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One thing you might want to look into is Coptic. It DID get preserved as a liturgical language, and is the only reason anyone was able to decipher the Rosetta stone. now it's not quite the same, but... pretty close, and does have a spoken form.
"Martin Luther King was the father of Marting Luther King Jun...erm...uh...Was named after Martin Luth...ugh...uh...erm...Ahhhh...the Martin's...." -Parental "Authority" Obscurantist
@@spiffygonzales5160 if you asked most Americans, they would probably say that he fought for black rights. Which is not true, and never what his message was. He fought for equal rights.
Egyptians had a special place in their hearts for cats because cats kept away all of the rodents and other creatures that might infest grain stores and poison the food. Cats were responsible for keeping famine and disease away from Egyptian food stores so I would imagine a bit of respect and appreciation for what they do is in order. 🙂
They were an important part of the household, when the family cat died the family would shave their eyebrows in mourning. It was against the law to kill a cat. On the other hand the priests would raise cats at the temple, and then sold to devotees to be sacrificed and mummified as offerings to the goddess Bastet.
He's not afraid of being called racist. He's afraid of being fired after these people tell his boss he's racist. Edit: I didn't expect this to blow up.
That comment he made about "they looked like humans", made me think of a Colin Quinn quote: "I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity. As long as you don't point out that people are different."
Something about our Metatron becoming exasperated. I’m on the floor laughing because I completely understand. So many lies going around, and people buy into it. 😤🤦🏽♀️ Grr. But there’s just something so endearing about our man here. ♥️ *Takes headphones off.* *”No.” 🤭🤣😂
You can keep your sources, iconography, descriptions, paintings, murals, statues, and mummies. My grandmother told me that all ancient Egyptians were sasquaches.
Fun hat fact: one of the reasons fancy hats went out of style is the car roof. As the roof gradually lowered in vehicles, there was less room for a 'proper' hat, until they just went out of style.
I'm not sure that's true, you take off your hat entering a carriage. Headrests are more of an issue than the height of the roof for hat wearing, and speed. Hats don't like sudden acceleration and deceleration.
@@mandowarrior123 I see your point, my statement was based off a video I saw about this fact, I suppose it was just a series of inconveniences that made hats 'too much trouble to deal with' and fazed out style
@@mandowarrior123 You didn't take your Fedora off in the 20, 30s and 40s to drive a car. Women never took their hat off in cars. from the 1950s onwards you might remove it to drive as the car roof had lowered, and by the 1960s neither men or women are routinely wearing hats at all times outdoors as they used to. Then you get to the 70 and the car is its final form with low roofs and hats have vanished.
Because of racial sensitivity of people who have never set foot in that region, whose ancestors presumably never set foot in that region, but have the cultural power to shame and destroy someone for producing information that doesn't massage their tender, red rash of a cultural ego.
@@soulknife20 Yeahhhhh... no. Given the times we live in, the question was very specific and we all know what it was about. Met is absolutely right, cop out of massive proportions.
@@soulknife20 The question was not Africans, but Egyptians. You are making a false comparison. Dogs is board like Africans or Americans. While Egyptians is as specific as labrador.
@@darkcow7of9the pyramids are a tomb, but not for a king, it is the tomb for the sun, the lion king. The sun sets over the three pyramids during the Solstice's and Equinox's. They tell the time, like what temples do, exactly what Stonehenge does as well.
"I'm a historian" "What did the ancient Egyptians look like?" "People" "What did the Romans do?" "People stuff" "Who were the Vikings?" "People with boats" I feel like my dog is probably knowledgeable enough to be considered a contemporary historian at this point 😅 Also, the fact that Egypt is a country on the current world map, and people are Googling "when did the Egyptians live" is just downright sad
EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do you assume the Vikings were people with boats? IDK walkng a very fine edge my friend. LMAO. That's almost how pathetic the world has become in the west. Fantasy, nonsense land where up is down, but you might look up to see down because down might get hurt feelings over the connotations of looking down on things.
@@ronald3836The Romans shat in other peoples wells, copied their technologies and killed their administrators, justifying these actions by calling those other people backwards uneducated dirty barbarians who filter water through their mustaches as they drink because they even don't know where to get pure water.
Nah I think some people and their generations would have been experienced in the field of architecture and large projects like the Great Pyramids after the Tower of Babel time period even with the confusion of languages and Nimrod's regime collapse.
Fun fact: I found multiple Central European sources from 18th and 19th century using the term "black" to describe people with black hair and eyes, not skin. That makes the sources sometimes quite confusing for modern readers...
In Australia Black means Australian Aborigine and Torres Strait Islanders. However in most of the world it means West African Blacks from Nigeria and Ghana.
@@Pepe-pq3om Yeah Im not sure why people act liek Cleopatra was the only person who existed at that time. Yeah she was greek, but you have other people from the past who occupied the region. Ancient Egypt didn't look like the face of current day egypt if you go far back enough on the timelime.
Ramses II had red hair according to molecular analysis. I watched the presentation by the woman who ran the tests. There is much that was censored from our history
A language today is spoken that evolved from ancient Egyptian. Languages change over time, and I believe Coptic was an evolution of a lower-class Egyptian language developed in Egypt during Roman rule, but don't quote me on that. Egyptian language is a fairly complex topic, languages change over time and Egyptian had multiple written forms used simultaneously.
@@Robsta42 There is a video made about the making of The Mummy - the Brendan Fraser version - which went into how they developed the language they speak in the films and I think you are right on the origins. The specifically state that it is a GUESS based on Coptic which is evolved from Egyptian but that a lot of it was still guesswork because they simply don't know. Years ago my Latin teacher taught us something I've never forgotten which is that just as English has different pronunciations for words depending on which country you are from, which area in that country [people born in Somerset in England - pirate accent - speak totally differently to people from Newcastle, black country, and Yorkshire who are totally different again to people from Glasgow who are different to Swedish speakers of English or Australians. But they all speak ENGLISH, his point being that Latin speakers from Britannia probably spoke different to Latin speakers from Gaul or Rome or Egypt or Greece because local accents affect the way you say words. That's without adding in local slang, slang specific to jobs or professions - criminal slang or medical slang for example - which would all get mixed in depending on who you were talking to and their class [working class often speaking something totally different to the more educated classes both then and now]. And I'm betting the same applied to to Egyptian just like it doe4s to any other country. Even Metatron has spoken about how northern Italians pronounce words differently to how he would say them coming from Sicily. I doubt that has changed over the centuries and people who claim that 3000 or 5000 years ago spoke the same way as we speak now [heck, I'm willing to bet that Egyptians from the times of the pyramids DIDN'T sound the same as Egyptians from the times of the Greeks or Romans, a lot changes in a couple of thousand years] is talking through their hats.
Back in the day, you could mess with people by being dishonest, being a contrarianist, using insults, being annoying etc. These days, you can mess with people by just being honest and telling the truth. It's unironically one of the most hilarious things I have ever experienced in my entire life, and I love it. Also, I had to re-write this comment several times to stop it from being shadow-deleted. Very nice.
I had a conversation with a black friend of mine about Nefertiti being a black woman. I pointed out her famous bust having VERY light skin. He said that it was faded over time. I pointed out that the red and blue on her war crown as well as the black around her eyes was not faded. He had no response. Also, there is a relief of Nefertiti sitting on a throne, holding a small club over the heads of white AND black female slaves. Look at the major difference in the skin colors. Nefertiti was olive - skinned.
That's olive skinned to you? Those in the Mediterranean are olive skinned, she had a tone or two darker. My niece has skin tone similar to the busts and such you are describing. You forget that people with melanin can have various skin tones.
Egyptians looked.. flat; their heads were permanently turned to one side, and their feet were pointed in the same direction. If an ancient Egyptian were to face you directly, you'd only see a single straight line, they were only visible in profile.
47:37: There is already a series talk like this from The Teaching Company called "The Other Side of History." It is exactly about how the ordinary people of history lived. It goes from the earliest to the middle ages. It's about how women lives, children, slaves, soldiers, the ill and disabled, refugees, etc. I think it's a wonderful series.
These are the kind of people that ask "Well where did you last put it?" when you lose something. Did you know the Egyptians were born at a very young age?
Devils advocate here, when he was saying that ancient Egyptian where human beings I think it was a response to the people who think ancient Egyptians where extraterrestrials beings, the editing of the video didn't do him justice that's my guess because there is no way someone as smart like him is "afraid of saying the color of their skins" It's nonsense I think we judge him too quickly for just a response to the funny theory of Egyptians being aliens. (thats just my take, sorry for the bad english i'm not) (im super new to this channel so maybe metatron did again spoke about what i was saying in his late video idk.)
I am Coptic - the original Egyptians most probably with some of the genetic makeup of the ancient Greeks and Romans mixed in. I've had Armenians and Germans in my family line on one side (maternal). Otherwise, all I've known of for many generations is Coptic Egyptians. If you took how I look and maybe tan us a little darker, make our hair a little bit rougher and darker (overall make us slightly more North-African instead of Meditteranean) - I'd assume that's probably what my ancestors looked like before all the European mixing. Wish I could attach a photo here. We were mostly converted from pagan or emperor worship to Christianity by Saint Mark, a first century evangelist whose relative owned the house/building where the Last Supper was believed to occur. We are now a minority in our lands due to several occupations, the chief of which coming from the Arabs. And we still speak, orally, some-to-most (not sure of the exact amount) of the original Coptic language - but it is written and modified with Greek. The script is pretty much entirely Greek. But the sounds, the hymns, the readings I get to witness from my heritage are beautiful.
Contact isn't a race.... its the Greek written version of Egyptian hieroglyphics after the took control of Egypt... not race its a written form(like letters n word form) of the pictographs in the hieroglyphics its a Greek invention
@@damianhockenberry2907 Coptic just means Egyptian. Copt means Egypt. The history of the word transfroms it from the modern Coptic, to Copt, to Qibt, to Gipt, to Aegipt(os) - being the Greek word for Egypt. Coptic literally just means Egyptian. It is used to refer to a language, a people, and a community all at once. If not the word Coptic to refer to this ethnically and genetically distinct group of Egyptians - then what word do you suggest? Because we are very different from the modern, Arab Egyptians.
"what my ancestors looked like before all the European mixing" Don't forget that the DNA of multiple Pharaos is closest related to some of today's European ethnicities (Ramses the 2nd is closest related to today's Irish for example)
Between Cleopatra, the possible Denzel casting for Hannibal and the Moors controversy, I feel bad for North Africans having to put up with insane black supremacists
North Africans not even worried about these things in the slightest. They have more important things to worry about. The average person walking around Rabat, Luxor, Aswan, Tripoli, Cairo couldn’t care less about random Hollywood castings.. if they did they are definitely in the minority.
I've encountered people to whom the race of the Egyptians is not so much a matter of the truth or historical accuracy as it is an almost religious level of belief regarding their own racial identity. They cherry pick what supports their belief from history and ignore the rest. There's no talking to such people. Don't even try. Anything beyond 100% agreement with whatever they say is seen by them as a personal attack or racism.
The native majority of the Ancient Egyptian population were an olive-skinned population that phenotypically looked like modern Egyptians and Middle Easterners, some were lighter-skinned, some were darker-skinned, but not as dark as what Afrocentric African Americans think, overall, they were a Mediterranean population with facial structures similar to Europeans and Middle Easterners, what people refer to as "Caucasian". If you time travelled to Ancient Egypt, the native majority population would not look like Sub-Saharan Africans or West Africans or East Africans or African Americans or Northern Europeans, but rather would look like modern Egyptians and Middle Easterners and even Southern Europeans, in other words, Mediterranean people. Genetically, they were West Eurasians like Europeans and Middle Easterners but had lived in Africa for over 10,000 years and likely would have some Middle Eastern ancestry and even Sub-Saharan African ancestry , though modern Egyptians have more of that DNA due to the Arab slave trade. At some points in the ~3700 year history, there were indeed people living in Egypt that we would call "black people" (Nubian rulers) and "white people" (Greek and Roman rulers), but neither were ever the majority, however they did rule Egypt at some points. But no, the native majority of Ancient Egyptians were not what we would call "black" or "white" and the closest appearance that would fit them would be "Middle Eastern-looking" or "Mediterranean". If I had to give a population percentage, I would say that 85% of Ancient Egyptians were this olive-skinned, Modern Egyptian-like, population, another 5% would be other related populations, such as Semitic groups from the Levant and Berbers from the Maghreb, 5% would be Greco-Romans, and 5% would be Sub-Saharan Africans, mainly Nubians and Cushitic peoples.
