Decoding the Great Pyramid (2019) FULL SPECIAL | NOVA | PBS America

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  • How did the Egyptians engineer the Great Pyramid of Giza so precisely, and who were the thousands of laborers who raised the stones? New archaeological evidence--including alogbook of a labor team leader--provides new insights into these age-old questions. NOVA delves into these construction secrets to trace how mobilizing labor and resources on such a massive scale transformed ancient Egypt.
    First Broadcast Date: February 06, 2019
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Komentáře • 159

  • @wordsayer641
    @wordsayer641 Před 19 dny +13

    Those pyramids were already old when the Ancient Egyptians were around.

    • @TheDavidlloydjones
      @TheDavidlloydjones Před 17 dny +4

      No, they weren't. You're imagining things and posting average normal CZcams horsefeathers. The dates of their construction are known to the nearest decade. No mysteries there.
      Like the Great Wall of China, they're a normal ordinary government make-work project, designed to keep the agricultural workers busy in the off season so they wouldn't take it into their minds to march on the capital.

    • @liukang3545
      @liukang3545 Před 15 dny

      @@TheDavidlloydjones they were you pissbrain HAHA

    • @Etherglide
      @Etherglide Před 14 dny +7

      @@TheDavidlloydjones Nobody knows how they were even built. We couldn’t build it now. So, dating it to the nearest decade is horseshit.

    • @brandonstrong2048
      @brandonstrong2048 Před 13 dny +2

      @@TheDavidlloydjonespyramids were not built as tombs for pharaohs, get real lol.
      There is history that we don’t know about, how is that surprising? Egyptians didn’t have technology to drill 12” diameter holes through 13ft of solid granite at 1000rpm.

    • @Julian-pb4lr
      @Julian-pb4lr Před 12 dny

      @@TheDavidlloydjones The Romans used bread and circuses to keep their people happy. Enormous building projects? not so much.

  • @MrSomethingElse
    @MrSomethingElse Před dnem

    Mark and Zahi the Gilgamesh and Enkidu of Egyptology

  • @johnmitchell4043
    @johnmitchell4043 Před 22 dny +17

    we dont know kufu had it built. he may have just claimed responsebility for it. it was so far back we just dont know.
    we do know that the 3 pyramids at giza are not tombs, there are no inscriptions found on or in any of them.

  • @yourstruely9896
    @yourstruely9896 Před 21 dnem +3

    Kufu they only found a tiny grafiti above the kings chambre saying kufu probably fake because paint analasys was bannen and prosecuted.

  • @judithlungen6958
    @judithlungen6958 Před 19 dny

    Thank you fascinating!!! Amazing discoveries from so many years ago. Thank you for posting ❤❤❤

  • @dadbod80s
    @dadbod80s Před 15 dny +5

    The pyrimad in India are so much older then these. I dunno why we always concentrate on Egypt. Kufu claimed he was the builder however with the water erosion it would be impossible. Some of us need to pick up a book and do the research ourselves.

    • @liukang3545
      @liukang3545 Před 15 dny +1

      haha come on, cowshiteaters cant do sheet HAHA

    • @ShaunakHub
      @ShaunakHub Před 12 dny

      Books published in WhatsApp university ?
      LMAO.
      You guys just enjoy humiliating India while pretending to be patriots and nationalists and what not, don't you ?
      What is in it to humiliate the country you were born in ? I mean what is the price for being a traitor ?

  • @surfman6230
    @surfman6230 Před 22 dny +2

    If the bent pyramid was built wrong why line it with casing stones. Then build another one.

  • @gineve2915
    @gineve2915 Před 19 dny +5

    There are many archaeologists and experts in other fields who disagree with many of the claims made here and some of the claims have already been proven wrong.

  • @scrivener68
    @scrivener68 Před 23 dny +10

    My main question is: How did they bring Kasey Kasem back to life to do the narration?

    • @natparkes7924
      @natparkes7924 Před 23 dny +2

      That’s a mystery only Casey himself can solve! Send for those meddling kids and let Shaggy and Scooby find the answer. Zoicks!

  • @reynaldoalcala5857
    @reynaldoalcala5857 Před 10 dny

    Wowwww!!!❤

  • @yourstruely9896
    @yourstruely9896 Před 21 dnem +1

    Mummy.. Egypt needs mummies for the pyramids. Never found but you need to connect the mummy period to the other period.

