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@ so we agree, he’s revels in obstruction. Our difference is to what degree. I’d say with his title and decades of service, quite more than you give him credit for. Question: what bogey-man do you suppose pulls his strings?
The lack of inscriptions on most megaliths, including the pyramids, would indicate that whomever built them had another method of storing what must have been a massive amount of information.
It is also an interesting "coincidence" that these mega lasting structures was made at a place on earth that does not erode by massive rain and moisture or get overgrown by vegetation etc. Very fascinating to understand more about the how and why.
I have a theory, the Egyptians 5000 years ago did not know who or how the pyramids were built also. Out of awe the Pharos used them as tombs for themselves as they did not know what why they were made. These Pharos made up there story to control the population of how they created it and they were gods for it. It was a lost remnants of a civilization 10k years ago with there knowledge gone but what remainded was the shadow of greatness that they could not fathom.
The power generator makes the most sense. Those "hallways" are 3.5 ft tall. Nothing about that place looks as if it was built to live in, go in, or bury someone. The chemical reaction generator explanation actually lines up.
@@Rubionion right. I truly believe ancient people traveled the world and learned from each other, that’s why there’s pyramids all over the world in what was once thriving ancient cities
I'm sure they used elephants to pull the heavy blocks up steep ramps which wouldn't be difficult rolling the blocks on timber logs, leaving no trace afterwards.
I often have the thought that the universe must have looked different 10,000 plus years ago. The earths and solar systems position could have created frequencies that literally changed the laws of physics that we know today, more oxygen, stronger magnetosphere, as we drift further away from massive black holes, pulsar stars and other great powers of the universe
@@PhyrexJ Brian Cox will admit that this is a possible reality, I’ve heard him discuss similar topics, I’m not sure if you know what your talking about
I still can't imagine that humans 12,000 years ago used the exact same astrological symbols in the stars, Leo, Taurus, Scorpio etc. He says they carved the Sphinx as a lion because the sun rose at the equinox in the constellation of Leo 12,000 years ago.
So building pyramids as occupational therapy Copilot, 00:18 The building of the pyramids actually had several functions, and one of them was to keep the population busy. During the Nile floods, when the fields were flooded and agriculture was at a standstill, many workers were used to build the pyramids. This helped to avoid social unrest and stabilize the economy by providing people with work and food.
I feel like when men start asking each other how the pyramids were built. It is basically just a way of showing how ignorant the other person is. It’s 2024. We know that each stone was made like concrete blocks. Sand, ash and water from the Nile river
'Ramps are the proposed solution, but where are the remains of those ramps?' I don't know, Graham. Where are the remains of a lost globe spanning ice age civilization? By your own standard, it's on you to prove they did NOT use ramps. Enjoy arguing from the absence of evidence.
He has written several books detailing the remains of a lost globe spanning ice age civilization. The ramp theory doesn’t make any sense and there is no evidence to support it.
Graeme knows his theory is speculation and his best guess - the double standard is that we speculate the use of ramps but then use this as satisfactory evidence itself that the Egyptians built the pyramids because they could build ramps. It is mainstream historians best guess. To be clear, there is no evidence that the ancient Egyptians did or did not build the pyramids themselves. The only evidence one way or another is that they themselves claimed they inherited them from thousands of years prior, but we dismiss this as not being a trustworthy source BECAUSE it doesn’t marry up to our existing theories. We don’t know how they were built (we still can’t lift stones that heavy up that high today), the ancient Egyptian texts claim they didn’t know how they were built, and we don’t even know when they were built (currently dated by using pieces of wood found between blocks of the pyramids as a proxy). We also see suspected signs of weathering from long periods of rainfall in some of the quarry sites /on the sphinx that have not been present in Africa since prior to ancient Egypt. There are no solutions to these inconsistencies - Graeme has cried out for answers and got nothing back from experts beyond wanting to shut him down. I apologise if I got anything wrong here, I’m not scientist just a reader !
