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What technology did they use to move the largest Obelix in the world from Egypt to Rome? It was done in the 4th century AD and weighed 450 tonnes... Is this also lost ancient high technology?/
Have you guys done any research on what Solomon's shamir was or how it worked? >>In the Gemara, the shamir (Hebrew: שָׁמִיר šāmīr) is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond. >>King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the First Temple in Jerusalem in the place of cutting tools. For the building of the Temple, which promoted peace, it was inappropriate to use tools that could also cause war and bloodshed
The sheer size of this 450-ton stone block at the Giza Plateau is mind-boggling! It's a marvel of ancient engineering and craftsmanship. To think that such a massive stone was moved and placed with the technology of the time really challenges our understanding of the past. What are your thoughts on how this enormous block could have been transported and set into place?
Most likely by a technology we do not use. The precision and size of each block makes 0 sense in terms of efficiency for us. We use concrete and bricks that can be laid by hand. The precision of the blocks is something we reserve for our most necessary works. And we only use that type of precision on small scale because we use CNC machines.
Of course, your comments are great, but 700 likes in just one day is as mysterious to me as the mystery of the pyramid. 🙁 Perhaps you must be a celebrity. ✨🙏🏻
@@scotch_onrocks1876amazing what humans can accomplish given enough time, wealth, manpower, Power. I find it very sad that so many people think so little of humans and our potential.
When you're quarrying, cutting and transporting stones in the 1 million kg+ range, you are effectively displaying that your capabilities are beyond comprehension. Great work again. Keep it up Ben. 👍🇭🇲
A reminder to pseudo scientists. Lack of evidence is NOT evidence for non-existence. Thankyou for understanding the narrow lens we look at the past with
@@Nineteen1900HundredHe’s quoting a popular quote used in the ufo community. But in this context it means that a lack of evidence for machine tools being used on these stones, does not mean the tools didn’t exist at some point.
@@DARKSEID76there is also zero evidence that the pyramids were built by slaves. Zero evidence as to how they did it. In fact there is more evidence to show that they had a technology we don't understand. People that use that quote are not seeing evidence they are denying evidence right in front of them.
Ben we love how you never compromise on a video. When you put one out, it's above 30 minutes and has amazing detail and accuracy to your standards. Thanks ben.
Under water sure, but I assume something like a massive ass tidal wave did that over a thousand years due to the middle being more erroded, that's why they fall off.@@TheBelrick Maybe the casing stones was stripped due to the fact it showed erosion...
Amazing presentation. That Yusef is still finding surprises illustrates the depth of the mystery. A thought experiment (rather than question): If Giza had no "narrative" How many ages/epoch does your intuition tell you are represented by the erosion patterns?
The combination of erosion and past human activity probably makes it impossible to say anything definite unless new areas are excavated and able to be carbon dated
Yusuf is definitely a gem amongst all other, "[so called Archeologists]:" & gets my vote for not only Head of Antiquitys there, yet for President of Egypt itself! Egypt 🇪🇬
carbon doesnt date stones, and whatever you find on top that can be carbon dated, doesnt necessarely come from the same timing of the stones, unless its between them @@tex7432
I'm a crane operator & mate I'll tell you that you'd need a bigger crane than a LTM1400. As much as the machine works in shaping the stones fascinates you, the transport and lifting fascinates me. I've worked in heavy shift n lift for years and the gear needed for a 1000t is colossal
The 'mortuary' temple is so fascinating, it's clearly a contemporary of the Sphinx, the causeway and the middle pyramid. Together these structures are thousands of years older than the 4th dynasty. Hancock & others suggestion of 11,000 - 12,000 seems about right given the sever erosion
I agree. Super prez Ben. The mortuary temple erosion needs a dedicated video imo comparing it alongside existing evidence provided by geologists (eg Colin reader). I was there a month ago and it felt like it was very, very old. I would put forward a theory, that the plateau was built west to east (with modifications over generations). West to East is the logical format of rebirth in ancient Egyptian spirituality. This might explain why photo luminescence dating of the menkaure pyramid is at least as old as khufu's. Then I would say that the sphinx (though not the temple) came almost last. Per initial photoluminesce / carbon dating, that could put us back up to 1000 years for the pyramids, with the temples and subterranean structures being older still. But I would love to see Ben do a video or two on the dating finds, plus how that could come together for development of the Giza site as a whole. Thank you!
It's time to accept that very advanced civilizations existed before the Younger Dryas event. Cataclysms like that would also send what little would remain of our civilization back to the caves.
@@sickbastard82 Exactly. So why are the "Experts" saying human beings for hundreds of thousands of years, NEVER advanced beyond sharp rock and sharp stick? In Africa. Welp, that seems kinda racist.
well, they at least left granite structures. what our civilisation left behind? plastic and buildings of steel and glass? their remains would disappear after less than 200 years.
Absolutely bloody fascinating, as always! Thank you. How anyone can suggest these things were made in the Old Kingdom (or whenever) with just stone/copper tools, is beyond me! Clearly more ancient, made with some lost technologies.
Exactly. Why should we take into account 200 years worth of academic study of direct and contextual evidence? Ignore all of that and instead believe in lost civilization and technology for which there is zero evidence.
Yeah sure they had super advanced tech... which is probably why the inside stones in the pyramids are different sizes and roughly hewn. And which is why they build pyramids which are basically the easiest structures to build.... And why they used stone 90+% of which they quarried from a quarry that is just 400 meters away. And mortar (lots of it) ... That (and the tools we found and all the pictorial evidence) REALLY points to a super advanced tech.
I work as a Landscaper, and the amount of time and effort it takes to move boulders/pavers/stone in the 100+ kg range is ridiculous. Working in the 100+ TON range is unfathomable.. Especially without machinery, or even ropes/metal capable of lifting/levering such weights.
The Egyptian Pictograph, of this is hilarious 😂 350, slaves, & 20 Giants hooked to one rope & then to a100 TON Megablock! Lol, good thing they had Santa's sled!🛷
@@oocloudoo1549 then why is there 0 evidence pointing to a more advanced human civilization before us? If they were more advanced then why are we here today instead of them? Simply put none of that is true.
@@phoenixophury these videos are proof. Walk around the Giza plateau as proof. You could be the most technologically advanced and still die out as a civilization. Humans aren’t immortal. Solar flare, volcanoes, super virus, societal collapse, etc alll the same things we deal with today. So not only are you underestimating our ancestors. You’re overestimating them as well!
@@phoenixophury another point I’ll make is that if we were to end civilization with nuclear war. We would be sent back to the Stone Age. And after just a couple hundred years the signs of our advancements will be almost gone. Then after 1,000 years plus. You wouldn’t even be able to tell we existed at all! Only rumors about “an advanced civilization that harnessed the power of the atom”
The heaviest object ever transported in modern times is often considered to be the Troll A platform, a natural gas platform in the North Sea. This platform has a total weight of around 1.2 million tons, including its concrete base. It was towed from Norway to its current location in the North Sea in 1996. The engineering feat required for such a move was monumental, showcasing the capabilities of modern transportation and structural engineering techniques.
This made my day! Was JUST thinking "Man, when is Ben gonna come out with a new video?", I hit the RUclips "home" button and BOOM, brand new video from Uncharted-X. Thanks Ben, this is beyond entertainment and curiosity at this point, you've demonstrated that there are VERY BIG questions that are going unanswered, and your digging up amazing clues that could lead to an answer. You're basically crowd-sourcing archaeological mysteries, and the collective of minds who watch and talk about these clues you dig up are bringing results. Excellent work
Amazing stuff yet again . Definitely at least 50 thousand years of erosion. They where definitely made for a really important reason. Full power to you brother . I know the answers are sometimes hard to believe. The technology and tools are one thing . Transport is another . Who would even suggest that the whole complex was built with hand tools and man power ? Keep up the brilliant work . Thanks .
What always gets me is that the stones we're looking at were even bigger when they were moved into place. The final shaping and smoothing took place on-site. As large as they are now, the work done to place them was reductive. The original piece was even larger and heavier. This is seen over and over again. It never fails to boggle my mind since I have no explanation. I like seeing so much video from our tour. Seeing the people my wife and I took this adventure with is fun. It's like meeting old friends.
