I'm pleased you agree with some ideas presented in my videos, even though they contradict books published by famous Egyptologists. I'm sure it will be argued that some of this work is 'peripheral' to the core history of the Old Kingdom and therefore it was excusable to overlook, etc. My question for you is, what do you think will happen when I present a finding that requires a more significant reevaluation of historical assumptions? Will Academia dare cite a UA-cam video or is that a bridge too far? Thanks for the shout-out.
I very much enjoy your content and never take it for granite! But seriously you are doing some awesome work outside the bounds of Academia. It certainly would be cool to see something you are able to discover being cited in a scientific paper.
@@WorldofAntiquity just like they wrote papers for the younger dryas impact hypothesis and everyday it gets closer to becoming FACT. We were hit by comet fragments 12,000 years ago
This dude is a goon, @histroyforgranite not only are you a gentleman and a scholar but an esoteric master of magic indeed my good friend. Post more so this man can be educated, unless he wishes to keep making up stories about Basalt cutting idiot lazy geniuses who accidentally did more work than they were supposed to and did a mistake when doing something so accurate lmfao.
This the Best Pyramid Reality Episode .. I learned and Appreciate More in an hour Than years with lost civilization Guys .. The Moving stone papyrus Just destroyed like 99 percent of That. crowd .. wow
The mortar and gaps in stones too... When they talk about unrealistic precision and stones you can't put paper between, that's only for the outside parts, the insides have such wide gaps you have people put cameras inside to film the builders graffiti on inside of some stones.
40:48 i’m no expert, but from what I’ve picked up, the reconstructed pronunciation is supposedly ˈɾiːʕa, as in ˈɾiːʕaʔ məˈsiːˌsuw - “Ramesses” & satʰepʰnaˈɾiːʕa - Elect of Ra(title) By the way, what are your thoughts on the reconstruction project of one of the pyramids of Giza?
This was excellent! I've been in Giza in 2006 and it's fascinating to see an archaeologist go through a similar trip. We went to different tombs though, I remember a tomb of Mereruka with beautiful reliefs and colours.
Great video! Happy to see you went there. I just went to Baalbek last week with my wife. We live and work in Lebanon. I wouldn't mind meeting you guys if you ever visit Baalbek.
Thanks for doing these, it's nice to have high quality footage that shows more than just the major attractions and nothing in between that doesn't have the pseudo science like UnchartedX.
What an amazing video. It's easy to find travel vlogs as well as educational and academic videos on ancient Egypt but the way you blended the two genres is wonderful. Thank you Dr Miano, Natalie, your guide and the Egyptian people. Edit: Love the little digs at youtube "experts" 😂
This is the series Netflix should have been funding. Something with actual history and facts. Then again, nothing draws the attention quite like people lying directly to your face and just making the most ridiculous shit up.
Great vid! Im really loving everything youve done. So glad I found your channel. Traveling with a beautiful Egyptologist cant hurt while in Egypt. If anything Im gonna say its a definite plus. Keep on keeping on!
Wow. This may be my favorite long-form youtube video I have ever watched and I am almost to the halfway mark and felt the need to leave this comment. Great content, dialog, and thorough explanations completely shatter and debunk much of the fringe pseudoscience peddles today.
The caracal has a really small head compared to his body, and compared to other felines. What I don't get is why the front legs are so long. This proportion is generally ok in some other sphinxes that I've seen pictures of.
To me it would be like complaining that the ears are too large on a gargoyle statue. Or a unicorn's horn is too short in a picture. Others are in a better position to comment but in the pictures taken from the angle from which I assume the things was intended to be viewed, ground level in front of it, the proportions don't look nearly as out of whack as when taken from up high and to the side. Which I assume isn't the angle that it was intended to be viewed from.
@@rockysexton8720 ua-cam.com/video/gVWfLe7OTKI/v-deo.html He actully has a realy good expenation of viewing angle and is not to full on with the LAHT BS
"Eh! Son-a mun-na go-na! No see you for lon-ga time! Where you be hiding you self?" A greeting from my Grandfather who immigrated here, from Italy. I thought you might appreciate it. "Ah-llo" to Natalie. My sister's name is Natalie. She was named after my grandmother Natalizia! I bet you are asking "Do you have anything better to do today?" Yes, but sadly, we were hit with more cold weather back in the States.
Great episode. One interesting thing you didn't talk about is if there were something in Giza before the fourth dynasty though. I am not talking about an Atlantian city or anything like that but more 1-3 dynasty and maybe even something pre dynasty, they do have found some items that are older in the site but that doesn't exactly prove or disprove the hole thing. There is also the Kroner dump and the artifacts found there in the 70s that do seems to point towards something going on in the place during the earlier dynasties. It is of course another mystery, but a very interesting one. It wouldn't be surprising if the earlier dynasties had something going on there and it wouldn't exactly be unusual if a later dynasties recycled any stones of an earlier smaller temple. I do find that newly found corridor in the great pyramid very interesting too, maybe it still hold some secrets. Zahi Hawass seems to think there is a hidden chamber under the Queens chamber and he doesn't seem to be the type of guy who goes for wild speculations.
32:15 Very surprised to see that the Amarna period under Akhenaten wasn't the first time in Egyptian history where sculptors took full ownership of man-boobs.
1:05:05 Sounds like an interesting paper. I hope you make a video discussing it. I think I remember Robert Schnieker from your Sphinx video, and thinking that he was very convincing.
This is a very engaging education for those of us too old or lazy to go to school again. It's like free night school! Very entertaining too, with really impressive visuals and great editing. I feel like I should have bought a ticket to see this, honestly. It's amazing the amount of belief in Gods and an afterlife were necessary to go about all the incredible effort and cost of building these tombs. No one has belief like that anymore, for good and bad.
There were some really wonderful shots in this video! I love the black dog at 1:07:31 watching people and sphinx statue. 5000 some years of our past to present, all the people came here to this place and animals. Try to imagining looking through their eyes! Timeless
@@mattw5840 I have been in academia for a few decades and have yet to meet a historian or archaeologist who has ever presented any interpretation of the evidence as an indisputable fact.
Would you be able to replicate the bath salt stone saw cut? I think it would be good content if you got the same block and a saw with water and sand and make the same cut. I know you’re history but that would be good science!
