The Great Pyramid reveals how it was built!
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- Опубліковано 1 тра 2024
- The Great Pyramid has evoked many theories about its construction. With the advent of drone photography, we get a closer look at the summit and can see amazing evidence for the methods used by builders to get megalithic blocks all the way to the top.
There is an opportunity for you to make the discovery for yourself! Watch and listen to the clues and see if you can figure it out before the reveal.
What's with the lone dark stone that stands out from the yellow limestone? Is it a different composition or was there granite used at the very top?
Do you miss the metal scaffolding that used to mark the original apex or does Khufu's pyramid look better without it?
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0:00 Intro
1:14 Drone imagery
2:24 Great Pyramid summit
3:52 Spot the pattern?
5:24 Evidence for construction
6:34 Microgravimetry pattern
7:10 Stepped pyramids
8:29 Historical accounts
In 1958, when I was 13 years old, my brother and I (he was 17) followed a guide to the top of the pyramid. There were Egyptian men at the base who for a few small coins would do this for tourists. The view from the top was stunning, of course. In those days, it wasn’t hazy. The chiseled inscriptions at the apex were spellbinding, and appeared in various languages. Some were dated hundreds of years before. Graffiti has always been with us.
Everyone followed the same path to the top: it went up one of the corners. And you hoisted yourself up, block by block. (You can clearly identify that corner in the video.) If you fell, you were dead. It’s remarkable that my parents permitted us to do that. It took about a half hour to reach the top. The top of each stone was level with my waist.
After we’d returned to the ground, another Egyptian told us that for a small sum fo money he would climb to the top and back in five minutes flat. We hired him to do it. He spent four minutes climbing to the top: he was in great physical condition. And then he descended, leaping from block to block, in the remaining minute. You had to see it to believe it. He got the price he’d quoted, plus a tip.
I don’t know when tourists were finally forbidden to make the dangerous trip. But I’m glad it was after I was in Egypt. I’m now 78 years old.
thanks for sharing your amazing experience!
I imagine that is why the pyramid appears "unfinished". A flat spot for tourists to stand around on is a lot more convenient.
Thank you for sharing your story. You were one lucky boy.
Roderick, That was a great story. Felt like I was there. Thanks.
That’s beautiful thanks for sharing
After a careful examination of the drone photograph I was able to determine that the Pyramid was built by placing blocks on top of each other.
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Yea but inside the pyramid there are also more blocks that lay pon one another
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Secret alien tech 🪨
Yes. In a particular pattern as well. I see this too
I too visited the pyramids in 1981. i was caught climbing it one day and kicked out of Giza, but then returned on my last day in Egypt and tried again, this time aware of the Egyptian concept of 'Baksheesh'. Baksheesh, as it was explained to me, was (is?) a cash payment to an official, that is BOTH, and NEITHER, a 'bribe' or a 'gratuity'. Since climbing the great pyramid had for years been a goal of mine, and I was stopped once already, I was determined to try it again, this time with Baksheesh. As I arrived to the pyramid it was late afternoon and the crowd was growing as the day was cooler. i walked all 4 sides and found one that had very few tourists but also had a uniformed policeman or soldier, I don't recall which. i approached him and greeted him and he returned my greeting. i extended my hand, and he took it and we shook. In my palm, was a 10 pound note, which he deftly accepted. I then said, i am going to climb to the top and when I come back down, i will come right to you and thank you. he stared at me but said nothing. My heart was pounding, but I figured, the worst that could happen would be he would stop me, keep the money, and kick me out of Giza again. i turned without any acknowledgement from him at all and began my climb. I knew from my first attempt this was not easy as the stones were very tall, maybe 4 or 5 feet, I don't recall exactly. I have no recollection of how long it took me to reach the summit but I was tired and sweating because I was was hurrying so as not to get called down again. My heart was racing as adrenaline coursed though my veins, and when I reached the top, I felt only a slight relief as I realized i could still be caught and even arrested. but there was no sense in worrying about that at this point, so i sat down a bit back from the edge so my silhouette was less noticeable. I move to all 4 sides to take in each vista. I examined the surface and the graffiti carved into the limestone blocks and I took at least one photo of the neighboring pyramid form above its peak, and then faced the reality that i might as well descend and get it over with. I climbed down the same side I ascended hoping to meet the same policeman. i noticed the crowd was increasing as people showed up as the temps dropped or to be there when the sound and light show began after dark. climbing down was much harder and scarier than going up. It was cumbersome and I was not graceful I am sure, but between my exhaustion, fear for falling and of arrest, this thought was of little concern. I had to stop several times to rest and settle my anxiety. At this time, i began to notice that the people on the ground were all migrating to the side i was descending, so it was now obvious that I was seen, by most of the folks down there and I wondered if this would pressure the policeman to arrest me me despite my baksheesh. I was due to leave that night for Sudan with an Englishman but he disapproved of my plans and refused to even watch me climb for fear of being arrested, so he remained in our room at Tahrir Square room. By the time I reach the lower tiers of the great pyramid there were probably 200 people at the base where I would alight. They were all fixed on me and many were taking photos. Standing right where I left him was the policeman, unmoving, with his arms crossed across his chest and a stony countenance. Oh well its done now, what will happen, will happen, so I may as well just face it like a man. I began walking straight into the crowd, towards the policeman, ignoring the crowd entirely. they parted like the red sea I remember, until finally it was me and the policeman facing each other from 6 feet apart. I already had the 10 pound note in my right hand because i did not want anybody to know what I was about to do. I approached him and said 'Mahaba' (hello). I extended my hand and for a second he did nothing. I too froze, not knowing what to do next. Finally he reached out and we clasped hands and once again, deftly exchanged the bill between us. I said 'Ma Salama' (good bye), turned and facing the crowd again, began walking away as the crowd once again parted this time without a word. Not a word. Wow, baksheesh worked. One huge item, could be checked off my life list...
That baksheesh 👏💰
Cool story. Actually somewhat inspirational.
You did not show us any pics you took?
You dreamed it.
So let's see the photo
i think I've noticed something interesting!
what i saw was the randomness in size and shape of stones in the middle section, where the perimeter section stones were precisely cut, it implies that the perimeter stones were placed first in each layer, then small slabs between the perimeter stones and the middle stones were placed accordingly to create a rotated inner section for inner stone placement. and then the inner stones were kinda filled the remaining area. this eliminates the need for the stone to be precisely cut, any size or shape would suffice as the job is to not care about the size and just fill the remaining area with stones. this satisfies the randomness of the size and shape of middle stones.
another observation was that the inner stone structure may alternate between clockwise and counterclockwise rotation layer by layer to secure the whole structure and enhance the durability.
Yes I noticed the same! The video highlights 3 layers of stone and includes all those layers to show a pattern when you can see that the separate layers alternate in the direction of stone length. It makes sense each layer should be offset and possibly spiraling downward through the layers but the top layers can be smaller and used more as fill because they aren't holding so much weight.
The tops probably made like that for strength..its like stackin leaves on top of each other.if ya line em all up its weak..
Kind of like building a coneyor belt with pins in it if ya line up all pieces of the belt the it will split somewhere but if ya overlap each seam then its tied togeth and cant split
You are right. In fact the pyramids are just a big pile of rubble capped with stones to hold it in shape. The biggest pyramid actually has eight sides above surface, slightly concave, to hold back this enormous pile in shape.
I visit Egypt and the great pyramids in 1980 and I could not climb because it was not permitted even back then. Now with the drones we got spectacular shots of the apex of the pyramid that I sincerely was not expected ever to see. Thank you so much for these gorgeous photos!
