9:38 I didn't know that! This explains why pyramids functioned as granaries in earlier Civilization titles, only to be changed with bonus to workers, builders and construction in later games.
12:30 the most interesting part starts. Addition: as Raven points out, the pyramids symbolize Ra, god of the sun. Birby face with sun disk on top of his head here. In legends he is riding his heavenly sun boat to defeat the great snake Apep or Apophis, and he does that every single night, so the sun can rise. Another god of the sun was Amun, the Hidden One... he is usually shown with a human face and two very tall plumes on his hat. The cult of Amun got more popular starting with 5th dynasty and reached maximum popularity during New Kingdom, and as his name means "Invisible" or "Hidden", actually building underground tombs in hidden valleys was not just more practical, but also heavily symbolic. So one of the answers to "why they stopped building pyramids" is religion changing in 1000 years. It's like asking why USA builds modern megachurches instead of gothic cathedrals... The pyramids got smaller as cult of Amun got bigger, tho he sometimes got mixed with other gods, giving us Amun-Ra, Amun-Min and even Amun-Zeus.
Seriously, Raven, you are an absolute wonder yourself, a marvelous story teller and teacher. Thank you very much for sharing those other lesser wonders. Please keep sharing what you "see"!
To me The Great Pyramid of Giza is still the greatest architectrial acievement in human history especially when you consider the technology that was available at the time...i am really looking forward to the rest of the series
Yes the structure itself reflects a monumental achievement for early man. More than the pyramid itself however is what it took to create it vis a vis = infrastructure. Egypt had to unify itself towards a united effort to create the pyramids - and having done so set the stage for its subsequent greatness. To create the pyramids the Egyptians had to create large, organized workforces which in turn had to be supplied. That means obtaining all the raw materials needed for the actual work + transporting sufficient agriculture to site to sustain that workforce + the creation of ships and harbors to achieve this logistical network + the importation of copper ore etc. needed for tools etc.. Think the railroads of the late-19th Century in the US. They did not simply lay some railroad tracks. They connected an otherwise disparate nation facilitating new routes of transportation and communication. Further by having a means to move goods about more freely what were local/regional industries could now transport their goods long distance and beyond creating national and international industries. Moral of the story: the creation of the pyramids transformed Egyptian society uniting it and creating an internal/external logistical system which helped to transform the nation into a greater power in the region. Thus they themselves are a marvel. In creating them however = that is the real achievement. 🤔
I've been in Egypt since October 13th and I finally made it back to the Giza plateau yesterday. It was just as AMAZING and surreal as I remembered it was from 6 years ago.
looking forward to the rest of these wonders! I learned a lot about the actual structures within the pyramid from this video and I'll have to look into it more, I can't wait to see what further research reveals
An absolutely fantastic video Raven very informative, I have seen the great pyramid and like you forgot to take photos inside. Am looking forward to seeing the rest of the videos on the seven wonders of the ancient world
I got to visit Giza last November, and it was great; but dang the step pyramids were a better experience. Just less people, and the hieroglyphics inside the pyramids there were still visible.
I appreciated the history lesson leading up to the pyramid section. I haven’t been in school for 20 years and your explanation really helped me with context for the rest of the video.
Seriously GREAT video! Lots in there that I didn’t know. And your method of delivery is entertaining and engaging. Thank you so much for what you do here!
I think you are absolutely brilliant and I love to see you making videos again. ❤ Please please please pace yourself with us so you do not feel pressure to perform or anything that can make you burn out.
It's just so crazy that the Great Pyramid was 2000 years old when Herodotus was telling his lies. ;) I would love to be able to someday see the Great Pyramid. Until then, I'll live vicariously though Raven.