@@wbunnage 'the double standard is that we speculate the use of ramps but then use this as satisfactory evidence itself that the Egyptians built the pyramids because they could build ramps. It is mainstream historians best guess.' This is a gross mischaracterization. That's not why we suspect the Egyptians built the pyramids. We suspect the Egyptians did it, because the culture that surrounded the place the Pyramid's had a very clear line of being what we would recognize asEgyptian dating back to at least 4000 BC. The same culture that quarried the stones right from the limestone bedrock around the Pyramids, that they then used to build them, with signs of habitation both before and after quarrying showing a consistent line through. 'To be clear, there is no evidence that the ancient Egyptians did or did not build the pyramids themselves. ' Again, completely incorrect. There are more than 100 pyramids along the nile. It is clear that the Egyptians built all of them. You can look at the various builds and see a clear evolution in several factors including size, shape, durability, security, and then eventually even the gradual degrade into cost effective and quick. What there is no evidence of, is that somebody BUT the Egyptians built the pyramids. It's the opposite of your claim. 'The only evidence one way or another is that they themselves claimed they inherited them from thousands of years prior, but we dismiss this as not being a trustworthy source BECAUSE it doesn’t marry up to our existing theories.' The Egyptians do not say this, and I challenge you to source it. 'We don’t know how they were built (we still can’t lift stones that heavy up that high today),' To be clear, there are hundreds of theories about how they were built. Maybe the most thorough among them is the one put forward by Jean Pierre Houdin. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the charicature Graham is presenting here of hundreds of people pushing heavy bricks up mile long ramps with their hands. And if you think we can't lift a 70 ton stone to a height greater than the entire height of the pyramid of itself with modern technology, I don't know what to say to you. We can lift entire buildings with cranes. The worlds strongest crane right now can lift a weight of 22,000 tons, to a height of 500+ feet. 'the ancient Egyptian texts claim they didn’t know how they were built, and we don’t even know when they were built (currently dated by using pieces of wood found between blocks of the pyramids as a proxy). ' Again, incorrect. We have surviving records of the paperwork covering travel of blocks from the quarry to Khufu's pyramid. We have heiroglyphs left behind where they suggest they built them, and even how. Khufu's name is written more than a dozen times in the relieving chambers, many of them having been sealed since construction. And the only reliable sourcing of wood found was in the shafts in the kings chamber, which had been completely sealed off and hidden since its construction. They also date the organic matter found in the mortar between blocks, I think that's what you might mean. All testing returns a period of construction around what is suggested, +/- 400-500 years. 'We also see suspected signs of weathering from long periods of rainfall in some of the quarry sites /on the sphinx that have not been present in Africa since prior to ancient Egypt.' I don't want to get into this can of worms, lol. I disagree, and I can explain why at length, but I don't want to divert from the topic at hand. We can get into it later if you want. Fair? 'There are no solutions to these inconsistencies - Graeme has cried out for answers and got nothing back from experts beyond wanting to shut him down.' No, Graham has cried out a very particular narrative on this topic that claims inconsistencies that amount to little more than Graham not being completely honest. Many, MANY 'experts' have responded to Graham, and he has a terrible habit of suggesting that they are attacking him. It's actually pretty gross behavior. And to be totally clear here, it's the OPPOSITE that is actually true where the mainstream has asked GH questions that HE hasn't answered. For example, you mentioned the water erosion across the Giza plateau, and how Graham uses this to make the claim that the construction on site must be much older. GH and Shoch both claim that the water erosion is present all over, including on mastaba's. I'm no fan of Hawass, but him and Lehner have directly asked GH and his ilk for them to specify what they're talking about, and they're completely quiet on the subject. 'I apologise if I got anything wrong here, I’m not scientist just a reader !' No need to apologise, I appreciate your curiosity! And I apologise if I come off as a little blunt in my response, I'm really just attempting to be concise. But please, if you are really curious about this subject, there is more than 200 years of consistent archeological research coming out of this region specifically, there is plenty to read! GJ and the alternative historians are doing a massive disservice in the way they present pretty much all of it. The real history is MUCH cooler.
@@evbbjones7 This comment should be pinned! Like you wrote: "The real history is MUCH cooler." No need to speculate or make up a lost magical ice age civilization .
@wbunnage lol what? We lift things far heavier today. Jeez man, there was a guy in Michigan who made it his hobby to lift heavy slabs of stone on his own. He did it with ease.
It is a planetary resonance oscillator designed to harmonize with Earth's natural frequency, with the intention of raising its base resonance to elevate human consciousness. This would allow for the transmission of thoughts, dreams, and shared ideas, fostering the exchange of knowledge such as agriculture, mathematics, architecture, and other concepts. However, increasing the planet's frequency had an unforeseen consequence: it gradually reduced the Earth's overall mass. This reduction caused the oceans to rise continually until the device was submerged. In a desperate attempt to stop the flooding, the local inhabitants removed the granite capstone, deactivating the device. A valuable lesson was learned from this event. Let me know if you need further refinements!
