The Nile river helped with both: The stone quarry used was upstream of where the pyramids were, so the stones could be easily transported by boat. And, the way the Nile regularly floods is great for farming.
Egypt regularly produced 6 grain crops a year, the benefits of desert climate, unlimited water, regular floods from the Nile to add fertilizer to the soil.
THIS! And in some aspects they were even smarter, especially in practical/mechanical things that common people used daily. We fall into a trap of thinking that we’re smarter just because we can use modern technology. But 99% of people have no clue how the technology they use actually works. Let alone be able to build/replicate it themselves. We actually lost a lot of practical skills, intuition and common sense.
Arguably, neolithic people were smarter, because their lived in survival mode all the time. This trained up people's brains, and weeded out the idiots.
I worked in coal mines, cramped conditions and we would move bits of machinery weighing several tonnes this way, using a bit of wood to pivot and lever with bodyweight, you can manoeuvre anything very easily you just need to think out of the box, no picking things up, no straining, physics and brain matter wins every time, a chock of wood under a two-tonne coal truck and length of wood 10 feet long and you put that coal truck anywhere you want by yourself, golden rule is never put your hands under anything heavier than you,
@@tgw230 dig a shallow hole under one end until it pivots, than put a block of wood under it and a counterweight on top to pivot it back, just one of many ways
It must be doing the rounds, it is the same for me. I do often wonder why the algorithm does things like this. It is a ten year old video, with scores of comments that people have written in the last 24 hours. Why would youtube send this video as a recommendation, to thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, for no explainable reason after ten years? There must be some agenda behind it.
Regardless of the algorithm's decisions, I just think it's funny to see all the alien skeptic comments. They bask in ignorance, to the enjoyment of those of us in the future that is our present. Those fools....
People often forget that we're not all smarter now because we have access to technology and unlimited information. People may have better tools but those tools are just a stand in for ingenuity. The understanding and manipulation of physics that allowed people to reduce friction, change centres of gravity and otherwise maneuver objects several dozen times their own weight with tricks and systems like this is what proved humanity's metal. If anything, we kinda lost our way. We got complacent in our ideas and sense of superiority. But we can still learn lots from history.
somewhat disagree on the point that we lost our way. The great capability of our brains (and some extent to other apes) is to build upon existing knowledge and pass that knowledge to the next generation. So that we dont have to reinvent the same thing over and over again. So we knew how to lift heavy objects with levers and counter weights, but it is tedious and needs a lot of preparation. but we’ve done the maths and figured we can overpower it and then we can cut time and space needed. though we needed a few more things for it to work not just sheer power (pullies for example) but then we put all together and built cranes. our strenght is that once we figure out something we can pass that on effectively and efficiently and the next person might come up with something. Sure people in ancient Egypt and Inkas and other countries figured out how to lift heavy objects but it took an insane amount of people to do it because it needed so much prepwork. today, you jump in your truck, use your tools and you move that block of concrete. we are also working on stuff our ancestors could not imagine. (hello this phone i am writing the comment and the device you reading it back) and while You and I might not work with levers and pullies there are others who do, because it fits their needs. so i dont think we lost our way, we moved on to new challenges and we are solving other problems while standing on the shoulders of our ancestors. hopefully one day our future generations will stand on our shoulders when they conquer their problems in fact we not just didnt lost our way, we are moving to the next challenge faster and faster and we are working on unimaginable things now with ease. I mean just look back 30 years to see where technology and science was there and where we are today. we are probably not smarter than the folks back in egypt, but i dont think that we are not dumber either. We can simply use what others figured out before us and think about the next challenge without the need to reinvent those again. i think, we as a species are incredibly good what we are doing. (ignoring the dumb shit we also do :) - but hey… we do it while filiming it :) )
@@mityaboy4639pretty much this. Modern society is structured in a way that people don't have to worry about needing to move big ass stone bricks by hand anymore, or using a scythe to thresh wheat. People need to know how to code, how to drive and repair a tractor. The challenges have changed because we've grown past needing a lot of that ancient knowledge.
We're just one brief solar burst away from the stone age. It would wipe out electric power all over thw Earth. It would, according to a U.S. government committe, take 2 years to restore. In the 1st year 90% of U.S. population would die from starvation, disease and fighting over dwindling rescources. @@cabnbeeschurgr
@@kselnaga7303 Yes. Amazing example, but we know nothing about what he was moving around. Do those objects that he’s moving weigh as much as the pieces of the pyramids, or is this a just a neat show? I need much more information before I say “Wow. I guess we were capable of doing it by ourselves.”
@@JeffBlack1968 people: Wow, those three stones on top of each other, must have been aliens! Humans can't come up with that! Also people: Ugh, a usb drive is basically just a painted green tile that stores the equivalent of the entirety of human knowledge and can be accessed in a machine called computer that uses electricity and magnets and shit to decode the binary information stored within the tiny green tile, projects it against an otherwise black piece of synthetic material with the help of photons and is powered by a bunch of electrons that get delivered right into your house wall from a power plant that splits atoms to generate electricity. Easy.
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I will never forget being in elementary school and learning about the four "simple machines". To this day, I'm still amazed that a ramp is considered a "machine".
This is simple physics. Building engineers use this principle every day! A good example to show there are less mysteries than alot of youtubers think when it comes to megalithic buildings in Egypt etc. Man has evolved to use machines and not brains! Just look at all the medieval...roman buildings around the world. Computers and cranes equal less brains (I made up the last bit!)
I'd like to see evidence such tech was used. This guy uses modern thinking, based on devices and principles we have around for sure, he's an inventor not a re-discoverer. You don't make a 100.000 pyramids around the world in a few 100 years without super-tech. It's direct proof we were hopping continents for a long, long time, sharing ideas, the very reasons for making the pyramids are as well above and beyond our understanding, today even.
It's funny because these geometrical shapes were not even known back then, and this guy was spinning a huge block on literal flat and level concrete. You guys are dumb.
@@GardenofEdens Not just war, when you create technology that make your life easier, you forget the techniques and knowledge you used before because they are not needed anymore.
