How did they build the Great Pyramid of Giza? - Soraya Field Fiorio
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2022
- Explore how the ancient Egyptians built the Great Pyramid, a tomb created for Pharaoh Khufu which took over 20 years to complete.
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As soon as Pharaoh Khufu ascended the throne circa 2575 BCE, work on his eternal resting place began. The structure’s architect, Hemiunu, determined he would need 20 years to finish the royal tomb. But what he could not predict was that this monument would remain the world’s tallest manmade structure for over 3,800 years. Soraya Field Fiorio digs into the construction of the Great Pyramid.
Lesson by Soraya Field Fiorio, directed by Luísa M H Copetti, Hype CG.
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Is it possible that this pyramid was actually a telescope? In Islamic history, Pharaoh instructed Hamam the architect to build a very high building so that he could see Mose's God. So... I just think that may be this giant building was a telescope that directed the view to specific direction which they suspected as Mose's God, like the brightest star or something. May be
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The pyramids of Giza are made of concrete. In other words, the pyramid stones were not carved from rocks, no one carried the stones. Many of the megalithic structures that can be found all over the world prove that the earth is hollow. (Hollow earth) I am sure, I can explain it with visuals to anyone who wants. Example: Sacsayhuaman megaliths.
But I'm afraid of the monsters of the hollow earth.
There's still time for you to delete this non sense theory video
By the time Cleopatra was born, this massive structure was already ancient. Imagine that.
I know.
Did you know mammoths were still alive during these times?
Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than she did to the building of the Great Pyramid. -NASA
She was closer in time to the first McDonald’s than the pyramids
@@anthonyramirez9925 T-Rex lived closer in time to Burger King than it did to Stegosaurus.
Exactly, that is like Us to see Roman Ruins is ancient > Roman see Giza Pyramid as ancient too
It is mind blowing right
Can you imagine seeing this bad boy in it's hayday? Just a radiant white, a gold cap that beams on the same apartment everyday in the afternoon. Just overwhelmingly massive and spectacular, an accomplishment that would let any future person know how great and powerful you were. Just astonishing.
imagine looking at it the wrong way and the sun at the top reflects into your eyes
@@wren_. Some Ark of the Covenant beams right into the retinas lmfao. Love our Pharaoh Khufu, great idea 10/10
@@wren_. Woke up in the morning, staring straight into the sun.
We should build a replica
In its heyday.
For those curious, the “electrum” metal made for the tip is an alloy of silver and gold.
Thanks. That one got me thinking when I heard it.
Isn't the gold capstone idea an unfounded idea? Nice to imagine but there is no evidence for 4th Dyn gold capstones.
@@martinross6416 Correct. We have no idea what the capstone was made out of. There is no evidence at all that the capstone of the great pyramid was covered in electrum. There is a surviving pyramid capstone that has remnants of gilding, but it comes from the 26th dynasty, 2000 years after the great pyramid. It's usually the justification for claims that the great pyramid capstone was gold covered, but that is incredibly weak evidence, if it can be considered evidence at all.
Oh god oh no it's so major.
These pyramids are the definition of “I want to leave a lasting legacy of our ingenuity and engineering “. Simply impressive!
Or it could be interpreted as the biggest ego in the ancient world. I do think that they are absolutely astounding and beautiful structures.
Speaking of a lasting edifice, Sort of like Donald Trump and his "Great Wall" or his "Grand" hotels?
wrong lmao, you think they even knew about future? common, they just wanted to build legos before legos were invented nothing else.
Well, actually, gravity hadn’t yet been invented so lifting the stones for building the pyramid wasn’t hard at all.
:)
Accurate assessment.
Gc14
discovered, not invented
@@siddharthjain6897 satire, not fact
Weird theories and speculative fiction often overshadow the story of the real designers, laborers, and engineers that must’ve worked on creating one of the great wonders of the world. Great video
The fact that you believe building something like this only takes 20 years is absolutely mind-blowing. Some of the more crazier theories (like the alien ones) are even more believable at this point in time. You just don't like it that people are finally realizing that we're missing a VERY big part of our history, and that a handful of people know more about it but refuse to tell us what it is/was.
@@De_Jere prove it
Aliens rrly?
@@De_Jere
Lay off the pot.
@@De_Jere Correct!
~It's easier to lie to a man than to convince him he has been lied to.~
This Hemiunu guy was not just an architect, but probably the greatest logistic mind of all mankind's history.
Not true Tibidus was the greatest scholar at that time period
logistic miiiind
@@notscarce9112
Pretty big job
LOL if you think about it it’s more than likely that the mf just claimed the building credits by carving it over the previous Pharaoh that claimed the build credit… why would humans ever need to build something so massive just to bury one VIP
Hemiunu must be the greatest architect of all time. How could one possibly think of material and design 12 years ahead and still have no room for error especially when each of those 2 million stones are at least a ton in weight? The blocks are so close that you can't even put a penny between them. Thinking this all happened 5000 years ago is a multiverse of madness.
Hemiuno was not an architect and he never thought of making the pyramids. There is absolutely no evidence that that happened.
Not to mention setting into place each block every 3 minutes continously up to 20 years. Not just the greatest architect but also the greatest engineer or probably the greatest mind, the greatest human being that ever lived up to this very date!
Like we do now : you actually leave room for errors. You make everything a bit bigger and readjust it on site.
