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They were not ever proven to be tombs or temples! The valley of the kings is were the tombs are. The Egyptian's found them, that's why there's nothing about them being built. Someday the Egyptian government will figure out what's under their foundation & then we'll figure out what exactly they were built for.
When a question is like "why did this ancient civilization did this thing in such a weird way?", the answer is almost always "they didn't", and I love that :p
I agree. I am not a native english speaker, and her narration is very easy to follow, very clear, perfect pace, not too fast, but lively enough to be really engaging.
That’s wild to think that the Sahara used to be mostly swampland. The Earth ebbs and flows, changes all the time, but it’s a lot harder to remember that our lives are limited to such a small scale. I wonder if there’s like a simulated timelapse that visualizes the transformation, that would be really cool to see
During the time she is talking about when the Sahara was much wetter than now, it was still kind of dry but more like the American Midwest/Great Plains. In areas with large river systems, especially the Nile, there were large swampy areas. There are also traces of large completely dried up rivers and lakes in the interior Sahara as well. This process took many 1000s of years and of course if you go millions of years back, large parts were even the bottom of oceans.
@@TheDanEdwardsHey, be cool. It IS wild to think the Sahara was mostly swampland. Why the attitude? We're here to learn. I'm 70 and I get excited by a lot of things on SciShow.
@@rainydaylady6596 He's not even saying you can't get excited about learning he's just saying that particular piece of information is factually incorrect I would highly recommend AtlasPro's video on it (it used to be a Savanah but not a swampland)
Coming from the Midwest USA, we have half-moon shaped lakes scattered everywhere, remnants of previous river channels. Many are turned to stagnant swamps. Some are fully grown over and only satellite imagery or a geologist could tell "this spot" was an old river channel. Still, it was due to this that my first thought on "why seven miles from the river?" was "because the river moved?". Pretty close to correct, much to my amusement. Fascinating discovery and I look forward to what is found by tracing this ancient riverbed!
She said about '7 kilometers' which is in some crazy measuring system. In 'Merica, it's about 1 2/3 trip around the Talladega speedway or 3827 Bald Eagles.
Reading some of the earliest comments on this video makes me really glad that I don't understand the appeal of hate watching. I genuinely don't understand why you would spend your time watching material that you despise just so that you can leave negative comments on it for people to argue with. (Let's be honest, no one actually believes that these negative comments are going to persuade anyone.) Especially because all that does is give more watch time, interaction, and ad revenue to the thing that you hate.
@@Cynadite Wouldn't be surprised, authoritarians regimes are poisoning relationships in other countries to weaken us. They really jump at anything mildly controversial to push extreme narratives so we don't react to their land grabs as we are too busy fighting each other.
@@BojackHorseman0098 do the bots on twitter who say earth is flat have a purpose? do the instagram bots who say everything is animal abuse have a purpose? no, they exist to make people rage and reply for engagement, it's dead internet theory.
Wow, a lot of these comments show a remarkable lack of understanding of how research communication works. Crapping on you citing your sources because it's not YOUR research? Because... NOT citing your sources would be better? 🙄
Right!?? Welcome to 2024... where (& when) one can discredit a lifetime of toiling, struggle, & phenomenal research with one grossly (yet, tragicomically) misused term: Anecdotal. 🤦🏻🤷🏻
In fact, while I was trying to avoid politics for a while, I can't help but feel like such idiocracy feels like a preview of USA presidential election results 😞
@@SinSefia One could make a strong case for that view having already transpired with the Reagan administration. That said, President Biff sure did take the baton well.
Was it a branch of the Nile River, or was it a canal dug to divert the water to where they wanted it to go? In the 1800s, several canals like this were dug to feed water into the Miami-Erie Canal.
The pyramids are claimed to be just about everything.!. from sound generators to ancient batteries to compasses to astronomy charts.. burial chambers, impossible to build.. anything else?
Absolutely wild and cool that we can still learn new things that fundamentally change how we think of the literal landscape of such a well known site all these centuries later
I am surprised they didn't go looking for that branch of the Nile earlier. Knowing what we know about changing waterways this would have been my first hypothesis. I jumped to the conclusion before you started to list the clues that lead to the discovery.
This is really fascinating stuff. I wonder if LIDAR mapping would show the depression of the old channel, and if we could use that technology to find similar extinct waterways in dry areas of Australia, Jordan, Argentina, etc..
Okay, science is truly incredible sometimes. We sent satellites into space so we could shoot radar waves at the surface of the earth and analyze what the geography likely was thousands of years ago.
Because I've seen the comment a couple of times already, for people who are saying, "I thought the question was how." I would like to point out that that is only a question within the conspiracy theorist communities. For the rest of us, with a halfway working understanding of archaeology, we know how the pyramids were built. A lot of manpower, multiple decades of work, and one of the most fundamental machines known to engineering, the inclined plane.
