Why were the granite plugs planned in place? It must have been part of the original design due to the mechanist that stop the stones. Also it would be impossible to carry those into the pyramid once the grand gallery was closed. It is a wierd to think that ancient egyptians put so much effort to such a complitacted design to make it a "temporary" thing. If it was designed to be temporary why simply not close down the portcullis after the mourning period (or whatever)
- Why it's not the case for the other 2 pyramids in Giza?
- If the king really wanted this tomb to be a sacrad place to visit I assume the opportuniy was rather for the rich, governant officials, priests, etc... not for the regular people. If so why do such inconvenient corridors? We see that they could build convenient corridors (nort face corridor with 2 meter width and height or the grand gallery itself!). For anybody to visit the King's chamber in ancient times would needed to enter the pyramid, walk down 28 meters in a 1 meter by 1.3 meter small, airless corridor, then start crawl upwards in a similar tiny corridor (assuming there was some ladder at the block ascending passage) that does not even have stairs carved into the original floor, just to reach the grand gallery. Oh, and ofc without artifical ligh source, so either with a candle or a torch... From there the struggle continues in the Grand Gallery (at least there is enough space) till they reach the KC. Also without stairs carved into the flooring. I belive in your earlier videos you even mentioned how dangerous was this trip only a few hundred years ago. How do we expect this 4000 years ago from an older priest? Or anybody from the royal family?
- Not to mentioned the 3 granite plugging stone must have been laying in the grand gallery somewhere, probably obstructing the movement of visitors.
I am no pharao but if I wanted my subordinates and family to visit me "in my grave" why not just build a simple, straight corridor with convenient dimensions (e.g.: like the north face corridor?) that straight leads to the grand gallery. And make some stairs for them, so it's easier to walk up.
The architects shouldn't have any problem with that as they are confident enough to build (even build 2 if we count the big void) a massive, spacious corridor in the middle of the biggest pyramid. They could just simply build the whole grand gallery down to ground level for even easier access.
As things looks like now I am not convinced that Khufu really wanted his burial site to be visited....
The plug stones may have been counter-weights for the portcullis stones and then became plug stones. A designed failure point. If the knowledge of how to keep it working was ever lost the stones would become plugs when the rigging failed.
Making the entry and exit physically arduous could deter visitors with sticky fingers. Maybe there was a human powered wooden sled that moved people up and down. In a truly dark environment a single candle is surprisingly bright once your eyes adjust.
It's hard to imagine lots of people moving throughout the pyramid though, but maybe that was part of the mystic. I can only imagine what it would evoke in a person. It would be a memorable experience....as it still is today.
Well what's ground level to us is not what's ground level to them, also it was probably to see the him after death or rituals ect for a period of time or yearly ect then to be plugged for ever from the outside
Why are castles and palaces built with so large amount of stairs and chambers and secret doors even if the king wants his people/ family to visit him. Why not just build a simple straight corridor with convenient dimensions? Why did ancient Chinese emperor build at huge as Terracotta Army that guards his grave even tho he obviously wanted people to visit the grave?
Besides the plugs being permanent, the only additional thing illogical to me about his argument, is that If portcullis stones sealing the entrance were intended to be opened for public visitation, where is the evidence that they were opened repeatedly? Should be very easy to see: a wear pattern between the sliding doors and the walls demonstrating that they were repeatedly opened for the public to access. I have never heard of any evidence that this pattern exists, but if they were opened repeatedly, this wear pattern would be distinct and as irrefutable as ballistic forensics. To the contrary, it seems like the portcullis stones were lowered permanently, which contradicts the entire premise of the conclusion that the tomb was indented to be a Disneyland which only closed down at night. I'm not really interested in Egypt, but I do like arguments to make logical sense, and I find some illogical thoughts in the presentation.
From what we know of ancient Egyptian society, they had some pretty strange ideas (from our perspective) about the nature of existence, the powers that govern that existence and the afterlife. That thought process introduces a factor that we will probably never fully understand and thus the behaviour it inspired will remain, to a large degree, a mystery.
Congratulations! I have watched your every video for over 2 years with increasing fascination and excitement but this tops them all by far! Your warning at the beginning was very prophetic, I will never, ever view the pyramids the same way again having watched this particular video. I thank you so very much for that!
As this video rolls out across the RUclips Universe your tens of thousands of fans will be doing what I did, the virtual equivalent of a standing ovation. I immediately joined your channel because $5 a month is nothing compared to the gratitude I feel for what you presented here.