Spoken like a true neo-Nazi historian describing native Africans as "Sub-Saharan Africans" while stealing Africa's history for Europe and Asia. Modern population of the Arab Republic of Misr is 17% Arab (Arabian Gulf), 68% Eurasian from North Africa (gene pool of descendants of Ionian Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Anatolians, Turks, and Iberians). Ancient Egyptians spoke an African language, belonged to the yDNA haplogroup E1b1 native to Africa, had wooly hair, and tropically adopted body plans (osteology). They originate at Nabta Playa in West Sudan, Africa not Asia.
if you went back to 10 000 bc then the people inhabiting europe were dark skinned hunter gatherers with blue eyes, that's what the genetics says (johannes krause).
Spoken like a neo-Nazi historian describing native Africans as "Sub-Saharan Africans" while stealing Africa's history for Europe and Asia. Modern population of the Arab Republic of Misr is 17% Arab (Arabian Gulf), 68% Eurasian from North Africa (gene pool of descendants of Ionian Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Anatolians, Turks, and Iberians). Ancient Egyptians spoke an African language, belonged to the yDNA haplogroup E1b1 native to Africa, had wooly hair, and tropically adopted body plans (osteology). They originate at Nabta Playa in West Sudan, Africa not Asia.
Olive skins are foreigners, they clearly painted themselves various shades of brown. Middle easterners have no origins in Africa. The culture and first Pharoah came from within Africa, it the delta.
I believe this is the best answer from a logical standpoint so far in this comments section. Idk why but here in the states I keep seeing the spread of Afrocentric interpretations that go against everything we know, and on the other hand off shoot groups of history buffs having a reactionary response the the Afrocentric interpretation, being that somehow the Egyptians descended from Western Europe. It’s all rubbish but people on both sides of the extreme are eating it up.
What did they look like? Easy answer: Look at their own paintings from their tomb walls and statuary. By the way... UPPER Egypt neant UP RIVER... as in the Nile, which flows from the south to the Mediterranean.
He also dodged the slave question. The Egyptians had slaves and black slaves even if they used work gangs to build the Pyramids. Having slaves was the norm historically.
Yup. Obviously they did have dedicated craftsmen and laborers for construction, but come on. Especially with archeological evidence recently found a couple years ago in Goshen (the region in Ancient Egypt historically housed their slaves) and Sinai, it becomes pretty obvious that this is about not wanting to admit that the core part of Exodus - that being the fact that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt - is true. Because that makes certain people uncomfortable, they much rather the Bible stay "fiction".
@@SockieTheSockPuppetThe Bible contains a lot of truth, and a lot of fiction. It's after all a compilation of work made over a long period of time by many different people.
@@SockieTheSockPuppet The fiction part starts with GENESIS... Come now, or are you going to debate that Genesis is the truth? Religion isn't fictional, it's a man made institution, however the existence of a all mighty being most likely is fictional.
I wonder if technology is lost to future cultures, will they look back at our great skyscrapers remains and wonder how many years of slave labor it took to tranfer materials and undertake their construction? Maybe they don't understand the means of how they're built, will they say there's no way we could have made these and aliens did it? I'm genuinely curious to think what they'd make of our accomplishments without understanding the means and processes to make them happen. Very curious and interesting.
He couldn't say they had tawny coloured, Med looking skin? With some multiculturalism from the Kushites, Arabs later etc? Is he propogating the "they wuz black" myth?
@@CMc-v7z "they looked like human beings" is not *actively* supporting the "we wuz kangz" myth. But the professor is clearly afraid of speaking against this myth.
Speaking as a member of the DAR one of the parts I have the most fun with is dressing up! Just had a ‘tea’ this past weekend with hats, pearls, gloves, you name it! That said, I also love the comfort and ambiguity of jeans and a tunic with a sweater or jacket to layer. I mean, I grew up in the country where fancy clothes will get torn and dirty with regular use.
i just started the video and the first 15 seconds i was like EXCUSE ME SIR, as a curly haired, Caucasian Egyptian, I KNOW my ancestors looked like human beings, but you KNOW that was NOT the question 😒 can't wait to see Metatron DESTROY this "professor" 🤣
@@mscapeh4451He’s afraid of getting cancelled. He knows whatever he says, he’s going to piss someone off. Both sides attack Metatron. This guy knows that will happen to him.
😅Dear Metatron, I left at least 3 comments on this video it made my head spin. I could not believe how little he knew, and how many questions he could not answer. I have only been studying Ancient Egypt since I was 11. What do I know? Refreshing to see a scholar I admire, agree!!!
@@ogun9645Of all the questions he had no answer for, you are inquiring on "skin color only?" The questions I left my answers on History Hit, FID NOT address this at all. I don't care as Egypt has always been a mixed people. To define this fact clearly, look at a map. You will see that Egypt borders the Levant to the East, sits on the Mediterranean where trade was constant with Europe (Ancient Egyptian jewelry was discovered at Stonehenge buried 4,000 years ago) and is bordered in the South by the land of Cush who, admired Egypt so much so that they adopted their gods, culture, jewelry, dress, Pharaonic style of rulership, and a smaller form of pyramid (Isosceles versus the ones at Giza which are Equilateral). My father is part Egyptian. His ancestors were dropped in Canada because they were taken from Egypt, Muslim and not white. If you want to speak of various skin colors and hair color and types in Ancient Egypt see the oldest ancient Egyptian mummy ever found I suggest studying up on "Ginger man". See also the mummies of Tuya and Yuya the parents of Queen Tyie. Queen Tyie still has her hair which is long, brown and loosely curled. See the statues of Ra-Hotep and wife Norfret son of Kufu and the statues of ancient scribes from the early dynasties where eyes were inlaid with crystal. There is a famous one with blue eyes, outlined with green malachite. His skin is orange. Statues as in Kafre's, appearing dark green or black have residue of color in their nostrils. They were always painted. The color was red or orange for men, yellow or pink for women. Brown or Black is also depicted to a lesser degree overall. Ancient Egypt was a mixed culture. Broken pots called "ostracon" a poem to a young man's female lover was discovered in a garbage dump in Der El Medina (the city where the workers for the Valley of the Kings tomb builders lived). On it he described her dropping her dress revealing her white breasts glowing in the moonlight. The explanation for why the men were orange or red while the women were pink or yellow, was because men were predominantly outside therefore tanned. When a woman works outside and tans when she drops her dress as it speaks of above, her breasts do look glowing white. I am not listing specifically the examples of additional skin types as the question is "was there different or mixed skin/hair types found in Egypt?" Yes, there were. See also the genetic study done in 2017, of the oldest graveyard in Egypt. Any other questions aside from skin types I would be happy to answer.
The Ancient Egyptians look similar to a lot of Egyptians and middle eastern people today. There were ranges of skin color and hair types ranging from more darker modern African features to more Southern European/Mediterranean people. Super light fair skin (say of northern Europe and Scandinavian peoples would be very rare, but we do know there was trade that far). In the oldest periods it would have been less variation. But it basically doesn't take rocket science to look at Northern Africa, Arabian Peninsula, and Southeastern Mediterranean and say..."a hybrid of that". And then on top of that you had a massive empire of trade which changed many times over the very long period we're talking about, so you got people who were captured and purchased as slaves, you have people who sold themselves into servitude, you have people who were of nomadic tribes, you had merchants from as far away as south-east Asia. And with all those people over thousands of years you have mixing of genetic traits. Then you have invasions from other cultures. And of there was discrimination and class associations with what you looked like, but in addition there were always exceptions if you were wealthy or noble (then no one would dare insult your association with anything but being noble or else they are going to find themselves in a bad spot). And of course if Royal people intermingled (which they did) it was then 100% okay for them and you better not find anyone hearing you talk bad about the god-king. Concerns about ethnicity is generally a luxury of a large middle and upper class. Historically societies with very large lower/working class populations tend to just not have time to be concerned about it (they were more concerned if you can work not). Why did they inter-marry within families? Well that's a classic royal/nobility thing, isn't it. When you have a lot of money/power and you want to not have to loose part of it to another royal family you don't really trust, well you can avoid that by not establishing links to other bloodlines and giving them claim to the inheritance. Their cultural values and norms were not our modern cultural values and norms, we've have thousands of years of added experience and knowledge. Now the main reason we don't know about the methods the pyramids were created is because we don't have, nor will we really, ever put tens of thousands of people into a multigenerational experiment to try out methods and learn how to create pyramids with the tools of the day. We know most of the tools they had. We know that they could have done it. We can put those together and infer a lot of the processes, but until you build 2 or 3 you probably won't find all the skills and best way. And you know if you have 20k-30k people and 300-500 years to work on it, go ahead. 🤣
No such race or people called Mediterrenian people. Iberians Celtic, Phoenicians were Lebanese, Egyptians were native Africans, Anatolians were White, Gaetuli of Morocco, Afuri of Tunisia, Libu of Libya were Black. Ancient Egyptians originate at Nabta Playa in West Sudan, spoke an African language and belonged to E1b1 haplogroup native to Africa. They were therefore Black people
But they were talking about the land, the ancient Egypt. There were for example ppl from Macedonia living there. They are not Native, but after a few hundred years, are they not to be concidered Egyptian?
i just watched the video of trillblack about ur video about moors. it was infuriating honestly how they talked about how a part of also my history (a amazigh/berber) is only theirs and that i am not entitled to it because of my white skin as far as i know thats racism and blackwashing which they accuse u of doing thanks for doing us north africans justice man and to keep spreading the truth.
How hard is it to say it depends on the region and the time period? If this was during the Old Kingdom, Egyptians in Lower Egypt would look lighter than those who lived in Upper Egypt. How hard is it to say some Egyptians in Upper Egypt would look Nubian with a darker complexion, and some who lived in Lower Egypt during the New Kingdom would look more "Greek?"
Ancient Egypt was many distinct civilizations. The Old Kingdom that has had pyramids built is supposed to be over 2000 of years older than Ptolemaic Kingdom that seemingly didn't know how to build them.
Egypt was one civilian with many citizens of different races. They were still predominantly tan even if people from africa came to live in our lands and mixed with the actual Egyptians. Obviously the other regions surrounding Egypt would copy the greatest empire in the region at the time.
According to the iconography, some Egyptians did not look like humans. At least some had heads that looked like eagles, dogs, crocodiles, and hippos, among other animals. The historical sources don’t lie.
Very interesting video of a man in Florida, who has passed, moving giant blocks of stone by himself with relatively simple leveraging techniques. Easy search on UA-cam will lead you to him. This could be a display of insight into some of the techniques used. Fascinating stuff
The reason we don’t see hats in fashion anymore is because it’s more like a specialty item. We don’t need it to protect from the elements as much so it naturally fell to the wayside. I personally love the look.
I saw another video that went over the marriage customs of the common folk of Egypt. From papyri found in a garbage pit for a village that housed temple builders the customs were understood. One was a foreman and the letters that he and his spouse shared in courting. If the courting went well, the man would pack his property bundle and go to his in-laws house. If they accepted him the couple would be considered married. There was a letter talking about one man who got refused by the in-laws and he was ridiculed by all included the woman he had courted. The foreman was allowed his own house so the couple later moved together into it. That house was later identified through their letters. Other documents would be considered pornography as well and was probably used as such.
@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 Do you know that it is accepted as fact and confirmed by geologists and hydrologists and corroborating accounts by neighboring cultures that several "outbreak events" occurred that had a profoundly distressing effect upon the people of Mesopotamia? Between the spring flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and instances of natural dams and obstructions caused by landslides and earthquakes, tremendous volumes of water were sometimes held back until these obstructions finally collapsed and the water was released to catastrophic effect. Other floods were connected with changes of sea-level in the Persian Gulf but all these different conditions led to a clear history of floods of epic if not Biblical proportions in the region, a couple are: The great Flood at Ur-3500 BCE, probably the one that inspired the Genesis flood narrative, The Floods at Kish 3000-2900 BCE and the Flood of 628-629 The point to all this being, yes, there may be records that predate A flood, as long as you don't automatically assume that it's referring to THE flood.
So! There is a thing called observation bias, and in archaeology, there is a bias towards Egypt. And since when is hieroglyphics and cuneiform writing? Some Middle Eastern Joe said,"Look and you will find". I am sure if they looked in other parts of the world ancient symbols can be found that could be interpreted as writing.
The straight ramp build was the theory i was taught growing up but that definitely has flaws. A useable incline straight ramp to the peak would have been massive requiring more material than the pyramid itself. Adding the building and removal of such a ramp really strains the 26 year construction timeline.
@@metatronyt I only recently found your channel and have watched a decent amount, but I don’t know how much you are into going back and forth with people because a channel called trillblack made a video titled something on the lines of exposing metatron fail on moors.