That's not entirely accurate either though, we assume that's how they were built because it's the most likely explanation but even inside archeology there are still debates about which construction method it was (big ramp, spiral ramp around/on it etc.), how long it actually took to build. Nothing against archeologists but they aren't experts in construction and I've seen people that are that said it's ridiculous to imagine they would've built that in just 20-30 years as some archeologists claim, especially with the limited tools tools they had (while it is possible to construct with those tools it would've taken extremely long). So sure it wasn't aliens etc. but it's still not all as certain and answered as some claim.
@@ZombieCartmanYT That's actually an outdated belief, we used to think they were built by slaves but further archeological evidence around the pyramids showed they were built by regular people that build villages nearby, had work contracts and were paid.
@@lp4514 We don't have definitive proof of how they were built or when they were built within a few thousand years, but you want me to believe that archeologists found proof of how the people lived when they were built. What was the average daily wage for a pyramid worker then? What was the currency? Since there is all of this evidence.
@@ZombieCartmanYTthere are records on pottery shards that have been found at the sites of the villages that have been now excavated. Hundreds/thousands of them. These records even state things like the days off workers received (to celebrate religious holidays). There are documentary television programmes available to watch that explain all this. Try Googleing Google is our friend ❤
@@AynenMakino exactly. It gets turned into urban sprawl, housing additions, industrial buildings. Those could all be placed on reclaimed city and previous industrial sites, but almost impossible to farm on those sites. I'm dearly hanging on to my piece of land, because they don't make land anymore. And people will always need to eat.
That was my thought! The lands nearest the river got that lovely mud that brought nutrients from the wetter parts of Africa to make their lands so productive.
My first thought before I watched the video was, that maybe they found out somehow that on that spot the bedrock is closer to the surface, so they could build them there and ground would be able to take the weight of the pyramids. But then actually finding out about the river is so cool and clever, and as she pointed out, now the researchers can focus on a much narrower landscape around the former riverside, that could lead to many more discoveries...so damn cool!
The Giza Plateau is literally a 60ft (20m) tall hill of solid limestone... That _is_ why Kufu and Kafre's pyramid were built there... on the top of the hill... so the pyramids would appear even taller from the river.
They built it outside the range of inundation so that those plains could be used for farming. It doesn't surprise me that there was a branch of the Nile. Deltas have lots branching.
0:54 it makes sense that Memphis would be a city in Egypt before being a city in Tennessee. I've been to TN to visit family, and you would be AMAZED how many towns there are named after other ones from across the world.
A reminder, the Mississippi has been trying to shift it's course for nearly 100 years (which would ruin New Orleans and disrupt American shipping to a great extent) and a series of dams and canals along with frequent dredging makes it stay it's current course.
A huge part of why this started "only" 100 years ago is because the lesser branch used to be clogged and slow-flowing, despite its shorter distance (and thus steeper slope). It was the work of humans removing the debris from that branch that caused the problem to begin with.
I saw this thinking that it would be old news about the pyramid building as I often watch documentaries about Egypt and the surrounding area. But you managed to surprise me with something I haven't heard of, yet! Thank you. Even a 48 year old can find something fun in your videos 😀
It is crazy how far bodies of water can shift over time. Many ancient cities, for example, used to be ported on the coastlines of rivers or seas. Still, over time, silting and other geographic changes, both natural and artificial, led to the port cities becoming farther inland from the sea or the rivers alongside them, shifting course-all in the span of millennia or shorter by centuries.
OOP SciShow just left out critical information. A harbor (and a boat if I remember correctly) was found at the Sphinx temple leave little doubt there was water way there.
I mean, definably conclusive evidence of the waterway itself should leave _zero_ doubt there was a waterway there, dontcha think? A boat could have been brought there, and a harbor could have been a number of any other structures. A riverbed is a riverbed. Please explain how evidence of the actual thing and not evidence of evidence of the actual thing is less critical. What is even your point?
Due to all these comments talking about the British museum, im terrified of when the British invent shrinking technology. Nothing is safe at that point.
The pyramids were not tombs. There is nothing to indicate that. No decorating. No Mummys. The granite box in the King's Chamber is not a Sarcophagus. Its the same thing as what is in the Serapeum, which itself is enigmatic.
@@filonin2 The source is common sense. Every tomb has inscriptions and at least had a mummy at one time. The are also intricately decorated. Nothing in the Pyramids. Pharaohs loved to see their name. They even put it on things they found to take credit for their creation. No names. Why would they leave the Grand Gallery open if the chambers were tombs ? They filled the other passages, why not that one ? They needed to have access. What about the Granite boxes. They aren't sarcophagi, they look nothing like them. The ones in the Serapeum, supposedly bull sarcophagi have no animal remains at all, but they do have plant residue. Back in the day, fledgling Egyptologists wanted to classify things, so the called them tombs; only because they couldn't figure out what else they could be. Again , absolutely nothing to indicate that. The idea stuck. As people defended their intellectual turf, it became enshrined.