This video, combined with your last one about the purpose of the air shafts, has cemented your place now for all of history as a premier egyptianologist! I am so thrilled to have witnessed your rise to that position at the very top!
It may take years for the knowledge you have revealed here to percolate to the surface and become part of common understanding of our past but it will. “Truth waits for eyes unclouded by judgment.” I am taking the time to make this comment to honor the years of struggle that you went through to set aside ALL of your preconceived ideas and judgments so you could examine the known facts from a completely new and fresh perspective. WELL DONE!!!!
My Gawd what a disgusting display of sycophantery.
“sycophancy: a person who uses flattery to win favour from individuals wielding influence.” I totally agree that it is an over-the-top amount of flattery because that's how I honestly feel but I fail to see any way that this amounts to me trying to win any sort of favor, I'm just a nobody in this world of RUclips comments, so you're labeling me that way is obviously very inaccurate.
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I don't know what you do for a living, what I do know is that you're a great youtuber, you've set up a very interesting channel, I'm devouring your videos one after the other... I hope you do a job related to archaeological investigations, because you're a genius. Thank you!
Great video as always. You've been on a roll lately. I can still remember when you were the new kid on the block. But I'll push back a little on your conclusions. I think that the important observation you make here is that the portcullises were intended to be opened and closed on an ongoing basis, rather than a permanent seal to the chamber. (And this is, after all, the intent of most portcullises). This is actually very much in keeping with the impression that I have always had about pyramid architecture in general, namely that things seemed to have been designed to make it inconvenient to get around in them, but that they were nevertheless intended to be entered. After all, they even decorated some of the entrances. This isn't what you do if you're trying to seal something permanently. Similarly, many have speculated that the point of the robber's tunnel was that whatever object they were trying to remove was too large to fit through the Descending Passage.
Where I disagree is in the speculation about the overall purpose. I just don't buy the conventional wisdom of the pyramids having been constructed as burial chambers. And actually, I tend to think that the operational portcullises are evidence against rather than in favor of it. (Although they could be consistent with the King's Chamber being a family crypt, where you'd periodically open it to bring in another body). I don't know if there's any record of the Egyptians worshiping dead pharaohs up close and personal like this. I'd kind of expect them to consider that kind of proximity to be a sacrilege. Rather, they seemed to consistently seal and disguise tombs. The dead pharaoh was there all by himself with all of his stuff, isolated from the world.
The interesting question is what they might have been doing in the King's Chamber. The air shafts suggest that they'd be there for a while, and thus need fresh air. The portcullises that they could only be there during authorized times.
To me, this is the obvious conclusion from your previous videos consideration of the air channels. The only problem I had with it was the granite at the bottom of the grand gallery, but now you have cleared that up for me too! I can't disagree with any of your conclusions. Fantastic work.
Perhaps the three granite blocking stones were in some way a counter-weight to facilitate lifting the portcullis stones?
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That's a cool idea. I was thinking maybe the "hidden room" above the gallery was used but counterweights are also a great idea.
That would be pretty smart. If the plugging blocks served as counterweight to lift the portcullis stones, then letting them go down the tunnel to plug it permanently would also make it much more difficult to lift the portcullis blocks afterwards.
The Granite stones at the bottom of the decending entrance were the Counterweight stones used as shown in Jean Pierre Houdin's theory.
The problem of the granite plugs inside the grand gallery remains: were visitors that ascended into the grand gallery expected to climb over the plugs?
@@skuripandaburns3489 Isn't the gallery wider then the hallway? In which case you can go around.
I was not expecting you to deliver on the huge tease you opened with. Well done.
Brilliant stuff as always! Many thanks for sharing your hard work and years-long analysis. It all makes complete sense. One thought occurs to me however, if the Great Pyramid's burial chamber was designed to be accessible, perhaps any treasures buried with Khufu remain inside the pyramid, perhaps safely stored to this day in a deliberately inaccessible area designed and built that way during construction? The big void perhaps?
How many Americans believe that one day Washington DC will be a ruin, and the US a forgotten ancient civilization? Americans worried about this for a century or so. The older the country, the less likely it seems to the people that it will be transitory. Assuming that human beings are always human beings with the same brains and thought processes, and considering that Egypt was already ancient when the pyramids were built, it would not be a surprise to find that the Pharaohs and their people believed that Egypt would always exist. It still exists, and their one mistake was in not foreseeing the numerous changes in regimes, cultures and religions in their future.