If I remember correctly, there's a UA-cam channel called Scientists Against Myths where they do this. I think they also have a video of how to drill holes in the stone using ancient techniques.
@@FelipeBido thanks I watched that but it’s not really the same stone and it’s in a different language. This guy is a great historian but in this video he started using “prophecy” around the 10:00 min mark. Replicating the same experiment would weed that out. And he is a content seller so I’m thinking why not!
Think about when the Great Pyramid was made: 1 - most pyramids were built during the Old Kingdom. The Old Kingdom = was the ascendancy of the ancient Egyptian civilization. 2 - so as is usual the Pharaohs who built the pyramids did not anticipate the eventual collapse of their dynasties. Ergo = they did not try to hide anything. 3 - so in their religion to exist in their afterlife they believed they needed "a vessel" for their spirit to inhabit - hence they mummified their bodies. They believed they needed things used in life for their afterlife and thus they were buried with grave goods - which made their tombs a target for robbers. Finally they needed "their name" to remain alive so that offerings would be made after death. 4 - so to accomplish #3 the Pharaohs created tombs to make themselves "stand out" + they created cults around themselves and further built nearby mortuary temples. 5 - yet when the Kingdoms collapsed as alluded to the people believing their Gods had abandoned them rose up and destroyed the temples and looted tombs to survive. Moral of the story: so early on it was = in the temples adjacent the pyramids were references to them could be found. The tomb itself was merely a repository as well as a structure as noted to enhance their image to "keep their name alive". Except the temples were all destroyed leaving only their tombs. That is like smashing a headstone so that you do not know who is buried there. As an aside. There are fragments of Khufu's destroyed mortuary temple which depict him performing the Sed festival - marking the 30th anniversary of his rule. So later on the Pharaohs upon seeing how above ground tombs were looted and their temples destroyed while the Pharaohs who built them were declared as heretics so that offerings were no longer made in their name = opted to change up. They created underground tombs and built their temples far away so as to not give the location away. Further what might once found in mortuary temples = they now placed images of themselves and spells from the Book of the Dead directly in the tomb. Think of it as "a fail safe". If they were declared heretical after death and references of them were destroyed per _"damnatio memoriae"_ then they had what was needed within the tomb for their spirit to follow. Religious like other cultural beliefs evolve over time. So ancient Egyptian religious practices of the Old Kingdom were different from what was followed centuries later. Look at the Catholic Church today. Centuries ago individuals might simply be declared "a saint" by some Pope - whereas today there is an elaborate process followed = hence the rituals have changed over time. 🤔
@@c.m.gordon359 Welcome. Good for you to actually ask questions about what you do not understand so as to be receptive to answers. Far too many today sadly = simply assume. Final thought. Then as now = you got what you paid for. So understand as alluded to previously that Egypt underwent multiple periods. Those accordingly represented times of "plenty" - and times of "want". So many Pharaohs actually did not rule for decades. Also many ruled during times when they lacked the resources and power of their predecessors. So the 4th Dynasty Pharaohs who built Giza ruled when times were prosperous and thus they had the resources for such grand constructions. Later Pharaohs however sufficed with smaller pyramids which would be built more quickly and cheaply - but tended to be more aesthetically ornate. An example is Menkaure. His pyramid is smaller than his father's or grandfathers = but it used a granite facade so as to "stand out" compared to the others. Upon his passing the dynasty he represented also ended and the Pharaohs who followed in the 5th Dynasty focused less on their pyramids to instead build solar temples. Having assumed the mantle of "Ra - their Sun deity" they put their resources into promoting that divine status so as to keep their name alive as noted. Moral of the story: Civilizations undergo ebbs and flows depending upon the conditions of the time. So you need to take what you see in the context of when it represents and the conditions of that time. Later Middle Kingdom pyramids were built of mud brick with a layer of polished stone. So the Pharaohs understanding from their past that the people would not be happy about spending decades building an all stone pyramid which cost enormous sums of resources = opted for cheaper facsimiles which could be made faster and more cheaply. So they could associate themselves with their predecessors by duplicating what was done - albeit a "knock-off" if you will. Later New Kingdom Pharaohs went even less resource intense by creating underground tombs which were much more ornate in their design - but which could be created using a few dozen workmen at a much reduced cost. Enjoy your day.
Uau! This is amazing! Just what I needed for the evening! One of my favourite places on earth explored by one of my favourite history experts on you tube! And I'm at the 10min and I didn't felt asleep yet...so it's fantastic Doc! Congratulations! Going to enjoy it now until my old body let me....!
Excellent points and education on each pyramid. Concise but full of essential facts. Love the plug for history for granite channel, which is how I got here. Excellent work
Very informative! On the other hand, I wish I could see your Egyptian guide and Natalie talk more about their insight and knowledge on the subject since they are also scholars. I hope to see more of them in future episodes!
Ancient Egyptians couldn't cut granite..Pfffffftt,. Those conspiracy theory types have no clue just how much lovely pink granite was being put to use to cover everything!
I’m so glad you made this video. My best to you and Robert. It’s like a culmination of facts and research, proving it didn’t exist before the pyramids,& Was built by the Egyptians, what 4th dynasty. Anyway 4-4500 years ago. By the Egyptians. Thank you historians and geologists.
People who follow Brien Foerster: ask yourself this. Why doesn't Brien ever give any kind of history to any of the things he shows? Why does he use misrepresented mohs scale claims to 'prove' that granite couldn't be carved by hand with the tools the Egyptians had, and goes to Petra to make the same claims, even though Petra is a iron age site built of super soft sandstone? Why doesn't he ever demonstrate anything, when Dr. Miano, Scientists Against Myths, and SGD Sacred Geometry Decoded DO demonstrate their claims? Why are people making 'copper chisels' memes on every comment section regardless of when the the sites/statues were built? Brien posts a photo of Petra in his community tab with zero context and endless 'copper chisels' comments flood the comment section. Why? Why doesn't he tell you any kind of historical information about these sites and artifacts?
So claims another recently created sockpuppet account such as regularly trolls these videos making meaningless/unsubstantiated claims....... 🥱 p.s. - had you exerted the effort to open the dropdown menu to see the video sources that you did in creating these sockpuppet accounts = you might have found answers to what you "claim" to have looked for...........