The accepted theory is that the Giza pyramid was commissioned as Pharoah Khufu's burial temple. There are no indications of this inside of the Pyramid itself. The information comes from papyrus scrolls found and translated. Every other tomb has the name and many depictions of the Pharoah that was buried there, but not Giza.
But... but... why would aliens require a river there? I mean they just built a pyramid somewhere and flew it over there, right? Talk about overcomplicating things, duh! :D
Satellites have been such a boon to archaeology. Which kind of strikes my funny bone, even more than the boon airplanes gave. Space is so much further up, finding things we have to dig down to in order to actually see
that must have been super hard to find the river if we managed to do it only in 2024, seems like an obvious thing to look for in retrospect. Very interesting! Niba is very charismatic presenter, loved her delivery
Science doe not know how it was built, archeology is a soft science when you get actual engineers involved they'll tell otherwise, science dismisses the fact that you can't cut granite with bronze in the time needed the building of a pyramid has never been illustrated or mentioned by the ancient Egyptians, they purely date it based off of graffiti that was found on the casing stones only nothing inside the pyramid ever had a mummy nor anything showing it was a tomb,There are blocks of granite cut with such precision it's a joke to claim it was made with bronze tools,there are drill holes and circular saw cuts into a lot of Egyptian megalithic works,now I'm gonna assume you don't care about actual facts and just want to troll out of ignorance which is understandable this is the Internet
Calculating the age of the 3 Pyramids of Giza - Astro-Geo-Dating method: No one actually knows, when they have been built. There are only indirect methods, to guesstimate. However, if for example in the future after us, if they would be rediscovered and us "cleaned up", but might leave things in there, others could think we have built them, right? I have been reading an article about the Pyramids of Giza, stating that they have found an explanation to the misalignment of 0.067 degrees counterclockwise, which they explained with inaccurate measurement method. I found this funny, as everything is so precise, that I thought I will check what else might have caused this. Thus asked the question: Okay, that the African Plate is moving towards Europe, but is it also turning meanwhile maybe? The answer is yes. Not much surprisingly it is turning counterclockwise. After quite some searching in studies, I have found the rotation speed. It is 0.927 degrees per 1 000 000 years. From this it can be calculated, that the Pyramids of Giza are about 72 276 years old. Not guesstimated, not indirectly suspected, but factually measured and calculated. So maybe we should ask astronomers to see, how did the Belt of the Orion stand 72k years ago. Maybe it can confirm the age by a different measurement. Homo Sapiens Sapiens, so exactly us, we are there since about 160k years ago, so having had a global civilization at about half of this time seems for me completely realistic. Feel free to check the calculations yourself and also to use the Astro-Geo-Dating method on any structure, where there is a misalignment. Wishing you and all constant and indestructible happiness beyond all imaginations!
The video should be called we solved A mystery of the Pyramids. The video literally ends with her saying we still have so much to learn about the pyramid.
I have my marijuana plants in a cobber pyramid. Exact replica of the Giza pyramid, align with true North. Ive done one grow with, and one grow without. The grow with pyramid give approximately 15-20% more flowers, and they are more flavour. As go for my aquarium fishes. They are bigger, and the patterns on their body are way more vivid than the fishes in the aquarium without pyramid.
But…we’ve known this for years that the water used to run right up to the pyramids. We also know that they weren’t ever shown to be tombs so I’m confused by this presentation… ?
You people just don't get it. Osiris came to the place and said "let there be pyramids here, for we shall party hard and keep refreshments inside", then he hit the ground with his magic stick and pyramids came out of the ground, there was no slaves or workers, people were too busy partying in those times.
Why must the SciShow presenters rattle through their presentations as if they’re always rushing to catch the last train home? That’s the great unanswered mystery for me.
An 8M subscriber channel surely uses their analytics to dial their content in to serve their audience. If the speaking is too fast for you, try slowing down the video speed a bit. Click on the video settings for that option.
#1: pyramids are too heavy to build on soft swampland #2: pyramids have no hieroglyphics inside (i.e. no prayers to the dead seen in the tombs of Egyptians), so they weren't "tombs" #3: Giza is a giant limestone quarry. Limestone is a great base for something heavy as well as one of the predominat building blocks of the pyramids #4: the Sphinx is the Egyptian hieroglyph for "entrance" and there are tunnels all under Giza
You're on the internet. The largest collection of knowledge in human history. Don't rely on RUclips comments. There is plenty of freely available research from credible sources, just a few clicks away.
It blew my mind to realize just how far south the Nile stretches- literally halfway down the continent. I wonder if it was around long enough that it played a significant role in hominid migration out of Sub-Saharan Africa.
