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Maybe between 2002 and 2012 was another rover in shaft, but not official known, and this plastic wheel is from it (plastic is only from second half of XX century)
Do we know for certain those round things are plastic? To me, they look like rolls of chalk line, which would be in metal cannisters. Also, based on where the Queen's chamber shafts end, I think they originally did extend to the outside. Perhaps for awhile during construction, they provided ventilation for the workers inside. The pyramid was then finished to its current dimensions. Thanks for reading!
You realize that you being the only one who's cared enough to put the work into find these pictures and document them in an open source way proves what a valuable niche you are filling both in the alternative and mainstream archaeological community. Amazing job.
I cant believe no one has made a better robot crawler with led lights and a 4k articulating camera that could fully document that entire shaft in about 45 mins.
Thank you for your work. I'm shocked by the lack of information in 20 years. A 3D scan of the whole route is needed, at the moment I don't know it has been carried out, or at least made public? The spot where the paper and the spool were recovered would be closely observed, it looks like a secondary tunnel, and the rubble indicates it was excavated later, but from where??? 3d scan would have helped. The pointed object at 25:57, which should also be recovered, or at least observed closely well, it has a flattened terminal pate, so it could be a chisel. Today the technology is available to "everyone", I myself would be able to design, build, program a FPV robot suitable for this exploration, should be equipped with: -Multidirectional rubber wheels -3D scanner -A mechanical jointed arm with 6 degrees of movement, with an FPV camera, flanked by a 4k camera, and an LED spotlight, on the same arm at the tip would be equipped with a rubber gripper for retrieving objects. The cost of this apparatus would be a few hundred euros so.... WHAT THE F*** ARE THEY WAITING FOR!!!!???
there are dickheads gatekeeping whatever secrets the pyramids may hold. There was a group that wanted to do a, I think it was a LIDAR scan, and were denied.
With all the advances in robotics, electronics, lighting, and the amazing new digital camera technologies it would be nice to see all the shafts re explored and re imaged. it would also be easy to have hands on them to pick things up and return with the objects for study.
The lads working on it were probably called in on a Saturday to finish up a snag list. "Don't mind polishing the inside, cover it up to fuck" "But what if the Pharaoh sees it?" "Oh my God will you please cop on"
@@AustinKoleCarlisle thats easy to you get the 2 stones together an run a saw down the center of the Crack then slide the rocks closer then repeat until you have your desired fitment it's only hard to understand for people that have never made anything in their life
Hmmm.... that degree at the right angled bend where you describe the floor as being lower adjacent to what looks to be another symmetrical entrance looks different to me to what you describe, let me know if you have any thoughts on this; At the upper end of that entryway, it appears more like silt or build up along the ground going from right to left, with the top edge almost having a curve that, to me, almost indicates some sort of downward flow of either water or wind gusts that are high enough to move that debris down some sort of channel and exiting into the northern channel and going across to the left and then down the slope towards where the camera Rc entered. This is a little bit anomalous swing as debris would normally build up on the lower side and not the upper, but we don’t know how anything may have exited that small channel on the right hand side either, so if it was directed a certain way, I could definitely see there being a chance of silt and debris being dumped along the upper edge instead of the lower if it flowed a particular way leading up to that channel exit.. the silt build up would give the appearance of being a lower square shape in the floor next to the channel, but looking at the shadow cast by the rods on the floor, the area of floor is no further away from the rods than the area of floor the Rc is taking the photo from, with possibly only maybe a small lip on the edge of the floor stone in both directions and not just downhill from the channel?
Taking into account that the height and width of the shaft is about 20 cm (8 inches), the size of the cavity is about 10 cm by 30 cm (4*12 inches), just a bit larger than a standard brick. The width of the plastic spool is about 3.4 cm (1.3 inches), the width of a thicker metal rod is about 1 cm (0.4 inch), the size of a 'spear' is about 1cm by 15 cm (0.4 by 6 inches), which makes it more like a size of an arrow, or, in case it is a flat object observed from the side, - about the size of couple of business cards. The width of knobs at the rods' ends is about 5 cm (2 inches). The blocking door is the size of a couple of standard bricks, and the handles are the size of a finger.
I can’t help but notice the similarities between the marked lines on the door at the end of the shaft with the diagram of discovered shafts within the pyramid. I’m an assistant to a general contractor, and we occasionally sketch rough diagrams on materials during assembly, especially during new worker training. This has the look to my eyes of something scribbled as a reminder of how the big picture fits together. I LOVE THIS CHANNEL! Keep up the good work!
Amazing how we can land camera equipment on an astroid 300 million kilometers from Earth but apparently can't have full HD explain it all footage of the Pyramids.. Fascinating stuff nonetheless
@@mattyjohnsson257 hawass has full control over who goes in, what they can look at, and what technology they can use. He shuts down what he doesn’t want happening. He’s also a known criminal but that’s another matter I suppose.
@@MAGA_Extremist that would be nice but we will still have the Egyptian government oversight. While I agree that it’s proper that this is so I don’t trust them any more than I would trust the Vatican to oversee the work. They have a vested interest in maintaining a certain narrative.
Another great video. Everyone should keep in mind though that the "shaft" is only 8" square, so basically the "spear" is more like a small stick and the "debris" is just flakes of stone. The "cavity" is probably only 3" x 6". The pictures make the shaft look much larger but this are an almost a microscopic view.
P9 - notice the scoring marks. The orientation flips 90 degrees. There is a clear vertical pattern that change abruptly to a horizontal direction. Also notice how the 'floor' block is much larger and is the same stone. P10 - There is writing on the wall on the left hand side. P21 - Notice the floor here, the color changes obviously from dust build up. This appears that there is air flow coming from in the inside of that cavity which directs the 'rumble' constantly. Inside that cavity is a larger area that is funneling pressure/air into the shaft. P32 - Right hand floor is another 'rod' covered with dust P33 - Probably tip of previous mentioned rod. P35,36- Flat piece of metal. It's not limestone because limestone doesn't shine when light reflects the corners. P37- The left wall has been "patched" P50 - that's writing/picture on the block. Probably an indication on how to open it. Also important to note that the block slides to the left as there are gaps top, right, and bottom. P51- Standard 2 system pin pull. Safety Pin and Weighted Pin. To remove and slide: one pin is pulled out (pushed into shaft, rotated, and slide through), block is slide to location to remove secondary pin, then exposing rest of the shaft. This looks like an air duct directing air to a location in the main structure. Also, modern electric drones/remote controlled cars with gopro's strapped to them are needed to further explore this shaft. However, I think the only things worth further exploration in this shaft is the P21 location and the writings on the wall. Mini quadcopters with a GoPro would answer these questions.
With today's technology we can take detailed hi-res pictures with tiny cameras inside the human body's passages - How difficult could it be to send a small remote-controlled camera back up that shaft to get much better pictures than those from 20 years ago?
@@Beevreeter It would disrupt the whole human timeline. If it was machine and most likely was with the amount of evidence now these anomalies would make sense. I'm talking about the pronged block in the northern shaft and southern shaft. These weren't airshafts, most likely they were inlets which seeped a chemical into the queens chamber (these small shafts were once closed except for a small slit). The prongs were probably a level sensor to check the level of the chemical inside the shafts like a fuel gauge. This also explains the different erosion types we see on the floor and prongs of both shafts.
I was thinking the exact same thing along with 3D laser for a truly accurate map. They could even sneak a small camera over the gap above the "door" at the end to see past it.
sir, this was more exciting than any movie I watched in the last 5 years, your work and motivation is exceptional and I hope you end up resolving at least one of the great pyramid mysteries during our lifetime! never give up!
I seriously don’t know how you do it Matt but these videos just get better all the time ! Thank you for the in-depth information await the next instalment!!
One would think the robot that took the pictures in the shaft could have explored the hole as well. Maybe that will be done in the near future and we can learn what is there. Great video with realistic, logical, and believable explanations.
I had the pleasure of touring the Great Pyramid to the King’s Chamber back in the late 70s. My visit coincided with Ramadan that year. The “cavity” in the pictures, looks like water drainage opening possibly built in at the time of the original construction and would explain the clean nature just in front of the opening and the debris downhill of the opening. I know there was not much rainfall but, there was some. The ticket stub likely washed in from a nearby gallery accessible by tourists. After the removal of the capstone, the underlying pyramid was basically a pile of rocks and leaked like a sieve. That’s my theory and I’m sticking with it. -Roland-
@@ast3663 because it washed in from another area of the period. That's why there is a pile of debris, it probably came from other areas above the shaft. Clearly the joints are not very tight or sealed
@@ast3663 It could have been dropped by a tourist who climbed to the top of the pyramid. It fell into a crack. Water/wind might take it elsewhere over time. 120 years is not a very long time for a scrap of paper to be washed say 200 feet in a desert, but a single rainstorm could do it.
amazing video. such a failure of academia that this information hasn't been made available to the general public very glad you went ahead and did that for us I appreciate it. honestly find it very exciting that it adds some credence to your pyramid enlargement theory. once again it's been amazing to follow your journey from holding some very alternative views to what you've been showing in your videos in the past year or so. it's lead to your best work and I think you've made useful contributions to my understanding of history. I think your earlier works are simply a reflection of the media on the topic available, you have "mainstream" people saying simply unreasonable/untrue things (Zahi saying he knew everything there is to know about Giza etc.) and you have "alternative" people saying again unreasonable things but the actual information that makes you believe what you do now is simply not used as an argument against some of the "alternative" theories and some of it is also very inaccessible; made so out of a institution of hierarchy and elitism. But your sense of reason prevailed, you always said what you were thinking and you always considered what you were being told, you followed a method that I believe has lead to truth.
The opening in the right side of the shaft roof block at 19:08 probably has some form of "communication" with the exterior of the pyramid...the floor surface to the left of it looks like it has been "wind swept" clean of dust and debris by fairly strong air currents from somewhere open to the exterior environment. The paper debris found there could have been blown into the shaft from wherever that opening connects to the exterior of the pyramid. The small rocks and chip debris indicate that the opening to the exterior must have a vertical component that shed small bits of limestone from weathering that fell downward and out of the opening in the picture. Because the shaft is angled upward, these small bits of limestone then travelled down slope after probably hitting the left wall of the shaft, as indicated by their collection against the left wall. There's another hole out on the surface of the pyramid, guys...
Thought provoking, but explain how the paper and ‘modern’ spool entered this shaft through the other opening and got past the block with copper handles.
@@fritter63 same problem applies. The stone block with handles is still in the way. The items could only have been pushed up when they ran the rods up the shaft.
@@excavate08 What I was getting at was that the "mystery" opening in the right side of the roof block, at that location, has some connection to the exterior...not that all that stuff came through the far end of the shaft with the "door" block in it.
@@sci-fitales7793 Quite possible...someone needs to bribe the proper Egyptian officals (sorry, I meant to say "voluntarily offer suitable baksheesh") to get permission to send another, smaller robotic camera rig in there, and then make a right-hand turn into that mystery opening in the shaft in order to see what's going on there...
This may have been discussed already,i was thinking that perhaps through the years visitors to the queens chamber early in the piece may have on occasions deposited litter into the horizontal shafts,ranging from paper to stones and anything on hand,and when the queens chamber was being explored they may have used explosives as they began to tunnel there way around,the shock wave from the explosion would easily have pushed the accumulated debris further up the shaft and i believe off to one side,the shock wave in the shaft would have behaved similarly as to what happens in the trenches during WW1 with all the 90 degree bends that are seen and this may account for the debris sitting of to one side,its not unreasonable to assume that as the shock wave reaches the end of the shaft a significant pressure would build up and so a weak point in one of the blocks may cause a failure resulting in the pressure wave finding a means to escape and perhaps bringing with it some of the debris,it would be interesting to explore the archival records to see if a mention of explosives was ever used.
Seriously? Do you really think someone would use explosives in a massive granite built pyramid. Now if you had been inside at the time - would you think it was a good idea?!
That was really enthralling Matt, and I got your excitement about the new photos. The deviation in direction almost implies that the “air shafts” were an afterthought, and had to be fitted around existing features.
I assume all structures were decided before construction started and blocks were pre worked and each then positioned when their turn came, the shaft growing over time, as layers of pre shaped blocks were laid down. If so, the shaft could have been designed to go straight up from QC but following the late addition of the undiscovered chamber had to be diverted around it. But if this previously unknown chamber is thought to be important for the funeral why would it be imposed late in design, pushing other design features to be redirected? (Perhaps after the stones for the first straight leg of the tunnel had been cut?) Wouldn’t it be the core around which the pyramid itself and all its features would’ve have been designed, as the funeral and entombment were the purpose of the whole building. Just my uninformed thinking…
Super interesting video! Great work. Makes me wonder if the objects like the ball and hook found when the shaft was opened actually entered through the potential opening you pointed out. Maybe someone was trying to explore the shaft in antiquity by dropping the ball down and trying to identify where it hit at the bottom?
