The Great Pyramid’s Niche of Secrets

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  • We are fortunate that many explorers from the past have documented their exploration of the Great Pyramid of Giza. The monument has changed greatly over time, with many critical parts broken, relocated, and renovated or replaced.
    The ‘Queen’s Chamber’ of the Great Pyramid is particularly difficult to understand because it has been subjected to the most damage from visitors. Recently new testimonies from 1837 have come to light which provide critical evidence to understanding if a sarcophagus is missing from within it.
    The entirely unique niche on the chamber’s eastern wall has taunted investigators since before written records. Why is there? What secrets might it hold? The interpretations of explorers have caused tunnels to be dug through it and beneath it. These excavations have accidentally given us critical information to understanding the Queen’s Chamber beyond hunting for a missing tomb.
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    0:00 Intro
    1:25 Historical sources
    2:22 New testimonies from 1837
    3:11 Deceptive descriptions
    4:12 Howard Vyse's character
    6:06 Queen's Chamber sarcophagus
    7:20 Giovanni Caviglia's digging
    10:03 19th Century priorities
    10:55 Sarcophagus description
    12:25 Misidentifications
    14:01 Unsolved Niche mysteries
    17:05 Queen's Chamber photos

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  • @AncientArchitects
    @AncientArchitects Рік тому +164

    Fantastic work. Great research as is always the case with your channel. Was great working with you on this. 👍

    • @ravevolution2
      @ravevolution2 Рік тому +16

      Amazing collaborations between these 2 channels! Keep up the good work 💯

    • @benthilwind6908
      @benthilwind6908 Рік тому +4

      Both of you smashing it

    • @stalker-anoniem3515
      @stalker-anoniem3515 Рік тому +1

      He's even better than you! Very elaborate, descriptive and precise.

    • @stalker-anoniem3515
      @stalker-anoniem3515 Рік тому +3

      @@ravevolution2 that doesn't make sense. This channel only uploads concrete evidence and proof whilst ancient architects uploads mainly hypothesis and theories.🤷‍♂️

    • @danieldorsz1047
      @danieldorsz1047 Рік тому +4

      @@stalker-anoniem3515 hello you look looney want a sandwich?

  • @AbandonAllArt
    @AbandonAllArt Рік тому +20

    My favorite channel on UA-cam, and the only one that I let bother my phone with notifications! Thanks for making these

    • @nomadscavenger
      @nomadscavenger Рік тому +1

      Absolutely mine, too. No. 1 so far! Wish he would do videos a little more often, but can imagine the amount of work going into each one makes that too difficult. I learn something new w/every one. 🌞🌻

    • @Anyextee
      @Anyextee Рік тому

      One of my favorites on UA-cam! Such a great video.

  • @Gainn
    @Gainn Рік тому +146

    After doing some digging around, it turns out that Vyse's unpublished papers are at the Ashmolean and his notes and some small finds are still stored (unchecked!) by the British Museum in their main archive.
    Trying to get the Petrie Museum interested in going through his archive because some of the finds are listed as 'unidentified ceramics'.

    • @laurah1020
      @laurah1020 Рік тому +18

      This info seems pretty important...something to be actively by "experts" in the field...what's up with the lack of interest? is it simply labeling? Makes no sense to me...

    • @Gainn
      @Gainn Рік тому +24

      @@laurah1020 It's mostly a matter of time and money. They have projects that get them funding which will always come before things that are just 'interesting'. They no longer have the fabulously rich patrons that previous generations could milk for large sums of cash.
      That and the fact that there are literally millions of documents and finds that have been catalogued and stored. You'd need an army of eagle-eyed researchers just to dent the backlog.

    • @scott2296
      @scott2296 Рік тому

      @@Gainn The problem with that excuse is that the worthless pieces of shit never figure much out, everything is a mystery to the "experts".

    • @seize2581
      @seize2581 Рік тому +13

      @@v4skunk739 Yup, totally right, the little green men from Venus did. 🙃

    • @maquettemusic1623
      @maquettemusic1623 Рік тому +10

      @@v4skunk739 Okay. So where's your proof?

  • @bswins9648
    @bswins9648 Рік тому +28

    Been waiting for a new video since watching the Ancient Architects collaboration. Loved both. Laughed when you stated ‘if you’re one of the few who haven’t watched that video”. You know your fans/subs well. I’m sure a majority of us had seen it. Looking forward to your next installment. 😊

  • @FZMello
    @FZMello Рік тому +13

    When I look at the niche in the Queen's Chamber, specifically how it's asymmetrical with respect to the wall it's in, I get the feeling that this fact is a clue to something just out of reach. It's quite easy to see how those with an exploratory itch find this room so interesting.

