It wasn't aliens: Scientists finally figure out how Egyptians built the pyramids
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- čas přidán 5. 06. 2014
- A new interpretation of a painting inside an Egyptian tomb has shed new light on how ancient Egyptians moved stones to build the pyramids.
Stones used to create the Egyptian pyramids usually weighed about 2.5 tons each. Research by scientists at the University of Amsterdam shows workers would move the stones on wooden sleds with upturned edges in the front. However, the friction of wood against dry sand in the desert caused significant drag, and would create a sand berm in front of the sled as it moved forward. Workers would then need to clear the built up sand before the sled could be moved again.
A new interpretation of an ancient Egyptian painting shows workers may have poured some water onto the sand in front of sleds. Sand with just the right amount of dampness cause microdroplets of water to bind to the grains of sand, creating a form across the grains and making the sand stiffer, significantly reducing friction and drag as the sled was moved forward. This meant less manpower was needed to move the sleds forward.
Artwork within the tomb of Djehutihotep, which was discovered in the Victorian Era, depicts a scene of slaves hauling a colossal statue of the Middle Kingdom ruler. In the painting, a man standing at the front of the sled is portrayed pouring liquid into the sand. Scientists say this discovery could even have implications for how modern society can efficiently transport everything, including sand, cement and flour
Dragging 2500 KG of stones from 500 miles away? Not even a Good Joke
500 miles hahahahgaha there's literally quarries not more than a kilometere away from the Giza necropolis
What are you waffling about?
yes, of course, the sand was the only problem lol,
So aliens building it is more likely?
@@TheGuessirWet sand isn’t Going to get your 80 ton block 350ft up mate lost tech is though
@joemalam3311 ramps. They had ramps with a very simple but oddly complex pulley system. Also about 20,000 workers. Oh...and there is this giant river that they were kind of obsessed with... (one branch did go by the pyramids of Giza but has long since dried up. In fact Egypt used to be much wetter than it is now. Desertification is a b!tch.)
@@dualkitsune3813 There is no evidence for a ramp around neither of the Pyramids, that ramp would of been as big as the pyramids too And Pulley system made out of wood and rope wouldn’t be able to pull up stone 70 ton lol , they also moved blocks that were 1000+ ton
@@Minceontoast2why would there be evidence of temporary structures that don't exist anymore? Is there physical evidence of Crystal Palace in London?
Also, do you have any source on 1000+ ton stones being part of the pyramids or are you pulling that number from where the sun doesn't shine?
this is naive as f
The truth is, nobody knows how the pyramids were really built
I assume large Lego blocks that were just lying around
This statement is only true because there's more than one way of doing look up how they moved Cleopatra's needle. Humans have moved larger and larger objects since the pyramids like recently people moved an oil rig platform weighing 1/5 the great pyramid
That’s not true
Then how did they get it up to the top of the pyramide?
/watch?v=OHcsJ1sPQQs this video is a clear explanation of how one man can do it alone with a large block, now consider there were thousands upon thousands working on the pyramids
@@IITaDHGdALToNIIhe asked how did they take it to the top of pyramids
@@czowiekzlasu3740ramp
@@IITaDHGdALToNIIyou do know the pyramids were built before the land was sand right? Kemet refers to the lands rich black soil.
Internal spiral ramp - strong evidence in the archaeological record at the Sun Temple of Nyussere at Abusir and in the pyramid of Khufu itself (czcams.com/video/_JlnMs616Z0/video.htmlsi=l65nGxdPmLoMvvBL&t=300).
My question is where do get that much water ,,, Nile River?
This would create the most powerful sand paper of all time why is no one talking about how the sled would be destroyed every 5 miles?
It would be, but why would that matter here? Did they build just one sled ever or...?
I wondered if this is how they tamed the sand after seeing the 'Djehutihotep On Sledge' painting
Most likely, but we have to keep in mind that large part of the land they were dragging it across wasn't sand at the time, but grass since the Nile used to flood often, creating more arrable land
you guys really underestimate humans back then
I believe it stems from racism. They cannot accept that Africans were smart enough to stack rocks. It's just disgusting how YT allows these comments
This is extremely far fetched, especially when you add ANY incline up these pyramids. Also 2.5 ton is already a stretch, but many of the stones are 20-80 tons. Absolute nonsense.