Interested by the ochre colouring two thirds in. The ‘spear’ might be more of a bayonet to stab at any obstruction perhaps. Would love to have a camera stop and turn right into that opening half way along. The whole thing is so fascinating!
Thanks for the vid. Apart from the purpose of the shafts, it's a valuable look into the past of stonework mostly untouched since thousands of years. I think, there was a change in plan since the construction was started and the way it's carried out tells us extremely much about their techniques. Also, the artifacts are very exciting. Keep the good work and thanks for sharing!
The rods in the door at the end seem to be an anode and cathode, one having lost material and the other having gained material. It would explain why they grooved the stone behind the left hand rod so as to allow for the accumulation.
agreed, Chris Dunn wries about this, but for what? the shafts are not fluid tight, so or at last not any longer. Can they be there to egnite or charge gasses?
Look up cathode recess as I’ve just been doing. Far from giving space to allow for expansion it’s actually helps the cathode to avoid too much accumulation too soon, thus prolonging it’s life.
@Gil Lubeke, that is exactly what I was thinking when I saw them. Then I saw your comment. If this truly an anode/cathode pair, then it's possible it was there to cause a chemical reaction/spark/plasma discharge? Possibly the passageway was filled with gas or conductive liquid?
I think it’s not even a conspiracy... I think it just wasn’t going to get views on a mainstream tv channel. It’s too niche. Hawass included a number of the pictures in a journal from 2014, but it’s almost impossible to get hold of. I think it just fell away and people moved on.
@@AncientArchitects How could people just lose interest? The lack of information seems almost like it's being covered up, and I am not really into the conspiracy theories. Strange. Hey, You have a Wonderful channel!! Big Hello and Thank You from the Spacecoast!
@@jeffjeff4477 the only thing that makes sense is that they know it's not a shaft or chamber and that we were not given this data in the video, otherwise people would be scrambling to get the notoriety for a new discovery. Based on the many examples of primitive techniques used in the pyramids construction, it appears to have been constructed at least 5k yrs after the cataclysm. I do expect something to be found eventually, but I don't expect it to be advanced tech.
30:00 I always wanted somebody to try and connect electrical power to the 2 handles. With one sticking out, and the other is countersunk its almost like one is for positive, and one is for negative( + and - ) DC.
Right on!! I don’t know how you did it but hooray. I live and breathe pyramids and I have enjoyed watching all of your shows.I don’t nessecarily agree with some of your theory’s but I like the way your mind works. Keep up the excellent work
Funny how both spear and metal rod end at around the same place , what information where these ppl using, did someone mislead these folks interesting info for sure, I'm betting all the items have been sacked already
The only possible explanation is, that it came from the hole in the right wall of the shaft. The spool is not more than a few centuries old (it looks like plastic) , probably only a few years (not much dust on it, but lots of dust anywhere else). It looks like somebody found another cavity inside and for one or another reason does not tell the public. (Better ideas are welcome!) The ticket and the other piece of paper should be given to a paper expert for dating. There are dating methods for paper. They are mainly use to find out if old books and paintings are real or fake. The methods can be used on any paper.
@@Itsjustme-Justme I agree about the paper. I'd imagine it would be easy to days. I've looked everywhere on line and there is no sign of the paper ticket. Is it a hoax ?
The mystery stick looks like a chisel, spatula, or even a surface scrapper. To make it one would hammer out a copper plate and then hammer part of it around a stick, this would leave a flat edge on the front which could be work hardened. The shadow on the shaft wall in this frame makes the item appear to have flat front edge rather than a point. Of course, I am probably wrong.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex I thought it possibly could be a device to mark the stones. The one thing I am certain of is there needs to be more investigation.
@@glen1arthur I've been kind of stuck on this all day,, could that be the missing piece of the "handle" from the "door" at the end of the shaft? It kind of looks like the one that is still there. The part that looks like a flag could be a trick of light and shadow because of the fact that it looks to be the same luminance and color as the shadows.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex - agree, but my first thought, given the likely size of the object, was that some ancient stone worker had lost his lunch knife when the upper inverted u shape was dropped into place.😏
My guess is it's a flake of stone that has fallen off the wall and was pushed up onto it's side as the rods were pushed through. The image is looking at the flake edge-wise. I would think most of the alignment of the debris along the sides was also caused by use of the rods and how they would move around as they encounter each new bend.
The fact that people still continue to think this is a tomb is just amazing. Nothing remotely related to a tomb has ever been found in the great pyramid and the walls are blank. Every actual tomb in Egypt has the walls covered with hieroglyphs. The shafts that actually reached the outer wall of the pyramid were used as an "air gap" like you have in your kitchen to allow for water to drain, and to the important chambers were kept dry. I still get a kick out of how they claim the casement stones which were granite, and the floors outside the pyramid were basalt, and somehow those were cut and shaped by copper chisels and stone pounders. At the Aswan quarry there has been a pounder that tourists can beat on a block of granite with, and after 20+ years of tourists beating on this one block, the indentation is only like 3-4mm. Just look around the quarry at aswan and you can see evidence of drills, and large circular saw blade cut marks which are FAR different than grinding marks which is what a copper saw would leave.
I suspect the thinking of purely metal tools being used for this work is probably just a mistake made by people in the early industrial age who couldn't think of any way beyond metal to cut stone. But if one skips over to the Americas one can see a few ancient civilizations working stone with for instance just stone tools, using for instance harder stones like obsidian or other methods to work the rock instead. One might suppose that the Egyptians too would be able to think of such tricks I guess.
Do you mean like a sarcophagus...or sealing mechanisms...or the name of the pharaoh? Edit: just in case you couldn't tell, all of the above have been found inside the Great Pyramid.
@Ghoasty Guy No it doesn't. They give dozens of research permits every year and let even Graham Hancock to explore the pyramids freely, although he is not even Egyptologist and has totally crackpot theories.
I don't know that the floor has been "worked" in front of the anomaly so much as it is much cleaner at that point,, possibly from air movement and/or whatever pushed that trash in there...
@@swirvinbirds1971 Or an explosion. Like dynamite. If someone blasted in a room on the other end the debris coming out of the hole would spread just like this. And it would clean the floor too.
I'm fairly certain the marks at the end were from the rods being shoved in the shafts. The rods probably made it all the way to the end, but when abandoned, settled to their current positions.
@@hermanduplessis3146 I used to pull wire into conduits all the time with fish tape, similar to this metal rod. Sometimes, especially when you're trying to pull or push things into something that is not meant for it(non-conduit), it snags on everything causing more fiction. That, and with the weight of the rods, and/or the threads, it may have unthreaded the one, or just pulled out at a joint of the other rod... leaving it there with no other means for them getting it out. There are many things that could've happened... Those rods were smaller pieces joined together, not one solid piece, so it separates...
@@damion1757 Yes, all that would be issues going in (up) but there would be a lot of gravitational help if there was legitimate effort to pull them out wouldn't you say?
The void does raise exciting questions, as does the arrow. My humble opinion is that any chisel marks or debris in a picture with a rod is probably from the supreme effort necessary to mash a straight steel rod down a curvy tunnel. Honestly, the distance they made it down the shaft was impressive.
I think that the marks on the door are from the tops of the wooden knobs. The marks look arching as if the knobs had reached the door and that the workers had used a twisting motion to determine if the pole was blocked. It’s the same procedures if you were using a drain snake. That also explain why the rods are still in there, when the worker was trying to pull the rods out got a rod joint snagged when twisting it in threaded the rod decoupling it leaving the rods in the shaft. A thought on the spear like object. I instantly thought or it being a workers chisel tool that they dropped in the shaft during construction. The wrapping look like hand grips to stop you from getting blisters if you were shaping rock. Once a block is placed you would not be able to get it back if it fell in the shaft.
I have a few suggestions, nothing earth shattering in arctic. The rubbish or debris being on one side. When you push rods like this they bend if the end meets any resistance no matter how small of a resistance. This bowing will push the debris to the walls, almost like sweeping with a brush. I have pushed stiff electrical cables along trenches which mimic this tunnel, there is always this sweeping effect. The pins in the pins at the bung block. The left-hand pin looks like its been plastered over almost? No idea what that means.... The spear.... remember those flat roof slate or tile like pieces. That's what could be described as spawling on modern brickwork, limestone is often made up of layers like slate but not as weak as slate. But these layers can split from salts forming, that's spawling. Now imagine seeing an uneven lump of spawling edgewise, blade like? Then add shadows, is slightly of line viewpoint, the thin sections will appear like blades and the thicker parts look like a shaft. That's my thoughts from the image of the spear. But oh that plastic spool... that is interesting....that possible offshoot really needs a good looking at moochers for a good video.
It’s hilariously infuriating no one is allowed to strap an iPhone to a remote controlled car lol The politics of this is as interesting as the exploration
Because they don't want more stuff getting clogged up in there. It has to be done safely and with reliable machines that will be guaranteed to be able to come back out without dropping more garbage along the way. But yes, it should be done again.
its hilariously infuriating that you think sending a stupid remote controlled car from walmart and an iphone up there is viable...You must be quite smooth brained
I agree with your frustration. Today it would be much easier and cheaper to create a far more versatile robot and equip it with a much better camera system and sensor array.
@@brosettastone7520 come on now, no need for all that. Clearly the point is that it should be hilariously easy for us to navigate these shafts compared to 20 years ago.
@@brosettastone7520 a Walmart rc car and an iPhone would be more technologically advanced than what was sent by explorers in early 2000 and earlier as well as whatever else has been sent down by the Egyptian govt.
It looks like air can pass through the cavety in photograph 21. An air channel leading to a place where tourists once stayed. Things like a ticket can fall into this channel. It also looks like air is passing and keeping the floor clean of dust. What falls into the canal, via the pit and down the northern shaft will naturally stop where the canal is most horizontal (45 °). If you filled the duct with light pressureised smoke, you might find the other end of any air channel
Smoke might be undetectable, might react chemically and be absorbed or diffused. But some other gases might work. Maybe Helium and argon? Helium rises and argon falls. Both are affordable, and detectable in tiny trace amounts.
I doubt there's enough air current to move scraps of paper around. Probably someone would have noticed. I wonder if maybe it was pushed up by the rods somehow. The wheel is interesting. Could it have fallen off of a robot?
"plastic spool"... why "plastic"? I can vividly imagine the paper being drafted in by some air current, but a spool can only get that far, if someone had rolled it in from a higher place in the shaft. which is sealed?! or... it looks a lot like a wheel to me, so my suspicion goes rather in the direction that there have been, imho multiple, "undocumented" attempts with (wired, camera-carrying?) carts, not necessarily robots. technically possible since the eighties... btw, I guess there is much more "research" being done than what we know of, like, I can imagine Zahi organising his own stealth explorations... does anybody remeber how he reacted to gantenbrink? I do.
Yes I remember, that man can not be trusted!!! I'm also fairly sure it was proven he had sent up the robot a few times before that live tv event that was billed as the first time ?!?!?!
@@chesterfieldthe3rd929 sickening how he could weasel his way back in after being cought red handed stealing ancient artifacts not to mention the disgusting way he treats ppl and has be cought out lieing so many times !
I think the biggest question is how did relatively modern artefacts get so far into a small hole. The round thing alone needs to be examined and dated.
looks like a film reel from an older camera. considering its close to the hole in the wall on the right side, it seems like somebody reached in there with a camera through the hole.
@@jinglemyberries866 that was my first thought, combined with the ticket it suggests that there is a room close by where tourists had been. However this leads to bigger questions like how did they access the room? Why isnt it accessible now? Why isnt it documented? In fact the “hole” suggests that the bends are actually present to avoid something, perhaps a room that was once accessible.
With there being over 2.5k comments, this might have already been mentioned. In picture 21, the cavity that exists on the right side of the photo reminds me of a storm drain exhaust. The floor area directly in front of the cavity opening is clean from the force of water pushing debris away from the opening and all of the crumbled debris exists down from the opening only on the left hand side of the shaft, as if the force and current would have pushed it to that side. This would also explain how the paper could have appeared in the shaft in that area (depending where the water would have originated, and what trash it could have carried there). Now, maybe the reason the bottom of this shaft wasn’t open to the chamber was because it was meant for the shaft to be filled with water (or some other liquid), and refilled as needed. Just a thought.
The cavity with debris looks interesting. It almost looks like a shaft that opens into somewhere else known. Almost like people where throwing things into a hole to see where it went like when you throw a rock in a hole to listen for it to hit the bottom. The spear could be a tool accidentally left by a builder...wouldn't be the first time someone left a tool at a worksite. The rest of it pretty much looks as I'd expect.
