The Great Pyramid Solves a Paradox
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- The pyramids of Ancient Egypt are key elements to a spiritual belief system of that mighty civilization.
The hieroglyphs which have survived the ages tell stories of the glory that awaits after death, but how did the actions of Egyptians speak to their belief system?
The requirement that the living venerate the dead for prosperity to occur in the afterlife is a great paradox. This video examines how the Great Pyramid achieved what had never been done before to solve an impossible dilemma.
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Thanks to Keith Hamilton for inspiration on the Pepi II pyramid masonry belt.
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Quotation Sources:
Reg Clark “Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb Protection from Prehistory to the Pyramids” The American University in Cairo Press, New York. 2019 Pp 120
Gustave Jequier “Le Monument Funeraire de Pepi II, Tome II” French Institute Of Oriental Archaeology Press, Cairo. 1938 Pp 6-7
Soundbite Sources:
“The Pyramids: Solving the Mystery” Ep 2 Label News, 2018
“Mystery of the Lost Pyramid” Lion Television Limited, 2019
“Decoding the Great Pyramid” NOVA, WGBH Educational Foundation 2018
“Uncovering the ancient secrets of the Great Pyramid - 60 Minutes Australia” • Uncovering the ancient...
Graphics Sources:
Reg Clark “Securing Eternity: Ancient Egyptian Tomb Protection from Prehistory to the Pyramids” The American University in Cairo Press, New York. 2019
“Scanning the Pyramids” HIP Institute, 2017
Miroslav Verner “The Pyramids (New and Revised)" AUC Press Cairo 2020
A big reason I like this channel is that it doesn't presume that people in the past were dumber than people today.
I think people of the past were way more connected to their families, communities and civilizations. None of their accomplishments could be realized without mass-participation and multi-generational commitment. It’s truly inspiring.
This is true of AMH, 315,000 years of identical capacity for observation, ingenuity, and invention (IQ increases over time).
Normally you look for good CZcamsrs according to your interests, here you start to take a keen interest in Egyptian pyramids because the CZcamsr is so spectacularly good...
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To bad his history is way off
You are without a doubt my favourite alternative Egyptologist.
No fanciful tales of lost technology, no smug cracks about ancient fools, just reasonable conjectures based on human nature and historical records.
EXACTLY what earned my sub.
I've loved learning about ancient Egypt for as long as I can remember.
In my 30s I went down the Carl Randalson, Graham Hancock rabbit-hole and actually found *some* of their theories compelling. It was channels/ videos like this that dug me out of that hole and grounded me back in reality.
Did I miss an announcement? This video came out of nowhere, it must be a blessing. The pyramids have spoken.
it's the offering to the pharaoh
I agree
Çringe!
I've been waiting and then surprise!
@@nickiminajj3119 agreed... I always find these kind of comments toady...
A Parson & a parishoner strolling together after a funeral burial service. The parson said, " Jim died a very rich man. He wanted to disprove the notion: 'you cant take it with you when you die.' His will stated he was to be buried with all his money."
The man asked the parson, "Really? Was he really buried with all his money? He was a millionaire from what I understand."
"Yes, of course. I followed his wishes exactly."
"You're kidding! All his money in the casket? How?"
"I wrote him a check."
Did he cash it
That's very funny! Bravo Bravo
So now you have to pay to watch exclusive content on your channel? Come on, sell smoke, stop fooling people with your smoking guns.
RICH = Realize I Create Heaven or Happiness or RICH = Realize I Create Hell or Hysteria. That is my definition of rich by no means does it mean any ways to me currency of the age.
Yes, thanks for the smile. Good one, from someone who worked in the funeral business during college. It's actually kinda boring, cuz nobody turned into flesh eating zombies. Damn embalming fluid. lol.
A Pharaoh's death might have been leveraged to tax the people. "Pharaoh needs food in the afterlife" "The Pharaoh will be a God so we need to keep him happy, everybody donate food and money". The food would obviously be used/sold to maintain the pyramid and some of it would be stored in the pyramids/mastabahs as a token, like "See, the Pharaoh is receiving all that tax food". We need much more logic to be applied to archaeology as a whole. Obviously our ancestors weren't stupid, they would have used logic to help rule the lands.
What, so they really DO act as a granary in every city?
It's funny. What is true now was probably true then. It's a way to control, plain and simple.
At the same time, not every religious ritual, act, or tradition was secretly a cynical plot by the priestly class.