  • @dorianphilotheates3769
    @dorianphilotheates3769 Před 12 dny +3

    ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TOUR GUIDE: Hey mates, here comes that annoying Greek dude with all the questions - quick let’s make up some BS story about how the Ancients built The Pyramids!
    HERODOTUS: Hello there, Djehutmose, can I ask you something more?

  • @vincentlussier8264
    @vincentlussier8264 Před 21 dnem +1

    No matter how they explain that skilled men who were well looked after built these pyramids I still don't believe it! If they did they got help from somewhere else . Two million limestone slabs weighing two tonnes each were all stacked up so perfectly ? And those slabs of granite at the inner core weigh up to 70 tonnes ? Lifting it how? The whole thing doesn't make sense in our physical world!

  • @chronosschiron
    @chronosschiron Před 24 dny +2

    THEY ALSO UNCOVERED A WATERWAY FROM NILE UP TO PYRAMIDS

  • @user-pm4fp6re2t
    @user-pm4fp6re2t Před 4 dny

    It's here to stay .

  • @helenasplace
    @helenasplace Před 18 dny +1

    Where were the lavatories? 😊

  • @leeclemson5026
    @leeclemson5026 Před 16 dny +2

    A relieving chamber 😅 codswollop

    • @Angel-fq7ww
      @Angel-fq7ww Před 14 dny

      they didnt let me take a leak in there either 😔

    • @Julian-pb4lr
      @Julian-pb4lr Před 12 dny

      Agreed. Why didn't the queen's chamber have relieving chambers when that chamber had even more weight above?

  • @nadger1337
    @nadger1337 Před 10 dny

    Everyones entitled to their guess.

  • @seanoxborough5830
    @seanoxborough5830 Před 24 dny +1

    Looks like the guy that drag races the farm truck

    • @reb2322
      @reb2322 Před 24 dny

      You're right! LLL
      He and his little sidekick buddy.
      That is one fast farm truck!

  • @user-tq6hj8bh9y
    @user-tq6hj8bh9y Před 22 dny +2

    Magical machine my ass..

  • @laique8797
    @laique8797 Před 14 dny

    For the past, probably for more than 5000+ years, different civilisations are still doing the never ending business of decoding the Great Pyramids. In another 2000 years to the future, we would still be decoding the Pyramid😂

  • @zeetutuman1824
    @zeetutuman1824 Před 22 dny +1

    Not builders. They are tasked with learning the secrets of the Pyramids, how they were build, what tools, what technologies. One day in the future, people will claim the Pyramids were built by our historians, archeologists, researchers and scientists. And as usual, they will not find any tools, machinery, technologies at those sites except maybe some discarded food or water containers, some lost handphones ... Pens? Maybe ...
    And the question of why and how the Pyramids was built will remain a mystery.

    • @zeetutuman1824
      @zeetutuman1824 Před 22 dny

      And behold, the future generations will marvel at plastics, found near the pyramids and across the world and called our era 'Plastic Age' and claim them to be Alien technology😂

    • @DarrelLaBossiere
      @DarrelLaBossiere Před 9 dny

      You can read a book to learn how to make plastic. The how to build pyramids book is always out on loan at the library

  • @yourstruely9896
    @yourstruely9896 Před 21 dnem +1

    The blocks do not divert weight they add weight.
    The great pyramid was first smaller and then extended thats why the queens chamber exists with ventilation shafts wich do not reach the out side.
    The cracks and lack of water indicate why they got abandoned. 12.000 year water cycle shara tells why.

  • @user-eq3ll7vb3u
    @user-eq3ll7vb3u Před 3 dny

    It dates to five thousand years ago yet that's when the Egyptians stole the casing off the top .

  • @weeroger7048
    @weeroger7048 Před 24 dny +3

    Interesting to using the flood level to get the materials
    Imagine that like the whole pyrimad was underwater
    Putting the pyrimadian on top by boat
    Drains through the gg doen the well shaft into the sub chamber down out the well

  • @carlholdt1042
    @carlholdt1042 Před 20 dny +1

    Superb. Thank you!