@dexterslab3 not hard to build a lifting device like a crane with wood, pullies and rope, also doesn't take much to float a block either just a simple buoyancy calculation and if the had the math to bulid a pyramid then they could do buoyancy calculations too.
And how did they build the stuff inside the pyramid? because there are complex networks of passageways, chambers and shafts inside it's not as simple as a bunch of heavy blocks stacked, oh and there's artifacts inside the pyramids that are made from granite with a high level or precision, like they used some laser technology or machinery
Go to Luxor, mud brick ramps still remain, btw. Then there's water hydraulics, then there's also balanced rocking and chocking to lift, for starters...
@@Dev-In-Denver123 Ramps back and forth on the sides of the pyramid with small crane-lifts at the switchbacks. It's silly to think that you'd have to either drag the stone the entire ramp distance or lift it the entire height.
We are watching this video because of a wireless signal that traveled through space and time to reach us on a device that lets us watch this on a pocket sized screen in our bedrooms. But yeah the rocks are interesting.
My thoughts on the pyramids: we don’t know how they are built. Maybe that’s the reason for them. Build such a spectacle and hide all evidence so people in the future wonder how you built it. It answers everything really. Ramps? Destroyed them. Pulley systems? Destroyed them. They had nothing else to do those days. No phones for distraction. Just hundreds of slaves and an arrogant leader moving rocks around
Yeah the robot that went up the 160 foot shaft recorded images of graffiti behind that door. Unless you have evidence of graffiti from before the predynastic, the graffiti was placed there by ancient egyptians from the dynastic era, you know the actual builders of the pyramids…
I have answer to graham’s confusion . The shaft in the queens chamber are because the queens chamber was a temporary tomb . They made that tomb during construction in case the Pharaoh died. They then closed the shafts and continued construction . The fact that he hasn’t considered this makes me skeptical of everything else he says
Been there. It's a bunch of rocks stacked on other rocks. That's it. There's a YT vid of a guy using primitive tools only, and moving 20T stones - by himself. The "mystery" is Humans are ridiculously smart (when we have food and shelter covered and have lots of leisure time).....
Ok....but he doesn't quarry it from 300 miles away, shape, and place the stone 200 feet in the air....every day for 23 years, 24 hours a day, every 2 minutes. That's what it would take to build the pyramid. 1 stone quarried, moved, shaped, and placed every 2 minutes.
@@PHUCKUSA-z3l The one guy also isn't a million guys. The ancient Egyptians had a million guys. (And also, you don't need a ramp a mile long going out from the pyramid. That's silly.)
@@Porterhousepapi No idea. Probably just like 1000 people pulling it. But he was wrong about the length, so that makes me question everything else he's claiming to know too.
@@garywood97 yeah you just said no idea and 1000 people pulling it… come on now lmao there’s some stones that weigh 25-80 tons. There wasn’t even large industrial cranes until recently that could lift more than that. You really gotta check into reality and what’s possible. It’s amazing you don’t even think about the weight of theee things. Thinking some little 5’ 100lb slaves are going to slide stones across the ground like they just slide on plastic and then lift 50,000 to 160,000lb stones and then put them on top of each other. Really Gary? I want what you’re smoking.
How did you calculate the ramp length to get 500m? The height of the pyramid is about 147m. By my rough calculation, please correct me if I'm wrong, a 500m ramp would be nearly a 30% grade! It was stated in the video that the maximum grade these heavy stones could be moved up by human power alone would be maybe 10%. A mile long ramp would be a little less than a 10% grade.
@@fly4fun610 The heaviest stones he was talking about are not at the top of the pyramid. He's talking about the heavy stones that are used in the Kings Chamber, which is only just above half the total height. Those stones specifically are the ones that people do find hard to explain. Most of the regular stones are much smaller, so just aren't as hard to explain.
He loses me with his occult sayings ("as above, so below") and his advocacy of sorcery via mind-altering drugs. At least he is consistent, although that is consistently evil.
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The biggest obstacle to revealing the truth about the Pyramids is, Zahi Hawass.
A Puppet of the Elites to hide important artifacts.
Was that so simple, Zahi Hawass is just a pawn in my opinion
@ so we agree, he’s revels in obstruction. Our difference is to what degree. I’d say with his title and decades of service, quite more than you give him credit for. Question: what bogey-man do you suppose pulls his strings?
100%
Zahi Hawass is an Egyptian from the people of Egypt of today, whom Had Nothing to Do with the Actual Civilization which Built the Pyramids...
