God I’m Glad I found this channel, all the info plus the travel to give your expert opinions of ancient tech is awesome, you should have been on the history channel, back when they were good.
It takes an old school mason and his brother to tell the truth. No damn Aliens built the Pyramids. I love it Mike, because I never believed otherwise. Thanks to you and your brother, hope you guys have a wonderful time.
This is the best explanation of how the aliens used the Great Pyramid as a landing pad that I have ever heard!!! Showing us how they used their advanced technology to build the pyramids was great!!!
These videos are great. Finally someone who tells it like it is, backs it up with facts and real life observations and doesn't talk about stupid aliens building these things! Great work and thanks!
A delight as always. The Egyptian's used bow saws to cut stone, the mistake made by "independent researchers" is the assumption that a soft metal blade would blunt very quickly. The cutting edge was flat probably 6mm across, water and an abrasive sinta would be added to facilitate cutting. How do I know.....we have an 8ft example hanging on the wall of our workshop, a design used throughout history until the advent of diamond cutting blades.
With 150 years a family stone work experience, and your expert opinion on how they were built, I would suggest your company builds a replica of the Great pyramid and for simplification just make it 400 feet high, and since you can use payloaders and bulldozers and cranes, I'm sure you could easily get it done in 20 years according to Zahi Hawas. Then we can easily dismiss all the nonsense on the internet about how it was built and have proof of how it happened. Dont worry about the stuff on the inside of the pyramid, just get it aligned correctly and after 20 years you can do the Sphynx. You will be incredibly famous in 5000 years.
Hi Pilothus, I appreciate the offer but I am in my later sixties my back is broke and I probably be dead before it’s finished, and with, permits, code officials,unions, inspectors,epa, dep and all the abbreviated government departments that stop you it will take another 20 years and then it might be offending somebody’s religion, anyway it is just a stone tomb, it cheaper to get cremated, but good idea, lol, mike
Tidbits to consider. 1 - when the Giza site was surveyed they found along the circumference of the bases of the pyramids = the remains of hundreds of evenly spaced postholes. So when surveying the foundation of the pyramids the Egyptians using the Sun's shadow and vertical posts could meticulously mark its passage and thus derive accurate east-west lines. Go out perpendicularly and you have north-south lines. 2 - there is an area on the exposed western side which shows a continuous ledge of limestone at the base. Also the lower tunnels and chamber were dug out of bedrock. Part of the robbers' tunnel - now public entrance - intersects with this bedrock. That shows that they at least partially built upon existing hillside which was then leveled as a platform to place outer blocks upon. 3 - so at least part of the inner core not seen of the Great Pyramid may actually be remaining hillside and/or quarry rubble filler to take up space and save time. They might have used the natural incline to also build the inner chambers before covering it over. Middle Kingdom pyramids were actually made from mudbrick cores which were covered with polished stone. That made them easier and cheaper to build. Few Pharaohs ruled for long periods and tombs had to be finished before they died - thus they were always looking to cut corners and save time. 4 - Old Kingdom sites show the use of earthen ramps made from a mixture of sand/stone chips/tafla - a clay they mined. In the western cemetery are the remains of small earthen ramps on abandoned tombs. Near the worker village at Giza is the remains of a huge tafla mining operation. When the adjacent quarries were excavated years ago they were found to have had massive quantities of ramp filler material dumped into them to backfill the area. So as they encased the pyramids in white limestone working from the top down as Herodotus wrote they systematically dug away the ramps and dumped the residue into the open quarry pits. 5 - the ramp really only needed to go as high as the largest/heaviest blocks to be raised - King's Chamber - which is below the halfway point. Above that the blocks are smaller in size with those at the top being small enough to have been moved into place by several men. Herodotus wrote they used levers and what is described as "a machine". That is likely a fulcrum/counterweight device akin to the Egyptian shaduf. It could have rested upon the steps - he also stated they first built a stepped pyramid to fill in the sides and encase it from the top down - to raise the smaller blocks to the levels above. The largest heaviest blocks are found closest to the ground. Those would be pulled into place via a ramp while smaller blocks might be raised level by level. Lastly they transported blocks via wooden sleds pulled by = men and animals. Many overlook draft animal labor. The tomb of Hunefer shows a large sarcophagus being pulled on a wooden sled by a team of yoked oxen. An ox can pull more than 2X its own body weight. The midden heaps of the worker village contained many tens of thousands of cattle bones - placing oxen at Giza during the period of pyramid construction. If they consumed cattle they surely used them for labor as well. The pyramid is slathered in gypsum mortar - you can see it in the video. It was used as filler and to repair the cracked lintels of the King's Chamber. If however you apply it before large blocks to help "grease the track" the blocks might be maneuvered into final position a bit more easily. Similarly ramps made in part of clay would upon pouring water before heavily laden sleds reduce friction allowing them to be moved more easily. When the Diary of Merer was found at Wadi al-Jarf they also found white limestone blocks dumped into a central area. Leading to them were wooden planks laid into the surface of the ground. Militaries have used "corduroy roads" for centuries. Laying planks into the surface of a ramp would help sleds being pulled move across them more easily.