Indeed, cattle was worshipped in the same way as it was in very ancient India, as a food source (before the new brahmins decided that cow was not acceptable to eat) first and foremost, but also as a work animal, and as a source of leather and rendered fat. I'm guessing a lot of the work done when carrying the limestone blocks on the sleds up the causeway and pyramid was done with cattle, and especially when it came to the big granite ones for the king's and queen's chambers roofs. Fat would have been used on the grand gallery to lubricate the sled and as a binder to make abrasive paste to drill the holes in the various porticullis blocks.
40:35 The public doesn't usually know that the same birth defect and still birth risks a individual assumes with inbreed exists for outbreeding also. Highly distant human genetic backgrounds have a higher risk of not working together and causing birth defects and still births. The first thing academics will say about outbreeding is that it promotes hybrid vigor and is good for species survival. But what they don't mention is the cost of this outbreeding risk to individuals who will have the high risk of still births and birth defects and likely will not survive. There is a "sweet spot" in genetic relatedness for couples, neither too close related nor too far related apart to avoid birth defects and still births.
I've spoken to farmers and they will constantly breed in a stud that has been proven to have no defects. In fact that is what creates animal breeds because you breed out and cull all the genetic defects until they "breed true." That is an example of extensive inbreeding without significant negative traits.
@@ctrlaltdebug Northern Dancer offspring where fast, but had the defect of aggressive temperament. Bold Ruler offspring where sprinters, but had the defect of no stamina. Risks and rewards for selective breeding, inbreeding and outbreeding should be known by anyone wanting to be a parent.
“Ropes and logs” is the biggest oversimplification possible lol. Some of the blocks used were well in excess of 10 tons. Those methods may well have been used to get the blocks up a smooth ramp later on in transport to its final location, but how on earth did they get them out of the quarry and down the mountains of Aswan to the river???? I’ve never heard a single theory that even comes close to explaining that portion of construction.
The fact that archeology found hammers and chisels doesn't mean that this was all the ancient Egyptians had to work the stone, yet that's what they want to have us believe. I suspect the ancient peoples had technology we simply haven't found any remains of, and has been lost. Just like the Romans could make concrete and that skill was lost and in the modern age reinvented. It's foolish to think people of the past were stupid and we are at the peak of what can be achieved technology-wise. Technological advance isn't a steady line upwards, civilizations rise and fall. Who knows how much has been lost to time.
There was a now dry waterway that went right up into the quarry. So they were able to use the river almost right to the build site. This was discovered awhile ago. One of the cool things about the Pyramids is that we are still making discoveries. The downside is that you have to go back and update your knowledge a bit more frequently then with other historical sites.
There was a theory that the stones were poured, a kind of Egyptian cement of limestone clay and water. That makes sense at least for the upper portion of the structure and construction of passage ways inside the pyramid. I don't know if this theory was debunked or not.
@@williamjenkins4913 was the river deep enough to hold the larger stones? I’d imagine you’d need a fairly deep and large river to be able to move stones just as you would a large shipping container. Also I’m curious as to what source you found for that (not trying to minimize, I’m just always up for reading/watching more good info on ancient Egypt)
It is important to acknowledge the subtext. The subtext is that Egypt is a place in Africa and that there are many people who believe that everyone in Africa is of the same race and appearance. That simply is not so. And it has never been so.
@@NeptunesLagoon All of the ancient depictions of North Africans show men with red beards and hair. So, maybe they faded? No, not so much. Greeks and others also described them. And the written descriptions match the paintings. So, Berbers were paler before the Arab expansion than they are today. And there was a ethnic group of large blond people called the Gaucho who were the orignial inhabitants of the Canary Islands. The larger point is that the impressions of many African Americans that all of Africa looks like them is simply wrong. It was wrong yesterday, wrong 1,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago, and it remains wrong today.
That's the problem with using Black or African. The name Africa comes from a Berber tribe in Tunisia not Namibia. The name of Asia comes from western Anatolia not Japan.
There is currently no clear evidence supporting the assumption that the pyramids of Giza functioned as tombs, nor is there any documentation from the Ancient Egyptians themselves describing those pyramids' purpose or their building techniques. In contrast, there are many inscriptions stating by whom and how other structures, such as the structures at Karnak, were built. The fact that absolutely no inscriptions describing the construction or purpose of the Giza pyramids have been discovered is extremely curious, since they seemed to be quite proud of lesser structures and bragged about them enthusiastically. And while there are extensive inscriptions regarding the construction of mortuary temples and causeways around the Giza complex, which include descriptions of the organization and labor involved in those projects, there are none regarding the pyramids themselves. Ergo, any statements regarding the Giza pyramids' construction and purpose are purely speculative and not supported by any sources from the Ancient Egyptians themselves. And no, I'm not suggesting they were built by effing aliens. But, if we are going to adhere strictly to facts and what is known, nobody has a clue by whom, why, or how they were built.
Farming was a much bigger industry, with regard to numbers of people, compared to today. The brown skin in the paintings could have been from so many people working in the sun. Consider how many olive-skinned people tend to tan well in the summer and lose it in the winter, looking more European.
My wife has lighter chocolate skin, mine is stereotypical white, when we stay indoors for a few weeks. When we stay outdoors during the summer, we both turn the same bronze brown. My blood line is so mixed, like an ice cream shop, 100% American mutt.
@Llyrin my father's mother is Irish French. My mother's father was Blackfoot and an unknown possibly German or near that region. In winter I can pass as white, during summer I cannot pass as white.
Yeah they were white ppl,with african hairstyle and phenotyoe and skin color,yeah white ppl working shirtless in the hit desert,yeah sir we wuz egyptians
They have ancient wooden sleds and images of Egyptians moving huge statues, etc. on these sleds. It is believed that they wet the sand as the sled was pulled by hundreds of men. Yes, I found this video EXTREMELY frustrating to watch for the same reasons. God Bless
Indeed, there is even a surving cedar sled from the old kingdom if I'm not mistaken. It's propped up on a wall in the Cairo museum between two glass exhibits, most people don't even notice it but there it is!
Regarding building pyramids, I recently watched a video of a man who demonstrates how to move a megalith stone (yes, he made one of concrete) and moved it by himself using ordinary principles of physics. His son helped him move a few shims around, but otherwise he did it alone. I don't think he used pulleys. Mostly levers, fulcrum, and counterbalance. Thanks for the video.
links to your source would be appreciated. I've heard the same thing you described but also heard that it was BS because they wouldn't let people see them do it, as well as a 1 ton block does not equate to a 10+ to 100+ ton block.
I'm not sure if that's true, but it sounds like it makes sense. Nice observation! Hats were popular until around 1920s, then started to go out of style, and cars started to get common around the same time or a little bit before. Having a hat, especially a larger one, would be inconvenient in a car with a roof!
@@exantiuse497 You also loose a lot of body heat from the top of your head. So if you are not exposed to the elements then you have less need for a hat.
@@jasongaylard2547 You don't loose any more or less of your hear from your head. that information comes from a flawed US army study in which the soldiers were not issued hats.
It's this. Modern cars specifically because safety standards raised the head rest. It's why people can still wear baseball caps. Women's dress hats have to be secured, they aren't just placed on the head, so you can't take them on and off to deal with the headrests. Either the hat or the car needs to go through a redesign.
If the workers who built the pyramids were paid, what were they paid with? For it was before the invention of a coinage. It must be therefore that they were paid in food, in bread and beer. When the Nile floods and you can't work in the fields, you do corvée labour and get food and accommodation in return. This is very different from modern wage labour.
I have come to the conclusion, that firstly you got my vote on that. Though whether they had tribal roots and originally from the shift of human kind from Africa's south and and/or of elsewhere, from pre and after ice age human movements, is anybodies guess and for the researchers to know, or pre-suppose from the DNA research at the same time... (Edit) The Sahara was also lush at a remote time, so who knows with that possibly and altogether connection too, remote as that was and from what time? What are thus the specific human type/s of origin, do we speak of? Or count as the originators of this culture, though in Africa - in this northern area?!
Tells a lot about how British people are bragging for treating other races as humans. It wasn't the case a century ago (Australian Aboriginals considered fauna and the such)
@@giokun100 If it helps English people are so far gone they are literally willing to commit racial/cultural/national suicide just to prove they aren't "wacist" to actual racists who hate and despise them.
14:00 in regards to the egyptians being black or white argument When some American company tried to make a show or movie that presented Cleopatra as black , the Egyptian government went on record and blasted them. Similarly however, when people try and say that egyptians were European white, those people get blown out as well, because they are, as you've presented, a mix of the two, and typically are more of a brown or mixed. Actually, its why for in the 20ths century like the 60s-70s-80s-90s etc they were called ''brown people'' Its also where the argument of was Jesus white , brown or black, came up for some silly reason.
Yeah but cleopatra is not a good example because she wasn’t even Egyptian to begin with she was a Greek. In fact she was the only person in her entire dynasty that bothered to learn Egyptian. So the fact they even attempted to depict her as black is even more far fetched. Most Egyptians looked like modern Egyptians. Of course there were always outliers like Nubians, Greeks, and Romans.
Oh you mean the arab muslim egyptian government, people don't understand that egypt is not what it was suppossed to be like before the arabs immigrated, or before the greeks or the romans came. The iconogrophy in the old kingdom shows people with brown skin and black hair coiled hair I say go off of that. Plus Calling everyone black is kind of ignorant, Africa is a very diverse continent, some are light skined with black hairs some are darkskinned with some black hairs, some have straight hair and they are dark... It's litreally different from place to place.
@@OKay-ox3kh Most egyptian didn't look like modern egyptian most of them are arabs or arab mixed. Go to the copts if you want to see what they might have looked like. But don't mix them with the arabs.
@@OKay-ox3kh I agree but the reason i brought her up is because she was the topic of a semi large controversy to the point hat it got the country who's history was being talked about involved. The term i have always heard egyptians refer to themselves as , not white, not black, nor brown but olive skinned.
@@johannesg8959 I agree its largely a variety, but in this case its been spoken about about egypt, I'm not saying North Africa or Africa in general all has the same, but specifically in one country. Calling groups black, is a specific generalization used to give a general idea of the origin of the person, but you're right that it is an issue because for example. Asian can mean many different cultures Black, same thing White same thing. But they are generalizations used to represent a common origin. Another point is that different cultures among these racial groups are also at odds, so to say for example, Japanese and Chinese are the same because they are both asian, while they are historically at odds. Would create conflict because of the history of issues among ''asian cultures'' . I don't disagree but i understand why most people speak in generalities and to poke at that would be functioning in bad faith.
Oh and another amusing fact: Tutankhamuns DNA was also decoded - he shares some typical caracteristics of the y-chromosom, speak a common ancestor, with about 70-80% spainards and almost 50% of Germans. Meaning he descended from the same group of caucasian/Black sea region -people that settled in Europe. So yes, he was almost certain "white".
Exactly, now google image search for: blue eyed Egyptian statues, it’s the earliest and pyramid builders, what are we all clearly looking at…? Many blonde and red headed ancient Egyptian people too, from @ ginger” the pre dynastic blonde haired Gebelien mummy, to king Tuts grandparents Thuya & Yuya: both stark blondes ect…
@@honkytonk4465 yes^^ basically the people living in the Black sea region in that time migrated to europe and some other areas - it seems that the egyptian people (or at least: the ruling class of that time) descended from the same group as todays germans/spainards.
@@RobS8769 I'm not sure if there is genetical evidence, but AFAIK it is consensus that india was conquered by indoeuropeans ("white"). The conquerors established the caste-system an put themself in the 2 highest castes (priests and warrior/nobles). Up to this day in india lighter skin stands for higher social prestige. But if this is the same group that settled in parts of europe I simply don't know.
To date something, you need something you already dated to compare to or something measurable that changes predictably over time. Carbon dating uses the proportion of ¹⁴C to ¹²C and it can be used to date organic material only. Dating buildings made of pure rocks is to this day impossible. Unless we find some leaf or seed or something organic captured between two rocks, there’s no way of finding out when something was built using methods like carbon dating. The fact that the Egyptians used the pyramids proves the pyramids are _at least_ as old as the Egyptians. I like the following comparison: Imagine someone saying “2Pac built the Empire State Building, because we found his name written on it.” Sounds insane. First, 2Pac didn’t build it, it’s much older. Second, he could have just written his name on the building. Third, even if 2Pac lived before the Empire State Building was made, _someone else_ who lived after 2Pac could have written his name on it. It means absolutely nothing.