Okay... Lowkey, the 'ramps' in 0:10 look so much like the jagged line that is found in between all the hieroglyphs. Would make sense if this is something they saw prevalent all around, just like all their other hieroglyphs is pictures of things. Apparently this line translates to things like 'to, for, of, through, in, because, not, cannot, unless, no, they, we, us, and our', which also is very fitting for this feature. Instead of the 'water ripple' interpretation
Probably a sign that used to just communicate exactly that construction. Them later got used more flexibly before finally having its origins forgotten and only the flexible word remembered. Not sure if thats *actually* what happened here. But it wouldn’t be the first time something like that happened.
You can read in Aku Aku secrets of Easter island by Thor heyerdal how a group of men lifted one of the largest statues on the island from lying down to standing. They used long pieces of timber as a lever and raised it inch by inch each time it was raised a rock was placed underneath to hold it. There was then a large pile of rocks supporting it until finally it was lifted enough for the final push to stand it upright. He has written about the great structures build in peru. The pyramids in Egypt are not the only great structures of the world built from stone. They are all over the world.
They were carved directly out of the hills and then already standing upright they were tethers by rope by many people in different directions and then walked all the way to its final destination. By way of tilting it from side to side and its centre of gravity would be over one side and then slowly but surely it would walk long distances. There is broken statues along the road from the quarry all the way to the lines of statues that stand today, these ones broke and were left where they fell over to this day
They actually carved them laying on their back. The back was the last thing they carved away to stand them up. Please read the book if you'd like more information. In fact you should read any thir heyerdal book you can find. He was a great thinker of our time and a true explorer. Kon-tiki is a must read. Green was the earth on the seventh day is also great.
This is not forgotten technology, I use this almost everyday in my shop, moving heavy equipment around, vehicles, pieces of metal. It is only forgotten in this wonderful computer world. Great video with alot of common sense.
wood would not hold up the weight of those thousand ton megaliths.. its not on the same scale even slightly. this video demonstrates techniques that could work, maybe with a well-made steel. but not even the toughest wood could withstand the weight of the large blocks. pretty stupid explanation actually
You know I'm surprised its in 240 for being 10 years old. I remember things being mostly 720 or 1080 back then. 240p would be like 20 years ago. Its entirely possible that he filmed it in the early 2000s, found it one day, and uploaded it.
Conspiracy Theorists: Bro how could build mega big rock tower with no lifty truck huh? Aliens! Archimedes: Hand me a lever, a place to stand, and hold my beer.
It’s an interesting video for sure but come on man. We can’t build an exact duplicate of the great Giza pyramid today in 2024. Any idea of how perfectly complex it fits together ?
@@RaiderNation816 we can build it, but no one actually wants to, it's expensive and time consuming with little to no actual use, unless some eccentric rich guy decided that they want one, another pyramid is probably not gonna get built.
@@RaiderNation816 there are theories about how they were built, and there are many different ways they could have built them, however we don't know how the pyramids were built, not because we have no idea how they did it, but because we don't know which theory was the exact one. And we clearly can build one with modern technology, there are trucks that can carry entire space shuttles weighing several tons, some people even decided they want their entire houses moved ,and that can be done. The only reason why no one has built a pyramid with a similar size and material, is because, as I said, no one actually wants to, it's expensive and time consuming, and literally has no use, spending that much money can't be justified for a structure with such little use. No one would pay for that, unless as I said, some eccentric rich guy decideds to pay for it. Just because you can't understand how the pyramids would be built with modern technology, doesn't mean that we can't actually do it. If you really want, I can go through a simple explanation with you, in fact would be happy to, but I'm not gonna write a whole detailed essay, a youtube comment section argument is not worth that much effort. Also, I have one question, why do you think it's impossible to do it with modern technology? And I'm asking for the specifics, I'm genuinely curious for the precise reason to why you believe it's impossible, and don't just say "because it is" or anything along those lines, as that is not a sufficient enough reason.
Ancient humans were far smarter than we give them credit. Shit they were smarter than us. The tools that make our jobs "easy" have us forgetting that level of ingenuity that was needed to complete large tasks back before the technology we've had over the past century.
There's not much difference in intelligence between humans now and humans 200,000 years ago. At most we're maybe 10 to 15 IQ points higher. We've just gotten better at not killing our geniuses and inventors for some dumb reason like witchcraft or superstition.
As a contractor who does a lot of structural work, I move plenty of heavy things. People are constantly amazed at what I can move without help. Familiarity with basic practical physics and mechanics isn’t that complicated folks! Whenever I’d watch these stupid shows about how we don’t know how these huge things were moved, or worse that aliens did it, it’s just so clear they didn’t consult an actual builder or engineer. That and a real lack of practical imagination and creativity, AKA problem solving. Also, the heaviest stone ever moved was the Thunder Stone, the plinth of a Tsarist statue in St Petersburg. The moving of it is thoroughly documented. It was moved from Finland in the 19th century using simple techniques that could have easily been employed thousands of years ago. That anyone could go from “wow, how did that get there?” To “must be aliens or some supernatural force” without any stops along the way is just amazing. It’s ok if you don’t know the answer. It’s not ok to make up crazy shit without consulting experts.
People always forget about human ingenuity. For example when we are trying to figure out how the ancients built the pyramids, there are a few dozens trying to figure it out, most of them from behind a desk. It is VERY different from thousands of ancient engineers trying to figure it out for centuries, actually building smaller prototypes, and getting way more funding for it than today. I would bet they had a lot more tricks which they didn’t write down.
There is not one one thing about the construction of the pyramids that cannot be accomplished by man by using multiple methods of construction and engineering.
This guy raised a 10 ton slab by himself, I'm sure making it 70 tons changes absolutely nothing. If you can see-saw a block and shim a new balance point back and forth, it gets raised little by little.
Only took 3 years, 9 months, and 11 days this time. The interlace translation string must have incurred time dilation when moving beyond the emitter array's field... The next iteration will be closer.
When people say " there's no way man could have built this" they don't take into consideration that it was probably the only thing to do, and they didn't care for safety standards.
@@Lsingnatureworldif only there was a large stream of water between Giza and Aswan. And if only the Egyptians were smart enough to engineer some sort of floatation device from wood or conjure some papyrus reed raft.