The Egyptians are not 'your' ancestors though !
@@RipOffProductionsLLC clearly you're talking historically, not about contemporary practices
Unfortunately, those "scholars" or "experts" like Hawass, have invested so much to make people believe their position as being THE (only) position, Hawass became blinded by the truth. The truth being "hidden in plain sight". Hawass could not "afford" to change his position, and insisted on being THE only expert. I am soooo pleased your work and videos have carefully, methodically, diligently, respectfully shed light on the most likely reasons for the existence and meaning of the Great Pyramids. Thank you.
My personal theory is it's willful ignorance. Egypt gets most of its money through tourism and most documentaries I've seen on Egypt's sites (in particular the Great Pyramids) the "mystery" is emphasized again and again but they never answer the question, they just string you along. Meanwhile they seem to be doing everything they can to block, deter, and and inconvenience anyone outside the Ministry of Antiquities from doing investigative work on the site--if the mystery is solved, less people will probably want to see it.
This is also perhaps why they don't try that hard to disprove the conspiracy theories. Revenue is revenue at the end of the day.
I paused the video when Hawass came on then scanned the comments. Your comment encouraged me not to turn the video off. Thanks!!! 😁
Hawass the crook love to dig his house up who knows what he has hidden last 30 years. ...ufo 😅😅😅
I just took a huge zahi and now my hawass really hurts
Hawasshat.
I did a search to see if you had any new videos and 20 mins later here we are. Good video.
Keep up the great content! Egytpology needs you.
You're channel is very informative. And I love how you look at things from other angles.. it's refreshing. You try to find answers, while other egyptologist just perpetuate mysteries and provide no new answers.
I know it'd be a large and complex idea but perhaps a video where you list, or refer to, all conclusions you made in earlier videos would be a good idea. You could use these conclusions to paint a picture of your views and maybe compare that to some general themes you perceive contemporary egyptology to lack or be wrong about. I find all your videos compelling and in the last few you really tied a few points together and i thought that was great. Pointing out a red line between all of them might be productive.
On the other hand, your videos rely on some very thorough and specific researching, a meta video would have a different focus and i don't know how that would work.
Anyway thanks for the content and have a good one!
All your videos are awesome but especially the last 2. You’ve changed my perspective.
I don't know if I have commented this before or not, but i have learned so much I am so glad to find your channel.
Stealth video drop. Ill take it. Thank-you!
This explanation makes so much sense! Even as a child, I often wondered why would the ancient Egyptians deem pyramids a good idea for keeping their burial treasures safe. This theory is a sensible middle ground between "Just-a-Tomb-Nothing-More" and "Ancient-Power-Plant-Definitely-Not-a-Tomb" sides.
Re the belt of stones around Pepi I's pyramid; I've seen a photo of the base of St. Peter's great dome, it has an enormous bronze chain loop wrapped around its base to keep if from slumping and spreading out. I don't know how or if this could be done with stone, but the idea of wrapping an object tightly to make it hold together pops up a lot in Egyptian art, in bundled reeds and wrapped mummies, so you can see how people might think it would strengthen the structure. Thank you so much for this series, I enjoy it immensely. And I was tickled that, on your trip to Egypt, while others in the group savored the mystery and romance of the place, you were on a mission to collect hard data, dammit. :) All the best to you, well done.
The inward angle of the 8 sides of the great pyramid would tighten up from an outward pressure…..
The pyramid core shows no signs of slipping. Only the casing stones could have… the ones which are missing and cannot be evaluated. Strange they’d mess that up after so many successful jobs. And thank you for the kind support. The data collection was very hard work, not exactly holiday stuff 😅
If I am not mistaken, the need for the chains in St Peter’s dome is due to its ovoid shape, and the chains are installed at various points along the dome.
A pyramid, if it is slipping out in all directions, I would not think would benefit from encircling just the base because the course of stones above the reinforcement would still be able to slip.
Fantastic work & delivered without ignorance or arrogance!, I'm subscribed keep them coming my friend!❤😊
Awesome content yet again. Love your original thinking and the way you challenge main stream views. Thanks for all your hard work can't wait for the next video.
Only in Egyptology would such sensible and rational ideas be groundbreaking and novel.
there are conservatives and progressives in all disciplines and industries, indeed in all walks of life. we are all human, after all.
@@daos3300 We know we weren't always 'human'.