If he did he has more skill than I give him credit for......and then you have to ask : why bother? The adjoining corridor, if that's what it is, would have been very difficult the hack out, for what?
Thanks for sharing this, I think there has been PLENTY of SECRET research and exploration going on that we’re not being told about. Much more IS known by those with the keys, but for whatever reason, they don’t want to share. Maybe we need some remote viewers to focus their attention on this and see what they discover!
I think that the spherical dolerite pounder/ball and copper hook tools, which (in my understanding) were found by Waynman Dixion in the Queen's chamber Northern shaft, clearly indicate that this anomaly (the hole in the side of the shaft with the debris) is a deliberate attempt to gain access as was suggested in the video and the tools fell down into the shaft at that time. The question is was this done by architects, perhaps but the question is why? I think more likely is that this shows evidence of a dynastic Egypt tomb robber attempt, possible as early as the first intermediate period. If one follows that logic then it essentially indicates that the anti-chambers that Jean-Pierre Houdin hypothesized would exist as part of the "noble circuit" is correct; which is extremely exciting. Of course, if tomb robbers had made an attempt then it is likely that got to the anti-chambers and removed the funerary goods back in dynastic times.
At 29:07 we see a smooth limestone, a better quality, so it is as if in the "lower part" of the pyramid the rock is less treated (less smooth). In the subterranea part of the pyramid there is an unfinished chamber, in its raw state, as if the works had been interrupted. I would like to ask you: Could it be possible that the pyramid was built in two different historical periods after an interruption of many years (or even centuries)? Thanks for share all this wonderful pics.
I don't know if you were serious or not, but that's not a bad idea. Rats have been trained to locate land mines allowing them to be disarmed safely. They're too light to set the mines off, so the rats are safe. They've saved many lives. Be careful out there!💟 ALL THE BEST!!!😁
@@ancientsitesgirl Unfortunately, rats have had a bad reputation with many people, and to give them a positive perspective is a nice change. I could be wrong, but I think these shafts have been explored. I think Matt is showing us some images that haven't been released to the general public yet. I wanted to pass some information on to you. Recall a couple weeks ago you were expressing your interest in going to England. If you do, you may try some "Mud Larking". The first part of this video explains it, and apparently it's legal to do. I wish I had known about it when I was in London. Check it out, see if it's something you might like to try. Title: "Origins Explained... Archaeologists Were..." ua-cam.com/video/DtTCz_6r1Js/v-deo.html Be safe out there. ALL THE BEST!!! Cat Man You're DEADLY all right! DEADLY GORGEOUS🙄
Well ill be damned! How the hell did they manage that? Also those cut marks seem really deep, your crazy if you think that was made with a copper tool.
@@myaso4123 That's what it looks like to me, as well. It's a single large block that has cracked vertically, perhaps as a result of settling. The scooped chisel marks, if that's what they are, are very interesting.
The left "handle" looks like the copper snapped right where it would of been bent like the other one. Oddly instead of pulling it out and replacing it. They chiselled out that spot so they could bend what was remaining of the copper and used the chiseled out "gutter" as a mold to weld/solder more copper to it. Securing it in place (so you could lift it from the other side). This makes me wonder if they were in a hurry by that time. 🤔
The queens chamber was the chamber for an older, smaller pyramid, whose airshafts used to go to the surface to let the king's Ba out, or whatever. When they enlarged the pyramid later they were covered over by the new masonry and new airshafts were built for the so called King's chamber. This pyramid is actually 3 or 4 buildings in one, built over a thousand years.
Good guess, but why the "doors" on each of the Queen's Shafts? Why not just put another block in front and continue building?? I have to believe that there was a purpose for those odd doors even if we can't guess their purpose today.
I was thinking much the same thing, without the Trura limestone, the Great Pyramid would be about the same size as the other Giza pyramids, that would also explain the differences in craftsmanship and material from the core. Was the pyramid repurposed from an older smaller pyramid/building? It still wouldn't explain the bends in the shaft though.
@@BMF6889 Don't the king's chamber shafts have doors too ? Maybe once your Ba flies away (its a bird with the deceased face) after so many days they closed them up to stop all the rain getting in (it used to rain more). Some New kingdom tombs have a little window up high although i'm not sure what happens in the Valley of the Kings tombs.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex I think the site was a mastaba, then a pyramid about 1/2 to 2/3 the size, then full size. Hence the three burial chambers. With the grand gallery being a ramp mechanism for the final build. There could have been a similar mechanism in the second pyramid that has been filled. And the third pyramid has not had that final enlargement.
@@macguru9999 Yes, the underground portion was probably part of the original structure maybe a natural cave that was excavated and a temple, mastaba or step pyramid built over it, then expanded into a smaller true pyramid, then into the Great Pyramid. Almost every culture, especially ancient cultures have a habit of building over the sacred sites and monuments of previous cultures. So this site being repurposed multiple times is well within the realm of possibility. And the concave indentation of the 4 faces that don't appear in any other pyramid might have been a way to keep the stone "skin" in place over the older structures. The stresses would have been focused inward instead of outward. Amazing engineering no matter who built it.
I have often wondered why the main entrance(or what appears to be) with the chevron blocks has not been excavated. Maybe it has sometime in the past and then been sealed up after.and your theory on the rubble in the Queens chamber shaft is correct. But this would then point to some kind of cover up. This would not be surprising given the well known deceitful nature of the former Minister of State for Antiquities. The secrets within could well shed light on the true function of the great pyramid which may not be in line with the generally accepted story.
I sent this to Jean Pierre Houdin. Somebody was inside, in some hidden parts. The paper and the ticket says all. Perhaps they dug through the front of the chevrons and then sealed them back.
don’t the crumpled paper and the ticket, together with the less-amount of debris right in front of the opening (image 21) imply air flow? could the ticket be simply blown there, from the other side of the opening on img 21? Are there air pressure changes or ‘a breeze’ inside the shafts or the pyramid, strong enough to blow a ticket around, during a period of 100 years? why would the guys digging through the chevrons have an entrace ticket?
all the theories do not matter, the shafts are about 8" inches square, not big enough even for a cat to turn around. We simply do not know the purpose of those shafts, all we do is blah blah. As far as the robots, Gantenbrink's robot was the best. The Jedi robot was clumsy if not a dumb approach to climbing the shaft. The 51 pictures are awesome. My respects to Señor Gantenbrink.
the shaft is pointing to sirius star and sun. The pyramid is man made, all the measurements we use to date came from Egyptians, they discover that the water drop is 1cm exactly
@@facebythewind not one picture in or around the pyramids or in the history of the pyramids were ever said the man made it. Read your history and research please.
Most people when building stuff draw on things that are never gonna be seen ever house I've helped build has multiple funny drawings inside the walls on the studs no one will ever see it
Great video. There must have been a small opening between the grand gallery and the Queens shaft north section for a short time in the last hundred years. Maybe some repairs done in the grand gallery about halfway up on the right as you climb. That whole area definitely merits further investigation. That spear thing looks like some kind of masons scribe for marking lines onto stone blocks
I suspect the small opening is from another room that the shaft was bent to avoid. Why they would put an addition to the North shaft is unknown, but if it was a special room that was used in conjunction to the other rooms in the pyramid, it could be the reason. It will be interesting to find out more if/when they open up the newly found void and explore the space to see if there is access to new areas in the pyramid. In my opinion, there are many rooms in the pyramid that are not found yet, and the way to get into those areas may be tied to the new void, which is why we need to open the void to exploration, even if the discovery upsets the clerics...
Sir, you are so amazing! The effort and research you go through to present your videos is incredible. Thank you for all you do. It is all so educational and mysterious.
I've enhanced the pictures of the two doors with photoshop. Sharpened the focus, enhanced the contrast and made other adjustments to the colour etc. This is what I believe I can see. Two different artists on the Northern shaft door. On the left the first artist has drawn a picture of the front half of what appears to be a dolphin or a fish. I see the same creature drawn on the door of the Southern shaft. On the centre and right of the Northern shaft door a different artist, or the same artist with a different colour marker, has drawn two things. 1. A matchstick person thrusting with a long rod at a 45 degree angle sloping upwards. Remember that these shafts slope upwards. 2. Below him are two pyramids with a much larger one behind a smaller one. Just like the pyramids at Giza as we now see them. The larger pyramid is half built. The smaller one is complete. The larger one is built up to the summit, but the cladding blocks are only complete half way up the pyramid. So the top half is too skinny. A matchstick man is poking a long pole deep inside the larger pyramid above the level where the cladding blocks are complete. So he's pushing the pole into the skinny, uncompleted part just above the completed cladding blocks. These pyramids are not sloping upwards. They are on the level. Does this indicate a different purpose for the "air" shafts. Instead of air, are they for communication between engineers inside the half built pyramid with those working on the outside? They could shout through the shafts and even pass engineering drawings, or food and water down to the engineers inside the pyramid? Is that why they drew fish? Was fish the food? Or do the fish drawings indicate that they were pouring water down the shafts for the workers inside so they could clean themselves or drink? Fish = water?
You know just from watching the video and looking at the schematics, that's kind of what I was thinking. A way to talk, or pass things to those inside while the others outside were working. Also, the stick to me looks like a little chisel or something that was maybe set down and forgotten about by a builder, and then knocked against the wall by one of the rods. If surgeons can leave tools and gauze etc in patients, then why can't an ancient builder leave his chisel behind?
The shaft becomes Tura limestone at the end. That means it was meant to be viewed from the outside when the pyramid was finished and the pyramid was covered with a layer of Tura Limestone. Otherwise it was a waste of expensive rock. Also the "door" had handles so they could open and close the door. That meant they never intended to cover the shaft with more blocks. They needed to access that shaft through the door. The pyramid was supposed to end there. But later they changed their mind and increased the size of the pyramid, which then covered the shaft. This is what I see on the drawing inside the door. The pyramid is finished, but they are increasing the size by adding more blocks to the outside. Someone was drawing a diagram on the inside of the door to explain why they were covering it with more blocks. They wanted a larger pyramid but they no longer needed the shaft, so they were burying it with more blocks. This confirms the theory of the owner of this channel that the pyramid was made larger after it was built. The plastic wheel must have fallen off a wheeled probe that the Egyptians used many years ago. They never told us about that probe. The ticket and the new side shaft tells us that a lot has been going on over the past 150 years in that shaft than we know about. Someone broke into the shaft from the side. The wheeled probe that lost a plastic wheel was probably introduced through that new shaft on the side. The "knife" is probably a slither of broken rock that only looks like a rock. The debris is from the break though shaft on the side and the poking and prodding and probing they did after they broke through into the Northern shaft from the side. They damaged the shaft. It was probably done illegally, or we would know about it by now and who did it. They might have placed that ticket for posterity to discover, which we did. This also explains why they lowered the floor when they broke through into the Norther shaft. They needed more space to get their wheeled probe into the shaft. It was too tight. That's why the wheel broke off. The probe jammed in the shaft and the wheel came off as they tried to extract it. If that wheel had not broken off, the probe would still be in the shaft today.
@@JohnBedson Thanks John! Looking forward to that, sounds very interesting...I had ideas of doing the same thing but I do not have access to photoshop at the moment
Could that wheel have been attached to the end of the shorter rod to help it navigate through the shaft and broke off at what would have been a high stress turn. Just below the object at the end of the shorter rod, on the left hand side, there looks to be an attachment dowel (broken off or removed). The object at the end of the shorter rod looks like it was made for a different purpose while the one on the longer rod looks purpose built. Keep up the great work!
Whenever I see long tubes with a blocker at one end, I think about a piston or some air pressure device. I wonder what would happen to the air pressure in the kings chamber if it was "closed" and then they ran blocks attached to rope up and down, using the side of the pyramid as a balance. I wonder if the air pressure in their would change significantly and I wonder if the pyramid structure could hold a vacuum inside.
Its just a guess- but I have a feeling that the piece of wood next to the pole could possibly be some sort of Flag that was previously attached to the pole so that it would be visible when it presumably came out of the other end. It could have been attached somehow but has fallen off..
@@LBCAndrew Highly unlikely anyone would even notice if it did, it's still a lot less invasive than knocking bricks out or drilling holes, another option would be to attach a small tracking device to a rat or mouse and send it up the shaft tracking it's movements through the pyramid using strategically placed receivers inside and outside the pyramid like an IPS system.
@@Astro148 I fing this a very clever solution as rats are known for there abilities to find routes out of almost every maze. only thing i am afraid off is that they might create damage.
@@karymwillemsen5564 A small bit of damage is a possibility depending on what the rat finds along it’s route, I am very curious about that recess in the wall, to me it looks like an adjoining shaft that leads away from the main shaft in a slightly downward and outward direction (I enhanced it in Photoshop), possibly leading to under the Queens chamber, I don’t think it is where someone has broken through to the main shaft although my theory would not explain the modern rubbish at the recess, the paper rubbish could be explained by being sucked up the shaft by the ‘chimney effect’ and would explain why it stopped near to the recess being unable to turn the sharp corner due to the vortex that would be created at that point if you see what I mean.
