The Origin of the Pyramids
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- CLAIM: Archaeologists do not know how the pyramids were built, or even by who, and have no real evidence to prove one way or another.
Dr. Owen Rees of the awesome Bad Ancient Blog patiently and thoroughly guides us into a heatedly debated question in the "novice historian / archaeologist world" and that is "How were the Ancient Pyramids Built?"
He explains how and why the claim above is false and then proceeds to set the record straight in order to properly debunk the misinformation presented in fringe "history" books and online conspiracy videos.
We discuss Egyptian art, experimental archaeology, what the actual experts think and so very much more!
To quote an article on the pyramids from the Bad Ancient Blog:
The pyramids are the most iconic and impressive features of ancient Egypt. They are giant monuments that have enthralled visitors ever since. Because of their great size and their great age, they have also been subject to wild speculation and misinformation. Among the more outlandish claims is that the pyramids were built by extra-terrestrials, as if ancient people from North-Africa would somehow be incapable of constructing these edifices.
Academically trained archaeologists have studied the pyramids for decades. The ancient Egyptians built the pyramids using techniques and tools that are familiar to modern construction workers (Stocks 2003, pp. 25-73). The tools may have been simpler, and the work more labour-intensive and time-consuming, but the pyramids were the result of human sweat and elbow grease. The skills used in building the pyramids were refined over the course of centuries, subject to a process of trial and error, and also put to use in other monumental building projects, including temples and the erection of colossal statues.
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Strawman argument very disappointed in this.
Great video! I love how almost all those weird "aliens did it" arguments are dealt with. Yet the whole film still dodges the logical questions.
1) How long it took to built the Great Pyramid?
2) If it took, as the most popular theory says, 20 years, that means, that assuming the egyptians worked 24/7/365 they had to place one 2,5t block every 4 minutes.
3) I've read many books about pyramid construction. And a) you can't compare Djeser's pyramid to that of Snofru or Chefren. b) If it's so obvious how the biggest pyramids (the Red, Cheops and Chefren) were built, why so many egyptoligists still argue about it?
4) There is short clip to a yt video, made by polish archeologist, showing how one person can move nine 2,5t blocks. I wonder why nobody talks about that?
5) Despite the avarage 2,5t mass, there are a few gigantic stone blocks in the Great Pyramid (which are just not present in ant other). I'd would be nice to at least mention how they were placed.
I’m a little disappointed. Got through all that and never once mentioned Imhotep...the guy who, as Egyptian history tells, is literally invented pyramids, and how to make them, even how to make the special limestone concrete to CAST the stones of the pyramid. (For reference look up the Edwin Smith Papyrus)
Also, I don’t like the “aliens” part...I feel like we never get to talk about the thousands of years of human civilization BEFORE the pyramids; because it’s drowned out with “alien stawman arguement.” We have, potentially, 35,000 years of human history...and we only begin to scratch the surface around 5000 years ago. In one lifetime humans went from not flying, to seeing a human land on the moon. A lot can happen in a short amount of time, so there’s a freakin mountain to discover still.
Also, pyramids don’t exist just in Egypt...
@@thethreeedgedsword7253 Imhotep actually only built one pyramid, but yep, that guy had a wonderfull mind.
I belive the egyptian ones are still the most famous, because they're the tallest. Also, for example the mesoamerican pyramids were built using much smaller stone bricks.
Dr. Owen Rees - you look silly "waving your hands in the air" discussing moving a 2 1/2 ton block of stone soley with manpower. As a mason in the construction business I would encourage you to put down the "crack pipe" go out and get a big bunch of pals and you yourself move 2 1/2 tons of single stone block ! That exercise will shut you up forever. Nuff said ! Cheers from Miami Beach.
Well it's safe to say they wasn't built by extraterrestrials.
Unless they are only mildly competent. Baby Yodas building blocks.
*Jared and Ivanka's place* was built by illegal undocumented angels.
Never let facts get in the way of a good tv show Eastside 🤪
It reminds me of the Nazca lines. People say there is no way they could make them or even draw a straight line, without a spaceship to view it from above. Well, 3 people, 2 with sticks, can make a huge straight line. And when was the last time you saw someone use aircraft to survey a road?
There's more pyramids in North Sudan than there is in Egypt.
Ye the Nubians
Of course there WERE aliens in Egypt building all kinds of cool things, but then they were expelled by Ahmose and that was that. Some remained as a subjugated class or as mercenaries. Oh, you meant the other kind of aliens. Never mind.
20 people can move a 2.5 ton block....i wanna see that. And the pyramids are a lot older than we have been taught.