The lack of inscriptions on most megaliths, including the pyramids, would indicate that whomever built them had another method of storing what must have been a massive amount of information.
Freemasons all over it
Yeah its almost like today where instead of writing everything on the walls in our houses we just use paper. Crazy concept right?
It is also an interesting "coincidence" that these mega lasting structures was made at a place on earth that does not erode by massive rain and moisture or get overgrown by vegetation etc. Very fascinating to understand more about the how and why.
Nothing to do with weather factors it’s all celestial there’s pyramids in the Amazon covered over as-long as it aligns they didn’t care
There has been rain fall in Egypt it’s had its rough days
Freemasons I don’t know why we don’t see it it’s right in our faces
@@909montana5 yeah it’s just as big an argument that Egypt was closer in weather to southern America
Massive amounts of water erosion headed down into the sphinx.
I have a theory, the Egyptians 5000 years ago did not know who or how the pyramids were built also. Out of awe the Pharos used them as tombs for themselves as they did not know what why they were made. These Pharos made up there story to control the population of how they created it and they were gods for it. It was a lost remnants of a civilization 10k years ago with there knowledge gone but what remainded was the shadow of greatness that they could not fathom.
It’s not your own theory, but it’s all good dude.
I recommend reading this paragraph in "movie previews" voice.
Nice theory, without a shred of evidence though.
@@hansa2026isn’t that the point of a theory
I think someone wrote a book with that exact theory.....can't remember his name......Gerry Hancook or something 😊
The power generator makes the most sense. Those "hallways" are 3.5 ft tall. Nothing about that place looks as if it was built to live in, go in, or bury someone.
The chemical reaction generator explanation actually lines up.
Funny how we haven't heard any speculation what that power would have been used for?
Hahahahah holy crap you are gullible
Why would anyone live in a pyramid?
Or how it was transferred, contained, controlled....and used...😂@@MinnesotaBeekeeper
The chemical reaction generator definitely makes a lot of sense if you are clinically restarded
I am on team disassemble and reassemble the pyramids.
Build back better. You are right. Having taken geophysical data for many years I can tell you that you never know for sure until you dig it up.
The great pyramid was built long before the dynasties.
no it wasnt
Love Graham and his work💕✨
"This is Something asking for us to understand" is a bar!!
I thought the ramp material would have been used as the fill under the capstones, that is, the ramp material is in the pyramid.
SOME of it maybe. A ramp extending out for at least a mile would be an absolutely gargantuan amount of material
Hope this man gets a answer
Graham has such a broad knowledge and interest in the past, locations and people. Truly fascination for whether you agree with him or not!!
They were able to 3D-print giant rocks and had gravity manipulation technology while using the Earth & stars as a battery and power source.
Sure they did!
good grief get out of mummys basement
@driveboy317 Ok Uncle Fester.
I always felt that the pyramids was just simply a sign of wealth of a thriving city.
Same. A dick waving contest between empires, making them bigger, with more jewels and artwork than the last king
@@Rubionion right. I truly believe ancient people traveled the world and learned from each other, that’s why there’s pyramids all over the world in what was once thriving ancient cities
Look up coral castle and the hutchenaon effect
As Above- So Below. Also a great song by Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band
I'm sure they used elephants to pull the heavy blocks up steep ramps which wouldn't be difficult rolling the blocks on timber logs, leaving no trace afterwards.
Locked doors after doors dont say keep on it says keep out
Water, and gravity.
Power generator? Funny how we haven't heard any speculation what that power would have been used for?
It would have powered your ass.
Water is the answer. Flooding each level of the pyramid and using floats under the stones
What floats? floats aren't able to support the weight of stones as massive as 20-50 ton
Dork.
I often have the thought that the universe must have looked different 10,000 plus years ago. The earths and solar systems position could have created frequencies that literally changed the laws of physics that we know today, more oxygen, stronger magnetosphere, as we drift further away from massive black holes, pulsar stars and other great powers of the universe
Congratulations, you just showed you don’t understand physics
@@PhyrexJ Brian Cox will admit that this is a possible reality, I’ve heard him discuss similar topics, I’m not sure if you know what your talking about
@@PhyrexJwhere exactly does physics suggest what he said was wrong?
Do we know if MEN or WOMEN made the pyramids. I'm guessing men.
It was the ice age trans community
I still can't imagine that humans 12,000 years ago used the exact same astrological symbols in the stars, Leo, Taurus, Scorpio etc. He says they carved the Sphinx as a lion because the sun rose at the equinox in the constellation of Leo 12,000 years ago.