Im going to make a bet that the copper handles on the door have opposing features. Normally when you recess something like that into the stone it is to stop it turning because the other side is experiencing torc. Is it possible that the other copper handle is recessed on the opposite side and that they may have had ropes attached oppositely to move them into place?
Could be pressure pipes, like plumbing when your heating makes a knocking noise. Fills from below with liquid forming a air buffer at the end to allow the liquid to move up and down under pressure
My only thoughts are about WHY these shafts were added in the first place? Building the pyramid would have been much easier without including them. So they must have provided a useful purpose during the construction phase. But the fact the shaft has bends in it, as well blocks, is a real puzzle.
Someone pointed out it has extended the construction phase by 10 years. It was never done again. Most likely the shafts had a forgotten ritual usage. Like doorways for the Ak, Ba and Ka of the pharao to leave the tomb. Compare the large number of false doors (Scheintüren) in other tombs.
I have often heard that the pins in the shaft doors are "iron". Which of course would be impossible as the Egyptians did not have any iron at this time when they "supposedly" built the pyramids. Upon examination, however, of the pictures of the pins, green corrosion can clearly be seen indicating copper or bronze pins. This is very interesting. I think it would be incredibly informative to find out what kind of metal the blocking door pins are made of.
I do not think its Iron, but they did have metroric iron, and the shaft did have some spiritual purpose, so there are the place to use the super rare star-metal from the gods....
The shafts could be for air during ceremony and filling. It looks like shaft is connected to another shaft at the lowered floor block anomaly possibly leading to another chamber. The rubbish could literally have come from anywhere and it's likely that people who climbed the pyramid in the past have found a gap and placed rubbish in it not knowing where it would have ended up.
Such a great video! I watch your search for truth with confidence you are considering everything that can be found. Thanks for being the editor for all the information that is out there. I get so frustrated with many of the commentators as they obviously have not listened to the whole reasoning behind your theories.
At 39:52 where the newly discovered shaft enters the main shaft I would expect to see broken iregular walls not chiselled square shaped walls if this was broken through from the outer side. Therefore this shaft must have been part of the original construction. The plastic round object looks like a plastic cover from a super 8 movie film container.
The writing on the "door" are numbers. The one to the right of the pin that kind of looks like an @ is the number 100 Below that the numbers are 1,000,000 300 3 41 and 6. These numbers appear to be written at random. Meaning they are separate numbers and do not appear to be a single written statement. Why I think they are at random. The 100 (looks like @) is Kemetic (Think hieroglyphs in the tombs) Which is something that the scribes and priests used. The rest of the numbers appear to be hieratic which would be used by the builders and workers. In both languages the character direction indicates the beginning of the sentence or number. In this instance the characters are pointing different directions and not in a line. I would guess that what we are looking at is the ancient equivalent of two modern construction workers discussing/jotting down numbers on a sheet of plywood. Basically, it is a scratch pad with some numbers on it. As to the # 100 (the @ looking one) I would guess that the medal pins were put in by priests and have a symbolic role in there positioning.
Sad that the quality of the photos and light was so low back then! Today they could get light that is much better and the camera are many times better in quality! We can only hope that they do another robot expedition with the state of the art equipment for light and photography, infrared, super HR and so on!
I've seen ancient black polished stone spools, I mean brien forester videotaped them in a museum, I think they're Egyptian, so that could be it, or it could be a wheel from a rover
It looks like an injection molded plastic wheel from a Tonka truck. Somebody's robot break down there? Wasn't there a robot that did get stuck in there once?
I've already posted in a reply to another post. Wheels are also used on the ends of rods to help them get around bends and corners. I think this has fallen off and they then resorted to using the ball end type. They are normally made from metal.
Exactly the kind of video I like to see. Here are the facts, facts and more facts. Occam's Razor inspired speculation. It is very nice to see a video on ancient Egypt and not have to deal with UFO aliens.
If you buy a set of drain clearing rods, one of the attachments is a screw fitting with a small wheel, allowing the rod to travel over rough surfaces. It may be that the rod was wedged into the side wall causing damage. A wheeled attachment may have been used to get past the damage but could have been damaged, leaving the wheel in situ. It would have been a metal wheel at this point in time.
Perhaps an unsuccessful attempt of exploration by the Egyptians was not documented. The wheel could have been lost in the process. It´s been a long time since 1872.
Lookingforward to watching this although will have seen a lot before. The Cheops pyramid will continue to puzzle us for many years to come. I am not sure your ‘explanation’ of the build is correct but it does offer an out of the box perspective and is worth a watch. Continue your excellent contributions to the Egypt puzzles. Mart (he with the bit of wall!)
Hi Martin... I think the majority of people won’t have seen these pictures as they are from Pyramid Rover in 2002, and the northern shaft not southern. Some will have seen them though of course :)
@@AncientArchitects I think your take on the shafts as once being from a smaller planned pyramid which was then made larger is bang on. It makes so much sense. 👍👍
@@TheGreatest1974 We seem to be seeing a lot of underground works recently that could well shed a new light on the whole complex. So much is being held back from the public domain that one does wonder….
@@TheGreatest1974 If that's correct it might mean the pyramid was itself an Ark to survive the coming cataclysm and the people who built it realized they had more time to make their shelter bigger and safer.
@@mArt2011funflydesign It seems like the Egyptian government wants to keep some things about the pyramid secret. Maybe they see it as a way to maintain interest in their tourism cash cow.
Given the size of the "spear" being similar to an oversize penzil, I would suggest it is a small stonecarving tool for making markings or small details. One use could have been to work on that small door piece in the end of the corridor. If they did some of the finishing right before putting it there, and given that the shaft slopes downward, it is not unreasonable to think that one of the tools were accidentally dropped inisde.
Matt, brilliant video. Easy to forger that this shaft is only about 8” wide so everything seen has to be considered in this context. More questions than answers though. About time someone got those rods out, wouldn’t be difficult. Hope you get to read as far as this post, Cheops (or is it Kufu?) will keep you in pocket money for many years to come😊 Mart.
@@mnomadvfx Take your point but it’s always a natural reaction to think ‘Take those bloody things out of there’ same as wanting to see further demolition of the whole structure to see what else is there. Apologise for spelling. I always forget the K name which is why I use Cheops 🤪
Didn’t I see that the shaft is only about 8” square? So anything inside it would mostly fit in the palm of your hand. Including all that debris, the spool (probably a water bottle cap) and the spear. Regarding the side shaft, you could barely fit your hand into it. Gotta keep the scale of the shaft in mind when speculation it’s function and how it was built.
I came here to say the same thing. The "vent" he is talking about is in an eight inch square shaft. So just how big is this "vent"? An inch and a half high? Perhaps just under 2 inches high? I agree it is very odd that there is modern debris in the shaft near the "vent". BUT, as it was in the interior of the pyramid, could the builders just reused a piece of masonry already cut to line the shaft. That happens all the time in buildings and the rough stonework in the shaft does not feel like the builders were using their top-grade materials and workmanship.
The black plastic spool could be a camera lens cap and let's not forget the old paper ticket found in shaft. My thinking is on picture 21 of the anomaly the stone with the cut out in it is directly under the Grand Gallery where the shaft bends so the ticket and plastic spool were from someone who dropped them when walking up the Grand Gallery and they fell to the floor and fell through the cut square in the shafts stone as shown on pic 21.
@@MrEvilWasp look at the map of the shaft at the points of where it bends and on pic 21 it is I'm sure at the point of around the under side of the Grand Gallery.
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Stop having aliens and conspiracy theorie adds on your videos!!
Maybe between 2002 and 2012 was another rover in shaft, but not official known, and this plastic wheel is from it (plastic is only from second half of XX century)
@@m_sedziwoj Very good point! I bet you are right!
Do we know for certain those round things are plastic? To me, they look like rolls of chalk line, which would be in metal cannisters. Also, based on where the Queen's chamber shafts end, I think they originally did extend to the outside. Perhaps for awhile during construction, they provided ventilation for the workers inside. The pyramid was then finished to its current dimensions. Thanks for reading!
@@Pheidias_Tom if this would be case, we would see more weird artefacts
You realize that you being the only one who's cared enough to put the work into find these pictures and document them in an open source way proves what a valuable niche you are filling both in the alternative and mainstream archaeological community. Amazing job.
No. You're just too lazy to find open source material and put it all together.
@@SonoftheWars Would love you to find those alleged "open source" picture files from this video.
@@LyubomirIkoyou wanna fight bro?
Much obliged.
@@shawnmichaelis1609 why would he wanna fight bro😂😂😂
I cant believe no one has made a better robot crawler with led lights and a 4k articulating camera that could fully document that entire shaft in about 45 mins.
Making the robot is not the issue, getting permission to investigate the pyramids is extremely difficult with Zahi Hawas dictating everything
@@marknixon84 I would offer it is better to beg for forgiveness than ask for permission in this instance. If you build it they will come.....
@@orioncustom I guess most academics are scared that their begging won't get them off criminal damage of ancient monument charges!
Do not piss off the officials. I have spent my entire life around the world. Do not piss off the officials.
Thank you for your work.
I'm shocked by the lack of information in 20 years.
A 3D scan of the whole route is needed, at the moment I don't know it has been carried out, or at least made public?
The spot where the paper and the spool were recovered would be closely observed, it looks like a secondary tunnel, and the rubble indicates it was excavated later, but from where??? 3d scan would have helped.
The pointed object at 25:57, which should also be recovered, or at least observed closely well, it has a flattened terminal pate, so it could be a chisel.
Today the technology is available to "everyone", I myself would be able to design, build, program a FPV robot suitable for this exploration, should be equipped with:
-Multidirectional rubber wheels
-3D scanner
-A mechanical jointed arm with 6 degrees of movement, with an FPV camera, flanked by a 4k camera, and an LED spotlight, on the same arm at the tip would be equipped with a rubber gripper for retrieving objects.
The cost of this apparatus would be a few hundred euros
so.... WHAT THE F*** ARE THEY WAITING FOR!!!!???
there are dickheads gatekeeping whatever secrets the pyramids may hold. There was a group that wanted to do a, I think it was a LIDAR scan, and were denied.
With all the advances in robotics, electronics, lighting, and the amazing new digital camera technologies it would be nice to see all the shafts re explored and re imaged. it would also be easy to have hands on them to pick things up and return with the objects for study.
A GoPro 360 on a small rover would give great video footage.
… more interesting to me than gold coffins. Thanks for sharing all this work.
“Should we smooth out the inside of the stone tunnel?” “Why bother? No one will ever see the inside.”
Thousands of years later….
A conversation between aliens and Egyptian’s
"Shit Larry, i told you not to not put the apprentice on the shaft building. Look at it. It's all crooked and unpolished"
It is great that they didn't though. We can see clearly that it was worked using manual chisels. No lost technologies used here.
The lads working on it were probably called in on a Saturday to finish up a snag list.
"Don't mind polishing the inside, cover it up to fuck"
"But what if the Pharaoh sees it?"
"Oh my God will you please cop on"
@@AustinKoleCarlisle thats easy to you get the 2 stones together an run a saw down the center of the Crack then slide the rocks closer then repeat until you have your desired fitment it's only hard to understand for people that have never made anything in their life
Thanks to everyone who joined the Premiere and who took part in the chat. That was awesome!
Loved the première, you have build such a wonderful community 🥰
indeed, so much to look close at, its all on the table now, maybe theyll admit where the opening notch is, wishful thinking right?
No problem, I was the one with the idea that it was a crypto currency factory, just in case I'm right. Gonna see the video again before sleep.
Thanks for another great in depth video! Love it.
Hmmm....
that degree at the right angled bend where you describe the floor as being lower adjacent to what looks to be another symmetrical entrance looks different to me to what you describe, let me know if you have any thoughts on this;
At the upper end of that entryway, it appears more like silt or build up along the ground going from right to left, with the top edge almost having a curve that, to me, almost indicates some sort of downward flow of either water or wind gusts that are high enough to move that debris down some sort of channel and exiting into the northern channel and going across to the left and then down the slope towards where the camera Rc entered.
This is a little bit anomalous swing as debris would normally build up on the lower side and not the upper, but we don’t know how anything may have exited that small channel on the right hand side either, so if it was directed a certain way, I could definitely see there being a chance of silt and debris being dumped along the upper edge instead of the lower if it flowed a particular way leading up to that channel exit..
the silt build up would give the appearance of being a lower square shape in the floor next to the channel, but looking at the shadow cast by the rods on the floor, the area of floor is no further away from the rods than the area of floor the Rc is taking the photo from, with possibly only maybe a small lip on the edge of the floor stone in both directions and not just downhill from the channel?
