Solving the Mystery of the Khafre Pyramid Shafts | Ancient Architects
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- The Pyramid of Khafre on the Giza Plateau is the second largest in all of Egypt, a truly incredible feat of engineering, but the truth is, it’s very much in the shadow of its big brother, the Great Pyramid.
The interior passages and chambers are far more inferior but they are no less mysterious, and in this video I take a look at the Khafre Burial Chamber, and two small square-shape openings we find in the walls inside. Are these air shafts like we see in the Great Pyramid King's Chamber or are they something else?
Watch this video as I take us back to the Giza Plateau, but not to the Great Pyramid this time, but to its neighbour, the Middle Pyramid aka the Pyramid of Khafre, to unravel a mystery and reveal how the Khafre Burial Chamber was originally meant to look.
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Anyextee Khafre Video: • Inside the Great Pyram...
The Giza Project Video: • DIGITAL GIZA: Giza 3D ...
Keith Hamilton Khafre Guide: www.academia.edu/48950476/The...
Keith Hamilton Menkaure Guide: www.academia.edu/44619064/The...
Isida Project Images: isida-project.ucoz.com/egypt_...
Flinders Petrie Book: gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/...
John Perring Images: digitalcollections.nypl.org/c...
Giovanni Belzoni Images: digitalcollections.nypl.org/c...
Giovanni Belzoni Book: archive.org/details/narrative...
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They found a large chamber with the nuon detectors. Thoughts?
Matt please check out Shabaka Stone it glorifies star shafts, thanks for the hard work Matt
Usualy i don't comment, but.. That is stupid ! If they build with the upper shaft in mind, they would not scizel the !alleged one at 2 mt high".. And this assumption, in your hed, goes to the extend to produce part of the video insinuating.. 2 beams and to plaster a wall? Stipid! The lines you see, were guidance and mark to align the upper and only shafts.
this guy is on to something @nightscarab5802
After watching your content for a while, I think you would enjoy re-evaluating from a 'newly discovered', Scientific Only, evaluation of these Ancient Architectural structures. ie forget about the status quo assumptions, throw out ALL Presumed naming conventions (King's Chamber, Queen's Chamber, Sarcophagus, Air Shaft...) and treat them as New Discoveries of Unknown Build Dates.
What would you see then? What are the Possible Uses and When in Time were the structures possibly built? Would you still end up at Dynastic Egyptians, Older, Younger... Where are the remnants of likely tools? How many times were they remodeled, rebuilt, repurposed? What would the construction tools most likely look like? What clues are there to use in the Detective Hunt?
Many things seem to be looked over, ignored, hidden, destroyed, displaced, and of course deteriorated over time. But a fresh perspective may lead to new discoveries. I believe from things you have said in the past, you would thoroughly enjoy such an exploration. Let your mind wonder without the constraints of Current Modern Dictated 'Facts' about burial sites ect. You could end up back there, or you could end up closer to what actually happened and why.
Ive loved pyramids, specifically Egyptian, since i was a child some fifty years ago. I admit it took me a while to acclimate to your specific style but that helped me too discard some unrealised prejudices regarding presentation and entertainment in general. Nowadays i wait, often impatiently, for your next instalment of well thought out and impeccably presented material. I thank and commend you for the obviously large amount of work you do. Thanks mate 👍
Thank you so much. I’m a terrible narrator and I use very basic software to make these videos, but I try and focus on quality information over all-singing, all-dancing special effects and crazy ideas :)
@@AncientArchitects where are you from may i ask. You end your sentences with a drop in pitch.
Love this channel so much. Thanks for the hard work Matt!
Thanks mate 🙏
What hard work? He’s using other people’s research.
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Yeah I love this channel as well, I actually really like the intro music.. it gets me into my happy place mood :)
@@armandom28 whats wrong with that.?
I think they were possibly used as putlog holes for a strong timber to help draw the granite sarcophagus into position.
Excellent idea
Was the coffer not dug into the bedrock and then lined with granite slabs or a perhaps there was a granite box inserted after digging out the bedrock to house it.?