  • @Blackunitsound-system
    @Blackunitsound-system Před 20 dny

    There are three son make
    Be not who care you booming something that spirit make

  • @Blackunitsound-system
    @Blackunitsound-system Před 20 dny

    Maybe it's not a good idea how his hands do

  • @Julian-pb4lr
    @Julian-pb4lr Před 12 dny

    If I were the king and the richest man in the then known world I'd be pretty hacked off having such a plain tomb for my interment. Besides, to join the underworld the ancients had to be buried UNDERGROUND (i.e mustabas, valley of the kings) not hundreds of feet up in the air. The clue is in the name. Whatever the pyramids were built for they were not intended as tombs.

  • @user-kc2uj9wr1g
    @user-kc2uj9wr1g Před 18 dny +2

    “I’m not saying it was the aliens but…”

    • @sindiso_ndlovu
      @sindiso_ndlovu Před 16 dny +3

      But it can't be Africans 🤔

    • @ShaunakHub
      @ShaunakHub Před 12 dny

      @@sindiso_ndlovu He means non whites...

    • @dduif2119
      @dduif2119 Před 4 dny +1

      No?? Arabs then by millions ( before Koran obviously ) 😂 after that mother was ever done

  • @yourstruely9896
    @yourstruely9896 Před 20 dny

    The only thing what khufu kufu could have done is try to repair it to gain its former believed powers.
    lets carbon date everything officially and not in egypt and with potassium 40 / thorium led etc.

    • @Angel-fq7ww
      @Angel-fq7ww Před 14 dny

      they have, there is morter between the blocks.. it is 3500 years old. dont belive the LAHT lies

  • @jeffsmith50001
    @jeffsmith50001 Před 11 dny

    how long did it take to sail across the Red Sea when the wind was right ? with a multi-ton block on a boat stitched together by a bloke who saw a good contract. Piece of piss compared to the Aswan Granite job 500 miles away.

  • @SueFerreira75
    @SueFerreira75 Před dnem +1

    Why do the narrators of US documentaries sound so over panicked and over dramatic?
    The music is loud and awful making this fascinating documentary challenging to watch..
    Just talk normally and intelligently, PLEASE!

  • @seanohelan8241
    @seanohelan8241 Před 16 dny +1

    Kufu built the great pyramid ?? This is not credible. The complexity of their construction needs much more in-depth and rigorously scientific explanation.

    • @Angel-fq7ww
      @Angel-fq7ww Před 14 dny

      im not sayign it was aliens.. but it was Aliens

  • @yourstruely9896
    @yourstruely9896 Před 21 dnem +1

    Everything is based on assumptions. Tomb.... ahum no writings were ever found. Who says it was after the step pyramid and not before they tried to replicate but never succeded.

    • @haziqkaka3414
      @haziqkaka3414 Před 12 dny

      yeah ! everything about history is 50/50 true because its just scientis prediction . unless its tell by GOD in books through prophet . because only ALLAH knows everything

  • @TutTravelsVlogs
    @TutTravelsVlogs Před 18 dny

    I don't like that you didn't include Egyptian scientists, who you can find all over Egypt's universities. They would speak from an authentic point of view, not just about their findings but also about traditions and culture that are still practiced today. Even the language now shares many words with ancient Egypt.

  • @happywarrior7126
    @happywarrior7126 Před 19 dny +1

    So in other words we know nothing, we can only speculate

  • @5455jm
    @5455jm Před 23 dny +8

    I love you PBS, I really do.
    However, we all know these were not tombs and what justification with those two mouthpieces, seriously?
    Well, this is just not credible and those claims invalidate your presentation.

  • @jameswoodard2232
    @jameswoodard2232 Před 10 dny

    @jameswoodard2232
    0 seconds ago
    'cking music. Please put music on one stereo channel, voice on the other. it could then be silenced by user. Pyramid is interesting enough. If I wanted loads of crashing symphonic music....

  • @dillon4813
    @dillon4813 Před 11 dny

    Yes they were already old lmfao. During last era of pharohs the pyramids were already built for like 3000 or 4000 years. Were closer in time to last era of pharohs then they were to the pyramids.

  • @johnhappy2340
    @johnhappy2340 Před 21 dnem

    God bless black people 🇳🇬

    • @harreits
      @harreits Před 19 dny

      What has this with the pyramids?😂😂😂😂

  • @MariaOdJezusa
    @MariaOdJezusa Před 10 dny

    Brilliant.

  • @skyhigh1154
    @skyhigh1154 Před 23 dny +9

    They didnt know, they dont know and they will never know how its build. Archeologists will come and go, spend lotz of money and still dont know.