@@mr.warlight9086 ok ok it was the aliens who did it 🙄
@@Master_Jerms wonder what happens when one has to go potty. Did they have a laborer ready for substitution immediately? LOL
Imagine the level of intelligence and creativity of the people back in the days Never had they ever imagined their creation would be a mystery centuries after
Are you sure? Why else would they build gigantic monuments, traps, and secret passageways? And if we are to believe that they believed that whomever they buried wouldn't remain buried but "ascend" (more like descend) to the underworld, why bother spending so much time on perfecting every last part? Why include a bunch of hieroglyphs, details about the pharaoh's life, achievements and so on if no one was supposed to read it? And are we really to believe that not a single Egyptian ever went back to one of the pyramids to check to see if all of the rooms, all of the unfathomable riches had been transferred/transported to aforementioned place? I have a hunch that they very much knew (at least some of them) that it was all just a crazy ideology that they were imposing each other with. I suppose that also explains their downfall when people began to riot.
matchless craftsmanship is the phrase that Jung used for the works of the Ancients. Indeed.
Who knows what knowledge they had that has been lost forever? Not saying they had spaceships and computers but many things in more recent history have been repeatedly discovered by coincidence
@@cipher3966 exactly. Lost tech *doesn't* mean it *was better.* It only means that humans forgot about them
They certainly had one of those rare geniuses like Newton.
I just love how humans are so determined to find how pyramids are built
You should Love how humans were so determined to build such pyramids
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I think this videos explaination looks promising.
despite our technological advances, we have so many logistical and resource issues that knowing how they managed to do that could give us insight on how to improve ourselves.
I know there are many reasons as to why historians would like to know how pyramids were built, but I like to think that they just want to own the alien conspiracy theorist.
They are determined to mislead you. Just look at pictures of the stones. They are shaped to be interlocked so it would be extra stable. Plus there are 70 ton stones inside the pyramid that had to be raised 350ft… A lot of the shocking mystery of it is left out on purpose.
Bro imagine working for 20 years on this thing, just for aliens to get the credit
true 🤣
That’s because they didn’t work for 20 years
@PseudoTertioo okay! I remember what i mean now!
So i think i was going off what the architect thought how long it would take
@@PseudoTertioo Yup. 2.3 million stones quarried, diced, transported, and placed. These stones were 2-70 tons each. If they worked nonstop, 24 hours a day, no night/week/holiday off, then that means they would have quarried, diced, and placed a stone every 6 minutes for 25 years straight to build this thing. Absolute nonsense that it was built within 25 year period.
@@josefkainrad yeah is either it took way longer than that or the aliens theory is actually real. Which is not far fetched considering the fact that this planet is millions of years old.
I remember when I was at Stonehenge the guide told us that it was built around the same time as the pyramids in Egypt, all I could do then was compare the two to myself and think how much more interesting and impressive the pyramids were
:) for sure! Go check out Gobekli Tepe. Even older and weirder.
Apples and oranges really in terms of scale. Different climate and politics. Comparison really is the thief of joy.
Still, crazy ancient which is fascinating
What?
Fun fact. You can make a wall. 1.3 meters tall, 5cm wide, circling entire earth equator, just from the stone of 1 pyramid of Giza. That is how big in comparison the pyramid is, and also a reason why some scientist still doubt it was made in just 20 years.
This sounds like a Trump manifesto pledge.
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this sounds more reasonable in 20 years, not sure if its really done in that way, but sounds logical.
@@NeonVisual where do I sign?
Isn't this like 2.5 m^2? That's just a demonstration of how volume works
you are correct.
1.3m * 0.05m * 40075000m = 2,604,875 m^3 = 2.6 million m^3 which is the volume of pyramid Giza.
History channel be like: Aliens
What do you mean bro? It was built by aliens, Elon is never wrong.
@@soumyabratachakraborty7283 🤣
@@soumyabratachakraborty7283 and who saw that
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Here, before it blows up...
I like the idea that they used internal ramps. It makes a lot of sense and this idea has been researched heavily over the past few years.
As much as I want to believe all of this, none of us were there, so we'll never know for sure how they built it.
I find it so insane that people at that time were able to create something so spectacular.
The Marriott Hotels sponsorship was the biggest surprise. Had to re-watch that part to make sure I heard it right the first time.
Makes sense, since the pyramids are a huge tourist trap. Have not seen an ad in a Ted Video, though, but I suppose in the end, they are just another RUclips channel, subject to the same revenue needs as the rest.
It's pretty obvious it's a tourist scheme. "Yeah these hunter gatherers just managed to do all this with copper chisels and hammers, come look at it!!"
Makes a lot of sense actually, they have a huge hotel complex next to the pyramids gate.
This would be an enormous achievement even today. Simply ridiculous!
You bet. Each stone weighed 2.5 tons. The Egyptian people didnt lift nor drag these stones. I believe the stones might have been levitated into place which is technology that we dont have. Just like the stones in places like Stonehedge or the precision carvings in Puma Punku Peru we did not lift nor carve these masterpieces.
@@deborahdills4670bro. The human mind managed to hallucinate so vividly we invented calculus. You are telling me our ancestors can't figure out how to move/lift rocks into a place?
Let put it this way: can you make a fire by your self in the middle of a jungle? Because our ancestors can. Just because we "can't" do something doesn't mean it's also impossible for our ancestors to do it.
@@deborahdills4670more like 80 tons
@@lolz6337 try 8000 tons.
Imagine if we got wiped out but the Burj Khalifa still stood erect.
The next civilization would be like WTFFF!???