@@Lsingnatureworld Lmao, you folks claimed they needed aliens to even move the stones shown here. Just admit you're wrong. Those ancient humans were simply far smarter than you.
I’m glad this was recommended to everyone, people need to see how easy our problems are and how blinded by technology we have now which makes things too easy
Technically...most of this "forgotten technology" is actually still being used today. That's why we have very very nice things like vehicles, buildings, bridges etc etc
Bro people will even still do the type of things shown in the video to this day if they don't have expensive modern machines that can move heavy objects for them. 0:20 is the stupidest one, people putting levers on fulcrums and wedging them under heavy objects to lift them in this simple fashion is still VERY commonplace lmao
Why do people keep asking about transporting? In the beginning it shows him push a 300 pound block across those saw tooth looking things. Uses it on weight to move forward. All he needs to do is scale it up people.
Still a bit of a mass difference....everybody trying to come up with their own methods but not one of them use a block almost identical to the ones at the pyramids. It's like crash testing a car chassis using the real thing and the toy - we all know the real one will crumble but the toy remains mostly intact.
@@JustAnOrdinarySimmer You can use that tool he made for rotating the blocks to flip them end over end, since it provides a bunch of leverage. You can also rotate the stone back and forth on alternating pivot points, kind of like you would with moving a very heavy piece of furniture... where you tilt it back on its corners to shift into place. The majority of the Pyramid blocks are ACTUALLY the size of the stone he's rotating (the medium sized one, not the huge slab), roughly one cubic yard.
Honestly, it's probably more efficient to make a wheel encasement around the block so that it can be rolled on flat ground. Really depends on how many stone need to be moved. If it's thousands of stones, then building the rounded sawtooth rails is probably more efficient. Then if you multiply the amount of laborers, this idea isn't insane.
I was a solo carpet installer for years. A couple of sawed up broomstick rollers underneath and a baseball bat in each end and there was nothing I couldn't move. Of course carpet rolls are cylinders, so they move pretty easy on one axis.
As an infant from Senegal who once moved a stone before I ask let's take a moment to appreciate the some finer point of the video that most people don't appreciate and then in another ten years we'll all go algorithm wow together
If you're ever in Sicily, go to Archimedes' technology exposition in Siracusa. The place is full of these hands-on neat construction, military or hydraulic technologies that you get to play with.
@@ilyarepin7750 If only there was a nearby river to easily move super heavy objects... If only there was a material known for being very abrasive all around the nearby area...
This is Wally Wallington demonstrating ancient megalithic structural building techniques he used while building a 1:1 concrete duplicate of Stonehenge on his property in Michigan. I might be misremembering a detail, but he was mentioned in an episode of the Skeptoid podcast many years ago. Look him up.
@@matthewoppp6881 lol. That is your excuse now? Just admit that you've never done anything but sit in your basement and play video games and cannot imagine humans building large things.
@@23Butanedione "science zealots"? What are you talking about? Science is literally just the study of how things work. What exactly do you dislike about trying to understand things?
@@jamisojo Or i could be here calling out people who have no clue. THis is not lost tech any kid with have a brain can do this. But it still doesn't explain doing this with something 10 times then weight and size
Lost? You mean stolen and locked away in the Vatican. There's 5 miles of bookselves in the Vatican. The fire was just a diversion. They been doing this for 1000's of years. Hitler did it. Alexander the great also did this. These men were told to pillage whats valuable and destroy the rest. The US did this after WW2. Operation Paperclip - we took 1500 scientists from Germany and put them to work for us. Some of the positions they filled was at NASA and other government companies.
what's forgotten in all of this is the word leverage. Look it up. Not one of these threads has that word in it. I don't have the time to check every single one of these replies but I'm not seeing the word leverage. and common sense has nothing to do with leverage.
So the most amusing part for me is 0:10 because one of the jokes in my language translates to "moving the circular things by carrying them and moving the square things by rolling them", which - normally - is something you do the other way around. And in 0:10 I can see someone legit moving squares by rolling them. Great video, 10/10. 😊
The problem with assuming the Giza pyramids were built using these methods is that their structure and placement disproves this. The giza pyramids have mathematics that align with the ratio of distances between the earth, moon and sun. These structural behaviours prove 3 main things - that the egyptians had a concept of a heliocentric solar system that was not a flat earth, which would be an incredibly unusual view to have at the time; that they knew what the distances between the objects were despite apparently not practicing astronomy or astrophysics, and mainly measuring using rope and wheels; and that they had these structural designs likely to communicate something on multiple levels of understanding. The pyramids themselves are made of interesting substances - the rocks that were used to build the pyramids were made of quartz, and they coated the outside of the structures in limestone - seems like a piezoelectric energy device to me, just from an electronics standpoint. It doesnt seem like something people would have the intelligence to build back then; because humans today barely have the intelligence to understand it beyond diminishing it to ruins of an unremarkable structure made by dedicated cocaine addicts with sadistic tendencies
now imagine 1 million laborers...some kratom tea and some bad ass leafs to suck on like coca and them dudes would be making it happen..one pyramid coming up
90 tons though? Him spinning the stone doesn’t explain being able to place it perfectly on the side of a mountain and 15 feet or more off the ground. All he’s doing are science experiments, i understand the pint he’s trying to make, but the scale is EXPONENTIALLY bigger when you talk about Peru, Egypt, Asia, Easter island. this works, to a point.
It's a 42 second video briefly explaining what one man can do, now imagine hundreds of thousands of ppl with millions of hours of combined work with centuries to devise the plans. Not very bright are you...
I grew up as a stone mason. I didn't use any tools like that, but I could maneuver a 350 lb stone into place by hand, no tools, learning to use leverage, and how to spin and roll the stones.
Impressive. Farmers in Scotland still row trees weighing tons out of fields. It a simple but impressive technique that can easily move standing stones accross land.
what people need to understand is that it doesn't matter if it's 70 tons, 10 tons, or 500kg. this video showcases the concept, you can scale it up as much as you need to. if you can single-handedly move a 500kg block using any of these methods, you can figure out how to move a 70 tons block too
Just visited Meteora in Greece where 600 years ago they built on top of cliffs. They joked the build only took 20 days. After 20 years of hauling materials up top. Guess we know how they pulled it off.
