What the Completed Great Pyramid Would've Looked Like
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- čas přidán 23. 10. 2014
- Today, the Great Pyramid is tinted by smog and pollution, but when it was first built, the sanded limestone used to make it would've shone magnificently.
From: SECRETS: Great Pyramid
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I thought the end would have a better computer representation of what it would have looked like.......video really didn't pay off
Agreed . And yet I don't think any computer generated image would do justice to the remarkable craftsmanship and engineering and labor . I am amazed by the pyramids current day but to see the great pyramid completed (I understand as being the first) would be mind blowing . POOF ! Mind blown
rendering software is pretty advanced nowadays, i think a good 3d artist could make a nice rendering today.
They didn’t even bother adding the golden top. I was pretty sure the Pyramid of Giza had a golden top that got stolen with the limestone.
Legend has it, this poor guy still there trying to smoothen out his fourth block til today.
the guy is holding an electric sander at 1:29, damn the ancient Egyptians were advanced!
i wonder how our machinery (present) can't put up the weight of the heaviest stones and they could do with just their strenght
steve stoddard that’s because they were made with real tools & over 12,000 years ago. We are being lied to. The Egyptians merely found that stuff
steve stoddard i cant believe your shit comment merited so many replies. People are dumb
That's not a sander, feller
And even if it was, he doesn't have to do that shit old school. He only needed to show how they used to do it.
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I wish this lady would have asked the craftsman (and translated for him) about his experience learning and creating stones using these ancient methods, his insights would have been really interesting.
Egypt should fund a project that hires a hundred people to restore the pyramids using only technology they had back in the day. It would be a huge tourist attraction and people would pay a lot of money to see that. The money made from tourists coming to see it could be used to fund the project and support local businesses
Good idea man The problem is we're not completely sure on the technology so we couldn't be 100% accurate but we could be close.
You mean pay black people because that's who the Egyptians were
Why everything gotta be a race issue. Not tho mention that modern africans don't know how the pyramids were built so we can't do it anyway.
@Marshmallow In my opinion no one is contributing nothing to the world,Yes many of the people in Africa live simple hunter gatherer relies but I see no problem with that but I do agree that it's pretty disgusting that certain people will try to claim they did things they didn't.
I also agree Egyptians were mixed their art depicts several different colors of people and I don't think that was just an artistic choice since it stays pretty consistent
Top 14 videos of 2014: The Great Pyramids of Giza have lost a little shine over the millenia. Our #4 clip from Secrets reveals just how brightly they were meant to shine: bit.ly/1zftokh
***** idiot that's not what they cover up. Atlantis is the true cover up a red haired race built them but what group was it?
The ignorance and hubris shown by some people in this comment section astounds me. The mathematical and engineering feats behind these marvels were human in origin. There are several supporting pieces of evidence for this. Just because you can't fathom another culture's accomplishments doesn't mean you can undermine their feats.
Of course, for them, if it's not made by the white man, then it surely is impossible. Their minds just couldn't wrap around the fact that people with a different color can achieve something really big, in terms of civilization. I'm just happy that they're not claiming the Great Wall of China as alien made yet, but knowing their mentality, it can only take some time. I just ultimately find it funny how they can believe things like aliens (or nephilims, lol) that never have been proven than the time-tested achievements of human intelligence, skill, and perseverance. Humanity, for all its faults, can actually make things happen if they put all their determination to it.
In defense of aliens, while I don't believe they had anything to do with shaping the pyramids of human history, as big as the universe is, it is very unlikely that Earth is the only planet with life. So, to me, it's not hard to believe aliens exist. People just think that their generation is the brightest. In fairness, a lot of people believe aliens did Stonehenge, so I don't think it's necessarily against people of color as much as it is, "those humans thousands of years ago couldn't be that smart."