    • @bluerendar2194
      @bluerendar2194 5 місяців тому +1

      A proper engineering or architectural study of its purpose, informed by culture and history, would probably be the best place to start. After all, significant blind excavation has already turned up nothing of note. The lack of study into such structures given the simplicity it would be with modern techniques is, to me, an astonishing blind spot. One really does wonder why so little such scrutiny is done, or perhaps, allowed.

  • @charlesjmouse
    @charlesjmouse Рік тому +55

    It's human nature that one of the hardest things any of us can do is to not be blinded by a fond belief, even when there is contrary evidence. You want to find evidence of a sarcophagus in the queen's chamber and yet in all honesty you had to accept these accounts are not it. Many would not accept that.
    Thank you for another excellent video.

    • @66holt
      @66holt Рік тому

      please look at inticate carvings in granite on LUXOR OBELISK , please explain ?

    • @jek__
      @jek__ Рік тому

      I think being proven wrong or right is equally exciting. Both are the same step toward the truth. So called disappointing explanations are fun because they are the closest we can determine to what is really there

    • @mortalclown3812
      @mortalclown3812 Рік тому +4

      I just love the phrase, 'blinded by a fond belief'. That crosses time, miles and every mindset.

  • @edgarsnake2857
    @edgarsnake2857 Рік тому +12

    Thanks to HFG and Matt at AA for continuing to bring new info and insight into the mysteries of ancient Egypt. The excitement and wonder of my trip there 30 years ago gets rekindled each time I see a new video on the subject.

  • @williamglidden7461
    @williamglidden7461 Рік тому +7

    Thanks for doing these videos, HFG. Always good to get fresh, well-researched takes on these monuments. Should be more of it!

  • @adriangstern
    @adriangstern 11 місяців тому +10

    I really like the theory that all three chambers in the pyramid were meant for the pharoah and represent different stages of the building project enabling him to have a burial chamber ready in case he died before the work was finished. So there should not have been sarcophagi in either the "Queen's" chamber or the subterranean one - as no-one was ever buried in them

  • @robertbrummayer4908
    @robertbrummayer4908 Рік тому +20

    Man, your videos are awesome. It is great that you and Matt have worked together. I would love to see more collaborations in the future. Greetings from Austria.

  • @warlike2417
    @warlike2417 Рік тому +27

    Your vids are top notch buddy. Well researched and your manner makes them easily digestible. I hope success finds you.Keep up the good work.

  • @Primatron
    @Primatron Рік тому +12

    I'm so glad people have started doing independent research into the pyramids with thorough observation skills, because waiting for mainstream media to ever present the truth is a lost cause. This channel is incredible. Thanks for all these brilliant vids. 🎯

  • @StephiSensei26
    @StephiSensei26 Рік тому +11

    It is already clear to me, that any further praise of your channel, and Matt's AA's channel, would be superfluous and redundant. However, both of you do deserve high praise for your intelligent analyses, respect for one another's work and recent collaboration. Bravo. This is to everyone's benefit. We "Happy Amateurs" are indebted to the both of you.

  • @AncientPuzzles
    @AncientPuzzles Рік тому +4

    You and Matt did a really good job. Looking forward to the special video. Thank you!

  • @anthonyarashnia1934
    @anthonyarashnia1934 Рік тому +6

    I love ancient Architects and your Channel. As they are my two favorite channels to watch. You guys always put up awesome content keep up the great work!

  • @the.bronze
    @the.bronze Рік тому +5

    Another wonderfully researched, captivating and informative video. I always look forward to new material from you. Keep up the awesome work 👍

  • @mathisurien4031
    @mathisurien4031 Рік тому +153

    my head-canon explaination for the sand is as follows. if you wanted to make a tomb as hard to break into as possible then you would want to surround and fill it with substances that are resistant to digging, while something like granite resists digging through it by being really strong and hard, sand is different. sand resists digging by being really loose and constantly flowing back down into the hole filling itself back in, if you don't sure up the sides then it's impossible to dig deep into sand. in short sand resists digging by being really annoying as opposed to being tough. for this reason i believe the sand was added and used to fill corridors as a mild form of defence to prevent digging. it would be really hard to remove requiring hundred or thousands of buckets being carried up through small corridors to do so but putting in in place would be easy as you could just pour it down the entrance and let the slope of the tunnels do the work. it could also explain the small chutes to nowhere inside the chambers.