This kinda stuff is the most interesting stuff in the whole world to me! Thank you soo much Ben for giving us your insights on the subject! Much appreciated botha!
One of the most surreal moments in my life was standing in the kings chamber of the Great Pyramid. The workmanship and sheer scale of it all is breathtaking, the whole place has an "air" about it that I've never felt anywhere else.
@@handroids1981 I was there around 20 years ago, I've been to most of the sites in Egypt and also to Stonehenge and lots of other sites around Europe, but nothing stuck in my mind like the great pyramid.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara Thank you for the response. This is interesting. Can I ask how much the "General opinion." has changed on these fascinating sites?
I believe it was built much faster. Using harmonic activated anti gravity Devices to move the stones. Harmonic drilling for the cutting and quarrying and 3dimensional printing/cutting,shaping of the stones once they were brought on sight. 🤷🏿♂️ We have the mechanical ⚙️ advantage,leverage, and electric ⚡️ bias that we don’t consider that we are actually working “harder “ and not smarter. The wheel is a bad idea made good.
Happy Holidays Ben. Thank you for producing so many great videos of Ancient Site’s. The wonders you have revealed about the stone vases are mind blowing. Respect man…your work most definitely will be attacked by the mainstream scientists, which I’m sure you’ll deal with. ❤
Ben, there's another factor to add to the prohibitively great drag coefficient of friction from a sled on bare ground, and that is the factor of stationary inertia. It is very difficult to overcome the heavier an object is. It does not want to move even though it will move once it has been forced to move and that's because of the other law of physics that says an object in motion will tend to stay in motion. But a colossal object "at rest" will stubbornly stay at rest and will take maybe three to four times the force of pulling it to just get it to start moving. So there is more to moving such stupendous weights than the lesser force needed to pull them along since they had to get the things moving in the first place... without wheels. That violates basic logic and strongly suggests that a lot of technology was needed that is not even being imagined when contemplating how such massive objects were moved.
how can anyone walk past these temples made from bus-sized blocks and not just stop right there, in awe, wondering how any of this stuff is possible. the sizes of those things in the sphinx temple are impossible to overlook but yet you never hear anyone speak of them, especially how insanely eroded they are
OMG. It's very simple. They used copper saws to cut through granite, marble, dollarite. Rolled those 1000 tons bad boys on bits of wood. Hundreds of miles. And/ or floated them on reed boats down the Nile. Then a couple of ropes and BOOM! You got yourself a pyramid!
How crippled we all are in our minds .. when several bits of information like this is left out of our every day education. Here is something else I am interested in .. for reasons I explain. One of my interests is the area of the Pyramid Plateau .. as well as all the other ancient stones and structures that make up the site. One of the issues that represent many 100's of years of misrepresentation .. of a time zone that our educational system imposes a narrative that doesn't make sense. It is spelled out very well in this video. If you want to know something about Moses .. then look at these stories written in stone .. because they would have been in the mind of Moses .. in a condition that is more whole than what we have available today. This speaks to the level of control that the upper class establishment have had on the minds of many centuries of people. When we learn something new .. and it totally unravels something we believed before .. then we need to mark that imperfection .. because it helps correct our direction. Things like that the Great Pyramid is lined up perfectly with the North, East, West, South (NEWS) .. or to learn that it has 8 sides .. not four! Of course there are many many more things .. good questions need to be imagined .. so we can find better answers.
Have you guys seen the way stairs in castles get worn away just by people walking on them. That's 400 years of exposure and those are inside and sheltered. Those statues have been outside for 1000s of years.
Awesome video as usual Ben that erosion dose blow me away especially when you see it built up against the middle pyramid onto the Granite casing stones , maybe you will show that in your next video 🙂🤙
Worked on Aircraft’s for 13 years ,so I have a deep appreciation for Engineering feats period.. I’m completely blown away with the ancients Knowledge & creativity in their construction of works in Egypt. I love hearing the wide spectrum of theories and hypothesis . Great show !
25:03 To get anywhere near this level of weathering of limestone with chemical dissolution (that sponge look) takes hundreds of thousands to millions of years, often hastened by rainwater which results in a smoother but sponge appearance. Weathering can also occur on a more immediate timescale due to factors such as water submersion (lake, pond, be it salt water or fresh) or fertile soil activity. Example, blocks exposed to fertile soil may undergo biological weathering from trees and vegetation over time. A possibility for example the 7m colossal megalithic block may have been in place for an extended period, accumulating approximately 8 meters of soil, or enough to cover it-a process estimated to take between 160,000 and 300,000+ years according to USDA statistics. It's essential to note the structures were already in existence and had been destroyed long before these natural processes began, adding another layer of complexity.
Has any research been done on the placement and positioning of all these stones as to point to what would have caused them to be displaced, toppled, destroyed, etc? More than anything when I watch these videos is asking the question... how did that stone get to where it is now? Clearly something on a massive scale caused it. Great work as always!
Great video. Were those scattered granite blocks around the middle pyramid ever scanned to see if some computer program can piece them together like a virtual lego, to see where some might fit back on the structure itself?
i have always thought one of the most intriguing mysteries to Egypt other than the building of the pyramids and how they managed stone of 100's of tons is why wasnt it documented. They left behind so much information about their civilization like government documents, royal bloodlines, love poems and even customer complaints about scammy merchants but it seems not one word was left or found about any of the processes involved with the building of these megalithic structures and ive always wondered how and why that is.
Yeah, the ancient Egyptian culture, as we understand it, was definitely just the johnny-come-lately on the scene. They moved in onto the ruins of a previous, and far more advanced culture, and usurped it as best they could. Many of the sculptures that are supposedly portraits of this pharaoh or that pharaoh are actually just repurposed. They found the statue, and then had their artisans carve their name into it. You can tell, because the level of technical skill on the carved names is like chicken-scratch compared to the level of technical skill displayed in the sculpture itself. They did the same on temple walls and stone sarcophagi. I don't believe we have any examples of the writing system of the earlier civilization. All heiroglyphics seem to be from the later culture.
@@itzakpoelzig330 very few precision-built megaliths around the world show any information conveyed through carving. One example that pops into my mind is a snake figure on a megalith in South America, and it is in relief meaning that the whole face of the block had to be carved around it which is very impressive. It's easy for the mind to jump to conclusions such as these civilizations having storage devices akin to our computer drives today, especially if they used technology which eerily looks like it was computer-guided in many instances, such as the granite vases and statues. My head is swimming with questions the closer I look into all of this, and past the smoke and mirror bullshit of the mainstream academia & Wikipedia.
Too bad all of this has to be wrong since you don’t have a piece of paper saying you have a degree in archaeology (or gender studies would also suffice - or ANY degree from Harvard).
A degree doesnt automatically make you know everything. There are alot of inventions ect by people without a degree. The people that built these didnt have a degree
Wow. Are you really that naive? And the head of Egypts Ancient antiquity, who I assume has qualifications coming out his arse, that bullshitter and complete AH, Zihar Hawass, is about as clued up as me. Get a grip mate. The Great Pyramid built in 20 years. Is that right? Joke. Couldnt do it nowadays in 20 years! Research it before talking. Joke. Carved, cut and shaped those oblisks by pounding round stones onto granite! Wth. All bollox.
I suggest they were made at least pre Younger-dryas based on the destruction of them being from a heat producing event such as a meteor / comet impact. Brian Forester points out the heat damage to many of the megalithic structures.
It's comical to see the reaches of just how far the people are willing to go to ignore this evidence and explain it with simple bronze age methods, even though the idea of stone and bronze age origin isn't even supported by any evidence.
There is nothing simple about the Giza Plateau. Just trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle after erosion, repair and re-purposed materials is a daunting task. Anyone claiming otherwise doesn't have a clue of what went on...
It just shows how advanced some aspects of ancient times were. They were experts at moving and working with extremely heavy and hard materials. I find it disturbing how easily recorded history can be lost.
@@IcelanderUSer no it doesn't. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which you (they) must prove in order to make the theory of stone and bronze age builders even worth considering. both that it would even be possible AND that they in fact did build them, because i'ts two different things.
