5 Oldest Descriptions of the Pyramids
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Huge thanks to @drraoulmclaughlin7423 for his work compiling the sources, from:
Herodotus, Diodorus Siculus, Strabo, Pliny The Elder, Travels of Egeria
Edited by Luiz Murphy
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00:00 Herodotus (454 BC)
04:40 D. Siculus - Greek Visiting Egypt (60 BC)
09:32 Strabo - Greco-Roman with the Roman Army (20 BC)
13:18 Pliny The Elder - Roman Historian (77 AD)
18:06 Egeria - Roman Christian (381 AD)
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Pop quiz: How many pharaohs were found in all pyramids combined?
Super cool thank you 🙏
@@Flyingdutchy33morning 🌄🌄
None . They were in the valley of the Kings.
Pop quiz part deux: How many hyroglyphs were found in all pyramids combined?
It still blows my mind that the Romans are chronologically closer to us than to the pyramid builders by 500 years and the pyramids were also already a tourist spot to them back then too.
We are also chronologically closer to t-rex than t-rex was to stegosaurus.
@@jakell4711 But, but, but... MOVIES!!! 🤣
Egypt was ancient and mysterious already for them
czar chilled there with his side chick
wait until you see how many pyramids there are worldwide the jungles of amazon is revealing while submerged ones are even more intriguing
I love the account of Pliny the Elder, it's such a Roman description, admonishing the vanity of it all then giving rather detailed measurements, adding how great Caesar is in comparison too.
just imagine all the anger veins Pliny and Cato would have if they saw our sky scrapers 🤣
they were practical
The Roman civil engineer Julius Frontinus writes in his study ,'The Aqueducts of Rome' - "Compare the scale of these indispensable structures, carrying so much water, with the idle Pyramids or the useless, famous, works of the Greeks!" (The Aqueducts, 2.16).
Completely off topic, but pertains to Rome.
After marriage, a man carries a woman out of the altar. I heard it’s the tradition from the founding of Rome.
@@Charok1At the very least they considered themselves practical, there's some truth to the notion but it's a bit funny in a way.
I love how Diodorus' evocation of the Gods erecting the pyramids is basically a 2000 year old Ancient Aliens theory😅
Actually, it's an ancient ancient aliens theory.
@@bingbong7316 It's an Ancient Alien Theory, actually.
In actuality, it's an Ancient Alien theory.
At least he still acknowledges that there was a human workforce.
It’s like he read something from before his time that told him something similar. Fu*kin conspiracy theorists and their ancient texts of human ancestry. USELESS.”
That is fascinating.
Even in late BC and early AD, the pyramids were considered a work of "the ancients" by their reference.
I like hearing the consistent points mentioned in each story.
People forget that when we talk about ancient civilizations, some civilizations are FAR more ancient than other. The Romans are relatively recent.
They were ancient to them though. We live closer in time to the Romans than the Romans did to the time the Pyramids were built.
One day people in the future will consider us as ancient
Right it will always be àn amazement distinct relative
Ancient Kemet played a role in everything that mainstream academics and colleges are lying to the public about . Those Ancient Egyptians are some type of weird cross-breed Palestinian middle-east looking Indians that did nothing but try to restore ancient structures . Not pure African like Kemetians . Same area, different people . 12,000 years ago . Dynastic Egyptians are 4,000 years or whenever ago
Chad classical historians: "It was very hard labor"
Virgin XX century writers: "Alien gods did it, duh"
I really don't know why people have such a hard time figuring this out. You just pile up alot of stone. Sure its hard, it takes long but its not very advanced eaither, lmao.
@@IndicatedGoodLife It gets easier to understand once you realize they can't acknowledge it. Before "aliens", 18th and 19th century racists said it was the Romans who built giant structures in north america or Zimbabwe, not because they actually thought that, but because they couldn't acknowledge it was native americans or Africans capable of monumental architecture.
Look man, until you can find me an alien who said they didn’t pile rocks up, all cool like for us.
I don’t think ANYBODY can find an alien who said they didn’t do it. Why, may I ask, won’t aliens say they had no part in?
I didn’t build any pyramids, I said it, no problem! Your turn spacemen.
I do like how the story went from 20 years to build the foundation, to it was built in 20 years. Not the same stories, like they played no part in building their nest rock piles, because aliens did… Or white people, that would make sense, but not the natives because they ain’t aliens and their boats suck, and their gods are lame as hell, boy.
I just gave all the proof needed to know how, and why the aliens did it, what’s the proof that humans made it?
They had old school cranes, lots of time, and what seemed like a limitless amount of man hours?