Until there have been muon scans of this pyramid, I'll remain skeptical that we really know much about its internal structure.
Technically the muons are always scanning this pyramid, but there haven't been any muon detectors to image them.
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It was scanned in the 1960s. There is even an Ancient Architects video about the experiment.
@@OMFGimontheinternet Thanks. Well, I'm glad they looked, but disappointed that they found nothing.
Apparently, a Grand Gallery to work a counterweight is not really necessary.
Hey pyramid scanning isn't a simple thing there are a lot of subtle muons involved...
It's possible that the markings on the wall weren't meant to indicate where more holes should be cut, but were instead meant to indicate some part of the wooden structure that would not be inserted into the wall. Maybe they intended the paving stones to hold the bottom part of the partition wall in place, and the markings just acted as a guide to help the builders make sure they were positioning a cross beam correctly.
I have one suggestion: in addition to giving the measurements of Egyptian artifacts in meters or feet/inches, you might also give them in the Egyptian cubit and/or Egyp. Royal cubit measures. There may -- or may not -- be significance in the numbers when given in the units the Egyptians themselves used.
Replying incase this bumps the comment up
Or you could learn the proper conversion and do it yourself
@@AllStyleNoSubstance1 Or I could go outside and spent time with my friends and family
@@AllStyleNoSubstance1 what a braindead reply
@@AllStyleNoSubstance1yes the hundred odd thousands people who watch the video should do the conversion for every measurement individually. Great idea 💡
This is so far the best of your reports, at least to me. I didn't know about these structural details of Khafra's Pyramid. I still didn't enter it, but the exterior layout is already complex and interesting, but nobody speaks about. Less talk about is the interior of the second Pyramid. That is why I Thank you a lot for your valuable research and information
In my opinion, the accepted explanation related to the shafts in these chambers is absolutely true. The idea adopted by the ancient Egyptians to build a camouflage wall deserves praise. Since it was only possible to build this wall after burial, the idea of how to do it is really good and shows the extensive construction knowledge of the Egyptians.
Given the natural concretions they'd have to have been familiar with in that area I suspect they could've disguised chambers and tunnels in the bedrock. The lack of cosmic ray scans can't even rule out undiscovered areas in the masonry much less in the bedrock below.
Always enjoy your undimmed enthusiasm for all things pyramid. Love your work massive respect for the level of research you apply to all theories.
Matt, I think it shouldn't be hard for you to apply for and defend a doctorate of Egyptology by now.
Thanks, we never hear enough about the other pyramids. My first thought when seeing the holes in the chamber was that they were beam slots. We see them in Castle construction. So to consider them as the only finished slots for a partition certainly seems plausible, considering the witness marks for slots further down.
I always feel like this pyramid is criminally understudied in modern times, and it makes me SO happy and excited to see my favorite ancient history channel do a video on it. It drives me crazy how no one seems to pay attention to Khafre’s pyramid and only focus on the Great Pyramid. I’ve never understood why some people go into crazy detail trying to explain the “true purpose/function” of the pyramids in Egypt using every detail of the Great Pyramid to explain it, but the pyramid right next to it, almost the same size, has very little of the features the Great Pyramid has that they use to explain its purpose and construction. So many people just get lost in the details of the Great Pyramid that they lose focus and don’t realize that the one next to it has none of the features they use to explain why or how it was built. I also have always felt like there is much more to be discovered in Khafre’s pyramid. I hope more attention is given to it now than in the recent past and more effort and technology is put into learning more about it.
Certainly there would be the best of the best scientists studying it daily if it wasn't for the still well positioned Hawass and the Egyptian s.o.a.
@@Khaymen223 Probably true. I’m speaking more on the independent researchers and people who make videos on CZcams though. There’s very little content on CZcams about many of the other pyramids in Egypt because the Great Pyramid gets so much of the attention. I’ve searched for videos on other pyramids and monuments in Egypt, and the few that usually are available are just basic explanations of the size and interior of them and that’s it. If you search the Great Pyramid however, you can find endless videos where people have went into every tiny detail of it and present every theory you could imagine about it’s construction and purpose. I hope to someday see these great independent researchers putting those same efforts into the other interesting monuments. It definitely would help if Hawass is replaced by someone more open minded and less stubborn though.