How much water would you need?
Consider this: if they could create perfectly angled, symmetrical pyramids, wouldn't they have known about wheels?
I need this video for my assignment
Yes, doing this to a few hundred or even a few thousands stones I can understand. 2.5 million stones just for one pyramid though? Mainstream ideas show primitive tools and methods that are mind numbingly laborious and slow. Quarrying, transporting, and stacking all those millions of stones in the method they theorize is a monumental task that is hard to believe and comprehend. Logistically it would be hard to pull off today let alone ancient times. That coupled with the fact that no one has even been able to replicate one single block of stone using those methods. The illogical logical conclusion that our brains jump to are aliens. No other way.
Mixed with all the mathematical calculations that go with it.
Pyramids wasn’t build in a day, you know
Yes, it took a long time to do, and nobody has replicated it because nobody want to spend years chiseling a big rock for no reason.
Exactly there's literally no other way without the help of some kind of advanced sophisticated technology and machines.
geeezzz talk about over simplifying
ok até ai tdo bem...E como fizeram pra colocar uma sobre a outra sem nenhum espaço? OK hasta ai tdo bien,E como Hiceran pra poner una piedra sobre la otra,sin ningun espazio?
Eles usaram um concreto antigo feito com Limestone... em moldes cada baldada pesava uns 15 kg zero stress... 😉👍
They were smart people
Maybe they had tracks maybe they knew how to turn water to ice .
Nobody really knows how the pyramids were built. Maybe we’ll never know. But I’m optimistic that someday we’ll 100% find out how they were built.
When I saw the pyramids for the first when I was a child I’ve always been curious and always wanted to know how they were built. Throughout my schools years I’ve always done art projects about the pyramids. One art project I did that I remember the most is when I was 12 yrs old and dad helped me with it. We built the bigger pyramid using plaster. I used cardboard as my mold and poured the plaster in em to make blocks. I can’t remember how wide the base was but it was almost 4ft high. It took my dad and I just over 2 weeks to build. We even built it so that the pyramid had interactive rooms inside it. My dad was a great artist and we added designs and glyphs inside. As we were building the pyramid we’ve always came up with ideas and added touches to it.
It was of my best and proudest art projects I’ve ever done 😊. Everyone at school including the teachers and other staff really like it. My art teacher said that the staff was so impressed the high school asked if they could put it inside one of their glass cases in the main lobby entrance for the remainder of the school year from November to June.
No one has ever solved how the great pyramid built
What about lifting those stones above
Yeah and that just did that up the small slope of 400+ foot ramp about a mile long build of sand
so.. did anyone in contemporary times (let's say past 100 years) tried to build the pyramids using those "ancient methods"?
Nope 👎
sudan has multiple pyramids thousands of years old. You people know nothing about history.
Where would we get the money to do it?
I mean, sure, that would be an interesting project and we could figure it all out again and probably find a faster and more efficient way to do it.
But who’s going to pay us?
There was a guy who moved giant stones in Florida the weight of pyramids crystal castle
Why animation?
Just get 6 guys, sled, stone weighing 2.5 tons and move it over a distance.
Well... Have you started gathering the guys?
seria bem mais facio fazer real ,,, pega dez pessoas vao ao deserto e faz o experimento,,,, dai vcs vem se dar certo
I dont think people even realize the amount of force and stregnth it would require to roll those 5000 pounds stones 350 ft in the air. That would require a machine or some kind of sophisticated technology to be able to move 2.3 million 5000 pound stones. Humans with dinky sleds rollers and basic little boats would not be able to move 2.3 million stones then cut 2.3 million stones with precision. Move millions of pounds of stones 500 miles. Lift millions of pounds of stones 455 ft in the air. That would take several lifetimes for humans to do that with basic sleds and dinky boats and rollers. Impossible without the help of some kind of sophisicated machines, acoustic levitation, or advanced technology which egyptians did not have at that time period. Theres something way more deeper going on that happened all of those years ago to get this done in the time perior that it did. I dont think people can even comprehend how long that would take.