You're still assuming it was accessible as a tomb and meant for Khufu. Consider this, Masonic ritual of resurrection from a simulated tomb. Consider that Osiris' story was resurrection. Consider it was meant to be limited accessible as an initiatory temple.
This makes the most sense I've ever heard
That they were lifting up and down 4500 pound blocks daily instead of having a few loyal guards yeah I don’t think so
@@dustinholt7308 Not necessarily daily. Perhaps the pyramids were only made accessible on holidays or special occasions.
You'd think they would decorate the walls like most other tombs, especially one this grand.
@@dustinholt7308they put those things together, so maybe it was just a hobby when they were done. But no, they weren't moving them daily, was most likely just when they wanted to close shop like the video suggests.
Found this channel yesterday and just watched every video for two days. Brilliant analysis. Also it’s so nice to hear an American voice doing length measurement in metres and not adding feet and inches to placate the last three countries in the world still using imperial, but let the side down in this one by using pounds for weight instead of tonnes. Using pounds for weight is like measuring the distance from New York to london in inches, impossible to comprehend. Apart from that keep up the incredibly good work. 👏
As someone said during the premier stream: cathedral not tomb.
Its what pyramids have always looked like to me.
That's why funeral chamber is clean/got no hieroglyphs like Unas Pyramid. Has been used like a cathedral, same way we do it today just safeguarded and opened when needed !
"The mental blocks ... were substantial." Glad you raised your personal portcullis!
Wow ... the truths you expose are undeniable ... your conclusions are beautifully supported ;
TRUTH is so beautiful
Amazing video, your work and research and presentation is phenomenal. I've seen every video on your channel and this explanation as to the "why" behind the design of the Great Pyramid has been slowly building up to be more and more clear. This video seems like a final chapter in a saga that's been slowly unfolding. The most satisfying part about this theory is that it gives a sense of intelligence and sensibility back to the pyramid builders. This all feels so much more relatable, which is something that is missing from other theories. I cannot wait to see what comes next!
And this is why, this is the best RUclips channel about the pyramids. 😊❤🎉
While I agree that clearly the kings chamber was designed to be opened and closed, I think you went a bit too far with the idea that it was designed to be accessible to everyone. If it was meant to be a place of worship for everyone and attract tons of people they wouldn't have made the passages so narrow that you have to crawl through them and no lighting and not much air for alot of people. They probably wanted a very small group of people to be able to open the chamber occasionally for religious reasons. Maybe priests enter once every few years to do a blessing or something but I highly doubt they wanted it to be accessed all the time by anyone. And as for the queens and subterranean chambers I also find it hard to believe that they started making them just in case their design with the portcullis's didn't work. If they weren't sure the design for the thing securing the kings chamber would work I think they would have made a new design not preemptively worked on backup places of worship and then abandon them before they've even finished the whole pyramid. The egyptians seemed too much like perfectionists to just make a backup plan "just in case" their whole design didn't work and then quit on them halfway through and leave it unfinished. It seems more likely they were going to be additional burial chambers and then for whatever reason they had to plug the pyramid up for security and thats why they never got finished.
What an incredible conclusion to come to. This makes the most sense to me out of most that I've heard of in Egyptology. I hope Zahi Hawass is subscribed!
At 15:04 you were explaining how the first stone could only be levered up about half the height of the passage. By adding material on top of the lever as the stone gets higher you could lever it up the full height of the passage or higher if you were so inclined. You would lever the stone up 5 cm and add dunnage to keep it from coming back down, then reset your lever to the ground level and add a 5cm block of material between the stone and the lever. Pry it u another 5 cm, replace the 5 cm of dunnage with 10 cm of dunnage and reset your lever with a 10 cm block this time.
The takeaway is not that circumvention couldn't be done, but that the pharaoh (or whomever was interred in the pyramid) expected to be venerated and worshipped by living people. They provided a space of worship within the pyramid for parishioners and the portcullises were designed as a repeatably openable and closable security system so that the parishioners could worship at the grave of their god (think of the modern day Lenin's mausoleum or Chairman Mao's sarcophagus).
It was expected that if anyone wanted to loot the tombs they wouldn't have enough time to get the job done between the veneration sessions. The real security is in the fact that the portcullises couldn't be circumvented in the expected time between veneration sessions by members of their 'cult'. What the pharaoh's didn't bank on was that their groupies would give up on the veneration sessions a few millennia too soon.