    • @coreykoepsel
      @coreykoepsel Рік тому +51

      It's not a tomb

    • @rooktheradical1
      @rooktheradical1 Рік тому +39

      @@coreykoepsel
      Anyone who tries to insist it's a tomb, is living in a fantasy world.

    • @JoelRSmith
      @JoelRSmith Рік тому +32

      Sand is better than nothing but that's it. Get 100 guys with buckets and they would have a passage plugged with sand excavated in no time. Now try doing the same thing when the corridor is filled with limestone blocks...now you can only use a few guys and they have slowly destroy their way in block by block...

    • @mathisurien4031
      @mathisurien4031 Рік тому +12

      @@JoelRSmith whether its stone or sand you'd still only get 1 person at a time digging due to the narrowness of the passageways. two people can't pass each other so they'd have to form a chain. with buckets going each way, empty one way full the other, that would be really awkward in such close confines. then consider the slope and the sheer volume that would need to be moved. it would be a very laborious process digging through yard after yard of sand.

    • @BEDLAMITE-5280ft.
      @BEDLAMITE-5280ft. Рік тому +2

      Your on drugs.

  • @0Gematria0
    @0Gematria0 8 місяців тому

    I love how collaborative you and Ancient Architects are. You and Matt are so wonderful and insightful

  • @NeilCrouse99
    @NeilCrouse99 Рік тому +2

    This channel is so good, it can only be of others not yet discovering this treasure trove of information. I was led here through "Ancient Architects" channel, another fantastic channel on its own.

  • @baysideauto
    @baysideauto Рік тому +3

    Love your videos, your work is wonderful. Been watching Matt awhile now such a wealth of knowledge. Thanks

  • @jeffjeff4477
    @jeffjeff4477 Рік тому +1

    Great channel!!! So interesting, and the delivery of information with clarity and insight is really wonderful
    Thank You

  • @phillipdyson2689
    @phillipdyson2689 Рік тому +2

    Thank you for yet another wonderful video. Your knowledge is exceptional but more importantly giving people time to view the Ancient Architects video 1st tells me that you are also a very exceptional human. I look forward to future videos.

  • @rumblewolf2999
    @rumblewolf2999 Рік тому +8

    Discovered your channel on my own, but glad to see you know Matt.
    You guys really give the feeling the WE (meaning you, Matt AND the fans of your channels) will get to the bottom of these long thought questions.
    Kudos.

  • @hughholt121
    @hughholt121 Рік тому +10

    At 8:20" Caviglia was always off digging in Mummy pits" . The Queen's sarcophagus was in the niche sitting on the granite or marble block and the treasure hunter brain of Caviglia figured the treasure she had was behind the sarcophagus so he destroyed it to find her treasure and left the ruble . Sometime around 1817.

  • @frankfooter6531
    @frankfooter6531 Рік тому +3

    Love your videos, I feel like its hard to watch videos about stuff like this that are level headed like yours.

  • @simonbrogden9994
    @simonbrogden9994 Рік тому +2

    A brilliant video mate ! Please do more often. Good work.

  • @basile1286
    @basile1286 Рік тому +2

    thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge in such a thorough, enlightening and entertaining manner.

  • @richardearnshaw2719
    @richardearnshaw2719 Рік тому +3

    For me the opening shots of the bus entering the site made the whole thing REAL. I won't ever visit - my mental illness will never let me - so I am ever grateful! It may sound very strange to most people but this is the difference between a huge disappointment in my life or me actually being able to imagine and most likely being able to dream of being there. Thankfully I DO have very rich dreams BUT I can't dream of things that are too much removed from my own experiences - I think the bus ought to do it 🙄🙂👍🙏

  • @Sevenigma777
    @Sevenigma777 10 місяців тому +4

    Its so awesome to know that discussions between you and Ancient Architects exist and theres comradeship between you both especially on this cutthroat platform where everyone is fighting for views and channels that specialize in similar topics are more often competing than collaborating. If only all these young content creators knew that working together and building up others just increases the overall audience and will work in your favor too

  • @BaMenace
    @BaMenace Рік тому +6

    Love both ancient architects and your channel of granite. Both using the same shared information, you haven't copied each other's approach explaining to the public making both your videos refreshing

    • @williamspencer6831
      @williamspencer6831 Рік тому +2

      The Moses who was trained in all the knowledge of ancient Egypt called the location of the pyramid as the border and center of Egypt

  • @johanschulmaijer5976
    @johanschulmaijer5976 Рік тому

    Thanks, you are a great detective, your precision is what is needed in further discoveries.

