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The Final Evolution of the Pyramids: From Man-Made Marvels to Natural Wonders
The symbolism in Ancient Egyptian culture was complicated, but the pyramid shape certainly has a deep and important meaning, related to the Primordial Mound, the Heliopolis Benben Stone, the Bennu bird, the creator god, the sun god and the god of rebirth and regeneration.
It’s therefore no surprise that it was a custom in the Old Kingdom for a king to build his own pyramid, royal construction projects that continued in the Middle Kingdom.
But why did pyramid-building come to an end? Well, the pyramid evolved. It went from a constructed stone monument, to a mudbrick monument and ended up as a monument built by nature.
Natural pyramids were the final evolution of the Egyptian pyramid, with the most famous example being El-Qurn, the huge natural pyramid that sits above the famous Valley of the Kings necropolis.
Watch this video to learn more about Natural Pyramids, an aspect of Egyptology that is very under-studied but could be the key to some fantastic new discoveries.
Content:
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Locating the Lost Pyramid of Thutmose I
2:40 The Importance and Meaning of the Pyramid
5:35 The Evolution of the Pyramid
6:25 Natural Pyramids
8:32 The Moalla Pyramid
11:04 The Pyramids of Gebelein
12:35 The Abydos Pyramid
16:01 The El-Qurn Pyramid
18:34 Further Research on Natural Pyramids
21:25 Concluding Remarks
All images are taken from Google Images, Google Earth, the below sources or are my own. Please subscribe to Ancient Architects, Like the video, and please leave a comment below. Thank you.
Recommended Further Reading:
W. Ejsmond, Natural Pyramids of Ancient Egypt: From Emulations of Monarchs to Royal Burials: www.academia.edu/38693052/Wojciech_Ejsmond_Natural_Pyramids_of_Ancient_Egypt_From_Emulations_of_Monarchs_to_Royal_Burials_%C3%84gypten_und_Levante_Egypt_and_the_Levant_28_2018_pp_169_180
Keith Hamilton, The Subterranean Complex of Senwosret III, at Abydos: A layman's guide: www.academia.edu/43727596/The_Subterranean_Complex_of_Senwosret_III_at_Abydos_A_laymans_guide
Josef Wegner, Beneath the Mountain of Anubis: www.penn.museum/documents/publications/expedition/48-2/Tomb.pdf
Wojciech Ejsmonf, Gebelein: An Overview: gebelein.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/ejsmond-gebelein-2016.pdf
W. Ejsmond, Natural Pyramids. Ancient Egypt 120 (2020): www.academia.edu/43637698/W_Ejsmond_Natural_Pyramids_Ancient_Egypt_120_2020_pp_22_27
Sources, all the above including:
pcma.uw.edu.pl/en/2019/03/20/gebelein-2/
archiviofotografico.museoegizio.it/en/archive/gebelein/northern-hill/painted-tomb-of-iti-and-neferu/?photo=C00662
gebelein.wordpress.com/
egyptsites.wordpress.com/2009/02/02/el-moalla/
thebanmappingproject.com/tombs/kv-20-thutmes-i-and-hatshepsut
www.academia.edu/43338101/The_Origins_of_Sacredness_at_Abydos
www.egypt.swan.ac.uk/cy/the-collection-2/the-collection/w1982-mound/
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Komentáře

  • @PowerScissor
    @PowerScissor Před hodinou

    CakeMake Tepe, where the first cakes were made. Fascinating. I always knew cakes came before PieMake Tepe some 3,000 years later.

  • @angelamarymahoney
    @angelamarymahoney Před hodinou

    The "hand bag" symbols on Gobleki Tepe and other places, could be this. A wire bent over and entering the rock in 2 places.

  • @OnlyAFoolsHope
    @OnlyAFoolsHope Před 2 hodinami

    So is this now the oldest site we found? We need to stop pushing back the technology with the age. We havent even excavated 80% of the gobekli tepe complex so we cant know for sure this was its predecessor. Its possible its just a one off built around the same time and somewhere out there is a much older more advanced site.

  • @justathought1444
    @justathought1444 Před 2 hodinami

    These people should really do a months work as stone masons, it would take them long to realize that what they are proposing is simply crap. Those joints even for our stone masons today would be simply impossible if having to use the tools available back then

  • @khurramshahbaz8032
    @khurramshahbaz8032 Před 4 hodinami

    I started to hate the claims of archeologist that ancient people were hunter gatherers and lack the knowledge to construct sophisticated buildings. The great pyramid of Giza is masterpiece & Marval of engineering, mathematics, physics & astronomy. Then how the later dynasties failed to build pyramids of quality & magnitude???? As Human civilization & knowledge kept growing later dynasties should have more sophisticated buildings & structures but that is not the case here. So, it looks like that Great Pyramid, sphinx and many other mysterious structures are much older build by advance civilization having greater knowledge than what Archeologists predicted. Similarly, the urban town planning of Indus valley civilization, mathematics, weighing system isn't the work of some nomads or hunter gatherers but fairly an advance civilization that lost in sands of time.