I don't think most people would say that it couldn't have been done this way. It absolutely could have. The problem lies with how incredibly accurate they were with their alignments of it all. That's what people find unfathomable, along with the building of it in general. There's a lot more missing to this than just how they moved the stones. If they were off even a tiny bit then it wouldn't work the higher up u go. That's what's incredible.
its always astonishing to me, how creative and innovative we humans are. If you really think about how crazy it is, that there are billions of us, all having their own little lifes and universe surrounding them. Insane thought.
I used to move boats for a living and used a lot of these techniques, it's amazing what you can do with a few blocks of wood and some wedges. There's not a thing on this earth that man couldn't have built himself, sorry Ancient Alien fans 🙂
My ‘ol boss in my Engineering days used to comment….building the pyramids was easy….feeding a million workers in the desert was a miracle….
The sad part is quite surely millions weren't fed well...and thousands may have died in the construction😢
The Nile river helped with both: The stone quarry used was upstream of where the pyramids were, so the stones could be easily transported by boat. And, the way the Nile regularly floods is great for farming.
Egypt regularly produced 6 grain crops a year, the benefits of desert climate, unlimited water, regular floods from the Nile to add fertilizer to the soil.
probably your teacher needed some talk with your geography teacher and learn about where is egypt and what is the nile ;)
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People don't realize that people thousands of years ago had the same brains that we have
They think humans became smart after Newton
@@dorozi8202 to be fair the majority of these humans aren't smart .. when they say "we can't..." They actually mean : " I couldn't..."
THIS! And in some aspects they were even smarter, especially in practical/mechanical things that common people used daily. We fall into a trap of thinking that we’re smarter just because we can use modern technology. But 99% of people have no clue how the technology they use actually works. Let alone be able to build/replicate it themselves. We actually lost a lot of practical skills, intuition and common sense.
Arguably, neolithic people were smarter, because their lived in survival mode all the time. This trained up people's brains, and weeded out the idiots.
Sure we had the same brain but not the same knowledge
I worked in coal mines, cramped conditions and we would move bits of machinery weighing several tonnes this way, using a bit of wood to pivot and lever with bodyweight, you can manoeuvre anything very easily you just need to think out of the box, no picking things up, no straining, physics and brain matter wins every time, a chock of wood under a two-tonne coal truck and length of wood 10 feet long and you put that coal truck anywhere you want by yourself, golden rule is never put your hands under anything heavier than you,
How did he lift up that block in the first place to get that wood underneath it?
@@tgw230not sure but I would guess levers and wedges
@@tgw230 dig a shallow hole under one end until it pivots, than put a block of wood under it and a counterweight on top to pivot it back, just one of many ways
@@tgw230 OK you got us, aliens did help with that part.
ok now try it with a solid granite block weighing 100 tons and move it miles away from the quarry down a mountain and back up
I'm not sure what's more impressive - this video - or the fact it's 10 years old and showed up on my feed
It must be doing the rounds, it is the same for me. I do often wonder why the algorithm does things like this. It is a ten year old video, with scores of comments that people have written in the last 24 hours. Why would youtube send this video as a recommendation, to thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, for no explainable reason after ten years? There must be some agenda behind it.
Regardless of the algorithm's decisions, I just think it's funny to see all the alien skeptic comments. They bask in ignorance, to the enjoyment of those of us in the future that is our present.
Those fools....
Same here
Same here LOL
The owner of the channel is asking if anyone have the original dvd, he asked that in 2015.
People often forget that we're not all smarter now because we have access to technology and unlimited information. People may have better tools but those tools are just a stand in for ingenuity. The understanding and manipulation of physics that allowed people to reduce friction, change centres of gravity and otherwise maneuver objects several dozen times their own weight with tricks and systems like this is what proved humanity's metal. If anything, we kinda lost our way. We got complacent in our ideas and sense of superiority. But we can still learn lots from history.
somewhat disagree on the point that we lost our way. The great capability of our brains (and some extent to other apes) is to build upon existing knowledge and pass that knowledge to the next generation. So that we dont have to reinvent the same thing over and over again. So we knew how to lift heavy objects with levers and counter weights, but it is tedious and needs a lot of preparation. but we’ve done the maths and figured we can overpower it and then we can cut time and space needed. though we needed a few more things for it to work not just sheer power (pullies for example) but then we put all together and built cranes.
our strenght is that once we figure out something we can pass that on effectively and efficiently and the next person might come up with something.
Sure people in ancient Egypt and Inkas and other countries figured out how to lift heavy objects but it took an insane amount of people to do it because it needed so much prepwork. today, you jump in your truck, use your tools and you move that block of concrete.
we are also working on stuff our ancestors could not imagine. (hello this phone i am writing the comment and the device you reading it back)
and while You and I might not work with levers and pullies there are others who do, because it fits their needs.
so i dont think we lost our way, we moved on to new challenges and we are solving other problems while standing on the shoulders of our ancestors.
hopefully one day our future generations will stand on our shoulders when they conquer their problems
in fact we not just didnt lost our way, we are moving to the next challenge faster and faster and we are working on unimaginable things now with ease. I mean just look back 30 years to see where technology and science was there and where we are today.
we are probably not smarter than the folks back in egypt, but i dont think that we are not dumber either. We can simply use what others figured out before us and think about the next challenge without the need to reinvent those again.
i think, we as a species are incredibly good what we are doing.
(ignoring the dumb shit we also do :) - but hey… we do it while filiming it :) )
@@mityaboy4639pretty much this. Modern society is structured in a way that people don't have to worry about needing to move big ass stone bricks by hand anymore, or using a scythe to thresh wheat. People need to know how to code, how to drive and repair a tractor. The challenges have changed because we've grown past needing a lot of that ancient knowledge.
а если вес не несколько десятков раз больше, а тысячу иди две тысячи раз больше?