Hey, for real, it’s not just independents that don’t “look at all of the evidence.” Egyptologists are as bad as any group in this regard. Why did Australian Egyptologist John Romer slam Egyptologists for their failures in scholarship at Giza, and ask the question “Why am I the first Egyptologist in 100 years to write a serious book about the Great Pyramid?” Egyptologists ignore the OBVIOUS sacred geometric layout of the pyramids and they ignore the obvious use of modern constants built into their construction, φ, π and Euler to name a few. Because they can’t explain how Egyptians could have known these constants, supposedly discovered much later by the Greeks. So they ignore this whole layer of evidence. They also ignore the tremendous repository of scientific and numerical finds that have come into the world through the metrologists like Alexander Thom, John Neal, John Michell, Harry Sivertsen and others. Metrology can be a better marker than pottery to gauge things in material culture. So if you are truly going to be the channel of truth that keeps us protected from the ancient high tech, Atlantis, power plant, alien deceptions, then you better find a way to incorporate this knowledge… or be as blind as the independents - and the Egyptologists!📐🔑🌀
What makes the layouts sacred? Were they built under the right star signs or during the right month enhancing their astrological importance? I could really use some help understanding this stuff to improve my chances on Tinder.
The answer to your 1st question obviously is... he is an asshole that is why he said that. You can play connect the dots all you want and toss in some math to make it sound believable and then add in techno babble to make it sound sacred but without actual proof it is just more pseudo science. There is no proof that the egyptians did any kind of sacred geometry stuff and without evidence to back up these observations made by the people you named it is all just an unsubstantiated hypothesis.
Any person who can seriously claim they are the "first Egyptologist in 100 years to write a serious book about the Great Pyramid” would be sorely lacking in their knowledge of the subject as well as how research is done. The narcissism is a different issue - a narcissist can still be a good scholar, thought it might tend to cause some problems.
Great!!! And I give you a lot of credit for going down that low corridor in the pyramid--- Bending from the waist, I quit after fifty feet and turned around and joined the line of people exiting.
Hello, interesting video. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Curious as to what you think about the weathering on the Sphinx that has come from rain fall? Which would suggest an earlier date.
There does not appear to be much erosion from rainfall on the Sphinx body. The condition was caused by wicking groundwater, and it happened long before the Sphinx was carved.
Look at old B&W photos of it dating to the 19th Century. See where most of it was buried in sand. The Sphinx sitting in a pit at the low point of the plateau would quickly be consumed with sand upon the site being abandoned. So rainfall might erode the exposed bits - but the areas covered with sand should have been more protected = but they were not. So as noted the real reason is denudation of the limestone bedrock it was carved from cause by "efflorescence" as a result of groundwater. Limestone is naturally porous and beneath the Sphinx is groundwater while the Nile is just to the east. Ever watch a old film of an oil well being drilled. See whereby once the reservoir is breached = oil spews up as a result of pressure. The pressure underground is greater than the pressure of the surrounding air. That is why people who dug handwells will see water seep into the pit as pressure moves from high to low. So as the stone heats/cools you can get condensation. Moisture from below will push upwards. These act to form salt crystals which can break up the surface of the limestone causing it to flake away when abraded by blowing sand etc.. Think an asphalt road in winter. Moisture gets into tiny cracks where it freezes breaking up the surface of the road. Eventually it begins to break apart leaving potholes. Limestone being a sedimentary rock which forms in layers will see various levels of hardness consistent with the density of the layer. Thus the Sphinx eroded unevenly consistent with its varying hardness. Some parts of it are harder than others. 🤔
Awesome episode! If I do ever go to Egypt, I'll need to rewatch this to know what to look for :) Also thanks for the explanation for the discrepancy between the sphinx's head and body. I never much wondered about why it was because maybe it was intentional for one reason or another... but it's cool to hear the probable cause after all :)
Boy, this is a great video! It’s cool to really see the details up close. Most videos about the pyramid only show small sections and nothing really detailed I think because that way anything that goes against their narrative is obscured 😊
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks Dr. Miano in particular for addressing the "Sphinx as a reworked lion" hypothesis. I remember seeing a documentary which fervently pushed this idea as a teenager, and while I've long since come to recognize the nature of many "theories" it is associated with, I didn't yet know how to debunk this particular idea. After all, the Egyptian designers and artisans were no idiots when it came to realistic proportioning. The way you explain it: no, indeed they weren't, but they also understood they had to work with the entire set of circumstances they had on their hands. Perfect sense this makes, hm! :) As for the size differences of the pyramids, one explanation I've come across is that the three represent the central stars of Orion, not only in their positioning, but also in their relative (perceived) sizes. Now this is not to say that the pyramid builders were from there, on the contrary, it is Earth's position that determines we see those stars together, while in reality they are hundreds of lightyears apart. However, the Egyptian scholars/priests did study the stars as best they could, since (as far as we know from what they left us) they believed the stars represented a divine order, which was to be mirrored by their earthly empire, lest it crumble and chaos engulf the world. So this to me sounds like at least as good an alien-less (inalienable?) explanation for the pyramids being the way they are as any.
I would give more credence to the Orion's belt theory if all three pyramids were built at the same time. But as it is, we have three pyramids built by non-consecutive kings.
@@WorldofAntiquity Fair point, but not fatally so (to the idea) if you ask me. After all, there were architects who designed the pyramids for the kings, and they may have been the ones working on the larger plan - basically, Qar and his colleagues. You mentioned the inbetween kings as well as having built less sturdy pyramids to the north and south. Perhaps those could be taken to represent other stars in Orion (Betelgeuse and Rigel, for example), or perhaps these kings didn't want to subject themselves to the grand priestly design and therefore had to resort to different architects - and by the looks of their pyramids, less able ones. It is even conceivable that they had short reigns because their priests saw them as potentially upsetting the divine order. I totally realize I am just speculating here, albeit based on what little we know of the actual culture of these people, rather than fantasy and science fiction.
Again, excellent video full of important facts and explanations for many of the misunderstood and mysterious parts of the Giza plateau. I was there at Giza again myself on the 3rd of March. I intend to be back in Egypt by October or November and stay for the entire winter again. Thanks again for your wonderful videos.