“He says”
Yeah and there’s your explanation. He just says anything.
Gobekli Tepe has all those same animals from constellations. And that place is 12,000 years old.
@@Nineteen1900Hundred go have a look at all the other animals there.....
Who do you think came up with those constellations in the first place?
The sphinx appears to be from the age of Leo. There are no depictions of Egyptians building a pyramid. Atlantians imo
Yes.
I think so too
🤣🤣
hahaha
Your opinion? Well, FUCK that makes it credible
why they assuming humans hauled the blocks, have the never heard of horse power?
It was geopolymer.
The great pyramid was built by a 4.0 litre v8 twin turbo
They actually used Mastadons to haul the blocks. It is known.
@@jaketoffen2454 the average pyramid stone blocks a few horses can move. then for the granite blocks elephant yeh
@@jaketoffen2454 I saw that movie, too.
History for granite RUclips channel answers all of these questions
Flus and the pyramids contained the pressure some how
One of the best interviews Lex has to-date.
So building pyramids as occupational therapy
Copilot, 00:18
The building of the pyramids actually had several functions, and one of them was to keep the population busy. During the Nile floods, when the fields were flooded and agriculture was at a standstill, many workers were used to build the pyramids. This helped to avoid social unrest and stabilize the economy by providing people with work and food.
A curiosity device. Nice.
I think the instructions of construction method of the pyramids still hidden inside a secret room of pyramid of Giza
Did they ever try taking one apart?
There was more magic on the earth back in those days.
The question never was, how did they build them, question is, when will we build one our selves
How come there is no mystery on who built the myan pyramids?
Tombs and monuments are different things.
I feel like when men start asking each other how the pyramids were built. It is basically just a way of showing how ignorant the other person is. It’s 2024. We know that each stone was made like concrete blocks. Sand, ash and water from the Nile river
'Ramps are the proposed solution, but where are the remains of those ramps?'
I don't know, Graham. Where are the remains of a lost globe spanning ice age civilization? By your own standard, it's on you to prove they did NOT use ramps. Enjoy arguing from the absence of evidence.
He has written several books detailing the remains of a lost globe spanning ice age civilization. The ramp theory doesn’t make any sense and there is no evidence to support it.
Graeme knows his theory is speculation and his best guess - the double standard is that we speculate the use of ramps but then use this as satisfactory evidence itself that the Egyptians built the pyramids because they could build ramps. It is mainstream historians best guess.
To be clear, there is no evidence that the ancient Egyptians did or did not build the pyramids themselves. The only evidence one way or another is that they themselves claimed they inherited them from thousands of years prior, but we dismiss this as not being a trustworthy source BECAUSE it doesn’t marry up to our existing theories.
We don’t know how they were built (we still can’t lift stones that heavy up that high today), the ancient Egyptian texts claim they didn’t know how they were built, and we don’t even know when they were built (currently dated by using pieces of wood found between blocks of the pyramids as a proxy). We also see suspected signs of weathering from long periods of rainfall in some of the quarry sites /on the sphinx that have not been present in Africa since prior to ancient Egypt.
There are no solutions to these inconsistencies - Graeme has cried out for answers and got nothing back from experts beyond wanting to shut him down.
I apologise if I got anything wrong here, I’m not scientist just a reader !
@@wbunnage 'the double standard is that we speculate the use of ramps but then use this as satisfactory evidence itself that the Egyptians built the pyramids because they could build ramps. It is mainstream historians best guess.'
This is a gross mischaracterization. That's not why we suspect the Egyptians built the pyramids. We suspect the Egyptians did it, because the culture that surrounded the place the Pyramid's had a very clear line of being what we would recognize asEgyptian dating back to at least 4000 BC. The same culture that quarried the stones right from the limestone bedrock around the Pyramids, that they then used to build them, with signs of habitation both before and after quarrying showing a consistent line through.
'To be clear, there is no evidence that the ancient Egyptians did or did not build the pyramids themselves. '
Again, completely incorrect. There are more than 100 pyramids along the nile. It is clear that the Egyptians built all of them. You can look at the various builds and see a clear evolution in several factors including size, shape, durability, security, and then eventually even the gradual degrade into cost effective and quick. What there is no evidence of, is that somebody BUT the Egyptians built the pyramids. It's the opposite of your claim.
'The only evidence one way or another is that they themselves claimed they inherited them from thousands of years prior, but we dismiss this as not being a trustworthy source BECAUSE it doesn’t marry up to our existing theories.'