    • @gorbalsboy
      @gorbalsboy Před 22 dny +1

      They do know, it was snow hites seven dwarfs,she whipped the poor wee souls 😢

    • @BrunoHeggli-zp3nl
      @BrunoHeggli-zp3nl Před 4 dny

      Bullshit

  • @massimosquecco8956
    @massimosquecco8956 Před 22 dny +1

    With Lehner we always get Bla Bla Bla! thumbs down here, where I respect only Ms.Ikram, but the Pyramids are not her expertise!

  • @internetpolification
    @internetpolification Před 22 dny +3

    Same old presenters , same old authoritative speculation

  • @AymanToema
    @AymanToema Před 19 dny

    😝

  • @jibraani10
    @jibraani10 Před dnem +1

    Free Palestine ❤️🇵🇸

  • @razor6888
    @razor6888 Před 10 dny

    No Kings or Queens have been found in any. Why and how, remains a mystery but get your facts straight. No mummies there... a different idea perhaps ?!!?

  • @reb2322
    @reb2322 Před 24 dny +1

    28:12 Gun power to blow it up?
    Now......THAT is funny!LLL
    They weren't that neglectful in building it, that they'd have backtrack and do something like that with something they probably never had! (Gunpowder)
    I can't believe some of theories this guy comes up with.........but it IS entertaining. 🤭

    • @ggurks
      @ggurks Před 22 dny +1

      It seems you misunderstood what he is talking about. He's talking about how Howard Vyse used gunpowder to investigate the inside of the pyramid. He blew up the ceiling and found those other chambers. That was in 1837, not in ancient times

    • @reb2322
      @reb2322 Před 22 dny +1

      @@ggurks my mistake! Thank you.😊

  • @deividasvisockas
    @deividasvisockas Před 22 dny +30

    Build by Egyptians? If you have been in Egypt you would never claim they build Pyramids. In 2024 they still using donkeys to cary sugarcanes…

  • @bnwo
    @bnwo Před 21 dnem

    What/who brought the conspiracy theorists flooding into the comments?

    • @Angel-fq7ww
      @Angel-fq7ww Před 14 dny

      To many BS LAHT channels on you tube unfortunatly

  • @darinthomas-kw6nf
    @darinthomas-kw6nf Před 8 dny

    Educated do not support slavery. Ignorance does.

  • @selfMOTIVATEtv
    @selfMOTIVATEtv Před 5 dny

    Great imaginations. Precision cut of some of the hardest stones, marble.... with chisels. Yeah right. 😂

  • @bociankot2198
    @bociankot2198 Před 10 dny

    Bs simple.

  • @srenaskjr3710
    @srenaskjr3710 Před 4 dny

    I have no doubt, the Giza pyramids, and the sphinx is at least 30.000 years old... So the builders are very ancient "Egyptians". probably the Atlantean people. No pyramide was ever used as a tomb...
    Pyramide means "Fire in the middle" ... Pyramids were powerplants and a lot of other things...

  • @ViktorK-ul8mu
    @ViktorK-ul8mu Před 24 dny +5

    nonsense. such a shallow research. there are way better documentaries

  • @BarbarianBody1
    @BarbarianBody1 Před 12 dny

    So many of us know this was not a tomb, nor was it built by Kufu based on the facts available. This clung-to assumption by architects is outdated and needs to be moved on from. So much evidence points to it being way more than a tomb, and that it was likely there in the time before the Egyptians. Misinformation to the maxxxx PBS.

  • @Morph3as
    @Morph3as Před 17 dny

    Nope.....!

  • @damon2692
    @damon2692 Před 48 minutami

    So much misleading information in this "documentary"....

  • @Smee86
    @Smee86 Před 15 dny

    I believe they are Volcanoes and the inscription on the top is "please don't not 🚫 erupt." 🫡🫶🏼🤑😁

  • @Productionrm
    @Productionrm Před 24 dny

    Son una bola de mentiroso los que realizaron este trabajo 40 años perdieron su tiempo con PURAS MENTIRAS, DEJEN DE MENTIR YA!!!!

  • @Dan_Vice
    @Dan_Vice Před 2 dny

    When she credit the ancient Egyptians for building the great pyramid in the beginning of the video, I stopped watching it.