I think the most recent findings re. The movement of massive masonary blocks for the pyramids or for when they moved cities due to the movement of the Nile is that they built temporary canals to the building sites so that very little dragging on sleds would have been needed. There is apparently evidence of 'extinct' canals in the desert where one of the more important cities was moved pretty much wholesale to a new site due to the Nile changing its course. Re. The cutting of rock, there are still the remains of various ancient Egyptian quarries with stones in various states of being cut so Im pretty sure that archiologists know how the stone was cut. One of the important things to remember about ancient Egypt is that of the 3 seasons of the year, one was a time when no real agricultural work could be done as the Nile was in flood. As the agricultural workers owed their allegiance to the Pharoe they would be expected to carry out tasks for the Pharoe, monumental buildings, infrastructure, etc. Would be carried out at this time by the massive available workforce. In return the Pharoe provided grain and civic services to the population. Likewise I dont think the building of the pyramids has been a great mystery for a while now. Their development from mastabe, to stacked mastabe, to step pyramids to smooth sided pyramids, to enormous smooth sided pyramids is pretty straight forward. We sometimes forget how long the ancient Egyptian civilization was around and what their levels of learning, skills and knowledge would have been.
It's an interesting idea: Option 1: move large blocks. Option 1: build waterways and float said large blocks. Question: which is easiest? Likely, they took the easiest route. I'd also want to know if natural waterways existed that they used, as opposed to building them by hand. Maybe such evidence is lost to time, or most of it? Maybe they even had ship-like objects to help? Didn't they build actual ships, pretty much before anybody else in the world, around this time (3000 BC)?
Your last paragraph is the epitome of ignorance regarding the Great Pyramid. Preceding that, though, was the ambiguous statement that "they" know how the stones were cut from the quarry. During the time period that egyptologists purport that the pyramids were constructed, historians claim that only copper chisels were available for the quarrying. Which is only just barely able to chip away Limestone since they are approximately the same hardness on the Mohs Scale, about 2 to 3. However, there is absolutely no way copper tools can account for the quarrying of Granite since its hardness is between 6 and 7. Regarding the linear progression of technology, egyptologists have the 3 Giza pyramids being constructed before the others. This means there was a regression of technology, not a progression. In other words, not "straight forward," as you put it. Furthermore, regarding the Egyptian civilization's [construction] knowledge around the time the egyptologists claim the great pyramids were built, it is beyond ludicrous to attribute the mathematical and surveying anomalies to a civilization transitioning from Stone Age to Bronze Age. The Great Pyramid's accurate alignment to True North has a margin of error of less than 0.05 degrees, a level of accuracy that was not possible to replicate until GPS satellites were in orbit. Especially when the base area of 13 acres is taken into account. And most confounding of all, the numerous mathematical equations built right into the Great Pyramid. Relating again to the geographical surveying, the latitude of the Great Pyramid is 29.9792458 N. Which is only interesting because the speed of light, measured in meters per second, is 299,792,458. (the margin of error is something like 0.005) And the meter, as originally defined, was 1/10,000,000 the distance from the Earth's equator to the North pole, or equivalently, 1/40,000,000 the Earth's circumference. The earliest reference to the calculation of the Earth's circumference was done by Eratosthenes in ~240 BC. Clearly, the Egyptian's were not supposed to be aware of that measurement. The mathematical oddities that can be elucidated from measurements of the Great Pyramid are nearly unfathomable. Using basic geometry measurements, like the base perimeter of a triangle, height, etc... the mathematical constants of Pi, and Phi appear. Using various units of measure, other "coincidences" can be rendered, such as the radius of the Earth. There are many more such examples, none of which were known by the Egyptians, according to the generally accepted historical timeline. Regarding the astronomical alignment, I agree with Andrew Collins' hypothesis that it is a representation of the constellation of Cygnus, as opposed Robert Bauval's Orion constellation theory, as there are more archeological sites near the pyramids that correlate with Cygnus. Of course, this inevitably leads to the knowledge of the Precession of the Equinox and the redating of the Pyramids' construction. And a special acknowledgement to John Anthony West, who identified heavy rain erosion in the Sphinx enclosure, because climatologists agree that there was an extended time period of heavy precipitation during the era when the constellation Leo rises over the horizon during the Age of Leo, which happens to be thousands of years before egyptologists' assigned date of construction. Nothing about Giza fits into the history of humanity that is taught in academia. But the evidence is there, set in stone.
@@RobS8769 I'm sorry, if you cant be bothered to do some basic reading up on the subject its not worth my while replying to you. Look it up on line - they didn't just use copper tools they had a number of tools including the use of abrasives and other stones - it isn't up for discussion they know how they did it. I'm guessing you are happier in believing that aliens of fairies did it.
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Would love for you to cover Nicola Tesla’s ideas on Egypt.
Edit: typo
One thing you might want to look into is Coptic. It DID get preserved as a liturgical language, and is the only reason anyone was able to decipher the Rosetta stone. now it's not quite the same, but... pretty close, and does have a spoken form.
28:48 much of modern fashion is artificially pushed by the people selling clothes.
Metatron making sure that the future knows he is being triggered by people being triggered ... that is just classic
We have first dynasty and predynastic remains , they did studies on them.
The Egyptians lived from their birth until their death.
That had feelings and thoughts, and some of them even had conversations about things.
@@antimatterhorn Hard to belief.
Every 60 seconds, a minute passes in Egypt
@@giokun100 Even in the old days.
Amazing people. Who could imagine having that much hope today?
"Mommy, who was Martin Luther King?"
"Well darling it is important to first remember that he was a human being!"
I don't care what they teach you in school, I know ancient Egyptians looked like human beings!
"Martin Luther King was the father of Marting Luther King Jun...erm...uh...Was named after Martin Luth...ugh...uh...erm...Ahhhh...the Martin's...."
-Parental "Authority" Obscurantist
lol, funnily enough he might've been happy with that answer
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@@spiffygonzales5160 if you asked most Americans, they would probably say that he fought for black rights. Which is not true, and never what his message was. He fought for equal rights.
Every sixty seconds in Africa, one minute passes.
We must act together to stop this right now!
@@Pepe-pq3om Every 3 seconds, a woman in China gives birth...
...we must find this woman, and stop her!!
It's important to be informed about universal truths.
and every 117 seconds, a Black-Israelite refreshes their 23andme "Ancestry" results hoping .01% Ethiopian will appear.
How horrible, and people here take so many things granted!!!
Egyptians had a special place in their hearts for cats because cats kept away all of the rodents and other creatures that might infest grain stores and poison the food. Cats were responsible for keeping famine and disease away from Egyptian food stores so I would imagine a bit of respect and appreciation for what they do is in order. 🙂
Cats were a cheap way of making a mummified offering, you didn't have to hunt for them like Baboons or Crocodiles.
And a nice snack for special occasions.
@@jeremyashford2145For Haitians.
@@Ponto-zv9vf oooh... Didn't know that 🙂
They were an important part of the household, when the family cat died the family would shave their eyebrows in mourning. It was against the law to kill a cat. On the other hand the priests would raise cats at the temple, and then sold to devotees to be sacrificed and mummified as offerings to the goddess Bastet.
"What does a red oak tree look like? "
"It looks like a tree, just like every other tree"
"its like other Oak trees but its red"
😂😂😂
@@crushedcan5378 Great, another treeist, they are DARK red !!!
It's not a white oak different acorns
@@beardedlonewolf7695 No, you are a treeist. Only treeists see colour, all trees are equal!
He's not afraid of being called racist. He's afraid of being fired after these people tell his boss he's racist.
Edit: I didn't expect this to blow up.
I think this is a fantastic angle, 100% agree with it; people are always out to be a victim
What the boss afraid of?
totally but this approach probably normalizes work harassment behaviour
He didn't want to start a flame war and possibly get death threats over a youtube video he probably didn't even get paid for/was paid peanuts
Egyptian empire lasted thousands of years. A better answer would have been "From what time period?"
We can’t be for certain, but we strongly suspect the Egyptians ate Food.
And maybe…
They even drank water!
Although that’s just speculation.
😂😂😂😂😂
@@henryjenkins2839
Racist
Is that what the ancient aliens show told you?
They walked like an Egyptian.
That comment he made about "they looked like humans", made me think of a Colin Quinn quote:
"I know nowadays the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity.
As long as you don't point out that people are different."
They did look a bit like humans, but they were completely flat and they walked like an Egyptian.
Well played sir, well played
🎶All the cops in the donut shop say...🎶
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Something about our Metatron becoming exasperated. I’m on the floor laughing because I completely understand. So many lies going around, and people buy into it. 😤🤦🏽♀️ Grr. But there’s just something so endearing about our man here. ♥️
*Takes headphones off.*
*”No.”
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You can keep your sources, iconography, descriptions, paintings, murals, statues, and mummies. My grandmother told me that all ancient Egyptians were sasquaches.
Absolutely incorrect. They were yetis.
Y'all just scared to say Big Foot, well I'm not!
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Ooh ooh aah aah!
Metatrón: I don't get offended.
*Someone somewhere, breaks pasta*
Metatrón: we need a new Crusade...
Mispronouncing Bolognese will set him off pretty easily too 😂
You've been fully integrated by Rafaelo, I see. Hail and well met.
Don't forget about the roman wrist armor.
There is difference between being offended and facing heresy.
It IS criminal to Break Pasta! And I am Not Italian!
Fun hat fact: one of the reasons fancy hats went out of style is the car roof. As the roof gradually lowered in vehicles, there was less room for a 'proper' hat, until they just went out of style.
I'm not sure that's true, you take off your hat entering a carriage. Headrests are more of an issue than the height of the roof for hat wearing, and speed. Hats don't like sudden acceleration and deceleration.
@@mandowarrior123 I see your point, my statement was based off a video I saw about this fact, I suppose it was just a series of inconveniences that made hats 'too much trouble to deal with' and fazed out style
I do like those old cars with their running boards.
@@mandowarrior123 You didn't take your Fedora off in the 20, 30s and 40s to drive a car. Women never took their hat off in cars. from the 1950s onwards you might remove it to drive as the car roof had lowered, and by the 1960s neither men or women are routinely wearing hats at all times outdoors as they used to. Then you get to the 70 and the car is its final form with low roofs and hats have vanished.
@@paullockwood7435 Was it the Gentleman's Gazette?
Why on Earth would anyone be afraid of describing the appearance of people in a region? How can biology/environmental factors be offensive?
Because of racial sensitivity of people who have never set foot in that region, whose ancestors presumably never set foot in that region, but have the cultural power to shame and destroy someone for producing information that doesn't massage their tender, red rash of a cultural ego.
Americans
They think men can have babies, don't try to make sense of any of their nonsense.
Because people today are stupidly stupid and find that a virtue.
@@kielbasamagewhite ppl am i right😂
"Egyptians looked like human beings." 😂😂😂😂 One of the most hilarious cop-outs I've ever heard of.
It's a broad question. It would be like asking " What do dogs look like?".
@@soulknife20 Yeahhhhh... no. Given the times we live in, the question was very specific and we all know what it was about. Met is absolutely right, cop out of massive proportions.
@MrQwertyman111 It wasn't though. Try again.
@@soulknife20 It was. Try again!
@@soulknife20 The question was not Africans, but Egyptians. You are making a false comparison.
Dogs is board like Africans or Americans. While Egyptians is as specific as labrador.
As an Egyptian. I can confirm, we do indeed look like humans. We tried our best for a while, but it seems we cannot escape the Alien allegations :"(
Please explain to them the pyramids were never tombs
As a white I found this cool
@@darkcow7of9the pyramids are a tomb, but not for a king, it is the tomb for the sun, the lion king. The sun sets over the three pyramids during the Solstice's and Equinox's. They tell the time, like what temples do, exactly what Stonehenge does as well.
Yes but modern egyptians are arabs
The Irish were originally black pigmies...
I love the olive skin description here in Egypt we call it wheat skinned قمحاوي taken from قمح meaning wheat
Are you Indian? They use that Wheat skinned stuff too. White is sort of yellow, so you are saying you are yellow. Olive skin is not exactly yellow.
@@Ponto-zv9vf i am not indian i am Egyptian my bro the wheat skin describes the tan that most Egyptians have from working underneath the sun
@@Ponto-zv9vfwhere did this come from? 😂
@whiskey-biscuit9388 so kinda like how my people the Dakota people get like a copper red?
My grandmother said to me, no matter what they tell you in school, always remember that Optimus Prime was black.
Nahh he was obviously Korean! I know because my grandma said so
@@lordguidomeedo383 His and their grandma was wrong. Optimus Prime was clearly a Jew. My grandma wouldn't lie to me!
Decepticons Lives Matter!
@@MrQwertyman111 Sorry your grandmother is a liar, mine told me it's a Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk hybrid and I absolutely believe her
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"I'm a historian"
"What did the ancient Egyptians look like?"
"People"
"What did the Romans do?"
"People stuff"
"Who were the Vikings?"
"People with boats"
I feel like my dog is probably knowledgeable enough to be considered a contemporary historian at this point 😅
Also, the fact that Egypt is a country on the current world map, and people are Googling "when did the Egyptians live" is just downright sad
The Romans brought peace.