Hiya, Edinburgh Scotland here. Not just sand but little chips of the same. Grains if you like of grainite. Anywhere from a mil to 3. If the surface being worked is rough to begin with this method picks out grains as it goes. I rubbed to peices of roughend grainite together to see and they partially polished out as expected but quite a bit of material was loosened off as it went along. A process of rough and rub would abraid quite nicely and determined folk could i imagine perform wonders.
I just got back from Cairo to Dublin yesterday! Wish I watched this first haha I had an amazing time just strolling around taking it all in though. I had a great time, such an amazing place I hope I can go back at some stage. Thanks for the video and information.
Awesome presentation! I'm no slouch when it comes to Egyptology but have learned so much from this series. I've also accrued a lot of dangling queries as a result...😅
Dating the Sphynx based on the three types of limestone that it is made of is very insightful. On the subject of power saws to cut stone, the Egyptians did know how to make windmills and water wheels for grinding grain or other uses.
Examination of the blocks making up Khafre's valley temple with the limestone seen on the walls of the Sphinx pit show similarity of composition - remember that limestone being formed from old seabed contains the fossils of ancient marine life. The conclusion then is that as stone was cut away from around the Sphinx to create it = that was used to create the blocks of Khafre's adjacent temple. As an aside. Look at the topography of the plateau area surrounding the Sphinx and the nearby Great Pyramid. Now look at the location of the main limestone quarry which rests between Khafre's Pyramid and his valley temple/Sphinx. Conclusion: if the Sphinx and its pit was already there at the time of the creation of the Great Pyramid = it would have obstructed operations. Moral of the story: the once harbor area was just to the east of Khafre's temple - while the worker village was just south of the harbor. The harbor further spanned from the area of the worker village past Khafre's temple to the head of Khufu's own causeway leading uphill to his mortuary temple and Pyramid. So the Sphinx takes up a lot of area and just north of it you see the modern road leading up to the Great Pyramid. That road runs along the natural incline of the plateau. So a preexisting Sphinx would obstruct an area which would have been otherwise occupied with the main ramp used to create the Great Pyramid and likely Khafre's as well. The area between the raised escarpment upon which the Great Pyramid rests and the quarry is not that wide and is broken/sloping ground. Thus what is most likely is that upon Khafre's Pyramid complex being constructed and the ramp leading from the quarry removed they completed his connecting causeway and temple/Sphinx as by then nothing was in the way. Menkaure building further to the south as was his own quarry could simply divert from the harbor area directly to his own pyramid rather than going around the main quarry as Khufu and Khafre had to do. 🤔
wow amazingly interesting. you cover so many topics and hella lots of information! it almost seemed this was not a travelguide at all. the subtle and deveous undertone of ownership of thruth made it sound more like an ordinairy debunking ploy than anything else. i have no doubt more wonderful imagery is to follow. fully narrated by, and only by, the knowlegable Doctorbutthurt 🙈🙉🙊
Have you tried softening the dismissal of extra terrestrials and "ancient high technology" in the intro? Perhaps the people who believe this will stick around longer if the smoke and mirrors aren't pulled away so fast? Just a random guy with a random thought. I understand this isn't a new strategy in the slightest. Great content as always!
Thank you so much for doing a deep dive into this and actually showing the architecture. I have gotten so annoyed with the constant "Egyptians of high technology" when things could be so easily explained.
Holy Frack. This is the best video on Giza I have ever seen. Rich in exacting professional details while being an adventure.
Right?!? Good stuff!
Hope this channel gets the million subs it deserves.
I agree, fantastic, no BS, and fun content! Please keep up the good work!
I'm pleased you agree with some ideas presented in my videos, even though they contradict books published by famous Egyptologists. I'm sure it will be argued that some of this work is 'peripheral' to the core history of the Old Kingdom and therefore it was excusable to overlook, etc. My question for you is, what do you think will happen when I present a finding that requires a more significant reevaluation of historical assumptions? Will Academia dare cite a UA-cam video or is that a bridge too far? Thanks for the shout-out.
If someone is persuaded by you, they will need to write an academic paper on it, and hopefully give you credit!
@@Martin-zz8vv Dude... Khafre was Khufu's son.
I very much enjoy your content and never take it for granite! But seriously you are doing some awesome work outside the bounds of Academia. It certainly would be cool to see something you are able to discover being cited in a scientific paper.
@@WorldofAntiquity just like they wrote papers for the younger dryas impact hypothesis and everyday it gets closer to becoming FACT. We were hit by comet fragments 12,000 years ago
This dude is a goon, @histroyforgranite not only are you a gentleman and a scholar but an esoteric master of magic indeed my good friend. Post more so this man can be educated, unless he wishes to keep making up stories about Basalt cutting idiot lazy geniuses who accidentally did more work than they were supposed to and did a mistake when doing something so accurate lmfao.
One of the few formats pretty much everyone will enjoy to learn from. and well presented! Apprechiate all the effort you put into this.
This the Best Pyramid Reality
Episode .. I learned and Appreciate More in an hour
Than years with lost civilization
Guys .. The Moving stone papyrus
Just destroyed like 99 percent of
That. crowd .. wow
The mortar and gaps in stones too... When they talk about unrealistic precision and stones you can't put paper between, that's only for the outside parts, the insides have such wide gaps you have people put cameras inside to film the builders graffiti on inside of some stones.
AWSOME !! 💯💯👍👍❤ I Appreciate this so much. Thank You Dr. Miano
Very informative. This was awesome. Ty Dr. Miano 👍🏼
Props for the editing and camera work, David. I love PowerPointy vids but this is clearly next level!
40:48 i’m no expert, but from what I’ve picked up, the reconstructed pronunciation is supposedly ˈɾiːʕa, as in ˈɾiːʕaʔ məˈsiːˌsuw - “Ramesses” &
satʰepʰnaˈɾiːʕa - Elect of Ra(title)
By the way, what are your thoughts on the reconstruction project of one of the pyramids of Giza?
Great video as always, thank you!
i gotta pause for a second just to say the cinematic editing is incredible, as i pause at 46:37 the feeling of suspense is like a chill up my spine
SO glad you're doing these travel guide videos and Egypt could be the most-intriguing location
This. Is. AMAZING!!!! By far the best video about Giza on youtube. Thank you for this
I love your Egypt videos. Many thanks
super impressed with this video, you have mentioned some great points I have'nt seen/heard.