Besides the crane part, I have limitless man hours, and I never even tried to build a pyramid.
Been like 300 years since they where built, and in that time I haven’t seen anyone make angular rock piles like that, and you know why? It’s hard for humans to do, but you know who it’s not hard for?
Aliens.
you’d think alien gods would build a lot more than 3D triangles
@@IndicatedGoodLife
That is not easy. We still really do not know how they are built or why. No bones have ever been found in these pyramids. Looters don’t take bones they take treasure. It is perfect mathematics and even reflects the three stars in Orion’s Belt. Definitely not aliens. But not just like a bunch of rocks piled up as if it’s a primitive normal thing. The best pyramids are the oldest and the newer ones are falling apart. So it really isn’t just piled up rocks that anyone can do. It’s a science beyond ahead of the time it was created. People who think it’s whatever or just triangles have obviously never been to Giza. Unlike any pyramids in the world.
Hot and sunny late afternoon, some years ago, just before we land in Cairo, on my first ever visit there, the Captain's voice comes on to announce: "Ladies and Gentlemen, we'll be on the ground in a few minutes, if you look on our right hand side you can see we have a marvelous view of the famous pyramids of Giza...."
And there they were!... Although I visited them (and the Sphinx) up close soon enough...this first impression from the air has been one of my most exciting travel experiences ever... mesmerising, mysterious and timeless...
And I even took a picture, or two, or three...(No pics, no proof...)
They are breathtaking. Usually when you see something so often the reality is a let down but not those
@@anathema2325 Couldn't agree more...I am still in awe of the very sight of them, and remember the excitement of my first encounter with them...Amazing, bucket list stuff...Stuff that dreams are made of...
My favorite view of them is from the inside of the Pizza Hut just on the other side of them lol
@@Battury A sign of the times 😁...so true as well!...When I was there, they were meant to be situated just outside of Cairo, at the Giza Plateau..By now, just another suburb of the ever expanding Megacity...
I find it interesting how 2000 years ago they were also considering the use of temporary ramps to explain construction
The very first account doesnt suggest it, it says thats what they used. And that account seems very accurate considering it accurately explains how the Nile was diverted to allow boats up close, a road causeway, and explains the labor in detail.
That first account just comes off ridiculously accurate to the non alien theories today
@@Livvvidnow in fairness Herodotus is know to often be less than perfectly accurate in many of his writings and his account on Egypt comes from a time as far separated from the construction of the Pyramids as we are too him... but it is striking how close his accounts of what local Egyptians claimed for construction methods are to what modern Egyptologists postulate based on archeological evidence and over 2 centuries of consideration by modern engineers on how they would do it using only tools ans materials known to be available at the time.
You dont know that. Obviously they did . They built them@@Pablo-Escabar
Yet they did anyways@@Pablo-Escabar
@Pablo-Escabar the pyramids are there. They were made by humans, not magic. Your understanding is entirely your own issue. If you are too ignorant to grasp simple concepts, then there isn't much hope for you
16:27 the "lentles" are simply fossils of unicellular creatures called nummulites (google them, they're cute (for geologists and palaeontologists)), which make up local egyptian rocks having sedimented 45 million years ago.
They are sometimes big as coins, hence their name "nummus/money".
They are the biggest known unicellular beings.
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Thanks for sharing that!, I have never heard of these.
Hmmm, I can't see what's so cute about them. They're just simple spiral shapes...
I highly doubt they are that old. Safe to say they were deposited by the great flood.
Ooooh, interesting! I'd never heard of that! But that would make sense, seeing as they were breaking up rocks where said fossils were probably trapped. Fascinating.
The Romans were lucky to see the pyramids and sphinx while so many of them still had their original finishes and paint. What a site.
Wonder when the electrum capstones were stolen and removed, it's said that the reflections could be seen from hundreds of miles away, land or sea ?
@@fredfreddy2338 Pretty cool stuff indeed 👍
I wonder if there were any people selling souvenirs to the Roman tourists? Like small carved pyramids and that? 😆
@@Mulavi You just know that happened at least once lol 😂
I need to rewatch that 🥲
Oooooh dear
Yes there were souvenirs for Roman tourisrs
It's really neat to see how the perception of the pyramids changed over time.
Herodotus: The pyramids are gigantic and impressive structures built to serve as tombs for the great kings of the day.
Diodorus: The pyramids are gigantic and impressive structures built to serve as tombs for the great kings of the day.
Strabo: The pyramids are gigantic and impressive structures built to serve as tombs for the great kings of the day.
Pliny the Elder: Nobody really knows why the pyramids were built; and they're not that impressive anyway.