If Hemiunu did really existed, he would be the greatest person humankind has ever produced. Greater than Einstein and a thousand more geniuses combined. Just imagine the initial planning of the construction of the Great Pyramid alone, with it's chambers, tunnels and narrow secret passages all under millions of tons of rock, requires mastery in architecture and engineering. Finding the solid foundations of bedrock practically at the centre of the Earth's landmass to erect the Great Pyramid so it would not be prone to earthquakes, shows his uncanny skills at geology and surveying. The construction of the canals and foundation itself rivals the effort in constructing the pyramid from it's base, showing his knowledge of advance project management templates. The pre-planning and the actual effort in quarrying and transporting the stones, the support needed in terms of food, water, tools, clothing, maintenance etc shows his uncanny mastery in logistics engineering. The precision of placing the stones, almost perfectly fitted to each other, almost perfectly at a level, the absence of obvious bulges at the sides, which means meticulous effort was given to place the right size of stone to the right position, the same on the slopes of the corner, hence, seen from a distance seems perfect, shows his great knowledge of advance mathematics; and again, engineering. We could only replicate it today using laser optics and robotic sensors. We could only surmise, he did it with his eyesight, sticks and strings. All of this, from a man who barely emerged from the Stone Age, and he did actually built the Great Pyramid in 20 years! (Egyptologists actually confirmed it, so no debate on this). He was a master of various disciplines, Einstein was only good at Theoretical Physics. Hemiunu clearly displayed both genius and grandeur!
I wonder why we haven't built a great monument for this man. WE SHOULD!
I demand Marriot Hotels should initiate the effort!
LMAO!
😂 😂😂 so many idiots will watch this video and just take their word for it
"Greater than Einstein and a thousand more geniuses combined" what a load of nonsense 😂
@@King_Kenlee Even now, you, a 21st century man wouldn't have the logistical, structural and mathematical skills to design and build the Great Pyramid according to it's specifications. No one man can, using primitive tools, and despite all the accumulated knowledge acquired we have today. That is why we still don't know how the Ancient Egyptians actually did such a complex structure that still exist after thousands of years using only simple mathematics and bronze age tools. That an alleged Bronze Age man was able to do it, without evidence of the linear processess of how he acquired all the necessary disciplines to build such a complex structure requires more genius, Einstein's Theory on Relativity would look like child's play. That's nonsense to you, because you do not know the complexity of building such a structure.
True. These things are just mindblowing when You think of them
Unfortunately this video is wrong in MANY places. It's WAY older than what they say. The stones weighed around 2 tons (4,000 lbs) each so pulling them with rope wouldn't work. The "sleds" used for transportation would not be heavy enough to support the weight of the stones. If they used ramps, they would have to be at a ridiculously shallow incline because of how heavy the stones were, so it would then have to be really long AND be made strong enough to support the stones. FURTHERMORE, the kings chamber DID have granite beams but they were 50 tons and 20-70 feet up....how do you lift that much weight, that high???
Seriously, and they uploaded this a month ago....
Archeologists proved themselves wrong when trying to show how the stones were cut using copper blades. It took them days of work to go through a few inches of granite. You can still see the video here in youtube.
It’s a shame they didn’t apply some common sense or investigation when making this video.
sorry but YOU are wrong in many places. show some respect to the egyptians!
@falkooo002 unfortunately I am not wrong. There is evidence to back up everything I wrote.
@@mackersun nope there is not, or is your evidence just „it could not be done“ that is ridiculous, it is totally nonsense… why should they not be able to move 2 tons with ropes? Did they fly the Stones to their Place ? 😀
Wow. If a Hemiunu could accomplish _that,_ just imagine what a _whole_ Unu could do.
Dude would probably make the great hexagon
rofl!!!
Haha!
Well played 😂
swing and a miss....
the only reason these thing is still there is because it's too big to fit inside British Museum
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Awww, poor baby :(. At least the Bri'ish colonizers cared more about the Pyramids than the current Egyptians will ever do.
😂😂😂😂booooooom
@@De_Jere of course they did. that's where the loot was
@@itiswhatitis235 The number of people interested in looting the pyramids was staggering. Of course the Muslims got there first, but it turns out the Egyptians had already looted them thousands of years earlier. By the time the British got there, there was little left besides one short lived pharaoh's goodies, and a few stone tablets...
Woah, the ingenuity is brilliant 😃 Dispatching workers to prep materials 12 years in advance + the fact this structure remained the tallest man-made building for roughly 3800 years. Incredible! Thanks for the awesome edutainment 🙏🏼
It's crazy to think that the wheel hadn't it been used in Egypt yet but they were able to move the stones and build such a crazy tall structure
Great pyramid was 2550~ bc
Wheels were 4000 bc
@@mobmob145 not according to these guys. 13km long line of sleds instead. Yep. Makes perfect sense.
@@henrlima87 try driving on sand lmao
@@henrlima87 it does. You wanna try pull a cart with 1 tonne block through desert sand?
@@henrlima87it’s a better explanation that the one you provided.
Just to realise that they made such a magnificent structure that it is seen by awe by people 4600 years later, especially it's accuracies in measurements when there were no usual measuring method or the scientific laws of physics,is just downright astonishing.
It will be interesting to know how the egyptians even gathered all the information to make such a structure.
They also found how to preserve a body
Egyptians were truly intelligent and interesting people
My guess is that they had mini models of the structures.
Not to mention the Egyptian devolved and learnt nothing as the building in Cairo are terrible and an insult to the Ancients. Where did all that skill go to??