And nobody should short-shrift Menkaure either
@@JohnMSawyer I agree but I feel like it actually gets even more attention than Khafre’s. Khafre’s pyramid has always been treated a bit like the middle child of Giza lol
Absolutely loving this channel! Great job! Big fan
Much needed video! No content out there on this topic. Thank you!
Great work, Matt. Your professionalism shines a light on this ancient history.
Very interesting. Thank you for your continuing valuable insights.
Great video Matt. We need a modern muon scan of this Khafre pyramid- it seems so unlike the ancient Egyptians to build all that pyramid and not put ANYTHING in the whole body of it. Especially considering they just had the experience of building the Great Pyramid with all it’s built in intricacies. 👍
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Absolutely brilliant video as always . Thank you .
Great video as always, very insightful.
Thanks for posting!
Fantastic information and graphics. Thank you!
Every ancient architects video that posts gets a view from me I love it!!! Thanx!
You bought a new mic. And yes, it sounds great.
Very enlightening. Wonderful presentation as usual.
Another great documentary Matt, thank you for your hard work.
Awesome info and perspective as always thanks!!
Thanks for watching
I love your intro. That is a compliment almost never given from me. Soothing and short with an epic feel to fit the subject matter. I enjoy all your videos thanks for all your work.
Incredible documentary! Have the best day ever!
I cant believe there are no chambers or corridors in the whole of that structure. Has this pyramid ever been muon scanned?
was wondering that myself.
was looking for this question in the comments :)
Luis Alvarez (the physicist who discovered that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs) scanned the Khafre pyramid from 1965-1969. He found nothing, but he was using primitive equipment. I think the Scan Pyramids project is currently, or plans to, scan it again.
Yes it was . Matt posted a video on this topic . I asked him the same question and Matt investigated . It’s was done before the great pyramid but with weaker more intermediate technology . Unfortunately they found nothing above . We all agree that a new scan must be done with the more up to date technology. Maybe one day .
Another great in-depth discovery..
Interesting vid as always👏🏻
thanks again for this excellent video!
Good work Matt!
More superb content, Matt. Thank you for your continued dedication and hard work bringing these brilliant videos to your eager viewers.
Great informative video... thanks.
Thanks for posting.
Fascinating!
Excellent Matt !
Have you a video on the history of archeology?
Love this presentation as I do all your work. Thank you. 😊
Fascinating stuff man. I hope i get to see Giza one day.
Another interesting video thanks.
Love it!
Is no one else looking at the "Tide Mark" in the Kings chamber ?
Awesome video
It is amazing for all the years that it has looked at and investigated there are still so many questions. But maybe that's good. Then we might think we know everything and stop asking questions. We always need to ask questions. Thanks for the video.
Very informative
18:55 soo true!!! This great point should always be in consideration. #yolo
Excellent
Revealing thank you.
You are absolutly right Matt
Thank you Matt❤
Thanks Lynn!
I just realized how little I know of this pyramid compared to the Great Pyramid, which indeed does steal the spotlight.
Good work ❤Matt as usual
Please make video on pyramid of unas
And where is the video ending BGM 😊
The holes might have been for stabilizing scaffolding. Great presentation!
Thank you
It dropped 7 minutes ago we are the 355th view and the 43rd like, from Boise Idaho USA.
Thank you 🙏
You have a great way of, kinda reading my mind i was just wondering do they build the small shafts in, surely thty do. Then you answered my question. Can see why people go into this subject, it's fascinating.
Thanks 🙏
@@AncientArchitects np
Has anyone suggested that the internal ramp was actually an external ramp over a smaller already existing pyramid that just contained the queen's chamber and explains why those air shafts stop. Because that was the original edge of the pyramid. Has anyone else postulated this theory yet?
yeah when they sent the robot into the air shafts, snake bros has a great video going over the whole expedition. I think I just figured out why they had to rebuild the pyramid over the old one is because the north-south alignment became off somehow, or they calculated incorrectly the first time. Maybe that explains the 8 sides?
