SEVEN New Great Pyramid Missions That Are LONG Overdue | Ancient Architects
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- With the discovery of the Great Pyramid North Face Corridor earlier this year, it’s no surprise that Ancient Egypt became headline news around the world, a much-needed boost in publicity for a country whose tourism industry has struggled for more than a decade.
The Great Pyramid is the shining beacon of the country - the biggest draw for tourists, the most written about ancient monument on the planet and yet, even in the 21st century we still don’t know everything about it.
We also know the ScanPyramids team found a big void but sadly there is no easy way to see inside it. It’s around 10 metres above the Grand Gallery and 7 metres from the King’s Chamber Relieving chambers, which means drilling is required. We also don’t currently know the specific shape of the chamber so more muon scans seem like a necessity, so we know exactly where to drill and in which specific direction
Whether the Egyptian authorities will do this, I don’t think it will be any time soon, but that doesn’t mean we should be sitting around idly. There is still so much exploration that could be taking place in the pyramid, exploration that is low cost, low difficulty and it would cause no damage to the structure.
So, in this video, I’m going to highlight what I would consider are 7 relatively easy ways to explore the Great Pyramid, new missions that would either lead to new discoveries, end speculation or just expand our knowledge base. All would guarantee publicity for Egypt and they could easily all be done before the end of the year, if the authorities were so inclined.
Watch this video to learn more and please comment your thoughts and ideas regarding how we should be exploring this enigmatic ancient monument.
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CONTENTS
0:00 - Introduction
3:17 - The Exterior Cavity
5:48 - The Thermal Anomaly
8:07 - The Northern Shaft Door
10:06 - Sibson's Window
13:48 - Horizontal Corridor
16:15 - Queen's Chamber Floor
17:45 - King's Chamber Floor
20:12 - Conclusion
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A Roller Coaster dead center! $150 bucks a head.... But I digress
The 7 years were to make sure they empty the room of whatever it contains before they make it public.
Please ask an opinion from Steam Engineers on what was the possible original purpose of the Great Pyramid.
The block at the end of the shaft revealed by the rover .
I think your wrong in stating behind the block will be a small space and then actual pyramid structure. If your hypothesis is correct then the builders went to a lot of effort time and energy to place the block where it is , when they could have just left it out and the structure it self would have ended the shaft .
I think behind the block there will something substantial.
Did they really drill west from the corridor leading to the Queen's chamber? Huy Duong Bui's 2012 book (Imaging the Cheops pyramid, pages 4 and 39) tells that they drilled downwards East instead. Bui was one of the key people in the 1986 microgravimetry study.
You get the feeling that Hawass has always been completely out of his depth and has been holding back the entire field over in Egypt for decades.
Egypt is a military dictatorship. Making knowledge "freely available to the public" is not in their mindset. First, the pyramids are Egyptian and so they believe they are theirs. Second, I believe they are afraid of what may transpire. Right now, they are even denying that there are corridors inside and under the Sphinx, even though there is a 1980s tv movie with Hawass showing these corridors. Knowledge is power, and they do not want this knowledge to transpire. It really is sad.
I think in a world ruled by Judaeo-Christians, anything that breaks the story of a 6,000 year old world (especially one that can add thousands of years onto the pre-history of humankind) will always be censored by those in power.
Egypt does as its told by its banking rulers in America, lest another CIA backed Arab-spring (coup) occurs.
His closed mindedness and belligerence has been a problem for years.
Military dictatorship. Go figure@@Acediscoface
nobody lives forever, hopefully his successor will be more open to new ideas and theories
Damnit.. I thought you were gonna announce missions they were ACTUALLY planning to do.. if only they do half of your excellent suggestions Matt.. I hope some powers that be are taking note..
Lol same here. Not with Zahi Hawass controlling everything 🤬🤬🤬🤬
The 'powers that be' will only bottle up any factual information, and desseminate misinformation.