  • @Itsjustme-Justme
    @Itsjustme-Justme Рік тому +4

    In the old photos, with all that rubble in it, the visible part of the square cavity inside the niche looks even more like a sacrophagus than it does today.

  • @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368
    @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368 Рік тому +11

    What I'd like to see is a video on what the pyramid(s) is/are _not._
    Sort of a mythbusting list. Like it's _not_ a grain storage silo (Ben Carson). It's _not_ an alien beacon. It's _not_ a giant sundial.
    There's a lot of theories about what the pyramids were used for and I think debunking them is a good starting point for layfolk like me who don't know if it was a make-work project to keep a restless population employed, a vanity project for kings, a temple to the gods, a celestial calendar, a tomb, or something to impress visiting dignitaries.

    • @ClickClack_Bam
      @ClickClack_Bam Рік тому

      I hate the current info going around about the pyramids.
      Aliens & a FUCKIN electric power plant is insulting to maintain.

  • @Grundlesmith
    @Grundlesmith Рік тому +2

    This is a great channel, keep up the good work, your opinions are really interesting

  • @Pauly421
    @Pauly421 Рік тому +1

    I love the not so subtle derisiveness with which you always say "The Definitive History" always puts a smile on my face haha. Another great video 👊

  • @svetovidarkonsky1670
    @svetovidarkonsky1670 Рік тому

    Watched both your video and Ancient Architects, and both excellent. Thank you.

  • @conniebenny
    @conniebenny Рік тому

    Another fascinating video. Thank you for continuing to make these.

  • @panchopuskas1
    @panchopuskas1 Рік тому +2

    What great videos. Just when I thought everything had been said on the subject of ancient Egypt and Giza.....along come your videos to make us think again.....

  • @juniorballs6025
    @juniorballs6025 Рік тому +1

    I needed this today, feeling full of cold. Thanks very much!!!

  • @Yeet_Sir
    @Yeet_Sir Рік тому +3

    I love your content! Thank you for making more! :)

  • @davidshelley6598
    @davidshelley6598 Рік тому +5

    Another great doc; thank you. In respect to the "sarcophagus", we, today imagine a stone box, either decorated or plain and made with some considerable care and skill befitting its profound significance. However, the word is derived from the Greek sarkophagos, "flesh-eater," referring to a stone coffin that devoured its occupant. The notion of a container that would devour the body inside it would have horrified the ancient Egyptians who used the name, "lord of life," because it was meant to protect and preserve the body in perpetuity. I think it is highly probable that the niche was indeed the "sarcophagus", and that the interpretation of this term has changed over millenia.

  • @roberthigbee3260
    @roberthigbee3260 Рік тому +7

    Very nice video, thanks! Sarcophagus, from the Greek, means “flesh eating”, according to the American Heritage Dictionary. And when used in the context of a stone burial box, it means a type of stone that will hasten the decomposition of corpses. Roman historian Pliny the Elder says that the best sarcophagus stone in use in his day could “consume” a corpse in as little as 40 days. My guess is that reducing graveyard smell was the main motivation. Therefore, it does not necessarily refer to a box shaped stone object, but to any stone enclosure you’d put a dead body into. Egyptians, being obsessed with preserving the mortal remains, would naturally be repulsed by we moderns referring to their stone burial boxes as sarcophagi. So, and in line with your theory, your early 1800s dudes, being closer to the origins of the word “sarcophagus”, could have easily thought of both the box in the King’s chamber and the Queen’s chamber niche as sarcophagi. On the other hand, there may be some rich dude, even as I write this, smiling and gently patting the Queen’s chamber box-like sarcophagus in his secret lair. A Queen’s sarcophagus would naturally be smaller, because it’s for a female and would be of a size that could fit inside of the short original tunnel at the back of the niche and would not be elaborated upon too greatly by its discoverer since they, or parties soon after them, hauled it up and out in the dead of night to be sold on the black market.