I know that exactly that smaller-to-larger theory is viewed as explaining the building (and assumed expanding) of the step pyramid, but I think I recall that at least once I've heard it applied to explaining the shorter length of the Queen's chamber shafts. But analysis of the center pyramid is seemingly quite rare and far between.
That is a fantastic suggestion, good job
Matt done a whole movie on it. Suggested gp was smaller. Perhaps it’s been enlarged and renovated by Khufu.
Fascinating as always! The Khafre pyramid does need more study. Thanks Matt!
I agree with that. I am convinced there is more in there than we know. One little chamber in a pyramid of that size ?. Believe it or not the Khafre pyramid is the third largest. The red pyramid is the second largest so also needs a lot more study.
@@dazuk1969 I agree with that. I have been in the Red Pyramid and it is amazing.
Mystery shafts? I’m in.
It's hard to believe all that stone above what's dug into the limestone bedrock has absolutely no hidden chambers/voids in it either
If the chamber is in the bedrock has there been any investigation to find any chambers further up in the overall mass of the pyramid?
If the Grand Gallery in the Great Pyramid was used for construction purposes, shouldn't this pyramid have something similar?
Assuming there are no other chambers hidden in the superstructure, there aren't any particulary large blocks of masonry higher up in the pyramid. Grand Gallery and/or Big Void were most likely been used as a ramp for a counterweight to help haul the largest single blocks weighing up to 50 tons to the height of the King's Chamber and relieving chambers above it. If there are no similar blocks high up in the Chafre's pyramid, there's no need for a structure like that. Blocks that form the gabled ceiling in the Chafre's burial chamber are really close to ground level so a small ramp would seem sufficient, no need for an inclined corridor high up.
It would not need any such features because it has no massive blocks above ground level, the burial chamber room lintals would be put in place first even before the chamber is dug out and would only need to be dragged into place across level ground.
Another very interesting video. Thank you Matt.
My guess is the square holes in the walls were for anchoring wooden beams that were used to lift & move heavy objects (sarcophagus) and support structure as the limestone ceiling blocks were positioned.
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I have always wondered about the construction of the Khafre pyramid given that it is within the generation of the Great pyramid, yet does not exhibit the technology used previously to move the stones. (e.g. the grand gallery or the spiral ramp). Finally it is a large structure that apperently has not been imaged using muon or any other cosmic ray process.
If the Khefre pyramid truly has never been scanned then it's very possible there are indeed undiscovered chambers and tunnels.
In Bob Briers book and lectures he found evidence that the health of the pharaoh determined the grandeur meaning the vizier played it safe by first putting the tomb in the bedrock.
hell yeah its Matt time !
we have to give props to belzoni for preserving the writings in the chamber 8:58 he really was smarter than most of his time and after him realising that the writing were very fragil he took the time to get them immortalised
19th century tomb explorers: non-destructive investigations? what`s that? Johnny bring me a cartridge of TNT
I got your mysterious shaft right here
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Haha I hope this becomes the top comment 🤣
You take this thumbs up, and you fuckin like it. 💦
FFS, tone officially lowered... well played lol
I got an explorer for that shaft right here. "We can fit anything, any size, anywhere!". Here at ForceNLube, we use a dual patented interchangeable system of either force and or lube to ensure the tightest fit possible. Because when you want some pushed in, you want it forced in.
While I was watching the video and seeing the photos and diagrams of the two holes in the Khafre Burial Chamber, something clicked and I thought "I wonder if they were intended to hold the two ends of a wooden beam, which was used as part of the supporting framework for a partition?" Then I watched another couple minutes of the video, and heard my theory (hypothesis?) put into audible words.
I really always thought those shafts are there for the burning of candles or whatever light source the ancient Egyptians would have used. I imagine soot and smoke would be a massive problem if people were to spend any amount of time in these chambers so an "airshaft" would be needed for breathing good air, ventilation and for the removal of smoke an soot for lighting.