Taking into account that the height and width of the shaft is about 20 cm (8 inches), the size of the cavity is about 10 cm by 30 cm (4*12 inches), just a bit larger than a standard brick. The width of the plastic spool is about 3.4 cm (1.3 inches), the width of a thicker metal rod is about 1 cm (0.4 inch), the size of a 'spear' is about 1cm by 15 cm (0.4 by 6 inches), which makes it more like a size of an arrow, or, in case it is a flat object observed from the side, - about the size of couple of business cards. The width of knobs at the rods' ends is about 5 cm (2 inches). The blocking door is the size of a couple of standard bricks, and the handles are the size of a finger.
Yeah, and it looks like the rods are like 3/4" diameter iron water pipe or something, but the shaft is only about 8" wide
I can’t help but notice the similarities between the marked lines on the door at the end of the shaft with the diagram of discovered shafts within the pyramid. I’m an assistant to a general contractor, and we occasionally sketch rough diagrams on materials during assembly, especially during new worker training. This has the look to my eyes of something scribbled as a reminder of how the big picture fits together.
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Keep up the good work!
Amazing how we can land camera equipment on an astroid 300 million kilometers from Earth but apparently can't have full HD explain it all footage of the Pyramids.. Fascinating stuff nonetheless
We can do it, but its zahi hawass and others who do not allow anyone to do it.
@@jinglemyberries866 could you please expand a bit?
@@mattyjohnsson257 hawass has full control over who goes in, what they can look at, and what technology they can use. He shuts down what he doesn’t want happening.
He’s also a known criminal but that’s another matter I suppose.
@@dhaisley I heard thay he wasn't in control anymore. Yay!
@@MAGA_Extremist that would be nice but we will still have the Egyptian government oversight. While I agree that it’s proper that this is so I don’t trust them any more than I would trust the Vatican to oversee the work. They have a vested interest in maintaining a certain narrative.
By far this is my favorite pyramid video that I've seen. Detailed and informative. It's devoid of whack theory and conjecture, which I appreciate.
You need to watch his 91 minute video ' Solving the Mystery of the Great Pyramid of Egypt (2020 Documentary).'
All his videos are good, and he corrects himself as new discoveries are made.
This is probably your best post ever. Congratulations 👏
so far ~ and that's saying a lot with Matt's videos!
I watched this video
Another great video. Everyone should keep in mind though that the "shaft" is only 8" square, so basically the "spear" is more like a small stick and the "debris" is just flakes of stone. The "cavity" is probably only 3" x 6". The pictures make the shaft look much larger but this are an almost a microscopic view.
Zahi sent 2 robots in on 2 different occasions (one had the handles, the one after, the handles were gone...surprised, i am not)
Zahi... Isn't he the one who should burn in Hell ? I just want to keep up on My facts...
@@sparkynm156 yeah that's the one
It does look as though you could crawl through it in the pictures.
P9 - notice the scoring marks. The orientation flips 90 degrees. There is a clear vertical pattern that change abruptly to a horizontal direction. Also notice how the 'floor' block is much larger and is the same stone.
P10 - There is writing on the wall on the left hand side.
P21 - Notice the floor here, the color changes obviously from dust build up. This appears that there is air flow coming from in the inside of that cavity which directs the 'rumble' constantly. Inside that cavity is a larger area that is funneling pressure/air into the shaft.
P32 - Right hand floor is another 'rod' covered with dust
P33 - Probably tip of previous mentioned rod.
P35,36- Flat piece of metal. It's not limestone because limestone doesn't shine when light reflects the corners.
P37- The left wall has been "patched"
P50 - that's writing/picture on the block. Probably an indication on how to open it. Also important to note that the block slides to the left as there are gaps top, right, and bottom.
P51- Standard 2 system pin pull. Safety Pin and Weighted Pin. To remove and slide: one pin is pulled out (pushed into shaft, rotated, and slide through), block is slide to location to remove secondary pin, then exposing rest of the shaft.
This looks like an air duct directing air to a location in the main structure.
Also, modern electric drones/remote controlled cars with gopro's strapped to them are needed to further explore this shaft. However, I think the only things worth further exploration in this shaft is the P21 location and the writings on the wall. Mini quadcopters with a GoPro would answer these questions.
This is great! Went through each one individually as well 😅
With today's technology we can take detailed hi-res pictures with tiny cameras inside the human body's passages - How difficult could it be to send a small remote-controlled camera back up that shaft to get much better pictures than those from 20 years ago?
@@Zunsmoon Why not? If that could be proved, it wouldn't harm anybody. But the idea is ridiculous.
@@Beevreeter It would disrupt the whole human timeline. If it was machine and most likely was with the amount of evidence now these anomalies would make sense. I'm talking about the pronged block in the northern shaft and southern shaft. These weren't airshafts, most likely they were inlets which seeped a chemical into the queens chamber (these small shafts were once closed except for a small slit). The prongs were probably a level sensor to check the level of the chemical inside the shafts like a fuel gauge.
This also explains the different erosion types we see on the floor and prongs of both shafts.
I was thinking the exact same thing along with 3D laser for a truly accurate map. They could even sneak a small camera over the gap above the "door" at the end to see past it.
Zahi won't allow it.
@@DBK9000 Unfortunately your 'most likely' is pure speculation and probably also pure nonsense.
sir, this was more exciting than any movie I watched in the last 5 years, your work and motivation is exceptional and I hope you end up resolving at least one of the great pyramid mysteries during our lifetime! never give up!
I seriously don’t know how you do it Matt but these videos just get better all the time ! Thank you for the in-depth information await the next instalment!!
One would think the robot that took the pictures in the shaft could have explored the hole as well. Maybe that will be done in the near future and we can learn what is there. Great video with realistic, logical, and believable explanations.
I had the pleasure of touring the Great Pyramid to the King’s Chamber back in the late 70s. My visit coincided with Ramadan that year. The “cavity” in the pictures, looks like water drainage opening possibly built in at the time of the original construction and would explain the clean nature just in front of the opening and the debris downhill of the opening. I know there was not much rainfall but, there was some. The ticket stub likely washed in from a nearby gallery accessible by tourists. After the removal of the capstone, the underlying pyramid was basically a pile of rocks and leaked like a sieve. That’s my theory and I’m sticking with it. -Roland-
how would the ticket get in there?
@@ast3663 because it washed in from another area of the period. That's why there is a pile of debris, it probably came from other areas above the shaft. Clearly the joints are not very tight or sealed
@@ast3663 It could have been dropped by a tourist who climbed to the top of the pyramid. It fell into a crack. Water/wind might take it elsewhere over time. 120 years is not a very long time for a scrap of paper to be washed say 200 feet in a desert, but a single rainstorm could do it.
amazing video. such a failure of academia that this information hasn't been made available to the general public very glad you went ahead and did that for us I appreciate it. honestly find it very exciting that it adds some credence to your pyramid enlargement theory. once again it's been amazing to follow your journey from holding some very alternative views to what you've been showing in your videos in the past year or so. it's lead to your best work and I think you've made useful contributions to my understanding of history. I think your earlier works are simply a reflection of the media on the topic available, you have "mainstream" people saying simply unreasonable/untrue things (Zahi saying he knew everything there is to know about Giza etc.) and you have "alternative" people saying again unreasonable things but the actual information that makes you believe what you do now is simply not used as an argument against some of the "alternative" theories and some of it is also very inaccessible; made so out of a institution of hierarchy and elitism. But your sense of reason prevailed, you always said what you were thinking and you always considered what you were being told, you followed a method that I believe has lead to truth.
My man you are literally changing history finding and sharing these photos. Absolutely KING level moves, thank you so much for your efforts!
The opening in the right side of the shaft roof block at 19:08 probably has some form of "communication" with the exterior of the pyramid...the floor surface to the left of it looks like it has been "wind swept" clean of dust and debris by fairly strong air currents from somewhere open to the exterior environment. The paper debris found there could have been blown into the shaft from wherever that opening connects to the exterior of the pyramid. The small rocks and chip debris indicate that the opening to the exterior must have a vertical component that shed small bits of limestone from weathering that fell downward and out of the opening in the picture. Because the shaft is angled upward, these small bits of limestone then travelled down slope after probably hitting the left wall of the shaft, as indicated by their collection against the left wall. There's another hole out on the surface of the pyramid, guys...
Or the "noble circuit" / grand gallery
Thought provoking, but explain how the paper and ‘modern’ spool entered this shaft through the other opening and got past the block with copper handles.
@@fritter63 same problem applies. The stone block with handles is still in the way. The items could only have been pushed up when they ran the rods up the shaft.
@@excavate08 What I was getting at was that the "mystery" opening in the right side of the roof block, at that location, has some connection to the exterior...not that all that stuff came through the far end of the shaft with the "door" block in it.
@@sci-fitales7793 Quite possible...someone needs to bribe the proper Egyptian officals (sorry, I meant to say "voluntarily offer suitable baksheesh") to get permission to send another, smaller robotic camera rig in there, and then make a right-hand turn into that mystery opening in the shaft in order to see what's going on there...
What's insane was to find history from this place and it gets lost again, again and again.
This may have been discussed already,i was thinking that perhaps through the years visitors to the queens chamber early in the piece may have on occasions deposited litter into the horizontal shafts,ranging from paper to stones and anything on hand,and when the queens chamber was being explored they may have used explosives as they began to tunnel there way around,the shock wave from the explosion would easily have pushed the accumulated debris further up the shaft and i believe off to one side,the shock wave in the shaft would have behaved similarly as to what happens in the trenches during WW1 with all the 90 degree bends that are seen and this may account for the debris sitting of to one side,its not unreasonable to assume that as the shock wave reaches the end of the shaft a significant pressure would build up and so a weak point in one of the blocks may cause a failure resulting in the pressure wave finding a means to escape and perhaps bringing with it some of the debris,it would be interesting to explore the archival records to see if a mention of explosives was ever used.
Seriously? Do you really think someone would use explosives in a massive granite built pyramid.
Now if you had been inside at the time - would you think it was a good idea?!
That was really enthralling Matt, and I got your excitement about the new photos. The deviation in direction almost implies that the “air shafts” were an afterthought, and had to be fitted around existing features.
Or a minor feature that had to be designed around the main features.
Or someone made some last minute changes that had to be accommodated.
I assume all structures were decided before construction started and blocks were pre worked and each then positioned when their turn came, the shaft growing over time, as layers of pre shaped blocks were laid down. If so, the shaft could have been designed to go straight up from QC but following the late addition of the undiscovered chamber had to be diverted around it. But if this previously unknown chamber is thought to be important for the funeral why would it be imposed late in design, pushing other design features to be redirected? (Perhaps after the stones for the first straight leg of the tunnel had been cut?) Wouldn’t it be the core around which the pyramid itself and all its features would’ve have been designed, as the funeral and entombment were the purpose of the whole building. Just my uninformed thinking…
I'd give anything just to know! Just too think, we'll spend are whole life just wondering 😩 I'm hooked on this stuff.. great video mate 👍
Super interesting video! Great work.
Makes me wonder if the objects like the ball and hook found when the shaft was opened actually entered through the potential opening you pointed out. Maybe someone was trying to explore the shaft in antiquity by dropping the ball down and trying to identify where it hit at the bottom?
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Interested by the ochre colouring two thirds in. The ‘spear’ might be more of a bayonet to stab at any obstruction perhaps. Would love to have a camera stop and turn right into that opening half way along. The whole thing is so fascinating!
Thanks for the vid. Apart from the purpose of the shafts, it's a valuable look into the past of stonework mostly untouched since thousands of years. I think, there was a change in plan since the construction was started and the way it's carried out tells us extremely much about their techniques. Also, the artifacts are very exciting. Keep the good work and thanks for sharing!
The rods in the door at the end seem to be an anode and cathode, one having lost material and the other having gained material. It would explain why they grooved the stone behind the left hand rod so as to allow for the accumulation.
Love it, expand the theory. Sounds up Chris Dunn's line of thinking )
agreed, Chris Dunn wries about this, but for what? the shafts are not fluid tight, so or at last not any longer. Can they be there to egnite or charge gasses?
Go to a channel called just add water.
Look up cathode recess as I’ve just been doing. Far from giving space to allow for expansion it’s actually helps the cathode to avoid too much accumulation too soon, thus prolonging it’s life.
@Gil Lubeke, that is exactly what I was thinking when I saw them. Then I saw your comment. If this truly an anode/cathode pair, then it's possible it was there to cause a chemical reaction/spark/plasma discharge? Possibly the passageway was filled with gas or conductive liquid?
I too i am curious why they have never released the video. Today is even more easy to climb and get a better deteil from it. Thank you for this!