:) Another so well edited, non spontaneous CZcams comment in order to seem wise. D
If it was, then it's good. At least, you are not claiming that it's made by aliens, unlike some of the people here. The overall point is still that not only whites could create something spectacular in the ancient world, because ancient civilizations sprouted from everywhere, from Asia to South America. It needs to be cleared because some people would rather believe the supernatural powers of aliens rather than understanding that a different culture has the capacity to build something like that too.
m d there are indeed ways that us humans can make these things, and while I do think they may have had another or different purpose than burial chambers, they have definitely been built by humans.
I would love to have the ability to be invisible and time travel. You could go see all these really interesting things in history as well as the little things no one knows about.
Ah man me too, me too!
It would result to other finding, than you expected. I mean, you would be quite disapointed, what you see. No "action, drama movie" you watch in television would happen. What you would see, would dissapoint you. You're lucky, you cannot do it, trust me. It protects you basically
@@warrax111 We're being told lies.💯
@@warrax111 what exactly are you saying? protects from what? why would it disappoint?
they also had golden caps
i think gold+silver = electrum on the caps
britters220 I think they were white
elchucofried Why you gotta be racist? You saying they can't be black?
Lord Krythic yeah
elchucofried Oh ok. Just checking.
I would love for some dedication to be put back into the pyramids. I want to see them placed into a better glory than they are today.
i think, you couldn’t placed into pyramides, because they had technical purpose, like a fabric. They found chemical reactions on the inner walls.
Oh wait I am proud of myself, I have been doing this for 30 seconds while this guy his entire life
I started to read the comments here but felt my spirit sinking, my heart collapsing, my mood growing darker. When will I ever learn?
lol
Angel La Canfora Wouldn't it be nice to view an informative video and then engage in a civil discussion with others? Unfortunately, it never works out that way.
"He is putting effort into it" really all she could say there smh
Aren't they forgetting that the top of the pyramid was coated in a mix of gold and silver called Electrum?
I'm so pleased that we now know how this was all done, not sure how they managed this with granite or created the stone boxes at the Serapium at Saqquara or created 1,000 tonne statues of Rameses or huge obelisk or carved intricate bowls and vases of obsidian etc etc
Sumerians named them ANUNNAKIs
@Jude Fenwick That is what I am saying, the word is sarcasm.
All the title is about is how the pyramid would have looked. Why did you expect all those questions answered? But they didn't show much of how it would have looked so it was a disappointment anyway..
yes, indeed we are so glad, they got it.
This is great thanks for making.
The amount of work required to build these by hand is incredible. It's completely possible that the population that built these was so dedicated to the task that they did it with good old fashioned Elbow grease. I also understand why alternative theories arise about lost ancient technology. There is likely something lost in time that was used to make the assembly easier than we may suspect.
It was also capped with a golden cap on the very top.
Really enjoyable video, many thanks
Absolutely fantastic!
The Pyramids aren't blocked by pollution the casing stones were cannibalized 0:18 see the top where they couldn't get up there to take the cap stones off
He said "blackened" by pollution
I thought they were going to SHOW ME what they looked like. There's this thing called a computer...
Mark Basnight no that's a myth.
2:27 ???
They told you what it would of looked like your supposed to imagine it...
Use your *imagination*
Always understating even with CGI !!
No surprises!
Keepers of he recondite and arcane.
Magnificent 😍
thanks for sharing 🌈💕🥰🙏💖
and a hundred thousand years later, Ta Da !
it bothers me so much, seeing a modern civilization so close to such an invaluable pre-history piece of architecture
why?
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No Aliens. Just human ingenuity.
If these were the techniques used, we would still be constructing the great pyramid to this day.
Sure if one person was doing it by themselves
Exactly.
@@eljohnsoniii why? factor in the hundreds if not thousands of men who worked on it, not to mention a few decades' worth of work.
Most people commenting on how impossible it was to build the pyramids are likely Americans who never saw anything beyond their nearby gas station. A single church in Rome is far more impressive when it comes to handwork than pyramids. In fact the only puzzling question concerns the transport of the stone blocks.
I was about to make the exact comment.
What's really amazing about all this is that these pyramids were built _over 4,500 years_ ago.