The math and engineering aspects of the pyramid is still exceptional
To get an exact idea of how the Pyramids were built I recommend you guys to watch the documentation- "The great pyramid" by Fehmi Karanshiqi its 3 hour long and gives a really satisfying answer to all the queries
Cleopatra is closer to our time rather than to the making of this structure
It's downright mind boggling!!
Egyptians didint build it ice age civilization 13.000 thousand years ago did
How they cut granite is still unknown to this day. Copper was way too weak to handle it.
The ancient India temple also has granite carvings. Really fascinating.
@@TON-vz3pe the Indian tectonic plate was split from African plate.
@@ArunKumar-pu8gi and
You can cut rock with rock easily.
Tools can be used to push sand and cut abrasively.
it was copper saws with gemstone teeth, I think sapphire
HEMIUNU was indeed a genius.
That 12 year forward planning... It's undeniable the people at the time had advanced mathematics, precision measuring & time measuring tools
He didn't build it. Check out channels uncharted X or Bright insight for a more accurate information with evidence you can verify yourself
Would a genius build the greatest monument in history to be a burial tomb for a pharaoh? Using sleds and no rocks to quarry rocks?
No internal hieroglyphs to explain its purpose, but I think there was a greater purpose for its construction.
What is gatenbrinks door? This answer may explain it?
I don't know how many pyramids they had already built at that point so what impresses me the most is how they even knew that it would be possible to build this one and how much resources it would take.
Remarkably, with the Great Pyramid, the Ancient Egyptians essentially got it perfect on the first try.
I can think of 4 recognized pyramids before the Great Pyramid beginning with the Step Pyramid (6, if you count 3 which were built by one pharaoh who was apparently experimenting with different forms). Nothing close to the scale of the Great Pyramid had been attempted prior, and only 1 pyramid close to the same scale (by the son of the Great Pyramid builder) has been attempted since.
They eventually built over a hundred pyramids.
@@jpx1508 thanks for the info
There are hundreds of pyramids in the region. Kemet, or ancient egypt, was the last great city built by ancient Africans
The "fact" that they had to place a block every 3 minutes everyday for 20 years makes this method an absolute joke.
Don’t take the Egyptians use of limestone for granite.
hahahaha! get out!
Oh come on this should be top comment already
Nice
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great. i just love the way the ideas are presented. not too complex vocab. i can understand up to 90% of the whole video
As an Egyptian who is super interested in our ancient periods, I can tell you that this video incorporates a lot of non-facts without any disclaimers. Rare occurrence by this channel that I have a lot of respect for.
It's mainstream propaganda
Then go make your own video Mr know it all
@@jayo3074 I don't need to, there are many sources for people who are curious
@@jayo3074 maybe he will someday
@@rickynoodles2816 he won't he's too busy criticizing others
megalithic sized buildings built around the world from Pukahukahu o Hera (Easter Island) one of the most remote places on earth to Egypt tons were moved with ease by the ancients
Sería interesante ver el registro de las herramientas que usaron, junto con la cantidad de agua, vasijas transportadoras y como hervía el agua para evitar enfermedades, la comida y hasta el desgaste de los materiales con la arena, por cierto habría que ver cuantas inundaciones tuvo el río Nilo durante la construcción de las pirámides junto con el sistema sanitario de drenaje si hubo, para ver que tan posible era eso de construirla en 20 años, debió ser un poco más sugerencia.
1 - quarries like Aswan were in continuous operation for centuries. Ergo the engineers would have known before the foundation of the pyramid was laid out how much granite was required. Further as the quarry was in continuous operation it would have had on hand partially quarried stone - thus reducing the time needed to fabricate the granite blocks. While the blocks of the King's Chamber are better crafted the granite relieving slabs above are very crudely shaped rather than carefully quarried blocks.
2 - limestone is a sedimentary stone and thus forms in layers like a cake of varying densities. There are loads of videos on YT of stone masons splitting hard stone blocks into approximate shapes/sizes via driving a line of chisels into the stone until expansion causes it to break. So they were not individually shaping millions of blocks of limestone. They were quickly fracturing off approximate chunks of stone along the natural layers to lever those onto sleds and cart them away. The quarries of Giza show trenches cut along the bedrock with places for wooden levers to be inserted to break free chunks of stone. So only a small amount of the total blocks were carefully cut. Most were essentially "stacked rubble".
3 - the worker village at Giza contained many tens of thousands of cattle bones. Tomb depictions such as in the tomb of Hunefer shows a large sarcophagus being pulled on a wooden sled = by a team of oxen. An ox can pull more than 2X its own body weight. So while men might have also pulled laden sleds there is evidence of draft animals on site at Giza. Thus if they were consuming cattle they most likely also used them for labor as well.
4 - the 20 year timeframe is misleading. Herodotus wrote they first spent 10 years creating "a great causeway" in addition to spending 20 years on the pyramid - ergo 30 years. That most likely means they spent 10 years doing the foundation etc. and building up the underlying structure - he also said they first built a stepped pyramid ala Djoser - to then spend years applying the carefully cut and polished casing stones to make it look neat.
5 - they did not drag the Tura limestone across the desert. The diary of Merer - which dates to the 27th year of Khufu's reign - details how via wooden barges stone was transported to a harbor facility they built at Giza which sat adjacent to what is today Khafre's valley temple. Geological core sampling shows Nile mud 6-7 meters below the surface of the ground. Merer also relates they created a system of dikes to channel water to the harbor so as to allow these heavily laden barges to access it. So it was during the 2-3 months each year when the Nile was high that stone was transported to Giza.