EXCUSE ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why do you assume the Vikings were people with boats? IDK walkng a very fine edge my friend. LMAO. That's almost how pathetic the world has become in the west. Fantasy, nonsense land where up is down, but you might look up to see down because down might get hurt feelings over the connotations of looking down on things.
@@ronald3836The Romans shat in other peoples wells, copied their technologies and killed their administrators, justifying these actions by calling those other people backwards uneducated dirty barbarians who filter water through their mustaches as they drink because they even don't know where to get pure water.
@@ronald3836 👍 Pax Romana 😀
STOP THINKING ABOUT THE ROMAN EMPIRE!!!!
'they looked like human beings'
Metatron: "No"
Me: "I knew they were aliens!"
That would explain the pyramids.
They weren't aliens. They were celestial beings made of energy.
See, it all started when mercury was in retrograde and....
Well played.
Nah I think some people and their generations would have been experienced in the field of architecture and large projects like the Great Pyramids after the Tower of Babel time period even with the confusion of languages and Nimrod's regime collapse.
But Black aliens?
Fun fact: I found multiple Central European sources from 18th and 19th century using the term "black" to describe people with black hair and eyes, not skin. That makes the sources sometimes quite confusing for modern readers...
Northern Europe never saw black skin until some rowdy vikings got down to the Mediterranean and did their viking activities
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In Australia Black means Australian Aborigine and Torres Strait Islanders. However in most of the world it means West African Blacks from Nigeria and Ghana.
@Tyrhor It was that way in deep province in Poland up until mid 1980s.
@@Ponto-zv9vfare Ethipians black? How about Bantu? How about Kiosan? Berbers? Copts? Nubian?
The Egyptians looked like human beings. They built the pyramids with materials and labor. They fought their enemies. They ate food.
And they liked cats.
They looked like pyramid beings. They built the humans with materials and labor. They ate their enemies. They fought food.
It sounds a bit like the Monty Python Lumberjack Song 🎵
And they shat.
Egyptians exist 😂
Cleopatra : _laughing in Greek_
Good one! And now I'm laughing in German! 😂
Yeah her nasty ass dont have anything to di with anciet egypt
Agagagagaga! Thats how greek laugh
Cleopatra wasn't around during the old Egypt time
@@Pepe-pq3om Yeah Im not sure why people act liek Cleopatra was the only person who existed at that time. Yeah she was greek, but you have other people from the past who occupied the region. Ancient Egypt didn't look like the face of current day egypt if you go far back enough on the timelime.
“Human beings” what a smartass 😂
Ramses II had red hair according to molecular analysis. I watched the presentation by the woman who ran the tests. There is much that was censored from our history
He didn’t wanna say the truth WE WUZ PHARAOHS!
"organisms"
@@ransakreject5221 ?
@@K7897I It's a joke about Cleopatra
The Egyptologist's answer to what ancient Egyptians looked like reminds me of that old MadTV skit ..."He looooook, like a man." 🤣
Hahaha
I think it was an Asian lady named ms.Swan
Ancient Egyptian language is still spoken today in the Coptic church. In fact, they helped in the deciphering of the hieroglyphs.
A language today is spoken that evolved from ancient Egyptian. Languages change over time, and I believe Coptic was an evolution of a lower-class Egyptian language developed in Egypt during Roman rule, but don't quote me on that. Egyptian language is a fairly complex topic, languages change over time and Egyptian had multiple written forms used simultaneously.
@@Robsta42
I believe that Coptic is also related to Greek in many ways.
@@davidchandler2087of course,copts are greek remains
@@Robsta42 There is a video made about the making of The Mummy - the Brendan Fraser version - which went into how they developed the language they speak in the films and I think you are right on the origins. The specifically state that it is a GUESS based on Coptic which is evolved from Egyptian but that a lot of it was still guesswork because they simply don't know.
Years ago my Latin teacher taught us something I've never forgotten which is that just as English has different pronunciations for words depending on which country you are from, which area in that country [people born in Somerset in England - pirate accent - speak totally differently to people from Newcastle, black country, and Yorkshire who are totally different again to people from Glasgow who are different to Swedish speakers of English or Australians. But they all speak ENGLISH, his point being that Latin speakers from Britannia probably spoke different to Latin speakers from Gaul or Rome or Egypt or Greece because local accents affect the way you say words. That's without adding in local slang, slang specific to jobs or professions - criminal slang or medical slang for example - which would all get mixed in depending on who you were talking to and their class [working class often speaking something totally different to the more educated classes both then and now]. And I'm betting the same applied to to Egyptian just like it doe4s to any other country. Even Metatron has spoken about how northern Italians pronounce words differently to how he would say them coming from Sicily. I doubt that has changed over the centuries and people who claim that 3000 or 5000 years ago spoke the same way as we speak now [heck, I'm willing to bet that Egyptians from the times of the pyramids DIDN'T sound the same as Egyptians from the times of the Greeks or Romans, a lot changes in a couple of thousand years] is talking through their hats.
@@davidchandler2087 It's not related to Greek but it has some lone words from Greek.
I guess his grandmother never told him what Egyptians looked like.
Because they aren't black
I look like a human too! I didn't know I was Egyptian. Kind of thought I was Scottish and Polish but now I know.
Idk if I can believe mistaking the Scottish for Egyptian. Spanish? Now that makes more sense.
Get where I am coming from, Ramirez?
@@ThugShakers4Christ Ramirez II, famous scottish pharaoh, introduced the use of a kilt to the upper kingdom, was a lover of femboys.
Hey but polish and scottish are black too anyway, so it's fine
@@dusk6159we are Not? 😂 We got some DARK skinned People but they are IMMIGRANTS
I have removed myself from humans as they are just a bunch of jumped up Apes.
Back in the day, you could mess with people by being dishonest, being a contrarianist, using insults, being annoying etc.
These days, you can mess with people by just being honest and telling the truth.
It's unironically one of the most hilarious things I have ever experienced in my entire life, and I love it.
Also, I had to re-write this comment several times to stop it from being shadow-deleted. Very nice.
I had a conversation with a black friend of mine about Nefertiti being a black woman. I pointed out her famous bust having VERY light skin. He said that it was faded over time. I pointed out that the red and blue on her war crown as well as the black around her eyes was not faded. He had no response. Also, there is a relief of Nefertiti sitting on a throne, holding a small club over the heads of white AND black female slaves. Look at the major difference in the skin colors. Nefertiti was olive - skinned.
Nefertiti clearly was not an olive skin woman.
What relief was this depicted? I am just curious.
That's olive skinned to you? Those in the Mediterranean are olive skinned, she had a tone or two darker. My niece has skin tone similar to the busts and such you are describing. You forget that people with melanin can have various skin tones.
She also has a non-sub-saharan phenotype.
Compare the so-called bust with dozens of other images of her.
Egyptians looked.. flat; their heads were permanently turned to one side, and their feet were pointed in the same direction. If an ancient Egyptian were to face you directly, you'd only see a single straight line, they were only visible in profile.
so, they live in flatland.
@@thomaschristopher8593
A vertical flat "land"
Mi Hoy Mi Noy
Is what youre saying?
😅 Look up the Fayum portraits though. By the Roman period in Egypt, there were some great realistic painters.
"human beings"
really now? I thought they were a bunch of ferrets in a cloak
They're not?
@icultivatebooks I know. I was as shocked as you.
But I like a bunch of ferrets in a cloak!
Weird aren't we a bunch of ferrets on a cloak?
@@NUMBER1RATEDSALESMAN only metaphorically... I think... I'm no psychologist... neither a ferret... I think
47:37: There is already a series talk like this from The Teaching Company called "The Other Side of History." It is exactly about how the ordinary people of history lived. It goes from the earliest to the middle ages. It's about how women lives, children, slaves, soldiers, the ill and disabled, refugees, etc. I think it's a wonderful series.
Might as well have said, "they were definitely not trees"
They were mammals and looked like and behaved like all other mammals do.
Vietnam intensifies
These are the kind of people that ask "Well where did you last put it?" when you lose something.
Did you know the Egyptians were born at a very young age?
And they were so tall that their feet reached the ground.
@@williamjenkins4913 This was funnier than it should have been. Thanks, haha.
Yes, with an age of 0
What did Vikings look like?
"They looked like human beings"🤣
Professor Panic!
Many Vikings were black, or so I heard.
He really panicked and Looked everywhere
@@ronald3836where and when?
@@christianlenik5307 the source is "trust me bro" 😀
@@christianlenik5307 ua-cam.com/video/uB27ViMwrQY/v-deo.htmlsi=RrA5WuYO1tqQ_tfR
Devils advocate here, when he was saying that ancient Egyptian where human beings I think it was a response to the people who think ancient Egyptians where extraterrestrials beings, the editing of the video didn't do him justice that's my guess because there is no way someone as smart like him is "afraid of saying the color of their skins" It's nonsense I think we judge him too quickly for just a response to the funny theory of Egyptians being aliens. (thats just my take, sorry for the bad english i'm not) (im super new to this channel so maybe metatron did again spoke about what i was saying in his late video idk.)
I misunderstood and now I think Egyptians looked like human beens! Send help!
Human beans?! Like Fall Guys??
We are all human 🫛@@DJRockford83
he was saying black, since first human beings were black and came from the continent of "africa"
Human bean? What griws if you put a human bean in the ground?
A human beanplant?
BFG, is that you?
I am Coptic - the original Egyptians most probably with some of the genetic makeup of the ancient Greeks and Romans mixed in. I've had Armenians and Germans in my family line on one side (maternal). Otherwise, all I've known of for many generations is Coptic Egyptians. If you took how I look and maybe tan us a little darker, make our hair a little bit rougher and darker (overall make us slightly more North-African instead of Meditteranean) - I'd assume that's probably what my ancestors looked like before all the European mixing. Wish I could attach a photo here. We were mostly converted from pagan or emperor worship to Christianity by Saint Mark, a first century evangelist whose relative owned the house/building where the Last Supper was believed to occur. We are now a minority in our lands due to several occupations, the chief of which coming from the Arabs. And we still speak, orally, some-to-most (not sure of the exact amount) of the original Coptic language - but it is written and modified with Greek. The script is pretty much entirely Greek. But the sounds, the hymns, the readings I get to witness from my heritage are beautiful.
Contact isn't a race.... its the Greek written version of Egyptian hieroglyphics after the took control of Egypt... not race its a written form(like letters n word form) of the pictographs in the hieroglyphics its a Greek invention
Coptic* fuckin auto correct
@@damianhockenberry2907 Coptic just means Egyptian. Copt means Egypt. The history of the word transfroms it from the modern Coptic, to Copt, to Qibt, to Gipt, to Aegipt(os) - being the Greek word for Egypt. Coptic literally just means Egyptian. It is used to refer to a language, a people, and a community all at once.
If not the word Coptic to refer to this ethnically and genetically distinct group of Egyptians - then what word do you suggest? Because we are very different from the modern, Arab Egyptians.
@@minaandrawis2081 Coptics are not the original Egyptians, that would be East Africans.
"what my ancestors looked like before all the European mixing"
Don't forget that the DNA of multiple Pharaos is closest related to some of today's European ethnicities (Ramses the 2nd is closest related to today's Irish for example)
Between Cleopatra, the possible Denzel casting for Hannibal and the Moors controversy, I feel bad for North Africans having to put up with insane black supremacists
The wokies
This doesn’t compare to what the white supermacists did in history
That hiq i felt when i saw the terrible white washing of egyptians in 90's and 2000's
is it a coincidence they also happen to be the lowest scoring grades in school
North Africans not even worried about these things in the slightest. They have more important things to worry about. The average person walking around Rabat, Luxor, Aswan, Tripoli, Cairo couldn’t care less about random Hollywood castings.. if they did they are definitely in the minority.
I've encountered people to whom the race of the Egyptians is not so much a matter of the truth or historical accuracy as it is an almost religious level of belief regarding their own racial identity. They cherry pick what supports their belief from history and ignore the rest. There's no talking to such people. Don't even try. Anything beyond 100% agreement with whatever they say is seen by them as a personal attack or racism.
They're just crazy or stupid, but probably both! There are tomb paintings, sarcophagi images, statues, facial reconstructions, and DNA.