He didnt answer the question how they built the pyramids well it's actually quite simple really mud bricks, but done in a way that their mixture was poured into frames kinda like you would do concrete into frames & molds. Once set to a certian point they disassemble the frame & there you have your huge block that looks like it was lasered from a rock & repeat side by side & there you have your perfect blocks that you cant get your paper in between. He is correct when he says they wasn't built by slaves & once you really study the culture & their habits it shows that they worked together as a society & not from cruel slave labor. But that's not saying that they didnt have slaves at some point & I still dont think the slaves they did have was treated horrible by all of them. You have the good the bad & the ugly everywhere you go even to this day lol
9:00 "It's dull, it's administration."
I don't think it's dull at all. It gives insight into the sophistication of these people.
*As a whole, its not. But imagine if you lived during the time and all you do everyday for years is to check inventories to make sure stones, logs, ropes and beer are where they’d be needed for that day. I imagine it’d be monotonous work and you die without even getting to see the whole thing finished.*
A great articulation of one of the frustrating conversations I have with people on a regular basis. People asking the questions and not wanting to hear the answers because they aren't as interesting as the conspiracy.
Another thing that I think gets in people's way is modern people have a really hard time both appreciating the fact that development of these techniques took place over generations and that people ancient people, in some ways had more patience than we have now. They expected the work to be difficult and take hours and days and years to finish tasks that we would simply see as a waste of time and money now. Then, no one else had done it. it mattered. I wouldn't invest thousands of man hours building a pyramid because it wouldn't mean to me what it meant to them in that context. They were willing to work hard and sacrifice and delay gratification because both the act of building itself and the end product had a value that's difficult to really empathize with from a modern perspective.
Later generations often struggle to emulate and imitate the accomplishments of past generations for a lot of complicated reasons. technology and science were often intertwined with mysticism and therefore hoarded rather than shared, so easily lost to time, economic conditions change to make logistics more difficult, culture or religion can shift a community's perspective on what kinds of deeds are meaningful. So that puts many ancient great works at fleeting nexuses of capability, supply, and will.
Look at those beautiful black African Egyptians with their Afros! How can anyone in their right mind say that they were anything other than black!
Excellent .......really nice to hear this explained .......so true.....even I......retired as I am.......can't read all the books about all he things that interest and mystify me......I only have 2 eye's....2 ears...2 hands and sometimes seemingly half a brain.......and roughly 1/3 of the time I'm asleep......love to read that paper he referred to.......hopefully through the links provided I can find it. Another great video Diggin this channel soooo much.
I was worried this was gonna be RFK telling us who built the pyramids
Really enjoyed Dr. Rees’s presentation. Thanks! ❤️
2.5 million pieces of stones to make the great pyramid and the weight is about 2.6 tons to 10-15 tons per piece.
So many great points in this video!
It might not make them an idiot but it makes them a conspiracy theorist.
@Steven Weiden yea spot on
@Steven Weiden I can see your conspiracy theories idiot. Show me proof that they were built by aliens. And come with facts not imagination.
@Andrew Mwah yeah it's pretty pathetic that people think that pyramids were built by aliens but have no proof of that, when there's plenty of proof that they were built by humans.
@@countvondamned2143 just more pseudo history ignorance from people like you.
@@grapeshot pfff whatever history is a study of the human condition and what we have left behind. Its not a study of the past, it is the study of the accounts of the past. Where the hell are the accounts of how they built these structures ? Only the structure itself is present (to us commoners). The rest is theory's mate.
Offering to the Marduk algorithm while Nick is in hospital.
Beautifully explained
OMG, I think the scientific explanations are way more "sexy" than the mystical ones. The reality of all the Engineering, man hours, and logistics is amazingly more interesting than the simplistic idea that aliens waived their technological magic wands.
Excellent Video 👍. To build a pyramid isnt easy, you have to start with a perfect square base and then the first stones to lay would be the 8 corner stones as to get your angles right. Place a long rope from one corner stone to the one opposite and mark line to place the facing stones the full length of one side face of pyramid and do that on all 4 sides. The corner stones angle up to the next level has to be the same angle measurment on all 4 corners
While there may be no depictions, if the considerations are given of that any type of ramp ( most likely internal, would need to beat a slope of no greater than 7 degrees, then with building the interior and exterior casing stones at each layer, there would be massive confusion of sledges traveling both upward and downward simultaneously, even the estimated 100,000 men working just on the erection there would be “ logjams”.