Just think if you were the last of the workers having to climb to the upper parts of the pyramids! You would of been exhausted by the time you clocked in. So if it were I ,I would of had a little hut withe food and water notched in.
So ramps or elevators of sorts, I have heard of ramps of all kinds for the material, but what of the access for everyone and everting else?
Me too, in 1985. But I knew a guy who had slept somewhere on a pyramid somewhere between ‘80 and ´85
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What'd you think about the 8 sides instead of 4? How much harder does that make the math and stone cutting angles for the overall Pyramid?
In the 80's you could climb it at night, my grandmother's Egyptian friends would take us at night and show us around.
I wouldn't trust anything about the top layer placement, those blocks are probably the most disturbed out of all them, for sure people have pulled up those blocks and messed with them in recent times and in the past, i mean all the casing stones and the top are gone, you can't trust much about the very surface, it might have just been a rubble pile left on the top after the scavenging and then people just arranged them later to make the top nicer, not discounting your theory but you would need to remove a few layers to really know.
My thought about the off-centered-ness before you explained yours was that maybe every other course was rotated a few degrees in ALTERNATING directions, which could strengthen the pyramid by causing fewer seams to line up with each other. Can we see more than one course anywhere in a row to rule that out?
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Or they thought as long as they butt up to the the next stone who’s gonna know. Let’s lay this last level as fast as we can an get the hell off this job I’m fxxxxd
You can see three layers in the photograph and the length of stones does alternate between the three layers, possibly spiraling downard
Your videos are the absolute best! Love your critical thinking, attention to detail and that you provide a reason behind your statements! 🫶Binge watching all your videos rn
This has quickly become my favorite channel. Fascinating subject matter with thoughtful and detailed analysis. What a refreshing discovery. My compliments to you sir!
lol you can't be serious man... this is the mainstream sheep video
@@Lastinterceptor are you a flat earther?
I wonder if anyone has removed a few of the top layer blocks to see if the rotation is consistent or literally just the top layer shifted.
You've made a good point here. The angle of rotation you've noted can be calculated in terms of height up the narrowing sides. Up so much means "in" via the slope of the sides. And, that equals the ramp slope, and this twisting effect.
What a lot of historians forget, is what we know today about history, can be different tomorrow. As one little clue can change so much. Always keep an open mind, no matter what you do.
I have always been fascinated by Egypt and what was built there. Your videos have shown me way more then I realized that was there.
I spent 3 months in Egypt when I was in the US Army back in ‘97 or ‘98 on Operation Bright Star which is a multinational exercise conducted in Egypt every 2 years. Our field hospital provided all of the medical coverage for the entire exercise, which itself is only 2 weeks long. We had to be there before and after as all the logistics and support units arrived. I went with my units advance party, which consisted of 8 people even though I was a 23 year old Specialist. I had been deployed in Bosnia previously and had a ton of real world experience using DEPMEDS (deployable medical systems) and was viewed as a grizzled veteran by our senior leaders.
We flew into Cairo West, which was an Egyptian Air Force Base. We spent one night there, and were driven up to Alexandria, Egypt to wait to receive our unit’s equipment by boat at the port there. We were given berths at Aggami; which was an Egyptian military resort on the Mediterranean Sea while waiting for our gear to arrive. It took them a week longer than expected to arrive, so we got to hang out on the beach; which was incredible, while waiting for our gear to arrive.
We then unloaded all our gear with the help of a transportation company, drove it to Mubarick Military City which is about 60 miles west of Alexandria, and set up our field hospital.
There really wasn’t much to do there. We did a few minor procedures in the OR. Mainly hand and finger fractures and the odd appendectomy. There was a mass casualty event involving 8 British soldiers in a motor vehicle accident, but unfortunately they were all DOA.
We got to go to Alexandria a number of times, as it was close by. We even visited an Egyptian civilian hospital and got to observe an open heart procedure.
On the day before we flew home, our unit had hired a bunch of busses to take us to the pyramids. They showed up about 6 hours late (which is pretty typical of Egypt) and brought far fewer busses than were needed to transport the entire unit to Giza.
Our unit took the high road and allowed the lowest ranking personnel to board the busses first. There were 6 of them, and the highest ranking person that got to go was an E5 Sergeant.
We got to the pyramids about an hour before sunset. They took us around to an area just beyond the pyramids to the southwest that was supposed to be the best to photograph the pyramids from. We got out and took photos for about 10 minutes, then they took us back to the other side of the acropolis to where the Sphinx is. Driving past the pyramids again, I could see that there were scores of people climbing all over the pyramids. It may have been illegal, but in reality I don’t recall seeing a single police man there trying to stop anyone…
That being said, I would have loved to have climbed up them. I consider it to be one of the greatest let downs of my life; but then again, I got to go see the pyramids for free after spending 3 months in the most foreign culture I’d ever been exposed to.
Down by the Sphinx, there were a number of reception halls where wedding receptions were going on. Each one had quite literally thousands of people in attendance. It was one of the coolest things I’ve seen in my life. They had giant feasts going on and hookahs burning on every table. Live bands playing traditional Egyptian instruments with belly dancers, all in view of the pyramids and the Sphinx in full moon light under the night sky.
Interesting theory. However anyone building a structure that size or even smaller would find that the offset of the stones just adds stability. The next layer down could vary well be offset counter clockwise, much like when building a brick wall, you offset one brick from the other. That's how I would do it.
Yep, exactly. Also, we can see a changing sizes of smaller stone and bigger stone, what is also for stability of the structure.
And this would also explain why the Great pyramid has 8 sides not 4.
I concur. Being an engineer and working in the field of construction for 20+ years, whether you are talking about drywall and plywood, or masonry and wood, or steel and iron, there is a need for slight offsets in all various planes for the purpose of stability. I believe there was a proposal by some engineers years ago that hypothesized using puzzel shaped pieces for buildings in earthquake zones due to the random shapes offering a greater stability and the likelyhood of coming apart was greatly reduced. If I recall correctly, it worked in theoretical principle and model building, however was cost preventative in application. You do have an interesting theory, however I think there are other factors that may hold the sway on the decision to offset. I was able to see the offset before you pointed it out! This was a nice new look at an old question.
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And there is no proof these stones were never moved
I climbed the GP in 1981. It was forbidden but no one gave a damn. It was summer, so tourists were scarce and my GF and I had the interior all to ourselves for hours. Your analysis makes total sense, especially for controlling the eight sides, as they finished off the true pyramid shape.
Did you notice an out of place granit block, or do you think this is just soot from a fireplace?
@@herrhausb i dont know. people have been climbing that pyramid for thousands of years. It would be the natural thing to do to light a fire on top but what would they use for fuel? They would have to carry up a lot of wood or maybe someone was sacrificed on the topmost block.
that must have been amazing!
@@floridaeagle They are hideously steep with a relatively smooth surface most of their existence, so ceremonies at the pointy top would be unlikely.
I find myself to be hideously jealous of you.
After a couple of Millennia + , words cannot describe the beauty in this magical shape that the Cheops pyramid represents.
As an engineer who worked on every major highrise in Sf for 31 years the pyramids are amazing
I hope you didn't work on millennium tower.
Great video, I was able to notice a slight difference when trying to determine for myself. I didn't identify it as an outer perimeter and inner perimeter. Looking forward to seeing the channel grow
IF I was to build a pyramid from blocks layer by layer, my two largest problems would be how do I keep horizontality and how do I make sure the load spreads evenly (to prevent splitting of lower blocks under concentrated load). Total load is not an issue du to the dwindling size of each additional layer. I think that rotating each layer a bit above the precedent achieves #2. It's akin to brick layering: you shift the next layer 1/2 brick sideways. (And yes the pattern leaps to the eye.)