Good video, great tour! Thanks Ben. On the limestone erosion of the mortuary temple, it would be interesting to compare how the limestone erosion is heavy in spots on the back of pyramid foundation cut, but not heavily eroded in other spots along the cut. Almost like the limestone is chemically different in certain spots
The gravitational force has the formula: F = (G * m1 * m2) / d^2. m1 is the earth mass and m2 is the mass of the stone. It's not hard to see that an increasing mass will also increase the surface friction when trying to move it. In short: these enormous stones simply want to go down, not forward.
Amazing again. Love it that we see a vid and more stuff from you, then life gets busy and your topics unfortunately go to back of mind. Then you bring out something else and we get brought back to your world with wonders like this and we get blown away again. Thanks again for doing this for those stuck in normal real life 😅
Question: seeing all these large pieces strewn around, laying knocked over etc, would a possibility of a large 'blast' from a comet particle entering the atmosphere and exploding be the cause? I can't see how simple human power could tip over some items.
note how the limestone erosion looks rather like acid corrosion (the concaved bubbling pattern) than water or wind erosion. ps. the painting at 39:51 could just as well be a depiction of the Egyptians telling fables or trying to understand how the massive statues they found already in place were moved. it comes with multiple interpretations; a painting is not scientific evidence for an event or method. it doesn't suggest this was the method they used to move the stones or that they moved them, especially considering how little amount of workers it depicts compared to the size of the statue.
Imagine in the future all they find of us is a picture of a guy with a hammer/nails and 2x4's building a house. Then imagine them asking: How in the world did they get to space?
IMO, Some unknown entity built(around the world) underground safe spaces so humans could survive the flood. The boxes underground held food/supplies, the pyramids were machines, HVAC, light, water, sewer pumps. If you stacked up several layers of the disc of sabu(schist disc), rotate each layer 120deg, put it in a tube of the same diameter, it looks like a Tesla Valve. Move it up and down in the tube and it could be a pump for air or water. If they could manipulate stone so well I imagine they didn't create any artificial material, everything they made was of natural material so now everything is disintegrated or taken. It seems to explain all the evidence, al least to me.
I saw that to. I bet if they just randomly gave tourists those grabby tools that are used to pickup trash without much bending the trash problem would soon be gone and the area much cleaner.
It never fails to amaze me the hubris involved in academia. The old world was so sophisticated. We dunk on them as primitives meanwhile the average man of their time could tell you celestial movements in the cosmos 🤦🏻♂️
Bins for rubbish while a noteworthy idea would soon be overflowing. The native culture frowns upon men participating in such work and forbids women for doing so. You'd think it would be contracted to people who are willing to do such work but the Egyptian Antiquities people are unwilling to spend the money. The Giza plateau and adjoining structures is nothing but a huge cash cow for the powers that be. It's all about the money.
Are there more Lidar studies around and below the pyramids? Did they dig tunnels into the lowest chambers or were the pyramids built from that low level basement up entirely? Also knowing they might be over 12,000 years old, was the terrain once much lower before the mega floods possibly covered it all in mud and sand? Get a team to make some proper 3D models of the pyramids below ground, would be nice.
What’s the price breakdown for these trips? 8 grand for 2 weeks is crazy. You can travel there by yourself and spend 10 days for like $1,200… do we have to get all the 5 star cruises and hotels and bullshit like that? I just want the tours man. I couldn’t care about the hotels. Can’t we just pay for the tours and opt out of all the other extra stuff? I can get my own rooms way cheaper, I have timeshare.
Ben, as a geologist who worked in karst limestone regions for years I can tell you this is not only water based erosion for the most part but it was happening for a long time. limestone is chemically dissolved out about at the same rate it can be deposited in the reverse conditions, about 1cm3/100 yrs or so. so when you see a feature eroded 10 cm back your looking at approximately 1000 yrs. of erosion, in areas with moderate rainfall. Of course acid rain in the last 75+ yrs has increased this rate. Anyway food for thought. oh yeah, there are ways to see where those channeled tunnels go! If your interested? jer
Excellent info! Interestingly, the Giza plateau area usually only has 2 or 3 days out of an entire year with any rain. And it amounts to next-to-nothing. We'd have to go back nearly 10,000 years to find a time when the climate was more tropical and rainy in that area. Throw your limestone erosion math into the equation, plus the time to build such structures, and it's not out of the question that some of this stuff could have been put in place over 20,000 years ago. Chew on that idea for a minute.
Keep in mind that this limestone was covered in granite to begin with. Also, that where we see other evidence of this ancient granite block work, the seams appear to be quite tight making it even more difficult for the rain to get in and erode the limestone. I think it's very difficult to argue that these limestone blocks were not exposed for quite some time during the African Humid Period which ended a while before the 1st dynasty of ancient Egypt. Given the above points, who knows how long they have been there. It seems that it would be at least thousands of years before the 1st Dynasty. Especially given the lack of comparative erosion of the confirmed dynastic limestone block buildings.
@@DGreatAwakening You are absolutely right, many of these structures must be much older than we have been taught. Unfortunately, mainstream Egyptologists stick to their guns even though there is much evidence that they are wrong. Hopefully younger archaeologists have a different and more evidence-based view of this.
I moved a partially loaded 40' sea container by hand, mounted on wheels, using a chain block. The container was approx 10ton loaded according to the sideloader that delivered it. 10 ton was managable. I think i could maybe have moved 20 ton using the same chain block method. I cannot even imagine moving a 450+ ton mass.
@carlosdenevier9538 Yes I alone moved a 10 ton 40' shipping container. But I used a chain block, and I put wheels on the container so it could roll. The effort needed on the chain block to move the container was about half of my strength.
And yes, I can also imagine moving a 450t load. I have worked on 1200t crawler cranes before as an auto electrician. And seen them operate at a concrete bridge pre-fab yard. I just could not imagine doing it in ancient times without complex machines, mechanical power plants, hydraulics etc.
I think the Egyptians we're a civilization trying to emulate what had come before, the Egyptians created an incredible culture itself but I believe like Charlemagne after the western Roman empire fell, he also lived and built up a civilization in the ruins of a older and much larger empire. Egypt could represent one part of a larger civilization that thrived duing the iceage and as we know alos live alongside all stages of culture then too did they live as a higher culture alonside our primitive ancestors lower cultures. Who knows, it may have been a separate hominid species that began these civilians.
One more stone in the already heavy boat of official history...to be honest im now asking how many civilizations over how many thousands of years and..were they even humans?
Great work. The piles of trash and masks around is to me evidence that most of our civilization has no idea what living is. These structures have only just begun to teach us! It is the work of people like you that will be remembered for this not the so called professionals. They posess a monetized narrative that helps no one. Thank you for this and all your work.
Since these blocks were moved/lifted in different structures thru time it wasn't an experiment or luck. To start the building process they were confident they could move/lift these blocks. They could also lift/move the obelisks evident by the abandoned one. Being able to do move/lift such mass, something we'd find difficult today, was no big deal to them.
Thank you Ben! Every video you produce leaves me astounded and just dumbfounded as to how all of the work could have been done. It all had to have been planned to be executed so well and today such planning would have a semi-trailer full of working prints to accomplish. Wonder how they did it? Makes my brain ache from being so dumb that I can't figure it out.
We know that if someone keeps saying a mistake, it will eventually become the truth. Especially if someone in authority says it. I love Ben‘s team looking for facts. Keep it 🆙🙏🏻🤗
The detail gives me a kind of child like sense of awe and the mystery behind the construction, use and age of these megaliths. What I love the most is no-one knows anything except that they are here as evidence
Next time you get back, take with you a spool of fishing line and a small lead and put it down one of the holes in the corsway and see how deep the hole is. Love the videos , good luck 🤞
Why Was There So Much Trash And Garbage On The Ground ? Don't They, The Egyptians Have Someone, Or A Crew Of People There, Which Go Around, And Clean Up The Trash And Garbage ?
Hard to think how anything but insanely large, complex and powerful machines or straight up breaking the laws of physics as we know them could have possibly moved or created these blocks...simply mind boggling
Hey Ben, I've been up and down on ancient history stuff lately. I got depleted when seeing certain things about certain ancient artifacts that disproved most ancient history stories I've had. But Egypt is the one weird one where not everything can be explained and I appreciate your continued efforts to prove what you believe even with naysayers out there. I have been really negative about some of Jimmy's videos lately but this video really brought me back to center and made me remember that there are still so many unexplainable things and even if one thing gets debunked I don't have to throw everything out the window.