So did I 😂
All there missions, projects and Press meetings are ballons of hot air. All talk no action.
me too
Dr, Zahi said its time for an egyptian to do the next big discovery.. thats why nothing happens.
Lol, just say it was Hawass idea in front of a camera before proposing something.
If even just ONE of these came to be it would be awesome. Would love to learn more about builders and timelines, etc. Thanks for the video!
The fact that all they have to do is insert an endoscope in a crack to see if the actual internal ramp possibly used to construct the pyramid is in there or not, and they're not doing it, and haven't done it for 10 years: the people running the show over there just don't care and don't want any more answers; they are content with the picture of history they've already put together themselves and peddled to the world for decades. They've got their answers and they don't need or want any other answers. There's no other explanation for why such a simple, inexpensive, non-destructive test has not been done. They are enemies of both science and history. I'd about be willing to just go get an endoscope and climb the thing like the one guy with the gopro did and do it myself, and accept the legal consequences.
@@TylerChamb I feel the same way. Hiding the truth to make themselves appear credible. It’s all lies at this point.
In my opinion, they should insert a camera into every nook and crevasse in the Giza plateau. There's so much that may be discovered from the weathering damage and gaps that already exist.
It occurred to me they may be delaying or gatekeeping these discoveries in order to stagger out the news/interest in Giza and ensure that it stays in headlines long into the future. Seems like an easy way to boost tourism every few years. A lot of the speculation and mystery drives people to want to go there themselves.
Hawass has been caught in several deceptions
Openings in the Sphinx for example.
There granite 16 meters below the ground of the Giza plateau. I believe the core hole is in front of the great pyramid and was the last time anyone drilled on the plateau. The hole is definitely still there.
That’s exactly why they’re doing it
They don't want answers, the mystery draws more interest. Great vid as always.
They don't want us knowing
@@colinfahidi9983 knowing what exactly? You're very quick to go straight to cover ups etc etc It's starting to get really boring.
@@Alloneword-cp2xw given I don't comment that often, claiming it's getting really boring says more about your good self. 🙂
@colinfahidi9983 = "They don't want us knowing" - - - - - And why would THAT be? "Atlanteans" are still living inside it? ^_^
Almost the same number of people visit the monuments in Giza as the Parthenon in Greece each year. And the Parthenon doesn't hide as many mysteries.
Studying the pyramid generates tourism. Especially when that study generates new findings.
Based on this fact you'd think there would be endless study of the pyramid. You really have to question why there isn't.
First of all it needs to be preserved for future generations. This is far more important, than to satisfy our generations curiosity. Who are we, to claim to have the rights to dig and disassemble everything, just so we could answer some arguably interesting questions? Or maybe it will raise even more questions than give us answers, like these things usually tend to do. Future technologies might allow to answer all of those questions without the use of any destructive methods. Like the Scan Pyramids Project has proven. Imagine the invention of quantum scanners in 50 years from now, that allow high resolution scanning of each stone, sand corn, cavities etc. Wouldn't it be much better to wait for this technology to become available, than to drill and cause damage today? Look at all of the old adventurous digging, while modern technologies could have recorded it all for us in gret detail, in order to preseve and allow future studies or DNA tests, carbon dating, MRT scans, etc. This might have been much more satisfactory. Instead they dug like maniacs, blew, up and unwrapped everything like curious monkeys with primitive methods. I believe it is generally a good thing, that they take their time.
It doesn't matter if it is done in 10 or 20 years from now. Those things lasted thousands of years.
A truly excellent and more than timely video! Why on Earth the Egyptian Authorities are dragging their heels on any one of these simple, cheap, non-invasive investigations is truly baffling. They are sitting on the most important and famous archaeological site in the world, yet they are doing next to nothing about investigating its mysteries. Well done Matt for highlighting these 7 areas for study, and let's hope someone in Authority in Egypt sees or hears about it and decides to cease their apathetic approach to this ancient wonder.