We're just one brief solar burst away from the stone age. It would wipe out electric power all over thw Earth. It would, according to a U.S. government committe, take 2 years to restore. In the 1st year 90% of U.S. population would die from starvation, disease and fighting over dwindling rescources. @@cabnbeeschurgr
@@kselnaga7303 Yes. Amazing example, but we know nothing about what he was moving around. Do those objects that he’s moving weigh as much as the pieces of the pyramids, or is this a just a neat show? I need much more information before I say “Wow. I guess we were capable of doing it by ourselves.”
So this is the technology the aliens used to build the pyramids? Neat.
Lol
Yea, try pushing a rock up 800 ft to the top of a pyramid
correct, where else would the ancient Egyptians get the 2x4s from?
@@garyh4458 Leverage and ramps. Don't fall for the racist alien cliché.
@@unoriginalname4321 I wonder how they were able to put the giant rocks on those 2x4s and pivot thingies
“Ancient astronauts didn't build the pyramids. Human beings built the pyramids, because they're clever and they work hard.”
― Gene Roddenberry
Local man dismantles pyramid conspiracy theories by using surprisingly simple physics.
That’s why Humans kick the piss out of every alien species they encounter on Star Trek.
Work smarter, not harder.
Gene is the GOAT
so glad my dad got me watching Star Trek
Yeah no, humans may have built it but the technology and design was far from human
This this is amazing. I love seeing one guy, single-handedly, throw all that alien nonsense out the window! This guy is a champ! Bravo!
It was aliens that showed them how to make this device so they could build the pyramids. Geez people 😁
@@JeffBlack1968 people: Wow, those three stones on top of each other, must have been aliens! Humans can't come up with that!
Also people: Ugh, a usb drive is basically just a painted green tile that stores the equivalent of the entirety of human knowledge and can be accessed in a machine called computer that uses electricity and magnets and shit to decode the binary information stored within the tiny green tile, projects it against an otherwise black piece of synthetic material with the help of photons and is powered by a bunch of electrons that get delivered right into your house wall from a power plant that splits atoms to generate electricity. Easy.
Yeah they concreted across hundreds of miles of terrain.
@@Matt..S Do you know what sarcasm is? You need to chill the Fuck out.
@@Matt..S Don't you know what sarcasm is? You need to chill out.
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I will never forget being in elementary school and learning about the four "simple machines". To this day, I'm still amazed that a ramp is considered a "machine".
So that is how they built the megalithic structures all over the earth, you got to be smarter than the stone. No aliens needed here.
yes, egyptians nice, no aliens idiots .....
This is simple physics. Building engineers use this principle every day! A good example to show there are less mysteries than alot of youtubers think when it comes to megalithic buildings in Egypt etc. Man has evolved to use machines and not brains! Just look at all the medieval...roman buildings around the world. Computers and cranes equal less brains (I made up the last bit!)
Brainless people are disregarding the egyptian's intellegence... smh
History channel Aliens guy: *gets haircut*
I'd like to see evidence such tech was used. This guy uses modern thinking, based on devices and principles we have around for sure, he's an inventor not a re-discoverer. You don't make a 100.000 pyramids around the world in a few 100 years without super-tech. It's direct proof we were hopping continents for a long, long time, sharing ideas, the very reasons for making the pyramids are as well above and beyond our understanding, today even.
it's funny because it's not science-fiction nonsense yet it's still incredibly impressive, worthy of the title "the forgotten technology"
It's funny because these geometrical shapes were not even known back then, and this guy was spinning a huge block on literal flat and level concrete. You guys are dumb.
There must be so much knowledge we lost through war.
@@GardenofEdensWell, war, tyranny, shoddy record keeping, and time in general.
Yes in war everything is destroyed like books had been burned, that's why its forgotten and destroyed
@@GardenofEdens Not just war, when you create technology that make your life easier, you forget the techniques and knowledge you used before because they are not needed anymore.
These are some badass backyard projects. Science is fun!
Hey, Ferb. I know what we'll do today
Okay... Lowkey, the 'ramps' in 0:10 look so much like the jagged line that is found in between all the hieroglyphs. Would make sense if this is something they saw prevalent all around, just like all their other hieroglyphs is pictures of things. Apparently this line translates to things like 'to, for, of, through, in, because, not, cannot, unless, no, they, we, us, and our', which also is very fitting for this feature. Instead of the 'water ripple' interpretation
Probably a sign that used to just communicate exactly that construction. Them later got used more flexibly before finally having its origins forgotten and only the flexible word remembered.
Not sure if thats *actually* what happened here. But it wouldn’t be the first time something like that happened.
You can read in Aku Aku secrets of Easter island by Thor heyerdal how a group of men lifted one of the largest statues on the island from lying down to standing. They used long pieces of timber as a lever and raised it inch by inch each time it was raised a rock was placed underneath to hold it. There was then a large pile of rocks supporting it until finally it was lifted enough for the final push to stand it upright. He has written about the great structures build in peru. The pyramids in Egypt are not the only great structures of the world built from stone. They are all over the world.
all that just fo lift it meanwhile the ones who built it?
There is a lot of info in the book about how the statues were carved as well. It's really worth the read.
@@ilyarepin7750Yeah, a single person can make a statue out of a huge rock... That's easy... And "all that"?
They were carved directly out of the hills and then already standing upright they were tethers by rope by many people in different directions and then walked all the way to its final destination. By way of tilting it from side to side and its centre of gravity would be over one side and then slowly but surely it would walk long distances. There is broken statues along the road from the quarry all the way to the lines of statues that stand today, these ones broke and were left where they fell over to this day
They actually carved them laying on their back. The back was the last thing they carved away to stand them up. Please read the book if you'd like more information. In fact you should read any thir heyerdal book you can find. He was a great thinker of our time and a true explorer. Kon-tiki is a must read. Green was the earth on the seventh day is also great.
This is not forgotten technology, I use this almost everyday in my shop, moving heavy equipment around, vehicles, pieces of metal. It is only forgotten in this wonderful computer world. Great video with alot of common sense.
Computers won't move objects around, oil and electricity does.
@@falsemcnuggethope computers can tell you how and where and how to move stuff.
@falsemcnuggethope...Do you see any electric motors or internal combustion engines, working above?