@@hiboostchosh Cool? I'm not going to go through and mention everything that he has done. And just because you find something conclusive it doesn't mean that it's fact or that everyone agrees. But I said "so many unexplainable things."
just for the record, today there are mobile cranes that can lift 4000 tons. it wouldnt be problem moving these blocks around. impressive they did it though
The problem with archeologists and historians is they are very much stuck in the nineteenth and twentieth century mindset of the superior modern European culture. They cannot even understand or want to know that history isn’t just a neat and tidy linear timeline of human experience but one that where parts are known as there are written documentation from down the centuries. But there is the unknown that comes before the world of writing and that is what happened before the Younger Dryas. We have myths and legends that have been told throughout history of a time before in all cultures, myths are based on a real history but told in a manner that is easily understood and remembered. Great video and it is wonderful to see the Giza Plateau in a way that is not shown in mainstream documentaries, its as if they don’t want to show the world, what is really there and it’s importance to world history. It’s seems to me that they are hiding something
Oh, and I think I know what the U-channel blocks were for. GREASE. I think they would heat up tar, or fat, or something like that, and the grease would be channeled from where it was heated to spots where it would be used to lubricate these machines.
One thing that ive always been puzzled over,and never had an anwser that truely explains, is ..why? To move these blocks took so much effort and manpower that why didnt they half or quarter the size etc of the blocks and work quicker? Unless it wasnt that difficult for them ?
It all points to a prehistoric mother culture that had high tech capacities and probably existed globally over twelve thousand years ago before something destroyed it. The legends of Atlantis may be a pointer to that.
I think when we are talking about the machines that were used to make these extremely precise by gigantic blocks and statues, what we need to consider is that the main thing separating us from the past in terms on technology is the assembly line, or mass production. Their machines wouldn't be built like ours intended on being made for consumers, they would have been purpose-built, in place, for their specific jobs, and then disassembled, for their parts to be re-used in other locations. As far as what powered their machines, it's possible that they used gear reduction techniques and the machines were actually human or water powered. I think the reason we don't see the wheel implemented in everyday life here should be obvious.... wheels are worthless in sand without some kind of internal power supply. Even today, a modern vehicle is almost completely useless in deep sand unless it's specifically designed to deal with sand, using large, wide tires with aggressive tread, weight distribution to maximize traction, and compact, high horsepower engines, all mounted to an ultra-light, rigid chassis with long-travel suspension. Anything less is practically useless. So they could have understood the concept of a wheel in things like machines, but have had absolutely no use for the wheel when it comes to things like making carts to transport people and goods, they lacked the sufficient material science and mass-production to build those kinds of machines. But, they COULD make very large, one-time use machines that utilized internal wheels and gears, powered by things like water flowing over a wheel and being gear-reduced to do what they needed it to do. They obviously had some kind of advanced technology, my hypothesis though is that their idea of a machine would just look much different than ours, not being made to be used for many years in a shop or something, but built in-place, and then disassembled after they were used, which is why we don't see them around anymore.
A roadway is needed to move Megablocks, & we see here 450 TON Polygonal Stones placed directly into the Bedrock! Wooden sleds are a joke: (even in sand). The fact that Ramsey pillaged these Rose Granite Blocks from Egypts Sacred Pyramids; (shows disrespect, & dissolution of creating his own)!
Maybe we should partly step out of thinking in terms of traditional machining and rethink physics science out of box. Perhaps there exist physics and/or chemistry "laws" we haven't discovered yet. Still our defined four fundamental forces model at work in the universe isn't a zero sum "equation".
Maybe we should partly step out of thinking in terms of traditional machining and rethink physics science out of box. Perhaps there exist physics and/or chemistry "laws" we haven't discovered yet. Still our defined four fundamental forces model at work in the universe isn't a zero sum "equation".
The significance of the volume of amplifying acoustic effect when Yousef was talking is very interesting to me. Is the' kings chamber' actually a resonance amplifier? Has anyone experimented with projecting various frequencies or waveforms into the chamber?
Laphroaig is also one of my favorites - even if it’s a bit of the pharmacy compartment of whiskeys ;) It was mentioned in a Travenian book and I tried it. Great!
Nice job Ben. Keep it up -Each time you mention Chris Dunn in your videos I'm happy to look up to his books sitting on my shelf. As far as i'm concerned his books prove that a certain advanced level of machinery was required to execute the early works
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What technology did they use to move the largest Obelix in the world from Egypt to Rome? It was done in the 4th century AD and weighed 450 tonnes... Is this also lost ancient high technology?/
Would you ever debate the World of Antique guy? Or know anyone who will? He raises a lot of interesting points.
Have you guys done any research on what Solomon's shamir was or how it worked?
>>In the Gemara, the shamir (Hebrew: שָׁמִיר šāmīr) is a worm or a substance that had the power to cut through or disintegrate stone, iron and diamond.
>>King Solomon is said to have used it in the building of the First Temple in Jerusalem in the place of cutting tools. For the building of the Temple, which promoted peace, it was inappropriate to use tools that could also cause war and bloodshed
Great job Ben. Keep questioning and pressuring the Skerptards
You need to give Yussef a lapel mic next time you're wandering around with him.
The sheer size of this 450-ton stone block at the Giza Plateau is mind-boggling! It's a marvel of ancient engineering and craftsmanship. To think that such a massive stone was moved and placed with the technology of the time really challenges our understanding of the past. What are your thoughts on how this enormous block could have been transported and set into place?
Most likely by a technology we do not use. The precision and size of each block makes 0 sense in terms of efficiency for us. We use concrete and bricks that can be laid by hand. The precision of the blocks is something we reserve for our most necessary works. And we only use that type of precision on small scale because we use CNC machines.
Of course, your comments are great, but 700 likes in just one day is as mysterious to me as the mystery of the pyramid. 🙁 Perhaps you must be a celebrity. ✨🙏🏻
@@scotch_onrocks1876amazing what humans can accomplish given enough time, wealth, manpower, Power. I find it very sad that so many people think so little of humans and our potential.
@@scotch_onrocks1876 then we would’ve found evidence for that technology. You mean to say methods we do not use. As we have better methods today.
chatgpt comment...
When you're quarrying, cutting and transporting stones in the 1 million kg+ range, you are effectively displaying that your capabilities are beyond comprehension.
Great work again. Keep it up Ben. 👍🇭🇲
A reminder to pseudo scientists. Lack of evidence is NOT evidence for non-existence. Thankyou for understanding the narrow lens we look at the past with
@@TheBelrick Just curious, which pseudo-scientists are you referring to? Who is claiming evidence for "non-existence"?
@@TheBelrickNice triple negative, now please explain if your English will allow.
@@Nineteen1900HundredHe’s quoting a popular quote used in the ufo community. But in this context it means that a lack of evidence for machine tools being used on these stones, does not mean the tools didn’t exist at some point.
@@DARKSEID76there is also zero evidence that the pyramids were built by slaves. Zero evidence as to how they did it. In fact there is more evidence to show that they had a technology we don't understand. People that use that quote are not seeing evidence they are denying evidence right in front of them.
Ben we love how you never compromise on a video.
When you put one out, it's above 30 minutes and has amazing detail and accuracy to your standards.
Thanks ben.
Those blocks with all that erosion looks like rock under oceans to me. Dissolved.
Under water sure, but I assume something like a massive ass tidal wave did that over a thousand years due to the middle being more erroded, that's why they fall off.@@TheBelrick
Maybe the casing stones was stripped due to the fact it showed erosion...
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Amazing presentation. That Yusef is still finding surprises illustrates the depth of the mystery. A thought experiment (rather than question): If Giza had no "narrative" How many ages/epoch does your intuition tell you are represented by the erosion patterns?
The combination of erosion and past human activity probably makes it impossible to say anything definite unless new areas are excavated and able to be carbon dated
Yusuf is definitely a gem amongst all other, "[so called Archeologists]:" & gets my vote for not only Head of Antiquitys there, yet for President of Egypt itself! Egypt 🇪🇬
carbon doesnt date stones, and whatever you find on top that can be carbon dated, doesnt necessarely come from the same timing of the stones, unless its between them @@tex7432
Imagine if people like Yusef where head of antiquities. Egypt would be mostly understood by now. Its a damn shame
@@Nobbie248 you want a liar in the government? 🤣🤣🤣
I'm a crane operator & mate I'll tell you that you'd need a bigger crane than a LTM1400. As much as the machine works in shaping the stones fascinates you, the transport and lifting fascinates me. I've worked in heavy shift n lift for years and the gear needed for a 1000t is colossal
Agreed.