This was excellent! I've been in Giza in 2006 and it's fascinating to see an archaeologist go through a similar trip. We went to different tombs though, I remember a tomb of Mereruka with beautiful reliefs and colours.
Great video! Happy to see you went there. I just went to Baalbek last week with my wife. We live and work in Lebanon. I wouldn't mind meeting you guys if you ever visit Baalbek.
I would like to go there some day soon.
Thanks for doing these, it's nice to have high quality footage that shows more than just the major attractions and nothing in between that doesn't have the pseudo science like UnchartedX.
Right uncharted x trying to sale some lies huh
such a sick video so far! A better documentary than you'll ever find somewhere else
What an amazing video. It's easy to find travel vlogs as well as educational and academic videos on ancient Egypt but the way you blended the two genres is wonderful. Thank you Dr Miano, Natalie, your guide and the Egyptian people.
Edit: Love the little digs at youtube "experts" 😂
I went as a teenager many years ago, thanks for bringing me back to one of the most incredible places in the world.
This has been such a great series, loved every episode!
Love your work too sir!
what is this, a crossover episode?!
soooo good ! what a massive amount of work ! thx!!
I made the mistake of chiming in on a Twitter thread about how the pyramids were built to talk some sense. Omg 🙄. These people VOTE
YESSSSZIR - best content ever, thank you so much professor !!!!
This is the series Netflix should have been funding. Something with actual history and facts. Then again, nothing draws the attention quite like people lying directly to your face and just making the most ridiculous shit up.
Great vid! Im really loving everything youve done. So glad I found your channel. Traveling with a beautiful Egyptologist cant hurt while in Egypt. If anything Im gonna say its a definite plus. Keep on keeping on!
Wow. This may be my favorite long-form youtube video I have ever watched and I am almost to the halfway mark and felt the need to leave this comment. Great content, dialog, and thorough explanations completely shatter and debunk much of the fringe pseudoscience peddles today.
Found your channel recently and I wanted to give you my honest thoughts…. This is perfect!.
If I could have you in a podcast that would be amazing.
excellent presentation. You filled in some informational holes I had from my time visiting the plateau.
1:06:00 my criticism of the "heads disproportionate" comments about the sphynx remains show me a live sphynx to prove proper proportions.
The caracal has a really small head compared to his body, and compared to other felines.
What I don't get is why the front legs are so long.
This proportion is generally ok in some other sphinxes that I've seen pictures of.
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To me it would be like complaining that the ears are too large on a gargoyle statue. Or a unicorn's horn is too short in a picture. Others are in a better position to comment but in the pictures taken from the angle from which I assume the things was intended to be viewed, ground level in front of it, the proportions don't look nearly as out of whack as when taken from up high and to the side. Which I assume isn't the angle that it was intended to be viewed from.
@@rockysexton8720 ua-cam.com/video/gVWfLe7OTKI/v-deo.html He actully has a realy good expenation of viewing angle and is not to full on with the LAHT BS
So refreshing and rare to find good ole fashioned history on the internet. Thank you for that!
I enjoyed watching your walk to the Pyramids.
Tfsharing ❤
Love it love it love it love it love it LOVE IT!!!!! Damn it's refreshing to have actual historical and archaeological explanations for the pyramids.
"Eh! Son-a mun-na go-na! No see you for lon-ga time! Where you be hiding you self?" A greeting from my Grandfather who immigrated here, from Italy. I thought you might appreciate it.
"Ah-llo" to Natalie. My sister's name is Natalie. She was named after my grandmother Natalizia!
I bet you are asking "Do you have anything better to do today?" Yes, but sadly, we were hit with more cold weather back in the States.
Wonderful!
Great episode. One interesting thing you didn't talk about is if there were something in Giza before the fourth dynasty though. I am not talking about an Atlantian city or anything like that but more 1-3 dynasty and maybe even something pre dynasty, they do have found some items that are older in the site but that doesn't exactly prove or disprove the hole thing.
There is also the Kroner dump and the artifacts found there in the 70s that do seems to point towards something going on in the place during the earlier dynasties.
It is of course another mystery, but a very interesting one. It wouldn't be surprising if the earlier dynasties had something going on there and it wouldn't exactly be unusual if a later dynasties recycled any stones of an earlier smaller temple.
I do find that newly found corridor in the great pyramid very interesting too, maybe it still hold some secrets. Zahi Hawass seems to think there is a hidden chamber under the Queens chamber and he doesn't seem to be the type of guy who goes for wild speculations.
Good that you post!
I've been to Giza many times, I'm going back there soon ❤ great shots, I'm jealous!👌
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Fantastic!! Love this guy's videos, disproving myth with logic
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Very surprised to see that the Amarna period under Akhenaten wasn't the first time in Egyptian history where sculptors took full ownership of man-boobs.
Maybe they all had man boobs, and he was just the first one to allow it to be shown in art. It's like Nero's chins
😅😅fo sure
Most complete best tour and history of Giza. Really really good dont change a thing.
Keep up the great work, Dr Miano! 👏
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1:05:05 Sounds like an interesting paper. I hope you make a video discussing it. I think I remember Robert Schnieker from your Sphinx video, and thinking that he was very convincing.
This is a very engaging education for those of us too old or lazy to go to school again. It's like free night school! Very entertaining too, with really impressive visuals and great editing. I feel like I should have bought a ticket to see this, honestly. It's amazing the amount of belief in Gods and an afterlife were necessary to go about all the incredible effort and cost of building these tombs. No one has belief like that anymore, for good and bad.
There were some really wonderful shots in this video! I love the black dog at 1:07:31 watching people and sphinx statue. 5000 some years of our past to present, all the people came here to this place and animals. Try to imagining looking through their eyes! Timeless
Always looking forward to these.
Thanks for this great video David!
It'd be more appealing if all the experts simply said "we don't know "
If everything means nothing, what would be the point of digging and studying and doing research then?
@@WorldofAntiquity He means that theories presented as fact only serve to muddy the waters around the absolute truth.
Any answer < The correct answer
@@mattw5840 I have been in academia for a few decades and have yet to meet a historian or archaeologist who has ever presented any interpretation of the evidence as an indisputable fact.
Excellent job!
Perfectly legit information!
Thank you!
Would you be able to replicate the bath salt stone saw cut? I think it would be good content if you got the same block and a saw with water and sand and make the same cut. I know you’re history but that would be good science!