No, i don't think so
Where the heck did they get all this water from? They’re in the middle of the dessert with nothing but camels, horses and humans to carry relatively small quantities of water in. Unless they had a temporary aqueduct system built which is doubtful. Just doesn’t seem logical to me.
The giant river down the middle! It used to be wider , with tributaries that went by Giza. Due to desertification and just natural river changes those branches dried up and the river has gotten smaller.
It just so happens that that part of the desert used to have a huge river flowing through it
Hmm... Maybe it still does too
but how were they stacked together tho... and how did they cut the stones so precisely? im not saying its aliens, but aliens
Giants existed too
Skill
"how Egyptians built the pyramids" you don't know that, there's no consensus at all, keep your lies to yourself
BS
Not buyin it
hoping they figure this out for physical 100 episode 7 😭
Just another unsubstantiated theory. Please actually do the tests and revert.
And until then please stop wasting our time.
😂😅🤣😅😂 They nor cut nor moved the stones... Their Poor the stones... making and ancient type of concrete... this theory addresses all questions and problems with the Pyramids construction ... from the perfect fit that not even a sheet pf paper can be placed between the stones... to the problems of transportation ...
That dose not explain the fact tthat they build the pyramid.they yust explain how the moved it lol.
They also used ramps to place the blocks in higher areas.
Ummmm bs
Childish.... Que infantil....rssss....
Pure nonsense. I love how they start at the point where they talk about the stones and take for granted that they came into existence. How were the stones cut.. ? How were the cuts that are present on the pyramid made? We have no explanation for many, perhaps hundreds, of stone pieces present at the pyramids.
Using chisels. Egyptians had chisels to cut the rock. Use your head. Jesus.
They used copper saws and chisels, they wherentthah precisly cut either because its mostly sand that slipped thrue the clacks and over time raid and clay has built up to create a stone like material in the cracks
@@davidfarnstrom7241 copper IS NOT capabale of cutting that stone. FACT
@@stanley1554it wasn’t pure copper. It was a copper alloy so they were a lot stronger than a pure copper chisel.
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In Al-Quran (Islamic Holy Book) said 1400 years ago that Pharaoh build the pyramid (tower) was using "baked clay" instead of limestones (baked clay turn into rock limestone after thousand of year process ) and I believe is true because there is no such technology at that time In how to pull and lift a heavy rock limestone.
Many Scientist thought that pyramid were built by pull and lifting the limestone using temporary water canal and hang it with wood in the water (Buoyancy weight) or rail tunnel to transport the limestone rock from bottom to the top. It's an insane method and if it's true the people in egypt will build the other things with this "insane method" and also people in egypt can create a heavy duty wire-rope and make a good tools to cut precision the limestones as well.
This is my opinion: The pharaoh was instructing Haman (Architect ministry of ancient Egypt kingdom) and their slaves to made giant statue or big bricks from mud clay and arranged them as base foundation, after that when the stone clay molds were still wet they did the engraving (Hieroglif) at the big stone (mud clay) walls and when they want to continue the work by making them higher they burnt it first and repeat it step by step until the top of pyramid done.
Scientist just need to prove that mixed material of "baked clay" can be turn into the limestone after three thousand years process
What about the granite blocks?
Baked clay does NOT turn into limestone. Not in the time the pyramids were built, not even for so long its before civilization really existed. I'm not even positive baked clay even has the proper chemical makeup to turn into limestone, let alone the required conditions.
LOL. The Quran is krap written by BS.
Now we need an actual evidence
lol 😂 pouring water on soft sand like that turns into mud plus the weight of the block would just sink even further into the sand lol. 😂 how dumb are these scientists making up these non sense ideas to justify humans making the pyramids. lol while in reality the humans actually found the great pyramids and emulated the previous civilization haha 🤣