Fascinating,, the phrase you can't see the forest for the trees involves every single Egyptian structure 😅 lol you need to try to deconstruct them all and figure out their purpose. I would hate to think anyone would disagree that there's not as many passages and rooms above-ground inside that pyramid as the other one. It's going to be the last great chance to find evidence of exactly what those things were for. The fact zahi hawass is not trying to find an opening is a crime against humanity. Great Video! Thanks
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The first time I saw these, I thought they looked like they would hold a beam across which could be draped a large curtain, not unlike the one that was in the Hebrew temple. So perhaps they started with the idea of constructing a wall and ended with the idea of employing elaborate drapery.
I would like to know if anyone has tried infrared or ultraviolet photography of these chambers. This might bring out traces of paint which would provide some new evidence of what went on after construction.
so the chamber ceiling of khafra's was once painted? how interesting! are there ANY details about the colours?
I'm still fascinated about that ticket and plastic spool way up the shaft in the Queens chamber ... and that window named after you!!! Any news about that?
The holes "niche's" were there to hold Magical Bricks as found in later burial chambers in Egypt.
Best video so far. Not so much assumptions, but instead, thoughts about how much the pyramids have changed over time. And that we will never know what they originally looked like. I like that approach.
This pyramid has never been properly investigated, it's about time to do it.
Hieroglyphs (time 6:00)
The center hieroglyphs appear to be cloth-serpent-duck, which spells ‘setchpa’ and means ‘food’ or ‘provisions’. The eye glyph is ‘ari’ and can refer to counting, but the following glyphs are too fragmentary to be sure.
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Very mysterious (as usual) why the burial chamber was unfinished when it was cut out from the bedrock so early in the construction?
Hi, really enjoyed this one....fantastic info...very well presented....all the best and thank you.....
Maybe the partition design was changed from a solid wall divider to an ornate curtain?
quaried floor with hyroglyphs at the bottom would lead the guy to think there is something hidden.
I think this is the first time I have seen inside this piromid
This book of Flinders Petrie has a subscript you forgot to mention , update by Zawi Hawas…… so what has he left out or added that was not convenient for him? Just ask him about Göbekli Tépe!
How about the drubbing that World of Antiquities gave those unshartedx guys?? Haha marvelous
perhaps the planned or dug high holes were for support beams for lifting or maneuvering the coffer or other things long gone at that step below the holes.
El video está genial, por favor, subtítulos en español 😉
Ancient Architects, you should put a warning on your videos saying, my videos will always end with me pissing on your fire! LOL
What about the ends of the gables, that triangular space above the bottoms of the saddle vault up to the top? Is that bedrock or a placed block?
I wondered the same thing, but it is also possible to cut the end gables from the native bedrock.
@@johnyoung1128 but did they? And if they didn't and if they are placed blocks, could one conceal/block access to further passages or chambers above the bedrock under the bulk of the pyramid? Not saying, just wondering.
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I think that assuming that a contruction of this pyramid or the bent pyramid had unfinished fitures is like a modern skyscrapers builders not compleating the last week of work. By the time these massive pyramids (even the smaller ones are massive) i don't think the builders would have made mistakes.
the Great Pyramid of Khufu
the Excellent Pyramid of Khafre
the Pretty Damn Good Pyramid of Menkaure
.....the Well, It's The Thought That Counts Pyramid of Amenemhat III
wow.
Could the holes have supported a trellis for painting the ceiling?
Few people know about the ancient Egyptian papyrus magazine that focused on pyramid renovation and remodel. It was called This Old Pyramid and ran for several dynasties.
As a bloke who has builders around him his whole life I am going to say they there was timber beam that ran from north to south probably as a support for the builders to work on
Although I can not disprove your theory for what the holes were made for when I first saw them in your video I thought, "Oh, they must have had a wooden or metal beam that went between the holes on which they hung tapestries or fabric of some kind."
13:45 probably holding some wooden structures? In Provadia, Bulgaria, we have this super old ancient city called Solnitsata believed to be flourishing around 4700-4200 BC, and it which has similar carvings into the stone in places, believed to be for the purpose of inserting wooden structures like doors and such. Just a suggestion, obviously, you're much more familiar with Egyptian stuff lol.