@@daos3300 It's one thing to be "conservative", but another to defy any and all attempts to study something deeper than it was thus far. Like the fact it took many, many years for scientists to be allowed to study the void above the Grand Gallery. Only the custodians of the pyramids know the reasons behind it, especially when we're talking about non-destructive methods of studying. Shame we stick to status quo instead of digging deeper.
Were they submitted for peer review in thesis form?
You could have a mountain of evidence fully supporting a concrete timeline for the predynastic rulers (for which we have very little direct evidence), and you would still need to submit it as a thesis paper complete with references and methodology if you want it to be taken seriously by the archaeological community.
Approaching the subject from a perspective of bad faith negativity because you lack any basic understanding of academic practices is the equivalent to standing on the road side holding a sign saying "the end is coming" and expecting that the average person is going to care about it.
@@MrQwertyman111
"Like the fact it took many, many years for scientists to be allowed to study the void above the Grand Gallery"
To be allowed?
WTH are you even talking about?!
The antiquities ministry didn't even know that either the big or small voids existed prior to the ScanPyramids project conducting their cosmic muon scans.
Once they had them, any further scans had to be approved again, because everytime you have to set some experiment up inside the pyramids you are disrupting the tourist trade, and the muon scans take a lot longer than an MRI.
The big void above the grand gallery has only been imaged roughly by the project, it was the small void (now called the North Face Corridor) that was only recently investigated directly with a fiber optic camera after several years of muon scan study and other tests to verify the presence of a void there.
By comparison though the small void is MUCH more accessible than the big void, it didn't even require invasive or destructive methods to insert the camera into the corridor - by comparison investigating the big void WILL require destructive methods to access it even with just an endoscope.
The antiquities ministry will not risk compromising the structural stability of masonry above the grand gallery merely to satisfy academic curiosity - not without more evidence than current muon scans can produce.
Such a great informative material, as always! Your work and insights are always greatly appreciated!
I'm surprised you make no mention of the temples that were part of the pyramid complex as they were involved in the cult of the dead king and involved in presenting offerings. If nothing else, I think it would have served as another point of discussion in relation to the cult and presentation of offerings. These are temples that come to grow in size over time in contrast to the pyramids, and also given great attention with fine reliefs. The complex should probably be seen as a whole in the regard to the function to the pyramid, how they were regarded, and how offerings were presented.
Yes, the temples were part of the whole show. I think of the temples as 'guaranteed employment' for an upper class that liked free food and preferred to not work very hard. The temples are a spectacle, but what brings the people to the show?
@@HistoryforGRANITE The temples, the causeway, the walls surrounding the pyramids and the temples, it was all part of a super estructure dedicated to the dead. An architectural planning of a cemetery, where the livings could worship the dead. The pyramid was the symbol of the gods, with its height and design, could touch the sun. The King!
As we can see, the causeway and the temple is usually in the east side of the pyramids, but the entrance for the pyramids is usually in the north side, so there is no path to visit the pyramid. But the causeway and the temple being in the east side of the pyramid has a logic explanation, and it's metaphysical.
@@HistoryforGRANITE But surely the temples are not merely spectacle. They serve a purpose beyond merely the economic, an impact which likely would have trickled down further into society. The temples become a focus of later pyramid complexes if size, development, and attention to relief programs is any indication.
Oh, another thing. Call me a nay-saying academic, but why would Khufu need offerings brought directly to him? They did indeed have false doors as you rightly point out. The thinking need not be that of priest, and in any case the King holds special place in ancient Egyptian religion and ideology as being the sole intermediary between mankind and gods. He was the one that was responsible to uphold maat. Keeping that in mind, one may wonder how far his mindset actually was from that of a priest. No doubt, it would have varied. Nevertheless, you then discuss this in relation to false doors. The first pictures you present (10:23) do not necessarily strike me as false doors, as much as they strike me as open doors. Yes, it has the 'roll' design over the door but that does not make it a false door by itself. It makes it stylised, decorative, and I would say even representative and a monumentalisation of an actual door, but that does not make it a false door used for offerings. Nevertheless, the argument is an interesting one, especially as it is one of the few decorative elements. As for Menkara's "30 false doors", I would not equate false door and palace facade design. The false door obviously recalls the palace facade but are they one and the same? I don't think so, but either aim towards a ritual purpose or serve to monumentalise what they are meant to represent. Therefore, the false door in the temple may very well have been enough to satisfy the offering requirements.