To alleviate such problems, one would reduce the manpower and load 2-3 stones on each sludge. Since there is an incline, more strength is required to raise the material, so the use of drought animals would not be unwarranted. Such use even during the Old Kingdom, was known and depicted for use during farming. By splitting the workforce into the various groups as has been evidenced in the workers town inscriptions, some could easily be transporters, while others are setting the blocks in place under the guidance of the foremen . This is even especially warranted for the granite blocks for the “ kings” chamber and the chevron stones, which are heavier than the limestone blocks in general, the un dressed appearance of the inner stones would not be a problem, especially since from the quarry, there would be rubble that would need to be removed to facilitate the cutting of more blocks. Such rubble could easily be brought up to each course of stones and used as fill between the blocks, including the white limestone casing blocks that would need to be dressed onsite to insure the quality of the angles. Such white limestone rubble and dust would be used in the backing space of the Casing stones. Such rubble and dust, when soaked with water would form a slurry mixture similar to mortar and if used during the process of installing the casing stones, would make setting them easier due to the lubrication effect.
When broken down to the construction components, each can be determined as to the most likely method and any governmental administration would practice the same way to achieve their goals of erecting the structure and maintaining a stable society. These construction projects can be seen as public works projects and administrations use many different methods to maintain the functioning of the workforce. All such methods seem to have been used, payment for labor, room and board, healthcare and using religion as a morale enhancement.
The ramps could be 20 degrees or more (the slope of the Grand Gallery inside the Great Pyramid is at 26 degrees.) Look up the Hatnub quarries, they recently unearthed a ramp out of the quarry there that's at 20 degrees. www.ees.ac.uk/hatnub
@@TSZatoichi indeed, the ramps could be of a greater slope. With such a slope,the greater the degree the greater the force needed to overcome the slope. And as I State, for the accepted time for construction, the use of drought animals would be preferable over human power especially if as has been considered that the grand gallery was for transporting the Granite to the King’s chamber, that a team of draught animals would take less physical space than a crew of men to accomplish the same work, given the amount of motive force need to accomplish such transport. An example of slope to motive force can be seen today in the accepted standard for disabled ramps. 1:12. A one inch rise in a twelve inch run. Permits a handicapped person in a wheelchair to access any height given a greater distance.
There have been many videos regarding the construction of the pyramids, however, while most are for entertainment purposes, some do have a basis in the practical world of construction. Internal ramps have been found in other pyramids at Dashur, which can support such considerations. Although even if there were a double ramp system,it could be accomplished using one ramp for up travel and the other down, as despite everything,the transport sledges would need to travel both up and down. So especially for the down slope, the less the angle, the greater safety factor in preventing a sledge from going out of control. It is by the combined disciplines of construction knowledge and methods that a reasonable consensus case reached.
I've gone from being impressed with the pyramids to not fully appreciating the administration needed to build them over the yrs. as one scholar once said.. Egypt didn't build the pyramids, the pyramids built Egypt.
That "scholar" was wrong. Because the African Egyptians did build the Pyramids. So you just might want to view some of the artwork in The Karnak Temple to discover the simple right answer, quickly and easily.
Very nice, thank you.
Really like Geopolymer Concrete theory by Joseph Davidovits
Years ago while I was studying the building of the pyramids I came the same conclusion. We see the history of trial and error over the centuries, then we have evidence from the small tombs and graves surrounding the Giza plateau that these are the people who built them. Examining their bones we conclude that they are worn from moving heavy blocks. Their tombs are built with the same blocks used in the construction of the pyramids.
It took a lot of work and dedication which we don't have today. Plus, the pharaoh is seen as being incarnated in the next life as a god. He is responsible for bringing back daylight and the annual flooding of the Nile.
The Histories gives a good rundown of how they built the pyramids. Said the great puramid took seventy years to build.
nobody talks about how did the maya or aztecs move stones around without the wheel most people find it hard to see how people put 3 ton bell in belltowers in the 1700s without modern equipment
It’s nice to see a reasonable POV on this. My biggest issue with conspiracy theorists is how little credit they give our ancestors. These people have the same gray matter as the women and men that sent us to the moon. What they didn’t have is materials knowledge-that comes with time. As an administrator, I know a project like this is doable. It might be cumbersome and a logistical nightmare but these are thirty year projects. Plenty of time to work out the bugs. Thanks for giving our ancients the respect they deserve (after all-they are us).