Final thought. The blocks of the pyramid are smaller as it rise in height. The largest/heaviest blocks are found in the bottom half of the pyramid closest to the ground. So the smaller blocks above could be raised via a lever device using a fulcrum/counterweight akin to the Egyptian shaduf. Herodotus referenced their using levers and what he termed as "a machine" which could have sat upon the "steps" to raise these smaller blocks to the levels above. So a ramp did not need to go to the top. So it's nice you created a video to speak to this but it's' highly superficial nature gives a misleading impression. Dig deeper. 🤔
How do you know all this are you an egyptologist? also did some stones come from Aswan quarry? and what do you make of some of the perfect stone cuts across Giza that are perfectly cut, for example the 25+ perfectly carved granite sarcophagi, 80+ tons in the Serapeum
This video strikes me as a pathetic attempt to explain away the pyramids with our pre existing ideas about egyptian history
@@ABagOfLag I slept at a Holiday Inn Express. 🤣 Also:
1 - what we see is less "perfect" than some assume. There are videos to be found on YT which using modern measuring devices show the sarcophagi as an example have less symmetry than some claim.
2 - yes granite came from the Aswan area where deposits of it exist. The Aswan quarry reflects different areas of quarrying which date to the Old Kingdom period going forward.
3 - the Serapeum was in existence from the early New Kingdom until the end of Ptolemaic Egypt when the Romans shut the temple down. Those "nice" sarcophagi you see photos/videos of reflect the last to be added. That means as noted Ptolemaic Egypt which is well into the Iron Age - thus they were crafted using iron tools. Also they weigh less than some claim and having access to iron then means iron-reinforced transportation becomes feasible.
4 - you know that Egyptologists have unearthed underground caches of mummified animals around Saqqara - literally millions of them. Think about what that represents. The creation of mummified animals - or sarcophagi and statues etc. represented = and entire industry in ancient Egypt.
Ergo there were tens of thousands of craftsmen turning these things out year after year century after century as demand was constant - and not just for the Pharaohs either. Stone sarcophagi have been found in the tombs of wealthy individuals as well. So anyone who could afford these items = could purchase them with you getting what you paid for. Pharaohs and temples employed their own caste of artisans who were "salary workers" turning out items for their employers. Everyday people might purchase a cheaply made statue as a votive offering or a burial item whereas a Pharaoh or wealthy person might commission a "museum quality" piece. Dig deeper.
meh im doubtful that even with the lever tool and animal labour the pyramids at Giza could have been built in 30 years. They seem too Gargantuan and perfectly slated to the cardinal directions to be created in that short period. There's also no compelling explanation in Egyptology for why they made it 8 sided and why the Great pyramid captures equinoxes. Surely this all isn't chance. It was intelligently designed by an advanced civilization and I don't think the current understanding can account for all of its intricacies. Also surrounding the great pyramid and sphinx the temples show incredibly advanced stone masonry that is evidence of highly skilled tools and stone cutting technology. It definitely wasn't done with copper tools.
Its also very strange that although it is alleged the egyptians built these pyramids and we know the dates and time frame, not a single hieroglyph about how they did it has been found. Yet they have documented every other aspect of egyptian life in hieroglyphs all around. you would think they would document how they built those gargantuan things, if they were the ones who did build it that is.
@@ABagOfLag You seem enamored in parroting talking points as opposed to actually thinking about what you *DO* see. Just saying.
Moral of the story: the "perfection" argument = is a myth as already alluded to. The pyramids are best viewed as "stacked rubble" surrounded by what as once a layer of more carefully cut and polished blocks to make it look neat.
Note what I just said = "surrounded by...". Thus what we see today was *NOT* intended to be seen. Accordingly there is no "8-sides" as we are seeing the inner core as opposed to the finished product - which was never intended to be seen.
Think a bridge. How is one built?? Answer: they start on opposite banks and build towards the middle. Usually there is a slight variance with one side being higher than the other - which is paved over so you don't notice it.
So the "8-sided" nonsense is an optical effect when the Sun's is above and the shadows run down the centers of the 4 sides. If they like a bridge filled in from the corners to the centers of each side then you might end up with a "line" where they meet in the middle which the Sun's shadow then captures. The rest of your argumentum ad ignorantiam merit no response. 🥱
@@varyolla435 These aren't just talking points. These are inconvenient facts that the mainstream understanding of construction can't explain. It is not debatable that the pyramids are accurately aligned with the cardinal directions. It is also not disputed that out of all the hieroglyphs in Egypt, there's not one that details how the pyramid stones specifically were cut, quarried and placed to build the pyramids. This requires explanation, because they have detailed far less important and impressive information such as how to dry reed many times, but something as significant as the pyramids being built isn't documented anywhere.
It is also a verifiable fact that the stone masonry on the Giza plateau, surrounding the sphinx and in the temples of the area are perfectly placed and fitted to the point where not even a credit card can fit in the cracks between 2 rocks. This requires explanation because that level of precise stone work can just barely be achieved by our most impressive tools today, which Ancient Egyptians supposedly didn't have. There's absolutely no chance that copper tools could create that level of stone mastery and precision, which is what the mainstream understanding purports.