To give you an idea of how long ago that was, mammoths didn't go extinct until about 500 years later.
Ancient Egypt was basically the "New York" of its day.
Excluding the greedy white people in suits.
There are no greedy white people in suits. That is a myth. Right?
yeah, you had greedy brown people instead. And tons of slaves.
neet soc No, it was enlightened black people who had an Empire that lasted over 10,000 years then they opened their doors for Greeks, Arabs and other groups of people and it collapsed. America isn't even 500 years and it's starting to destroy itself lmao
Egypt wasn't black
Worth bearing in mind the polished facing stones were stolen for other building projects long ago. The blocky blocks that remain would not have been finished in this way as they were under the casings. The pyramids would have looked completely smooth.
I wish I could close my eyes and open it again just to see this magical white pyramid
nice grinder!
Why did he have an electric grinder.
Egyptians were trying to bring the brightness of stars on earth. Fascinating!
They also had a tremendous amount of workforce to have completed such a feat. That’s just the four sides of one capping block. They didn’t show you the quarrying of the block. And again just the capping stones.
Let alone the rose quartz granite blocks cut with amazing precision and polished to a brilliant shine. The same granite they tried to carve hieroglyphs in with the tools they had (dynastic Egyptians) and well they made a hash of and struggled to leave the glyphs you find on them.
You know it’s almost as though they didn’t build those things and only built on them.
Egyptians maybe did so. But pyramides weren’t built of Egyptians.
Q: If the pyramid reflected sun in that matter did it reflect the sunlight in specific points in the surrounding? If it does, might this direct us to further buried mysteries?
You've been watching too much Indiana Jones, sonny jim!
Its said that the pyramids generated power or something
How can you pass all of this speculation off as fact and still call yourselves scientists?
followers at best....
Did they say it was fact? The fact that they didn't add the words, "...if our theory is correct, that is what happened" to the end of each sentence, doesn't mean they are saying that their speculations are fact.
Could you enable community contribution option?
It’s good to see Sigourney Weaver is still keeping busy
He's standing there with a power sander in his hand!!! watch it closely.
Reeeeeally????
Thats not a sander, its a cutter.
Now imagine the plateau flooded by the Nile. The Pyramids being the only land marks in the flood plain with waters 30 feet above their bases. The Pyramid representing the island of re-birth, like Elephantine Island was described in ancient history. As the flood waters receded the Pharaoh's land surveyors could then mark out the farming plots using the pyramids as a benchmark for triangulation and braided cords for distance. As the flood plain receded it would wash over the Sphinx leaving a pool of water held back by the exterior walls surrounding the Sphinx. And hundreds of dug wells on the plateau now filled with water that could be used for irrigation over the dry period.
The Pyramids were an absolute necessity to mark out the farmlands so that there would be no arguments among the farmers that could delay or negate planting and lead to a famine.
I would guess that under the Pyramids are naturally occurring rock formations that would have been the original surveyor benchmark. These natural limestone or granite hills would have been enlarged by the Pharoh. Their existence would have greatly shortened the construction time as 2.3 million blocks would not be necessary.
I swear I think they used water somehow to build the pyramids. Your comment was very interesting to read. Thank you for that.
It’s hard to fathom how hard the labour was to build the pyramids
There are people who claim that this sandstone work could only be done by electric or diesel powered tools to achieve the results in the time consumed. They completely ignore the drive of thousands of dedicated people doing these tasks.
Great for sandstone. Let's see him do it on the granite used in the interior. Or the mega statues.
Yeah, really.
Or the black grant huge tomb
However. The surface of alot of the blocks have a glaze caused by extreme heat not because they polished it. So they did more then just rub rocks together. They also heat treated. What about the large straight cuts that have signs of circular saw patterns?
They did have "saws"
Sand+An object to move back and forth that doesn't wear out too fast
Film Masters the parabola is the iris shape upon the eqallatteral flat shape not What
Maybe the casing stones were made by heating the lime rock by mixing it with coke rock and burning them in a kiln them melting the heated rock in water to make a sludge that could be pumped or scrolled up easily to every part of the pyramid. Then they could have just troweled it and dried it and then lightly sanded.