It’s only forgotten by those who think ancient stone structures must have been built by aliens because they can’t conceive of any way it can be done.
wood would not hold up the weight of those thousand ton megaliths.. its not on the same scale even slightly.
this video demonstrates techniques that could work, maybe with a well-made steel. but not even the toughest wood could withstand the weight of the large blocks.
pretty stupid explanation actually
A relic from ancient times.
See kids, this is how people used to build ten years ago.
You know a video's gonna be lit if it's uploaded 10 years ago and is 240p
You know I'm surprised its in 240 for being 10 years old. I remember things being mostly 720 or 1080 back then. 240p would be like 20 years ago. Its entirely possible that he filmed it in the early 2000s, found it one day, and uploaded it.
@@KnightGlintyeah 10 years ago is 2014
fantastic recommendation 11 years later. No ads no sponsors no 10 minute intro or soyfaces. Right to the point in an easy to understand way.
Conspiracy Theorists: Bro how could build mega big rock tower with no lifty truck huh? Aliens!
Archimedes: Hand me a lever, a place to stand, and hold my beer.
It’s an interesting video for sure but come on man. We can’t build an exact duplicate of the great Giza pyramid today in 2024. Any idea of how perfectly complex it fits together ?
@@RaiderNation816 we can build it, but no one actually wants to, it's expensive and time consuming with little to no actual use, unless some eccentric rich guy decided that they want one, another pyramid is probably not gonna get built.
@@Sqiud3 - lol no we can’t dude. It’s construction has baffled experts since its discovery
@@RaiderNation816 there are theories about how they were built, and there are many different ways they could have built them, however we don't know how the pyramids were built, not because we have no idea how they did it, but because we don't know which theory was the exact one.
And we clearly can build one with modern technology, there are trucks that can carry entire space shuttles weighing several tons, some people even decided they want their entire houses moved ,and that can be done. The only reason why no one has built a pyramid with a similar size and material, is because, as I said, no one actually wants to, it's expensive and time consuming, and literally has no use, spending that much money can't be justified for a structure with such little use. No one would pay for that, unless as I said, some eccentric rich guy decideds to pay for it. Just because you can't understand how the pyramids would be built with modern technology, doesn't mean that we can't actually do it. If you really want, I can go through a simple explanation with you, in fact would be happy to, but I'm not gonna write a whole detailed essay, a youtube comment section argument is not worth that much effort.
Also, I have one question, why do you think it's impossible to do it with modern technology? And I'm asking for the specifics, I'm genuinely curious for the precise reason to why you believe it's impossible, and don't just say "because it is" or anything along those lines, as that is not a sufficient enough reason.
@@RaiderNation816The discovery channel CLAIMS its construction has baffled experts, because a real explanation would be boring television.
Ancient humans were far smarter than we give them credit. Shit they were smarter than us. The tools that make our jobs "easy" have us forgetting that level of ingenuity that was needed to complete large tasks back before the technology we've had over the past century.
There's not much difference in intelligence between humans now and humans 200,000 years ago. At most we're maybe 10 to 15 IQ points higher. We've just gotten better at not killing our geniuses and inventors for some dumb reason like witchcraft or superstition.
Damn, you mean the communist zoophiles and nationalist white race supremacists i see on twitter might be a sign of declining average intelligience?
I don’t care what anyone says. The guy is a genius.
100% real genius and original thinker which is above a genius
Was... AIRC, he died a good number of years back.
@@bwhog technology lost again
R.I.P.
More like everyone these days are below what used to be average
I mean he didn’t come up with these 😂
0:07 if it looks stupid but it works it isn’t stupid. It is deviously simple but I would never in a hundred years think of this
It works the same way a wheel does on flat ground, except the flat ground is the one spinning around the wheel. It’s fascinating
As a contractor who does a lot of structural work, I move plenty of heavy things. People are constantly amazed at what I can move without help. Familiarity with basic practical physics and mechanics isn’t that complicated folks! Whenever I’d watch these stupid shows about how we don’t know how these huge things were moved, or worse that aliens did it, it’s just so clear they didn’t consult an actual builder or engineer. That and a real lack of practical imagination and creativity, AKA problem solving.
Also, the heaviest stone ever moved was the Thunder Stone, the plinth of a Tsarist statue in St Petersburg. The moving of it is thoroughly documented. It was moved from Finland in the 19th century using simple techniques that could have easily been employed thousands of years ago.
That anyone could go from “wow, how did that get there?” To “must be aliens or some supernatural force” without any stops along the way is just amazing. It’s ok if you don’t know the answer. It’s not ok to make up crazy shit without consulting experts.
2 days from now RUclips will recommend this to everyone
only took one day after this comment.
One day
it is 2 days later and here i am
It took 2 days for me 🤙🏾
I'm not everyone, but I got this 2 days later
Wait, are you telling me that people who understand basic physics can move loads greater than modern people think?
This is legitimately the greatest video ever. Mind over matter.
People always forget about human ingenuity.
For example when we are trying to figure out how the ancients built the pyramids, there are a few dozens trying to figure it out, most of them from behind a desk.
It is VERY different from thousands of ancient engineers trying to figure it out for centuries, actually building smaller prototypes, and getting way more funding for it than today.
I would bet they had a lot more tricks which they didn’t write down.
I know how this guy is doing it. Years of listening to unhinged theories have allowed me to fully grasp what's really going on here.
He's an alien.
There is not one one thing about the construction of the pyramids that cannot be accomplished by man by using multiple methods of construction and engineering.
70 tons......
King’s chamber?
This guy raised a 10 ton slab by himself, I'm sure making it 70 tons changes absolutely nothing.
If you can see-saw a block and shim a new balance point back and forth, it gets raised little by little.
@@g.e.o.r.g.e...exactly
@@DeontjieYeah, this guy is able to move a 20 ton rock all by himself.Imagine what you can do With hundreds of people seventy tons is nothing
*this video will probably appear yet again in your recommendations, probably 5 years from now*
Only took 3 years, 9 months, and 11 days this time. The interlace translation string must have incurred time dilation when moving beyond the emitter array's field... The next iteration will be closer.
@ I doubt so, the algorithm probably is gonna recommend this 10 years or something.
pops into recomended 10 years later
When people say " there's no way man could have built this" they don't take into consideration that it was probably the only thing to do, and they didn't care for safety standards.