The Egyptians do not say this, and I challenge you to source it.
'We don’t know how they were built (we still can’t lift stones that heavy up that high today),'
To be clear, there are hundreds of theories about how they were built. Maybe the most thorough among them is the one put forward by Jean Pierre Houdin. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the charicature Graham is presenting here of hundreds of people pushing heavy bricks up mile long ramps with their hands.
And if you think we can't lift a 70 ton stone to a height greater than the entire height of the pyramid of itself with modern technology, I don't know what to say to you. We can lift entire buildings with cranes. The worlds strongest crane right now can lift a weight of 22,000 tons, to a height of 500+ feet.
'the ancient Egyptian texts claim they didn’t know how they were built, and we don’t even know when they were built (currently dated by using pieces of wood found between blocks of the pyramids as a proxy). '
Again, incorrect. We have surviving records of the paperwork covering travel of blocks from the quarry to Khufu's pyramid. We have heiroglyphs left behind where they suggest they built them, and even how. Khufu's name is written more than a dozen times in the relieving chambers, many of them having been sealed since construction. And the only reliable sourcing of wood found was in the shafts in the kings chamber, which had been completely sealed off and hidden since its construction. They also date the organic matter found in the mortar between blocks, I think that's what you might mean. All testing returns a period of construction around what is suggested, +/- 400-500 years.
'We also see suspected signs of weathering from long periods of rainfall in some of the quarry sites /on the sphinx that have not been present in Africa since prior to ancient Egypt.'
I don't want to get into this can of worms, lol. I disagree, and I can explain why at length, but I don't want to divert from the topic at hand. We can get into it later if you want. Fair?
'There are no solutions to these inconsistencies - Graeme has cried out for answers and got nothing back from experts beyond wanting to shut him down.'
No, Graham has cried out a very particular narrative on this topic that claims inconsistencies that amount to little more than Graham not being completely honest. Many, MANY 'experts' have responded to Graham, and he has a terrible habit of suggesting that they are attacking him. It's actually pretty gross behavior.
And to be totally clear here, it's the OPPOSITE that is actually true where the mainstream has asked GH questions that HE hasn't answered. For example, you mentioned the water erosion across the Giza plateau, and how Graham uses this to make the claim that the construction on site must be much older. GH and Shoch both claim that the water erosion is present all over, including on mastaba's. I'm no fan of Hawass, but him and Lehner have directly asked GH and his ilk for them to specify what they're talking about, and they're completely quiet on the subject.
'I apologise if I got anything wrong here, I’m not scientist just a reader !'
No need to apologise, I appreciate your curiosity! And I apologise if I come off as a little blunt in my response, I'm really just attempting to be concise. But please, if you are really curious about this subject, there is more than 200 years of consistent archeological research coming out of this region specifically, there is plenty to read! GJ and the alternative historians are doing a massive disservice in the way they present pretty much all of it. The real history is MUCH cooler.
@@evbbjones7 This comment should be pinned! Like you wrote: "The real history is MUCH cooler." No need to speculate or make up a lost magical ice age civilization .
@wbunnage lol what? We lift things far heavier today. Jeez man, there was a guy in Michigan who made it his hobby to lift heavy slabs of stone on his own. He did it with ease.
It is a planetary resonance oscillator designed to harmonize with Earth's natural frequency, with the intention of raising its base resonance to elevate human consciousness. This would allow for the transmission of thoughts, dreams, and shared ideas, fostering the exchange of knowledge such as agriculture, mathematics, architecture, and other concepts. However, increasing the planet's frequency had an unforeseen consequence: it gradually reduced the Earth's overall mass. This reduction caused the oceans to rise continually until the device was submerged. In a desperate attempt to stop the flooding, the local inhabitants removed the granite capstone, deactivating the device. A valuable lesson was learned from this event.
Let me know if you need further refinements!
Maybe it's just a giant refrigerator.
this seems to be the only valid answer tbh
Misleading title. Doesn't say who build the pyramids does it Lex?
Humans before the ice age. With all the tech they had!!!!
i bet we ll wake up in a billion years, and we ll still wonder how tf they build the pyramids ...
Before I’ve watched it I will say this, they haven’t got a clue.
i know how but i’m not telling
The englistan guy's stammering is distracting. The other dude does it occasionally too. "Thee" "uh". (The) Oh,the sand people found them buried btw
These dudes chasing the future!!!!! 😂
"Electricity"
It was help built by water.