Due to some visibles inscriptions, if you look closer on the actuals stones, we can assume it never change. Im conviced.
I was hoping for some kind of large scale overview of how they might have looked, but this video failed to deliver. Even for a 3 min clip, I was expecting more from the Smithsonian. Fail.
Lol - Smithsonian Channel: The pyramids were bright and shiny.
Archeology Magazine: The pyramids were painted red. I'd love to see Archeology and Smithsonian duke it out to see who's right! Gotta love modern "science".
Never read about Egyptian pyramids being red, but those built by the Maya were. Maybe they were referencing those structures.
@@michaelfisher7170 I seem to recall reading somewhere that the smallest of the three great pyramids at Giza was painted red (or maybe the rock used was red?)
Pyramids are mysterious, I mean so is Egyptian culture. Brilliant ;)
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What about the Golden Capstone!
Paul Stevenson electrum*
They were all used up making all, "dos golden slippers".
Jacob Mo-Middilly-Morin Yeah, that much gold would have been ridiculous, even for ancient Egypt
Pyramidion*
“Carried out by hand”.... and angle grinder lol
The weight of the stone its self will grind a flat surface in minutes
By the looks of some of the complex cut stones in the area, it's hard to believe this is how it was done.
Where did they find the sand to smooth the limestone?
What about the quartz they used to top off the pyramids tho??
actually they were not quartz.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidion
i actually thought they were painted red with a gold cap
Another wonderful Smithsonian master piece!
Hmmm, maybe try again without the carbon steel chisel and adze.
Never mind the electric angle grinder!
And the CG work,,,,,,nothing spared, literally.
The lime facing was removed in later years to build other palaces. Funny they didn't mention that here. You can still see some of the lime facing left at the top on some pyramids.
I believe the white casing stones had hieroglyphs as seen on the bottom ones that were buried before being looted or recycled!
Someone should really fund a 20 year project simulating the mainstream narrative of how these were built. Let's build the pyramids in the exact conditions they're telling us they were built. Let's find out once and for all if they are right or wrong.
CannibalCupcake it's impossible, even with today's machines
Oh, trust me, I know. My proposal is really a "prove to us we're wrong and it can be done." To the best of my knowledge no one has even done a computer simulation. Doing so would mean that they'd have to admit that they are all wrong and our ancient ancestors had advanced technology. Whether it was from their gods (aliens) or not.
How fucking dumb can you possibly be, if you’re saying aliens built it.
So, the idea that an intelligent life form capable of planetary travel is just beyond you? Weird, cause last I knew, we were one. Unless of course you believe we never landed on the moon. That we don't have a rover on Mars, a team of people getting ready to travel and land on Mars, that the Kepler mission is just made up and we've never made it to Jupiter's orbit.
Comparatively to our solar system we're newborns and we've somehow manage to do all that. Oh, don't forget the burning of the Alexandria library and the whole dark ages thing... those set us back quite a bit.. Imagine where we'd be if those moments never happened and we had thousands.. maybe even millions of years more under our belt.
Add all that to the fact that every religion and creation "myth" all state that our "gods" came from the sky in flying vehicles.. I believe it'd be you that's "fucking dumb" for not acknowledging the possibility that it could be true.
Don't forget the fact that credible people like Edgar Mitchell (NASA - Apollo 14) or Paul Hellyer (Canadian Minister of Defense) among hundreds of other credible and high ranking individuals tells us it's true. And if you have any trust in Wikileaks, they exposed 2 emails discussing their existence and a treaty, along with zero point energy.
I believe it'd be you that's "fucking dumb" for not acknowledging the possibility that it could be true.
CannibalCupcake tl;dr you wasted your 10 minutes writing that
Any desert area on earth was once a sea bed or flood.. Arizona and some parts of the Americas southwest was under water . The Sahara dessert was under water too..once the rain axis shifted it brought GREAT drought to that area .. The people that inhabited that area had to migrate . I think some of Africa's history was lost when this happened .