0:31 The Mario Whomp slab squeaks out "Stop Stop Stop Stop Stop StopSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOPSTOP!"
So no alians or magic, its just human ingenuity and physics's that make sense 😮.
He didn’t figure nothing out here , the granite stone is in Aswan it’s like 700 Miles away from Egypt, figure that out
@@Lsingnatureworldif only there was a large stream of water between Giza and Aswan. And if only the Egyptians were smart enough to engineer some sort of floatation device from wood or conjure some papyrus reed raft.
@@Lsingnatureworld Lmao, you folks claimed they needed aliens to even move the stones shown here. Just admit you're wrong. Those ancient humans were simply far smarter than you.
@@Lsingnatureworld float it down the Nile Einstein. 👍
🤫 shuuuu if God hears you saying that you'll be sent to hell and youl have to pay 11% of your life income. He can read your mind U No.
"pamiętaj młody, dobrą dźwignią wypie.dolisz kulę ziemską do góry " tak mi mówił ś.p. Grześ z ktorym robiliśmy u kamieniarza...
I learned about him because his grandson was in my class. I have a DVD somewhere that has more videos and he used to have a website
BRUH
UPLOAD THAT SHIII
Put it on with generic sci fi clickbaiting title once you uploaded it
And milk RUclips money out of it
I second the previous guy. Upload it!
People often ask "How did the Egyptians build the pyramids?" but I figure they just started from the bottom and worked their way up.
Why haven't we seen this in our history books. There's no need to keep it out.
I’m glad this was recommended to everyone, people need to see how easy our problems are and how blinded by technology we have now which makes things too easy
you're right now turn off your smartphone;)
Bro, leverage is fucking sick honestly. Both in construction and in arguments.
And stock market
And relationships. And with employees
😂...so true 😅
Snatch blocks are another amazing tool I don't know if they're leverage smarter every day
Technically...most of this "forgotten technology" is actually still being used today. That's why we have very very nice things like vehicles, buildings, bridges etc etc
Bro people will even still do the type of things shown in the video to this day if they don't have expensive modern machines that can move heavy objects for them.
0:20 is the stupidest one, people putting levers on fulcrums and wedging them under heavy objects to lift them in this simple fashion is still VERY commonplace lmao
Why do people keep asking about transporting? In the beginning it shows him push a 300 pound block across those saw tooth looking things. Uses it on weight to move forward. All he needs to do is scale it up people.
Still a bit of a mass difference....everybody trying to come up with their own methods but not one of them use a block almost identical to the ones at the pyramids. It's like crash testing a car chassis using the real thing and the toy - we all know the real one will crumble but the toy remains mostly intact.
@@JustAnOrdinarySimmer You can use that tool he made for rotating the blocks to flip them end over end, since it provides a bunch of leverage. You can also rotate the stone back and forth on alternating pivot points, kind of like you would with moving a very heavy piece of furniture... where you tilt it back on its corners to shift into place.
The majority of the Pyramid blocks are ACTUALLY the size of the stone he's rotating (the medium sized one, not the huge slab), roughly one cubic yard.
It's the huge ones that don't make sense say at like 1,000 tons wouldnt the weight of the stone just crush the wood?
The heaviest block in the pyramids weighs from 25 to 80 tons @@Rork333
Honestly, it's probably more efficient to make a wheel encasement around the block so that it can be rolled on flat ground. Really depends on how many stone need to be moved. If it's thousands of stones, then building the rounded sawtooth rails is probably more efficient. Then if you multiply the amount of laborers, this idea isn't insane.
The hardest part is feeding all the people and animals that are needed for large megaprojects
I was a solo carpet installer for years. A couple of sawed up broomstick rollers underneath and a baseball bat in each end and there was nothing I couldn't move. Of course carpet rolls are cylinders, so they move pretty easy on one axis.
as of 2019 his website is dead . cant find any videos of his either ,
Oh!.. El ingenio preindustrial.
Gracias por compartirlo.
Look at all that alien technology....
This guy is awesome!!! Thanks for keeping ancient technology Alive!! :)
As an infant from Senegal who once moved a stone before I ask let's take a moment to appreciate the some finer point of the video that most people don't appreciate and then in another ten years we'll all go algorithm wow together
If you're ever in Sicily, go to Archimedes' technology exposition in Siracusa. The place is full of these hands-on neat construction, military or hydraulic technologies that you get to play with.
Every mysterious ancient technology video be like: "It's impossible for people at that time to..."
cut granite with micron precision and move it up and down a mountain?
@@ilyarepin7750 If only there was a nearby river to easily move super heavy objects... If only there was a material known for being very abrasive all around the nearby area...
@@ilyarepin7750 Micron precision??? What are you even talking about?
a 40sec video in 360p from 10 years ago about something i will never use was real what i needed. thanks youtube algorithm
This is Wally Wallington demonstrating ancient megalithic structural building techniques he used while building a 1:1 concrete duplicate of Stonehenge on his property in Michigan.
I might be misremembering a detail, but he was mentioned in an episode of the Skeptoid podcast many years ago.
Look him up.
Ingenuity is the best tool for a human to have.
Dude created a fully operable radar with a huge stone and some wood.
Shocker engineers have always existed in civilization
Who woulda thought! Basic physics and manpower gets shit done.
Understanding the possibilities of leverage is the key to many mysteries of the ancient world.
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
Archimedes
How did they built the Pyramids ?
By starting at the bottom.
Amazing how simple these examples are once you see them in action. No aliens needed!!
Amazing how you science zealots see one small portion of an equation that may or may not fit and you blindly accept it as THE answer.
whats he actually moving though.. quality is so bad that could be freaking plastic for all we know
@@matthewoppp6881 lol. That is your excuse now?
Just admit that you've never done anything but sit in your basement and play video games and cannot imagine humans building large things.
@@23Butanedione "science zealots"? What are you talking about?
Science is literally just the study of how things work. What exactly do you dislike about trying to understand things?
@@jamisojo Or i could be here calling out people who have no clue. THis is not lost tech any kid with have a brain can do this. But it still doesn't explain doing this with something 10 times then weight and size
It's amazing the things you can do on flat ground.