I think the authorities are reluctant because it's the mysteries of the great piramid that create the interest and intrigue into it, the more we know about the building of the piramid the less magical it would become, like when someone tells you how an amazing card trick was done
It's simple: THEY WANT TO GET PAID! IT'S CALLED BAKSHEESH.
@@jelink22 True, corrupted awful country with low educated people. It is miracle that Piramids survived modern Egyptians.
Getting a robot to drill a hole in the northern shaft door isn't non-invasive (or cheap)...
My guess is many of the structures in this area were built long before the Egyptians and they want to keep the truth from the public for the sake of national pride and history.
You missed talking about the TOP of the Pyramid. There is much to see at the top, it's offset, rotated inner core is visible. This is a BIG clue to the spiral ramp theory IMO.
Great suggestions. I think there is an intention on not to know the real age nor the way the Great Pyramid was constructed because this absence of data gives space for speculation and imagination. The mysteries bring many tourists and produce many mad books about stupid ideas on aliens or miracles. If all secrets were revealed interest in the Pyramid could decrease
The sand that does not occur naturally in Ghiza made me very exited. Different types sand have very different properties. For example, the black sand from the north-east banks of the Nile have relatively high levels of gems, even a small fraction of diamond. Could the egyptians have used that, or some kind of enriched sand, along with their copper blade saws to speed up the pace?
I have long searched for any use of diamonds by ancient Egyptians. However I recently read; Meteor Impacts create nano diamond sand. The idea that there may have been big impacts in North America and Europe before12,000 years ago may have left a ton of that stuff laying around. Also, interestingly Libyan desert glass or aka Great Sand Sea glass is an impactite found in the Eastern Sahara and is a gem stone featured in King Tuts breast plate.
@@deefacebook9213there was a dagger made of meteorite iron that was found in Egypt.
@@HepCatJack ..its called Tutanchamuns dagger, and is idd made of metroric iron, i think thers a video of in on YT, the iron comes from a meteor impact in middle east, and is prbably made in the middle east and gifted to Tutanchamun as one of 3 Iron daggers, the other two has to my knowledge not been found..
@@deefacebook9213 ...ya its something most of this ppl just ignore....when thay shout aliens or some to advanced technology to exist...
...we know for a fact thay did use a number of different materials from impact craters (aka a gift from ra the sun god)
...thay say Granite can not b cut with those tools .. wich is silly, ofc it can
Mhors hardness scale
- Copper - 2.5
- Bronze - 3
Iron, nickle, Aluminium - 4
- Granite - 6
- Quarts - 7 (wich is in abundance)
- Topaz, Zircone, Hardened steel - 8
- Corundum 9
- Boron Carbide 9.5 -10 (can form aswell as diomonds in impact craters)
- Diomond 10 (for a long time we considered this to be the hardest material)
- Wurts Boron Nitrite - 12 (can form in impact craters)
- Lonsdealite - 16 (can theoretically form in impact craters from large meteorites)
...so yes that did have a nuber of materia for teeths
that was alot harder than Granite, end even possibly harder than diomond
...only the cutting teeth need to be hard ..
for example we today uses diomond circular saws with teets embedded in material thats 4 on the mhors scale .. and it works very well.
...as i mentioned earlier...its surpricingly easy make a tubedrill out of copper with cutting teets out of quarts sand...wich cuts Granite like butter...
..and a number of rare Glassy compounds between quarts and Lonsdealite can form from meteorite impacts... sevral been found in tombs so we know thay was avare of this materials... and that buried ppl with their most priceless posessions
The best explanation I can come up with is that quartz sand is highly piezoelectric meaning when pressure is put on it with heavy weights it will produce electricity. If it was just filler sand they wouldn't have to sift the sand and only take out the quartz. But they did do that, they did transport it from great distances and it would only be done if the result was very valuable.
Thank you again and again to keep us updated. Your coverage of all these topic this amazing.
Drilling behind that modernish brick wall in the floor of the Kings chamber is one place I would go first. Was someone trying to tunnel around that removable stone that Hudan thinks is a passageway? A brick wall implies there is an open space behind that was walled off. A small drill hole and an endoscopic camera would be minimally invasive.