ToO-_EaZy the rain axis lol
ToO-_EaZy. How do you know it was covered in water ? The sand in the Sahara is not the same as the sand in the Ocean.
It is not as round, indicating soil erossion. There is scientific proof of this. This is why Dubia used Ocean Sand to build those Island's instead of Sahara Sand.
So tell me, how do you know it was covered in water ?
Because they told you it was ?
the entire planet was covered in water during the flood of Noah
Jack Bauer lol that never happened please don’t bring religion into this factual comment thread
gaybloody kunt Genesis is not fiction, it’s historical fact
All that work, just use a sand blaster. The stuff is just laying around everywhere..
They were not ‘blackened by smog and pollution’, the white outer limestone blocks were all stolen ages ago (some remains on the top of one).
Hahaha this is hilarious 🤣
CZcams needs an idiot filter for the comments section.
That's right frank only mainstream comments should be allowed you piece of shit.
Yeah that's called disabling comments. Pretty much the only solution for keeping things sane in most cases.
Ah come on, then I would never be able to say anything.
just don't type anything......sorted.
The guys got a powertool hiding in his hand.
If the pyramids were all finished like that and looked like that, why isn’t it recorded anywhere ? Especially when it’s dated the coverings were removed and reused in recorded history ?
So, I wonder if this could explain why they don't find tool marks on a lot of monolithic structures mabye?
Nah, it's probably aliens.
They literally showed them sanding off tool marks
nope, not even with the grinder
Did we really need to see her do it badly? The guy that knows what he is doing is enough.
Nothing more epic than the pyramids in their prime.
In Al-Quran (Islamic Holy Book) said 1400 years ago that Pharaoh build the pyramid (tower) was using "baked clay" instead of limestones (baked clay turn into rock limestone after thousand of year process ) and I believe is true because there is no such technology at that time In how to pull and lift a heavy rock limestone.
Many Scientist thought that pyramid were built by pull and lifting the limestone using temporary water canal and hang it with wood in the water (Buoyancy weight) or rail tunnel to transport the limestone rock from bottom to the top. It's an insane method and if it's true the people in egypt will build the other things with this "insane method" and also people in egypt can create a heavy duty wire-rope and make a good tools to cut precision the limestones as well.
This is my opinion: The pharaoh was instructing Haman (Architect ministry of ancient Egypt kingdom) and their slaves to made giant statue or big bricks from mud clay and arranged them as base foundation, after that when the stone clay molds were still wet they did the engraving (Hieroglif) at the big stone (mud clay) walls and when they want to continue the work by making them higher they burnt it first and repeat it step by step until the top of pyramid done.
Scientist just need to prove that mixed material of "baked clay" can be turn into the limestone after three thousand years process
Accomplished by men alone utilizing ramps, rollers, sleds, ropes, pulleys, levers, gravity, sand, water, natron; and design, inspiration, dedication, determination, by engineers, craftsmen, & massive manpower assisted with draft animals & beasts of burden,....nothing more of any consequence. No Martians, or giants, or time travelers, or levitation, or solid-stone liquifaction, or lost advanced machines, or hocus-pocus, etc.....
Also civilization to be able to coordinate such an effort and religion to give it a purpose.
You mean... ancient aliens ISNT a trustworthy source of historical facts!?!?!?!?!?!
OhNegative Afraid to break it to you, but...nope.
I'm also leaning toward the probability the "precisely cut" stones are in fact a geopolymer, (see Davidovitz geopolymer vids on yt) thus reducing the time and labour required to build such enduring and utterly magnificent structures. Those Khemitians (we derive the word chemistry from them) they were a savvy bunch.
Built by slaves tbh
not slaves they were all working men well treated and with salary
This chick sounds like shes just trying to convince herself rather than convincing the audience
Blackened by pollution? I thought the reason they weren't shiny is because the outer layer of finished bricks were removed and used to build castles and forts
Just thought of this.