  • @breakfromlife5095
    @breakfromlife5095 29 днів тому

    I love you and your work. You and Matt are amazing. This is like my 7th watch through on this but I saw something new at 15:39. Regardless of what happened behind it, those right angles are polished and finished. But also undamaged, as if they knew where to dig

  • @seaarcher4476
    @seaarcher4476 Рік тому +11

    I think you might be right with the sarcophagus theory. When looking at the niche with the tunnel visible, well, it look more like a tunnel than a sarcophagus. But on the old photos, half filled with sand and stones, it looks much more like a ( not fully excavated) sarcophagus than I expected. Since both reports you mentioned, were written during Vyse's excavation work in front of the niche, it is likely, that some debris would have been deposited inside the tunnel and after the backfill, left there.

    • @HenryLoenwind
      @HenryLoenwind Рік тому

      As the report shown in the video describes how the writer crawled into the corridor until it became too narrow to advance (30 ft, if I remember correctly), I find that explanation unlikely.

  • @jacquesdesjardins6729
    @jacquesdesjardins6729 Рік тому

    Another great analysis. Good work, can't wait for the next video.

  • @JonnoPlays
    @JonnoPlays Рік тому +3

    I've been waiting with bated breath for this episode!

  • @robynstephens166
    @robynstephens166 11 місяців тому

    What, wait, at 1:36 people carried tables and chairs up there!
    I would have trouble carrying myself up to the top. But what a picnic that would of been, lucky ducks
    I have never been there and all I have to compare the great Pyramid to is The Sydney Harbour bridge which I have been to the top of its mighty arch many times(for a while the biggest steel arch bridge in the world) and that is an engineering marvel to see from the top and I am mighty proud my fellow countryman built and about the same height as the great Pyramid and that huge stack of stone was built 45 centuries ago, so they tell us.
    Amazing, stupendous just WOW
    BTW, I have watched a lot of this stuff and this this perhaps the best presentation of all. You ask questions without answers and that is beauty of it.
    Another thing. you mentioned around 2:42 that they are, in my words keeping things close to their chest.
    Can you really blame them when over the centuries their heritage was plundered. The British Museum would be the last plunders.
    Now I wait to be told that the Egyptians plundered from surrounding countries like Syria all those years ago.

  • @XtrovertedHermit
    @XtrovertedHermit Рік тому

    marvelous to have 2 enthusiastic youtuber researchers with there own specialties to draw on. Always enjoy your precise presentations, so i dont want to take your personality for granite.

  • @briandain8432
    @briandain8432 Рік тому +2

    Ancient Architects is who recommended your wonderful channel.

  • @mickleblade
    @mickleblade Рік тому +5

    Ah !, I'd forgotten that older explorers would have been using oil lamps/candles etc, we're so used to led flood lamps illuminating everything perfectly. Great point.

  • @sc0rpio79
    @sc0rpio79 Рік тому +8

    I'm skeptical of this conclusion. It feels like more of a leap to me to say that someone could misconstrue the lack of a box for a box. I think it's pretty well understood, generally, what a sarcophagus is when that term is used. There's no reason to use that term otherwise. I'm not saying there was one and I'm not saying there wasn't, but to even lean toward "there wasn't" based on this explanation is a mistake imo. I don't buy the "knocking on the wall makes an echo in the tunnel" being the same as the sound created by knocking on a hollow box either-- two different acoustic experiences. An echo is not the same as a hollow thud.

  • @pieinthesky4106
    @pieinthesky4106 15 днів тому

    Excellent and so informative.

  • @ruhepol
    @ruhepol 11 місяців тому +2

    Again an excellent analysis! Thank you for the effort you put into it. :)) There might be an additional explanation as to why the early explorers saw a sarcophagus in the structures. How boring is an empty queens chamber? So this structure has to be a sarcophagus for readers to be excited. We see the same principle in the media today. ;)

  • @paulroberts7429
    @paulroberts7429 Рік тому +6

    To be fair to dormion i see hawass on discovery talking in red pyramid and he states that when he is alone there is a draft of air coming from a separate source than entrance, he states it needs to be investigated, that was a few years ago(around time he broke his foot in Osiris shaft) i only remember i went to his website 2 weeks after to see if he updated but nothing, he also champions that khufu is hidden somewhere in his pyramid.

    • @lmonk9517
      @lmonk9517 Рік тому +4

      I don't think that Khufu is hidden in the pyramid but hidden chambers, perhaps filled with burial goods might be.
      The thing about a body is that it has to be brought into the pyramid after death so any chamber that the body is laid to rest in has to be easily accessible for the funeral procession. Removing blocks, relaiding floors and all that seems unlikely.