Egeria: The pyramids were giant grain silos.
and then now, the pyramids were built by aliens lol
Or a giant nuclear water pump
or giant power stations that draw free energy from earth
@@dr.sleaseball441 it's also an acoustic anomaly
It keeps getting dumber 😂
I love Herodotus. He's essentially the father of recording history due to his impartial and exact way of writing down events. He's the best to read too.
Can't beat the OG
"Impartial" 😂
Well he wasn’t exactly correct with all of his logic and assumptions but he was mostly impartial And focused on objectivity
Relatively speaking anyway
@@dj_koen1265 He tried, unlike the others that were prone to working fantasy into historical data. I truly believe he thought he was giving a true to life recounting of history.
He’s all right, but definitely not impartial.
Just ask the Persians what they think of Herodotus’ portrayal of the “Greek” Wars.
Simple machines were around for such a long period of time. i dont understand how people dont believe that large constructs could not be built using them, because they supposedly weren't invented yet.
If you think there are no questions left to uncover about the creation of these insane structures then you simply haven't informed yourself on the nature of their construction. Not everything on this earth is currently known, our history beyond a certain point is mysterious and unknown.
@@charleswalker2484i love how you respond by putting words in their mouth.
@@Cpt.BEARDless Love it then you beta reddit nerd lmao.
@@charleswalker2484
And the pyramids are not one of those things. We understand early bronze age Egypt enough to ascertain who built them, how, and why. The actual mysteries left regard idiosyncrasies like specific methods, and reconstructions.
If you want to sink your teeth in some real mystery, I implore you to research something like the Etruscans, because the pyramids aren’t very mysterious anymore.
@@hihi-nm3uyit's not the what or whom. But the how, tunnels are being discovered in the pyramids even todah
I am currently in Egypt touring the country and seeing ancient Egyptian marvels. Love this
So Strabo(20BC) mentions more than one Sphinx, while Pliny the Elder(77AD) mentions only one. What happened to the rest during that time?
There are so binder all over Egypt.
british museum innit?
I wonder the same. Especially since for almost 2000 years AD it was mostly buried up to the head so how was he able to describe it in its entirety.
@@myshepspud1 He said one was buried up to it's head and the others were only half visible. They were already thousands of years old at this point with people walking around doing whatever and armies just arriving all the time so it makes sense that almost the whole place was destroyed lol. Maybe the other ones were pulled down just by some drunk guy who knows
There was only one Great Sphinx, the one made out of the bedrock. There were probably other smaller sphinx carvings. In Luxor there was a major processional avenue with sphinxes on either side of it.
This is such a great channel. Thank you for your inspiring, hard work. I love listening to how people perceived their era, even if often tempered, it’s fascinating.
@STATERECALLMUSIC I don't know you, but I wish I was there with you.
History is so freaking cool.
5 earliest descriptions of the pyramids
1. Herodotus, 454BC
2. Diodorus Siculus, 60BC
3. Strabo, 20BC
4. Pliny the Elder, AD77
5. Egeria, AD381
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They all sound reasonable until we get to the Egeria who goes off the deep end into Christian mythology - truly the beginning of the Dark Ages.
I thought that too - but I think it was the muzlamic wars against the Christian west which caused the Dark Ages, and that it was the monasteries and abbeys which kept literature and learning alive @@tma2001
@@tma2001 Dark ages are a myth
Its super interesting that Herodotus assumes that the Egyptians of that time period had iron!
Between 2000 BCE and 1200 BCE, the Hittites developed a process for smelting the iron.
@@Nooneaskedforthis Yes, but that was a state secret and still hundreds of years after the mainstream date for the pyramids. The Egyptians did not even have bronze at this time, but only copper and stone tools.
Yes. And if the accounts of some ancient egyptians, that the pyramids were old as 3 400 years B.C., no way the egyptians could have iron tools. The dating of the pyramids is still a matter of debate. Even the use of C14 dating of wood found inside the pyramids give results that not all are "happy" with; you know, discrepancies here and there.
@@arkangeln910c8 Thats right, and I will say this... Just having an open mind, and looking at it from both sides of the fence, because the Egyptians did some pretty incredible things for supposedly only having copper and stone... There are some really entertaining and sometimes credible ideas out there leaning towards advanced lost technology. Not necessarily you know, in the way we think of technology now, but just some lost art forms and ways to have made these incredible works more feasible.
The simple idea that technology changes over time, at all, really only entered the public mind sometime in the past 300 years or so.