Are we sure that the whole pyramid was built out of solid limestone blocks? Wouldn't it make sense to just put up an easier foundation of, say, earthworks and just put up some limestone block facing over it?
Those who made this film must be kidding: if the egyptians would have used the technique described at the beginning, would have taken thousands of years to build 1 single pyramid.... 😄
More, don't forget at that time there were no tools made of steel, as the hammer used by the guy in the video. So...
this shit always messes me up. Yea they grinded and hammered the stones so they fit perfectly together great. One thing bothers me, how the fuck do you get 10-20 ton stones to the site from 300 miles away.
+BC M They used upturned carts.And also poured lots of water in front of the cart to reduce friction.Even the tiniest contributions help.
And they used contraweights.
@Minute They had to be some pretty damn big barges
I hope to answer this question in my next video.
Did they have horses to help pull the stones?
How was it installed?
I am guessing that it looked pretty neato
although i admire the workmanship and artistry of the era, i still wonder why no mass graves have never been discovered for the amount of slaves it would have taken to accomplish these feats
Haven't they come out to say that there were more paid workmen working on the pyramids than actual slaves?
Actually they did find a mass grave. If I remember right, they discovered a huge site between the Great Pyramid and the Sphinx and they surmised that slaves did not build the pyramids. These were actually workers whose only job was this and they Egyptians. According to the find, they wouldn't allow a slave to do an important job as to build a Pharaoh's tomb.
The workers were their own people well-fed from fleshpots in the off-season flood months between harvest and planting anew...the Hebrews (precursors to the later Exodus Jews) built Ramses' storehouses a millennium after the Great pyramid(s) erected first by King Jared (Shurid: Arab.) but who never got to occupy his own.... (Funereal services were held whenever an ordinary worker fell to his death.)
***** Not quite so 'un-real': King Shurid (Jared) never occupied his pyramid as a tomb, but also, its traps were never set-so, we know the finished pyramid went unused! Shurid (Jared) died that year probably washed away by the tsunamis from the sinking of Atlantis Island recorded in Sais as shaking and flooding Egypt a day and a night, and, was followed by the story-event of Unas 'the Slayer and Eater of gods' sanitizing the Nile delta, (animals should not acquire a taste for human flesh), and the plan was forgotten by time Cheops later cleaned it...
They never had slaves. Stop reading the Bible.
These people dedicated their lives preparing for the after life.
They're still sticking to the stone and copper tools story, don't they realize people aren't buying that story anymore.
The guy handling an electrical sander will make conspiracy people go nuts
Interesting!
advanced technology did it.
Advanced for their time, yes. But the techniques were not beyond our current capabilities.
Mark Saxton aliens didn't do it
Mark Saxton u all dont know that...summeritans were the oldest civilization known to man and they had hieroglyphics showing our whole solar system in exact order including pluto which wasn't discovered till 1960s..and a boat a plane and helicopter...
GDI yes it was cuse these stones are so presise even or best tools have trouble with it
Pff you even believe in the pyramids.
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Now imagine how much more we would know about all of these incredible structures of traditional archaeology would listen to Graham Hancock.
Yes, we should believe Graham Hancock that chanting priests levitated the blocks. Why won't those dumb archaeologists just accept that.
They would still be sanding the first row today.what a joke
David Paulmert Actually, no
Are you cracked
It was not a single guy doing it for fun, it was thousands of people doing it for a living for decades.
Fuck me there are some absolute morons out and about these days. Do you think this was a 2-5 year job? Tens of thousands of slaves and decades of time is what it took to build these.
Yeah the sand thing comes from acedemia folks that have never built anything.