    • @paulroberts7429
      @paulroberts7429 Рік тому

      ​@@lmonk9517 I hope khufu his hidden and he beat tomb robbers and archeologists for eternal peace.

  • @richief1957
    @richief1957 Рік тому +2

    Another great vid bro!!

  • @dropnoelfield295
    @dropnoelfield295 Рік тому +2

    Mat from ancient architects recommends you, so... 🖐 hello. Good stuff. I've liked what I've seen so far and expect to view more quality content as time moves forward. Thanks mate

  • @nv1493
    @nv1493 Рік тому

    The objective analysis of this channel is stunningly good.

  • @johnconnor3781
    @johnconnor3781 Рік тому +3

    "The sand could have been used to aid the moving of slabs -the slab sits on top of the sand -The sand is moved away and the slab lowers into place -apparently this was used under the Sphinx for the temples found there "

  • @sigrice
    @sigrice 5 днів тому

    Can't wait to see new episodes!

  • @AD4K8
    @AD4K8 8 місяців тому

    Such refreshing intellect on pyramid info, love it.

  • @thefracker830
    @thefracker830 9 місяців тому

    The BEST Footage of the Pyramids I ever saw, Also VERY Interesting info Mate
    Your Brother from Downunder
    Peter

  • @J.Burrough
    @J.Burrough Рік тому +1

    Sure would like to hear your thoughts on The Queens Chamber, sand and other anomalies/finds your saving for a future presentation. Perhaps you may leave add that to the heading of your future disclosures (?).
    Thanks man

  • @MartinBettler
    @MartinBettler Рік тому

    Excellent work, exciting to follow!

  • @nonanarcisse8094
    @nonanarcisse8094 Рік тому +6

    Pretty convinced Hawas is a real life cinematic villain; secreting away and gate keeping a great deal of Egypt’s history!!

  • @mmaximk
    @mmaximk Рік тому

    Much appreciated. Another excellent video.

  • @trimurthya149
    @trimurthya149 Рік тому

    eagerly waiting for this.
    to watch repeatedly.

  • @Gravitacionimanevar
    @Gravitacionimanevar Рік тому +1

    Cheers bro, nice work!

  • @masaharumorimoto4761
    @masaharumorimoto4761 Рік тому +1

    Man, when you mentioned the sarcophagus lost at sea I remembered a scene of that from a movie I couldn't remember... it was "The Old Guard" with Charlize Theron, they slap someone in an iron maiden and toss her overboard to drown over and over again, yikes!!!!

  • @MURD3RWAVE
    @MURD3RWAVE Рік тому +2

    When I look at it, I can almost see where a statue was. I can't prove a statue was there but I can easily imagine what it looked like if it was there. I just see how thin the space is top down. So doub crown, head, shoulders, sitting on throne, legs and a square base that prob had all his names and info. I def wish I could go back in time and take a look. I have a good feeling that the outside of the pyramid especially towards the bottom prob had a bunch of hieroglyphics on the casing stones explaining so many answers to questions we ask now. The Great Pyramid is my favorite thing on Earth.

    • @HistoryforGRANITE
      @HistoryforGRANITE  Рік тому +1

      There’s actually a lot of circumstantial evidence that a statue was not there. It looks like a nice place to put a statue, but it’s the exact opposite of how Egyptians used to place statuary around chambers.

  • @laurah1020
    @laurah1020 Рік тому +1

    Excellent analysis, as usual! Thank you for the time and efforts you put into these videos, in order that we don't take our history of granite lightly!! :)
    @12:26 there is a picture of the niche (left side) and an adjacent wall, (right of niche), at the cornering wall. It has a chunk of rock etched out of it. Were there "facing" stones lining the walls of the chamber, and one was removed, or is it a section of stone block randomly burrowed into, to a depth of 4-5 inches?? Have not seen any description, or discussion of this interesting anomaly in that area. Perhaps it is nothing..??

    • @HistoryforGRANITE
      @HistoryforGRANITE  Рік тому

      It's exploratory chiseling, I can't recall if a source for that damage is documented.

  • @tomrichardson1426
    @tomrichardson1426 Рік тому

    This is great. I am just a novice or hobbyist, but I reall appreciate your chanel.