The 'mortuary' temple is so fascinating, it's clearly a contemporary of the Sphinx, the causeway and the middle pyramid. Together these structures are thousands of years older than the 4th dynasty. Hancock & others suggestion of 11,000 - 12,000 seems about right given the sever erosion
I agree. Super prez Ben. The mortuary temple erosion needs a dedicated video imo comparing it alongside existing evidence provided by geologists (eg Colin reader).
I was there a month ago and it felt like it was very, very old.
I would put forward a theory, that the plateau was built west to east (with modifications over generations). West to East is the logical format of rebirth in ancient Egyptian spirituality.
This might explain why photo luminescence dating of the menkaure pyramid is at least as old as khufu's. Then I would say that the sphinx (though not the temple) came almost last. Per initial photoluminesce / carbon dating, that could put us back up to 1000 years for the pyramids, with the temples and subterranean structures being older still.
But I would love to see Ben do a video or two on the dating finds, plus how that could come together for development of the Giza site as a whole.
Thank you!
@@nickh2541u r exaggerating. I don't have any pics of my life
It's time to accept that very advanced civilizations existed before the Younger Dryas event.
Cataclysms like that would also send what little would remain of our civilization back to the caves.
Yeah I don't think anything we have now would survive the Younger Dryas event PLUS 13.5 _thousand_ years.
@@handroids1981 all we have would turn to rust and then to dust
@@sickbastard82 Exactly. So why are the "Experts" saying human beings for hundreds of thousands of years, NEVER advanced beyond sharp rock and sharp stick?
In Africa. Welp, that seems kinda racist.
@@handroids1981 because they are no experts and they know nothing 😂
well, they at least left granite structures. what our civilisation left behind? plastic and buildings of steel and glass? their remains would disappear after less than 200 years.
Can't believe my eyes when I see all that trash people throw around this place.
Absolutely bloody fascinating, as always! Thank you. How anyone can suggest these things were made in the Old Kingdom (or whenever) with just stone/copper tools, is beyond me! Clearly more ancient, made with some lost technologies.
Yep, agreed. Also chicken scratches on flawless marble.
Where they frequently run out of room for the hieroglyphics??
Exactly. Why should we take into account 200 years worth of academic study of direct and contextual evidence? Ignore all of that and instead believe in lost civilization and technology for which there is zero evidence.
„Clearly“ …. with ZERO evidence 🤣🤣🤣
The evidence is the artifact ya spoon @@holladiewaldfee7518
Yeah sure they had super advanced tech... which is probably why the inside stones in the pyramids are different sizes and roughly hewn. And which is why they build pyramids which are basically the easiest structures to build.... And why they used stone 90+% of which they quarried from a quarry that is just 400 meters away. And mortar (lots of it) ... That (and the tools we found and all the pictorial evidence) REALLY points to a super advanced tech.
I work as a Landscaper, and the amount of time and effort it takes to move boulders/pavers/stone in the 100+ kg range is ridiculous.
Working in the 100+ TON range is unfathomable.. Especially without machinery, or even ropes/metal capable of lifting/levering such weights.
The Egyptian Pictograph, of this is hilarious 😂 350, slaves, & 20 Giants hooked to one rope & then to a100 TON Megablock! Lol, good thing they had Santa's sled!🛷
Nobody is suggesting they were working without the help of ropes and levers
They had ropes? It's impressive but not magic
Concrete. Some carved, some poured in place. The outside blocks are all magnetically aligned w Earth.
Jenny. Your the first comment I seen that someone speaking sense.
I am a civil engineer with more than a decade experience of constructing infrastructures in Australia and I am loosing sleep over how they build this.
We are not the most technologically/scientifically advanced humans in history. We are only the most advanced in recent memory.
God they were just smarter than you and you can't figure out their super simple solution big dumb dumb! /s
@@oocloudoo1549 then why is there 0 evidence pointing to a more advanced human civilization before us? If they were more advanced then why are we here today instead of them? Simply put none of that is true.
@@phoenixophury these videos are proof. Walk around the Giza plateau as proof. You could be the most technologically advanced and still die out as a civilization. Humans aren’t immortal. Solar flare, volcanoes, super virus, societal collapse, etc alll the same things we deal with today. So not only are you underestimating our ancestors. You’re overestimating them as well!
@@phoenixophury another point I’ll make is that if we were to end civilization with nuclear war. We would be sent back to the Stone Age. And after just a couple hundred years the signs of our advancements will be almost gone. Then after 1,000 years plus. You wouldn’t even be able to tell we existed at all! Only rumors about “an advanced civilization that harnessed the power of the atom”
Unbelievable. Those granite casing stones are insane dude. Well done, another incredible video Ben, cheers!
Yes but what if someone spent a year to roughly carve a stone jar with jagged edges? Wouldn't that disprove everything you're saying?
No way bronze age people built these.
The heaviest object ever transported in modern times is often considered to be the Troll A platform, a natural gas platform in the North Sea. This platform has a total weight of around 1.2 million tons, including its concrete base. It was towed from Norway to its current location in the North Sea in 1996. The engineering feat required for such a move was monumental, showcasing the capabilities of modern transportation and structural engineering techniques.
This made my day! Was JUST thinking "Man, when is Ben gonna come out with a new video?", I hit the RUclips "home" button and BOOM, brand new video from Uncharted-X. Thanks Ben, this is beyond entertainment and curiosity at this point, you've demonstrated that there are VERY BIG questions that are going unanswered, and your digging up amazing clues that could lead to an answer. You're basically crowd-sourcing archaeological mysteries, and the collective of minds who watch and talk about these clues you dig up are bringing results. Excellent work
Amazing stuff yet again .
Definitely at least 50 thousand years of erosion.
They where definitely made for a really important reason.
Full power to you brother .
I know the answers are sometimes hard to believe.
The technology and tools are one thing . Transport is another .
Who would even suggest that the whole complex was built with hand tools and man power ?
Keep up the brilliant work .
Thanks .
Yes, only add about 300,000 years onto that 50,000 year date!
What always gets me is that the stones we're looking at were even bigger when they were moved into place. The final shaping and smoothing took place on-site. As large as they are now, the work done to place them was reductive. The original piece was even larger and heavier. This is seen over and over again. It never fails to boggle my mind since I have no explanation.
I like seeing so much video from our tour. Seeing the people my wife and I took this adventure with is fun. It's like meeting old friends.
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Tens of thousands of years old.
This kinda stuff is the most interesting stuff in the whole world to me! Thank you soo much Ben for giving us your insights on the subject! Much appreciated botha!
One of the most surreal moments in my life was standing in the kings chamber of the Great Pyramid. The workmanship and sheer scale of it all is breathtaking, the whole place has an "air" about it that I've never felt anywhere else.
Beautiful. When were you there? How much time did you spend there? Where else have you been to compare?
@@handroids1981 I was there around 20 years ago, I've been to most of the sites in Egypt and also to Stonehenge and lots of other sites around Europe, but nothing stuck in my mind like the great pyramid.
@@DomingoDeSantaClaraStonehenge is a hoax. You know that i hope.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara Thank you for the response.
This is interesting. Can I ask how much the "General opinion." has changed on these fascinating sites?
...I must say it again; There is no freaking way that The Great Pyramid was constructed in 20 years ! No Way 🎉 Thank You, Ben 😮❤
I believe it was built much faster. Using harmonic activated anti gravity Devices to move the stones. Harmonic drilling for the cutting and quarrying and 3dimensional printing/cutting,shaping of the stones once they were brought on sight. 🤷🏿♂️
We have the mechanical ⚙️ advantage,leverage, and electric ⚡️ bias that we don’t consider that we are actually working “harder “ and not smarter. The wheel is a bad idea made good.