Not just Egypt but Peru and Mexico and Lebanon and many other places around the globe. Yes it was humans that built everything and not aliens. But I can tell you right now it wasn’t “stone age” people doing any of this. The most plausible explanation to me is that there were some pretty advanced civilizations around during the Pleistocene era. The Younger Dryas catastrophe that wiped out the woolly mammoth and saber tooth tiger and much more mega fauna not only reduced humanity’s population to almost extinction but also had the survivors barely scraping out an existence for a few thousand years. I believe that the basic tenets of civilization like agriculture and animal husbandry and astronomy and laws among other things were RE introduced to survivors all over the world by some groups of people who manage to hold onto some of this knowledge. If there was a world wide cataclysm today that had civilization break down the people with the best chances of survival would be the most “primitive” among us. Certain tribes and peoples that live in jungles and forests etc etc etc would be able to carry on. Me in NYC born and raised? I would be dead in a week. I wouldn’t know how to survive like that. I worked heavy construction for years. High rise, foundation, and I was a sand hog as well. Sand hogs are the people who do underground construction like the water tunnels and subways etc. I have a little knowledge about building things myself. The pyramids and ancient megaliths are absolutely astounding. Truly.
No one can explain how they were able to construction the 5 King's Chamber that are roofed and floored with granite beams that weigh about 70 tons each and there are hundreds of them. Those 70 tons granite beams were elevated to a height of 350 feet above the ground and were precisely placed. No one can explain how this was done using purely leverage and mechanical advantage. The claim they built a ramp and hauled the stones up the ramp they would have knowledge of circumventing the basic laws of physics. "You can't haul a stone weighting tens of tons of granite up a slope that exceeds 10 degrees. If you start doing the calculations how long a ramp would they need with a 10 degree slope to get to 350 feet above the ground. The answer is a pretty fucking long ramp that still should be there.." Graham Hancock
No one can explain moving 100-ton blocks 30-ton blocks Etc. Two & one half tons. 5,000 lbs. Is movable with humans. Most of the public does not know about the foundation and what's underneath the ground and how that was created...
In the desert there are no mountain and cave to shelltered with so what if we create a man made mountain and a fortress to depend with when our enemies attack.
The best ever theory of how The GP was constructed is by The french architect Jean Pieere Houdin.
one day someone made a fire , then somebody made clay from the ash and tried to bake it like clay , it did tor work and was put aside to accidentally get wet in hot state , this triggered the curiousity of engineering the first cements.
Anyone who's worked in construction or tool and die machining knows how much can be built by humans per hour per day. And we really only have 3 type of cutting its lathers ,grinders and mills. And yes they absolutely wouldve used these methods and much was just chiseled out. But archeology chooses the most brute methods of all.
They likely used water channels to move stones and float them to the pyramid amd work them like a lathe or stone on top of another stone simply spinning it to grind flat surfaces. Weight of one on top of the other would grind heavy material flitting it fast.
You can shape a material with itself. Don't have to be harder
Very interesting.
I get why you have concluded that free citizens of Egypt built the pyramids. Is it possible that they also used slaves? Why does it have to be all one or the other?
@@jonw1601 Makes sense. In the article below, Dr Hawass makes great arguments (of course) for the pyramids being engineered by free peoples and that free peoples worked on the building them, but I see no arguments that no slaves could have worked on the pyramids. Perhaps their dwellings were built with mud in a "slum" neighborhood and have melted back into the depths of time. But of course, we can't prove a negative, only speculate.
But it reminds me of the T-rex debate--were they predators or scavengers? It must be one or the other. But most contemporary predators and scavengers do at least some of both, so why not T-rex? It's interesting to see famous and brilliant scientists with such zero-sum game thinking on some issues. It shows that they put their pants on one leg at a time, just like the rest of us (at least some of the time)🤣.
www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/88439/Hawass-%E2%80%98The-Great-Pyramids-were-not-built-by-slaves%E2%80%99
www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-were-hebrews-ever-slaves-in-ancient-egypt-yes-1.5429843
@@jonw1601 LOL. Aren't we all.
Why would one choose this particular shape ? Why not build something square , and upright ? Well they did . But only to certain hieght . You cant build skyscrapers without concrete and steel . If you want monuments the pyramid is a sensible option . So lets not pretend that our ancesters were thick
informative
Funny thing
We move a 2.5 ton palette with hand power and sand easier than we thought
But how do you position it 130 metres up?
@@coloneled2831 the sides of the pyramids were originally flat, and some parts had ramparts for transporting the blocks at a higher angle
@@harrydicker9747 I've never heard that theory before! Do you mean the sides were originally vertical? I will need more info before my small brain can work out that process of construction. (And the 70 ton precision cut granite blocks...? ! )
@@coloneled2831 sorry by flat I meant smooth, unlike the step/jagged look they have currently. The second paragraph of this article explains the sides of the structures (www.apollo-magazine.com/great-pyramid-giza-egypt-casing-stone/)
@@coloneled2831 and on the precision cut, stone masonry is really one of the first industrial crafts humans developed. Even if the first cut of the blocks weren’t entirely smooth, sanding them down makes them appear ‘precise’ by removing any errors
Good arguments, but I will say your argument about the pyramids not being built by slaves wasn't very sound, just because one alternative is possible doesn't mean that another is not, that doesn't in the slightest 'disprove' anything, just wanted to share that (:
I'm curious where current science is at with what the ancients could've used as a light source to paint inside the pyramids. Torches would've left carbon residues on its walls and ceilings
Right, you are. Soot abounds and we've documented this since 1638. While some areas were in the dark even during construction, many others had parts built in daylight before things were enclosed. Even in those buildings or areas where (inner) walls, sarcophagi, or objects were decorated or painted outside and installed in broad daylight, there is still lots of soot-- from ancient "tourists" who came in after the fact...