Hi Vary, I can agree with all the stuff you are saying, on my video "pyramid of khafre" Mike haduck I show the bedrock they built on, on" pyramid of menkaure, I showed how they finished the granite on the outside, on "pyramid of khafre" Mike haduck I show how they moved some of that stuff, , but all the bedroom archeologist don't want to hear it, you are a man with commonsense, you should be doing your own videos or have something solid on the internet, I probably got to say you are as close to the truth and commonsense as it gets, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck Thanks but not my forte. lol! As an old erudite I applaud channels such as yourself which counter the "ancient aliens" nonsense premised upon supposed impossibility. Invariably those claims hinge upon argumentum ad ignorantiam and loads of assumption and innuendo. Pseudoscience/history is very much a cottage industry today. It is premised upon facile logic and takes advantage of the gullible being more Hollywood than history. As someone who has always enjoyed history I try to push back where I can having spent 40+ years following history as a hobby. My degree and career was spent in an applied science field - I am retired. As such I follow correct scientific method which demands researching all related evidence - preferably from subject-matter experts - to establish plausibility. My goal is to inspire people to think critically about what they see and to recognize = there is usually more evidence out there. One should not assume based upon a minority of opinion. Your videos help to counter such assumption. Anyways information like postholes and the Sun originate from the former engineer Glen Dash who passed away. His team surveyed the Great Pyramid some years back working with world renowned expert on the Giza necropolis Mark Lehner. Reference to ramps and worker village comes from Lehner as well via his organization AERA. I watched a documentary as well as read the translations of Merer's diary found by Pierre Tallet. He is a French Egyptologist whose team excavated Wadi al-Jarf and found the diary. In the documentary they show the white blocks so as to show people red ocher quarry markings on them the same as are seen in the relieving chambers of the Great Pyramid or the covering stones for the solar boat pit buried next to it. The Egyptians used phyle names painted onto blocks as graffiti as well as control markings designating what team was responsible for which block. You could see the wooden planks space along the ground leading to the area with the blocks. The rest I worked out based upon known principles of how they worked. Deir el-Medina outside the Valley of the Kings provided Egyptologists a trove of evidence about the craftsmen and how they lived and operated creating the tombs etc.. I could of course go on - but this shows how much extra evidence is out there people should take into account. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Vary, I agree, the bigger the lie the more people believe it, it is usually just common sense, trial and error, necessity is the mother of invention, and the laziest guy always finds the easiest way, lol, thanks for the comment, Mike
Hey Mike, cool video. What do you think about how they made the granite blocks so smooth? Its always puzzled me. Im guessing its some combination of abrasives and chiseling, as I thought it would be pretty impossible to split granite so perfectly. I dont see how they could have used copper/bronze chisels to work granite though. Maybe they did have iron tools?
Mike I'm happy to see you traveling the world and enjoying your retirement. But most importantly, no one ever discusses the construction of the ancient pyramids just the looting of them. I really enjoyed you discussing masonry aspects of the stone and the big picture. The tutorial you gave me on my Civil war row house in Philly and how to cement the walls with Portland cement. The walls look beautiful. in case you forgot I'm the guy who left Shamokin 50 yrs ago. Maybe you'll tackle the Great Wall of China next.