Another thing that needs to be done (maybe it is ongoing) is further muon scanning. There was a proposal to move a seacan or trailer full of detectors all around the perimeter of the Great Pyramid. It should be done for all the pyramids! It could map out the Great Void better and look for small tunnels at the current muon scan resolution (2m), with absolutely no damage to the pyramid.
More muon scanning is currently under way. They have been greatly restricted by when they can have their equipment there, and a total media blackout. They have been funded through 2030 with much upgraded equipment. The press leak that was quickly taken down, which had nothing to do with the scan pyramid project itself, but the muon detector equipment, said their resolution at 100 meters has gone from half a meter to 20cm. This vast improvement was thanks to new high temperature super conductors.
Great video Matt. Videos like this really help viewers like myself who have a basic understanding of your reports. If you've got ideas like this for other archeological features, please consider creating them!
let’s hope to live long enough to see these discoveries…
So much to still explore. Thanks Matt!
Maybe do a similar video of exploration ideas about the Great Sphinx? I'm sure it is easier said than done. Thanks for all your work, Matt. Your videos are an education and inspiration for us all. I hope to be a Patreon supporter again, soon.
I’m a few days late to the party here but this is a fantastic video - even just talking about the possible projects that could be undertaken is super exciting. You would hope the recent fanfare over the North Face Corridor would inspire the green lighting of further non-destructive exploration.
Cheers!
You mentioned some time ago an upcoming cooperation with Jean Pierre Houdin on your channel… can we expect something on that to come any time soon? Would be extremely interesting 🤩
Another thought about that ”non-local” sand is thatnot all types of sand are equal. For example, Sweden exports considerable volumes of sand to Saudia arabia (!). The thing is that the Saudi sand is not suitable for filtering freshwater, something they really need there. It would be just amazing if someone coul pay. attention to the diffeeent sand types on Ghiza, I am positive that the sands there sits on many secrets about Ghiza
I got a funny feeling the REAL King's Tomb is beneath the obvious decoy.. think that's what they were all thinking too.. would be VERY interesting to get down there..
Great video! You forgot an easy one! The one where you wanted to examine the entry corridors (not the robber's tunnel) to look for the transition between the theorized smaller pyramid and the later, outer expansion.
I don't think Egyptian officials actually want to reach definitive conclusions about pyramid construction or other questions.
The aura of mystery is part of their tourism marketing.
it's astounding to see that there is even a lot of trash in that hole in the king's chamber's floor. the litter around the egyptian monuments is, well, monumental.
It's a hot, desert country, the people are poor and their diet fouly deficient for most of them, and the Saudis have better water and more of it clean. Get a job outside and you'll understand. It's a 3-rd world country and needs investment in its people more than $ to explore a hole...
Excellent propositions for research. So tantilising to be on the edge of possible new information.
I sent a message and a link to this video to the Egypt Ministry of Antiquities وزارة الآثار
This channel has made life more interesting for me. Outstanding work. Thank you.
Big fan from Vancouver.
Very GROUNDED analysis and recommendations. Thank you!
Good arguments Matt. However, to answer your question about why nothing has been done, I propose the blame must lie with prime suspect number one, Zahi Hawass. He's been an impediment to progress for years. What his personal grudges are against people coming in, and investing their own funds to develop and improve our knowledge of the history of this monumental artifact / conundrum, is beyond me as well. Thanks for your loyalty to the cause.
Pyramids are hawassed by Zahi's fragile ego.
Nicely done! Enjoyed watching this.
GREAT VIDEO. Well presented, interesting and on point. Some very easy, non destructive things that can be done TODAY that could shed light of current mysteries regarding the great pyramid.
Thank you for your insight and research. Many of my questions are answered here. Keep going, please!
Thank you so much I've learned so much,...... more please and thank you again
fantastic video mate!
the edge cavity can be researched with the telescopic camera too 👍👍
Hadn't checked in to your channel for quite a long time, but this video caught my attention.