I think it’s not even a conspiracy... I think it just wasn’t going to get views on a mainstream tv channel. It’s too niche. Hawass included a number of the pictures in a journal from 2014, but it’s almost impossible to get hold of. I think it just fell away and people moved on.
@@AncientArchitects How could people just lose interest? The lack of information seems almost like it's being covered up, and I am not really into the conspiracy theories. Strange. Hey, You have a Wonderful channel!! Big Hello and Thank You from the Spacecoast!
@@jeffjeff4477 They couldn't, not with the implication of a possible new shaft or chamber. Smells like conspiracy.
@@negi9040 Why not be excited about a new discovery? It's bizarre. Do you think they have found a bunch of stuff inside, underneath?
@@jeffjeff4477 the only thing that makes sense is that they know it's not a shaft or chamber and that we were not given this data in the video, otherwise people would be scrambling to get the notoriety for a new discovery. Based on the many examples of primitive techniques used in the pyramids construction, it appears to have been constructed at least 5k yrs after the cataclysm. I do expect something to be found eventually, but I don't expect it to be advanced tech.
The Spool looks to me like a 16mm film Reel from a camera.
Very good!
Some body got his hand with a camera thru that hole at the side. Took pictures.
@@duka1461 youre right that seems most likely.
I think you are right, but it is more likely to be 8mm because that is what tourists would use. 16mm spools tend to be much bigger in diameter.
Thank you for going through the trouble of getting these new images and putting this together. Very interesting.
30:00 I always wanted somebody to try and connect electrical power to the 2 handles. With one sticking out, and the other is countersunk its almost like one is for positive, and one is for negative( + and - ) DC.
Right on!! I don’t know how you did it but hooray. I live and breathe pyramids and I have enjoyed watching all of your shows.I don’t nessecarily agree with some of your theory’s but I like the way your mind works.
Keep up the excellent work
The ticket and the spool, surely someone’s got some explaining to do!
Funny how both spear and metal rod end at around the same place , what information where these ppl using, did someone mislead these folks interesting info for sure, I'm betting all the items have been sacked already
The only possible explanation is, that it came from the hole in the right wall of the shaft. The spool is not more than a few centuries old (it looks like plastic) , probably only a few years (not much dust on it, but lots of dust anywhere else).
It looks like somebody found another cavity inside and for one or another reason does not tell the public. (Better ideas are welcome!)
The ticket and the other piece of paper should be given to a paper expert for dating. There are dating methods for paper. They are mainly use to find out if old books and paintings are real or fake. The methods can be used on any paper.
@@Itsjustme-Justme I agree about the paper. I'd imagine it would be easy to days. I've looked everywhere on line and there is no sign of the paper ticket. Is it a hoax ?
@@magsbulldog I can’t read it but it could be one of the worker’s badge. Seems the picture below is missing. 😂
Eh Lucy... Chu got some splanging to do...
The mystery stick looks like a chisel, spatula, or even a surface scrapper. To make it one would hammer out a copper plate and then hammer part of it around a stick, this would leave a flat edge on the front which could be work hardened. The shadow on the shaft wall in this frame makes the item appear to have flat front edge rather than a point.
Of course, I am probably wrong.
Looking at the scale size of the object, it would be quite small, on the order of only 4 to 6 inches.
That is small for a stoneworking tool.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex I thought it possibly could be a device to mark the stones. The one thing I am certain of is there needs to be more investigation.
@@glen1arthur I've been kind of stuck on this all day,, could that be the missing piece of the "handle" from the "door" at the end of the shaft?
It kind of looks like the one that is still there.
The part that looks like a flag could be a trick of light and shadow because of the fact that it looks to be the same luminance and color as the shadows.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex - agree, but my first thought, given the likely size of the object, was that some ancient stone worker had lost his lunch knife when the upper inverted u shape was dropped into place.😏
My guess is it's a flake of stone that has fallen off the wall and was pushed up onto it's side as the rods were pushed through. The image is looking at the flake edge-wise. I would think most of the alignment of the debris along the sides was also caused by use of the rods and how they would move around as they encounter each new bend.
The fact that people still continue to think this is a tomb is just amazing. Nothing remotely related to a tomb has ever been found in the great pyramid and the walls are blank. Every actual tomb in Egypt has the walls covered with hieroglyphs. The shafts that actually reached the outer wall of the pyramid were used as an "air gap" like you have in your kitchen to allow for water to drain, and to the important chambers were kept dry.
I still get a kick out of how they claim the casement stones which were granite, and the floors outside the pyramid were basalt, and somehow those were cut and shaped by copper chisels and stone pounders. At the Aswan quarry there has been a pounder that tourists can beat on a block of granite with, and after 20+ years of tourists beating on this one block, the indentation is only like 3-4mm. Just look around the quarry at aswan and you can see evidence of drills, and large circular saw blade cut marks which are FAR different than grinding marks which is what a copper saw would leave.
I suspect the thinking of purely metal tools being used for this work is probably just a mistake made by people in the early industrial age who couldn't think of any way beyond metal to cut stone. But if one skips over to the Americas one can see a few ancient civilizations working stone with for instance just stone tools, using for instance harder stones like obsidian or other methods to work the rock instead. One might suppose that the Egyptians too would be able to think of such tricks I guess.
Do you mean like a sarcophagus...or sealing mechanisms...or the name of the pharaoh?
Edit: just in case you couldn't tell, all of the above have been found inside the Great Pyramid.
@LBCAndrew And here we go again :D How about reading a bit about the pyramids before writing a next comment?
@Ghoasty Guy No it doesn't. They give dozens of research permits every year and let even Graham Hancock to explore the pyramids freely, although he is not even Egyptologist and has totally crackpot theories.
@@aszahala "Its a conspirucy bruh!" - Pretty much the usual argument.
I don't know that the floor has been "worked" in front of the anomaly so much as it is much cleaner at that point,, possibly from air movement and/or whatever pushed that trash in there...
That was my guess... Or water.
@@swirvinbirds1971 Or an explosion. Like dynamite. If someone blasted in a room on the other end the debris coming out of the hole would spread just like this. And it would clean the floor too.
@@billd.iniowa2263 yea I could see that being possible as well.
@@billd.iniowa2263 Maybe but I would expect some charring fro most types of explosives.
@@swirvinbirds1971 yeah I think water was integral to its design
I'm fairly certain the marks at the end were from the rods being shoved in the shafts. The rods probably made it all the way to the end, but when abandoned, settled to their current positions.
why didn't they pull the rods out?
@@wheelmanstan too difficult for a tiny robot to do..
@@damion1757 he meant by the people who pushed them in first... Why didn't they pull it out?
@@hermanduplessis3146 I used to pull wire into conduits all the time with fish tape, similar to this metal rod. Sometimes, especially when you're trying to pull or push things into something that is not meant for it(non-conduit), it snags on everything causing more fiction. That, and with the weight of the rods, and/or the threads, it may have unthreaded the one, or just pulled out at a joint of the other rod... leaving it there with no other means for them getting it out. There are many things that could've happened... Those rods were smaller pieces joined together, not one solid piece, so it separates...
@@damion1757 Yes, all that would be issues going in (up) but there would be a lot of gravitational help if there was legitimate effort to pull them out wouldn't you say?
The void does raise exciting questions, as does the arrow. My humble opinion is that any chisel marks or debris in a picture with a rod is probably from the supreme effort necessary to mash a straight steel rod down a curvy tunnel.
Honestly, the distance they made it down the shaft was impressive.
Makes sense. Though it doesn't entirely explain the plastic wheel, as when those rods were inserted, modern plastics didn't exist yet.
@@kargaroc386 It's not a plastic wheel. Its the brass rim of an old shotgun shell.
Crazy the grooves the steel rods made, the stone must be as soft as plaster to do that much damage
I think that the marks on the door are from the tops of the wooden knobs. The marks look arching as if the knobs had reached the door and that the workers had used a twisting motion to determine if the pole was blocked. It’s the same procedures if you were using a drain snake. That also explain why the rods are still in there, when the worker was trying to pull the rods out got a rod joint snagged when twisting it in threaded the rod decoupling it leaving the rods in the shaft.
A thought on the spear like object. I instantly thought or it being a workers chisel tool that they dropped in the shaft during construction. The wrapping look like hand grips to stop you from getting blisters if you were shaping rock. Once a block is placed you would not be able to get it back if it fell in the shaft.
I have a few suggestions, nothing earth shattering in arctic.
The rubbish or debris being on one side. When you push rods like this they bend if the end meets any resistance no matter how small of a resistance. This bowing will push the debris to the walls, almost like sweeping with a brush. I have pushed stiff electrical cables along trenches which mimic this tunnel, there is always this sweeping effect.
The pins in the pins at the bung block. The left-hand pin looks like its been plastered over almost? No idea what that means....
The spear.... remember those flat roof slate or tile like pieces. That's what could be described as spawling on modern brickwork, limestone is often made up of layers like slate but not as weak as slate. But these layers can split from salts forming, that's spawling. Now imagine seeing an uneven lump of spawling edgewise, blade like? Then add shadows, is slightly of line viewpoint, the thin sections will appear like blades and the thicker parts look like a shaft. That's my thoughts from the image of the spear.
But oh that plastic spool... that is interesting....that possible offshoot really needs a good looking at moochers for a good video.
Extraordinary work, Matt. Love your channel, keep it up! Follow you from Spain.
Thanks! I try.
It’s hilariously infuriating no one is allowed to strap an iPhone to a remote controlled car lol
The politics of this is as interesting as the exploration
Because they don't want more stuff getting clogged up in there. It has to be done safely and with reliable machines that will be guaranteed to be able to come back out without dropping more garbage along the way.
But yes, it should be done again.
its hilariously infuriating that you think sending a stupid remote controlled car from walmart and an iphone up there is viable...You must be quite smooth brained
I agree with your frustration. Today it would be much easier and cheaper to create a far more versatile robot and equip it with a much better camera system and sensor array.
@@brosettastone7520 come on now, no need for all that.
Clearly the point is that it should be hilariously easy for us to navigate these shafts compared to 20 years ago.
@@brosettastone7520 a Walmart rc car and an iPhone would be more technologically advanced than what was sent by explorers in early 2000 and earlier as well as whatever else has been sent down by the Egyptian govt.
It looks like air can pass through the cavety in photograph 21. An air channel leading to a place where tourists once stayed. Things like a ticket can fall into this channel. It also looks like air is passing and keeping the floor clean of dust. What falls into the canal, via the pit and down the northern shaft will naturally stop where the canal is most horizontal (45 °). If you filled the duct with light pressureised smoke, you might find the other end of any air channel
Smoke might be undetectable, might react chemically and be absorbed or diffused. But some other gases might work. Maybe Helium and argon? Helium rises and argon falls. Both are affordable, and detectable in tiny trace amounts.
Possibly the ticket, but what about this other piece, looking like a wheel.
I doubt there's enough air current to move scraps of paper around. Probably someone would have noticed. I wonder if maybe it was pushed up by the rods somehow.
The wheel is interesting. Could it have fallen off of a robot?
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Really enjoyed this one.
"plastic spool"... why "plastic"? I can vividly imagine the paper being drafted in by some air current, but a spool can only get that far, if someone had rolled it in from a higher place in the shaft. which is sealed?! or... it looks a lot like a wheel to me, so my suspicion goes rather in the direction that there have been, imho multiple, "undocumented" attempts with (wired, camera-carrying?) carts, not necessarily robots. technically possible since the eighties... btw, I guess there is much more "research" being done than what we know of, like, I can imagine Zahi organising his own stealth explorations... does anybody remeber how he reacted to gantenbrink? I do.
Yeah, could be metal... I wish I’d changed the “plastic” now
Yes I remember, that man can not be trusted!!! I'm also fairly sure it was proven he had sent up the robot a few times before that live tv event that was billed as the first time ?!?!?!
Zahi is a disappointment to the human race. Horrible person.
@@chesterfieldthe3rd929 agreed 100%
@@chesterfieldthe3rd929 sickening how he could weasel his way back in after being cought red handed stealing ancient artifacts not to mention the disgusting way he treats ppl and has be cought out lieing so many times !
I think the biggest question is how did relatively modern artefacts get so far into a small hole. The round thing alone needs to be examined and dated.
I would assume this came from a rover looks to be a guide wheel or a bushing
looks like a film reel from an older camera. considering its close to the hole in the wall on the right side, it seems like somebody reached in there with a camera through the hole.
@@jinglemyberries866 that was my first thought, combined with the ticket it suggests that there is a room close by where tourists had been. However this leads to bigger questions like how did they access the room? Why isnt it accessible now? Why isnt it documented? In fact the “hole” suggests that the bends are actually present to avoid something, perhaps a room that was once accessible.