You would just ask aliens to help you, duh
I think they did it just like the video suggested; in stages as a step pyramid first. Then finished the outside pyramid. We already know the oldest dated pyramids are step pyramids so it would make sense they would have a strong knowledge of how to build those. From there it's just a matter of finishing the outside to be smooth and pretty with a nice mini-pyramid cap. So you build your base layer on a bedrock foundation with an outside spiral ramp. Then on top of that platform you start building another platform in the center with an "outside spiral ramp" that is still inside your base layer platform. Repeat until your desired dimensions/max height. Then as you back out your ramp you do your finished layer.
That would be just one of a number of problems. And there would be much bigger problems. For example, how to get 70 ton granite blocks up to 350 feet and exactly cover the royal chamber with them.
its hard to build pyramids even in a computer game as it need internal support all the way to the top. so i would suggest it was built from inside to out and the outer layer is the one we see so it was done with more precision. just like the inner chambers where probably priests held ceremonies..
They were constructed by beings not from earth. HUMAN BEINGS EVEN this days cant,CANT BUILD EVEN ONE. ALLIENS BUILD THEM.
If you don't use mortar the rocks will tumble. This layout will lock the stones in place by angling them. Movement is greatly reduced, especially when there is a 'key' stone.
I thought I found the keystone as well.. but I'm just an average lover of ancient history. No experience at all with this-
Agreed, the angles don't make sense for a ramp, though a 2 stage build like he says is most likely how it was done. But the angles are to lock the dry stack together. At the base of the top view a few stones of the very top layer are there and they are placed 90 deg to the layer below for the same reason. I imagine the pyramid build grew from the centre out and up. That top view could show the centre been built and as the workers retreat they leave a stone behind them on the way back down to fill in that current ramp/staircase.
Note also that all of the center stones are taller than the perimeter stones. So when an additional outer layer was added it was butted up against the portruding portion of a center stone from the layer below it. In other words locking each layer from slipping sideways over an above the weight of the stones. While this was a useful way to stabilize the upper levels of the structure, and important to a people who knew of earthquakes and their magnified effect the higher up a structure one went, this also meant the next layer of stone had to be works around the outside, sliding over the out laryer below it then pull back into the taller stones at the center.
Simply amazing, it must have been men who built it
@@jamesmcnaughton5092 Nah, all women.
i would say every stone in the top 2 courses has been moved retrospectively , theres grooved patterns in a lot of the outer stones to suggest there was a square pattern inlayed, i would say the top of the pyramid has been highly modified to create the relatively flat surface, picking up stones and moving to where ever they fit best
Excellent.....another strut to support Houdin! The first time I saw his theory come to light I felt it in my gut that he was right. I have worked with master builders in the past, and have always been astounded at how difficult tasks are solved usually in a very simple and ingenious way. These solutions come about from actually doing the task which is usually very hard work, and nothing stimulates ingenuity like hard monotonous gruelling work. Like in nature, energy is never wasted and the most simple energy efficient method will come of it, and Houdin nailed it IMO. Lay the outer casing stones one by one in tandem with the inner filler blocks, aligning each one to its neighbour within millimetres of accuracy with nothing more than a horizontal plumb line, this survives to today, just watch a skilled bricklayer lay hundreds of perfectly level bricks in neat rows along a single set nylon line, it's a sight to behold, Andy perfectly scaleable up to five ton 'bricks' for a pyramid. Great observation skills here kudos to you and your team 👏👏👏
I can get behind lots of ramp ideas, even an internal one, but I still want to know how a team pulling a stone on a sled, makes a 90 degree turn at each corner of the pyramid? As you say, the simplest idea, requiring the least amount of energy must have been deployed, but what? Another thing I don't get is the grand gallery, what purpose did it fulfill. Houdin thought was some crazy complex counterweight system, again he may be right or perhaps it was something simpler. The fairly recent finding of the empty voids creates more mystery.
However minor it may be someone "like" "Monk", slightly OCD, just might come along and bring this to your attention: for the more correct spelling it is from "WIKI" Harry Houdini (/huːˈdiːni/).
It is such a delight to listen to you. It is like traveling in a time machine to watch the actual construction.
Can't believe I have only just found this channel, love your content and really excited to binge everything from the start!
Very well done. When I first became aware of the scans showing the ascending spiral I genuinely wondered how there was still any debate. I was definitely not aware of the evidence at the top, but I am grateful to you for pointing that out. Really great first video, your channel is going places!
They used a water pump in the middle.
You are welcome.
@@DocJohnnyBoy Settle down, dork. You don't need to share your edge with the world because your life sucks. Big hug, dude.
@@DocJohnnyBoy hella pressure to lift those blocks. It was hot air balloons that carried the blocks up.
It makes a lot of sense. Many years ago someone proposed a way of building ramps as they went up, but that would have been very labor intensive. The method proposed here has one VERY BIG ADVANTAGE. The builders can correct themselves as they build successive layers. It could also be a way of earthquake proof the structure.
I have been fascinated by Ancient Egypt since I was a little girl attending an exhibit at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. Thank you!
Wonderful video, thanks. I think it would be very helpful if you included some sort of drawing of the ramp you envisioned that would produce the results we see on the summit, as I don't know exactly what you were picturing! But great channel, keep up the great work. Curious what you make of the rope-roll hypothesis for the pyramid construction.
A very interesting theory that certainly makes some sense. I love how our understanding is always evolving and how technology is helping us understand new things.
Although this 5-10° rotation of internal stones may not continue throughout the lower courses of the pyramid, I feel that the concave sides of the Great Pyramid's backing stones suggest that just might be the case. As you mention, the external blue stones get deeper as they approach a corner. On the right side of your blue/red coloured image, you can see that rather than using extra deep stones, the builders have used two shorter stones. The centres of each side would be the places where you would require the deepest stones, since the sides closer to each corner would allow you to use shallower stones and simply lay them either one row or two rows deep.
I imagine that the deeper the stone you require, the fewer "just right" size stones you will have, and you are more likely to have stones that are slightly too shallow rather than slightly too deep. You have fewer options to achieve the exact depth relative to the inner stones angle at the point after you have maxed out your deepest stones but before you can justifiably fit two stones. This would be around the centre and create an unintentionally concave surface to the backing stones.
My other thought is that if the builders tended to add very shallow stones as they started to need to fill areas deeper than the deepest stones available but before it had become deep enough that they could use two 'normal' depth stones (i.e. the centre of each side) then perhaps those shallow stones were simply more likely to have come loose and been fractured/eroded and lost to time and increased the concavity of the backing stone sides. There are a few very shallow or very narrow stones visible in the drone image (relative to the size of the other stones, anyway) but none of them are on the external face.
Wow! The rotated core is so obvious when you study it in plan. Brilliant work, thanks!
You can also clearly see that each layer (at least on the outer layers) were alternated back and forth so that the corners didn't actually line up directly. This is also the cause of each side not being flat but rather have an indentation all the way up the middle of each side. Very structurally sound layering.
The middle indentation on each of the 4 sides would have provided extra structural integrity. Just the idea of this indentation shows advanced understanding of structure engineering. To have carried this out with accuracy in ‘primitive’ times is unthinkable. Whoever built the pyramid was very experienced in building large heavy structures and would have had suitable heavy lifting machinery along with precise measuring equipment. Questions on the build - arise as to where is that heavy lifting machinery today and how long did this take to build. Why transport such heavy stones to this location?
I don't believe or see why the slight indentation on each side could be caused by the layering, neither do I believe they provide extra structural integrity. The pyramid builders were precise in what they did and the indentations are not regular, but show vertical imperfections on each pyramid face. I very much doubt they were present when built, but developed over time. It seems obvious to me that the internal support for each face has shifted (reduced) slightly over time, likely exacerbated by the huge mass of the external blocks. Further, these imperfections lead me to believe they give significant clues as to the internal structure.