No way??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 why not, even with easy 2. class math you can prove, that its no Problem for an organized Civilization like the Egyptians…
Happy Holidays Ben. Thank you for producing so many great videos of Ancient Site’s. The wonders you have revealed about the stone vases are mind blowing. Respect man…your work most definitely will be attacked by the mainstream scientists, which I’m sure you’ll deal with. ❤
Ben, there's another factor to add to the prohibitively great drag coefficient of friction from a sled on bare ground, and that is the factor of stationary inertia. It is very difficult to overcome the heavier an object is. It does not want to move even though it will move once it has been forced to move and that's because of the other law of physics that says an object in motion will tend to stay in motion. But a colossal object "at rest" will stubbornly stay at rest and will take maybe three to four times the force of pulling it to just get it to start moving.
So there is more to moving such stupendous weights than the lesser force needed to pull them along since they had to get the things moving in the first place... without wheels. That violates basic logic and strongly suggests that a lot of technology was needed that is not even being imagined when contemplating how such massive objects were moved.
Your hard work and dedication is admirable mate . These are always excellent . 👌🏻🇦🇺
„Hard work“ 🤣🤣🤣
how can anyone walk past these temples made from bus-sized blocks and not just stop right there, in awe, wondering how any of this stuff is possible. the sizes of those things in the sphinx temple are impossible to overlook but yet you never hear anyone speak of them, especially how insanely eroded they are
Yes indeed, & charts on Geo-Time-Dating, & Erosion rates are still absent from the Geologists, & Archeologists tool kit?
I wonder if anyone ever came up with a shopping list of what it would take to build the Giza Plateau..?
OMG. It's very simple. They used copper saws to cut through granite, marble, dollarite. Rolled those 1000 tons bad boys on bits of wood. Hundreds of miles. And/ or floated them on reed boats down the Nile. Then a couple of ropes and BOOM!
You got yourself a pyramid!
How crippled we all are in our minds .. when several bits of information like this is left out of our every day education. Here is something else I am interested in .. for reasons I explain.
One of my interests is the area of the Pyramid Plateau .. as well as all the other ancient stones and structures that make up the site. One of the issues that represent many 100's of years of misrepresentation .. of a time zone that our educational system imposes a narrative that doesn't make sense. It is spelled out very well in this video. If you want to know something about Moses .. then look at these stories written in stone .. because they would have been in the mind of Moses .. in a condition that is more whole than what we have available today. This speaks to the level of control that the upper class establishment have had on the minds of many centuries of people. When we learn something new .. and it totally unravels something we believed before .. then we need to mark that imperfection .. because it helps correct our direction. Things like that the Great Pyramid is lined up perfectly with the North, East, West, South (NEWS) .. or to learn that it has 8 sides .. not four! Of course there are many many more things .. good questions need to be imagined .. so we can find better answers.
sadly, most of the people that visit there are completely oblivious to that... they travel for selfies.
Myself always wondered, what could destroy 1000 ton statues/monuments? Pretty thoroughly destroyed
massive flood
Metorific, Megadisaster that wiped out this Megolithic Society, Worldwide!
A 1000 ton block is nothing compared to natural and cosmic forces.
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Have you guys seen the way stairs in castles get worn away just by people walking on them. That's 400 years of exposure and those are inside and sheltered. Those statues have been outside for 1000s of years.
Awesome video as usual Ben that erosion dose blow me away especially when you see it built up against the middle pyramid onto the Granite casing stones , maybe you will show that in your next video 🙂🤙
Someone should try to build the whole plateau in unreal engine as it truly would have looked with its casing stones etc.
Worked on Aircraft’s for 13 years ,so I have a deep appreciation for Engineering feats period.. I’m completely blown away with the ancients Knowledge & creativity in their construction of works in Egypt. I love hearing the wide spectrum of theories and hypothesis . Great show !
25:03 To get anywhere near this level of weathering of limestone with chemical dissolution (that sponge look) takes hundreds of thousands to millions of years, often hastened by rainwater which results in a smoother but sponge appearance. Weathering can also occur on a more immediate timescale due to factors such as water submersion (lake, pond, be it salt water or fresh) or fertile soil activity. Example, blocks exposed to fertile soil may undergo biological weathering from trees and vegetation over time. A possibility for example the 7m colossal megalithic block may have been in place for an extended period, accumulating approximately 8 meters of soil, or enough to cover it-a process estimated to take between 160,000 and 300,000+ years according to USDA statistics. It's essential to note the structures were already in existence and had been destroyed long before these natural processes began, adding another layer of complexity.
Has any research been done on the placement and positioning of all these stones as to point to what would have caused them to be displaced, toppled, destroyed, etc? More than anything when I watch these videos is asking the question... how did that stone get to where it is now? Clearly something on a massive scale caused it. Great work as always!
Great video. Were those scattered granite blocks around the middle pyramid ever scanned to see if some computer program can piece them together like a virtual lego, to see where some might fit back on the structure itself?
i have always thought one of the most intriguing mysteries to Egypt other than the building of the pyramids and how they managed stone of 100's of tons is why wasnt it documented. They left behind so much information about their civilization like government documents, royal bloodlines, love poems and even customer complaints about scammy merchants but it seems not one word was left or found about any of the processes involved with the building of these megalithic structures and ive always wondered how and why that is.
Yeah, the ancient Egyptian culture, as we understand it, was definitely just the johnny-come-lately on the scene. They moved in onto the ruins of a previous, and far more advanced culture, and usurped it as best they could.
Many of the sculptures that are supposedly portraits of this pharaoh or that pharaoh are actually just repurposed. They found the statue, and then had their artisans carve their name into it. You can tell, because the level of technical skill on the carved names is like chicken-scratch compared to the level of technical skill displayed in the sculpture itself. They did the same on temple walls and stone sarcophagi.
I don't believe we have any examples of the writing system of the earlier civilization. All heiroglyphics seem to be from the later culture.
@@itzakpoelzig330Amen 🙏
Absolutely 👍
@@itzakpoelzig330 very few precision-built megaliths around the world show any information conveyed through carving. One example that pops into my mind is a snake figure on a megalith in South America, and it is in relief meaning that the whole face of the block had to be carved around it which is very impressive.
It's easy for the mind to jump to conclusions such as these civilizations having storage devices akin to our computer drives today, especially if they used technology which eerily looks like it was computer-guided in many instances, such as the granite vases and statues.
My head is swimming with questions the closer I look into all of this, and past the smoke and mirror bullshit of the mainstream academia & Wikipedia.
Way older than the erosion on the Sphinx. Our time line goes off the chart.
Too bad all of this has to be wrong since you don’t have a piece of paper saying you have a degree in archaeology (or gender studies would also suffice - or ANY degree from Harvard).
A degree doesnt automatically make you know everything. There are alot of inventions ect by people without a degree. The people that built these didnt have a degree
Wow. Are you really that naive? And the head of Egypts Ancient antiquity, who I assume has qualifications coming out his arse, that bullshitter and complete AH, Zihar Hawass, is about as clued up as me. Get a grip mate. The Great Pyramid built in 20 years. Is that right? Joke. Couldnt do it nowadays in 20 years! Research it before talking. Joke. Carved, cut and shaped those oblisks by pounding round stones onto granite! Wth. All bollox.
@@thelog86 this is exactly the point the original commenter was making.
I suggest they were made at least pre Younger-dryas based on the destruction of them being from a heat producing event such as a meteor / comet impact.
Brian Forester points out the heat damage to many of the megalithic structures.
It's comical to see the reaches of just how far the people are willing to go to ignore this evidence and explain it with simple bronze age methods, even though the idea of stone and bronze age origin isn't even supported by any evidence.
There is nothing simple about the Giza Plateau. Just trying to put together the pieces of the puzzle after erosion, repair and re-purposed materials is a daunting task. Anyone claiming otherwise doesn't have a clue of what went on...
There was a first earth age
It just shows how advanced some aspects of ancient times were. They were experts at moving and working with extremely heavy and hard materials. I find it disturbing how easily recorded history can be lost.
Not a chance in hell they built any of it with basic tools , it’s laughable
@@IcelanderUSer no it doesn't. extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which you (they) must prove in order to make the theory of stone and bronze age builders even worth considering. both that it would even be possible AND that they in fact did build them, because i'ts two different things.
Thank you Ben for these wonderful and informative videos.Such an amazing place and people still leave their trash all over that site.