If I remember correctly, there's a UA-cam channel called Scientists Against Myths where they do this. I think they also have a video of how to drill holes in the stone using ancient techniques.
@@FelipeBido thanks I watched that but it’s not really the same stone and it’s in a different language. This guy is a great historian but in this video he started using “prophecy” around the 10:00 min mark. Replicating the same experiment would weed that out. And he is a content seller so I’m thinking why not!
Imagine the capstone in solid gold when you consider that a cubic foot of gold is 1 ton
Keep these videos coming. Great job.
Question for Dr.Miano Why are there no carvings,glyphs,etc. Inside the "Kings Chamber"
Because the Egyptians did not see a need for it.
@@WorldofAntiquity But the "Need" is present in almost every Tomb in Egypt.
Think about when the Great Pyramid was made:
1 - most pyramids were built during the Old Kingdom. The Old Kingdom = was the ascendancy of the ancient Egyptian civilization.
2 - so as is usual the Pharaohs who built the pyramids did not anticipate the eventual collapse of their dynasties. Ergo = they did not try to hide anything.
3 - so in their religion to exist in their afterlife they believed they needed "a vessel" for their spirit to inhabit - hence they mummified their bodies. They believed they needed things used in life for their afterlife and thus they were buried with grave goods - which made their tombs a target for robbers. Finally they needed "their name" to remain alive so that offerings would be made after death.
4 - so to accomplish #3 the Pharaohs created tombs to make themselves "stand out" + they created cults around themselves and further built nearby mortuary temples.
5 - yet when the Kingdoms collapsed as alluded to the people believing their Gods had abandoned them rose up and destroyed the temples and looted tombs to survive.
Moral of the story: so early on it was = in the temples adjacent the pyramids were references to them could be found. The tomb itself was merely a repository as well as a structure as noted to enhance their image to "keep their name alive". Except the temples were all destroyed leaving only their tombs. That is like smashing a headstone so that you do not know who is buried there. As an aside. There are fragments of Khufu's destroyed mortuary temple which depict him performing the Sed festival - marking the 30th anniversary of his rule.
So later on the Pharaohs upon seeing how above ground tombs were looted and their temples destroyed while the Pharaohs who built them were declared as heretics so that offerings were no longer made in their name = opted to change up. They created underground tombs and built their temples far away so as to not give the location away. Further what might once found in mortuary temples = they now placed images of themselves and spells from the Book of the Dead directly in the tomb. Think of it as "a fail safe". If they were declared heretical after death and references of them were destroyed per _"damnatio memoriae"_ then they had what was needed within the tomb for their spirit to follow.
Religious like other cultural beliefs evolve over time. So ancient Egyptian religious practices of the Old Kingdom were different from what was followed centuries later. Look at the Catholic Church today. Centuries ago individuals might simply be declared "a saint" by some Pope - whereas today there is an elaborate process followed = hence the rituals have changed over time. 🤔
@@varyolla435 Thank you very much
@@c.m.gordon359 Welcome. Good for you to actually ask questions about what you do not understand so as to be receptive to answers. Far too many today sadly = simply assume.
Final thought. Then as now = you got what you paid for. So understand as alluded to previously that Egypt underwent multiple periods. Those accordingly represented times of "plenty" - and times of "want".
So many Pharaohs actually did not rule for decades. Also many ruled during times when they lacked the resources and power of their predecessors. So the 4th Dynasty Pharaohs who built Giza ruled when times were prosperous and thus they had the resources for such grand constructions.
Later Pharaohs however sufficed with smaller pyramids which would be built more quickly and cheaply - but tended to be more aesthetically ornate. An example is Menkaure. His pyramid is smaller than his father's or grandfathers = but it used a granite facade so as to "stand out" compared to the others.
Upon his passing the dynasty he represented also ended and the Pharaohs who followed in the 5th Dynasty focused less on their pyramids to instead build solar temples. Having assumed the mantle of "Ra - their Sun deity" they put their resources into promoting that divine status so as to keep their name alive as noted.
Moral of the story: Civilizations undergo ebbs and flows depending upon the conditions of the time.
So you need to take what you see in the context of when it represents and the conditions of that time. Later Middle Kingdom pyramids were built of mud brick with a layer of polished stone. So the Pharaohs understanding from their past that the people would not be happy about spending decades building an all stone pyramid which cost enormous sums of resources = opted for cheaper facsimiles which could be made faster and more cheaply. So they could associate themselves with their predecessors by duplicating what was done - albeit a "knock-off" if you will.
Later New Kingdom Pharaohs went even less resource intense by creating underground tombs which were much more ornate in their design - but which could be created using a few dozen workmen at a much reduced cost. Enjoy your day.
Uau! This is amazing! Just what I needed for the evening! One of my favourite places on earth explored by one of my favourite history experts on you tube! And I'm at the 10min and I didn't felt asleep yet...so it's fantastic Doc! Congratulations! Going to enjoy it now until my old body let me....!
This is phenomenal, Dr Miano!! 🩵 Thank you & Natalie for sharing your experience & academic knowledge about Giza! 🙏
Leaving a hit-and-run like and comment for your Almighty Algorithm. I love you content, it's always fascinating!
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No power plants? No Atlanteans? No Joe Rogans? No Graham Halfcockeds? No Thank You!
Excellent points and education on each pyramid. Concise but full of essential facts. Love the plug for history for granite channel, which is how I got here. Excellent work
Very informative! On the other hand, I wish I could see your Egyptian guide and Natalie talk more about their insight and knowledge on the subject since they are also scholars. I hope to see more of them in future episodes!
4:43 Ful in a pita? So good! Thanks for another amazing video!
Ancient Egyptians couldn't cut granite..Pfffffftt,. Those conspiracy theory types have no clue just how much lovely pink granite was being put to use to cover everything!
I’m so glad you made this video. My best to you and Robert.
It’s like a culmination of facts and research, proving it didn’t exist before the pyramids,&
Was built by the Egyptians, what 4th dynasty. Anyway 4-4500 years ago. By the Egyptians. Thank you historians and geologists.