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I've restarted here reviewing all ur videos, . Keep up the Good Work young Man, I believe you have found your calling to Help others rethink established Thinking. .
I feel building in stages is clearly evident
Its amazing to me how many times I keep coming back to this channel and re-watching your videos. Perhaps I am dense, but every time I watch them I gain a bit of understanding that I didn't get from the first pass. This is by far my favorite channel on youtube. Thank you so much for your hard work.
I did see something similar but my interpretation was that they weren't necessarily arranged outer-and-inner but rather that they seemed placed with elongated-stones, at certain points relative to the corner-oriented & center-jointed "X-pattern" which dissects the level into, essentially, 4 right-triangles, which are lengthwise oriented in-to-out.
Ditto
Good Sir, your presentation and analysis are stellar. In 1979 I was posted to Ismalia Egypt as a member of the Canadian contingent with UNEFII. My buddy and I took 3 days leave in Cairo. We spent a day in Giza in, around, and on the plateau taking in every nook and cranny that were publically accessible (and then some). With a bit of our recon skills, we figured out the guard's blind spots and made it up enough courses of blocks that by the time we were noticed it was pointless for them to pursue us. It is a respectable climb up Cheops and we spent over an hour on the top. The poles that served to indicate the original height were still in place then and we sat on that incomplete topmost tier of blocks taking in the plateau and what we could see of Cairo through the haze. We had our lunch there amongst the millennia of fading marks from long past generations of those who had found their way to the same vantage. I have poured over your drone footage in hopes I might see something that resembles the outline of a maple leaf atop an uppermost stone that faces the city.
If you can point me to any of the best footage for this quest it would be greatly appreciated, I'm in my mid 60's now my dream from my 20's of someday returning with future family is likely long past reality.
Oh yes, our descent was equally epic. As avid skiers from the Canadian Rockies, we noticed that each course of blocks presented a perfect drop to equivalate to the drops on a moguled ski run. Don't know if we were the first to do this but it was a level of exhilaration that was surreal.
Thanks for your Channel, "Best in field"
You should have brought your skis!! Could have made the first decent down the great pyramid. :D As a life long skier myself, everything looks like a ski run.
What? you could have ended the comment after the first sentence, the rest is just "look at my story and how amazing I was, I climed the pyramid ans follow my story that has nothing to do with the video except its about the same pyramid, all look at my wonderfull deeds" - can there be a more selfcentered comment? not only that, you admit to jumping the fence and even defacing the pyramid with some carved in canadian graffiti - you should be ashamed of yourself good sir, for boasting about it without any connection to the cideos topic and defacing a world treasure, that's like me breaking into CN Tower in Toronto and spraying my tag there, just because I visited it
@@LordBelakor Well if you had a good can control i wouldn't bitch about it.
Volker h, I appreciate it and enjoyed his story Yours on the other hand you sound like a jerk you might wanna work on that
@@LordBelakor Mimimimimi... You are boring AF
Here’s a question- if the pyramid was covered with a granite Coverstone, which were removed, and obviously repurposed, has anybody ever found any of the rocks or stone covers in the city?
Was covered in limestone?
It wasn't covered with granite stones but rather limestone. A special white limestone brought from some distance away, not the on-site limestone.
I believe that I have read somewhere that there is evidence of buildings in Cairo containing these re-purposes stones, but don’t have a cite on hand.
I remember reading one of the piramids was originally covered with white rock [sinted red with an oil based paint, and that one of said rocks was repurposed for some coastline structure, I don't know the English word, basically a seafacing wall.
most of those casings went on to build the mosques in the immediate and surrounding areas. The Arab people picked the pyramids clean.
Obviously, we cannot infer the construction of the pyramids from a single layer. To do this, you should see if the same is repeated in the next layer. Maybe it didn't matter how the stones were placed in the middle or the rotated layers may have provided a better bond to the structure.
I gotta say, from a first impression, the Great Pyramid looks like a great effort to protect an underlying structure. It looks like tremendous limestone blocks were somewhat crudely cut and stacked over an underlying, precision built, granite structure of unknown purpose. This was then made to look more refined and permanent, by covering this haphazard pile of stones in a precisely fit shell of casing stones. I am aware of the different theories, and I’m fairly certain this isn’t one of them, but when coupled with something like the flood narrative, it would be wise to make the shape pyramidal in form. Keep the videos coming!
wow, this is quite nice thesis, kinda explains entrance passage being covered, then later uncovered.
The build is not just the stacking of 50 ton blocks, the four/& 8 base sides are all within a half inch and less to alignment perfection on all sides. Grasp that!!
@@richardcoram1562 it’s actually 8 sides as the 4 sides are slightly bent inward on the center of its axis. It’s visible when the sun hits it just right. Absolutely astounding
@@Jonbcae who knows. For me it’s fun to talk about all the different possibilities. So cool.
I was always curious of the whole plateau they sit on. Seems kinds strange. Giant flat plateau, then big wall of sand, then giant city below the plateau. To go through all that trouble only to have the city below the plateau. Maybe the whole plateau is not natural and it's purpose is what lies beneath. A marker of WHERE, when the water is high or extreme destruction maybe from some sort of cataclysmic event they knew was coming. Just a theory.
Looking directly above the Great Pyramid, it is astounding how they managed to pull off the 8 sides. So neatly done, with so many blocks. Phenomenal engineering and design to achieve this. Just imagine if they got it wrong near the top? And thats just one aspect of many fabulous designs within the greatest human construction ever to this day.
You can get things pretty darn straight with strings, plums, and sight glasses
@@HoLeeFuk317 build a pyramid to 1/1000th scale with that method and post it's perfection... ... ...
And they did it all by rubbing two sticks together, according to mainstream archeologists.
@@rconn4501 it's off square by estimated 7-14 cm. And there's no way to know for sure how perfect the dimensions were due to erosion. All these videos like to say it's perfect, it's not. With some basic geometry and strings it's not hard to make a perfect square that large. Great pyramid I believe is 755 ft at the base so 1000th scale would be about 9in. It's not hard to make a perfect 9in square with some thread and the Pythagorean theorem. I did that in junior high tech class
@@HoLeeFuk317 dammit 😂
I take this presentation very seriously. It rings true, the facts are so glaringly obvious now you've pointed them out. Genius.
Every time I see this thumbnail I think it’s a frame from an old FPS. Love your content btw :)
prior to finding this channel i would have never thought i'd become addicted to pyramid lore. binged all your videos
The ‘rogue’ ‘granite’ block is almost exactly at what would have been the extrapolated ‘apex’. Your observations are interesting and concur with one theory that postulates that the Egyptians( in particular Cheops) were renovating/preserving an already existing structure which they deified. Welcome to the wonderful world of piecing together lost history!
The only way we'll have a definite answer is if we start blowing it up in sections with dynamite 🧨
It's an interesting idea, but what evidence is there for it?
@@MrAchile13 all evidence will definitely lead you to no answer.
@Nātānsaurus what you been smoking my friend? You’re lost in the rabbit hole 😂 🍁
@Nātānsaurus one of the most unnecessarily rude responses iv ever seen 🤣
I wish I could travel back in time to see what these structures were like in their times. I bet it's mind-blowing. Well, MORE mind-blowing.
I think it’s just as likely that the inner stones simply didn’t matter so they threw them in there quickly.
The pattern I saw initially was that the stones seemed to be laid in rows, as there are a bunch that line up that way.
Thanks for this great drone image analysis HFG, as you said in the video, construction theories need to line up with physical evidence.