That's why, for example, renaissance paintings often depict Roman legionaries as marching around in 15th century plate armor carrying halberds and longbows - that's the way soldiers looked in the 1400s, so they assumed that soldiers had always looked like that, and always would.
I can hear the Egyptian pharaoh’s wives nagging them about not having a pyramid for them. “Jenny said her husband is building her a pyramid for the afterlife. Why won’t you build one for me, too?”
Yeah... "You never take me anywhere!..." (The voice of experience) 😂
- "Darling, when you die, would you like like to be buried, or cremated?..."
-"Gee, I don't know Dear....Why don't you just...surprise me!.." 🤭😁😅🤣
Yeah his sister wife
When i was building my cabin and hit upon a conundrum, id think to myself" now what would the Egyptians do?" My watchers guffuwed my rudimentary efforts declaring itd last 5 years if im lucky. Five n a half years later and many storms weathered, its standing as strong as the day i built it. Not bad for a diy enthusiast with CZcams as my tutor!
@phoenixkali7293 The wealth of knowledge at one's fingertips always fascinates
me and it's free, just mind-boggling.
"The Egyptians worked in gangs of 100,000 men for 3 months at a time, for 10 years." But no, let's say aliens built them.😅😅
Lmao if you do the math on that statement it's pretty clearly bullshit. Aliens explain the insane anomalies of Egypt just as good as any explanation we have so far because simply put we have no idea what was going on in Zep Tepi. It shows someone is a rube who hasn't informed themselves of the details (by scholars who actually went there and took measurements etc in the 1800s onward) when they say things like this. You want to own the dummies who watch history channel but in fact they're probably just as informed as you are.
they arent aliens exactly but all these old stone structure all over the world are from the fallen angels (nordics) look into the acxounts of white bearded men etc in south america. they came before the flood and after it. The bible says everything on the face of the earth died so presumably things under ground or by that point off world(many ancient ufo sightings etc) because they are thousands of years ahead.
its kind of crazy that ur arguing for traditional timescale even though the achademic establishment has already started inflating known times just to keep pulling the wool over. right now there is a push to say that covilization goes back twice as far as we thought because theism is winning as science moves on and the marxists are changing history literally now... they need more years but also it undermines creationism.
the actual illuminati gnostic occultists literally believe in a you g earth creation google masonry year of the light. they push this idea that slaves made the pyramid as a joke, inside joke probly, because they are works based witches and hate Jesus Christ who promotes the free gift they believe in a gnostic interpretation of God which seeks to undermine this free gift and get mad if you point to it.
they do not believe in naturalism/materialism/uniformitarianism/evolutionism/monkey surf theory etc these are just humiliation rituals basically and they underscore their beliefs in a non literal sense for the plebians to believe so they stay dumb and apiritually unaware so they cannot call on the power of Yah.
You can say aliens built them, but Egyptians themselves called them forerunners.
@iamperplexed4695 They lived on average of just 30 to 40 years. 3 or 4 generations out were considered ancient!
Incels
It's a shame we don't have testimony from the time that the pyramids were still shiny and new.
I'm pretty sure the Pyramids were still shiny white during around 60BC, a time that we have written accounts of.
My source: I played Assassin's Creed Origins on the PS4, so I'm basically a historian.
Thank you for sharing your wisdom.@@47d75
@@47d75true 😂
It’s your fault
@@47d75what we know about the pyramids now makes the older accounts extremely unlikely
The fact that we get to listen to this for FREE is unreal 💚
10 years to make the road and underground chambers. 20 more years to build the pyramid. A lifetime to the average Egyptian peasant!
In most earlier periods, if you reached the age of 5 your life expectancy was actually in the 50s or 60s
@@boozecruiserthat's not true the fact is that child death ratio was around 85% and most wouldn't make it to age 7 ultimately IT IS a LIE that people had shorter lifespans that's not true like I just said it was due to the death ratio which lowered life expectancy nothing else, if they got to mature they would live like you and I obviously more challenging but nonelse
Soooo these old Nikkas wrote down how the pyramids was made and people still saying it was aliens 😂
Exactly.
They were already thousands of years old when these were written! I don't think aliens built them though!
@@phatphat7089 yeah I remember reading or watching something about that and they were speaking on the water erosion on the Sphinx
@@user-cl5vx9em4e the first one that wrote about this was Herodotus and that was 300 or so BC the pyramids were built around 2500 BC so they were already over two thousand years old
I enjoy these letter/story videos. They recite details of people who actually lived from their point of view not from a textbook point of view that is often hit or miss at being accurate. As history is always modified, omitted, reviewed and facts/stories taken out. because history is written by the winners.