Some big stones were cut and stacked carefully.
And a *whole bunch* of the thing was *filled in with random rocks.*
Why dont we just ask Joe Biden?
Genius 😂🎉❤
Lol
Dont knock it till you try it
Or ask Donald Trump and he will lie and just give an answer and have many people believing it.
Who’s the old crazy guy in 2024 ?
😂
Graham its simple, the great pyramid was built by stacking blocks on one another.....
can you lift them up for me please?
@dexterslab3 not hard to build a lifting device like a crane with wood, pullies and rope, also doesn't take much to float a block either just a simple buoyancy calculation and if the had the math to bulid a pyramid then they could do buoyancy calculations too.
And how did they build the stuff inside the pyramid? because there are complex networks of passageways, chambers and shafts inside it's not as simple as a bunch of heavy blocks stacked, oh and there's artifacts inside the pyramids that are made from granite with a high level or precision, like they used some laser technology or machinery
@lg20a1 they did it very carefully
@@matthewmckinney5387 when did they start giving rodents youtube accounts?
I'm surprised Graham hancock still talking about "ramps" i he is still wondering how the pyramids were built?????
Graham is the man
He's a stammering buffoon
It was the aliens
Go to Luxor, mud brick ramps still remain, btw. Then there's water hydraulics, then there's also balanced rocking and chocking to lift, for starters...
Mud bricks are very portable if mixed/manufactured in situ
1 mile long ramp? No problemo
@@fireinthestone You don't need a mile long ramp anywhere near the pyramid.
@@ThatBoomerDude56What do you need? Are you referring to a crane? Union hardhat up there smokin darts all day under the Giza sun? 😂
@@Dev-In-Denver123 Ramps back and forth on the sides of the pyramid with small crane-lifts at the switchbacks. It's silly to think that you'd have to either drag the stone the entire ramp distance or lift it the entire height.
They will never admit it was not made
By Humans 😂
We are watching this video because of a wireless signal that traveled through space and time to reach us on a device that lets us watch this on a pocket sized screen in our bedrooms. But yeah the rocks are interesting.
Not mutually exclusive
Have you been and seen those rocks ? 😂
then go watch a video about phones?
My thoughts on the pyramids: we don’t know how they are built. Maybe that’s the reason for them. Build such a spectacle and hide all evidence so people in the future wonder how you built it. It answers everything really. Ramps? Destroyed them. Pulley systems? Destroyed them. They had nothing else to do those days. No phones for distraction. Just hundreds of slaves and an arrogant leader moving rocks around
One of the Earth’s great mysteries!
The Pyramids may be a quasi monolith as in 2001 a space odyssey.
No one knows it's all speculation
It IS a Machine! ask TESLA
Yeah the robot that went up the 160 foot shaft recorded images of graffiti behind that door.
Unless you have evidence of graffiti from before the predynastic, the graffiti was placed there by ancient egyptians from the dynastic era, you know the actual builders of the pyramids…
By channels that don't lie.
find the titanium cube in the pyramid of GIza and you'll find the answers.
The hells that?
Some national treasure reference or something?
@@_taxman_right? 😂
Within the titanium cube is a dodecahedron carved from elemental Hunger
Im too busy looking for the Jade Monkey to go on such a wild goose chase
If the Egyptian government will allow you ..
Yes, please go listen to History For Granite for very good takes on the subject. He’s on to a lot. Not just something. 😊
Shatf😂🤭
✋🏻aliens🤚🏻
1 mile long ramp? Sounds easy when made from in situ manufacture,
Instead of inviting this guy over why not invite actual historians like: ruclips.net/video/-iCIZQX9i1A/видео.htmlsi=aA4JGBIqnzsnCl8_
Thank you. God forbid Lex loses out on his recently aquired troglodyte audience though...
@@younsookimflynn2782 I think that in the interest of friendship - between Lex and Joe Rogan - Lex shouldn't steal Joe's audience 🙊
ah yes, an actual historian, a 20 yr old kid on youtube !!! you got him mike !!!
The original build was a stepped pyramid . Flipping the stones end for end up steps is very easy when you know how . It just took time
They had pulleys and beasts of burden not just man powerr 🙄
"Garllery" is nasty work
I think they used elephants
Or dinosaurs
K 19 give you the answer
I have reason to beleive it was primarily an altar
They are discussing WHY they were built, not so much HOW, we see a ton of speculation, but it wasnt aliens and it wasn't just human power alone
talking bollocks about the ramp
I have answer to graham’s confusion . The shaft in the queens chamber are because the queens chamber was a temporary tomb . They made that tomb during construction in case the Pharaoh died. They then closed the shafts and continued construction .