Seven wonders of the modern world: 1. Bass Shop Pro Pyramid. 2. The Wall (doesn't exist, Mexico refused to pay for it). 3. Great Cvm Pits of Serbia. 4. Cattodrome of Turkiye. 5. Moskva, the urski flagship (converted to submarine). 6. Great Firewall of China. 7. Amazon employee piss bottle collection warehouse.
raven at 1644 , that design was figured out by Christopher Dunn, who on the tv show Ancient Aliens figured out that the pyramid is a machine that generates Hydrogen and shoots it out the upper shaft, perhaps into a spaceships fuel port, the original stone cap had the Nazi symbol, which is the egyptian symbol for the letter H , which stands for Hydrogen
"The official list as we know it today became as famous and well-known as it is thanks to..." Brain - "the Civilization video game series. She's about to say it here we gooooo" "...the Renaissance" Brain - "oh right"
Interesting Egyptian Ptolomeic/Roman period mummy exhibition in Manchester recently, it might have been in london so you might have seen it, have to meet you up in my kilt and discuss haha.
Hi Raven, thanks for another great video! You have hinted about it a few times but I would love to know your opinion on the archeological treasures removed and "stored" in museums in the western world, especially the UK. Should they be returned?
raven , i would make an older list of wonders, like the city of Atlantis, some youtuber found it in Mauritania, but the local govt just finished demolishing some old ruins when they went to check it out in person, they bulldozed some old red and white rocks tthe same color as they were fabled to be made of, under the Atlas mountains to the north. in northern Africa. i would also put Puma Puku , in an recent episode of Ancient Aliens, they had some computer whizzes use the mapped out pieces they found there and put together a cgi model of what they thought the ancient city would look like , it looked cool like an ancient chinese temple in south america i would also put Stone Henge, it originally had more stones and they were perfectly molded i think i would also put the Great Sphinx, it originally had a different head, either that of a cat or a dog, i still don't know but it points to either Leo or Sirius depending on when it was built, and i think it was built the same time as the great pyramid, which might be 25 or 27 thousand years ago
Pausanieus travel guide to the 7 wonders to the ancient hellenic world was the first reference to there being 7 wonders. He was a priest to a god called Aesclepios called therapeutie 2centry c.e.
RAVEN! Tell us MORE about the new...Oh. You are. Okay. So! That "void" thing! Do you think...maybe...perhaps...it is where they stored THE BANANA OIL used in the construction process? Remember? Make it slippery for the stones to move? (pause) No? (sighs) Fine. What an EXCELLENT educator you are? I am thinking you have THREE Masters degrees and NOT just two. The third one being a TEACHING degree. But...knowing you...that talent like SO MANY others probably just comes naturally! High Five my fellow Canadian! Who I love and support even though you're from (cough) Toronto. = )
😂😂 if they ever find evidence of banana oil, I’ll dedicate that video to you!! Oh gosh I already have enough trauma from the first two Masters, I don’t think I could do a third, but THANK YOUUU!!!
22:00 Another pyramid has a block tagged "Drunks of Menkaure" so I guess ancient Egyptians drinkers sometimes built pyramids. (Also, one of the worlds oldest surviving jokes.)
Not too much, but the first ascending passage is very narrow and small 😬
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Didn't the Statue of Zeus existed during Herodutus lifetime? I know its "strange" to quote a videogame but in AC Odyssey both Herodutus and the statue are present. I then confirmed the dates and it seemed correct. Fidias was contemporary of Herodutus.
Raven, the Great Pyramid is around 25 thousand years old, not built in 2500 bc, more like 25000 bc, if you watch some videos by Carl Munck called the Code, there are three videos in that series, he found out the real dates of the ancient structures by using math, where did you get your date? a book? where did they get their date?