  • @paulannable3734
    @paulannable3734 Рік тому

    Absolutely Utterly Fascinating

  • @veeanon7231
    @veeanon7231 Рік тому +3

    Imho it looks as if the second sarcophagus was turned upside down and put in the excavation hole ( this would account for the discrepancy in depth ) in order that if anyone say the prince came along and re opened the excavation the bottom of the sarcophagus would appear to be a soild block therfore making it look like he was telling the truth this would also explain the large amount of rubble left over in the picture reportedly taken shortly after !

  • @petem7118
    @petem7118 3 місяці тому

    Thank you for sharing some great information and research. Do you know if there has been any translations of the hieroglyphs that are inscribed on the top face of the exposed blocks that are visible at the top of the Great Pyramid ? I saw a short video of someone hang gliding over the top of the pyramid and the camera clearly captures those hieroglyphs, I tried searching for any further information but I have had no luck so far. Thank you again 🙏

  • @CHECKHIMOUT
    @CHECKHIMOUT Рік тому

    luv your work!!

  • @watchword1354
    @watchword1354 Рік тому

    Excellent. Keep up the good work. Bought one of your sweatshirts.

  • @gazpal
    @gazpal Рік тому

    Fascinating information 🙂

  • @RoxUniverse
    @RoxUniverse Рік тому +3

    Thanks for sharing your research! I look forward to your videos and am impressed with your work. I can’t remember what you thought the pyramids were built for and why the great pyramid has so many mathematical and scientific formulas built in? How old do you think Giza is? I love listening and learning what serious researchers think they are, when, and who built them. Looking forward to your next video! ⚡️🌎⚡️🐄🌔🌎⚡️

    • @patriciaoudart1508
      @patriciaoudart1508 Рік тому

      When you build something, everything is mathematical, for example to build a roof, I buy wood in four metters, but I have not so much choice to cut the wood, if I want two equal parts that's make 2 meters, four, 1 meter, but three parts makes 1.33 meter to have no loss. So you have the roof chosen in a way having no loss and you find always consequences of trigonometry, and of the initial choices you have made.an other example for angles, cycle is 360 degrees, the number of days in a year 12 x 30 days, in assyrian calendar, so this makes a link between days and angle. ''time is an angle'' as says an Astrophysicist friend .

    • @showbread9366
      @showbread9366 Рік тому

      @@patriciaoudart1508 rocks in head 😄🤷‍♂️

  • @davidc6510
    @davidc6510 Рік тому

    interesting analysis. Thanks for sharing

  • @Thulzor
    @Thulzor Рік тому

    I've recently found your channel and I am binge watching. I have no prior knowledge other than the basics I were taught in school so all this is new to me. I didn't know there were discussions about coffins and such the only thing I've been hearing about now and then is about ramps. My only question about your conclusion is that he wrote that the coffin was open and empty. If he had seen a closed coffin it would fit your conclusion but could he really misstake that niche stone for an open and empty coffin?

  • @joaquimfonseca2047
    @joaquimfonseca2047 Рік тому

    EXCELENTES FOTOS DA ANTIGUIDADE DAS PIRAMIDES......

  • @EM-df6mo
    @EM-df6mo Рік тому

    Extremely interesting, thank you.

  • @timgstar3585
    @timgstar3585 Рік тому +1

    Fantastic thanks man very interesting 👍

  • @RickshawMunky
    @RickshawMunky Рік тому

    Excellent discussion 👍

  • @abloke8834
    @abloke8834 Рік тому

    Great video. Well done Sir

  • @monsterinhead214
    @monsterinhead214 Рік тому +1

    Yay! More Pyramid! I promise not to beg for more for at least a couplel weeks.

    • @monsterinhead214
      @monsterinhead214 Рік тому

      I didn't lie, cause I'm not begging yet. But, please, can we have some more?

  • @benjaminwheeldon9853
    @benjaminwheeldon9853 Рік тому +1

    Random question here - Are there any conclusions that can be drawn from the necessary lighting needs to see and measure the interior. For everything so precisely assembled, I doubt it could happen by torch light... Some things we truly don't understand their precision until using very modern means of measurements.

  • @Obiter3
    @Obiter3 21 день тому

    So fascinating. 👌

  • @TheFallingFlamingo
    @TheFallingFlamingo Рік тому +3

    You could also conclude that European catacombs might have influenced an explorer's idea of what a sarcophagus was. Grave niches underground would not have been an unusual practice in their minds and the niche tunnel in the Queen's Chamber could have been seen as a similar style to other examples in Europe.

    • @HenryLoenwind
      @HenryLoenwind Рік тому

      "Left of the entrance, at the eastern wall, mostly inside the same, stands the somewhat smaller coffin made from marble, open, empty, simple." I somehow doubt he'd have used "stands" and "coffin" if he was talking about a burial shelf.