"There is black soot in almost every Egyptian temple and tomb." [www.ancientaliensdebunked.com/egyptian-light-bulb ] "The ceiling of the Hathor Temple was cleaned in a careful way that removed hundreds of years of black soot without harming the ancient paint underneath.Spectacular ceiling painting was exposed in the main hall, and some of the most vibrant and colourful paintings dating from antiquity are now visible. [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendera_Temple_complex#Ceiling_cleaning]
Soot in the burial chamber of the Red Pyramid:
"This chamber is completely above ground, built by Snofru, father of the builder of the Great Pyramid, Khufu. The soot seems to be millimeters thick, and if one goes through the pyramid passages in Egypt a look at the ceiling is enough to find soot in abundance.
The oldest comment known to me about soot in the Great Pyramid is from John Greaves, in a book from 1638!!
The passages and chambers in Egyptian pyramids were built with a few exceptions in open ditches like the example of Abu Roasch below. A large dugout was furnished with several layers of floor- and wall blocks, the sarcophagus was lowered into the open chamber, ornamented wall parts, finished outside, were lifted down and put in place, the roof was positioned, and then the ditch was refilled. The whole construction process took place in broad daylight." [pyramidengeheimnisse.de/index.php?top=dendera_e&page=soot]
@@petermsiegel573 Was not expecting such a quick and thorough reply. A huge thank you first of all. I still have to look into the links you sent at a later time. I always like to entertain the idea they had lightbulbs in the form of the Bagdad battery - read somewhere the many pots they find in these structures show hints of some chemical residue they believe by mixing X +Y could have produced light. But one never knows how credible these "facts" are or how outdated the theory is. Way too much explanation out there for someone only mildly curious to sift thru
The answer maybe easier to explain, if you first know, that the interior of the pyramids are not painted. If they were, it wouldn't be surprising if they painted them before installing them. Occams razor.
3:48 I challenge everyone to prove that the pyramids were built in 3000 bc, they were older than that. and if you have one video for people moving a block of stone for one meter.
Good you do this
It is terrible to talk with persons who believe they know something and they know nothing but shitty theories
Now I can show them your videos
now the q arises is, why did they stop building pyramids and concentrated more on mastabas or burial chambers???
Short answer: Kings continued building pyramids for nearly 1000 years after Great Pyramid (last one is pyramid of Ahmose I, Dynasty 18). Change in tomb architecture follows change in religious priorities, with greater emphasis on the Underworld (Duat). Also, security was a concern: easier to protect a hidden tomb than a giant pyramid, which screams "rich dude buried here"
@@dphp1975 What they should have done is adding monsters and traps to the pyramids, plus some platforming and riddles, best suited for an English woman with pyramid shaped breasts.
Also great podcast 👍
Always good to hear plain common sense.
Not bad I liked the beginning particularly the how they did it. That was refreshing, but Some insight still feel like a bunch of words without saying much. Seems to be the common thing with history in that part of the world, No respectable person believe this alien bit, that shouldn't even be a discussion can we get to the real stuff and stop sugar coating stuff.
The pyramids in Egypt were built by the Johnny Cash method. They got it one piece at a time. 😖
This video will trigger the conspiracy goons. Uncharted X has created a successful channel exploiting these goons. He suggests along with Graham Hancock they had advanced technology used to build the pyramids. When I suggest in his comments they used ancient tech that's not advanced I'm attacked by dozens of people.
I still enjoy Uncharted X channel because he has beautiful footage of the Pyramids but the idea's he puts forth are ridiculous. I've had people in his chat unironically tell me they used anti gravity devices to build the pyramids.
Yes it will trigger conspiracy goons because it doesn't provide any answers whilst the title says Origin of the Pyramids.
@@coloneled2831 I thought he explained it pretty well. It was built through Trial and Error. Did you miss that bit?
@@Wallyworld30 'Trial and Error' describes precisely nothing. The reason conspiracy theories take hold is because academia offers no alternatives. Nobody knows how The Great Pyramid was constructed and yet the archaeologists try to convince us that because they know how a team of men pulled small blocks over wet sand, well, that's all we need to know.