Great stuff
I love ❤❤❤ this channel 😊😊
Great video ❤.. not often you get interesting pyramid video when you've seen nearly all... Zahi Hawass is the reason nothing can get done... I believe they've found evidence Egyptians did not build them as other evidence suggest... older buildings are more difficult to construct than newer and more impressive
Egyptian Authorities need to watch and seize upon all of these at once to Quadruple interest World Wide in Egyptian Pyramid Visitations and Tourist dollars a WIN WIN scenario.
it‘s crystal clear to everyone with a logical mind, unfortunately the corrupt officials are allergic to logic
🙏 Fantastic Matt - all great suggestions mate!!... 👋👋 Bobby 🐻❄
Thank you sir! This is awesome👍
Excellent work as always! Thanks for keeping the faith!❤
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Amazing vid. You just told exactly my thoughts about what could be dome on the pyramid right now. The problems is to know what the autorities are thinking about them, and why we have to wait 20 YEARS to find out.
Matt, this is great work - may public opinion take the next steps...
VERY interesting! Great video!
Thanks for all your hard work
Matt, at the risk of sounding egregiously complimentary, your work is more worthy of being called Holmsian or Poirotesque than the originals, because they are fictitious and you, a real investigator, are dealing with real Architecture, engineering and science. Your research is fascinating, and you give credit when due [for example History for Granite], and discredit where due [Ignatius Donelly, The "History" Channel, Hancock, etc.]. You do extensive research instead or regurgitating old conspiracy theories and garbage history, employ scientific methods and critical thinking instead of wishes and superstition, and you are not afraid to think outside the box [or Hawassian bureaucracy] but employing rational, real world thinking in so doing. Thank you for what you do, this video being a great example thereof. Kudos deserved and awarded!🏆🎖🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
Good Work Matt
Thanks 👍
Thank you
I wonder how much of Egypt's slow playing is simply to maintain the mystery. I've watched so many pyramid videos, and I'd love to visit Egypt. Without all the questions and mysteries and Hawass-related frustrations, I wonder if I'd have stayed as interested. Maybe they're playing all of us?
thanks for the vid I enjoy your channel
That was a brilliant pitch!!!
All super valid points you raised
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Excellent video, thank you
I hope Egypt is watching this!
Great video!
Fantastic channel thanks
You have been thinking, all achievable explorations. Cheers
Nice work, keep it up
Great ideas, Matt.
This is great work, done. The processing of work already done, and an outine of what remains to be done.
Some day, hopefully soon, the go-ahead will come. ✔️
I had thought that the round tunnel had looked like a bored hole at 1:31, however now that I think about it, they just used a pipe slightly larger than the endoscope so that it didn't get damaged passing through the rock fissure.
Awesome video , must be hard for you to sleep at night with all those mysteries in your head.
I am starting to think the Grande Gallery and Kings Chamber was used as pseudo cranes to counterweight dozen of ropes to pull up stones while building the Pyramid . The VOID could just be just a crude Cog area for that
That is a really great theory.
good work
Great job.
The notch (your Mission #1) is absolutely intriguing and must be a high priority!
Possibly no drilling required if they simply used the original entrance. It's also possible that there were additional entrances that were covered with stone when Kufu restored the pyramid during his reign. After all, he covered the original entrance below the chevron blocks currently visible.
Good work, I hope there will be efforts soon 🙏
Btw: Does the famous „inner ramp“ theory also fit to the other giant pyramids? Most of all the theories only take care of the Cheops pyramid.
Thats why I am very pleased by Geoffrey Drumms theory where he tries to make a big (and plausible) picture of the whole pyramid complex in Giza and Saquara
It's almost like people are looking in all the wrong places and the answers have been right in front of us the whole time. Something more to think about is the geology of the area very far back. How high was the bedrock and could the base have been much higher which made it easier to build these pyramids? Then the ground excavated down around them? Just another thought even though it is a bit out there.