The truth is, we cannot explain how they pyramids were built even today because the theory goes that ancient Egyptians built them using copper tools. These are the only tools archaeologists have discovered around the site. And anybody with eyes and critical thinking skills who has done enough research can agree that those Pyramids and temples were not built with primitive copper saws and chisels. Especially over the suggested time period of 20 years or even 30. It's an untested hypothesis which amounts to guesswork.
Wow really Ted? The truth is we still don’t know how they were built!
Unbelievable, TED = minus zero credibility.
Hemiunu thought to make the beams for the pyramid 12 years before he was gonna use them. I wish we had people who could plan like then today. We need more hemiunus
Great Video. These pyramids were so old, that mammoths were still alive when this was built. Wow
Crazy to me how, even if we they did use ramps, it would have required more material than the actual pyramid itself. And if that was the case, where is the material for the ramps now? We have no idea. It will likely remain a mystery until the end of time how they did this.
Wrong - dig deeper. First is that the largest/heaviest blocks to be raised - meaning the relieving chambers above the King's Chamber - are actually = below the halfway point. So the largest blocks are primarily found closest to the ground. Above the King's Chamber the blocks are smaller in size as it rises in height. So those large blocks below would be raised via an earthen ramp - while the smaller blocks above could be lifted via the device Herodotus wrote of akin to the Egyptian shaduf employing a fulcrum and counterweight. He wrote such devices sat upon "the steps" to raise the blocks to the levels above.
Next is the material for the earthen ramps - and there are smaller examples of them in the western cemetery adjacent the Great Pyramid attached to partially completed tombs = is in the surrounding desert. When the limestone quarries at Giza were excavated years ago they found massive amounts of ramp filler material - sand/stone chips/tafla - had been dumped into them. So upon digging away the ramps they dumped the residue into the quarry pits to backfill the area. As an aside. Tafla is a clay they mined and used for a host of applications. Near the worker village at Giza is the remains of a large tafla mining operation. So as we see = there is always more evidence out there.
p.s. - man has used hemp ropes for millennia. Steel cables are a fair new invention you know dating to the 19th Century.
maybe they build the pyramid from the top down by carving out the ground…
@@DealthTheGreat Ah......no. The pyramid itself is made of blocks while the adjacent quarry shows where they were removing "blocks" in a systematic manner.
You will never get a like from TED talking like that lova. Gotta remember..it was built in 20 years using nothing but copper chisels and stones. There was no math involved and it was all guess work. If you believe anything else at all you're one of them conspiracy nuts.
@@varyolla435 Ill have to look into it more. I just find it hard to believe they were able to drag 80 tonne stones up ramps in such a way. Its also hard to believe a clay, small stone, and sand structure would even be able to support that weight at all. Its still not 100% confirmed how they made them. But the theories ive heard have some holes. Just seems like there may be more to the story with the sheer complexity of the pyramids and the timescale in which they were built. Amazing stuff either way. If I had a time machine ancient egypt at its height is the first place id go
79K views and not one person is asking or wondering about where the source of this information comes from.
what is the source then?
@@manuelg4867 You'd have to ask Soraya Field Fiorio - go to her website and send her a message. PRO TIP: Don't stop there, keep going and do your own research. Seek and you shall find - good luck!
It’s very impressive that they had so much insight into building something so large. How would they know how much support it would need to keep it from collapsing?
there's plenty of collapsed pyramids from before this one was built. so they probably took notes
Its worth noting that all we can see is just the pyramids that are still intact today, we cant see all the pyramids that collapsed entirely (and maybe they used that stone for other buildings, so there s 0 remainings left) 😊
How can a pyramid collapse when it's not empty inside
A pyramid is an extraordinaly stable shape though. The weight is less and less with height.
@@PixelCore-te5tm There were only a couple built before this and they have not collapsed. The Great Pyramid was one of the first ones built, not a late one.
Can't even imagine the intelligence Egyptians had. Truly mesmerising temples oblesiks pyramids the sphinxs. Really wish I go there someday.
Even more insane that The Sphinx was built before the Egyptian's existence by previous inhabitants of the Nile
If only it was this simple
They keep creating these kind of videos for the absolute simpletons so they can pat themselves on the back and say "see, that's all there is to it, it only took 20 years for 25.000 non-slaves!". Even the absolute crazy over-the-top conspiracies are probably closer to the truth than this video is.
As simple as telling a story and people just believing it? Locking it in their minds regardless of the evidence?
@@taboovsknowledge1603 Except people BELIEVE Hemiunu worked on it. So in the end of the day, we're all going on belief.
Holly S! I just realized that a pyramid is just a sculpted hill! They didn't have to move any giant rocks up, they just had to move the chippings accumulated at the bottom to hide them far away, then carve the inside of the hill to make the tombs. Sometimes my genius... it's almost frightening!
HOLLY S! THEY WERE ALREADY SCULPTING GIANT STATUES! IT'S ALL ADDING UP!!!
Are you high?
One possible scenario is that they could have utilized a form of stone casting where they poured liquid material into pre-constructed molds and allowed it to solidify into stone-like blocks. This technique would have required a deep understanding of materials and their properties, as well as sophisticated mold-making skills.
The idea that this colossal mountain of stone was laid at a rate of 1 80 ton block every 3 minutes for 20 years with a precision that is unrivalled in some ways to this day is patantly absurd. There is also a great deal of speculation presented as fact in this video. There are so many serious problems with the current leading hypotheses for this project.
This videos is absurd.