Good video, great tour! Thanks Ben. On the limestone erosion of the mortuary temple, it would be interesting to compare how the limestone erosion is heavy in spots on the back of pyramid foundation cut, but not heavily eroded in other spots along the cut. Almost like the limestone is chemically different in certain spots
We're so fortunate to live in this age with advanced tech' to learn of these fascinating places , brought to us by people like Ben.
The gravitational force has the formula: F = (G * m1 * m2) / d^2. m1 is the earth mass and m2 is the mass of the stone. It's not hard to see that an increasing mass will also increase the surface friction when trying to move it. In short: these enormous stones simply want to go down, not forward.
Amazing again.
Love it that we see a vid and more stuff from you, then life gets busy and your topics unfortunately go to back of mind.
Then you bring out something else and we get brought back to your world with wonders like this and we get blown away again.
Thanks again for doing this for those stuck in normal real life 😅
Question: seeing all these large pieces strewn around, laying knocked over etc, would a possibility of a large 'blast' from a comet particle entering the atmosphere and exploding be the cause? I can't see how simple human power could tip over some items.
note how the limestone erosion looks rather like acid corrosion (the concaved bubbling pattern) than water or wind erosion.
ps. the painting at 39:51 could just as well be a depiction of the Egyptians telling fables or trying to understand how the massive statues they found already in place were moved. it comes with multiple interpretations; a painting is not scientific evidence for an event or method. it doesn't suggest this was the method they used to move the stones or that they moved them, especially considering how little amount of workers it depicts compared to the size of the statue.
🤔Ancient megalithic constructions and artifacts are found in Iraq, Syria, Gaza - all the places where the US military goes. Coincidence??
Top drawer stuff as usual! Thanks Ben!
Agreed 👍
Imagine in the future all they find of us is a picture of a guy with a hammer/nails and 2x4's building a house. Then imagine them asking: How in the world did they get to space?
The groundworks needed to do before any blocks is laid is off the charts..
They built half base into bedrock, Locking the base into the bed rock to stabilize it….that’s engineering on an earthquake scale
Don't exaggerate
@@anthonygiesbrecht7299no that’s called building on sand
*WOW!* The resonance inside that pyramid (king's chamber?) was *phenomenal!*
IMO, Some unknown entity built(around the world) underground safe spaces so humans could survive the flood. The boxes underground held food/supplies, the pyramids were machines, HVAC, light, water, sewer pumps. If you stacked up several layers of the disc of sabu(schist disc), rotate each layer 120deg, put it in a tube of the same diameter, it looks like a Tesla Valve. Move it up and down in the tube and it could be a pump for air or water.
If they could manipulate stone so well I imagine they didn't create any artificial material, everything they made was of natural material so now everything is disintegrated or taken.
It seems to explain all the evidence, al least to me.
Hey! Ive left 100s of comments on critics channels defending Ben and others.... I figure i should comment here as well! Greay job!
to bad people just leave their trash all over the place.
I saw that to. I bet if they just randomly gave tourists those grabby tools that are used to pickup trash without much bending the trash problem would soon be gone and the area much cleaner.
She didn't fit in a garage can, I tried
It never fails to amaze me the hubris involved in academia. The old world was so sophisticated. We dunk on them as primitives meanwhile the average man of their time could tell you celestial movements in the cosmos 🤦🏻♂️
The amount of rubbish on the ground absolutely astounds me... at such a magical location..😔
Another great video Ben 👌
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Bins for rubbish while a noteworthy idea would soon be overflowing. The native culture frowns upon men participating in such work and forbids women for doing so. You'd think it would be contracted to people who are willing to do such work but the Egyptian Antiquities people are unwilling to spend the money. The Giza plateau and adjoining structures is nothing but a huge cash cow for the powers that be. It's all about the money.
Deadly video bro, always love to be educated & learn new things. No better way than watching UnchartedX 🙏🏽
Merry Christmas from Brisbane brother 🇦🇺
Are there more Lidar studies around and below the pyramids?
Did they dig tunnels into the lowest chambers or were the pyramids built from that low level basement up entirely?
Also knowing they might be over 12,000 years old, was the terrain once much lower before the mega floods possibly covered it all in mud and sand?
Get a team to make some proper 3D models of the pyramids below ground, would be nice.
There are some good 3d models of the plateau that include the internal passages of pyramids, there's definitely one for sketchup that I have somewhere
I could turn the tables and ask you the same thing
What’s the price breakdown for these trips? 8 grand for 2 weeks is crazy. You can travel there by yourself and spend 10 days for like $1,200… do we have to get all the 5 star cruises and hotels and bullshit like that? I just want the tours man. I couldn’t care about the hotels. Can’t we just pay for the tours and opt out of all the other extra stuff? I can get my own rooms way cheaper, I have timeshare.
Ben, as a geologist who worked in karst limestone regions for years I can tell you this is not only water based erosion for the most part but it was happening for a long time. limestone is chemically dissolved out about at the same rate it can be deposited in the reverse conditions, about 1cm3/100 yrs or so. so when you see a feature eroded 10 cm back your looking at approximately 1000 yrs. of erosion, in areas with moderate rainfall. Of course acid rain in the last 75+ yrs has increased this rate. Anyway food for thought. oh yeah, there are ways to see where those channeled tunnels go! If your interested? jer
Excellent info! Interestingly, the Giza plateau area usually only has 2 or 3 days out of an entire year with any rain. And it amounts to next-to-nothing. We'd have to go back nearly 10,000 years to find a time when the climate was more tropical and rainy in that area. Throw your limestone erosion math into the equation, plus the time to build such structures, and it's not out of the question that some of this stuff could have been put in place over 20,000 years ago. Chew on that idea for a minute.
If u know how to c the tunels and over 40 , i would care .....
Keep in mind that this limestone was covered in granite to begin with. Also, that where we see other evidence of this ancient granite block work, the seams appear to be quite tight making it even more difficult for the rain to get in and erode the limestone. I think it's very difficult to argue that these limestone blocks were not exposed for quite some time during the African Humid Period which ended a while before the 1st dynasty of ancient Egypt. Given the above points, who knows how long they have been there. It seems that it would be at least thousands of years before the 1st Dynasty. Especially given the lack of comparative erosion of the confirmed dynastic limestone block buildings.
@@DGreatAwakening You are absolutely right, many of these structures must be much older than we have been taught. Unfortunately, mainstream Egyptologists stick to their guns even though there is much evidence that they are wrong. Hopefully younger archaeologists have a different and more evidence-based view of this.
I moved a partially loaded 40' sea container by hand, mounted on wheels, using a chain block. The container was approx 10ton loaded according to the sideloader that delivered it.
10 ton was managable. I think i could maybe have moved 20 ton using the same chain block method.
I cannot even imagine moving a 450+ ton mass.
so, you alone moved 10 tons and could move the double - and yet your imagination is poor.
you are contradicting yourself mate. lol
@carlosdenevier9538
Yes I alone moved a 10 ton 40' shipping container. But I used a chain block, and I put wheels on the container so it could roll.
The effort needed on the chain block to move the container was about half of my strength.
And yes, I can also imagine moving a 450t load. I have worked on 1200t crawler cranes before as an auto electrician. And seen them operate at a concrete bridge pre-fab yard.
I just could not imagine doing it in ancient times without complex machines, mechanical power plants, hydraulics etc.
I think the Egyptians we're a civilization trying to emulate what had come before, the Egyptians created an incredible culture itself but I believe like Charlemagne after the western Roman empire fell, he also lived and built up a civilization in the ruins of a older and much larger empire.
Egypt could represent one part of a larger civilization that thrived duing the iceage and as we know alos live alongside all stages of culture then too did they live as a higher culture alonside our primitive ancestors lower cultures.
Who knows, it may have been a separate hominid species that began these civilians.
Amazing production as per usual mate, love your work! Staggering how mainstream academia ignores these glaring facts.
I always wonder how did they know that they wud have enuf of a certain stone to finish a project 😮
One more stone in the already heavy boat of official history...to be honest im now asking how many civilizations over how many thousands of years and..were they even humans?
I think the polgonal pattern foundation piece blocks are literally an enigma on their own, absolutely mind boggling 👏
Great work. The piles of trash and masks around is to me evidence that most of our civilization has no idea what living is. These structures have only just begun to teach us! It is the work of people like you that will be remembered for this not the so called professionals. They posess a monetized narrative that helps no one. Thank you for this and all your work.
your videos are great. im glad i found your channel. stay safe man.