A guy named Myer has a channel re pyramid, says the same thing, casing stones were laid first. He goes further believing the inner stones were floated into place using canals, locks, barge cranes, etc. Fascinating concepts. Step canal locks zig-zagging up the faces.
I value your experience as a stonemason. And your point of view is appreciated. Would love to hear your point of view with regards to the bigger and harder stones on the king’s chambers
@theaustinpowers hi I did a couple videos called " carving stone with ancient technology " Mike haduck, part 1 & 2, it's only stone work on a tomb , nothing else, thanks Mike
These buildings were older to Cleopatra than Cleopatra is to us. They're 4000 years old, so 2000 years ago they were 2000 years old. It's mind boggeling.
@@MikeHaduck Good theory. But how do you explain that they stack them up without the use of cranes? Seems like a herculean labor no? Also, I've been on those pyramids myself, and many parts of the exterior stones look synthetic, like the stuff you see in the interior of some of the Las Vegas casinos. Any chance that they could be geopolymer as some theories suggest?
Hi Apollo, I use to work with a guy who moved houses and moving weight is not as big a deal as they want you to believe, I seen the old timers use wedges instead of Jack's, I been working with stone 50 years, I don't see no evidence of the poly stuff, why rip a stone apart go through all the kilns, reforming ,etc and remake it when all you have to do is move the stone? With respect, mike
@@MikeHaduck what if the polymers weren't derived from stones but were synthetically made, and then they poured it on? Wouldn't that make it so much easier than carrying and lifting stones around and stacking them up like that? I think this is the part that mystifies these structures.
Hi Apollo, I don't know what to tell you , it's all simple to me, it's just basic but primitive stone work, I know all these non stone masons want everybody to believe all that stuff, but I been there, I been doing a series on it and it's all common sense to me,, sincerely mike
How about any objects inside each pyramid? Outside first then inside last. The sarcophagus inside the pyramids were exceptionally well built and extremely heavy. Did they use a crane and lower the sarcophagus last?
Hi Jonah, I would use common sense, If they were to build a huge skyscraper today, wouldn't they have planned before hand to put everything in place before it was finished? Of course, the same with the planners of the pyramids, Thanks Mike
You sitting in front of the pyramid was an perfect shoot. It feels like your home, among all these stones and pyramids. Had to bee an great experience. Great video and note from Honest Mike 😄
Mike. I so appreciate your the way you explain things. Looks like you're having a really fun vacation. If you have a second, (when you're back home) I do have a question. I'm patching up an old foundation, putting rapid set mortar on the inside. But I've been hearing about "breathability", that it's not always good to seal the outside. Should I be using a more breathable solution on the outside? I realize it's hard to answer but your general thoughts would be appreciated.
Hi Michael, I have never had a problem in my 50 years of doing it, and I show what I use and how I use it , so I don’t know what to say about that, thanks mike
"Ain't no big deal." I hope you didn't say that in front of the Egyptians!! Since Car Talk went off of the (NPR) air, on Saturdays, there's been a big void in my family's lives, and I'm certain for others as well. Maybe you two can fill that void with your stone humor.😀🥌Just an idea. I'm still befuddled by the newspaper on the edge trick, but I don't think that I'll need to use it. On my project, my (slate) stone treads are going to placed on top of risers made from brick with holes in them. Should I take precaution, and fill all of those holes, let it dry, and then lay the treads? I don't want these treads popping off again. The weather here in TN will hold until the 1st 2 weeks of November, but we could get a frost by Halloween. Thanks Mike!
very good perspective and insight. For the size & height when there; bigger than expected or less or what you expected? For the original white limestone glazing/casing - seems like restoring that should be doable? would better preserve for another 1K years?
Egyptians.They put the front on and just filled it in. No big deal. Anyone tells you anything about aliens and razor blades, just send 'me here. I love these videos!