People who follow Brien Foerster: ask yourself this. Why doesn't Brien ever give any kind of history to any of the things he shows? Why does he use misrepresented mohs scale claims to 'prove' that granite couldn't be carved by hand with the tools the Egyptians had, and goes to Petra to make the same claims, even though Petra is a iron age site built of super soft sandstone? Why doesn't he ever demonstrate anything, when Dr. Miano, Scientists Against Myths, and SGD Sacred Geometry Decoded DO demonstrate their claims? Why are people making 'copper chisels' memes on every comment section regardless of when the the sites/statues were built? Brien posts a photo of Petra in his community tab with zero context and endless 'copper chisels' comments flood the comment section. Why?
Why doesn't he tell you any kind of historical information about these sites and artifacts?
Love it when he says dynastic Egyptians couldn't have done this. Pointing at Greco-Roman era items.
@@TheMoneypresident exactly lmao.
I wish more eyes got to see your great content. Thanks for knocking it out of the park once again!
how did sand and deserts appear all over the earth? must have been some primordial Sandlantis 🤨🤨🤔🤔😜😜
Omg you just made my day... Sandlantis!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
Industrial pollution causes climate change. I'm an extremist, all that humans know to be.
And to think that all that sand at one time was part of a sea shell
Another brilliant upload,really informative and not a power tool or alien in sight,thank you very much
with loads of mays, coulds, theories and hyphotheses - yup - brilliant - screw facts - who needs those?
A waste of time without any facts,hoped for something that would really debunk other ideas but found nothing....have a nice vacation
So claims another recently created sockpuppet account such as regularly trolls these videos making meaningless/unsubstantiated claims....... 🥱
p.s. - had you exerted the effort to open the dropdown menu to see the video sources that you did in creating these sockpuppet accounts = you might have found answers to what you "claim" to have looked for...........
This is such a great documentary! Thank you 😊
Hey, for real, it’s not just independents that don’t “look at all of the evidence.” Egyptologists are as bad as any group in this regard. Why did Australian Egyptologist John Romer slam Egyptologists for their failures in scholarship at Giza, and ask the question “Why am I the first Egyptologist in 100 years to write a serious book about the Great Pyramid?” Egyptologists ignore the OBVIOUS sacred geometric layout of the pyramids and they ignore the obvious use of modern constants built into their construction, φ, π and Euler to name a few. Because they can’t explain how Egyptians could have known these constants, supposedly discovered much later by the Greeks. So they ignore this whole layer of evidence. They also ignore the tremendous repository of scientific and numerical finds that have come into the world through the metrologists like Alexander Thom, John Neal, John Michell, Harry Sivertsen and others. Metrology can be a better marker than pottery to gauge things in material culture. So if you are truly going to be the channel of truth that keeps us protected from the ancient high tech, Atlantis, power plant, alien deceptions, then you better find a way to incorporate this knowledge… or be as blind as the independents - and the Egyptologists!📐🔑🌀
What makes the layouts sacred? Were they built under the right star signs or during the right month enhancing their astrological importance? I could really use some help understanding this stuff to improve my chances on Tinder.
The answer to your 1st question obviously is... he is an asshole that is why he said that. You can play connect the dots all you want and toss in some math to make it sound believable and then add in techno babble to make it sound sacred but without actual proof it is just more pseudo science. There is no proof that the egyptians did any kind of sacred geometry stuff and without evidence to back up these observations made by the people you named it is all just an unsubstantiated hypothesis.
@@disturbed1734 he has to measure your penis.
"Egyptologists are as bad as any group in this regard"
lmao, ok man
Any person who can seriously claim they are the "first Egyptologist in 100 years to write a serious book about the Great Pyramid” would be sorely lacking in their knowledge of the subject as well as how research is done. The narcissism is a different issue - a narcissist can still be a good scholar, thought it might tend to cause some problems.
Great!!! And I give you a lot of credit for going down that low corridor in the pyramid--- Bending from the waist, I quit after fifty feet and turned around and joined the line of people exiting.
Thanks for giving us the "straight dope" 😎 you make ancient history cool as always.
How abt Boncuklu Tarla next?
This is excellent. Very enjoyable.
Hello, interesting video. Appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Curious as to what you think about the weathering on the Sphinx that has come from rain fall? Which would suggest an earlier date.
There does not appear to be much erosion from rainfall on the Sphinx body. The condition was caused by wicking groundwater, and it happened long before the Sphinx was carved.
Look at old B&W photos of it dating to the 19th Century. See where most of it was buried in sand. The Sphinx sitting in a pit at the low point of the plateau would quickly be consumed with sand upon the site being abandoned. So rainfall might erode the exposed bits - but the areas covered with sand should have been more protected = but they were not.
So as noted the real reason is denudation of the limestone bedrock it was carved from cause by "efflorescence" as a result of groundwater. Limestone is naturally porous and beneath the Sphinx is groundwater while the Nile is just to the east. Ever watch a old film of an oil well being drilled. See whereby once the reservoir is breached = oil spews up as a result of pressure. The pressure underground is greater than the pressure of the surrounding air. That is why people who dug handwells will see water seep into the pit as pressure moves from high to low.
So as the stone heats/cools you can get condensation. Moisture from below will push upwards. These act to form salt crystals which can break up the surface of the limestone causing it to flake away when abraded by blowing sand etc.. Think an asphalt road in winter. Moisture gets into tiny cracks where it freezes breaking up the surface of the road. Eventually it begins to break apart leaving potholes. Limestone being a sedimentary rock which forms in layers will see various levels of hardness consistent with the density of the layer. Thus the Sphinx eroded unevenly consistent with its varying hardness. Some parts of it are harder than others. 🤔
Excellent!
This is such a great series.
So grateful for your work!! This is APEX quality content sir
Also you have the best ‘shorts' on here! Can’t get enough of those
Awesome episode! If I do ever go to Egypt, I'll need to rewatch this to know what to look for :) Also thanks for the explanation for the discrepancy between the sphinx's head and body. I never much wondered about why it was because maybe it was intentional for one reason or another... but it's cool to hear the probable cause after all :)
That was a great tour. I wish it went on and on. Just fascinating. Thanks Natalie and David.
There's such an beauty in their simplicity.