You mean black people who think they were the beginning of everything? 😂
The native majority of the Ancient Egyptian population were an olive-skinned population that phenotypically looked like modern Egyptians and Middle Easterners, some were lighter-skinned, some were darker-skinned, but not as dark as what Afrocentric African Americans think, overall, they were a Mediterranean population with facial structures similar to Europeans and Middle Easterners, what people refer to as "Caucasian". If you time travelled to Ancient Egypt, the native majority population would not look like Sub-Saharan Africans or West Africans or East Africans or African Americans or Northern Europeans, but rather would look like modern Egyptians and Middle Easterners and even Southern Europeans, in other words, Mediterranean people. Genetically, they were West Eurasians like Europeans and Middle Easterners but had lived in Africa for over 10,000 years and likely would have some Middle Eastern ancestry and even Sub-Saharan African ancestry , though modern Egyptians have more of that DNA due to the Arab slave trade. At some points in the ~3700 year history, there were indeed people living in Egypt that we would call "black people" (Nubian rulers) and "white people" (Greek and Roman rulers), but neither were ever the majority, however they did rule Egypt at some points. But no, the native majority of Ancient Egyptians were not what we would call "black" or "white" and the closest appearance that would fit them would be "Middle Eastern-looking" or "Mediterranean". If I had to give a population percentage, I would say that 85% of Ancient Egyptians were this olive-skinned, Modern Egyptian-like, population, another 5% would be other related populations, such as Semitic groups from the Levant and Berbers from the Maghreb, 5% would be Greco-Romans, and 5% would be Sub-Saharan Africans, mainly Nubians and Cushitic peoples.
Spoken like a true neo-Nazi historian describing native Africans as "Sub-Saharan Africans" while stealing Africa's history for Europe and Asia.
Modern population of the Arab Republic of Misr is 17% Arab (Arabian Gulf), 68% Eurasian from North Africa (gene pool of descendants of Ionian Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Anatolians, Turks, and Iberians).
Ancient Egyptians spoke an African language, belonged to the yDNA haplogroup E1b1 native to Africa, had wooly hair, and tropically adopted body plans (osteology). They originate at Nabta Playa in West Sudan, Africa not Asia.
if you went back to 10 000 bc then the people inhabiting europe were dark skinned hunter gatherers with blue eyes, that's what the genetics says (johannes krause).
Spoken like a neo-Nazi historian describing native Africans as "Sub-Saharan Africans" while stealing Africa's history for Europe and Asia.
Modern population of the Arab Republic of Misr is 17% Arab (Arabian Gulf), 68% Eurasian from North Africa (gene pool of descendants of Ionian Greeks, Phoenicians, Romans, Vandals, Anatolians, Turks, and Iberians).
Ancient Egyptians spoke an African language, belonged to the yDNA haplogroup E1b1 native to Africa, had wooly hair, and tropically adopted body plans (osteology). They originate at Nabta Playa in West Sudan, Africa not Asia.
Olive skins are foreigners, they clearly painted themselves various shades of brown. Middle easterners have no origins in Africa. The culture and first Pharoah came from within Africa, it the delta.
I believe this is the best answer from a logical standpoint so far in this comments section. Idk why but here in the states I keep seeing the spread of Afrocentric interpretations that go against everything we know, and on the other hand off shoot groups of history buffs having a reactionary response the the Afrocentric interpretation, being that somehow the Egyptians descended from Western Europe. It’s all rubbish but people on both sides of the extreme are eating it up.
What did they look like?
Easy answer: Look at their own paintings from their tomb walls and statuary.
By the way... UPPER Egypt neant UP RIVER... as in the Nile, which flows from the south to the Mediterranean.
I would have respected this answer more than his.
@@metatronytYou said basically the same thing after I posted my statement.
He showed couple of those in this vid,they were looking pretty black
I was under the impression that Upper comes from the ground elevation which naturally is higher the further upstream.
They were (wheaty) brownish red I think
He also dodged the slave question. The Egyptians had slaves and black slaves even if they used work gangs to build the Pyramids. Having slaves was the norm historically.
Yup. Obviously they did have dedicated craftsmen and laborers for construction, but come on.
Especially with archeological evidence recently found a couple years ago in Goshen (the region in Ancient Egypt historically housed their slaves) and Sinai, it becomes pretty obvious that this is about not wanting to admit that the core part of Exodus - that being the fact that the Israelites were slaves in Egypt - is true. Because that makes certain people uncomfortable, they much rather the Bible stay "fiction".
@@SockieTheSockPuppetThe Bible contains a lot of truth, and a lot of fiction.
It's after all a compilation of work made over a long period of time by many different people.
@evertjan9479 And what fiction would that be? And no kidding it's compiled, it's a history book as much as it is religious.
@@SockieTheSockPuppet The fiction part starts with GENESIS... Come now, or are you going to debate that Genesis is the truth?
Religion isn't fictional, it's a man made institution, however the existence of a all mighty being most likely is fictional.
@evertjan9479 Interesting how you say "most likely". Maybe look up fine-tuning.
I wonder if technology is lost to future cultures, will they look back at our great skyscrapers remains and wonder how many years of slave labor it took to tranfer materials and undertake their construction? Maybe they don't understand the means of how they're built, will they say there's no way we could have made these and aliens did it? I'm genuinely curious to think what they'd make of our accomplishments without understanding the means and processes to make them happen. Very curious and interesting.
Lol! He said they looked like human beings! 😂
He couldn't say they had tawny coloured, Med looking skin? With some multiculturalism from the Kushites, Arabs later etc? Is he propogating the "they wuz black" myth?
@@CMc-v7zmulticolorisem from the kushites😂white ppl never faill to make me laugh
@@CMc-v7z "they looked like human beings" is not *actively* supporting the "we wuz kangz" myth. But the professor is clearly afraid of speaking against this myth.
He's countering the dangerous misinformation that they had animal heads. So brave!
@@klausroxin4437 it passively supports it by not dismissing it
The Egyptians looked like cats!
"The Ancient Egyptians were Ancient, as well as Egyptian. Which allot of people didn't know."
I think that's why they died.
Speaking as a member of the DAR one of the parts I have the most fun with is dressing up! Just had a ‘tea’ this past weekend with hats, pearls, gloves, you name it! That said, I also love the comfort and ambiguity of jeans and a tunic with a sweater or jacket to layer. I mean, I grew up in the country where fancy clothes will get torn and dirty with regular use.
We wuz not Kangz?
We wUz ho0mAn BeiiingZ
And SHEIIIIT?
Shaka Zulu was white
Wuz kinda kangz
No, u waz not.
Love your content Metatron, keep up the push toward 1M! I'm sure your mom is very proud of you and looking down with incredible joy.
Thanks I appreciated the kind words
i just started the video and the first 15 seconds i was like EXCUSE ME SIR, as a curly haired, Caucasian Egyptian, I KNOW my ancestors looked like human beings, but you KNOW that was NOT the question 😒 can't wait to see Metatron DESTROY this "professor" 🤣
Doubt that guy was even real professor but a activist of woke
@@mscapeh4451 smdh, these people are getting ridiculous by the hour. JUST DO YOUR JOBS AND STATE ANCIENT FACTS
@@mscapeh4451He’s afraid of getting cancelled. He knows whatever he says, he’s going to piss someone off. Both sides attack Metatron. This guy knows that will happen to him.
This beta professor is the epitome of political correctness.
You mean he’s afraid to tell the truth, that would disappoint you.
Poor Egypt. Culture totally peaked 3500 years ago. Not a single detail of historical interest after big triangle finished.
😅Dear Metatron, I left at least 3 comments on this video it made my head spin. I could not believe how little he knew, and how many questions he could not answer. I have only been studying Ancient Egypt since I was 11. What do I know? Refreshing to see a scholar I admire, agree!!!
Yeah felina tell us what u know ,how they looked like?
@WickedFelina Thank you very much your comment is very welcome.
@@ogun9645Of all the questions he had no answer for, you are inquiring on "skin color only?" The questions I left my answers on History Hit, FID NOT address this at all. I don't care as Egypt has always been a mixed people. To define this fact clearly, look at a map. You will see that Egypt borders the Levant to the East, sits on the Mediterranean where trade was constant with Europe (Ancient Egyptian jewelry was discovered at Stonehenge buried 4,000 years ago) and is bordered in the South by the land of Cush who, admired Egypt so much so that they adopted their gods, culture, jewelry, dress, Pharaonic style of rulership, and a smaller form of pyramid (Isosceles versus the ones at Giza which are Equilateral).
My father is part Egyptian. His ancestors were dropped in Canada because they were taken from Egypt, Muslim and not white.
If you want to speak of various skin colors and hair color and types in Ancient Egypt see the oldest ancient Egyptian mummy ever found I suggest studying up on "Ginger man". See also the mummies of Tuya and Yuya the parents of Queen Tyie. Queen Tyie still has her hair which is long, brown and loosely curled.
See the statues of Ra-Hotep and wife Norfret son of Kufu and the statues of ancient scribes from the early dynasties where eyes were inlaid with crystal. There is a famous one with blue eyes, outlined with green malachite. His skin is orange.
Statues as in Kafre's, appearing dark green or black have residue of color in their nostrils. They were always painted. The color was red or orange for men, yellow or pink for women. Brown or Black is also depicted to a lesser degree overall. Ancient Egypt was a mixed culture.
Broken pots called "ostracon" a poem to a young man's female lover was discovered in a garbage dump in Der El Medina (the city where the workers for the Valley of the Kings tomb builders lived). On it he described her dropping her dress revealing her white breasts glowing in the moonlight.
The explanation for why the men were orange or red while the women were pink or yellow, was because men were predominantly outside therefore tanned. When a woman works outside and tans when she drops her dress as it speaks of above, her breasts do look glowing white.
I am not listing specifically the examples of additional skin types as the question is "was there different or mixed skin/hair types found in Egypt?" Yes, there were. See also the genetic study done in 2017, of the oldest graveyard in Egypt.
Any other questions aside from skin types I would be happy to answer.
I've been studying Egyptology since age 4, and Professor Naunton is extremely knowledgeable look up his channel!
The Pyramids were built during the time they built the Pyramids.
Profound
That's racist and homophobe
The Egyptians grew up in a middle-class household.
🤣
They dreamed of what could be, unburdened by what was
They also worked at McDonald's
They were told their grandmothers were black, not indian
@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 and they ate Spegettie out of cool whip containers
The Ancient Egyptians look similar to a lot of Egyptians and middle eastern people today. There were ranges of skin color and hair types ranging from more darker modern African features to more Southern European/Mediterranean people. Super light fair skin (say of northern Europe and Scandinavian peoples would be very rare, but we do know there was trade that far). In the oldest periods it would have been less variation. But it basically doesn't take rocket science to look at Northern Africa, Arabian Peninsula, and Southeastern Mediterranean and say..."a hybrid of that".
And then on top of that you had a massive empire of trade which changed many times over the very long period we're talking about, so you got people who were captured and purchased as slaves, you have people who sold themselves into servitude, you have people who were of nomadic tribes, you had merchants from as far away as south-east Asia. And with all those people over thousands of years you have mixing of genetic traits. Then you have invasions from other cultures. And of there was discrimination and class associations with what you looked like, but in addition there were always exceptions if you were wealthy or noble (then no one would dare insult your association with anything but being noble or else they are going to find themselves in a bad spot). And of course if Royal people intermingled (which they did) it was then 100% okay for them and you better not find anyone hearing you talk bad about the god-king. Concerns about ethnicity is generally a luxury of a large middle and upper class. Historically societies with very large lower/working class populations tend to just not have time to be concerned about it (they were more concerned if you can work not).
Why did they inter-marry within families? Well that's a classic royal/nobility thing, isn't it. When you have a lot of money/power and you want to not have to loose part of it to another royal family you don't really trust, well you can avoid that by not establishing links to other bloodlines and giving them claim to the inheritance. Their cultural values and norms were not our modern cultural values and norms, we've have thousands of years of added experience and knowledge.
Now the main reason we don't know about the methods the pyramids were created is because we don't have, nor will we really, ever put tens of thousands of people into a multigenerational experiment to try out methods and learn how to create pyramids with the tools of the day. We know most of the tools they had. We know that they could have done it. We can put those together and infer a lot of the processes, but until you build 2 or 3 you probably won't find all the skills and best way. And you know if you have 20k-30k people and 300-500 years to work on it, go ahead. 🤣
Is it that hard to say “The Egyptians looked like Mediterranean people with a variety of skin tones present across the country”
No such race or people called Mediterrenian people.
Iberians Celtic, Phoenicians were Lebanese, Egyptians were native Africans, Anatolians were White, Gaetuli of Morocco, Afuri of Tunisia, Libu of Libya were Black.
Ancient Egyptians originate at Nabta Playa in West Sudan, spoke an African language and belonged to E1b1 haplogroup native to Africa. They were therefore Black people
@@ohlangeniThe only natives Africans are Africans. The other people you named are not African.
@@The_Truth- Africans who carry haplogroup E1b1 are native Africans. Ancient Egyptians were native Afrivan and Black
@@ohlangeni Correct.