A geopolmer guy said the inner blocks were cast that they are a geopolmer limestone with stone base, stone center and stone outer casing. Geopolmer is soft when new making it easier to work with and gains strength like concrete when it ages. Might be where the Roman's learned about concrete since that didn't invent almost anything.
Well, a car is about 1.5 tons (3000lbs). Let's say it takes 5 guys to push it up a hill. So it would take ~50 guys to push a 15 ton stone up a hill (use round logs for rollers).
The stones higher up were smaller than below. They used internal spiral ramps on each corner flatbed & grease, ropes & pulleys its easy when you use enough ropes and a greased area
I am so glad that an actual "expert" in stone and building has offered a principled account of these things. You make a good point of the saw cuts and they not necessarily indicating "lost ancient technology" IF all these examples exist ONLY on loose outer stones, they may well indicate they are all of fairly recent (maybe in the twenties or later? when building was accelerated by modern times?)....Also, another thought, a lot of people posit that the oldest works were the best and they "lost" abilities in relatively modern times as if that could NOT BE THE CASE....but consider the natural law of thermodynamics, the second law, I believe....a closed system tends towards disorder and we can see that with out=r grandfather's generation. Houses built early were generally better made with better materials and over time short cuts were taken. One only need look at our current generation to see that young people are not willing to work as hard as even MY generation and the same for me and my fathers and his father's. With few exceptions we learn to make short cuts and set our sights for earlier returns. Could this apply to the Inca work, too? I mean, the older generation had more reverence as materials were more available, they were more spiritual and a decadence set in? Good nuff.
Have you seen the video about how the pyramid stones were floated into place? It shows the use of a pool of water as a level...kinda neat video if you get a chance to watch it.
Hi Jason, I got some serious doubts, still got to get it on and off the barges. I seen the videos but i think they were farther advanced in moving techniques than that, thanks for the comment mik
PLEASE: Im looking for advice from stonemasons, i may have (partly) figured out how they made the scallop marks on the unfinished obelisk at Aswan!! If you have a dolerite ball the size of a basketball, roped so that the vase is exposed and even lengths of rope come off each direction horizontally...and a crew of workers on each side rapidly pull and release the rope you create a hammer drill of sorts. NOW to prevent the granite being shattered , a layer of wet sand was added to dissipate the force ( they used wet sand for other techniques such as coring drillholes) that has a powerful abrasive action. Its also slightly irregular and would result in marks JUST LIKE those on the unfinished obelisk!!! I want to setup a recreation experiment!!!
Enjoying your video, thanks. Though the following left me scratching my head - about 9:36: "...pushed the stone with bulldozers..." - bulldozers in ancient Egypt?
No, that was a huge job I worked on, in the 70s, but no diffrence using a buldozer or team of horses or oxen, you just don't have to feed a buldozer, thanks Mike
If it's as easy as you say it is to build the pyramids, then why hasn't someone replicated this? Surely this would be a worthy challenge for anyone to make a name for themselves.
I am Sure you could build one, all it takes is lots of money and manpower, plus all the hoops you got to go through with permits and unions, but if your gonna build one ,let me know I would love to film it, thanks Mike
One of the many questions we have all been given is, How could they lay so many stones in the time allotted? must have had 'help' Turns out they only put stones on the outside and the inside was basically rubble. That is a very human thing to do.
Hey Mike, really interesting video, and great to see a man who loves his job. I have a question for you - when looking at the unfinished oblisk in Egypt I see what looks like marks from a ball drill to me. The sides are parallel and the depressions at the bottom are rounded, by the ball I guess. A good example is in this video ua-cam.com/video/8tnrkahCLHw/v-deo.html and there are some nice images at time 46:54 in that video. If you were to make a big ball drill like this how would you do it? Do you think it would even be possible? Many thanks. A.
I did a video called " carving stone with ancient technology " Mike haduck, anything that works, the laziest guy always finds the easiest way, lol not a big deal ,like anything else money and time, thanks Mike
If you hold a $1 bill up to the light and look at the base of the pyramid you can see an inscription on the bottom row of blocks that reads in latin: "Im 'non iens ut multam de eo faciam. Iustus adepto fieri"
and where do you get all this money to travel the world??? i cannot even leave san diego ... and it is 97 deg today in oct the 22nd ??? but keep the travels up mike enjoy . ... i only wish this video was a hour or more long...