I will tell you about one city that is rich in successive cultural treasures, such as the civilization of Almustatil, the civilization of Thamud, the civilization of the Dadan Kingdom, the civilization of the Kingdom of Lihyan, and the civilization of the Nabataeans. National Graphic produced a film about the kingdom of Dadan And the Al-Ula Authority produced a film about the almustatil civilization on RUclips entitled: Architects of Ancient Arabia It is rich in writings and rock drawings from several successive civilizations. It is like a museum with an open space without limit, because the Arabian Peninsula is rich in many writings, inscriptions and drawings of multiple civilizations. You can benefit from Dr. Eid Al Yahya's programs in watching the civilizations of Al-Ula and other Arab civilizations in the Arabian Peninsula
raven , the Great Pyramid wasn't built by Khufu, some lame archaeologist couldn't find anything written inside it, so he painted some bad grafiti in red paint on a wall in heiroglyphs he translated himself so it would read khufu, khufu had nothing to do with ithe was the person who made plaque that said he made the sphinx, even though it was clear that the sphinx existed long before the egypytians, so did the great pyramid
It would be great if you could not read to notes in the video, your eyeballs going to the right of the camera constantly was distracting, and I am stopping the video at 6:52, now.
Raven you showed the pyramids in the wrong order at1235, the great pyramid is the oldest and those others are cheap imitations that humans tried to do after seeing the great pyramid which was probably built by aliens, only someone with a view from space could have lined it up
Check out the full Ancient Wonders playlist here: ruclips.net/p/PLckdsYfo5EkdgfiMYeiXUeuGU-Bzzs4TO
9:38 I didn't know that! This explains why pyramids functioned as granaries in earlier Civilization titles, only to be changed with bonus to workers, builders and construction in later games.
12:30 the most interesting part starts. Addition: as Raven points out, the pyramids symbolize Ra, god of the sun. Birby face with sun disk on top of his head here. In legends he is riding his heavenly sun boat to defeat the great snake Apep or Apophis, and he does that every single night, so the sun can rise. Another god of the sun was Amun, the Hidden One... he is usually shown with a human face and two very tall plumes on his hat. The cult of Amun got more popular starting with 5th dynasty and reached maximum popularity during New Kingdom, and as his name means "Invisible" or "Hidden", actually building underground tombs in hidden valleys was not just more practical, but also heavily symbolic.
So one of the answers to "why they stopped building pyramids" is religion changing in 1000 years. It's like asking why USA builds modern megachurches instead of gothic cathedrals... The pyramids got smaller as cult of Amun got bigger, tho he sometimes got mixed with other gods, giving us Amun-Ra, Amun-Min and even Amun-Zeus.
Seriously, Raven, you are an absolute wonder yourself, a marvelous story teller and teacher. Thank you very much for sharing those other lesser wonders. Please keep sharing what you "see"!
To me The Great Pyramid of Giza is still the greatest architectrial acievement in human history especially when you consider the technology that was available at the time...i am really looking forward to the rest of the series
Yes the structure itself reflects a monumental achievement for early man. More than the pyramid itself however is what it took to create it vis a vis = infrastructure. Egypt had to unify itself towards a united effort to create the pyramids - and having done so set the stage for its subsequent greatness.
To create the pyramids the Egyptians had to create large, organized workforces which in turn had to be supplied. That means obtaining all the raw materials needed for the actual work + transporting sufficient agriculture to site to sustain that workforce + the creation of ships and harbors to achieve this logistical network + the importation of copper ore etc. needed for tools etc..
Think the railroads of the late-19th Century in the US. They did not simply lay some railroad tracks. They connected an otherwise disparate nation facilitating new routes of transportation and communication. Further by having a means to move goods about more freely what were local/regional industries could now transport their goods long distance and beyond creating national and international industries.
Moral of the story: the creation of the pyramids transformed Egyptian society uniting it and creating an internal/external logistical system which helped to transform the nation into a greater power in the region. Thus they themselves are a marvel. In creating them however = that is the real achievement. 🤔
Always love your passion.
I've been in Egypt since October 13th and I finally made it back to the Giza plateau yesterday. It was just as AMAZING and surreal as I remembered it was from 6 years ago.
looking forward to the rest of these wonders! I learned a lot about the actual structures within the pyramid from this video and I'll have to look into it more, I can't wait to see what further research reveals
Glad you enjoyed it! Excited for the rest of them too
Great vid 😍 Giza is on my bucket list. Nice to see you back & hope all is good in your corner of the world 🌎 ✌️
An absolutely fantastic video Raven very informative, I have seen the great pyramid and like you forgot to take photos inside. Am looking forward to seeing the rest of the videos on the seven wonders of the ancient world
Great video can’t wait for the next rest of the series
I got to visit Giza last November, and it was great; but dang the step pyramids were a better experience. Just less people, and the hieroglyphics inside the pyramids there were still visible.