Don't take these as ultimate truth. People have had their biases and have changed reality since the dawn of time.
@@huskytail Are you suggesting that we, therefore, believe ancient alien conspiracies?
The ancient historians were unfortunately also products of their times and prone to making things up, exaggeration and believing fantastical accounts of others.
16:59 My crazy theory is that maybe, just maybe, they actually DID flood the area and/or made canals in order to float the blocks right up to the base of the pyramid. And they did this using 1. An advanced system of waterworks, which included Lake Moeris 14:05 , and 2. (and this just my own nutty idea that keeps popping into my head) some sort of clever and massive pump-like mechanism that drew the ground water from beneath the area. This "mechanism" basically is/became a part of the Great Pyramid, which was built around it. The Grand Gallery may have served as a track for some kind of giant "piston" (or something that slid along it/through it). Which drew/pumped water from that strange subterranean chamber underneath the pyramid (to me, it looks like it was submerged in water in the past). It also has that odd hole/ditch going straight down. Which is filled in with rubble now, but maybe it once connected that chamber to the underground water system?
It's a bit far-fetched, I admit. But otherwise I still think "controlled flooding" with a clever system of water works and canals seems like a good explanation (at least) for how they transported blocks directly to the pyramid. Which may explain why a boat was found next to the pyramid. I've also wondered if perhaps it could account for the signs of water erosion around the walls of the Sphinx enclosure? Perhaps the "secret tunnel/chamber" beneath the Sphinx was (originally) a "drain"/conduit leading to the underground water system, so it didn't become submerged in water during flooding?
Or maybe just maybe it was enki
that wouldn’t work with the heaviest stones that weighed close to 100 tonnes. You would need to make an ocean to ferry that.
I think that the water there was a problem so they found a way to use it and get rid it. My theory, it went down to the subchamber of the great pyramid. Gathered speed and created vacuum in the well shaft. That vacuum powered the inner works of the pyramid a balanced sled in the gallery a counterweight above in the chamber that hasn't been revealed yet. The well shaft comes up where the 2 chambers split. They were vacuum chambers. The chamber shafts used rectangular stones as pistons. That's why the shafts are "polished." The stone ball found was a bleed down valve. Flows freely one way, and slowly the other by covering an orifice.
The stone pistons pulled ropes that led outside, around a spool, to create 2 construction cranes on the North and South side. The King's chamber has a lip at the floor to keep the door stone from getting pulled in under vacuum.
Oh..... I was very confused by two of these sources talking about "Babylon" close to Memphis. I thought surely this was an indication that they'd never been to Egypt and they were confused about the geography. But it turns out there was Roman Fortress, confusingly named Babylon, near to Memphis. Thanks Romans! Such helpful naming!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Fortress
Thanks I was also wondering.
It's like there are cities called Alexandria everywhere from Egypt to Afghanistan. Can be a bit confusing sometimes.
2000 years from now, people talking about the ancient city of Memphis in a long gone civilization called America, and the fact they made great BBQ.
The first guy to get a pyramid built must've been very persuasive.
Well, yeah; he was king. Djoser could issue a crap ton of labour, so long as he paid his workers.
He is King/God
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"bro let me pile ONE more mastaba on top of my mastaba on top of my mastaba, just one more I swear, bro just one more mastaba, a tiny one, the last one, for real this time, bro it's gonna look so pointy when it's done, give me one last mastaba bro PLEASE"
@@gracetopia Is your name "Grace"?
What's that old Arab proverb again?
_"All fear Time, but Time fears the Pyramids."_
Love this one
@@randomuser-xc2wr cope harder
@@randomuser-xc2wr Have you heard any quotes from the Sugondese Tribe?
You’d think with all the writing they performed there would be a ton of information on those things.
It's interesting that Pliny the Elder mentions Rhodopis and the old wives' tale about how one of the pyramids was supposedly built for her: Rhodopis, a real person who lived at the same time as Aesop, was a courtesan who became the Pharaoh's mistress, and later the basis for the Egyptian version of "Cinderella" . . . which is the earliest version of the story that we have.
Also, the Christian writer at 19:15 is already spewing the misinformation that the pyramids were made by Joseph to store grain, which Ben Carson got so much backlash for asserting: he probably thought that this 4th-century testimony constituted unassailable, first-hand proof.
Ya know, I'm sitting here watching this and I'm thinking, "Dude, Pliny the Elder is kind of a dick and he sounds way more dumb, naive, and gullible as history makes him out to be..."
That was an educated guess; many a secular writer of the time, and in these days, make equally inaccurate assumptions.