Perfect example of the difference between technology and technique.
Leverage, Egyptians used ""Johnson Bars"" just like modern machine movers Who knows what knowledge we lost in the library in Alexandria
Lost? You mean stolen and locked away in the Vatican. There's 5 miles of bookselves in the Vatican. The fire was just a diversion.
They been doing this for 1000's of years. Hitler did it. Alexander the great also did this. These men were told to pillage whats valuable and destroy the rest. The US did this after WW2. Operation Paperclip - we took 1500 scientists from Germany and put them to work for us. Some of the positions they filled was at NASA and other government companies.
Anyone who thinks ancient peoples couldn't build pyramids or Stonehenge are severely disrespecting human ingenuity
what's forgotten in all of this is the word leverage. Look it up. Not one of these threads has that word in it. I don't have the time to check every single one of these replies but I'm not seeing the word leverage. and common sense has nothing to do with leverage.
This type of information should be on a television show.
So the most amusing part for me is 0:10 because one of the jokes in my language translates to "moving the circular things by carrying them and moving the square things by rolling them", which - normally - is something you do the other way around.
And in 0:10 I can see someone legit moving squares by rolling them. Great video, 10/10. 😊
Seasons of ancient aliens debunked with a 40-second video of a man at home, left to his elements
0:24 me when I drink soda
you are so awesome!...aliens my ass
"It must have taken alien technology to make the pyramids!"
Ahmes the worker, half-drunk on Bouza:
The problem with assuming the Giza pyramids were built using these methods is that their structure and placement disproves this. The giza pyramids have mathematics that align with the ratio of distances between the earth, moon and sun. These structural behaviours prove 3 main things - that the egyptians had a concept of a heliocentric solar system that was not a flat earth, which would be an incredibly unusual view to have at the time; that they knew what the distances between the objects were despite apparently not practicing astronomy or astrophysics, and mainly measuring using rope and wheels; and that they had these structural designs likely to communicate something on multiple levels of understanding. The pyramids themselves are made of interesting substances - the rocks that were used to build the pyramids were made of quartz, and they coated the outside of the structures in limestone - seems like a piezoelectric energy device to me, just from an electronics standpoint.
It doesnt seem like something people would have the intelligence to build back then; because humans today barely have the intelligence to understand it beyond diminishing it to ruins of an unremarkable structure made by dedicated cocaine addicts with sadistic tendencies
Or you could stop drinking the Kool-aid.
Everything you said had nothing to do with anything
now imagine 1 million laborers...some kratom tea and some bad ass leafs to suck on like coca and them dudes would be making it happen..one pyramid coming up
WOW! so humans did build the pyramids! lol
Nah, it was reptiles from the moon. They're still here hisssss
90 tons though? Him spinning the stone doesn’t explain being able to place it perfectly on the side of a mountain and 15 feet or more off the ground. All he’s doing are science experiments, i understand the pint he’s trying to make, but the scale is EXPONENTIALLY bigger when you talk about Peru, Egypt, Asia, Easter island. this works, to a point.
It's a 42 second video briefly explaining what one man can do, now imagine hundreds of thousands of ppl with millions of hours of combined work with centuries to devise the plans. Not very bright are you...
I presume that when you were young you fell and all your IQ points fell out.
What people don't realise is that he built a time machine, and used it to go back in time. He then built Stonehenge all by himself.
Forgotten technology ❌
Basic physics ✅
This is really beneficial to engineers who try to build solutions with technology instead of their brains.
I grew up as a stone mason. I didn't use any tools like that, but I could maneuver a 350 lb stone into place by hand, no tools, learning to use leverage, and how to spin and roll the stones.
Impressive. Farmers in Scotland still row trees weighing tons out of fields. It a simple but impressive technique that can easily move standing stones accross land.
what people need to understand is that it doesn't matter if it's 70 tons, 10 tons, or 500kg. this video showcases the concept, you can scale it up as much as you need to. if you can single-handedly move a 500kg block using any of these methods, you can figure out how to move a 70 tons block too
😂 un ingeniero indígena nos dijo una vez hacer machupicho y las pirámides es cuestión de paciencia, lo que hoy en día no se tiene....
plot twist: these are actually empty wooden boxes covered with concrete like paint to cover for the ancient aliens
One of the most mindblowing videos on the internet!
It really is easy to forget that people were just as smart and inventive thousands of years ago as we are, if not more so.
Just visited Meteora in Greece where 600 years ago they built on top of cliffs. They joked the build only took 20 days. After 20 years of hauling materials up top. Guess we know how they pulled it off.
I don't think most people would say that it couldn't have been done this way. It absolutely could have. The problem lies with how incredibly accurate they were with their alignments of it all. That's what people find unfathomable, along with the building of it in general. There's a lot more missing to this than just how they moved the stones. If they were off even a tiny bit then it wouldn't work the higher up u go. That's what's incredible.
His name is Wally Wallington in case you wanna see the full videos.
RUclips, you're weird. Thanks for the video.
our ancestors (and some people alive today) deserve way more credit than what they actually get ;)
so someone just found this in some random park and started playing with it like they were a kid again lmao
Okay! I’ll put this in my favorites playlist but would have liked a more detailed explanation for how it all works please!
its always astonishing to me, how creative and innovative we humans are. If you really think about how crazy it is, that there are billions of us, all having their own little lifes and universe surrounding them. Insane thought.
I used to move boats for a living and used a lot of these techniques, it's amazing what you can do with a few blocks of wood and some wedges. There's not a thing on this earth that man couldn't have built himself, sorry Ancient Alien fans 🙂
What about baalbek? 800+ton blocks transported and placed into position with high accuracy.
@@joacim9159 Yes, even Balbec in the Lebanon. Take more than 1 guy mind 🙂
@@rogerbartley2225We could barely do it today, with cranes.
A testament to the ingenuity of our ancestors.
"This isn't a one person job."
That one guy at work
Archimedes once said:
"If you give me a lever and a place to stand, I can move the world"
Ahhhh, I was wondering for so long how and why they lined them up Astronomically perfect. Thank you for clearing that up.