Who could have guessed that the strength of the orders that an authority figure gives wanes after they're dead?
The decision was taken to use technically complicated, potentially insecure portcullises (that could be opened and closed for the living to pass) rather than much easier granite plugs that would stay closed permanently and be much more secure.
When you look at the engineering smarts that went into a monument that has lasted multiple millennia the assumption that the builders were 'naive' would definitely be the naive assumption.
Yes, I agree. It was the only statement for me that felt a bit lacking. I had exactly the same idea, it is not a must that you can only use a single lever, no support material or can’t readjust the lever itself. The point still stands, of course, but I don’t see this as proof why there a 3 doors exactly of this particular design.
@@lormerod1 I know what the takeaway is, I watched the whole video. It's an interesting idea and a lot more intuitive than the traditional theories. I just felt that particular piece was weak. If we're going to credit the Egyptians with engineering smarts then perhaps they'd also be able to come up with my 15 second solution to their puzzle. I'm guessing they had a different reason for the 3 doors. Perhaps the engineers knew full well about the weakness but only needed to satisfy the kings cursory overview.
That thought also occurred to me but once the block is lifted about waist height you encounter a leverage problem. The amount of force you can apply to the lever becomes equal to the weight available. The limited space limits the number of people able to apply weight to the lever. I think his estimates of how high you can raise the blocks in this manner are right.
I had the same thought. Thanks for beating me to it!
I’m going to have to disagree with the lever problem at 15:15 - you could lever the stone up just a few inches, chock it with a small stone and remove lever, then repeat. You don’t need to be able to lever the whole stone the entire available amount each time, only nudge it upwards an inch each time. You could also lever the lever itself off the ceiling for the last few inches.
Is it possible that the three plugging stones were three counter weights of the portcullis stones? Using the length of the grand gallery to slide them back and forth with a small team of people to open the doors?
Bravo! as usual... but I think you overlooked one thing regarding the levering of the triple portcullises... shims. By alternating two levers and using shims of increasing size, you could raise the portcullises higher. A little more work perhaps but I don't think it's much harder than any other levering operation. Triple portcullises however do still increase the amount of work and time to complete a levering operation and that may have been enough to justify their use and still fit your theory.
This is a good point.
I agree fully. I think the logic in that section is flawed. Levering action doesn't need a wide arc. Resetting the lever position via shims or other methods would behave exactly like a modern ratchet wrench. You just need enough play to move the object high enough for the next shim (or ratchet tooth).
Yes! I've lifted some pretty heavy things using blocks and levers. You just keep adding blocks under the thing and under the lever incrementally increasing the height little by little. Plus, the graphic seemed to imply that the working end of the lever can't swing lower than the fulcrum which is strange. You could lever those blocks higher than the shaft ceiling
That actually makes more sense than most. I appreciate your viewpoints as it's not something I have considered.
I have no dog in this hunt... I don't care if you are right or not. I love your videos and I hope you solve all the mysteries. I have 4 observations and I know they may be just wrong because I am not an expert,. I have never seen the Pyramids for real. 1 ..... I would think you could remove the ropes, rollers or what ever operates the Ports ...there by sort of taking the keys. Without them operating the gates would be impossible unless you could make replacements... thus at least slowing robbers down. 2... I have lifted overhead weight this way and I'm sure it is still possible in the pyramid , to lift the gates with progressively longer wooden shafts by hammering them in once you leverage the gates high enough to get under them .. kind of wedging poles in place raising the gate as high as it could go. 3 ... If the the Egyptains built for human access, wouldn't the avenues of access be tall and big enough for comfort and traffic. .?? 4 ... The thing that bothers me most of all theories is.. after the death of Pharaoh, everyone had to crawl, stoop, and contort to get themselves ( and grave goods) into the chambers...This just doesn't sound dignified enough to me.... but I don't know of course.
Yeah I agree, the most obvious would be the lack of stairs in the Grand chamber, like how were they supposed to go through it?
Curious, Wasn't there many out side attempts to locate "the Hidden access", and if this was meant to be visited by the masses wouldn't there have been a grand accessible access made in the planning and the architecture design...example.. Ground level Ornate people sized access opening with stairs and light in a dark tunnel with no fire torches or soot on walls? Although credit due for your theory of an re accessible door( more plausible but for what reason... unknown) and Still no Evidence of a tomb BUT that of SOMETHING of immense value..