But they were talking about the land, the ancient Egypt. There were for example ppl from Macedonia living there. They are not Native, but after a few hundred years, are they not to be concidered Egyptian?
Superrior proof: my grandpa allways tell me, Zulu Chaka was an Eskimo.
And he hunts sea cows with a .45 Smith and Wesson
He could be as he was a bastard. Chaka Zulu not Zulu Chaka.
i just watched the video of trillblack about ur video about moors. it was infuriating honestly how they talked about how a part of also my history (a amazigh/berber) is only theirs and that i am not entitled to it because of my white skin as far as i know thats racism and blackwashing which they accuse u of doing
thanks for doing us north africans justice man and to keep spreading the truth.
How hard is it to say it depends on the region and the time period? If this was during the Old Kingdom, Egyptians in Lower Egypt would look lighter than those who lived in Upper Egypt. How hard is it to say some Egyptians in Upper Egypt would look Nubian with a darker complexion, and some who lived in Lower Egypt during the New Kingdom would look more "Greek?"
Ancient Egypt was many distinct civilizations. The Old Kingdom that has had pyramids built is supposed to be over 2000 of years older than Ptolemaic Kingdom that seemingly didn't know how to build them.
Ptolemies were Hellenes, they were more interested in hellenizing Egypt than building Pyramids.
Egypt was one civilian with many citizens of different races. They were still predominantly tan even if people from africa came to live in our lands and mixed with the actual Egyptians. Obviously the other regions surrounding Egypt would copy the greatest empire in the region at the time.
According to the iconography, some Egyptians did not look like humans. At least some had heads that looked like eagles, dogs, crocodiles, and hippos, among other animals. The historical sources don’t lie.
Damn all this time I thought they looked like aliens
Oh i thought they were Ents.
Very interesting video of a man in Florida, who has passed, moving giant blocks of stone by himself with relatively simple leveraging techniques. Easy search on UA-cam will lead you to him. This could be a display of insight into some of the techniques used. Fascinating stuff
The Egyptians probably had levers and pulleys.
The reason we don’t see hats in fashion anymore is because it’s more like a specialty item. We don’t need it to protect from the elements as much so it naturally fell to the wayside. I personally love the look.
I saw another video that went over the marriage customs of the common folk of Egypt. From papyri found in a garbage pit for a village that housed temple builders the customs were understood. One was a foreman and the letters that he and his spouse shared in courting. If the courting went well, the man would pack his property bundle and go to his in-laws house. If they accepted him the couple would be considered married. There was a letter talking about one man who got refused by the in-laws and he was ridiculed by all included the woman he had courted.
The foreman was allowed his own house so the couple later moved together into it. That house was later identified through their letters.
Other documents would be considered pornography as well and was probably used as such.
Dr. Fletcher I presume?
They have found pre dynastic wine jars with vintage with hieroglyphic dates and ruler names that predate any Sumerian writing.
any video links i wanna see it
Who are they and where were they found?
Even the famous assyrian/sumerian kings with famous libraries brag about their thousands of years old texts that were pre flood
@@generalmarkmilleyisbenedic8895 Do you know that it is accepted as fact and confirmed by geologists and hydrologists and corroborating accounts by neighboring cultures that several "outbreak events" occurred that had a profoundly distressing effect upon the people of Mesopotamia? Between the spring flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and instances of natural dams and obstructions caused by landslides and earthquakes, tremendous volumes of water were sometimes held back until these obstructions finally collapsed and the water was released to catastrophic effect. Other floods were connected with changes of sea-level in the Persian Gulf but all these different conditions led to a clear history of floods of epic if not Biblical proportions in the region, a couple are: The great Flood at Ur-3500 BCE, probably the one that inspired the Genesis flood narrative, The Floods at Kish 3000-2900 BCE and the Flood of 628-629
The point to all this being, yes, there may be records that predate A flood, as long as you don't automatically assume that it's referring to THE flood.
So! There is a thing called observation bias, and in archaeology, there is a bias towards Egypt. And since when is hieroglyphics and cuneiform writing? Some Middle Eastern Joe said,"Look and you will find". I am sure if they looked in other parts of the world ancient symbols can be found that could be interpreted as writing.
The straight ramp build was the theory i was taught growing up but that definitely has flaws. A useable incline straight ramp to the peak would have been massive requiring more material than the pyramid itself. Adding the building and removal of such a ramp really strains the 26 year construction timeline.
Metatron brings the facts. The history. The receipts.
Let's tell it how it is brother
@@metatronyt I only recently found your channel and have watched a decent amount, but I don’t know how much you are into going back and forth with people because a channel called trillblack made a video titled something on the lines of exposing metatron fail on moors.
Always do your own research don’t believe anything someone says at face value
@@Darryldlowe Awe. Geeze. Thanks dad. Of fucking couse do your own research. What a stupid, generic thing to say. 🤣🤣🤣
@@Darryldlowe Are you a CNN intern?
they looked like human beings ?! I did not know that.
I'm learning new things everyday !!
My grandmother always told me that Mike Tyson was Human!
Mine too!
9:21 harnessing the power of beasts of burden, maybe elephants: Two options I’ve never heard, nor am I sure they’ve been explored.
Indeed, cattle was worshipped in the same way as it was in very ancient India, as a food source (before the new brahmins decided that cow was not acceptable to eat) first and foremost, but also as a work animal, and as a source of leather and rendered fat. I'm guessing a lot of the work done when carrying the limestone blocks on the sleds up the causeway and pyramid was done with cattle, and especially when it came to the big granite ones for the king's and queen's chambers roofs. Fat would have been used on the grand gallery to lubricate the sled and as a binder to make abrasive paste to drill the holes in the various porticullis blocks.
Bro, check out the physics of pulleys. Doesn't seem like it, but it's truly amazing.
Goes back to Archimedes! :o
They existed before Archimedes, he just go the credit.
@@Ponto-zv9vf He did invent the compound pulley, as they didn't have that. And I don't think the Egyptians would have gotten anywhere without pulleys.
40:35 The public doesn't usually know that the same birth defect and still birth risks a individual assumes with inbreed exists for outbreeding also. Highly distant human genetic backgrounds have a higher risk of not working together and causing birth defects and still births. The first thing academics will say about outbreeding is that it promotes hybrid vigor and is good for species survival. But what they don't mention is the cost of this outbreeding risk to individuals who will have the high risk of still births and birth defects and likely will not survive.
There is a "sweet spot" in genetic relatedness for couples, neither too close related nor too far related apart to avoid birth defects and still births.
That comments going to get shadow banned. You can't tell the public truth like that, we need more hybrid vigor for the species.
I've spoken to farmers and they will constantly breed in a stud that has been proven to have no defects. In fact that is what creates animal breeds because you breed out and cull all the genetic defects until they "breed true." That is an example of extensive inbreeding without significant negative traits.
@@ctrlaltdebug Northern Dancer offspring where fast, but had the defect of aggressive temperament. Bold Ruler offspring where sprinters, but had the defect of no stamina. Risks and rewards for selective breeding, inbreeding and outbreeding should be known by anyone wanting to be a parent.
Because people have lost their minds and the internet has given a voice to people who should never have one in the first place.
Humans are practically genetically identical.
I know Chris Naunton, he's super intelligent .
In Egyptology, you can't say certain things or you get blacklisted.
OMG! I would absolutely hate to have to sit through Chris’ class. Love you Metatron! And keep it up. 👍
I think he was a good explainer. I can understand his avoidance of the race bomb.
“Ropes and logs” is the biggest oversimplification possible lol. Some of the blocks used were well in excess of 10 tons. Those methods may well have been used to get the blocks up a smooth ramp later on in transport to its final location, but how on earth did they get them out of the quarry and down the mountains of Aswan to the river???? I’ve never heard a single theory that even comes close to explaining that portion of construction.
Or how they were able to carve and lift out blocks VERTICALLY at Aswan. Fucking astounding that they don't even talk about that one.
The fact that archeology found hammers and chisels doesn't mean that this was all the ancient Egyptians had to work the stone, yet that's what they want to have us believe.
I suspect the ancient peoples had technology we simply haven't found any remains of, and has been lost. Just like the Romans could make concrete and that skill was lost and in the modern age reinvented.
It's foolish to think people of the past were stupid and we are at the peak of what can be achieved technology-wise. Technological advance isn't a steady line upwards, civilizations rise and fall. Who knows how much has been lost to time.
There was a now dry waterway that went right up into the quarry. So they were able to use the river almost right to the build site. This was discovered awhile ago. One of the cool things about the Pyramids is that we are still making discoveries. The downside is that you have to go back and update your knowledge a bit more frequently then with other historical sites.
There was a theory that the stones were poured, a kind of Egyptian cement of limestone clay and water. That makes sense at least for the upper portion of the structure and construction of passage ways inside the pyramid. I don't know if this theory was debunked or not.
@@williamjenkins4913 was the river deep enough to hold the larger stones? I’d imagine you’d need a fairly deep and large river to be able to move stones just as you would a large shipping container. Also I’m curious as to what source you found for that (not trying to minimize, I’m just always up for reading/watching more good info on ancient Egypt)
Even the ancient Egypts thought they lived in current times.
No, we live in the present as did they.
A informed man said eyeliner was a compound to ward off the nats that like to attack the eye lid......and it worked.
I would LOVE a video about who built the pyramids!
It is important to acknowledge the subtext.
The subtext is that Egypt is a place in Africa and that there are many people who believe that everyone in Africa is of the same race and appearance. That simply is not so. And it has never been so.
Yes, and africa was named by and for endemic Caucasians, prior it was all called Lybia ( also Caucasians) lots of blondes and red heads too…
@@NeptunesLagoon All of the ancient depictions of North Africans show men with red beards and hair. So, maybe they faded? No, not so much. Greeks and others also described them. And the written descriptions match the paintings. So, Berbers were paler before the Arab expansion than they are today. And there was a ethnic group of large blond people called the Gaucho who were the orignial inhabitants of the Canary Islands. The larger point is that the impressions of many African Americans that all of Africa looks like them is simply wrong. It was wrong yesterday, wrong 1,000 years ago, 2,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago, and it remains wrong today.
That's the problem with using Black or African. The name Africa comes from a Berber tribe in Tunisia not Namibia. The name of Asia comes from western Anatolia not Japan.
There is currently no clear evidence supporting the assumption that the pyramids of Giza functioned as tombs, nor is there any documentation from the Ancient Egyptians themselves describing those pyramids' purpose or their building techniques. In contrast, there are many inscriptions stating by whom and how other structures, such as the structures at Karnak, were built. The fact that absolutely no inscriptions describing the construction or purpose of the Giza pyramids have been discovered is extremely curious, since they seemed to be quite proud of lesser structures and bragged about them enthusiastically. And while there are extensive inscriptions regarding the construction of mortuary temples and causeways around the Giza complex, which include descriptions of the organization and labor involved in those projects, there are none regarding the pyramids themselves. Ergo, any statements regarding the Giza pyramids' construction and purpose are purely speculative and not supported by any sources from the Ancient Egyptians themselves. And no, I'm not suggesting they were built by effing aliens. But, if we are going to adhere strictly to facts and what is known, nobody has a clue by whom, why, or how they were built.
So why the inner chambers, the sarcophagi. A lot of trouble for nothing.
You are knowledgeable about the Egyptians?
Him: Yes!
What can you tell me about them?
Him: They were humans.
Farming was a much bigger industry, with regard to numbers of people, compared to today. The brown skin in the paintings could have been from so many people working in the sun. Consider how many olive-skinned people tend to tan well in the summer and lose it in the winter, looking more European.
My wife has lighter chocolate skin, mine is stereotypical white, when we stay indoors for a few weeks. When we stay outdoors during the summer, we both turn the same bronze brown.
My blood line is so mixed, like an ice cream shop, 100% American mutt.
@@Lostwithquestion pasty white Irish-American here. 😂
@@Lostwithquestionwhite ppl never faill to make me laugh with their stupidty
@Llyrin my father's mother is Irish French.
My mother's father was Blackfoot and an unknown possibly German or near that region.
In winter I can pass as white, during summer I cannot pass as white.
Yeah they were white ppl,with african hairstyle and phenotyoe and skin color,yeah white ppl working shirtless in the hit desert,yeah sir we wuz egyptians
Love Metatron's Egypt videos.
They have ancient wooden sleds and images of Egyptians moving huge statues, etc. on these sleds. It is believed that they wet the sand as the sled was pulled by hundreds of men. Yes, I found this video EXTREMELY frustrating to watch for the same reasons. God Bless
Indeed, there is even a surving cedar sled from the old kingdom if I'm not mistaken. It's propped up on a wall in the Cairo museum between two glass exhibits, most people don't even notice it but there it is!