Hi John, I can live on 20 thousand a year here own a home and used car no problem, but I was paid for half of those trips by playing music, and I still drive a 1989 truck with carburetor and distributor, I heard everybody’s leaving California, back in the 60s and the 70s when I was going thru it was the promised land, things change, live as cheap as you can, and buy everything off honest mike, lol. Mike
@@MikeHaduck yes everybody is suffering here in calif from tax and high prices on homes so crazy now it is sad. many are leaving but a two bedroom one bath on a 10k size lot is 400k at 20% down payment and 4 % loan which is good. if you can find a one with no HOA. now it would be a 1950 style home old fixer uper.
The mystery involved with the Pyramids goes much deeper than its construction, I do find it strange the so called just out of the cave man era they knew how to make concrete, smelt gold, and why would they use 15 ton stones at all? if they supposedly had all that wood to build mammoth ramps and ropes strong enough to pull 15 ton stones, why wouldn't they just build the thing out of wood? Too many questions that dont seem to have any logical answer.
The pyramids are magnificent. Their construction is awesome. Your video and analysis is captivating. But aren't those goings on actually grave desecration?
It’s easy if each block of stone is not 3-5 tons and if you didn’t have to carry them up to 400 feet in the air. And it would be easy if there weren’t 2.5 to 3 millions of stones in each pyramid. Come on Mike ! This was a very big deal . It was 6,000 years ago and how did they move such heavy and huge stones like that with no modern technology? This is crazy man . That’s why it was wonder of the world 🌍 hahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣great show as always Mike ! I know you are just joking, No Big Deal !
Hi veronica, if you worked as a mechanic all your life it wouldn't be a big deal ripping out an engine of a locomotive rebuild it and then place it on the tracks, same thing if your a mason, ain't no big deal with stone, the whole wizard plateau is nothing but a cemetery, thanks Mike
Egyptian Restorer: We are currently in the process of restoring the pyramids Mike: Mix only what you need, take the sprayer and wet it first, use your hands if you have to and remember - a patch job will only last for so long. Ain't no big deal...
Built from inside/out. The passageways entrances & chambers are as intersting as the outer stones in there construction. Counterweight systems was used theres signs of this inside certain areas in the entrances & antechamber
How many men do you think it would take to pull one of those stones? I find it interesting there are people who doubt it was just a group of guys with ropes and sleds.
Honest Mike is everywhere. Thanks for bringing us along and having your Brother explain how they built them. Aint no big deal.
Thanks Paul,,,mike
The secret to the longevity must be portland cement and they wet it first!
Thanks Jim, I agree, Mike
I loved this comment LOL
As always, great video Mike! Really appreciate you taking the time to film on your vacation. ❤
Thanks Fredda, Mike
Mike, while you were there did you ask how to say "Ain't no big deal" in Egyptian?
Hi Brian , I should have asked. lol mike
Don't they speak Arabic?
No you have to say ain't no big deal, with a New Jersey accent.
@@dashlamb9318 listen dawg... ain't no big fookin' deal.
@Denis Dougherty Da Bears!
From the North East to the Middle East, Mike leaves no stone un-turned. Keep up the great work!
Thanks Lumbardh, I appreciate it, mike
Thank you for the tour, Mike. That's one of the best documentaries on the pyramids.. Stay Safe
Thanks bonan, mike
God I’m Glad I found this channel, all the info plus the travel to give your expert opinions of ancient tech is awesome, you should have been on the history channel, back when they were good.
Thanks Shane, mike
It takes an old school mason and his brother to tell the truth. No damn Aliens built the Pyramids. I love it Mike, because I never believed otherwise. Thanks to you and your brother, hope you guys have a wonderful time.
Thanks Joseph, I appreciate it, mike
This is the best explanation of how the aliens used the Great Pyramid as a landing pad that I have ever heard!!! Showing us how they used their advanced technology to build the pyramids was great!!!