  • @kevinlucko2902
    @kevinlucko2902 Рік тому +1

    Best. Channel. Ever.

  • @jasonbowles813
    @jasonbowles813 Рік тому

    Fantastic. Thank you.

  • @danpetitpas
    @danpetitpas Рік тому

    Great work!

  • @struckfire-de7or
    @struckfire-de7or Рік тому

    I know you had a heck of a bump and subscribers due to ancient architects. Like both y'all's channels

  • @StephiSensei26
    @StephiSensei26 Рік тому +2

    Hello there again. I am going to take a "wild card" from the "Monopoly" board and give it my best guess. I may end up in "jail" but, ...here's my take on this highly intriguing subject.
    After watching this wonderful video over and over several times, I have a "hypothesis". It's in two parts.
    1.) There was a Sarcophagus, BUT, (someone) messed up and broke it during their excavations. Our friends Al Adrizi, Weiss, Caviglia and Petri were not the first to enter the Great Pyramid as we know. (Not to mention the Circus Performer, Barzoni or Barboni, I can't recall, who was notorious for not being the most "gentle" or methodical of treasure hunters.)
    Over the millennia, who can say how many attempts were made to plunder the monument? Anyway, I believe the Sarcophagus was damaged and ended up as rubble. Who wants to come home to the British Museum with a pile of scrap and claim "It really is a Sarcophagus, if they just glue it together again?" Embarrassing, what?
    2.) From the photographic evidence, one can estimate the the space in the Niche to be approximately large enough for a "modern" person to lay down horizontally. Approximately 5.5 Ft. from the photos. If this was truly a "Queen's" chamber / Sarcophagus / Niche, then I submit that it may have been a small Sarcophagus, as the average height of Ancient Peoples was less than that of the modern person. It therefore may have fit into the Niche horizontally more like an alter with the god peering from behind over the box, protecting it. So, to get deeper into the Niche, where they perhaps suspected to find "Booty", they may have attempted to move it and broke it in the process. All the rubble in the Niche, which we see in the photos, may actually be in part, the Sarcophagus itself?
    Do I go to "Jail" now? I can't wait to read your take on this and your upcoming special video. Thanks.

    • @HistoryforGRANITE
      @HistoryforGRANITE  Рік тому +1

      There are a few examples of 'coffers within coffers' - but it's uncommon and usually the stone is a different type in the two layers. I think the niche cavity being a back-up 'unused' coffer is a reasonable idea. But I think it's much less likely a 2nd coffer was actually embedded within and entirely lost to time.

    • @StephiSensei26
      @StephiSensei26 Рік тому

      @@HistoryforGRANITE OK, sounds reasonable. Thank you so much for your reply. At least Im' not I jail! But, I still can't afford Boardwalk!🙃

  • @cg_justin_5327
    @cg_justin_5327 Рік тому

    Love this channel

  • @AndreaGonzalez-pl3qz
    @AndreaGonzalez-pl3qz Рік тому

    Amazing info enjoy it ❤

  • @soldtobediers
    @soldtobediers Рік тому +3

    Just completed my 10th - 7 yr. circuit around the sun this month.
    Bought the ''Secrets Of The Great Pyramid'' by Peter Thompkins @ age 22 back in 1973, & have studied & referred to it's logic & mathematics many times over ever since.
    The most Integral explorer in my opinion, was Flinders Petrie.

  • @oldmandoinghighkicksonlyin1368

    Is there any way to use ground-penetrating radar or satellite imagery to hint at what lays below the ground for the entire site around the Great Pyramid?

  • @user-bg6lc2vk5d
    @user-bg6lc2vk5d Місяць тому

    The story of the Queens Chamber sarcofacus validate the modern psycological explanation of the working of the mind when we look at stuff. If we expect to see something it may well show up and other stuff won't be registred - which is also why when making a search for something or somebody have the search team walk the same area from opposite directions. You see something else when doing the second walk. ;)

  • @spacemanmat
    @spacemanmat Рік тому +1

    Given that the Kings Chamber has a reliving chamber on top of it. It could be that a similar such an structure exists below both chambers to support them? Indeed most internal diagrams of the pyramid do not show any internal structure other than a possible profile of the original bed rock. My thought with the sand is that perhaps the internal structure are also large granite slabs with similar voids, but the voids were filled with sand.