Or they got pushed by the rods, that would explain why it is damaged like that (paper), it was dragged along..
I think we’re being shafted by the ones in charge
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Who is in charge?
@@danieldorsz1047 idiots are in charge
You mean like a conspiracy?
If you want to know who's in charge, follow the money. Eisenhower knew, and he didn't like it.
With there being over 2.5k comments, this might have already been mentioned. In picture 21, the cavity that exists on the right side of the photo reminds me of a storm drain exhaust. The floor area directly in front of the cavity opening is clean from the force of water pushing debris away from the opening and all of the crumbled debris exists down from the opening only on the left hand side of the shaft, as if the force and current would have pushed it to that side. This would also explain how the paper could have appeared in the shaft in that area (depending where the water would have originated, and what trash it could have carried there). Now, maybe the reason the bottom of this shaft wasn’t open to the chamber was because it was meant for the shaft to be filled with water (or some other liquid), and refilled as needed. Just a thought.
Ya I thought the same thing.. but water was used to search with.fill it up and see where it poured out
The cavity with debris looks interesting. It almost looks like a shaft that opens into somewhere else known. Almost like people where throwing things into a hole to see where it went like when you throw a rock in a hole to listen for it to hit the bottom. The spear could be a tool accidentally left by a builder...wouldn't be the first time someone left a tool at a worksite. The rest of it pretty much looks as I'd expect.
Could Hawas have dug that tunnel into the North Shaft in secrecy? He did things like that. Who knows what he removed!
I just took a huge zahi and now my hawass really hurts
Wouldn't surprise me. That man is a snake.
@@SeverinDK he is simply doing as he is told and paid to do....a Yes Man.
@@SeverinDK spot on!
If he did he has more skill than I give him credit for......and then you have to ask : why bother? The adjoining corridor, if that's what it is, would have been very difficult the hack out, for what?
Thanks for sharing this, I think there has been PLENTY of SECRET research and exploration going on that we’re not being told about. Much more IS known by those with the keys, but for whatever reason, they don’t want to share. Maybe we need some remote viewers to focus their attention on this and see what they discover!
Boy that sure is some interesting research they found, that we will never see.
Someone need to scan it with lidar somehow for true accuracy, colour and detail. Great video!👍🇦🇺
I think that the spherical dolerite pounder/ball and copper hook tools, which (in my understanding) were found by Waynman Dixion in the Queen's chamber Northern shaft, clearly indicate that this anomaly (the hole in the side of the shaft with the debris) is a deliberate attempt to gain access as was suggested in the video and the tools fell down into the shaft at that time. The question is was this done by architects, perhaps but the question is why? I think more likely is that this shows evidence of a dynastic Egypt tomb robber attempt, possible as early as the first intermediate period. If one follows that logic then it essentially indicates that the anti-chambers that Jean-Pierre Houdin hypothesized would exist as part of the "noble circuit" is correct; which is extremely exciting. Of course, if tomb robbers had made an attempt then it is likely that got to the anti-chambers and removed the funerary goods back in dynastic times.
I don't think it was a tomb.
At 29:07 we see a smooth limestone, a better quality, so it is as if in the "lower part" of the pyramid the rock is less treated (less smooth).
In the subterranea part of the pyramid there is an unfinished chamber, in its raw state, as if the works had been interrupted.
I would like to ask you: Could it be possible that the pyramid was built in two different historical periods after an interruption of many years (or even centuries)?
Thanks for share all this wonderful pics.
Now I have plans for the evening! Thanks! 😁 I've been thinking that maybe a rat with a GoPro camera could film these narrow shafts 😜
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I don't know if you were serious or not, but that's not a bad idea. Rats have been trained to locate land mines allowing them to be disarmed safely. They're too light to set the mines off, so the rats are safe. They've saved many lives.
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@@catman8965 I am always DEADLY serious (pun intended)😁 but honestly, why not? As you mentioned they can be trained and are amazingly smart!
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Unfortunately, rats have had a bad reputation with many people, and to give them a positive perspective is a nice change. I could be wrong, but I think these shafts have been explored. I think Matt is showing us some images that haven't been released to the general public yet.
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In picture 10, at around 17:05, it's interesting that the tool marks on the right side traverse the seam between blocks.
Well ill be damned! How the hell did they manage that? Also those cut marks seem really deep, your crazy if you think that was made with a copper tool.
i think that is not a seam but just a cracked block, originally was one solid block but then later it cracked through
I spotted that too. It looks like scoop marks. Is that a seam or a crack? Looks like a seam to me.
@@Al_Fel Nah, it's clearly a crack.
@@myaso4123 That's what it looks like to me, as well. It's a single large block that has cracked vertically, perhaps as a result of settling. The scooped chisel marks, if that's what they are, are very interesting.
Been waiting for this one!!
Thanks. Hope I don’t disappoint!
unreal...absolutely unreal. Just the basic dimensions and the craftmanship.
The left "handle" looks like the copper snapped right where it would of been bent like the other one. Oddly instead of pulling it out and replacing it. They chiselled out that spot so they could bend what was remaining of the copper and used the chiseled out "gutter" as a mold to weld/solder more copper to it. Securing it in place (so you could lift it from the other side). This makes me wonder if they were in a hurry by that time. 🤔
I think you are right. I don't know about welding and soldering but that 1st part makes sense..
Look up recessed cathodes online. It helps the cathode last longer, apparently.
Would *have* been.
As we do in modern building hvac... adjustings in airflow, cooling, etc. are allways made in a rush to solve a flow problem.
"Would have been" not "would of been".
The queens chamber was the chamber for an older, smaller pyramid, whose airshafts used to go to the surface to let the king's Ba out, or whatever. When they enlarged the pyramid later they were covered over by the new masonry and new airshafts were built for the so called King's chamber. This pyramid is actually 3 or 4 buildings in one, built over a thousand years.
Good guess, but why the "doors" on each of the Queen's Shafts? Why not just put another block in front and continue building??
I have to believe that there was a purpose for those odd doors even if we can't guess their purpose today.
I was thinking much the same thing, without the Trura limestone, the Great Pyramid would be about the same size as the other Giza pyramids, that would also explain the differences in craftsmanship and material from the core.
Was the pyramid repurposed from an older smaller pyramid/building?
It still wouldn't explain the bends in the shaft though.
@@BMF6889 Don't the king's chamber shafts have doors too ? Maybe once your Ba flies away (its a bird with the deceased face) after so many days they closed them up to stop all the rain getting in (it used to rain more). Some New kingdom tombs have a little window up high although i'm not sure what happens in the Valley of the Kings tombs.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex I think the site was a mastaba, then a pyramid about 1/2 to 2/3 the size, then full size. Hence the three burial chambers. With the grand gallery being a ramp mechanism for the final build. There could have been a similar mechanism in the second pyramid that has been filled. And the third pyramid has not had that final enlargement.
@@macguru9999 Yes, the underground portion was probably part of the original structure maybe a natural cave that was excavated and a temple, mastaba or step pyramid built over it, then expanded into a smaller true pyramid, then into the Great Pyramid.
Almost every culture, especially ancient cultures have a habit of building over the sacred sites and monuments of previous cultures.
So this site being repurposed multiple times is well within the realm of possibility.
And the concave indentation of the 4 faces that don't appear in any other pyramid might have been a way to keep the stone "skin" in place over the older structures.
The stresses would have been focused inward instead of outward.
Amazing engineering no matter who built it.
I have often wondered why the main entrance(or what appears to be) with the chevron blocks has not been excavated. Maybe it has sometime in the past and then been sealed up after.and your theory on the rubble in the Queens chamber shaft is correct. But this would then point to some kind of cover up. This would not be surprising given the well known deceitful nature of the former Minister of State for Antiquities. The secrets within could well shed light on the true function of the great pyramid which may not be in line with the generally accepted story.
Ding Ding Ding!!!! We have a Correct Answer!!!!
As long as the muslim brotherhood is around they'll never open up that entrance.
curious about picture 42 and the color difference between the bottom and top half of the shaft, what could that be the result of?
For a minute i was like: "Is he not gonna talk about that hole in the wall !!!!" Luckely he did! Best video about the shafts ever!
I sent this to Jean Pierre Houdin. Somebody was inside, in some hidden parts. The paper and the ticket says all. Perhaps they dug through the front of the chevrons and then sealed them back.
don’t the crumpled paper and the ticket, together with the less-amount of debris right in front of the opening (image 21) imply air flow? could the ticket be simply blown there, from the other side of the opening on img 21?
Are there air pressure changes or ‘a breeze’ inside the shafts or the pyramid, strong enough to blow a ticket around, during a period of 100 years? why would the guys digging through the chevrons have an entrace ticket?
easier access from the King's Chamber floor/door. I fear long ago accessed and looted. And kept secret...
all the theories do not matter, the shafts are about 8" inches square, not big enough even for a cat to turn around. We simply do not know the purpose of those shafts, all we do is blah blah. As far as the robots, Gantenbrink's robot was the best. The Jedi robot was clumsy if not a dumb approach to climbing the shaft. The 51 pictures are awesome. My respects to Señor Gantenbrink.
the shaft is pointing to sirius star and sun. The pyramid is man made, all the measurements we use to date came from Egyptians, they discover that the water drop is 1cm exactly
@@facebythewind I am selling a 2-acre lot in the Moon with a nice view to the ocean.
@@facebythewind not one picture in or around the pyramids or in the history of the pyramids were ever said the man made it. Read your history and research please.
Eighteen inches square, You must have incedibly big cats where you live,
@@zurdoremi OceanS! You can see 'em ALL! ;o)
What I find most intriguing is the graffiti on the stone with the "handles".
Now I know I’m a simpleton been in the carpentry biz 22 years and I still draw shit all over the place especially when it’s getting buried
Looks like the letter K on the stone with handles.
@@dalea1691 It sure does.
Most people when building stuff draw on things that are never gonna be seen ever house I've helped build has multiple funny drawings inside the walls on the studs no one will ever see it
Great video. There must have been a small opening between the grand gallery and the Queens shaft north section for a short time in the last hundred years. Maybe some repairs done in the grand gallery about halfway up on the right as you climb. That whole area definitely merits further investigation.
That spear thing looks like some kind of masons scribe for marking lines onto stone blocks
I suspect the small opening is from another room that the shaft was bent to avoid.
Why they would put an addition to the North shaft is unknown, but if it was a special room that was used in conjunction to the other rooms in the pyramid, it could be the reason.
It will be interesting to find out more if/when they open up the newly found void and explore the space to see if there is access to new areas in the pyramid.
In my opinion, there are many rooms in the pyramid that are not found yet, and the way to get into those areas may be tied to the new void, which is why we need to open the void to exploration, even if the discovery upsets the clerics...
Sir, you are so amazing! The effort and research you go through to present your videos is incredible. Thank you for all you do. It is all so educational and mysterious.
I've enhanced the pictures of the two doors with photoshop. Sharpened the focus, enhanced the contrast and made other adjustments to the colour etc. This is what I believe I can see. Two different artists on the Northern shaft door. On the left the first artist has drawn a picture of the front half of what appears to be a dolphin or a fish. I see the same creature drawn on the door of the Southern shaft. On the centre and right of the Northern shaft door a different artist, or the same artist with a different colour marker, has drawn two things. 1. A matchstick person thrusting with a long rod at a 45 degree angle sloping upwards. Remember that these shafts slope upwards. 2. Below him are two pyramids with a much larger one behind a smaller one. Just like the pyramids at Giza as we now see them. The larger pyramid is half built. The smaller one is complete. The larger one is built up to the summit, but the cladding blocks are only complete half way up the pyramid. So the top half is too skinny. A matchstick man is poking a long pole deep inside the larger pyramid above the level where the cladding blocks are complete. So he's pushing the pole into the skinny, uncompleted part just above the completed cladding blocks. These pyramids are not sloping upwards. They are on the level. Does this indicate a different purpose for the "air" shafts. Instead of air, are they for communication between engineers inside the half built pyramid with those working on the outside? They could shout through the shafts and even pass engineering drawings, or food and water down to the engineers inside the pyramid? Is that why they drew fish? Was fish the food? Or do the fish drawings indicate that they were pouring water down the shafts for the workers inside so they could clean themselves or drink? Fish = water?
can you post your findings on youtube please? Very interested to see what you apparently see
You know just from watching the video and looking at the schematics, that's kind of what I was thinking. A way to talk, or pass things to those inside while the others outside were working. Also, the stick to me looks like a little chisel or something that was maybe set down and forgotten about by a builder, and then knocked against the wall by one of the rods. If surgeons can leave tools and gauze etc in patients, then why can't an ancient builder leave his chisel behind?