The big questions remain unanswered and until that day arrives, long live conspiracy goons!
@@coloneled2831 Wrong, Trial and Error was explained quite well. We had the Bent Pyramid which had the wrong angles and made corrections halfway though the project. Using the new angle from later half of bent pyramid is what they used on Great Pyramid.
Your flawed way of thinking is why America is infested with Conspiracy Theories doing serious damage to our country.
I really hope Biden makes Critical Thinking a requirement in all grade school education. It's scary what a high percent of American's can't discern fact from fiction. It's a form of mental illness on a huge scale.
@@Wallyworld30 If I had said' They are deliberately keeping the truth from us', then I would understand your response. Flawed thinking? really? I am not talking about Q Anon or Trump's election fantasies. Neither aliens or Atlanteans.
Explaining the progression of pyramid shapes is fine, albeit rather obvious. What is never explained adequately are the methods , most especially those which built Khufu's pyramid which was orders of magnitude more technologically advanced than its predecessors and any which came after.
It would be ok for the boffins to say 'we don't know yet', but they don't, they simply gloss over the big questions. So thousands of amateur sleuths, fascinated by the mysteries therein, develop their own, often wacky theories. Great! (It is not conspiratorial to be unsatisfied with incomplete theories offered by academia.) And then, by degrees these sleuths learn more and more until, like Matt from Ancient Architects, some of them come round to more conventional thinking.
What's really going to blow your mind is when you realize they built them from the top down
How? How? How? Who cares! It is "WHY" that only matters at this time.
I don’t think just because there are unanswered questions that means that conspiracy theorists are manipulative . Of coarse, conspiracy theorists is meant to be an insult. When you can explain the cores that were drilled, with exactly the same tooling marks that would be a step in the right direction. There are so many unanswered questions that “experts “ expect people to look past. Float a 70 ton piece of granite on a model boat used by Egyptians across the Nile and now we’re getting somewhere. Explain why some of the older pyramids are the most impressive. If you have the answers, show me. I’m not talking about some of the attempts where the goal is changed halfway through (nova). The pyramids are anything but simple as suggested in this video. The pyramids were made by man in my opinion but that is the only thing I’m sure of in my mind. There is much we don’t know and we will never know as long as so called experts have tunnel vision and continue to insist mankind achieved such massive and precise feats with copper chisels and stone hammers. Again, if you know how then show me examples. We’ve been waiting a long time.
and since we don't have the answers to all these questions, the aliens are the only plausible explanation, right? jeezzzz!
The channel Scientists against Myths showed an easy way to drill holes like that. And more than that of course.
the alien made not by ancient people
I have read about the piramid a thousand times. Still funny.
Get. A. Better. Microphone. For the love of Ra.
I'm sorry I watched this episode. Yes, the average stone block in the pyramid is 2 1/2 tons and was brought from across the river, 1/2 mile away. This does not, however, explain the 60 to 70 ton granite blocks in the kings chamber and queens chamber that were quarried and brought to the site from Aswan, 500 miles up the Nile River. I think you and your guest are guilty of cherry picking the evidence that supports your suppositions and ignoring the evidence you can't explain. You are guilty of the same arguments you claim the alternate history people use, only in reverse. Shame on you.
Since you've solved all the 'how' problems, how are you doing on the 'how long it took' problems, because your conclusions demand more time by orders of magnitude to actually complete these projects than what 'established history' desperately requires in order to make any sense. Your contribution has been well received by the 'how' people, but you're making alot of enemies with the 'how long' people. Welcome to the catch 22 club on this mystery. Hundreds of years of members ready to forgive your enthusiastic naivete.
The truth is these black Africans knew more than you know now.
Come on now, Dr Rees! You are being somewhat glib here by stating that The Great Pyramid was a natural progression from the four preceding large pyramids. They were extremely impressive achievements but far more understandable to us regarding their construction. The ambition and realisation of The Great Pyramid was orders of magnitude above the others and the knowledge and building expertise required seemed to have arrived from thin air. (I compare it to a Model T Ford evolving into a modern Bentley Coupe within five years! )
There will be crazy - but often thought provoking - theories about its construction simply because it really is still a mystery. And in each theory there are useful snippets of information and new questions I haven't come across before. Mainstream science agrees on very little when it comes to the big problems which so fascinate the rest of us:
Where and when did the mathematical knowledge develop sufficiently to allow The Great Pyramid's construction?
How did they manoeuvre 2+ tons of stone 100+ metres up? (No, not with ramps because the ramps would be bigger than the pyramid!)
How did they manoeuvre 50+tons of precision cut granite 80 metres up and position them so perfectly?