Well said!
I love it when Matt says; number 2
Thank you
The problem is that the Egyptian authorities dont have any money and they dont want international groups involved or funding the projects becasue the Egyptians want to keep the results all to themselves.
The exterior cavity is mandatory for the same reasons you already told in your video, and I m astonished Hawass-Lehner didn't do anything about it after her least 14 years! Very suspicious concerning their Scientific inquiry sense. Their inactivity says a lot.
Ah, every time I hear those opening notes and "hullo, ev'rybody" I know I'm in for yet another treat. :)
Thanks for all that you do, Matt.
Berk, FEED ME!
Out of all the videos I have ever watched, there is no denying that this is one of them
Great analysis and excellent synthesis of the most promising activities to be carried on!
Unfortunately until people like Zahi Hawass are around there is no hope to explore those opportunities to discover more elements of Great Pyramid history.
Your content is great and it is absolutely incredible how quickly you post new content. I've enjoyed it all, thank you.
That's it ! Someone had to tell ! Well done !
I am a little confused at what I am looking at. At 19:47 there is a wall of red bricks with a wooden beam going vertically and metal beams horizontally. Is that the gap under the King's Chamber Floor? Are the red bricks added on much later? Thanks for creating wonderful videos. Keep it coming.
Wicked Cheers
Enjoy!
@@AncientArchitects although I do enjoy it, at the same time I get upset that NOTHING is being done about any of it. No investigations, no answers, no explanations why.... It's frustrating not getting anything! So by you uploading this video, I and surely at least 700 000 others with me, am more curious than ever before 😉Darn you,Matt!
White quartz sand is the lightest density, and is the first to be washed downstream by water, and any water system must have a way to deal with sand and sediment accumulation. A continuous sloped spiral passage around the inner wall would do that quite well.
I Enjoyed It Very Much As I Do All Of Your Shows Very Intreiging Wonder Whats In Theres Cheers The Older Aussie
Can you imagine if a scientifically-oriented council was put in charge of maintaining the Giza plateau?
I genuinely believe Sibsons Window to be an outside attempt to gain access to that shaft, not an original design feature. Hence the debris on the INside, the bad angle cut not typical with the og design, the two poles proving someone clearly had a poke around, as well as the more modern business card rubbish that was found there.
And if so, it means there's another way somewhere to access that point. One extra mission should be to locate it.
The only way to get to sibsons window is under the Grand Gallery floor, at the area were it is is close to the Grand Gallery lower floor. Could of been accessible years ago before the public walkway was layed down
Does anyone know why there is bend in shaft there , is it grand gallery or something else
@@mohammadtoficmohammad3594 Ancient Architects did a detailed video on this about a year ago showing its bend was due to the GG. That's why I said Sibsons window is close to that area of the GG floor and side wall
Un petit trou existait au bas à droite dans la grande galerie, il à depuis été refermé.
@@mohammadtoficmohammad3594look up Jean Pierre Houdin theory. He thinks it was bent to avoid a currently hidden ante-chamber
I believe Jean Pierre Houdin's theory as the closest theory of build than any other. He as shown areas of proof inside parts of the Pyramid that show signs of build using the Grand Gallery. and the 2 granite plug stones at the bottom of the Accending entrance leading up to the GG as being the Counterweight stones used in the Grand Gallery and was later slid down Accending entrance when they had no more use for them.
Not clear on why they planned or wanted to plug in such a final way the Ascending Corridor w/o a way to get out themselves. That Ascending Corridor is more complicated than any other corridor in the pyramid. The lower blocks creating the passage were more structurally sound than the upper ones, and there's more apparent damage to that lower section, as if it was repetitively used more harshly there, and not above. It's the only corridor that leads to the Grand Gallery, and to the Queen's Chamber and the King's Chamber. And the only way down to the Subterranean Chamber, and the only way out. So after those granite blocks were useful elsewhere they were planned all along to plug the only way to move from one level to the next (excepting the well shaft), and then never using the entire effort ever again? The mastabas had multiple family burials w/in them, but not for these structurally innovative descendants that were hugely more work and expense, and time consuming?