Aside from the above, there have recently been found HUGE underground Egyptian grain stores probably used at the time of Joseph.
@@johncharleson8733. Actually, researchers have found tons of Egyptian-style granaries at archaeological digs, and they look nothing like the pyramids at all. In fact, people living in Egypt right have been using something very similar, at the time that Egeria was writing. So, the idea of end educated guess does not wash with me.
Researchers have found these things hundreds of years after the Christian writers took an educated guess---what are you going on about?@@TheSaneHatter
@@johncharleson8733 "In fact, people living in Egypt right have been using something very similar, at the time that Egeria was writing."
Weren't listening, were you? So what are YOU "going on about"?
I think we're done here.😎
Aw, I was told the aliens built the pyramids with with tuning forks that levitate the stones with sound.
Don't believe this propaganda!
And the fun fact is that you probably heard on the History channel 😂 what a disgrace that channel is
@Sebastokrator it somehow became the alien and nazi and nazi alien channel
I always wonder why aliens whould build with stone
It's more plausible than the story in this video.
I seen the pyramids back in 1745...they were nice
So you were Captain Jack sparrow who robbed Khufu pyramid 😂
9:32 - 11:00 That Nile Delta Blues
The salt construction story is an interesting theory: building scaffolding in perishable material sounds so modern to me
Not saying there's truth in it. Just: dissolvable tools are a neat and modern seeming idea @@Pablo-Escabar
Actually, since you mention it, one of the things we have in 3-D printing are special plastics that are designed to dissolve in, e.g., water. They're used to provide structural support during the print, and when it's done, you just wash 'em away. I love the idea that the Egyptians may have used a similar technique all those millennia ago.
Need: Top 5 Oldest Surviving Documents
>Be Pharaoh
>No idea how to govern this empty desert sand hole
>"Uhh, you see those rocks?"
>"Yes my lord."
>"Stack them"
>They start doing it, I go back to my harem
>10 years later
>"What is this going to be for lord?"
>"When I die."
>Go back to my harem
>10 years later
>"When are you going to pay us my lord?"
>"When I die."
>Die, don't pay them, get buried in much nicer secret tomb because a pile of rocks is dumb.
>mfw I invented governing
Tbf, the laborers were actually paid with housing and alcohol (bartering economy ofc).
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What's fascinating is that even 2,000 years ago the Egyptians themselves did not know how they were built as the accounts differ and are in no way certain. Surely that is telling.
It's telling me that when a thousand years go by and all you have to go by are legends and tall tales things get a little boolshiatty. Good thing we have science to help us find sane answers.
@@harryhanz1690 Yet we still do not have any, that is the most fascinating.
Oh, to have seen the sphynx when it was covered in red ochre!
the christian scholar at the end has already rewritten history so much haha
Seriously so!
It sounds like all his info was through a telephone game of different monks. “The phoenix dies here after 500 years of life,” is my favorite. Like, what? 😂
by that point they were pretty much in the 'fall of Rome' period and it shows
What do you mean he's rewritten history so much? I just don't understand.
@@Bern_il_Cinq Phoenix mythology has a long history in Egypt. It was likely invented by them.
I find it absolutely fascinating to hear a first-hand account of the famous Sphinx being buried up to its neck in sand all the way back in 60BC, knowing it was not only at least 3000+ years old already but sat there unchanged for another 1800+ years!
10:20 god i cant get the mental picture of them talking about the bass pro shop pyramid in this account out of my head. great videos man, first hand accounts like this are awesome
Egyptians: We used wooden cranes to lift the blocks.
Everyone else: Aliens.
Must've been one helluva wooden crane to lift stone pieces that weigh more than a commercial airliner hundreds of feet into the air
Imagine the overtime
Pliny thinks that was the purpose 🤣
Crazy that the best description we have today is looking at the actual pyramids themselves
Minister : "My lord, we have so many people with nothing to do. They can't make money or trade enough to afford food, Crime is at an all time high and a lot are blaming you and want to kill you!.".
Other minister : "We should fund a project to get them working again, Something big!. But we already have a very good set up. Roads, Hospitals, Arenas.. We have everything we need, What else could we make?".
Pharaoh: "I'm thinking.... Big pile of rocks!"
*silence*
All ministers at once look at eachother and reply: "big pile of rocks it is, My lord".
“Some gods set them upon the lonely sands.”
Some idiot in the 21st Century: “Aliens.”
Migrants 😆
it shows how resourceful our ancient relatives were
Whoever, why and how they built it exactly is only a part of the story. What remains is a mark and proof of immortality cast in stones.