  • @seanoxborough5830
    @seanoxborough5830 Před 24 dny +6

    And all built by copper tools cutting marble 😂😂😂😂😂 ok

    • @carveraugustus3840
      @carveraugustus3840 Před 24 dny +1

      There’s no marble in the pyramid it’s limestone and even granite. This stuff is basic archaeology you dig a town. Harbors and port to the Red Sea its archaeology people.

    • @Angel-fq7ww
      @Angel-fq7ww Před 14 dny

      Sand ( quartz/carundum) does the cutting just like sand paper. The sand is embeded in the copper just like it is glued to sand paper or a diamond tipped modern cutting tool. check out how they built water wheel powered saws to cut stone, crazy impresive for 3500 year old tech

    • @BrunoHeggli-zp3nl
      @BrunoHeggli-zp3nl Před 4 dny

      Its 98% limestone and only 2% Granit!limestone is soft!

  • @sasamitrovic9474
    @sasamitrovic9474 Před 13 dny

    You keep mixing religion with faith and knowledge.

  • @chriskief7156
    @chriskief7156 Před 11 dny

    they didnt decode shit all

  • @duluxdog71
    @duluxdog71 Před 24 dny +5

    No chance they built this..thr incline snd size of rocks....didnt have the technology to do that.....a more intellignet being for me did this

    • @vincentlussier8264
      @vincentlussier8264 Před 21 dnem +1

      I would have to agree because I just don't believe people could possibly have done this. We can't even do it today!

    • @christianheidt5733
      @christianheidt5733 Před 18 dny

      ​@@vincentlussier8264exactly 💯

    • @BrunoHeggli-zp3nl
      @BrunoHeggli-zp3nl Před 4 dny

      Its easy doable with simple Handtools!You need around 15000 good skilled people for 20 years

  • @deevog
    @deevog Před 10 dny

    Wrong title, they can't decode their math and purpose

  • @ChadLuciano
    @ChadLuciano Před 14 dny

    recycled 5 year video....waste of bandwidth

  • @sullivancalgary
    @sullivancalgary Před 10 dny

    They're still slinging this crap?

  • @seanoxborough5830
    @seanoxborough5830 Před 24 dny +7

    Believe this you're believing anything

  • @jeffsmith50001
    @jeffsmith50001 Před 11 dny

    sounds a bit like made up bollocks.

  • @sealobo
    @sealobo Před 8 dny

    This "documentary" is nonsense. Full of baseless claims and arbitrary assumptions.

  • @potheadtoker11
    @potheadtoker11 Před 13 dny

    What upper garbage. All estimates and narrative,with no explanation for the evidence. This watches like a fairytale.

  • @kevinfletcher5780
    @kevinfletcher5780 Před 21 dnem

    It isn't a f****** tomb

  • @e.matovic
    @e.matovic Před 14 dny

    they found the pyramids there.

  • @RammSec
    @RammSec Před 13 dny

    This video is 🐮💩

  • @harriettamarsh7495
    @harriettamarsh7495 Před 22 dny

    Delusional Archeologists Kufuu built it, what a joke. History needs to change.

  • @krishm2478
    @krishm2478 Před 21 dnem

    Another BS video about the pyramids

  • @user-ql4qg1sc3d
    @user-ql4qg1sc3d Před 24 dny

    6 million ton of poured stone even the granite . That archeologist is gay as the day and should stop stating things he can't back up with facts

    • @Sophie-hm7yz
      @Sophie-hm7yz Před 12 dny

      Can you back up your claims with facts, user-ql4qg1sc3d? I'm sure you have something very insightful to contribute :D

    • @user-ql4qg1sc3d
      @user-ql4qg1sc3d Před 4 dny

      No I can't but these people are only guessing the Great pyramid k2 movie has alot of points thats ring true the ascending passages definitely were boxed and poured over and the kings chamber is more impressive than the other logistics .Granite and the precision and placement . Impossible unless it was poured like resin . Not even God is that perfect.

  • @robertdownie6135
    @robertdownie6135 Před 16 dny

    I'm sorry but does anyone believe this bollocks anymore?

    • @Angel-fq7ww
      @Angel-fq7ww Před 14 dny

      yep the evidence cleary points to Aliens and that we had better tech 10,000 years ago. look at all the 100 foot long CNC machines that cant cut striaght and alien space ships we find in the archiological digs

    • @Julian-pb4lr
      @Julian-pb4lr Před 12 dny +1

      Nope!