As for Hawass and Lehner, there are also other egyptologists that write on the matter of the pyramids. On the topic of monumentalisiation of the pyramid, and the pyramid as a ritual structure, I'd recommend books and articles on the subject by Nils Billing.
@romeuleite2262 I am inclined to think too much emphasis is placed on the cardinal direction of temples and the causeway. Everyone gets to the site by boat, from the Nile, and therefore must travel westward towards the pyramids. Any other arrangement would involve more walking than necessary each step of the way. Notably Userkaf didn't think this convention was important, and entirely defies it.
@@HistoryforGRANITE I think you should ask yourself why so much emphasis on the cardinal direction of the pyramids. That's the right question to be made. Sure they came from the east by boat, but the temples could be on the north side, the south or even west. These complexes are very well planned, they are great architects. Remember, they started out as funeral complexes, the pyramids came later. You should abandon the pyramid visiting theory. Yes, they could be opened for maintenance, but not for visiting. The temples were.
I love your content! I fell in love with Egyptology during my first visit to Egypt at 10, and renewed it at my second visit at 36.
Very well prepared videos.
Mahalo 🤙
Thank you for this great video. Going from first principles like you do and using deduction is a great thing to see.
I have been watching from the beginning and am absolutely blown away by your insight and discoveries. Keep it up!
Your efforts to produce this video is much appreciated, thank you!... And it kinda' brought my mindset back to the structures being built as tombs, from the ideas of others suggesting they were machines or factories of some sort.
Surprised to see a new "offering" in my Notifications. Great way to end my work day. Love that you are continuing on from your last video. Putting more pieces together and making sense. I'm starting to think of your videos like astrophysicists think of the Big Crunch. When I listen to your thoughts, I imagine all the fallen debris slowly reversing into original structures...sand blowing back to whence it came...and the actual uses for the buildings shown. Even if you are wrong, I love it. Thank you!
You're welcome! :)
Your hypothesis still roams around in my head and it is a pleasant thought to have! Ty.
Refreshingly informative and no music!
You have addressed nearly every comment I've made and I'm very grateful for every video. What I would love to see is an in depth video about the bent pyramid in the context of open pyramids. Even with that knowledge it keeps its mystique to me. The open portcullis. The plugged entrance. The tunnel connecting the lower and upper chambers.
Either way I will continue to watch and be fascinated by your research. Thank you
We will get to Sneferu’s dilemma. No doubt the first king to rest in a pyramid rather than a mastaba would have some trepidation. What if it didn’t work?
Awesome channel, bravo! All your videos are packed with insight and help not to take historical "certainties" for granite. I would love to see a future video on the location of the pyramids throughout Egypt's history, how far the builder's likely lived, where materials likely came from, how much time elapsed between the construction of each. Keep it up!
Absolutely brilliant! This is the kind of alternative history I can seriously get behind. Everything you say in this video just makes good sense! Bravo! 👏🏼 And thank you for yet another awesome video, and for your contribution to the understanding of these amazing structures.🙏🏼
I just discovered this channel, and I am enjoying it a lot! Greeting from Brazil!
Your theory is so well elaborated it evokes images of great festivals conducted to honor the Pharaoh, the living God, for all eternity, in which the pyramids are center stage and fundamental.
So much more reasonable than just a "dead" building whose function is being a big tombstone.
Thanks, bro. The best ancient Egypt channel that I've found.
Your theories always answer many basic questions efficiently and completely. excellent work 👏.
I really like the pace of your videos. Basically the only youtube videos I don't watch at 1.5 or 2.0x speed.
Can you imagine having to sweep off Djoser's pyramid? That must have cost a lot.
Once again, excellent video. Thanks! Look forward to the next one.
In regard to ancient Egypt is feels like I am in a dark room and seeing the ruins somehow gives you a distant light to see. I definitely don't understand the light however it is exciting to see. Thank you for the videos.
I'm so grateful for your content 😭🖤🖤
Again, a great piece of work. Thanks
So very pleased that I have found this CZcams channel, Great in so very many respects. Please continue with your fine work. Thank you History for Granite.
I love your grounded, realistic, thoughtful approach. It all feels based in logic, fact and basic reasoning. It's SO refreshing.