This has been disproven completely impossible
They used the Nile as transport, and built canals close to where the pyramids were being built.
@Ponto-zv9vf not possible
Regarding building pyramids, I recently watched a video of a man who demonstrates how to move a megalith stone (yes, he made one of concrete) and moved it by himself using ordinary principles of physics. His son helped him move a few shims around, but otherwise he did it alone. I don't think he used pulleys. Mostly levers, fulcrum, and counterbalance.
Thanks for the video.
links to your source would be appreciated. I've heard the same thing you described but also heard that it was BS because they wouldn't let people see them do it, as well as a 1 ton block does not equate to a 10+ to 100+ ton block.
I think when private cars became the most common form of transportation we stopped wearing hats.
I'm not sure if that's true, but it sounds like it makes sense. Nice observation!
Hats were popular until around 1920s, then started to go out of style, and cars started to get common around the same time or a little bit before. Having a hat, especially a larger one, would be inconvenient in a car with a roof!
@@exantiuse497 You also loose a lot of body heat from the top of your head. So if you are not exposed to the elements then you have less need for a hat.
@@jasongaylard2547 You don't loose any more or less of your hear from your head. that information comes from a flawed US army study in which the soldiers were not issued hats.
It's this. Modern cars specifically because safety standards raised the head rest. It's why people can still wear baseball caps. Women's dress hats have to be secured, they aren't just placed on the head, so you can't take them on and off to deal with the headrests. Either the hat or the car needs to go through a redesign.
@jasongaylard2547 In USA, maybe, but not everywhere. But public transportation does the same, I think.
The Truthatron has entered the battle
If the workers who built the pyramids were paid, what were they paid with? For it was before the invention of a coinage. It must be therefore that they were paid in food, in bread and beer. When the Nile floods and you can't work in the fields, you do corvée labour and get food and accommodation in return. This is very different from modern wage labour.
Yup. We have quartermaster recipes showing the vittles of the workers. They were eating much better then the average person.
There is a strike documented, because the government wanted to half the onion rations... and had to let go of this plan.
@@williamjenkins4913they were slaves
@@alex.profi27 No they wernt. They were for the most part skilled laborers working on the construction when they couldnt farm
Yes bartering is almost certainly the most ancient method of transactions.
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« They looked like…humans being like any others humans being »
I laughed so hard.
Is it so hard to say Egyptians looked like tanned-skinned North African people? You know, since Egypt is in North Africa?
Why would he lie like that? They were dark than a tan.
@@The_Truth- Were they?
@@wiseman5076 the writing is on the wall.
I have come to the conclusion, that firstly you got my vote on that. Though whether they had tribal roots and originally from the shift of human kind from Africa's south and and/or of elsewhere, from pre and after ice age human movements, is anybodies guess and for the researchers to know, or pre-suppose from the DNA research at the same time... (Edit) The Sahara was also lush at a remote time, so who knows with that possibly and altogether connection too, remote as that was and from what time? What are thus the specific human type/s of origin, do we speak of? Or count as the originators of this culture, though in Africa - in this northern area?!
@@JohnRL6240 They were indigenous Africans they clearly didn’t look like what he is describing.
"ThEy LoOk LiKe hUmAn bEings" Yeah no shit sherlock, they way he was doging that question is pretty lame.
Tells a lot about how British people are bragging for treating other races as humans. It wasn't the case a century ago (Australian Aboriginals considered fauna and the such)
@@giokun100 If it helps English people are so far gone they are literally willing to commit racial/cultural/national suicide just to prove they aren't "wacist" to actual racists who hate and despise them.
14:00 in regards to the egyptians being black or white argument
When some American company tried to make a show or movie that presented Cleopatra as black , the Egyptian government went on record and blasted them.
Similarly however, when people try and say that egyptians were European white, those people get blown out as well, because they are, as you've presented, a mix of the two, and typically are more of a brown or mixed.
Actually, its why for in the 20ths century like the 60s-70s-80s-90s etc they were called ''brown people''
Its also where the argument of was Jesus white , brown or black, came up for some silly reason.
Yeah but cleopatra is not a good example because she wasn’t even Egyptian to begin with she was a Greek. In fact she was the only person in her entire dynasty that bothered to learn Egyptian. So the fact they even attempted to depict her as black is even more far fetched. Most Egyptians looked like modern Egyptians. Of course there were always outliers like Nubians, Greeks, and Romans.
Oh you mean the arab muslim egyptian government, people don't understand that egypt is not what it was suppossed to be like before the arabs immigrated, or before the greeks or the romans came. The iconogrophy in the old kingdom shows people with brown skin and black hair coiled hair I say go off of that. Plus Calling everyone black is kind of ignorant, Africa is a very diverse continent, some are light skined with black hairs some are darkskinned with some black hairs, some have straight hair and they are dark... It's litreally different from place to place.
@@OKay-ox3kh Most egyptian didn't look like modern egyptian most of them are arabs or arab mixed. Go to the copts if you want to see what they might have looked like. But don't mix them with the arabs.
@@OKay-ox3kh I agree but the reason i brought her up is because she was the topic of a semi large controversy to the point hat it got the country who's history was being talked about involved.
The term i have always heard egyptians refer to themselves as , not white, not black, nor brown but olive skinned.
@@johannesg8959 I agree its largely a variety, but in this case its been spoken about about egypt, I'm not saying North Africa or Africa in general all has the same, but specifically in one country.
Calling groups black, is a specific generalization used to give a general idea of the origin of the person, but you're right that it is an issue because for example.
Asian can mean many different cultures
Black, same thing
White same thing. But they are generalizations used to represent a common origin.
Another point is that different cultures among these racial groups are also at odds, so to say for example, Japanese and Chinese are the same because they are both asian, while they are historically at odds.
Would create conflict because of the history of issues among ''asian cultures'' .
I don't disagree but i understand why most people speak in generalities and to poke at that would be functioning in bad faith.
still got people out here saying the pyramids are tombs, amazing
Some of them were.
Oh and another amusing fact: Tutankhamuns DNA was also decoded - he shares some typical caracteristics of the y-chromosom, speak a common ancestor, with about 70-80% spainards and almost 50% of Germans.
Meaning he descended from the same group of caucasian/Black sea region -people that settled in Europe. So yes, he was almost certain "white".
Exactly, now google image search for: blue eyed Egyptian statues, it’s the earliest and pyramid builders, what are we all clearly looking at…? Many blonde and red headed ancient Egyptian people too, from @ ginger” the pre dynastic blonde haired Gebelien mummy, to king Tuts grandparents Thuya & Yuya: both stark blondes ect…
Germans???
@@honkytonk4465 yes^^ basically the people living in the Black sea region in that time migrated to europe and some other areas - it seems that the egyptian people (or at least: the ruling class of that time) descended from the same group as todays germans/spainards.
@@alexanderschulz7924 wasn't something very similar discovered about India's highest caste, Brahmins, the high priest class?
@@RobS8769 I'm not sure if there is genetical evidence, but AFAIK it is consensus that india was conquered by indoeuropeans ("white"). The conquerors established the caste-system an put themself in the 2 highest castes (priests and warrior/nobles). Up to this day in india lighter skin stands for higher social prestige.
But if this is the same group that settled in parts of europe I simply don't know.
The pyramids are not and have never been tombs
How do you know? How old are you?
To date something, you need something you already dated to compare to or something measurable that changes predictably over time. Carbon dating uses the proportion of ¹⁴C to ¹²C and it can be used to date organic material only. Dating buildings made of pure rocks is to this day impossible. Unless we find some leaf or seed or something organic captured between two rocks, there’s no way of finding out when something was built using methods like carbon dating. The fact that the Egyptians used the pyramids proves the pyramids are _at least_ as old as the Egyptians.
I like the following comparison: Imagine someone saying “2Pac built the Empire State Building, because we found his name written on it.” Sounds insane. First, 2Pac didn’t build it, it’s much older. Second, he could have just written his name on the building. Third, even if 2Pac lived before the Empire State Building was made, _someone else_ who lived after 2Pac could have written his name on it. It means absolutely nothing.
I think the most recent findings re. The movement of massive masonary blocks for the pyramids or for when they moved cities due to the movement of the Nile is that they built temporary canals to the building sites so that very little dragging on sleds would have been needed. There is apparently evidence of 'extinct' canals in the desert where one of the more important cities was moved pretty much wholesale to a new site due to the Nile changing its course.
Re. The cutting of rock, there are still the remains of various ancient Egyptian quarries with stones in various states of being cut so Im pretty sure that archiologists know how the stone was cut.
One of the important things to remember about ancient Egypt is that of the 3 seasons of the year, one was a time when no real agricultural work could be done as the Nile was in flood. As the agricultural workers owed their allegiance to the Pharoe they would be expected to carry out tasks for the Pharoe, monumental buildings, infrastructure, etc. Would be carried out at this time by the massive available workforce. In return the Pharoe provided grain and civic services to the population.
Likewise I dont think the building of the pyramids has been a great mystery for a while now. Their development from mastabe, to stacked mastabe, to step pyramids to smooth sided pyramids, to enormous smooth sided pyramids is pretty straight forward. We sometimes forget how long the ancient Egyptian civilization was around and what their levels of learning, skills and knowledge would have been.
It's an interesting idea:
Option 1: move large blocks.
Option 1: build waterways and float said large blocks.
Question: which is easiest?
Likely, they took the easiest route.
I'd also want to know if natural waterways existed that they used, as opposed to building them by hand. Maybe such evidence is lost to time, or most of it?
Maybe they even had ship-like objects to help? Didn't they build actual ships, pretty much before anybody else in the world, around this time (3000 BC)?
Actually the older the pyramid the better built it is
Your last paragraph is the epitome of ignorance regarding the Great Pyramid. Preceding that, though, was the ambiguous statement that "they" know how the stones were cut from the quarry. During the time period that egyptologists purport that the pyramids were constructed, historians claim that only copper chisels were available for the quarrying. Which is only just barely able to chip away Limestone since they are approximately the same hardness on the Mohs Scale, about 2 to 3. However, there is absolutely no way copper tools can account for the quarrying of Granite since its hardness is between 6 and 7.
Regarding the linear progression of technology, egyptologists have the 3 Giza pyramids being constructed before the others. This means there was a regression of technology, not a progression. In other words, not "straight forward," as you put it.
Furthermore, regarding the Egyptian civilization's [construction] knowledge around the time the egyptologists claim the great pyramids were built, it is beyond ludicrous to attribute the mathematical and surveying anomalies to a civilization transitioning from Stone Age to Bronze Age. The Great Pyramid's accurate alignment to True North has a margin of error of less than 0.05 degrees, a level of accuracy that was not possible to replicate until GPS satellites were in orbit. Especially when the base area of 13 acres is taken into account.
And most confounding of all, the numerous mathematical equations built right into the Great Pyramid. Relating again to the geographical surveying, the latitude of the Great Pyramid is 29.9792458 N. Which is only interesting because the speed of light, measured in meters per second, is 299,792,458. (the margin of error is something like 0.005) And the meter, as originally defined, was 1/10,000,000 the distance from the Earth's equator to the North pole, or equivalently, 1/40,000,000 the Earth's circumference. The earliest reference to the calculation of the Earth's circumference was done by Eratosthenes in ~240 BC. Clearly, the Egyptian's were not supposed to be aware of that measurement.
The mathematical oddities that can be elucidated from measurements of the Great Pyramid are nearly unfathomable. Using basic geometry measurements, like the base perimeter of a triangle, height, etc... the mathematical constants of Pi, and Phi appear. Using various units of measure, other "coincidences" can be rendered, such as the radius of the Earth. There are many more such examples, none of which were known by the Egyptians, according to the generally accepted historical timeline.
Regarding the astronomical alignment, I agree with Andrew Collins' hypothesis that it is a representation of the constellation of Cygnus, as opposed Robert Bauval's Orion constellation theory, as there are more archeological sites near the pyramids that correlate with Cygnus. Of course, this inevitably leads to the knowledge of the Precession of the Equinox and the redating of the Pyramids' construction. And a special acknowledgement to John Anthony West, who identified heavy rain erosion in the Sphinx enclosure, because climatologists agree that there was an extended time period of heavy precipitation during the era when the constellation Leo rises over the horizon during the Age of Leo, which happens to be thousands of years before egyptologists' assigned date of construction.
Nothing about Giza fits into the history of humanity that is taught in academia. But the evidence is there, set in stone.
@@RobS8769 I'm sorry, if you cant be bothered to do some basic reading up on the subject its not worth my while replying to you. Look it up on line - they didn't just use copper tools they had a number of tools including the use of abrasives and other stones - it isn't up for discussion they know how they did it. I'm guessing you are happier in believing that aliens of fairies did it.