  • @MarquiseWalker-cd9ln
    @MarquiseWalker-cd9ln Před 5 hodinami

    It would be so much better if you went in there

  • @mep4488
    @mep4488 Před 6 hodinami

    Why isn’t there an American doing the narrative if it was discovered in America?

  • @mapdrm2
    @mapdrm2 Před 7 hodinami

    Reminds me of the antithikiren wheel 4:14 4:14

  • @chaoticpuppet1
    @chaoticpuppet1 Před 7 hodinami

    Thank you and algo's

  • @tharabainadakuduru7782
    @tharabainadakuduru7782 Před 9 hodinami

    Amazing civilization so much beautifull nature 😅

  • @jperez7893
    @jperez7893 Před 10 hodinami

    do not expect the muslims to preserve history. ever since the muslims entered egypt, they only know how to destroy history

  • @Hollandsemum2
    @Hollandsemum2 Před 10 hodinami

    That first pillar on its side with a picture, looked like a leopard to me (the spots & leg shapes), and so did the second. Snake skin is more diamond shaped scales, not open spots.

  • @richieparrish7101
    @richieparrish7101 Před 10 hodinami

    Man I was wondering why Chuck stopped posting I loved his channel. Maybe one of guys kids will pick up the torch one day. I just found out from your post that he passed. I'm looking forward to seeing your videos if they're anything like cf-apps I'll enjoy them I'm sure.

  • @CARRJ142
    @CARRJ142 Před 10 hodinami

  • @CARRJ142
    @CARRJ142 Před 11 hodinami

  • @divineape
    @divineape Před 11 hodinami

    Not tombs

  • @mattscott8961
    @mattscott8961 Před 11 hodinami

    It is good news it will survive

  • @mattscott8961
    @mattscott8961 Před 11 hodinami

    The fact that each wall is the height of a man? What could that mean?

  • @DaRockfreak
    @DaRockfreak Před 14 hodinami

    Laughable - much older than ancient Egypt

  • @starsnake8176
    @starsnake8176 Před 14 hodinami

    I'm watching these videos out of chronological order, so does this then disprove the elevator theory?

  • @djmorry8748
    @djmorry8748 Před 14 hodinami

    This video is about rocks not accents piss off!

  • @tiggerib5536
    @tiggerib5536 Před 15 hodinami

    just a thought, wouldn't this train of thought give credence to the Bosnian pyramids?

  • @bromandudeguy4626
    @bromandudeguy4626 Před 15 hodinami

    This is incredible but why is the last word of your sentence so much longer?

  • @misscamay
    @misscamay Před 16 hodinami

    the Incas did not build it, they arrived there and used these pre existing pre deluvian structures… the repaired or add to it but they did not build it

  • @suprememarkee1018
    @suprememarkee1018 Před 16 hodinami

    Nice work

  • @18Macallan
    @18Macallan Před 17 hodinami

    Thank you sir!👍

  • @lucindar3252
    @lucindar3252 Před 19 hodinami

    Explain the base of the obelisk being quartz and the obelisk being red granite. Electrical conductivity maybe?

  • @Archaeonauts
    @Archaeonauts Před 19 hodinami

    An interesting thought...it does look like a pyramid. Though what I found most interesting in this video was the family tree of Ahmose I. I was recently doing some research on Hatshepsut and her family, though I didn't really go back prior to her father Thutmose I. Hatshepsut's mother Ahmose (strangely the same name as the prior king) was the queen, whereas her brother the future Thutmose II was the daughter of Mutnofret who was not the queen but a consort. I thought Hatshepsut coming to throne herself might have something to do with her being the daughter of Thutmose I and his queen, thus making her more royal than her brother Thutmose II who was born to a consort and his son Thutmose III (also born to a consort and not the Queen Hatshepsut). I'm surprised to find out that Thutmose I himself might not have been royal himself. But if not, how is it that his queen is also not of royal blood but his consort is of royal blood? You'd think it would be the other way around. I wonder what was really going on back then. I don't know if we'll ever find out the whole story.