Could you possibly do a video on the core structure theory for the "big 3", with reference to why this would offer structural/construction advantages to the ancient Egyptians over the laying of continuous courses of masonry?
I'm also very interested in the vertical clefts on each side of the pyramid and what they could possible tell us about the possible construction methods used.
Keep up the great work!
Thanks Ian, that's a pretty good idea. I'd definitely need to include Meidum/Bent/Red in the analysis, as most of the evidence comes from them. In some ways the simplest argument is the most persuasive - which is 'if we know they built that way in Meidum, why would they completely change it up?'
@@HistoryforGRANITE Absolutely, but I've never seen a schematic for how to build ramps for a core structure, it's a lot of work to make 2 spiral ramps for one monument! Then there's the nice tidy finish of the core: why all this extra work on structures that will never be seen?
I have been really attached o the "rubble core" idea for some ime, it really made sense in regards to construction & quarrying .
What I would like to know is how the builders made a foundation that could support the immense weight. We are talking about digging down and leveling pure bedrock that if it was even slightly imperfect would lead to the collapse of the entire structure.
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Not true! The weight and size of the blocks makes a perfect foundation when set in in leveled and compacted sand. No need for bedrock.
@@zane8267 lmao
Smooth brain comments.
Every level had to be the perfect foundation..
Excellent video. I'm one of those math and engineering illiterates so I watched mostly to see if I'd understand ANY of his points but what caught my eye when he added colored contrast between the inner and outer stones on the apex was that the inner group was offset at an angle that resembled the declination diagram on a topographic map. Grid north versus magnetic north, specifically.
interesting insight. Hopefully someone with good math and understanding picks this up and investigate. So many features of the pyramids line up with facts of the globe. imagine if the inner portion of the pyramid lines up magnetic north.. holy crap. then it becomes kind of undeniable that it was all intentional. and it was intended for future generations to have the knowledge to discover and understand.
Designed to be functional within a given time lapse.
This was my first visit to your fascinating channel, and it's your first!! Lol just thought it was funny. But you know what they say, "thinking only got thought so far "
Thank you! I'm going to watch more now lol
Your latest video came up in my recommendations which I watched in complete delight. I thought I’d come to where it all began and binge watch EVERYTHING. Subscribed ❤
Thank you for this very nice comment!
It's amazing how off square the top looks, and yet the overall structure is perfectly oriented. That's not coincidental, there must be a building pattern.
When the picture looking up along the edges of the faces. Look very alternated, but yet the overall product is perfectly squared.
No, I did not see the pattern you pointed out. That's incredible.
You can draw a complete circle with small straight lines. It is known as a segmented curve and when viewed from the right distance it appears round.
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Great videos. Well stated, to the point, presenting perspectives not usually considered. Love it.
I noticed the inner blocks were at an odd angle than the outer blocks, but thought it was too obvious so kept looking for a bit. When I played the video and listened to your hint, that's when I felt I was right. I was so glad when you revealed the clue was in fact the off-aligned inner blocks.
Those pictures here in this video instilled for the first time the crazyness of this monument to me. I always knew it, but somehow now I can see all those ancient egyptians carrying those giant stones in the heat of the desert, piling them up to a horrifying mass. It is not the hight of the pyramid , it is this sheer, unreasonably mass of stones that had to be carried by human and animal power over great distance. Woow…
The most amazing feature of the Great Pyramid that I learned in recent years is that it is not really four sided, but eight. Each side is angled in slightly (right through the center of each side) and when the light hits it just right you could see it easily.
@@KB-pk8cn if the top is a side, wouldn't the bottom be also.. AHHHHHHHHHH 10 sides q: > ) ...........I've seen them, and it is like seeing a miracle, how could they do it in 20 years, how could they do it at all.
@@KB-pk8cn joke ...just a joke
@@samiam9008 lol what about the "INside" and the "OUTside" ?
@@kambuttress3519 NOOOOOOOO,.. when will it stop, is it the curse of the Pharisees !!!!
What are the theories about why it was built that way
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Great video
I did notice the alignment difference. I also see some linear elevation differences in the top surfaces or planes of some of the stones.
Well, I sure am glad you figured out how they did it. There have been people for the last hundred years walking over there. Researching digging in trying to figure out how the hell the those got built. I’m glad you figured it out.
A hell of a first video. Enjoyed it very much and look forward to more. Too many people take history for granite ;-)
Looked like a German swastika
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@@williamscott2461 I think you have that backwards.
@@defauluse5524 swastika German alike looked? ;)
I've always wondered if the shafts from the queen's chamber stopped at the exterior of the pyramid while the ramp was in place, and they got closed up when they encased the pyramid and the ramp just became part of the overall structure.
The shafts coming out of the queens chamber don't reach the outside like that of the King's Chamber shafts because the pyramid was expanded at some point. I believe that the shafts were made to slide airtight stones down them to artificially increase the pressure inside the 2 chambers maybe to be able to replicate the pressures found deep under ground where magma forms into Granite. So they could have been melting Granite inside these Chambers but found out that the pyramid was to small and had to expand it. Just another theory to add to the stack. I hope you can attend The Cosmic Summit in June at the Crown Plaza Hotel & Resort in Asheville North Carolina. I'll be there. It's $500 for a ticket and it lasts all weekend, food will be provided. If not you can pay only $50 to be able to live stream the event. Anyway you choose it will be the place to be if you want to learn the cutting edge theorys on ancient civilization and how the ice age impacted our human story. There is a website. Hope to see you there.
Great video and info. Question for you. If you look at the apex stones, some of them have slight recessions carved into them. These recessions run the length of the stone. Could these of been for the capstone to be seated in?
An internal pathway would also help explain the possible use of water as well as obviously use far less tonnage of material than an external ramp system. BUT, the theory of building the structures from the inside out--with central towers gradually added onto, layer by layer, until finishing with the precisely-fitted outer stabilizing stones and masonry--also seems far more efficient from a resource and manpower standpoint. This might also help to explain the obvious rough-shod, not-so-level, and spiralling appearance to that central core of the "roof" of the Great Pyramid. Interesting! Thank you!
I think offsetting the middle blocks adds much greater stability. I imagine peeling back each layer the middle blocks continue to rotate in degrees to maintain a sort of cross-thatch system. We can uncover the building's engineering design but I still believe you fall short of actual construction method. Iam convinced Dynastic. Egypt in their loin cloths wielding hardened bronze tools did NOT construct these pyramids! And since we find them across the world now, we understand it isn't some local genius plan. To build a puzzle, one must first study ALL the pieces. Good luck. Still a great observation. Cheers
Allan Hastings. I am in total agreement. The Egyptians never built the Great Pyramids, they were already very ancient and standing when life, civilization, modern humans and the Ancient Egyptians returned- from a cataclysmic event that wiped the original civilization off the face of the planet.
Recent discoveries in the dig sites of where archaeologists have determined the oldest modern humans once lived, have now been up dated - because of new discoveries of man made artifacts deeper down at the same dig site. It used to be around 200,00 to 400,000 years, but now the age is up to 600,000 years old human made tools.
So, if true, over a period of possibly 600,000 years of modern man development; the Egyptians, at the time of their discovery of the pyramids, were STILL USING BOWS,& ARROWS. As a matter of fact at that time, the Egyptian Armys were using the best state of the art tools and weapons which basically consisted of wood tipped spears, bows and arrows, wooden mallets, hatchets and axes.. Theres NO WAY the Egyptians constructed the three great pyramids. However, I do believe they ATTEMPTED to replicate building their own version, and those we do know for whom they were constructed. History has told us those smaller, haphazardly constructed pyramids were the oldest and were basically the learning curve to the final construction of the great pyramids. I say that's exactly bass ackwards. The Egyptian built pyramids are the newest, the smallest, and the piles of rubble - and they couldn't replicate the great pyramids. So, if modern man is now dated to possibly 600,000 years ago, along with other beautifully crafted pieces of art, small dolls and other artifacts, found in very deep coal seams and rock seams that have been dated to 2.5 million years ago just blows my mind, man!