This question is asked time and time again by archaeologists. Rivers move around in the flood plain. A city in the middle of nowhere was on the bank of a river a thousand years ago
There were at least two boats (royal bardges) buried in the ground right next to the Great Pyramids. There's a boat dock at the end of the causeway, next to the Sphinx and associated Sphinx Temple.
that's an interesting concept, so much water people didn't want to live near the nile. i guess it got the last laugh when it finally became prime real estate
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PLEASE PLEASE STOP MOVING YOUR HEAD AND HANDS SO MUCH. ITS OFF-PUUTING TO OTHERWISE A GOOD VIDEO.
Designs of the pyramids like a water pump
No.
They were not ever proven to be tombs or temples! The valley of the kings is were the tombs are. The Egyptian's found them, that's why there's nothing about them being built. Someday the Egyptian government will figure out what's under their foundation & then we'll figure out what exactly they were built for.
"Why are the pyramids in Egypt?" Silly SciShow. They're there because they're too big to move to th3 british museum ...
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Awesome answer 😂
Caesar: I came, I saw, I conquered
British explorers: I came, I saw, I took it home
You win. That was great.
But the French did it first.
When a question is like "why did this ancient civilization did this thing in such a weird way?", the answer is almost always "they didn't", and I love that :p
Yeah the answer to this whole video is super simple, it's just: the river moved
@@alexrogers777 No the river didn't move it expanded. It literally "branched out".
@@mischarowe It contracted, actually. It converged into a smaller, more compact version with less branches. The opposite of branching out.
Wouldnt that still be consodered moving ? @mischarowe
@@baleywhite8311 Depends if you think branches of rivers are the same thing as the main river itself.
This is the first episode I have seen hosted by Niba, and I think she did a great job - I really like her voice and narration style!
smooth voice and pacing and SUPER pretty. Yea, more Niba lol
I agree. I am not a native english speaker, and her narration is very easy to follow, very clear, perfect pace, not too fast, but lively enough to be really engaging.
Yes. Outstanding job. I came to the comments to make sure someone had said this!
Why are the pyramids in Egypt?
Because the British couldn't figure how to get them back to England
(I'll see myself out)
Good one.
Lol 😄
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This is probably true 😂
Oh, no ya don't... get your @$$ back in here!
We paid for a show!
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That’s wild to think that the Sahara used to be mostly swampland. The Earth ebbs and flows, changes all the time, but it’s a lot harder to remember that our lives are limited to such a small scale. I wonder if there’s like a simulated timelapse that visualizes the transformation, that would be really cool to see
Yeah that would be awesome
"That’s wild to think that the Sahara used to be mostly swampland. "
During the time she is talking about when the Sahara was much wetter than now, it was still kind of dry but more like the American Midwest/Great Plains. In areas with large river systems, especially the Nile, there were large swampy areas. There are also traces of large completely dried up rivers and lakes in the interior Sahara as well. This process took many 1000s of years and of course if you go millions of years back, large parts were even the bottom of oceans.
@@TheDanEdwardsHey, be cool. It IS wild to think the Sahara was mostly swampland. Why the attitude? We're here to learn. I'm 70 and I get excited by a lot of things on SciShow.
@@rainydaylady6596 He's not even saying you can't get excited about learning he's just saying that particular piece of information is factually incorrect
I would highly recommend AtlasPro's video on it (it used to be a Savanah but not a swampland)
Coming from the Midwest USA, we have half-moon shaped lakes scattered everywhere, remnants of previous river channels. Many are turned to stagnant swamps. Some are fully grown over and only satellite imagery or a geologist could tell "this spot" was an old river channel. Still, it was due to this that my first thought on "why seven miles from the river?" was "because the river moved?". Pretty close to correct, much to my amusement. Fascinating discovery and I look forward to what is found by tracing this ancient riverbed!
Yeah, those are called oxbow lakes. Great thought, you're completely right - meandering, curvy rivers often cut off whole sections like that
She said about '7 kilometers' which is in some crazy measuring system. In 'Merica, it's about 1 2/3 trip around the Talladega speedway or 3827 Bald Eagles.
@@jermafitzgerald2368 Ah, thank you for the term! I'm so overtired right now I"m lucky I could write coherent sentences.
@@entombedlamb5356 Hehe, oops, my paraphrasing skipped a measuring system, please pardon.
What other geological or environmental clues can help us understand the historical course of this ancient river?
Figuring out there was a branch of the Nile there was genius! Love hearing about what geology can teach us.
Reading some of the earliest comments on this video makes me really glad that I don't understand the appeal of hate watching. I genuinely don't understand why you would spend your time watching material that you despise just so that you can leave negative comments on it for people to argue with. (Let's be honest, no one actually believes that these negative comments are going to persuade anyone.) Especially because all that does is give more watch time, interaction, and ad revenue to the thing that you hate.