Until the natural weathering flattens them, and before the sun expands, destroying the entire earth. *Nothing is immortal.*
A few more thousand years and they'll be nothing more than piles of rubble.
The scope of time between events shows the monumental importance of the culture and history the pyramids have influenced human history! ❤
Greetings from the BIG SKY. I agree with you.
Always a treat when VotP uploads.
In the future, if humanity's present-day-video-knowlege is survived by us, this video will become the 1st Meta-Description of the Pyramids.
My 10 th Grade History textbook had a section doing the exact same thing.
The Egyptians didn't measure in feet, they measured in cubits. Iron wasn't invented at that time...
I always appreciate your videos :)
About 4500 years later, the pyramids continue to amaze.
How come along with garlic and onions iron is mentioned? I've been told that there were only bronze tools then.
The author likely assumed that the Ancient Egyptians used the same materials that were availiable at his time. It is also possible that it is a minor translation mistake and that the true material was either a similarly named - but wholly different - metal, or was a more ambiguous term for metal that was commonly attributed to iron.
Either way, hard to fault a tourist or even traveling scholar, for misattributing certain aspects of works that were ancient even in their time. Really puts into perspective how even back then, people were getting details wrong, despite being chronologically closer to the event.
So happy you have another video up!!😊
I remember a story when the first ambassadors from Korea to Europe (Joseon dynasty) visited Egypt, they were offered to climb up pyramids but refused to do so since it is disrespectful to climb up a tomb of a king, let alone a commoner.
Very cool, Thankyou!
Herodotus speculates about the amount of iron used when building them. He didn't know that the pyramids pre-date the Iron Age.
There is a steel dagger that was found in King Tut's tomb.
@@joebombero1 that was made from a meteor
Ancients: no big deal…360,000 laborers and 88 years…makes sense
Us: hmmm, must have been aliens 🤔
It's not just the volume of heavy work, it's the precision. Something we can only do in recent years due to advance computing
Is it just my bias, or was Egeria, the Roman Christian (381 AD), the most unhinged in their descriptions? Makes me wonder . . . .
I don't know if any of these building accounts are correct. John Anthony West believed the great pyramids were built between 24,000 and 36,000 years ago by a long lost advanced civilization. Whoever built them, they did it with ease; If you look at the Aswan quarry, where the pyramid blocks came from, the mark's left in the granite looks like the rock was scooped out with the ease of mashed potatoes. I believe the big heavy blocks were also easily moved and didn't require 100,000 slaves to move and put them in place.
Wood from several of the pyramids all carbon date to 4500 years ago
I can only assume water was the main tool used to cut the stones and move them into place. If you google most powerful saw. It’s a water saw. More powerful than a diamond bit. The people who made the pyramids must have figured out how to focus large bodies of water into smaller and smaller tubes or shafts to a tiny hole to make a water saw. I can also envision some way how they moved the blocks with some force of water as well. 10,000 years ago egypt was wet like rain forest.
So the ancient writers and their tour guide sources essentially had no clue about how they were built.
The Egyptians (especially when the pyramids were made) didn’t have iron tools, but bronze. Which makes it even more impressive that “they” could accomplish building the pyramids.
I believe at the time they even used more copper then bronze tools, and limestone as the predominantly used material isn't very hard.
Arsenic copper is almost as hard as bronze and there is also a method to harden copper for a period of time by hammering (it distorts the metals crystal structure and changes its properties).
That's also why copper smiths have to heat up their workpiece's during production, to make them malleable again.
It took them 20 years do people forget about that?! The Burj khalifa took 6 years to build.
They didn’t built it.
the natives of americas built their own types of pyramids too, and they didnt even know how to make bronze, they just used rock tools. It isnt so unbelievable.
History channel: "wE hAvE nO sOuRcEs ExPlaInInG hOw ThE eGyPtIaNs BuiLt tHeIr PyRaMiDs. iTs a MyStErY. iT wAs ALiEnS!"
Herodotus, 424 BC: Am I a joke to you?
"This was a huge waste, also, why should we care when Caesar spent even more?"
Many of the pyramids were white and blindingly bright as they were clad in polished white marble. Some were black (as mentioned) and colorful.
And had electrum capstones ( mixture of gold and silver ) that could be seen from hundreds of miles away, land or sea
"They're huge"
The construction method is hot topic online. But i find the oldest description of Herodotus the most obvious one. 2:03 Just use simple wooden levers to lift the block inch by inch until you reach the hight of the next level then push them onto that level and repeat the proces. Its simple and compact. hundreds of teams can do the same trick at the same time. I dont see the mistery tbh😅
combine that with greased wooden rails to get them to the location using hemp rope and pulleys and its hardly any mystery
Wonderful video. Thankyou.