That means The Great Pyramids are pre GENESIS, before the Bible and Gods creation of the earth and ALL things.Good luck with your search for the truth, but we do know for a fact the Pyramids were found, claimed, and today belong to Egyptians. In all reality the great pyramids may very well be millions of years old and may have been covered with sand for millions of years. that would've preserved them.. I m thinking of the ancient Egyptian technology at the time of the Pharoah's and their attempts to copy. Then, looking back through whatever time you choose- 200, 400, or 600,000 years, and realize the Egyptians were STILL USING wood tipped spears and wooden mallets as the modern man was also using hundreds of thousands of years prior. Now it really gets freaky. So whatever, whenever or whoever, built them ,it would've taken a million years to evolve and become a highly advanced population with the wherewithal to build the great Pyramids, and it appears they are found all around the world in a specific alignment ley lines as an electrical grid. In otherwords our modern day Forensic Archeology is possibly off by 15 million years, and we know the carbon dating and other methods are only reliable to a specific point.👽🙊🙉🙈🇺🇸✌
@@richardcoram1562 I do agree that the modern historians are dead wrong about the entire Egypt story(They're total arrogant clowns IMO). The great pyramid is older than the 'experts' think, but not that old. It was built roughly 12500-13000 yrs ago. Some of the contructions nearby are older than that. The sphinx is the oldest, probably dating back somewhere between 500k to 5 million years ago.
10-20K years ago, the world was a much different place that it is now, and much different than most people can imagine. We are not the pinnacle of human development and knowledge, not even close.
Edgar Cayce has provided the best info on how they were built and what their real purpose was/is. Ed Leedskalnin used the same methods to build his Coral Castle in FL circa 1920.
I understand your replies. For the most part we are in agreement that such structures are far older than Pharaonic Egypt, and more likely constructed by an earlier civilization devistated by a cataclysmic event highly suspected to be the Younger Dryas event. No tombs have revealed special toolings or relative construction plans or admition to any such technical feats. Tut's dagger included! Pyramids are a global phenomenon all echoing strikingly similar design, mathematically foremost! Lost cities found down approximately 400 feet of water,
We can go on for weeks producing evidence to show strength in this hypothesis which holds more weight than Egyptologist who have lived under a mountain of lies and confusion since Howard Vyse's Legerdemain with a brush and paint! There is more to be seen, we just don't belong to Club Elite to see it. However, there are plenty of lumps under the carpet to see what direction the sweepings come from. Once again, to solve a puzzle one must first study ALL the pieces. There is more than just Pyramids and tombs. This is a global puzzle involving most disciplines of science and research. Have you asked why we lost our hair and have to make fire and wear clothes to keep warm. Now there's an evolutionary conundrum! But one which is a piece of this puzzle. Surprised? 🤔 Hmmm. Lift the carpet!
So despite all the evidence they did make these buildings with stones, sticks, string, copper, arsenic bronze and a lot of labour, you still aren't convinced? These people painted how they did it on the walls in their tombs and tell their stories in stone. You should not consider your own lack of knowledge and skill to build with stone as a measure to evaluate what other, probably smarter, people would be able to do.
If you re one of the people that have fallen for the unlikely logic and false claims of con men like von Daniken en Foerster, I suggest you watch some video's on the channel of Stefan Milo who sometimes takes the effort to debunk all those nonsense tales of wonder.
Scientist against Myth is another interesting channel if you want to know what the scientific findings are. They are so kind as to actually show exactly how things were done and would encourage people to try it for themselves as well if they are not convinced yet. Obviously it is always possible God took a dump and the pyramids just appeared, but it is highly unlikely.
Interesting view from above, as below, looks like you are looking inward. Absolutely amazing structure that clearly we have no idea at all as to how it was constructed.
Ingenius analysis. I did notice the rotation of the inner stones at the summit. I also noticed on some exterior shots of the great pyramid that there appears to be faintly horizontal contrast lines at approximately 3-4 levels of the pyramid. Yes you have the wider 15th or 16th course you've covered, that's likely one of them but there's others. They're faint and obscured by rubble but there are distinct horizontal bands that contrast at these locations. Evidence of different stages of building possibly?
it could be from water erosion. maybe there was an ocean or lake that covered the land at some point in time
@@1theheightofparadise The Pyramid are on a flat plain a few dozen meters above the Nile valley, so inundation could not cover them, not even reach them. Occasional rainfalls could have permeated between the stones, but this rains are extremely rare, and would have resulted in irregular descending lines, not regular horizontal ones.
Regarding your inner and outer alignment of the stones, I think it would be necessary to rule out the possibility that those travelling to the site over thousands of years have not removed then replaced the top layer to see what's beneath them or otherwise. We would need to see another layer to rule that out.
The outer layers of stone and metal were stripped off by invading savages.
@@LRRPFco52 Israelis?
Sorry if I wasn't clear, I mean, we'd need to see the layer of stones vertically beneath the top layer to be sure, rather than go off of what we can see visibly on the top layer.
I completely Agree with you on this construction Theory, looking at the evidence of incomplete construction on the smaller Pyramids. Quite plain to see that it was a Correction for the final or outer Skin to be completed accurately.
Very good observations. I would like to thank you for the emergence of yet another systematic researcher on the field of the pyramid's construction.
I'd like to point out that this Dark Rock has to be analyzed carefully. In my opinion it is totally different from the others. I could tell that because I'm used to recognize different types of rocks being a geologist myself. From that amount of information I'll guess it's a basalt or another kind of melanocratic rock. Another interesting point to note is that there are small rectangular excavations on the perimeter in the rocks that are on the outermost edges. An analysis must be made of the usefulness of these structures. That could be related to the ramp itself.
When fitting additional layers of rocks from above, they always dug down into the rock already seated to make them fit. So that's usually what you're seeing with the excavations. But you're correct that with enough of them visible you can start to infer more about the construction pattern.
In a 'grounded idea,' what if the colored rock is from a certain builder? A mark of recognition? Something to represent an accomplished team or person who got the top done or oversaw major work, but they were not allowed to write their names? A show of pride? This was not visible when completed. It may be simply, symbolic and nothing more nefarious than that. It always takes more looking into. I just don't want to leave the most reasonable idea's behind.
The colored rock is from some 1960's hippie bozo with a quart of blue permanent dye that likely carved Beatles lyrics in the stone too. Such fools that inhabit this earth.
Seems like the top of the spiral pillar in the center may have been a guide point for string lines running down each corner and the bevel in the middle of each side may have been a second guiding point between two corners that could be moved as the stones were laid. Similar to the modern day line block used to keep tension on the string to keep each course true.
Thanks. This is a. Interesting idea. One thing pictures can't transmit is the enormity of the structure. It is awe inspiring to stand next to it.
Some caveats, the great pyramids have most certainly undergone several reconstructions over the last 5000 - 12,000 years! The peak, much like any mountain peak, is also subject to the most extreme weathering thus would require the most reconstruction. So what you are observing at the very top may not be indicative of the build of the original structure but a later (lower quality) work.
Some 3d lidar scans have been done internally which reveal the internal layout to laser precision and is worth a search. We aren't talking about simple brick laying, not with shafts, chambers and tunnels of this intracacy.
Ramps must still obey the laws of physics and 80 ton granite blocks would be diffult to slide up an inclined ramp even with modern machinery, much less turn around a corner.