What was The Grand Gallery built for? ( Pierre Houdin believes it was to transport the massive granite blocks to the Kings Chamber which makes a lot of sense. What does mainstream academia say? : 'it was a ceremonial chamber of unknown purpose'. Clearly just a weak stab in the dark which makes no sense on many levels!)
There are so many practical questions that remain unanswered by academia that it is only natural for an interested public to try to fill in the gaps. It's easy for you to knowingly explain that academia understands how they moved two ton blocks on level (wet) sand. This is old news. But you don't explain the above questions to anyone's satisfaction and then decry those coming up with creative ideas. It would be much more helpful and interesting if you were to assess some of these ideas and then explain why they wouldn't work.
yeah i feel like this channel is pushing mainstream lies and they are the ones praying on people exactly the same argument that he tried to make that people dont have the info so they believe it , you can say exactly that about this video
@@countvondamned2143 I feel it is less mainstream lies and more mainstream avoidance. They avoid the difficult questions and avoid interacting with those who do address them. I find the scientific community to be genuinely interested and knowledgeable but their reluctance to entertain ideas which deviate from their mainstream is disappointing and unhelpful. I recommend one exception to this rule; check out World of Antiquity (youtube). He is an American professor who gets stuck in to all our alternative theories which I find useful and fun.
@@coloneled2831 yes mianu i know him , i get what your saying about it being mainstream avoidance. i think its possible that the truth is known to some people and these people are mostly not your average joes , hense narratives that fall into main stream avoidance could stem from misdirection away from the truth. if that makes sense. Trying to explain what is imagined in this head is challenging at times
@@countvondamned2143 Maybe some people do know the secrets! Freemasons are an obvious choice but I really am not sure about that. Interesting tho!
I'm not sure what do you mean by "mainstream academia" but nowhere have I ever seen anyone stating his or her preferred hypothesis about the function of the grand gallery as a settled fact. If anything, Houdin's hypothesis on it is considered a possible explanation. There was even a documentary about it featuring the man himself, along with Bob Brier, a very much mainstream academic.
Pyramids are hollowed out tree stumps
This guy for real? Who's this guy? Phd of what? Is he really serious? Ok listen folks i know you probably start to give me nasty words it's normal in this era but here's the deal: not only giza pyramids or egyptian temples but none of the megalithic sites and monuments, high elevation cities like choquejquirao or macchupichu, mesoamerican pyramids, mesopotamian megalithics, ziggurats or every huge ancient monument have nothing to do with humans at all i mean at all. But humans have been deceived by those who know the truth using their governmental and vaticanian academics, archeologists, historians and experts and also using their own medias to misguide and mislead people who unfortunately they have succeeded. Even atheists who appear to be the smartest and the most literate and awakened of the humanity are not aware of humanity's origin and the story of ancient sites and monuments. At the moment, more than 98% of the people are illiterate, unawakened, unrealistic, superstitious and stereotypical, i mean common people are about 99% of the entire population...this guy must be hung by his ass-hole...
Yeah. That was really boring. Now that I'm forced to admit the "conspiracy theories" (a highly dismissive and pejorative term, I prefer to call them alternative narratives) are not true, I'm plunged into exastential crisis as there is now a void in my soul. So thanks a lot.
PTH=HTP
wrong , Egyptians did not had tools and means to extract, shape carved and transport huge granite blocks, statues i was in Egypt in March 2020 one example in great pyramids all granite blocks in king chamber are finely crafted put on top of each other with less than razor thin joint , never work with your hands in hard stone ??
It is to bad you got to visit ancient Egypt and you left so uninformed.
But why male models?
Nah... bent pyramid is ment to have 2 angles. U don’t do a project like that without drawing and planning first. Any builder, artist, architect, even archeologists will plan before digging
They planned it wrong, that's why it crooked, the math was not to the zero.
@@MrZekinhaluiz nah...
There’s no evidence to the contrary. I mean, geologist have tested the stone and say it’s not natural. Specifically the bent pyramid. The angle makes in impossible to see the top after reaching the right distance from the ground. Just like the round earths horizon. They were trying to make earth as they knew it by making a functional horizon on the pyramids walls
@@gruboniell4189 if you could provide a respectable historian's work that thinks that way it would be awesome.
@@MrZekinhaluiz have u not seen the sun temples of the 5 dynasty? They the same shape. More of an oblilisk shape. The real pyramid is on top of the base. It’s not bent, it’s 2 shapes.
Yhwh is know to be represented by a trapazoid(base of bent pyramid) and the Benben(true pyramid) is the top of the pyramid. At the perfect time of day the shadow would converge to make one triangle shadow.