  • @glennsanderson4350
    @glennsanderson4350 Před 20 hodinami

    Wasn't there a German held dig around 1913 which indicates that they found Joseph's and his wife's bones in Shechem, Canaan and then placed them in the valley of the kings in Egypt. The tomb found had been re-sealed with much new seals as if done hurriedly. It's believed that this was done by German archeologists to discredit the Jewish history. There are other videos made which purport to discredit the Bible indicating the bible was made from other sources including as recent as the Greek legends, yet none have any indication of the word 'Sin', or a 'Saviour' amongst them. I believe that the Egyptologist chronology is in error by at least 1500 years or more, and that the ruling Pharaohs began their reigns a lot earlier than suggested by historians and modern secularism, to maybe 6,500 BC., or earlier. I believe this because modern reckoning is placed on the assumption that the earth years were always 365 days per year. However ancient calendars dispute this and tells us the earth years in ancient times were a lot faster, and shows how ancients could be seen to project longevity. From this mistakes have been made which place biblical events a lot later than when they probably happened. I believe the biblical events are a lot older than people think.

  • @ezzovonachalm9815
    @ezzovonachalm9815 Před 20 hodinami

    Zə moiwst hilarant äccənt Oa never heaouweeu'd

  • @Edward4Plantagenet
    @Edward4Plantagenet Před 21 hodinou

    The way Colonial Britishers Dehumanised, Dishonour & destroyed India with their thoughts, writings & superiority complex is unparalleled. So many stereotypes & #Hate without even knowing something, is poison created by Propaganda.

  • @napalmholocaust9093
    @napalmholocaust9093 Před 23 hodinami

    Wtf is that "molded blocks" video you have? Unsubscribed.

  • @matt-yh4ho
    @matt-yh4ho Před dnem

    When I went to temple of Hatshepsut my tour guide said their are caves on the side of the temple that big business scientology people pay big money to go and see the particular paintings and hieroglyphics, never saw or heard anything about it on the internet though

  • @AnKub.Poland
    @AnKub.Poland Před dnem

    Some technology was used, I'm sure, rather than the old-fashioned notion of dozens of men dragging a rock behind them with old-fashioned brute force.

  • @AnKub.Poland
    @AnKub.Poland Před dnem

    Some technology was used, I'm sure, rather than the old-fashioned notion of dozens of men dragging a rock behind them with old-fashioned brute force.

  • @stevecurl7430
    @stevecurl7430 Před dnem

    Thank you!

  • @Elderberry_Shrub
    @Elderberry_Shrub Před dnem

    You repeated the same thing at least 5 times, what a great way to pad your "video"

  • @casperdog777
    @casperdog777 Před dnem

    Not Aztec but prior to that period. Some sort of laser or other drill could do this way beyond the skill set of Aztec, Maya or any other. Not 500 AD. Evidence of technological highly advanced pre-flood (Noahic flood) civilisation. Carbon dating tends to be inaccurate sadly.

  • @Hollandsemum2
    @Hollandsemum2 Před dnem

    Has any part of the island been lidared or photographed during a drought?

  • @808bigisland
    @808bigisland Před dnem

    A Pyramid is a visual representation of an alien spaceship. The builddates can give us an idea of when we were visited. Most religious traditions are ufo-cults.

  • @Illuminate09
    @Illuminate09 Před dnem

    I think it took 41 years to build from 1022 to 1063 AD. I am from Gujarat hence I know this fact.

  • @sourcetext
    @sourcetext Před dnem

    1:53 took a pee

  • @user-qd7om2pb6x
    @user-qd7om2pb6x Před dnem

    Fnaf fans 👇

  • @xodiaq
    @xodiaq Před dnem

    How did I miss this one? Great details!

  • @13gladius28
    @13gladius28 Před dnem

    Pieces of wood found in the GP have been dated to hundreds of years before Khufu meaning that whatever the Khufu cartouche is, it is NOT evidence for the Pharaoh Khufu having built the GP

  • @augustinf
    @augustinf Před dnem

    Good content but please change that repetitive tone it drives me nuts

  • @kubehan
    @kubehan Před dnem

    How do you date rocks

    • @AncientArchitects
      @AncientArchitects Před dnem

      C14 of organic content in mortar, or beneath their placement, or in associated plaster. Surface luminescence dating shows when a block was last laid down… There are various methods undertaken.

    • @kubehan
      @kubehan Před dnem

      @@AncientArchitects Thx 👍🏻

  • @ricardoharamboure3775

    When are we going to accept that dynastic Egypt was the fall of civilization!!!! GLORY BE TO KING ATLAS! #we know nothing.

  • @historybuff7491
    @historybuff7491 Před dnem

    Yes I clearly see the pyramid shape in the hill/mountain of the Valley of the Kings; however, I think it looks more like a step pyramid. Hence, the final evolution of the Egyptian Pyramid is very much like the first Egyptian Pyramid.

  • @starsnake8176
    @starsnake8176 Před dnem

    That specific block is even a different shape of color then the others, it does stand out.