The methods used employ techniques and technology outside of conventional understanding otherwise we would have already discovered a viable solution.
I noticed that each side had 9 blocks each. I figured that by measuring how deep each block was, they would just multiply how many rows it would take depending on how high they wanted to build it.
I noticed that also. 9 blocks on each side. Amazing precision for a structure so immense!
I took your challenge, and what I saw was: approximately the middle two rows (traveling left to right) seem to be the most regular and planned stone lays. I feel they laid these stones first and although slightly crooked as they propagate from left to right (and relative to the macro-shape), they then had to make the others fit either by placing the upper row and bottom row next, followed by filling in the gaps. But if they placed these three rows prior to laying the filling stones, that implies at some point they would have to lower the final few stones into their resting places (rather than simply dragging them laterally into position) within the boundary of stones that were already laid. Therefore, the smallest stones most likely were the last stones to be placed because they would be easiest to lower vertically into position. I don't know that I agree with the spiraling ramp theory, although I agree the pyramid shape plays into, by facilitating, the method used to construct the pyramid. I have other thoughts on this.
Im interested in knowing more about your thoughts. Lol
What drew my eye is the outside pattern looks to be a counterclockwise progression of stones interlocked. Meaning it was built in a counter clockwise circular motion from the base all the way to the top. This would have increased the stability and interlocked the stones more.
A very interesting observation. Additionally, there is also the strong possibility that we are looking at one of what were likely multiple renovations performed on a structure that appears to be much older than what academics and egyptologists still claim today. Some of the later work, as seen here perhaps, may show evidence of less sophisticated methods used.
Nice theory, but as I really think about this idea. As heavy as these stones were and the amount of man power that took to move them. How do you get that amount of people and materials onto a narrow ramp pulling on ropes connected to these stones around a triangle? And what did they use on these ramps to dampen the friction created by these stones.
Study the gigantic Roman structures.
They left a lot of their constitution records and were able to raise blocks twice that size straight up vertically. The Romans moved bigger stones than any other civilization in history. These pyramid blocks aren't even granite. Easy to quarry and transport.
@@bryandraughn9830 the stones on the inside are granite and we’re from a quarry over a 100 miles away. Even with the timeline they are claiming the it was built in, it was not possible, they would have to place a stone every 2 minutes. And the structures you are claiming built? Romans built on top of structures that already existed when it came to megalithic sites.
I propose that they built the inner chamber structures with the largest stones, then they wrapped that with a loosely fitted stepped pyramid structure. Once they got it to that point they placed filler blocks with an aligned outer layer to get close to the overall finished size and shorten the height of the steps then they capped it off with angled finishing stones. All could be done using scaffolding and rope cranes. There were flat unfinished areas near the corners with cranes allowing the blocks to be moved into position that were then filled in from top to bottom near the end of the build.
yours is the most realisitic scenario I have ever heard.
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Very interesting it appears to me that the casing stones where the most important. With that being said inside the casing stones aren't as important at the final placement. Either way for a civilization to build them is truly awe inspiring. The last questions will always be, why where they built and how. This apparently still clearly up for interpretation. Obviously the ancients where clearly gifted. Maybe one day we can find finally come to an agreement. It truly sucks that most things i was taught in school and tested on this was wrong. Lol
How about the layer under or above? Perhaps each layer could have been rotated in alternate directions to give it more stability?
Yes, that is most likely the case. Considering the huge mass and fact that you can't see the lower layers there must have ben some cleaver way to breake symetry betwen layers to prevent the connections between the blocks from forming lines. That structure would not be able to hold on its own for so long without a cleaver way to distribute the load perfectly betwen blocks without any chance for building in it any weak points of this kind.
And in the same time that side that colapsed looks exactly like this type of weakness(a plane was created that was a weak point and led to this collapse )...
From low number of likes to your comment its also clear that not many people here saw any photos of modern walls build by people that do not understand how important that is.
Even modern mortar will not help when the layers are not properly arranged in relation to each other, not only horizontally but also vertically and in years cracks gonna form even on structures that are not tall at all and hardly any load is transfered by the bricks.
They learned this on previous pyramids that collapsed during construction. Block size is also important. Took one pharaoh three tries before they succeeded.
@@Bialy_1 geopolymer? I’m asking legitimately
Great video 👍🏻 when I paused from the birds eye view I could really see how it has 8 sides and not 4. I had heard this before but couldn’t really see it until this video as the angles are quite small.
Also, the sides of the pyramid were flat and had an angle, which was visible. This is an extra bonus on top of the complexity of just building a simple pyramid.
I think the orientation could be shifted due to the changing orientation in the universe (stars, the sun e.g.) over time. I believe that the inner pyramid was constructed first and faced a straight alignment with the stars. And years later the outer layer was placed on top of that and corrected the alignment of the pyramid to re-align with the same stars. This alignment adjustment of temples can be found on more ancient structures built in different parts of the world.
The thing that I got from looking at the top of the pyramid was that it looked like a spiral pattern, that got progressively less precise as it got closer to the inside. The main thing that struck me was how haphazard the whole thing looked, which seemed odd for such a high-precision structure, and I was thinking that the last courses just weren't considered to be very important, and so could be skimped on. And the huge gaps between the stones seemed quite odd, given how well-known the precision-fit of some many of the visible stones are, not only on this structure, but throughout ancient Egypt. Here they seem to be assembling random stones that only vaguely fit together. But I'm also thinking about a point you made in another video, about thermal expansion. Perhaps there are expansion voids throughout.
Looking at how there are some stones that are fit together more precisely than others, I get the impression that at sometime in the past, someone removed some of the inner stones ( top layer or two) to see if there was a room at the top and then set them back in without caring to be precise. I doubt we will ever know exactly how they built them. We would need to disassemble them piece by piece at least until we uncovered enough of the inner structure to understand the overall structure inside and out. A peek behind the chamber walls and access tunnels would be revealing...
Personally, I think they literally built it practically a step at a time. Set the innermost structural support stones and then worked out to the outermost edge to where the white limestone skin would be placed later. That would give the workers a sizeable flat platform to work on to set the next set of structural support stones while other crews worked setting the fill stones to the outer edge. A ramp which probably resembled something like the support terraces the Incas used to build Machu Picchu on probably encased the outer structure. The chambers and tunnel casing stones were probably pre cut and placed when they reached the level they were to be placed. The ramp itself would've been a feat all on its own.
The white finishing stones probably went on from top working down as the ramp came down. They likely rested on the "steps" and we're shimmed with flat rocks to keep level with the correct angle until surrounding stones locked them into place.
It is possible they took the ramp down and rebuilt it as they cased the pyramid, but doubtful. If they could build it as precise as they did, I'm sure they would've been able to case it from top, down. But I don't see the need or even benefit of an inner ramp. It would've been Too tight for any sizeable stone to be hauled up it, especially at the turns, and working it a layer at a time allows for multiple crews to work simultaneously, plus it gave them a platform to stage many stones for the assembly crews to grab and set without waiting for the ground crews.
People have gone up there for thousands of years and moved the inner stones hoping to find a way in. Then this act of vandalism was refitted incorrectly.Simple
David, there's nothing really that "precise" in the fit of any of the core blocks which are visible to us today. The exceptions are the few Tura casing blocks which reman intact in a small section of the base. A casual examination of all of the visible courses reveals every stone is very rough cut and does not make a close joint to its neighboring blocks. The joints are jagged, wide and irregular. No doubt all were filled with the crude mud mortar the Egyptians used and which is in evidence in certain places within the outer core, in places which can be reached for observation. For sure, the courses are very well spaced and all appear to be generally level from end to end. I think Flanders Petri made an attempt to determine the general levelness of the courses and decided they were as good as can be expected using such rough cut blocks.