From children in the garden to genius architects of antiquity. The most primal human desire is to stack cool rocks
The scale is just mindboggling
The great pyramid actually has 8 sides and not 4. It's very difficult to see, and would probably been more noticeable with the casing stones on.
Actually it has 16 sides. But you can see it when you close your eyes and pretend
@@kwesisalim 32 sides to be precise
@@anonymoussoul3343 nope. the man is right. it has 8 sides, take a drone and take a photo looking down
@@kwesisalim nope. the man is right. it has 8 sides, take a drone and take a photo looking down
@@DRAWKCABLLA nope. the man is right. it has 8 sides, take a drone and take a photo looking down
Could the cedar wood really support that much weight on it?
Also how did they cut the stones into near perfect measurements by simply breaking away at it?
No I don’t believe aliens built them in genuinely asking
A theory that explains a lot of the "mysteries", and that I like more, is the one that says that they actually made all the bricks on site, limestone cement bricks. That way they wouldn't have to move 20+ ton rocks across the desert or lift those same stones to the top of the pyramid. It also explains why all the "stones" are so perfectly "cut", it's because they were made using molds!
Someone with common sense asking questions no archaeologists or Egyptologist has ever answered correctly or truthfully. The base foundation that the pyramids lay on (not any of the blocks used for the pyramids) the blocks are over 1,000 tons.
There are videos of guys in India in modern times breaking stone blocks with metal pitons and a hammer. Breaks are so clean little polishing is necessary.
@@tpink3792 I ask you to look at youtube channels uncharted X and bright insight. The provide evidence to back their presentations. You see drill marks not only in pyramids and megalithic structures in Egypt but also the same drill patterns in megalithic structures across the world.
@@kcopara1 🤡
I would SO enroll in this study😂- it IS frustrating not having better quality data on this common problem!
The work of them for me is an extraordinary example to never give up.
Incredible feat of engineering
Would have loved to have seen them right after they were finished. Long live Egyptian know-how.
I love the fluid motion in this animation
One idea involved as to how fast they were able to move the limestone and shape it without hardening is lubricating them with water to get them moving up the ramps. Sometimes rocks get a little thirsty
this video is a piece of art
Great pyramid of giza is tombs of pharaohs I think this pyramid indeed has a mysterious process because until now it is standing the laborers and architect of great pyramid is doing a good job. the great pyramid of giza is so important for Egyptians since it is there history but during Egyptians pharaohs reign there are many requirement of being their laborers. Great content and i love your videos.
WOW I was just consuming hours of conent on this topic yesterday. Perfect timing!!!
Wow… that’s so beautiful
Proud of our history, country, and ancestors.
Is there a record for staying the tallest artificial structure the longest? Cuz this will definitely win
what a sheer tenacity accomplishing something like this
I’ll start studying when I find out how the great giza pyramid were built.
Amazing people!! Saying everything was "aLiEnS" takes away the merit from these incredible workers who dedicated their lives to give to us all an eternal wonder that withstand time itself!
The James Webb Space Telescope of projects of its day, but vastly more mass displaced and human muscles involved. Truly fascinating.
I am sure future humans will look back at the JWST project in a similar way to us looking back at this. It is mind-boggling that humans of that time were able to achieve it.
Nope
how does this relate to the great pyrimids. If you know anything about building you would know that those structures would be hard to build today. let alone thousands of years ago. In the future the jwst will be like us having binoculars.
@@koohami I don't think you understand how much had to go correctly for the JWST to even function, nevermind construct it on Earth and put it on top of a potentially highly explosive rocket.
Everything had to go absolutely perfectly in every aspect every single day, 365 days a year, for 20 years. Sounds legit.
Someone clearly has no idea of what they squawk online.......... 🙄
@@varyolla435 That's compelling. Your cynicism doesn't make you smert, Very.
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the narrator is so confident in her speculation
She really is tho isn't she? Smh 🤦
I sure do love those funny triangular things
Why are they funny?
@@braahqwekutv3142 because he said so.
@@FishingPerro916 still doesn't make em funny tho
@@braahqwekutv3142 bro they're soooo funny tho
Why would you omit information that the massive granite blocks had to travel from aswan 800kms away
Ahh, finally something that doesn't talk about aliens or mysterious "lost ancient technologies". Just solid maths, logistics and craftsmanship!
You really believe this? 😂Mitsubishi tried to build a smaller version of the pyramid and they couldn't do it and that's with modern equipment. You believe people used rope to move blocks over 2.5 tons to well over 100 tons (ground foundation that the pyramids lay on) ? People cut granite that's almost as hard as diamonds with soft copper or bronze tools. When diamond tip saws can't do it in a reasonable amount of time (look up US patent) Smh 🤦🏾. Lastly let's not forget that no Pharoah has ever been found buried in a tomb.
@@kcopara1 +the coincidence or maybe not the speed of light is same as the longitude of Giza...
Lmao and the orientation
@@kcopara1yes. Please provide evidence and documentation of Mitsubishi ever doing that.
@@jamisojo Try using Google. Don't be a lazy skeptic.
@@jamisojo And don't do a cursory search and say i couldn't find it then I know you are lying. This what most so called skeptics do.
Intriguing, love the accurate representation too❤
I consider the architect responsible for the pyramid's creation a genius and the best one of all times. To build something that still lasts over 2000 years and hasn't fallen to ruins is a miracle. Shame nobody wrote a journal about the entire construction, that would have been great but maybe the writing about it wasn't so common.
great video about the Egyptian pyramid! where can I listen to the music separately? it's so good!