90% sure they're all bots anyway
@@Cynadite Wouldn't be surprised, authoritarians regimes are poisoning relationships in other countries to weaken us. They really jump at anything mildly controversial to push extreme narratives so we don't react to their land grabs as we are too busy fighting each other.
@@Cynadite bots for what, to sell more gram Hancock books? I think these are mostly just lonely
@@BojackHorseman0098 do the bots on twitter who say earth is flat have a purpose? do the instagram bots who say everything is animal abuse have a purpose? no, they exist to make people rage and reply for engagement, it's dead internet theory.
What kind of comments were they?
Wow, a lot of these comments show a remarkable lack of understanding of how research communication works. Crapping on you citing your sources because it's not YOUR research? Because... NOT citing your sources would be better? 🙄
Right!?? Welcome to 2024... where (& when) one can discredit a lifetime of toiling, struggle, & phenomenal research with one grossly (yet, tragicomically) misused term:
Anecdotal.
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In fact, while I was trying to avoid politics for a while, I can't help but feel like such idiocracy feels like a preview of USA presidential election results 😞
@@SinSefia One could make a strong case for that view having already transpired with the Reagan administration. That said, President Biff sure did take the baton well.
It has always been this way, it just the internet gave people's ignorance a megaphone and display case.
Trust me bro
Excellent voice and camera presence. She should be in more videos.
She is in quite a lot of SciShow episodes. Each member has their specialties. Lots of good episodes including her :D
shes also soo pretty 😢
I love how each word gets its own nod or hand gesture or body wriggle. Just watching her is exhausting.
And then there's me who wants to do CENSORED CENSORED CENSORED
Ohhhh.... someone has a crush. 😊
Anything other than 'there used to be a river there' would have surprised me. But nice that it's confirmed.
Yea this was my take-away. The first half of the video really doesn't respect the intelligence or imagination of humans.
Right? Pretty sure this was already a well known fact and has been for some time
Was it a branch of the Nile River, or was it a canal dug to divert the water to where they wanted it to go?
In the 1800s, several canals like this were dug to feed water into the Miami-Erie Canal.
@@jeffputman3504 apparently the nile used to run alot closer to the pyramids and then canals were dug where needed.
It’s also pretty bad to build next to a river due to flooding. So having decent spacing is a must
Well, they built them on an elevated plateau. So that should have taken care of that.
Tell that to thousands of civilizations that built near rivers.
flood plains are why Ancient Egypt existed at all
Those flood plains are called farm land. Would be very foolish to waste that space on structures you can't eat.
Bro, do you build the pyramids?
Last time I was this early sci show didn't run mid-roll ads
Get rekt. No ads for me. Sucks to suck.
@@Bluebloods7 wow you're so cool you totally PWND him bro
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@@Bluebloods7 roflcopter
@@LizordSword put that beta in her place
the conspiracy theories on EVERYTHING pyramid related are INSANE and seeing it put so so simply and normally is so…relaxing and nice
The pyramids are claimed to be just about everything.!. from sound generators to ancient batteries to compasses to astronomy charts.. burial chambers, impossible to build.. anything else?
Absolutely wild and cool that we can still learn new things that fundamentally change how we think of the literal landscape of such a well known site all these centuries later
I am surprised they didn't go looking for that branch of the Nile earlier. Knowing what we know about changing waterways this would have been my first hypothesis. I jumped to the conclusion before you started to list the clues that lead to the discovery.
This is really fascinating stuff. I wonder if LIDAR mapping would show the depression of the old channel, and if we could use that technology to find similar extinct waterways in dry areas of Australia, Jordan, Argentina, etc..
That would be really neat! It would be really cool if we could track such geological changes over centuries or even millennia!
That would be awesome. LIDAR show how huge the Mayan civilization actually was. There is so much more to discover. Exciting times to be in science!
Okay, science is truly incredible sometimes. We sent satellites into space so we could shoot radar waves at the surface of the earth and analyze what the geography likely was thousands of years ago.
Because I've seen the comment a couple of times already, for people who are saying, "I thought the question was how." I would like to point out that that is only a question within the conspiracy theorist communities.
For the rest of us, with a halfway working understanding of archaeology, we know how the pyramids were built. A lot of manpower, multiple decades of work, and one of the most fundamental machines known to engineering, the inclined plane.
Slavery is how. Soon the loons will want to tear them down because they are the “ultimate monuments to slavery”.
That's not entirely accurate either though, we assume that's how they were built because it's the most likely explanation but even inside archeology there are still debates about which construction method it was (big ramp, spiral ramp around/on it etc.), how long it actually took to build. Nothing against archeologists but they aren't experts in construction and I've seen people that are that said it's ridiculous to imagine they would've built that in just 20-30 years as some archeologists claim, especially with the limited tools tools they had (while it is possible to construct with those tools it would've taken extremely long).