The fact that he hasn’t considered this makes me skeptical of everything else he says
Wow that’s a very detailed explanation, how did you found this out? Is there hieroglyphs that explain it?
I might just be an ass but I’ve never found any of the pyramids to be all that impressive.
Then you’ve never properly researched them.
This guy doesn’t understand the scientific method.
good thing you do, thats why youre someone we all listen to!
he is a hack journalist not a scientist. He just wants to sell books to moron you tube commenters
find the cube of titanium in the middle of the Pyramid of giza youll find your answers.
Been there. It's a bunch of rocks stacked on other rocks. That's it. There's a YT vid of a guy using primitive tools only, and moving 20T stones - by himself. The "mystery" is Humans are ridiculously smart (when we have food and shelter covered and have lots of leisure time).....
Where is the video?
Ok....but he doesn't quarry it from 300 miles away, shape, and place the stone 200 feet in the air....every day for 23 years, 24 hours a day, every 2 minutes. That's what it would take to build the pyramid. 1 stone quarried, moved, shaped, and placed every 2 minutes.
2 seasons of ancient Egypt, nile flooding: farming season and monument season. No slaves needed.
Our ancestors were as smart as we are, but with greater patience. We are clever monkeys and time is on our side.
@@PHUCKUSA-z3l The one guy also isn't a million guys. The ancient Egyptians had a million guys. (And also, you don't need a ramp a mile long going out from the pyramid. That's silly.)
These were smart people. Obviously they used A frame jib cranes and hemp rope with tackle blocks and a team of oxen. Done and easy.
Didn't have the wheel.
Nailed it pun intended
@@PHUCKUSA-z3lnever said wheel
@@PHUCKUSA-z3l 🤣
His numbers about how long a ramp would have to be are completely wrong. It's like 500m, not a mile.
It’s for the weight. How are people moving that weight??
@@Porterhousepapi No idea. Probably just like 1000 people pulling it. But he was wrong about the length, so that makes me question everything else he's claiming to know too.
@@garywood97 yeah you just said no idea and 1000 people pulling it… come on now lmao there’s some stones that weigh 25-80 tons. There wasn’t even large industrial cranes until recently that could lift more than that. You really gotta check into reality and what’s possible. It’s amazing you don’t even think about the weight of theee things. Thinking some little 5’ 100lb slaves are going to slide stones across the ground like they just slide on plastic and then lift 50,000 to 160,000lb stones and then put them on top of each other. Really Gary? I want what you’re smoking.
How did you calculate the ramp length to get 500m? The height of the pyramid is about 147m. By my rough calculation, please correct me if I'm wrong, a 500m ramp would be nearly a 30% grade! It was stated in the video that the maximum grade these heavy stones could be moved up by human power alone would be maybe 10%. A mile long ramp would be a little less than a 10% grade.
@@fly4fun610 The heaviest stones he was talking about are not at the top of the pyramid. He's talking about the heavy stones that are used in the Kings Chamber, which is only just above half the total height. Those stones specifically are the ones that people do find hard to explain. Most of the regular stones are much smaller, so just aren't as hard to explain.
He loses me with his occult sayings ("as above, so below") and his advocacy of sorcery via mind-altering drugs. At least he is consistent, although that is consistently evil.
What makes any of that "evil"?
@@silentknight3320
The occult, and sorcery (which includes hallucinagenic drugs) is by definition evil, certainly according to the Bible.
i hope you get the help you need, you clearly are a twisted up person
Why do we care lex?
One word. Geopolymer
That’s been disproven. The blocks still have natural streaks and cutting marks.
“The great pyramid is a scale model of the earth” who believes this shit? Lmfao
the graduates of you tube university
Just make up stuff and say "well you can't disprove my made up stuff". Welcome to Hancock's career. Impressive to idiots. You decide who you are.
Idiot detected
Graham is such a consumer of research and an uneducated fraud.
He might be wrong in some of his research, but he is definitely not an idiot. Have you done any research to prove you are not an idiot.
@@franzheuer1966 dumb comment
The built the Pyramids because they could.
The fact he doesn’t talk about how the secant in inches of the great pyramid is 1.617 proves graham is a poser and just talks gibberish
You’re just jealous because he doesn’t praise Hitler or “weave.” 🙄