Sorry, I haven't read that interesting sounding book. Will put it on my list. I previously believed those huge granite plugs were part of a portcullis system at the top of the Ascending Corridor, and were somehow moved to reach the GG. There didn't seem to be a reason for plugging anything w/the massive construction and ridiculously reinforced, planned north entrance. It appears the portcullis at the top of the AC was an angled or lateral, more durable portcullis system of some kind, and that structure had a primary affect on whatever activity/function was occurring in the Grand Gallery, which likewise had an intricate portcullis system at the top of it. In reaching the upper section of that AC by digging around the plugs whoever when, would come up against that portcullis and those granite slabs, and the best way to go further up would be sliding them down, plugging the only way up for what reason? That impenetrable front (north side "door" they didn't know anything about) would have taken care of any trespassing. (I'm assuming, of course, that the builders would have had to construct the entrance before going on up with the construction of the AC, etc?) That front door alone would be enough of a test to figure out how those massive blocks over the King's Chamber could be successfully maneuvered.
And assuming the Romans may have tried getting inside before the Muslims who didn't know where to look for the actual entrance themselves? There's those Valley and "Mortuary" temples all facing East, along w/the Sphinx, wouldn't it be more likely everyone would assume the entrances to all 3 were on that side? Is there evidence the later Egyptians even tried to get in(there's a written record of a pharaoh's priest being ordered to find out the chambers of the"Sanctuary of Thoth", but can't recall if it actually was related to building this particular odd set of 3 pyramids.
Could it be possible Menkaura's pyramid was built first, placed practically on the 30° No. Lat. line, mirroring 0° position on the Celestial Equator for some important reason? By examining that pyramid 1st it may be a better way to discover how the other two evolved, that last one being the most intricate and confounding of all of them? Has that been done? It had to have been at least a 100 yr project, if they knew how to cultivate the land.
@@nomadscavenger I'm not 100% sure but I think the 2 granite stones at the bottom junction of the AE are not actually positioned to block the passageway off, they are more positioned to the side and not in the entrance way. If you look at a photo of them they are around the same size as the Kings Chamber wall stones. Jean Pierre worked out that during construction of tge KC the Grand Gallery floor and walls would of been allready constructed but the roof beams wasn't on at that time giving daylight through to the work area. All tge surrounding area was built to create a Counterweight drop n lift so when job of construction of KC was finnished they had No way of lifting them granite blocks out so the easiest way would of been to lower them down that entrance and class them as part of the build.
@@davidcorbett1713👍 Thanks. I obviously have to read that book! However, I'm not sure I have misinterpreted the diagrams I have seen of the bottom of the Ascending Corridor which I thought coming up from the Descending Corridor couldn't be accessed. One actual photograph shows the size of them, and completely plugging shut that entrance to the AC. Having not been in the pyramid yet, it is stupid of me to surmise. Another diagram shows a dug out entrance to access the AC starting just above that upper block, so I have to get to storage to hunt down the older books.
I've heard of your book and the author, and there's so many good ones out there, it's hard to know which are the better ones. Thanks! Isn't this a great channel? Wish I could go to Egypt w/him and other great content providers in the fall. Hope you can too, if you're not already signed up.🙋🤗
I'm thinking of a video about a build at Zawyet Al Aryan that is simple, elegant but truly a stunningly peculiar structure (for some kind of hydraulics purpose?). Do you know it? It has been re-buried and covered over with a military installation. It seems like it could have been covered originally with the kind of enormous blocks found at Baalbek. It was chiseled out of the limestone bedrock and has the shape of a "T" w/the entrance being at the bottom of the longer line and facing North. The blocks in it are huge and at the bottom, down an enormous and appearing steep set of stairs w/a narrow ramp in between, is the juncture of the top of the "T" with an oval bathtub around to the right. From that position you look directly into an empty room (the top left of the "T"). If you are familiar with this build and understand the torturous work involved, you can understand why people believe the use of water was the only way to get the immense flooring blocks in place along with everything else. To the point, if I can make it, the distance across the stairs is much wider than anything in the Great Pyramid, the KC, and including those granite blocks above the ceiling creating that structurally unnecessary 4 chambered reinforcement; or that north side entrance.