So sure it wasn't aliens etc. but it's still not all as certain and answered as some claim.
@@ZombieCartmanYT That's actually an outdated belief, we used to think they were built by slaves but further archeological evidence around the pyramids showed they were built by regular people that build villages nearby, had work contracts and were paid.
@@lp4514 We don't have definitive proof of how they were built or when they were built within a few thousand years, but you want me to believe that archeologists found proof of how the people lived when they were built. What was the average daily wage for a pyramid worker then? What was the currency? Since there is all of this evidence.
@@ZombieCartmanYTthere are records on pottery shards that have been found at the sites of the villages that have been now excavated.
Hundreds/thousands of them.
These records even state things like the days off workers received (to celebrate religious holidays).
There are documentary television programmes available to watch that explain all this.
Try Googleing
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Love these insights! Great job Niba.
Niba is quickly becoming one of my favourite SciShow hosts. Informative, fun, and enthusiastic. Great video!
Great topic & video! This needs to be required before the 1st day of class each year for ever.
I imagine they also wouldn't want to give up a significant stretch of precious farmland to turn into a giant construction site.
@Doug Ford
Unlike American construction which gobbles up rich farmland to build on😢
@@hoosierpioneer It does? That's gonna be a big problem in the next decade. Food production globally is projected to reduce by half.
@@AynenMakino exactly. It gets turned into urban sprawl, housing additions, industrial buildings. Those could all be placed on reclaimed city and previous industrial sites, but almost impossible to farm on those sites. I'm dearly hanging on to my piece of land, because they don't make land anymore. And people will always need to eat.
That was my thought! The lands nearest the river got that lovely mud that brought nutrients from the wetter parts of Africa to make their lands so productive.
My first thought before I watched the video was, that maybe they found out somehow that on that spot the bedrock is closer to the surface, so they could build them there and ground would be able to take the weight of the pyramids.
But then actually finding out about the river is so cool and clever, and as she pointed out, now the researchers can focus on a much narrower landscape around the former riverside, that could lead to many more discoveries...so damn cool!
The Giza Plateau is literally a 60ft (20m) tall hill of solid limestone... That _is_ why Kufu and Kafre's pyramid were built there... on the top of the hill... so the pyramids would appear even taller from the river.
That solid bedrock is the reason that EXACT spot along the river branch was chosen.
Very interesting...
I imagine this also settles more than a few questions on how they were built, right?
They built it outside the range of inundation so that those plains could be used for farming. It doesn't surprise me that there was a branch of the Nile. Deltas have lots branching.
0:54 it makes sense that Memphis would be a city in Egypt before being a city in Tennessee. I've been to TN to visit family, and you would be AMAZED how many towns there are named after other ones from across the world.
A reminder, the Mississippi has been trying to shift it's course for nearly 100 years (which would ruin New Orleans and disrupt American shipping to a great extent) and a series of dams and canals along with frequent dredging makes it stay it's current course.
A huge part of why this started "only" 100 years ago is because the lesser branch used to be clogged and slow-flowing, despite its shorter distance (and thus steeper slope). It was the work of humans removing the debris from that branch that caused the problem to begin with.
So funny that a human with a brain can think that the Mississippi only started meandering 100 years ago
Thank you Niba.
Sounds great, really Like the small Musical pieces in your Videos, would Love to See more
As someone studying hieratic this is super cool to know about!
Awesome video!!
I saw this thinking that it would be old news about the pyramid building as I often watch documentaries about Egypt and the surrounding area. But you managed to surprise me with something I haven't heard of, yet! Thank you. Even a 48 year old can find something fun in your videos 😀
Interesting, thank you.
This is a really cool finding and rather exciting!
Crazy how people were called pseudo scientists and conspiracy theorists for saying there used to be running water near giza.
We know so much, yet we clearly have (literally) barely scraped the surface, kudos to those who discovered this
It is crazy how far bodies of water can shift over time. Many ancient cities, for example, used to be ported on the coastlines of rivers or seas. Still, over time, silting and other geographic changes, both natural and artificial, led to the port cities becoming farther inland from the sea or the rivers alongside them, shifting course-all in the span of millennia or shorter by centuries.
Awesome host! Love your expressions, pace, presentation style etc. Really great!
OOP SciShow just left out critical information. A harbor (and a boat if I remember correctly) was found at the Sphinx temple leave little doubt there was water way there.
a six minute video didn’t include everything????
I mean, definably conclusive evidence of the waterway itself should leave _zero_ doubt there was a waterway there, dontcha think? A boat could have been brought there, and a harbor could have been a number of any other structures. A riverbed is a riverbed. Please explain how evidence of the actual thing and not evidence of evidence of the actual thing is less critical. What is even your point?