Thank you so much for this content.
The first description must be of one of the later mudbrick pyramids. There is no way the priests of 454bc knew of the construction methods of the the great pyramids constructed thousands of years earlier.
I've been there so I approve 😁
He built a channel from the Nile to around his burial place
more evidence they harnessed the power of the Nile, aka water, to float the blocks, via cedar trees lashed to them, and used a lock system to lift the blocks
Thank you for these actual real historical accounts and not all the crazy ancient alien nonsense out there. The truth is more fascinating than that stuff
I think Herodotus was pretty accurate in some accounts. He said that they use wooden leaver for lifting up the limestone. I think he might has miss translated the local Egyptian language and the wooden leaver mean by the local guide that told him is the wooden sledge that use to drag up the stone.
What is intresting is that Herodutus says that the Pyramid builds were not popular and were a burden on the Egyptian people per the Egyptian preisthood and that there are chambers under the pyramid where probably they buried the pharoah's for real.
Theyre quite an amazing feat
Very interesting thank you!
4 academics and one nutter for good measure. Amazing!
Seems odd that no one has replicated any of the purported techniques to quarry, shape, & assemble even a few blocks of such size into the tiniest of pyramids. The size of a house, for example. One could doubtless get huge funding for such a project, not to mention a billion CZcams views.
Wally Wallington-@wallingtonw has been moving massive stones by himself for years. Not a billion CZcams views. The pyramid stones were moved by possibly thousands.
There's a guy here on YT that's moving 10 or 20 ton blocks by himself without animals or power tools or vehicles.
This isn’t true. Someone did replicate it on a small scale, sort of. Coral Castle in Florida was built by a single man, moving 1 ton rocks on his own to create a castle. Though it’s small, so it’s better compared to Stonehenge, he used many techniques that scientists believe Pyramid builders used- just with many more men on a much larger scale. If one man can build Coral Castle, several thousand can absolutely build the Pyramids.
Fun Fact: After ages of absolute absurd answers on how the ancient Egyptians managed to get the base as level as they did, it turns out that they... simply carved a grid pattern into the base, filled the grid with water and sanded it down to the water level.
Ancient peoples were no less clever than modern ones, they simply had fewer tools. Saying people "haven't replicated" any of the purported techniques is actually very disingenuous, or so incredibly specific as to be useless. There are many different ways for people to move large-as-hell blocks of stone, and when you've got hundreds of thousands of laborers and months to go on, a whole lot of stuff can get moved.
If you really want your mind blown, think about how labor intensive the stone cities in the Americas were, as they didn't have roads, rivers or any form of draft animal and yet they moved multi-ton rocks from mountain to mountain for miles.
@@KafkaExMachina This avoids the question, which is simply why are there no modern replications for anyone to point to? There would be countless CZcams videos documenting it & it would be a major tourist destination. Cheers~
Keep doing these vids. Epic
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2:49
How could Herodotus not know that those Egyptians did not have iron, except for rare meteoric iron?
There was no historic academia as we have today, no pictures, most likely no texts of the time he had access to or could read. He could only write what others had written, what he was told and what he assumed from his own lifetime
He was drunk. My 2c.
By the time Herodotus was writing, the Iron Age had been around for nearly a millennium. IDK how he could have known that there was a time when making iron tools was considered impractical.
crazy how these pyramids have lasted all these years, they have seen, may empires come and go, and will still be there after today and after im gone, crazy that these are 12000-10000 years old.
That cristian dude making shit up “… and this is where… uhhh… Moses chilled” 😂😂😂😂
The oldest is by Khufu himself who said he didn’t build it or the Sphinx either. This from a culture that never Once admitted defeat in one single battle and took off the names of previous pharaohs on monuments and buildings to claim them as their own.
Awesome video! Keep it up!
I’m still trying to digest that Joseph built them for grain storage🙄🙄🤯
And if I didn’t hear that right, them I’m just laughing 😂😂
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Ancient Greek Historian: "Here's an exactly description of how the pyramids were built."
Modern Conspiracy theorists: "You know, we have no idea how they were able to make the pyramids, so obviously it was aliens."
All those descriptions were debunked a long time ago even by official egyptologists.
@@danilka523 ...egyptologists from Ancient Aliens?
Great to see your back mate
meanwhile, humans today: aliens made it
The architects and the people that built the pyramid deserve the credit, truth. I have always hated when they say a king built this or a rich person built that, etc. Financed, sure, but built, nope, that was the people.
Very fascinating!