The shaft becomes Tura limestone at the end. That means it was meant to be viewed from the outside when the pyramid was finished and the pyramid was covered with a layer of Tura Limestone. Otherwise it was a waste of expensive rock. Also the "door" had handles so they could open and close the door. That meant they never intended to cover the shaft with more blocks. They needed to access that shaft through the door. The pyramid was supposed to end there. But later they changed their mind and increased the size of the pyramid, which then covered the shaft. This is what I see on the drawing inside the door. The pyramid is finished, but they are increasing the size by adding more blocks to the outside. Someone was drawing a diagram on the inside of the door to explain why they were covering it with more blocks. They wanted a larger pyramid but they no longer needed the shaft, so they were burying it with more blocks. This confirms the theory of the owner of this channel that the pyramid was made larger after it was built. The plastic wheel must have fallen off a wheeled probe that the Egyptians used many years ago. They never told us about that probe. The ticket and the new side shaft tells us that a lot has been going on over the past 150 years in that shaft than we know about. Someone broke into the shaft from the side. The wheeled probe that lost a plastic wheel was probably introduced through that new shaft on the side. The "knife" is probably a slither of broken rock that only looks like a rock. The debris is from the break though shaft on the side and the poking and prodding and probing they did after they broke through into the Northern shaft from the side. They damaged the shaft. It was probably done illegally, or we would know about it by now and who did it. They might have placed that ticket for posterity to discover, which we did. This also explains why they lowered the floor when they broke through into the Norther shaft. They needed more space to get their wheeled probe into the shaft. It was too tight. That's why the wheel broke off. The probe jammed in the shaft and the wheel came off as they tried to extract it. If that wheel had not broken off, the probe would still be in the shaft today.
@@brosettastone7520 OK, I'll do that as soon as I can and post the link here.
@@JohnBedson Thanks John! Looking forward to that, sounds very interesting...I had ideas of doing the same thing but I do not have access to photoshop at the moment
Could that wheel have been attached to the end of the shorter rod to help it navigate through the shaft and broke off at what would have been a high stress turn. Just below the object at the end of the shorter rod, on the left hand side, there looks to be an attachment dowel (broken off or removed). The object at the end of the shorter rod looks like it was made for a different purpose while the one on the longer rod looks purpose built.
Keep up the great work!
I think he said it's plastic and called it a spool . I also think it's a wheel but made of wood , plastic has only been around for 70 years or so .
@@gregorybathurst4326 It's the size and shape of a caster wheel. I agree with it being made of wood.
Not a chance that a wheel was used . I bet those drill rods were rotated as they were forced up the shaft.
Waooo really amazing background music 🎶🎶💕💕
Whenever I see long tubes with a blocker at one end, I think about a piston or some air pressure device.
I wonder what would happen to the air pressure in the kings chamber if it was "closed" and then they ran blocks attached to rope up and down, using the side of the pyramid as a balance. I wonder if the air pressure in their would change significantly and I wonder if the pyramid structure could hold a vacuum inside.
Its just a guess- but I have a feeling that the piece of wood next to the pole could possibly be some sort of Flag that was previously attached to the pole so that it would be visible when it presumably came out of the other end. It could have been attached somehow but has fallen off..
A colored smoke bomb placed in the shaft and then the shaft hole covered would show where that recess leads to 🤔
And that would then coat the entire inside of the structure with the pigment from the smoke. /facepalm
@@LBCAndrew Highly unlikely anyone would even notice if it did, it's still a lot less invasive than knocking bricks out or drilling holes, another option would be to attach a small tracking device to a rat or mouse and send it up the shaft tracking it's movements through the pyramid using strategically placed receivers inside and outside the pyramid like an IPS system.
@@Astro148 I fing this a very clever solution as rats are known for there abilities to find routes out of almost every maze. only thing i am afraid off is that they might create damage.
@@karymwillemsen5564 A small bit of damage is a possibility depending on what the rat finds along it’s route, I am very curious about that recess in the wall, to me it looks like an adjoining shaft that leads away from the main shaft in a slightly downward and outward direction (I enhanced it in Photoshop), possibly leading to under the Queens chamber, I don’t think it is where someone has broken through to the main shaft although my theory would not explain the modern rubbish at the recess, the paper rubbish could be explained by being sucked up the shaft by the ‘chimney effect’ and would explain why it stopped near to the recess being unable to turn the sharp corner due to the vortex that would be created at that point if you see what I mean.
Im going to make a bet that the copper handles on the door have opposing features. Normally when you recess something like that into the stone it is to stop it turning because the other side is experiencing torc. Is it possible that the other copper handle is recessed on the opposite side and that they may have had ropes attached oppositely to move them into place?
Fascinating as always.
Could be pressure pipes, like plumbing when your heating makes a knocking noise. Fills from below with liquid forming a air buffer at the end to allow the liquid to move up and down under pressure
My only thoughts are about WHY these shafts were added in the first place?
Building the pyramid would have been much easier without including them.
So they must have provided a useful purpose during the construction phase.
But the fact the shaft has bends in it, as well blocks, is a real puzzle.
Someone pointed out it has extended the construction phase by 10 years. It was never done again. Most likely the shafts had a forgotten ritual usage. Like doorways for the Ak, Ba and Ka of the pharao to leave the tomb. Compare the large number of false doors (Scheintüren) in other tombs.
I have often heard that the pins in the shaft doors are "iron". Which of course would be impossible as the Egyptians did not have any iron at this time when they "supposedly" built the pyramids. Upon examination, however, of the pictures of the pins, green corrosion can clearly be seen indicating copper or bronze pins. This is very interesting. I think it would be incredibly informative to find out what kind of metal the blocking door pins are made of.
I do not think its Iron, but they did have metroric iron, and the shaft did have some spiritual purpose, so there are the place to use the super rare star-metal from the gods....
@@kirgan1000 That is a great point. Something is still very fishy/intriguing/confusing in all of this. Fascinating discussion.
The shafts could be for air during ceremony and filling. It looks like shaft is connected to another shaft at the lowered floor block anomaly possibly leading to another chamber. The rubbish could literally have come from anywhere and it's likely that people who climbed the pyramid in the past have found a gap and placed rubbish in it not knowing where it would have ended up.
Such a great video! I watch your search for truth with confidence you are considering everything that can be found. Thanks for being the editor for all the information that is out there. I get so frustrated with many of the commentators as they obviously have not listened to the whole reasoning behind your theories.
At 39:52 where the newly discovered shaft enters the main shaft I would expect to see broken iregular walls not chiselled square shaped walls if this was broken through from the outer side. Therefore this shaft must have been part of the original construction.
The plastic round object looks like a plastic cover from a super 8 movie film container.
The writing on the "door" are numbers. The one to the right of the pin that kind of looks like an @ is the number 100
Below that the numbers are 1,000,000 300 3 41 and 6. These numbers appear to be written at random. Meaning they are separate numbers and do not appear to be a single written statement.
Why I think they are at random. The 100 (looks like @) is Kemetic (Think hieroglyphs in the tombs) Which is something that the scribes and priests used. The rest of the numbers appear to be hieratic which would be used by the builders and workers. In both languages the character direction indicates the beginning of the sentence or number. In this instance the characters are pointing different directions and not in a line.
I would guess that what we are looking at is the ancient equivalent of two modern construction workers discussing/jotting down numbers on a sheet of plywood. Basically, it is a scratch pad with some numbers on it. As to the # 100 (the @ looking one) I would guess that the medal pins were put in by priests and have a symbolic role in there positioning.
Interesting, sounds very plausible.
Sad that the quality of the photos and light was so low back then!
Today they could get light that is much better and the camera are many times better in quality! We can only hope that they do another robot expedition with the state of the art equipment for light and photography, infrared, super HR and so on!
Yeah a modern bot with 4k imaging and high power leds is needed.
Could you imagine a 4K 360 degree camera sent down the shaft? It would be remarkable the amount of studying and discovery that could be accomplished
That "plastic spool" is going to haunt me for a long time...
I've seen ancient black polished stone spools, I mean brien forester videotaped them in a museum, I think they're Egyptian, so that could be it, or it could be a wheel from a rover
It looks like an injection molded plastic wheel from a Tonka truck.
Somebody's robot break down there?
Wasn't there a robot that did get stuck in there once?
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex possibly, those damn metal rods in there could get anything stuck, need to remove them
I've already posted in a reply to another post. Wheels are also used on the ends of rods to help them get around bends and corners. I think this has fallen off and they then resorted to using the ball end type. They are normally made from metal.
@@Dooguk what was the purpose of the rod, to measure the depth of the shaft?
Exactly the kind of video I like to see. Here are the facts, facts and more facts. Occam's Razor inspired speculation. It is very nice to see a video on ancient Egypt and not have to deal with UFO aliens.
If there really were those undiscovered Antichambres that Jean-Pierre Hudan predicts, why did the Pyramid Scan Project not detected voids there?
If you buy a set of drain clearing rods, one of the attachments is a screw fitting with a small wheel, allowing the rod to travel over rough surfaces. It may be that the rod was wedged into the side wall causing damage. A wheeled attachment may have been used to get past the damage but could have been damaged, leaving the wheel in situ. It would have been a metal wheel at this point in time.
Perhaps an unsuccessful attempt of exploration by the Egyptians was not documented. The wheel could have been lost in the process. It´s been a long time since 1872.
Lookingforward to watching this although will have seen a lot before. The Cheops pyramid will continue to puzzle us for many years to come. I am not sure your ‘explanation’ of the build is correct but it does offer an out of the box perspective and is worth a watch. Continue your excellent contributions to the Egypt puzzles. Mart (he with the bit of wall!)
Hi Martin... I think the majority of people won’t have seen these pictures as they are from Pyramid Rover in 2002, and the northern shaft not southern. Some will have seen them though of course :)
@@AncientArchitects I think your take on the shafts as once being from a smaller planned pyramid which was then made larger is bang on. It makes so much sense. 👍👍
@@TheGreatest1974 We seem to be seeing a lot of underground works recently that could well shed a new light on the whole complex. So much is being held back from the public domain that one does wonder….
@@TheGreatest1974 If that's correct it might mean the pyramid was itself an Ark to survive the coming cataclysm and the people who built it realized they had more time to make their shelter bigger and safer.
@@mArt2011funflydesign It seems like the Egyptian government wants to keep some things about the pyramid secret. Maybe they see it as a way to maintain interest in their tourism cash cow.
Given the size of the "spear" being similar to an oversize penzil, I would suggest it is a small stonecarving tool for making markings or small details.
One use could have been to work on that small door piece in the end of the corridor.
If they did some of the finishing right before putting it there, and given that the shaft slopes downward, it is not unreasonable to think that one of the tools were accidentally dropped inisde.
It could be the stylus left by the builder..
What a great video, incredibly interesting and thought provoking…that spear looking thing is very curious
Would be interesting to see the back of the door. Maybe it has hooks or something, the camera that went thru could look back.
Matt, brilliant video. Easy to forger that this shaft is only about 8” wide so everything seen has to be considered in this context. More questions than answers though. About time someone got those rods out, wouldn’t be difficult. Hope you get to read as far as this post, Cheops (or is it Kufu?) will keep you in pocket money for many years to come😊 Mart.
Thanks Mart! I keep searching for answers
@@mnomadvfx Take your point but it’s always a natural reaction to think ‘Take those bloody things out of there’ same as wanting to see further demolition of the whole structure to see what else is there. Apologise for spelling. I always forget the K name which is why I use Cheops 🤪
Didn’t I see that the shaft is only about 8” square? So anything inside it would mostly fit in the palm of your hand. Including all that debris, the spool (probably a water bottle cap) and the spear. Regarding the side shaft, you could barely fit your hand into it. Gotta keep the scale of the shaft in mind when speculation it’s function and how it was built.
I agree with you. It's very easy to forget the scale when looking at the images.
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I came here to say the same thing. The "vent" he is talking about is in an eight inch square shaft. So just how big is this "vent"? An inch and a half high? Perhaps just under 2 inches high? I agree it is very odd that there is modern debris in the shaft near the "vent".
BUT, as it was in the interior of the pyramid, could the builders just reused a piece of masonry already cut to line the shaft. That happens all the time in buildings and the rough stonework in the shaft does not feel like the builders were using their top-grade materials and workmanship.
The black plastic spool could be a camera lens cap and let's not forget the old paper ticket found in shaft. My thinking is on picture 21 of the anomaly the stone with the cut out in it is directly under the Grand Gallery where the shaft bends so the ticket and plastic spool were from someone who dropped them when walking up the Grand Gallery and they fell to the floor and fell through the cut square in the shafts stone as shown on pic 21.
@@davidcorbett1713 Has the exit to that opening in the shaft been found in the Grand Gallery?
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@@MrEvilWasp look at the map of the shaft at the points of where it bends and on pic 21 it is I'm sure at the point of around the under side of the Grand Gallery.