Could explain the potential water erosion on the sphinx? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_water_erosion_hypothesis
@@ZackWolf As far as I know, that hypothesis is not considered likely
Hi Niba!
Thanks again
Learn something new every day, Awesome!🙂
This was very interesting thanks 😊
Due to all these comments talking about the British museum, im terrified of when the British invent shrinking technology. Nothing is safe at that point.
The pyramids were not tombs. There is nothing to indicate that. No decorating. No Mummys. The granite box in the King's Chamber is not a Sarcophagus. Its the same thing as what is in the Serapeum, which itself is enigmatic.
Source- Trust me bro
@@filonin2 The source is common sense. Every tomb has inscriptions and at least had a mummy at one time. The are also intricately decorated. Nothing in the Pyramids. Pharaohs loved to see their name. They even put it on things they found to take credit for their creation. No names. Why would they leave the Grand Gallery open if the chambers were tombs ? They filled the other passages, why not that one ? They needed to have access. What about the Granite boxes. They aren't sarcophagi, they look nothing like them. The ones in the Serapeum, supposedly bull sarcophagi have no animal remains at all, but they do have plant residue. Back in the day, fledgling Egyptologists wanted to classify things, so the called them tombs; only because they couldn't figure out what else they could be. Again , absolutely nothing to indicate that. The idea stuck. As people defended their intellectual turf, it became enshrined.
@@filonin2you don’t need a source if you’re not making a claim. Those that say they are tombs ARE making a claim without any evidence to support it
The accepted theory is that the Giza pyramid was commissioned as Pharoah Khufu's burial temple. There are no indications of this inside of the Pyramid itself. The information comes from papyrus scrolls found and translated. Every other tomb has the name and many depictions of the Pharoah that was buried there, but not Giza.
With knowledge of a new river tributary, does this re-contextualize any texts which discuss sacred or holy waters?
Yea the Nile moved we have known this. They did lidar ten years ago if i remember right
As an Egyptian who grew up not too far from the Giza pyramids, the only mystery is how our ancestors built magnificent wonders and now ugghhhh
I've often thought the same about the accomplishments of the ancient Romans and the Greeks.
Pretty freaking cool!
As an OpenStreetMap geek, I appreciate the proper credit!
I like your voice, very smooth on the ears.
But... but... why would aliens require a river there? I mean they just built a pyramid somewhere and flew it over there, right? Talk about overcomplicating things, duh! :D
Aliens just love dumping water on Earth. It’s a fact. They have no use for it.
Does your brain actually function?
Those aren't the aliens silly! They were the giants! They needed the river so they can shower properly!
There are no aliens because the Space doesn't exist because the Earth is flat. Simple. The pyramids are docks for building the Ark.
About time!
Who knows what other secrets are buried? Mum-ra, that's what's buried out there!
Wow! So cool.
Satellites have been such a boon to archaeology. Which kind of strikes my funny bone, even more than the boon airplanes gave. Space is so much further up, finding things we have to dig down to in order to actually see
They like to say the pyramids were tombs but from what I recall no mummy or corpse of any kind has ever been found in the Giza pyramids.
Hell of an ambitious title given the sheer number of mysteries about the pyramids
The Nile floods…you don’t want to be digging large amounts of mud from around your pyramid…
Did not expect this this morning,
Neat.
Love your outfit!
You make great videos which we already want to watch, so please don't give them clickbait titles.
Every time I see the astronaut in the water shirt out of the corner of my eye, zoned out etc. I think it's Finn the human 😊
that must have been super hard to find the river if we managed to do it only in 2024, seems like an obvious thing to look for in retrospect. Very interesting! Niba is very charismatic presenter, loved her delivery
This has been known for a long time.
Why don’t they just ask Steve Martin?😂
an interesting idea about the placement of the pyramids posits that they re-create the belt of orion, with the nile being the milky way
So easy to see those patterns when we really want to huh
In achreology, the answer is always water.
Aliens!
Is this a rework of an older video? Cause I swear I've watched a SciShow video saying this exact thing before 😅
Very interesting:)
bold title
Science: We know how the pyramids were built.
Ancient Aliens: But what of it was space monsters?
Nobody honestly says we know how. We have hypotheses that are incomplete have not been fully examined.
Science doe not know how it was built, archeology is a soft science when you get actual engineers involved they'll tell otherwise, science dismisses the fact that you can't cut granite with bronze in the time needed the building of a pyramid has never been illustrated or mentioned by the ancient Egyptians, they purely date it based off of graffiti that was found on the casing stones only nothing inside the pyramid ever had a mummy nor anything showing it was a tomb,There are blocks of granite cut with such precision it's a joke to claim it was made with bronze tools,there are drill holes and circular saw cuts into a lot of Egyptian megalithic works,now I'm gonna assume you don't care about actual facts and just want to troll out of ignorance which is understandable this is the Internet
@@abj136 They have not been examined by you. Science has been examining them for centuries.