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@@willyboccecolla7926 Have you ever seen the inside of the pyramid?
@@tobythompson199x Toby, in photos and videos, not in person.
I rarely hear it mentioned that each side of the pyramid is concave , making it in effect eight sided , it’s almost mind boggling to think how this was done or planned even
Wonderful. This wasn't discovered until a plane flew over years ago and was able to take a photo when the sun was at the right angle to show the shadows better. X
Could this be a clue that each side was constructed one at a time? - meaning not in a spiral pattern as we all assume? - I mean anything is plausible as we do not know, the concave method would mean one side at time would work as the pressure exerted from the blocks from doing so would support the loads…of course i am taking about the the covering of the structure below (what we can see now) before the limestone….
@@christinewilde110 What's really crazy is that the 8 sides of the pyramid are only visible at sunrise and sunset of the spring and autumn equinoxes! The airplane that saw it first in the modern era was flying at sunrise on the equinox! The whole structure is a giant calendar, besides whatever else it may have been used for. Truly, it's beyond our comprehension how it was built. But every clue brings us closer to understanding.
The fact that it faces almost perfectly true north, more so than any structure ever build even today, is pretty amazing. But it's the precision of the cuts that they made that will always be insane to me.
@@TheRealNappyG crazy…like you said, beyond our comprehension. And for what purpose would these pyramids be built this way? To only be seen for just two days of the year? I don’t know brother. There’s so much for us to learn from the people that came before us
Occasionally, I have been watching Pyramid over and over and again. I'm moved so much. (soon be 91yrs.Japanese)
The top rocks to me have a spiral pattern. Starting from the bottom right corner and moving to the left in a clockwise pattern it looks like when all the outside stones are laid right before it is completed by that same right corner they started laying the second layer. Just like some hypotheses on how the pyramid was built. You make a spiral that right before completing a full rotation you start the next level inside and a bit higher where you had started.
Yes I saw the rotated inner square right away before you mentioned it. I thought it is the result of lining up the edge stones with the sides first and then filling up the space inside. The rotation may indicate the technique as you suggest. Great video, thanks. Have you noticed the huge blocks (at least 10 times wider) at the base of the pyramid? How was that put in place?
Aliens? Ancient Astronaut theorists say yes!!!......
@@bryanergau6682 :) any other ideas?
@@darko4608 There are theories. I hate that none can be proven true. I really hate that. I wanna know the truth so bad, but I don't think anyone ever will and that shit drives me crazy. If anyone in this world does know the whole truth, which they don't, we'd never get to talk to them. They'd be hidden or killed. But let's argue on the comment thread.
er.. pushed/slid/manhandled into place using levers & muscle? not too many other options in ancient egypt.
@@daos3300 why the question mark? :)
Good points mentioned! I always felt that the Pyramids were built from the lower ground on up, from the inside out, ground floor to top, then top to bottom placing casing stones using each course as the ramps themselves. 2 to go up and 2 to go down. Sounds weird, but what is NOT weird regarding these structures. Even the minds of Einstein, Newton and Sagan, to name a few, could not figure it out. Think about it: Einstein discovered The Theory of Relativity, but could figure out how the Pyramids were built. Crazy! Great channel by the way.😉
@@Otis-Tank420 took the words from my mouth basically
@@Otis-Tank420 Gravity is BS? Try standing under a falling brick ... or better, offer an explanation (one that isn't BS) for the fall of said brick. I read somewhere that "Gravity proves that the whole world sucks" (and I still love it!).
There is another Theory about using a wooden box, like an elevator shaft to float the blocks up. Wrapping them in papyrus would cushion them as well. Just like a canal lock, a chamber at the lowest end would recieve the block, then water pumped in & the separating door opened to start the block on its way upwards.
There is also the possibility that the external spirals were filled with water that could be raised, then pumped to raise to the next higher level.
Simple enough to put the extra water down one level for the next block coming up.
@@KermitFrazierdotcom floating 80 ton slabs to the kings chamber?
I did notice a sort of twist pattern on the top of the pyramid, but I couldn't place it in a theory of its construction. Good stuff!
No I still don't think there's any way that human being as we know them to be could have built the pyramids their's way too much accuracy the construction
good lord that thumbnail. I though I was staring down a square tunnel not down on a pyramid. My brain melted for a second
Saw the difference almost immediately. My thought however was that they had aligned the outer stones, then dropped the middle ones in to fill however they happened to fit. It would be interesting to know if other layers match up the same way on the inside.
I thought the same thing.
To me is seems like the misalignment of the filling stones must have had the purpose of stabilizing the structure - I bet the next layer is turned opposite!
That doesn't work as the outer stones would require support or they would simply fall over before you could place stones inside the structure to support them.
@@Baronstone i dont think you get it, he prob means that every layer was first build on the outside to then be filled to becone a solid layer, basicly layer by layer, not the whole outer shell first and then just fill everything with block.
Outer layer first than fill the interior as needed. Fast and simple. Jean-Pierre Houdin clarify and explain. This small, but extremely important detail quite well.
Personally one of the details he presented while backing his theory. Remarkably well should be said.
Is a tiny inconspicuous video. Of present day Egyptians workers doing exactly the same. Using precisely the same basic technique. Curiously a method well known and used in most of North Africa, to this day and age!
When presented with that. What astonished me the most. Is that not only its an old and well known technique in the region. But also it was staring us on the face for millennia! And nobody noticed!!! Literally the main answer, has been there all the time! 😋
I saw the pattern right away but I couldn't for the life of me come up with any reason that would help me figure out how the pyramid was built. It just looks like a big 'plug' to me. So I assumed that wasn't what you were hinting at and kept looking for more details.
I was satisfied when I eventually noticed that the spaces in between the blocks seem to have some sort of filler material in between them, and assumed you were gonna talk about some sort of primitive concrete, heh.
The filler material looked like rubble and was a darker color.
First thing that caught my eye from the overhead picture was the three blocks on the top of the screen that have a matching groove/bevel across them, perfectly matching like a puzzle, even though the edges of the blocks are not aligned. Without further evidence, it is difficult to say what causes this feature; be it weathering, cutting of a larger stone, masonry to fit other blocks, or something that eludes me. It seems like this would be a great place to draw inferences from to determine the method of construction or wear after construction.
Incredible aerial shots... they really move me... I can't believe I have climbed up there several times. I'll never forget the sound of the mosques call to prayer blaring dissonantly from multiple out of sync speakers across the entire city from up there. It's chilling.
Interesting. Thanks for good stuff. Spiral ramp makes sense. However very heavy blocks had to be moved a long ways to get any kind of elevation.
I just don’t think a spiral ramp makes any sense. As heavy as these stones were and the amount of people that it took to move them. My question is, how do you get that amount of people on a narrow ramp pulling on ropes around a triangle?
Well said, our ancestors did many amazing things without the help of extraterrestrials or machine tools, all it takes is a bit of thought and good old fashioned elbow grease. Keep up the good work! Love your logo, make some T-shirts...
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I'm not convinced.
One thing I thought I noticed was that the stones towards the center of each face on the outer un-rotated ring, seemed longer than they were wide, but with the long sides perpendicular to the face of the pyramid. At first I thought that it was caused by the builders compensating for the gap caused by the inner stones being rotated, but after looking back at it, this pattern continues in to the center most stones of the spun section as well. Could this be done to increase the number of stones that the upper most courses of the pyramid have on yhe outside? Would that increase the stability of those courses as the pyramid narrowed?
My initial thought about the pattern was that the inner stones were added afterwards, as if after a try to enter the pyramid from above.