Then some of my simpleton friends are truly gorgeous😅
Boy, this is a great video! It’s cool to really see the details up close. Most videos about the pyramid only show small sections and nothing really detailed I think because that way anything that goes against their narrative is obscured 😊
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks Dr. Miano in particular for addressing the "Sphinx as a reworked lion" hypothesis. I remember seeing a documentary which fervently pushed this idea as a teenager, and while I've long since come to recognize the nature of many "theories" it is associated with, I didn't yet know how to debunk this particular idea. After all, the Egyptian designers and artisans were no idiots when it came to realistic proportioning. The way you explain it: no, indeed they weren't, but they also understood they had to work with the entire set of circumstances they had on their hands. Perfect sense this makes, hm! :)
As for the size differences of the pyramids, one explanation I've come across is that the three represent the central stars of Orion, not only in their positioning, but also in their relative (perceived) sizes. Now this is not to say that the pyramid builders were from there, on the contrary, it is Earth's position that determines we see those stars together, while in reality they are hundreds of lightyears apart. However, the Egyptian scholars/priests did study the stars as best they could, since (as far as we know from what they left us) they believed the stars represented a divine order, which was to be mirrored by their earthly empire, lest it crumble and chaos engulf the world. So this to me sounds like at least as good an alien-less (inalienable?) explanation for the pyramids being the way they are as any.
I would give more credence to the Orion's belt theory if all three pyramids were built at the same time. But as it is, we have three pyramids built by non-consecutive kings.
@@WorldofAntiquity Fair point, but not fatally so (to the idea) if you ask me. After all, there were architects who designed the pyramids for the kings, and they may have been the ones working on the larger plan - basically, Qar and his colleagues. You mentioned the inbetween kings as well as having built less sturdy pyramids to the north and south. Perhaps those could be taken to represent other stars in Orion (Betelgeuse and Rigel, for example), or perhaps these kings didn't want to subject themselves to the grand priestly design and therefore had to resort to different architects - and by the looks of their pyramids, less able ones. It is even conceivable that they had short reigns because their priests saw them as potentially upsetting the divine order.
I totally realize I am just speculating here, albeit based on what little we know of the actual culture of these people, rather than fantasy and science fiction.
Again, excellent video full of important facts and explanations for many of the misunderstood and mysterious parts of the Giza plateau.
I was there at Giza again myself on the 3rd of March. I intend to be back in Egypt by October or November and stay for the entire winter again.
Thanks again for your wonderful videos.
Hiya, Edinburgh Scotland here.
Not just sand but little chips of the same. Grains if you like of grainite. Anywhere from a mil to 3. If the surface being worked is rough to begin with this method picks out grains as it goes. I rubbed to peices of roughend grainite together to see and they partially polished out as expected but quite a bit of material was loosened off as it went along. A process of rough and rub would abraid quite nicely and determined folk could i imagine perform wonders.
Great episode ❤
21:43 I love learning these bits of history that show us how similar ancient people could be to modern people (in certain ways at least)😊.
I just got back from Cairo to Dublin yesterday! Wish I watched this first haha I had an amazing time just strolling around taking it all in though. I had a great time, such an amazing place I hope I can go back at some stage. Thanks for the video and information.
Thanks!
And thank you, Holly!
The section starting at 14:10 should be turned into a youtube short and distributed widely. Many people misunderstand these facts.
El Gezawi is best! Spend there 8 days in December … also Juice guy on the right , amazing
Top quality presentation and editing.
I know I talk a little smack, but this really is one of the absolute best channels on UA-cam. #itWasntAliens thank you for logic and truth, Sir.
Awesome presentation! I'm no slouch when it comes to Egyptology but have learned so much from this series. I've also accrued a lot of dangling queries as a result...😅
Straight dope, like it, an expression from the 40's.
💯 the production... so choice 💯
Dating the Sphynx based on the three types of limestone that it is made of is very insightful. On the subject of power saws to cut stone, the Egyptians did know how to make windmills and water wheels for grinding grain or other uses.
Examination of the blocks making up Khafre's valley temple with the limestone seen on the walls of the Sphinx pit show similarity of composition - remember that limestone being formed from old seabed contains the fossils of ancient marine life. The conclusion then is that as stone was cut away from around the Sphinx to create it = that was used to create the blocks of Khafre's adjacent temple.
As an aside. Look at the topography of the plateau area surrounding the Sphinx and the nearby Great Pyramid. Now look at the location of the main limestone quarry which rests between Khafre's Pyramid and his valley temple/Sphinx. Conclusion: if the Sphinx and its pit was already there at the time of the creation of the Great Pyramid = it would have obstructed operations.
Moral of the story: the once harbor area was just to the east of Khafre's temple - while the worker village was just south of the harbor. The harbor further spanned from the area of the worker village past Khafre's temple to the head of Khufu's own causeway leading uphill to his mortuary temple and Pyramid.
So the Sphinx takes up a lot of area and just north of it you see the modern road leading up to the Great Pyramid. That road runs along the natural incline of the plateau. So a preexisting Sphinx would obstruct an area which would have been otherwise occupied with the main ramp used to create the Great Pyramid and likely Khafre's as well. The area between the raised escarpment upon which the Great Pyramid rests and the quarry is not that wide and is broken/sloping ground.
Thus what is most likely is that upon Khafre's Pyramid complex being constructed and the ramp leading from the quarry removed they completed his connecting causeway and temple/Sphinx as by then nothing was in the way. Menkaure building further to the south as was his own quarry could simply divert from the harbor area directly to his own pyramid rather than going around the main quarry as Khufu and Khafre had to do. 🤔
That opening shot... don't remember seeing from that exact angle. Really conveys show big it must big.
wow amazingly interesting. you cover so many topics and hella lots of information! it almost seemed this was not a travelguide at all. the subtle and deveous undertone of ownership of thruth made it sound more like an ordinairy debunking ploy than anything else. i have no doubt more wonderful imagery is to follow. fully narrated by, and only by, the knowlegable Doctorbutthurt 🙈🙉🙊
Have you tried softening the dismissal of extra terrestrials and "ancient high technology" in the intro? Perhaps the people who believe this will stick around longer if the smoke and mirrors aren't pulled away so fast? Just a random guy with a random thought. I understand this isn't a new strategy in the slightest. Great content as always!
Can’t wait for the Utopia launch premiere
Thank you so much for doing a deep dive into this and actually showing the architecture. I have gotten so annoyed with the constant "Egyptians of high technology" when things could be so easily explained.