Well, I have learn something.
Calculating the age of the 3 Pyramids of Giza - Astro-Geo-Dating method:
No one actually knows, when they have been built. There are only indirect methods, to guesstimate. However, if for example in the future after us, if they would be rediscovered and us "cleaned up", but might leave things in there, others could think we have built them, right?
I have been reading an article about the Pyramids of Giza, stating that they have found an explanation to the misalignment of 0.067 degrees counterclockwise, which they explained with inaccurate measurement method. I found this funny, as everything is so precise, that I thought I will check what else might have caused this. Thus asked the question: Okay, that the African Plate is moving towards Europe, but is it also turning meanwhile maybe?
The answer is yes. Not much surprisingly it is turning counterclockwise. After quite some searching in studies, I have found the rotation speed. It is 0.927 degrees per 1 000 000 years.
From this it can be calculated, that the Pyramids of Giza are about 72 276 years old. Not guesstimated, not indirectly suspected, but factually measured and calculated.
So maybe we should ask astronomers to see, how did the Belt of the Orion stand 72k years ago. Maybe it can confirm the age by a different measurement.
Homo Sapiens Sapiens, so exactly us, we are there since about 160k years ago, so having had a global civilization at about half of this time seems for me completely realistic.
Feel free to check the calculations yourself and also to use the Astro-Geo-Dating method on any structure, where there is a misalignment.
Wishing you and all constant and indestructible happiness beyond all imaginations!
That's crazy
The video should be called we solved A mystery of the Pyramids. The video literally ends with her saying we still have so much to learn about the pyramid.
we can’t talk about that 🤫
Hmmmm I don't want to be that guy buttt I don't buy the copper tools😂😂
I have my marijuana plants in a cobber pyramid. Exact replica of the Giza pyramid, align with true North. Ive done one grow with, and one grow without. The grow with pyramid give approximately 15-20% more flowers, and they are more flavour. As go for my aquarium fishes. They are bigger, and the patterns on their body are way more vivid than the fishes in the aquarium without pyramid.
But…we’ve known this for years that the water used to run right up to the pyramids. We also know that they weren’t ever shown to be tombs so I’m confused by this presentation… ?
You people just don't get it. Osiris came to the place and said "let there be pyramids here, for we shall party hard and keep refreshments inside", then he hit the ground with his magic stick and pyramids came out of the ground, there was no slaves or workers, people were too busy partying in those times.
Why must the SciShow presenters rattle through their presentations as if they’re always rushing to catch the last train home? That’s the great unanswered mystery for me.
An 8M subscriber channel surely uses their analytics to dial their content in to serve their audience. If the speaking is too fast for you, try slowing down the video speed a bit. Click on the video settings for that option.
I would.
#1: pyramids are too heavy to build on soft swampland
#2: pyramids have no hieroglyphics inside (i.e. no prayers to the dead seen in the tombs of Egyptians), so they weren't "tombs"
#3: Giza is a giant limestone quarry. Limestone is a great base for something heavy as well as one of the predominat building blocks of the pyramids
#4: the Sphinx is the Egyptian hieroglyph for "entrance" and there are tunnels all under Giza
The pyramids were NOT built as tombs
20 seconds in When know this and we know that….. but we don’t know these thing. People believe the know but do they really know ? Hmmm I think not
We know rivers meander. Is this really a surprise. Glad we have the proof of it😊
So the question now is what they used to transport those stones?…
This is delivered like it's new information lol I remember reading about this in Scientific American about twenty years ago
Solved it, eh? Good stuff. Keep the funnies coming.
Any pyramid experts here?
I have some questions regarding pyramids.
You're on the internet. The largest collection of knowledge in human history. Don't rely on RUclips comments. There is plenty of freely available research from credible sources, just a few clicks away.
Dr. Miano has some good videos here on RUclips debunking crazy claims about Egypt and the great pyramids.
It blew my mind to realize just how far south the Nile stretches- literally halfway down the continent. I wonder if it was around long enough that it played a significant role in hominid migration out of Sub-Saharan Africa.
This question is asked time and time again by archaeologists. Rivers move around in the flood plain. A city in the middle of nowhere was on the bank of a river a thousand years ago
There were at least two boats (royal bardges) buried in the ground right next to the Great Pyramids. There's a boat dock at the end of the causeway, next to the Sphinx and associated Sphinx Temple.
We Solved the Mystery of the Pyramids
Cool. I had this same theory 20 yrs ago
that's an interesting concept, so much water people didn't want to live near the nile. i guess it got the last laugh when it finally became prime real estate
Some of these comments bring the median average of human race's intellect by couple of numbers.
Up or down? 😉