The base will be top 5unit
Base 10 unit and the sides 6 units each for yhwh and represents the neters/mentle. The top represents the mind
@@gruboniell4189 I would love for more then your word.
I'm currently deep in the process of trying to navigate this exact topic because I believe I have identified the sphinx. But Egyptology is a toxic environment that I basically refuse to participate in because of the matter expressed here. After years of desperate soul searching, I decided only thr ancient Egyptians are suited to answer the questions and when I sought those answers from their sources, they didnt just dish... they had made a perfect record of their deeds and motives. That's honestly a little disgusting when you realize 5 thousand years of seeking have passed and no one asked the Egyptians. It really seems as if ... people do not want to know. As if the Great Pyramid is the eternal symbol for self righteous greed and pompous self congratulation. When the world decides it wants the real answers, they are as present and real and eternal as the pyramids themselves. But they cant be covetously taken credit for so ... most people aren't interested. And it's true there is too much dismissal but it's also true ... if they wanted answers, they would seek and find them. So they must want something else. I doubt anyone experiences that with as much bitterness as the Egyptians.
Scholarship vs Scientific measurement hmm. Total strawman argument very disappointing.
No it's not it's very accurate. Not feeling bad that this video is not conforming to any of your notions of pseudo history.
Considering he has a smiling green frog as his profile pic you can also assume he is a neo nazi.
@@Kalleosini EVERYONE is a nazi according to you. Nice example of another strawman argument. Come up with something new.
@@elpatron7916 everyone? nah just channers like you.
thinking you're all sly with the nazi dog whistle for a fucking profile picture lmao.
Thoth built the Pyramids
Interesting look of the dark people on the thumbnail 🤔👀
Did this guest prepare at all, or know this would be on YT? This is just rambling, maybe if he listed specific questions, then provided his answers, it might be a more professional, organized presentation. He talked for ever about some paper he wanted to do, then didn’t do, some other person, never mentioned again, what’s the point? Not up to your usual quality of guest, I’m sure he is very knowledgeable, but he’s not a good presenter.
We are talking 100 ton granite blocks 50 metres in the air
They are not in the air. If I stand on a hillside am I 'in the air'?
@@wodenravens if u remove the limestone blocks and leave the granite u will notice that the granite is in the air. The granite had to of been later before the completion. The granite is in the middle of the structure.
That means the granite had to be lifted INTO THE AIR/off the surface of the earth before setting them into place.
@@wodenravens stop being a fool
@@gruboniell4189 So what is your claim? It was impossible? Or you think it needs further explanation? As you know, there are various theories about how they were transported and lifted.
@@wodenravens my claim from the stance of an engineer being told that it was built in 20 years while all the other building projects, wars, explorations, causeway, base, set up etc is unacceptable.
The bent pyramid was no accident. Just like the shape of Osiris crossed arms in drawings it has multiple meanings.
The esoteric teachings from that era was secrets. The sun temple(5th dynasty) built multiple “bent pyramids” or obelisks.
Pyramid k 2019 answers all the questions... the theory in this video is tired old and dead...
I need a African to tell me bout Africa... Just saying
approximately 1.5 m years old By the giant of Ashley land
Pedestrian
This Guy is a fool.
There are blocks hundreds of feet in the air,,,No probs,,
Let me show you how its done,give me that bit of paper
Dr. Owen cant even do simple math then , because all the numbers are amazingly accurate , and impossible to do .
Well evidently not impossible, they’re right there.
Conspiracy theorists are great at asking questions they refuse to try to solve.
😂😂😂yall on here jus feeding other white peoples nonsense 😂😂😂
Great Pyramid
=
2,500,000 blocks
10 blocks a day ?
=
250,000 days
250 work days per year
=
1000 years to build the pyramid
This video answers no questions.
Utter rubbish.
10 blocks a day seems pretty arbitrary, where did you come up with that number? There were 20,000+ men working on this project. A 20 year timeline would be easily achievable.
@@TSZatoichi
Let's try the other way round
20 year = 7300 days = 175,200 working hours (dark hours included) = 10,512,000 minutes
10,512,000 (minutes) / 2,500,000 (blocks) = 4,2 minutes/block (from quarry to set in place) to build the pyramid in 20 years
Please, address this one.
Thanks Nick, great channel
Dr. Rees is a little *too* flip for my tastes, had to stop listening,
tip : the hands that helped to build americas.
the olmecs were asimulated africans from the bronze age europe that met magua when trying to steal the mexican gulf with stone head tricks. This why so little artifacts , they were raised to the ground for trying greek agression in americas whom were Africa's ancient allies at the time .
Fantastic 😍💋 💝💖♥️❤️
13:43 I love that. Do you love me? 😍💋 💝💖❤️