As you can see, this type of effort from our ancient ancestors would not have been feasible for such an incredibly massive and complex undertaking. 4,000 years BC when man supposedly moved from hunter gatherers to farmers and then found enough man power and time on their hands to do this? What would it take us to do this today? We cannot achieve anything on this scale of incredible difficulty. The inside chambers have precise seams and there is evidence (on blocks found around the base), of advanced machining involved. This structure and many others around the world were put together with a technology that made it easy to do but was lost in time. Something made giant heavy blocks easy to carve, and move into place or it wouldn't have been done. Let the truth be found despite the cover-up efforts of the main-stream medias to keep life simple to the naive for better controlling purposes of the elites. No Pharaoh or their belongings or any writings as such were ever found in the pyramids so why assume they were king's tombs? They were not! The evidence is for a giant functioning machine of some type or another. Perhaps energy dispersal or for communications, as well as some important Earth markers. We still don't know for sure but we're getting there. Thanks
The transition from hunter-gatherer to civilization happened 10,000 years ago not 4,000. Your timeline is a bit off.
PinecrestNova And that was only after an advanced civilization was "knocked back into the stone age" by a world-wide cataclysm.
thewanderandhiscomp People like you are so incredibly unrealistic and the sad thing is, you speak-up to perpetuate the lies and inaccuracies being taught and believed by others as naive as yourself. Wake-up!... Yes... we can carve and move a heavy block but even with cranes, how long do you think it would take to make this structure? And you think primitive ancestors did it "no-problem" and to bury one ruler inside of it? (without decorating the walls of coarse). Quit being so fucking stupid.
I think it can be done just give me an indoctrinated nation with little to no outside connection. Kinda like North Korea, notice what people can do with complete control of a populace? Build giant monuments to your greatness.
Bob Miplace I guess you haven't seen the insides of the Great Pyramid. It's extremely precise in the fittings which weren't visible to the public. The "Trillithon" blocks at Baalbeck don't exactly say "monument to our greatness". Would humans go to that much difficulty just to lay them flat for a base- showing only one side of the block? No sir... these were put there because the builders had a technology that made it relatively easy to do. The same holds true for the walls at Machu Pichu, Cuzco Peru and many others. Puma Punku shows precision machining was taking place, same as the evidence found around the base of the Great Pyramid shows.
That cannot possibly be the way it was done. I don't care how big a work force, it would have take a thousand years to polish over a million mega stone blocks at that rate. That kind of precision and perfection was done by expert stone mason not slaves.
Who said anything about slaves? And in any case, only the outer stones, outside face needed to be polished to such a degree.
So how come the First Dynasty made the Giza pyramid, which hasn't settled drastically in its spot, crumbled to dust, or caved in the 4500 years since its construction. But nearly EVERY other pyramid built by the Egyptians since, has?
The pyramids were not built until the third Dynasty, and the Great Pyramid was built during the 4th. In any case, there is a clear progression from Mastaba tombs, to the step pyramid, to the bent, to the true pyramid, and after a while, conversion to smaller, cheaper tombs and cenotaphs continuing on to the 17th dynasty. The great stone pyramids were simply overbuilt and almost certainly required too much labor which could have been better spent elsewhere. And, of course, much of the casing stones were looted for other building projects. The Pyramid of Djedefre was almost completely demolished and carted away over the course of almost 2000 years.
This is a joke!!
Dude had a power grinder with a cutting disk. I dont think they had those back in the day.
And can someone explain all the stones with perfect round drill holes that are laying everywhere? In red granite?
A wooden dowel, a bow, sand, and effort. It's time consuming, but simple and effective.
yeah that would be great thanks! ….and also the 30 ton mis-shapen stones fitted to within 100th of an inch. ..oh and how did they cut and polish red granite because copper not an option....Thanks!
History books want us to believe that slaves build The Great Pyramids but as you can clearly see it takes very skilled hands, not a task that could've been taught over night. The architects were the best of the best and the engineering was flawless even the temples carved into mountains. Scientists can't even explain this.
1:27 Abdullah was grinding stone with stone... then he took out the Angle Grinder and things got more fun
Na ah, even after grinding it will not be that white.
Footage were heavily color graded to enhanced the stone color. Look how bright white the head cap the worker wear.
*The Tura Limestone Quarry is where my surname originated from.*
How much would it cost to rebuild the pyramids