Thanks for a great video Raven. Your enthusiasm is wonderful.
I appreciated the history lesson leading up to the pyramid section. I haven’t been in school for 20 years and your explanation really helped me with context for the rest of the video.
I'm so glad! I love context so I'm glad it added a lot of value for you too
Seriously GREAT video! Lots in there that I didn’t know. And your method of delivery is entertaining and engaging. Thank you so much for what you do here!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I think you are absolutely brilliant and I love to see you making videos again. ❤
Please please please pace yourself with us so you do not feel pressure to perform or anything that can make you burn out.
It's just so crazy that the Great Pyramid was 2000 years old when Herodotus was telling his lies. ;)
I would love to be able to someday see the Great Pyramid. Until then, I'll live vicariously though Raven.
His tour guides lies.
we love your *voice* so much
Can't wait for this full series! Particularly the Hanging Gardens 🪴
love this series, keep it up ;)
Great video!
wonderful video!
Thanks for video Raven
My pleasure!
Seven wonders of the modern world:
1. Bass Shop Pro Pyramid.
2. The Wall (doesn't exist, Mexico refused to pay for it).
3. Great Cvm Pits of Serbia.
4. Cattodrome of Turkiye.
5. Moskva, the urski flagship (converted to submarine).
6. Great Firewall of China.
7. Amazon employee piss bottle collection warehouse.
You added the new chamber , yes !
I had to!! So exciting 😁😁
Those are fantastic earrings!!
Wow ❤❤❤❤ thank you for this video!
Loved this video raven! Excited for the series!
Me too!! ☺️
raven at 1644 , that design was figured out by Christopher Dunn, who on the tv show Ancient Aliens figured out that the pyramid is a machine that generates Hydrogen and shoots it out the upper shaft, perhaps into a spaceships fuel port, the original stone cap had the Nazi symbol, which is the egyptian symbol for the letter H , which stands for Hydrogen
Amazing video ❤ thank you 🎉
Glad you enjoyed it!
Your Dutch pronunciation of Maaren van Heemskerck was exemplary!!!!!!!
THANK YOU! 3 years of living in Amsterdam finally paid off :D
"The official list as we know it today became as famous and well-known as it is thanks to..."
Brain - "the Civilization video game series. She's about to say it here we gooooo"
"...the Renaissance"
Brain - "oh right"
Interesting Egyptian Ptolomeic/Roman period mummy exhibition in Manchester recently, it might have been in london so you might have seen it, have to meet you up in my kilt and discuss haha.
Hi Raven, thanks for another great video!
You have hinted about it a few times but I would love to know your opinion on the archeological treasures removed and "stored" in museums in the western world, especially the UK. Should they be returned?
raven , i would make an older list of wonders, like the city of Atlantis, some youtuber found it in Mauritania, but the local govt just finished demolishing some old ruins when they went to check it out in person, they bulldozed some old red and white rocks tthe same color as they were fabled to be made of, under the Atlas mountains to the north. in northern Africa.
i would also put Puma Puku , in an recent episode of Ancient Aliens, they had some computer whizzes use the mapped out pieces they found there and put together a cgi model of what they thought the ancient city would look like , it looked cool like an ancient chinese temple in south america
i would also put Stone Henge, it originally had more stones and they were perfectly molded i think
i would also put the Great Sphinx, it originally had a different head, either that of a cat or a dog, i still don't know
but it points to either Leo or Sirius depending on when it was built, and i think it was built the same time as the great pyramid, which might be 25 or 27 thousand years ago
Cute and informative 🙏💖🙏💜🙏
Pausanieus travel guide to the 7 wonders to the ancient hellenic world was the first reference to there being 7 wonders. He was a priest to a god called Aesclepios called therapeutie 2centry c.e.