😅😅😅😅 this video is all wrong. Since these pyramids aren't tombs. 😅😅😅😅
We always imaged the Kings Chamber to be stuffed with grave goods. However, if it was the case that priests and such were regularly entering the KC, wouldn't that create a need for space in there? Doesn't it also present a risk that a future pharaoh would loot the grave goods in a financial emergency? I think this means there's a good chance the big void contains a trove. Load it up during construction, then seal it with masonry. Or maybe the grave goods went into the Queens chamber...
The void next to the kings chamber/grand gallery being sealed with masonry and stuffed with grave goods would be sensational. Even just to put to bed any doubt about it being a tomb and to who. Personally I don't think there's much of a chance of it, but I love the idea. It would truly be a logical and genius way to store grave goods given where that chamber is located.
Exactly. This is a logical argument, which has precedent within current Egyptological inquiry into Burial practices, reuse, and re-entry older tombs by later Pharaohs, priests and dynasties.
There is quite a bit of ongoing work in this regard being done in the Kings and Queens Valleys further south. And yes they date to over 1000 years later. But is still relevant here.
@@ryann6067Drill baby drill!
Great analysis! I love your content, please keep up the great work!!!
I’m so glad I found your channel. Best info on the pyramids I’ve ever seen. I noticed that you really convey a human factor to the Egyptians, which they obviously were, but they are so often treated almost mythically. I wish I could find a channel like this for the American Indian history too.
Best vid yet. Somewhat speculative. But in a way that promotes understanding instead of institution. Calling it speculative would usually be an insult, but this is proper intellectual progress as apposed to attempting to fit the leading theory as proof. Amazing work.
I put in speculation so people can understand my thinking, not because I'm trying to constrain ideas towards my personal preference.
wouldn't be too astonished if the Old Egyptians fooled everyone including us today, an the actual burial site of Kufu is still fullly sealed underneath the Queen's Chamber
That would be nice. But I don’t think the pyramids would have been considered a suitable hiding place, no matter the spot inside.
I really enjoyed the ideas in your video. Thought provoking 👌🏻👌🏻
very insightful. Thank you! This is the most straightfoward and rational story as to why/how they all were built.
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Brilliant as always, thank you :)
I really enjoy your work! You work really hard on it and you seem very clever and insightful, a kind of bravery. Thank you very much for sharing your ideas with us.
I love how you give the ancients the credit they are so sorely due. Thanks for the great videos, it's always a treat when you drop a new one!!
I think you're spot on with this
Always nice to hear your perspective on these things, so fresh and thoughtful.
I truly appreciate your channel. Thank you for your content
Absolutely fascinating! Thank you. I liked it so much, I watched it twice.
Why be built having to squat if it was meant for humans to enter afterwards. With no steps on a downward slope...
If you need your hands to navigate, it's a lot harder to take stuff out undetected.
@@HistoryforGRANITE What??😄 This is so silly. I wonder if they also took stuff in undetected.
Imagine the feeling at the end of that last day of work on the great pyramid. It must have been hard for most workers to believe that it was finally done.
and then go home and have a good meal and make love to your misses :)
construction jobs don't end like that. they wind down. at various rates depending on the job. you can see here as the pyramid diminishes in size as it goes up there's less and less need for stone cutters, trimmers, movers, lifters, positioners etc. etc.. and so on.
Thank you for sharing the continued Great work you do.
Best videos ever about the pyramids. Egyptology seems so partisan and click-ish. Thanks for the ground breaking work.
Could turn out that the "real curse of the pharao" was having to outbuild his predecessor and that unhealthy "competition" eventually acccelerated the old kingdom's downfall.
you realize that's basically the exact opposite of what all of the evidence points to though, right? the first ones were the biggest ones. if they got bigger over time, your comment would make sense. but they got smaller, nobody ever topped the earliest ones.
Perfect timing, just when I needed one of these
My day is brighter when I see a HfG upload! ☺️
Thanks for all the information and effort you put into your objective analyses. 👌
Another amazing video, keep up the good work!
One of the most rational explanations in Egyptology. Things are clearing up for me and are even more magnificent . cheers
He said the pyramids are tombs. Which they are not. So he lied to you. And you think you got educated 😅😅😅😅
@@kungfumaster12 Well... They are build like one, and even he is sceptical about them being build as (only) tombs.
@@kungfumaster12 He did not say that. Watch the previous vid. He said that the pyramids are a place of worship. The heavy granit doors are made to be opened and closed again and again.
@Siskovski they aren't built like a tomb. They are built like a machine. These are the worst built tombs if you think they look like tombs 😆 🤣 😂 😹 the great pyramid is not made by Egyptians. And its a multipurpose light house and navigational tool.