Since these blocks were moved/lifted in different structures thru time it wasn't an experiment or luck. To start the building process they were confident they could move/lift these blocks. They could also lift/move the obelisks evident by the abandoned one. Being able to do move/lift such mass, something we'd find difficult today, was no big deal to them.
Thank you Ben! Every video you produce leaves me astounded and just dumbfounded as to how all of the work could have been done. It all had to have been planned to be executed so well and today such planning would have a semi-trailer full of working prints to accomplish. Wonder how they did it? Makes my brain ache from being so dumb that I can't figure it out.
We still can’t do any of this even today
@@elizabethlockley5861it's poured on site and fossilised stone no one carved them 💯%
Alien levitation technology??
We know that if someone keeps saying a mistake, it will eventually become the truth. Especially if someone in authority says it. I love Ben‘s team looking for facts. Keep it 🆙🙏🏻🤗
The detail gives me a kind of child like sense of awe and the mystery behind the construction, use and age of these megaliths. What I love the most is no-one knows anything except that they are here as evidence
Next time you get back, take with you a spool of fishing line and a small lead and put it down one of the holes in the corsway and see how deep the hole is. Love the videos , good luck 🤞
Love your work Ben huge fan. Wish you had more content I'm so astounded at the beauty and mystery in these ancient sites
making it as fast as i can, these long form scripted videos take time
@@UnchartedX Right on brother that's why your videos are the best in the business 👍
Ben, I love your videos, thank you for all the effort you put into the work!!
As a machinist and operating engineer for over 50 years, no way this was achieved without very advanced tech.
Why Was There So Much Trash And Garbage On The Ground ?
Don't They, The Egyptians Have Someone, Or A Crew Of People There, Which Go Around, And Clean Up The Trash And Garbage ?
GAIA made my dude wear a blazer! haha
Keep up the great work, Ben! 👍
Hard to think how anything but insanely large, complex and powerful machines or straight up breaking the laws of physics as we know them could have possibly moved or created these blocks...simply mind boggling
Great work! Look like that flood did a number on the whole valley! So much to uncover an discover out there in this massive world!
There's few channels these days that truly excite me when a new 45+ minute video is posted.
It's probably just me, but anytime I look at these ruins, somewhere in the depths of my mind there is an eerie familiarity to these places.
Hey Ben, I've been up and down on ancient history stuff lately. I got depleted when seeing certain things about certain ancient artifacts that disproved most ancient history stories I've had. But Egypt is the one weird one where not everything can be explained and I appreciate your continued efforts to prove what you believe even with naysayers out there. I have been really negative about some of Jimmy's videos lately but this video really brought me back to center and made me remember that there are still so many unexplainable things and even if one thing gets debunked I don't have to throw everything out the window.
The vases alone are more than enough proof dude.
@@hiboostchosh Cool? I'm not going to go through and mention everything that he has done. And just because you find something conclusive it doesn't mean that it's fact or that everyone agrees. But I said "so many unexplainable things."
just for the record, today there are mobile cranes that can lift 4000 tons. it wouldnt be problem moving these blocks around. impressive they did it though
The problem with archeologists and historians is they are very much stuck in the nineteenth and twentieth century mindset of the superior modern European culture.
They cannot even understand or want to know that history isn’t just a neat and tidy linear timeline of human experience but one that where parts are known as there are written documentation from down the centuries. But there is the unknown that comes before the world of writing and that is what happened before the Younger Dryas.
We have myths and legends that have been told throughout history of a time before in all cultures, myths are based on a real history but told in a manner that is easily understood and remembered.
Great video and it is wonderful to see the Giza Plateau in a way that is not shown in mainstream documentaries, its as if they don’t want to show the world, what is really there and it’s importance to world history.
It’s seems to me that they are hiding something
Awesome as always Ben, cheers mate 🍻🍻🇦🇺
I still have a hard time looking at all the trash that is littered EVERYWHERE 😞
Oh, and I think I know what the U-channel blocks were for. GREASE. I think they would heat up tar, or fat, or something like that, and the grease would be channeled from where it was heated to spots where it would be used to lubricate these machines.
Thanks for everything you do, Ben! I remember back in the day footage and content like this was just a dream.
It has taken him years and alot of hard work to achieve this level...
Ben, I love the long form content. You’re doing great things and sharing this wonderful knowledge with the masses. Thank you
Incredible video. Dark red granite case of Chafre Pyramid, tremendous level of erosion...
One thing that ive always been puzzled over,and never had an anwser that truely explains, is ..why? To move these blocks took so much effort and manpower that why didnt they half or quarter the size etc of the blocks and work quicker? Unless it wasnt that difficult for them ?
Either the blocks needed to be that size for some reason or it was "easy" (i.e. practical) for them or both
It all points to a prehistoric mother culture that had high tech capacities and probably existed globally over twelve thousand years ago before something destroyed it. The legends of Atlantis may be a pointer to that.
I think when we are talking about the machines that were used to make these extremely precise by gigantic blocks and statues, what we need to consider is that the main thing separating us from the past in terms on technology is the assembly line, or mass production. Their machines wouldn't be built like ours intended on being made for consumers, they would have been purpose-built, in place, for their specific jobs, and then disassembled, for their parts to be re-used in other locations. As far as what powered their machines, it's possible that they used gear reduction techniques and the machines were actually human or water powered. I think the reason we don't see the wheel implemented in everyday life here should be obvious.... wheels are worthless in sand without some kind of internal power supply. Even today, a modern vehicle is almost completely useless in deep sand unless it's specifically designed to deal with sand, using large, wide tires with aggressive tread, weight distribution to maximize traction, and compact, high horsepower engines, all mounted to an ultra-light, rigid chassis with long-travel suspension. Anything less is practically useless. So they could have understood the concept of a wheel in things like machines, but have had absolutely no use for the wheel when it comes to things like making carts to transport people and goods, they lacked the sufficient material science and mass-production to build those kinds of machines. But, they COULD make very large, one-time use machines that utilized internal wheels and gears, powered by things like water flowing over a wheel and being gear-reduced to do what they needed it to do. They obviously had some kind of advanced technology, my hypothesis though is that their idea of a machine would just look much different than ours, not being made to be used for many years in a shop or something, but built in-place, and then disassembled after they were used, which is why we don't see them around anymore.
A roadway is needed to move Megablocks, & we see here 450 TON Polygonal Stones placed directly into the Bedrock! Wooden sleds are a joke: (even in sand). The fact that Ramsey pillaged these Rose Granite Blocks from Egypts Sacred Pyramids; (shows disrespect, & dissolution of creating his own)!
Maybe we should partly step out of thinking in terms of traditional machining and rethink physics science out of box. Perhaps there exist physics and/or chemistry "laws" we haven't discovered yet. Still our defined four fundamental forces model at work in the universe isn't a zero sum "equation".
Maybe we should partly step out of thinking in terms of traditional machining and rethink physics science out of box. Perhaps there exist physics and/or chemistry "laws" we haven't discovered yet. Still our defined four fundamental forces model at work in the universe isn't a zero sum "equation".
Is some sort of Levitation possible to move and lift these massive stone blocks ???? Love all your videos, excellent work.
I don't know how they did it.
The more I look at these heavily eroded giant limestone blocks, the more I feel like they must have been under water for thousands of years.
The significance of the volume of amplifying acoustic effect when Yousef was talking is very interesting to me. Is the' kings chamber' actually a resonance amplifier?
Has anyone experimented with projecting various frequencies or waveforms into the chamber?
Great work, once again! The camera work, was terrific, and so was the sound! You never fail, to deliver the goods Ben.
i was annoyed with my audio recording, my p's were popping, i'm gonna fix that
Perhaps the myths about ancient giants are simply stories about cities which once had giant statues
Got the Laphroaig and Staropramen ready! And the day tomorrow off. This is awesome. Thank you for what you do.
Laphroaig is also one of my favorites - even if it’s a bit of the pharmacy compartment of whiskeys ;) It was mentioned in a Travenian book and I tried it. Great!
The ancient mystery never and ends
Nice job Ben. Keep it up
-Each time you mention Chris Dunn in your videos I'm happy to look up to his books sitting on my shelf. As far as i'm concerned his books prove that a certain advanced level of machinery was required to execute the early works