RAVEN! Tell us MORE about the new...Oh. You are. Okay. So! That "void" thing! Do you think...maybe...perhaps...it is where they stored THE BANANA OIL used in the construction process? Remember? Make it slippery for the stones to move? (pause) No? (sighs) Fine. What an EXCELLENT educator you are? I am thinking you have THREE Masters degrees and NOT just two. The third one being a TEACHING degree. But...knowing you...that talent like SO MANY others probably just comes naturally! High Five my fellow Canadian! Who I love and support even though you're from (cough) Toronto. = )
😂😂 if they ever find evidence of banana oil, I’ll dedicate that video to you!! Oh gosh I already have enough trauma from the first two Masters, I don’t think I could do a third, but THANK YOUUU!!!
@@DigItWithRaven (Bows Deeply) You are VERY welcome, milady....!
22:00 Another pyramid has a block tagged "Drunks of Menkaure" so I guess ancient Egyptians drinkers sometimes built pyramids. (Also, one of the worlds oldest surviving jokes.)
Thanks for a great summary of what I’ve started studying ( as an amateur) Did you feel claustrophobic in the great pyramid?
Not too much, but the first ascending passage is very narrow and small 😬
Didn't the Statue of Zeus existed during Herodutus lifetime? I know its "strange" to quote a videogame but in AC Odyssey both Herodutus and the statue are present. I then confirmed the dates and it seemed correct. Fidias was contemporary of Herodutus.
Raven, the Great Pyramid is around 25 thousand years old, not built in 2500 bc, more like 25000 bc, if you watch some videos by Carl Munck called the Code, there are three videos in that series, he found out the real dates of the ancient structures by using math, where did you get your date? a book? where did they get their date?
Yay!!!
I will tell you about one city that is rich in successive cultural treasures, such as the civilization of Almustatil, the civilization of Thamud, the civilization of the Dadan Kingdom, the civilization of the Kingdom of Lihyan, and the civilization of the Nabataeans.
National Graphic produced a film about the kingdom of Dadan
And the Al-Ula Authority produced a film about the almustatil civilization on RUclips entitled: Architects of Ancient Arabia
It is rich in writings and rock drawings from several successive civilizations. It is like a museum with an open space without limit, because the Arabian Peninsula is rich in many writings, inscriptions and drawings of multiple civilizations.
You can benefit from Dr. Eid Al Yahya's programs in watching the civilizations of Al-Ula and other Arab civilizations in the Arabian Peninsula
I have no doubt there is so much more complexity hiding in the Great Pyramid than we know right now(thanks to the aliens of course 😉)
I so hope the Bennu is the origin of the Phoenix.
Ancient aliens 🎃
The Ishtar gate is dated to .... Biblical reference.....? ( Oh my gosh...!)
Humans are a pretty weird wonder created by nature
...as are you
have you made a video about graffiti?
No but I should!!
Things seem old when Antipater of Sidon felt that things seemed old. Are you a Horse♐ in your Sun or Rising sign?
I guess our modern world’s wonders are the ever growing UNESCO list
Bishop Gregory of Tours wrote a tour guide?
.....
There's a joke in there somewhere....
🫀🖤🫀
raven , the Great Pyramid wasn't built by Khufu, some lame archaeologist couldn't find anything written inside it, so he painted some bad grafiti in red paint on a wall in heiroglyphs he translated himself so it would read khufu, khufu had nothing to do with ithe was the person who made plaque that said he made the sphinx, even though it was clear that the sphinx existed long before the egypytians, so did the great pyramid
The eight wonder is Patsy Kensington 😎
It would be great if you could not read to notes in the video, your eyeballs going to the right of the camera constantly was distracting, and I am stopping the video at 6:52, now.
Raven you showed the pyramids in the wrong order at1235, the great pyramid is the oldest and those others are cheap imitations that humans tried to do after seeing the great pyramid which was probably built by aliens, only someone with a view from space could have lined it up
More debunks!