@taaskeprins which is another way of saying they are tombs. And not ancient technology. These pyramids are machines made of stone. And he was talking about them as if they're tombs and not machines. So he definitely is saying they are tombs for Pharoahs. Smh
Another 👍 Wonderful Video
Thanks, Friend, I truly enjoy your clear & concise expository style. You present your argument with supporting evidence, entertain and dismiss or validate the counter-argument(s), then proceed to your logical conclusion. You are an expert practitioner of a lost/forgotten art. Additionally, your subject is incredibly seductive. Thank you.
Your insight by far makes the most sense.
I still love the way you are tackling the problem: "These are the pieces we have, lets see what picture we can form with them!" instead of: "this is my assumption, lets see, how I can fit the pieces into this!" as done so often in science today. I am a scientist myself and I can say: the latter approach is much easier and very tempting since it usually gives some "positive" results (and you can sell only positives today).
The logical approach should always be:
1. collect some data without prejudice
2. filter the data to form a hypothesis
3. systematically (for instance with statistics) look at all your data to see if there is something in it contradicting your hypothesis
4. if no: tell people you have one possible explanation and challenge them to find a better one. if yes: restart from 1
sadly, today it is more a process like this:
1. I have an idea - lets collect the data to prove it!
...and if the data does not fit, I make it fit!
2 everybody who disagrees is a fool!
The way grant applications are prepared often requires proposing a hypothesis to begin with. Even very large surveys (e.g. in astronomy) require a set of hypotheses which the new data are supposed to test. This has good and bad aspects, but a totally "blind" data acquisition project is rare and likely not to provide the most useful data. You sort of have to know what you are looking for, i.e. make a good guess. A good example of unexpected findings which should have been made much earlier are extra-solar planets (i.e. planets around other stars). Nobody expected to find planets with orbital periods of a few days.
That makes a lot of sense. A great big building to say 'THE PHAROAH RESTS HERE', all the while concealing the real burial place of the pharoah, which is elsewhere, secure, and lost to the ages because it was deliberately left unrecorded.
Haha. Perfectly aligning millions of multi ton blocks from quarries hundreds of miles away, then accurately cutting said stones, then precisely placing these stones with less than a hair width of gaps. Then architecturally design chambers and passages in the middle of a desert with no other purpose than to “conceal the real burial place”? That makes absolutely no sense. These pyramids and structures were found and inherited from an even older civilization
How would it benefit him to have people visiting his tomb and leaving offerings if he was elsewhere. The video states that the remains were removed during the chaos to preserve them and were never returned. It was an emergency measure, not their original intention.
@@TheStoicPath_ Ohhh thank-you. I needed that laugh.
@@TheStoicPath_ We have found the quarries where the stones came from, filled with Egyptian tools and Egyptian worker's cottages. Did the Egyptians make fake quarries to conceal the "fact" they merely found the pyramids, and did not build them?
So might there be another unknown Valley of The Kings/Pharaohs?
Honestly the best channel on CZcams.
I love how you analyze the pyramids. looking forward to more videos
This has quickly become my favourite CZcams channel, keep up the good work!
Thank you! It’s a great pleasure to share these ideas.
I don't know about this theory. The Great Pyramid corridors meant to convey visitors to the burial chamber for a visit are relatively small and difficult to navigate when compared to a temple's corridors, which certainly were mean to facilitate visitation by humans. Also, by size and extent it seems Khafre was trying to equal Khufu, yet the internal structure of his pyrmaid is nothing like Khufu's. Why is this if Khufu had hit upon that golden idea of getting visitors to come visit him and bring a gift? I would love to seem more thorough analysis of Khafre's pyramid. The Sphinx Temple and funeary complex gets the lion's share of attention, but hardly anyone talks about his pyarmid. How it was constructed (no internal ramp theories here)? Why was it enlarged during construction if there was a master plan? Why is the internal layout so radically differnent? If Khafre's pyramid is the product of lessons learned during Khufu's construction, what does that say about the choices that were made. Same question when looking at Menkaure's pyramid compared to Khafre's. What features were kept (the good) and what were changed (the bad)? What was emulated and what was rejected? What was emphasized, what was minimized? Thank you. I enjoy your channel immensely.