The video shows how the discoverer removed the huge chunks of broken limestone blocks he uncovered there and filling up the structure along with the detritus of at least 14+ centuries from the time when the Muslims were not appreciating anything made by their Egyptian (ancestors?) subjects.
He was using the technique you mentioned. But to place a stone covering over this structure, those same subjugated Egyptians at least 2500 yrs before the Muslims arrived, would have had to use something else, I'm guessing. I hope you will look it up and see what I mean. (The reason I'm fairly certain there had originally been a stone roof is the construction of the top most rim of the entire "T", the depth they went into the bedrock, and the placement of pink granite blocks from the bottom of the stairs and around the RT corner leading to that tub or "vat", and no where else. The explorer went down through huge crafted blocks below the floor looking for a "tomb". And, of course, the old photos show huge broken slabs of limestone being removed before the guy and his team could go into it.
The vat, when found had a cover and layers of sand and limestone rubble covering that, as if it had once held something either dangerous or "sacred", or requiring water to protect it or humans from whatever was kept in it. It's such an unusual site, and luckily featured in a '50s movie, w/ the prosaical title, The Land of the Pharaohs, before being totally obliterated.
If this is all redundant to you, because you know the site, what methods do you think could have been used to span that structure? I'm imagining a crane we haven't made yet. Or really they were just floated into place, and the water drained...? The site is over 5miles away from the Nile now; how far away and what canals existed and when it was new, unknown.🤔🤷🤗
I can’t help thinking it is deliberately planned to drag out the knowledge finding. We all love a mystery, the anticipation, the excitement of discovery. Similar to finding oneself in a new relationship with a new partner. How we love how the mind plays tricks with our imagination.
Perhaps to the current Egyptians there is more value in the pyramids being unsolved, keeping our imaginations running, keeping the tourists flooding in whilst they very very slowly lift the skirt to show what they are hiding.
I suspect they will do one of these projects every decade or two at most, keep us wondering and excited. Frustrating, but equally makes sense to me.
9:32 I'm sure this has been said multiple times before but you can see that the stone actually continues to the left as there it lacks that pitch black shadows where the shaft and stone meet unlike the other three sides
Just set a team at the entire thing with an umbilical camera.
I would love to see what that modern looking brick wall is about.
Thermal anomaly looks like upper crest of an underground cavity. As heat rises, it would concentrate in a very similar pattern to the images we see, especially if cavity was sloped and elongated in a specific direction, although it could just be a small section with no filler between the stones or composed of slightly different thermal reacting material that it's surroundings.
Nice work Matt, do you know which drill shaft hit the quartz sand, south or north?
The tourism industry is hurting because of violence in the Sinai Peninsula the last 10 years.
Using an endoscopic camera seems like such an easy task. Why isn't it being employed more frquently?
some of these I was not aware of or completely forgot all about. I agree... there should be petitions to publicly push for the exploration of these things until someone takes them seriously.
Yes, lets drill aimlessly up around the large void instead of fully investigating the new corridor that very likely continues on in the direction of the Grand Gallery with a corridor quite possibly leading upwards straight into the void.
Or we could just load up with dynamite and start blowing up holes all over like they did in the past.
The v shaped blocks were obviously put there for a reason.
The moment it became fact there is a void above the gallery hawass started to find ways to have a peek without the world knowing...believe me😊
I'm convinced it is a giant water filter tower. Purification, refrigeration, and massive volume storage for drinking and irrigation.
Great ideas- you got the talking part done.. 😉
I want Matt to be the new Mininister of Ancient equities of Egypt.