Love how you say all this without a shred of evidence
"How did they build the Great Pyramid of Giza?"
ANSWER: We still don't know.
i have heard (specifically, learned in an Egyptology course) that there is a lot of debate as to whether the pyramids actually had those capstones, but that obelisks have been recovered with their caps. does anyone have a source for the caps of pyramids?
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Those builders were insane!
I am also impressed how was this constructed
now we know how they were built. still extremely impressive
If your not a bot.
Just like that? Ted makes a cartoon and your sold?
Look into what really are the (10) mysteries of Egypt, and not what the TV or a Ted cartoon says is the top ten!
If you do appreciate things that are extremely impressive!
We don't know how they were built, because we don't know what is inside them yet, beyond the burial chambers. Its VERY likely they are filled with stone rubble from the quarry, because some of the little pyramids are filled with it, and there would be a LOT of it left over after so many stones were cut and shaped. This could also explain how they were built so fast, with almost no tools.
@@taboovsknowledge1603 oh no the conspiracy nuts arrived
Watch videos as much as you can, only when you come and look at them for yourself, you will know that no video on the internet telling you how they were built is believable.
Nice animations though.
I like how its animated like the way their hieroglyphs looked
Smh even in a 5 min video now a permanent bonus ad
As an engineer it always amazed me and I admire the ancient Egyptians.
Yes, workers placed an 80 ton stone every 3 minutes for 3 years, that makes a lot of sense, and that's exactly what happened as described on the documentation they left inside the pyramid. I'm grateful for the historians/screenwriters that always feel the need to enlighten us evidence-free stories, I mean, look at the pretty pictures. I wanna know what Khufu was thinking when the workers began the construction, did you guys find his diary?
Very few of the stones were 80 tonnes. Only some of the granite stones were that size and they are only a fraction of the overall building material. Most of the stones were only 2-5 tonnes and were quarried right next to the pyramid itself. They were not precision cut. Most were quite rough. Only the very outer courses and the chamber stones are very precise. Thousands of workers in teams could very well lay the stones at that rate. It was done in a very organised way by different teams doing different tasks. Not one team cutting a stone, then hauling it to the site and then setting it.
@@HonorableBoor Who should I learn my Egyptian history from?
This whole fairy tale is laughable. Especially the precise engineering aspect of the pyramid. The technology required to even plan such a massive structure is said to have not existed for thousands of years, yet somehow did. The great pyramid is a much older structure than the times of Khufu. The advanced civilization that built it for a purpose that is not yet understood. It was certainly not a burial chamber. Critical thinking is finally discrediting government propaganda in many areas of science and history.
@@Lastmanstandin64 "The technology required to even plan such a massive structure is said to have not existed for thousands of years" - Says who?
"The great pyramid is a much older structure than the times of Khufu" - Evidence?
"The advanced civilization that built it for a purpose that is not yet understood. It was certainly not a burial chamber." - What was the purpose of the sarcophagus found inside?
Do you believe that none of the pyramids were used as burial chambers or just the great pyramid?
@@Leeside999 Says who? Let's try some critical thinking again. If it was a tomb, why is it connected to an ancient ground water system? Why does it have no signs of smoke char or other gas use if it took 20 years to build in a time without electricity? The cutting tools were very basic thousands of years ago. Don't you think such a creative genious might have created some better tools by then? (none were found) Who says it was a sarcophagus? Other very shabby replica pyramids had them all painted and embelishing their king, but the Great Pyramid had none.Why the different stone structure and layering for the chambers? No explanation by the ancient Egyptians was ever found giving construction details to great pyramid. Just some of the weak, flawed copies.
ahh, the ted ed intro sound just never gets old
Im gonna make my own pyramid after this. Thank you ❤🙏
Now, it's an academic channel post about the pyramid of Gizza
Egyptians who viewed this video:hey man we know this since 4th grade but we want to waste our time and feel proud 😂
Today's Egyptians couldn't care less about the Pyramids and have zero connection with it. Have you seen the ACTUAL images of the site? There's basically a fast food restaurant right next to it at this point and they keep building closer and closer. The absolute disrespect...
@@De_Jere I agree with you as we have many factors can make us the richest country in the world but everyone is caring only about his own business not the community but trust me Egypt one day will be the best in the world If Egyptians learnt the value of it
@@De_Jere Too bad the pyramid is too big for your empire to steal it.
We have no idea how things were then....this video speaks as though it was literally there in those days
If it was built before younger dryace or later, the amount of effort and if labor were used, its huge appreciation.
Badly recited Hancock nonsense.
Of the Seven Wonder of the Ancient World, the Pyramids are the ones that still remain.
Taj mahal of agra? Ever heard of it? Wall of china? Ever heard of that? Huh
@@bat-man_42069 Sadly they didn't make it on the original list. You can thank Herodotus for that.
@@J1P2K I think that's because the list and Herodotus is older than both. Can't blame him for that.
@@bat-man_42069 Taj Mahal, are you joking? You compare a somewhat modest sized palace built in the 1600's with this ancient masterpiece?
Now that is called ENGINEERING and modern world.
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Can you imagine if the Vatican or Buckingham Palace, as mundane as it is was plundered and scattered, placed in crates, vaults and museums around the world. Imagine the British having to go to China to see the highly studied remains of Elizabeth the 2nd.
Regardless truly inspiring video covering an exceptional piece of human accomplishment and we are so proud to have lived in a time to experience what is left of it!
Heminu proves that the ancient engineer is genius.