I see scant evidence the Khafre pyramid was expanded in any significant way. You will notice at Khafre the corridors are a walkable height after the portcullis, and this patterns follows to the end of the Old Kingdom. Everything about the design is more practical - more bang for the buck. Maybe Djedefre’s early demise spooked him a bit.
It seems the majority of pyramids don't have corridors and chambers higher up in their structures. Maybe the extra planning and effort outweighed perceived benefits. Menkaure's pyramid is the one the seems to have been enlarged due to the now blind alley corridor.
Maybe once Khufu was secured in the underworld he could help forthcoming pharaohs.
Another fascinating journey back in time. Thanks for sharing it with us.
Great videos. Will definitely be back for others, fun topic.
A thousand views a minute steady while I watched this episode. It shows the value of careful thought, eloquent presentation and good humour.
Keep them coming.
Thanks!
You are very welcome.
You raise some interesting and fascinating ideas...yet again!
Very fascinating and revolutionary! It's truly wonderful to see such a flowering of one's research and ideas!!
I still don't believe that these were designed as tombs but I do agree there was function installed in these for repeated access. I still think that the Great Pyramid is still the oldest and incomplete Pyramid. I believe that they inherited that pyramid and attempted to copy it's significance. Only the most powerful and healthy managed such feats but to no degree that can be matched by the Great Pyramid.
I admit, I've yet to see them in person though. I suspect that changes everything from just seeing the camera work of others who have managed the journey.
What a pleasent suprise!
Your support is never a surprise! Many thanks.
Excellent video as always. Thank you very much.
Always interesting! Thank you!
My man. Your video essays consistently succeed in making me content with your premises and conclusions. Down to earth and real life. Simple and logical.
This new set of pyramid's images are simply the most wonderful I've seen so far. Thk you.
I've never visited the pyramids but I find myself drawn to them for some reason. Hard to explain.
Wonderful episode. Absolutely amazing. I loved every second of it. The idea of the pyramids being visitable shrines is inspiring and would explain SO much. For example, how looters knew where to look for treasures and mummies. Or how the royal houses could afford such mega projects in the first place: they financiated them via donations and offerings. How smart.
Pyramids as a place of worship, rather than just a tomb, makes total sense, based on the presented evidence. Brilliant analysis.
Thank you.
That was a GREAT catch re: Khufu's reputation. I'm going into Classical Studies after two years of interdisciplinary study and we've covered several figures who have a particular (usually terrible) reputation, then covered the actual sources--and you find most of the motivating factor behind these negative sources was because people were trying to destroy their legacy once someone else was in power.
Nero, for example, was quite popular with the "normal" people but the elites hated him in part because after the Great Fire, he took their property to make the Domus Aurea, which had grounds everyone could use. Once Vespasian became emperor, people were trying to kiss up to him basically so they dunked on Nero as much as possible while praising him to the high heavens.
We've seen many examples throughout history where this has happened (either to figures or cultures) so it's quite alarming it never seems to have occurred to that Egyptologist talking about Khufu's lack of statues. It was something we covered in my first week of studies . . . Nothing to do with luck, just the usual power struggles. Stellar work as usual HFG!
It's incredibly ironic that anyone who takes the Bible seriously wouldn't make that mistake. Actually, that probably can be said of most somewhat religious people. I grew up being very aware of how "normal" it was for ancient civilizations to erase any kind of art. Heck, it still happens today. Even in the past few decades, quite a few archeological sites have been intentionally destroyed because it "angers Allah" by existing or something.
So interesting! A breath of fresh air in the way you look at the evidence and consider what real people with real wants and needs goals would do in a situation. No spiritual hand waving required.
great video as always bro
The most logical and properly investigated analysis of ancient Egypt on the internet. Well done man and I mean that wholeheartedly.
Oh my, oh my! Let's see what this is gonna be revealed :D and ofc how many times Sahi Havas is going to be mentioned ;)
Great video. Personally I think that the Great Pyramid might have been designed to host many Kings in the future, not only Khufu. Whoever face on the sphinx was carved out at the time, that was the king inside the burial chamber. Or it was used only at the beginning while its own piramid was stil under construction. Kind of a place where the ceremony of burial took place, was sealed for some time and then moved to the final destination, either a piramid or someplace else.
Made my day!!the best pyramid info vids EVER!!
Very enlightening. Really like your theory. Makes alot of sense. Thank you
You are extremely perceptive, logical and convincing. You put the present crop of academic Egyptologists to ignominious shame. Your videos are a gift to mankind, and their value will endure.