Great, if they only left behind their other technologies we would know much more, thanks Mike
These videos are great. Finally someone who tells it like it is, backs it up with facts and real life observations and doesn't talk about stupid aliens building these things! Great work and thanks!
Thanks Brian, mike
It's officially a great day, thanks Haduck Bros. !!!
Thanks, Mike
A delight as always. The Egyptian's used bow saws to cut stone, the mistake made by "independent researchers" is the assumption that a soft metal blade would blunt very quickly. The cutting edge was flat probably 6mm across, water and an abrasive sinta would be added to facilitate cutting. How do I know.....we have an 8ft example hanging on the wall of our workshop, a design used throughout history until the advent of diamond cutting blades.
Hi Nick, I agree, thanks for the comment, mike
Thanks for documenting your trip Mike! So cool.
- Tyler
Thanks Yes, I appreciate it, mike
This is the best video on the pyramids I've ever watched. Thanks Mike.
Thanks Amos, mike
I had a feeling it was like this. Nice I found this video. Ty!
Thanks Xaer,, Mike
Excellent video with personal views from 2 talented stone builders.......
Thanks MrMudstud
With 150 years a family stone work experience, and your expert opinion on how they were built, I would suggest your company builds a replica of the Great pyramid and for simplification just make it 400 feet high, and since you can use payloaders and bulldozers and cranes, I'm sure you could easily get it done in 20 years according to Zahi Hawas. Then we can easily dismiss all the nonsense on the internet about how it was built and have proof of how it happened. Dont worry about the stuff on the inside of the pyramid, just get it aligned correctly and after 20 years you can do the Sphynx. You will be incredibly famous in 5000 years.
Hi Pilothus, I appreciate the offer but I am in my later sixties my back is broke and I probably be dead before it’s finished, and with, permits, code officials,unions, inspectors,epa, dep and all the abbreviated government departments that stop you it will take another 20 years and then it might be offending somebody’s religion, anyway it is just a stone tomb, it cheaper to get cremated, but good idea, lol, mike
Tidbits to consider.
1 - when the Giza site was surveyed they found along the circumference of the bases of the pyramids = the remains of hundreds of evenly spaced postholes. So when surveying the foundation of the pyramids the Egyptians using the Sun's shadow and vertical posts could meticulously mark its passage and thus derive accurate east-west lines. Go out perpendicularly and you have north-south lines.
2 - there is an area on the exposed western side which shows a continuous ledge of limestone at the base. Also the lower tunnels and chamber were dug out of bedrock. Part of the robbers' tunnel - now public entrance - intersects with this bedrock. That shows that they at least partially built upon existing hillside which was then leveled as a platform to place outer blocks upon.
3 - so at least part of the inner core not seen of the Great Pyramid may actually be remaining hillside and/or quarry rubble filler to take up space and save time. They might have used the natural incline to also build the inner chambers before covering it over. Middle Kingdom pyramids were actually made from mudbrick cores which were covered with polished stone. That made them easier and cheaper to build. Few Pharaohs ruled for long periods and tombs had to be finished before they died - thus they were always looking to cut corners and save time.
4 - Old Kingdom sites show the use of earthen ramps made from a mixture of sand/stone chips/tafla - a clay they mined. In the western cemetery are the remains of small earthen ramps on abandoned tombs. Near the worker village at Giza is the remains of a huge tafla mining operation. When the adjacent quarries were excavated years ago they were found to have had massive quantities of ramp filler material dumped into them to backfill the area. So as they encased the pyramids in white limestone working from the top down as Herodotus wrote they systematically dug away the ramps and dumped the residue into the open quarry pits.
5 - the ramp really only needed to go as high as the largest/heaviest blocks to be raised - King's Chamber - which is below the halfway point. Above that the blocks are smaller in size with those at the top being small enough to have been moved into place by several men. Herodotus wrote they used levers and what is described as "a machine". That is likely a fulcrum/counterweight device akin to the Egyptian shaduf. It could have rested upon the steps - he also stated they first built a stepped pyramid to fill in the sides and encase it from the top down - to raise the smaller blocks to the levels above. The largest heaviest blocks are found closest to the ground. Those would be pulled into place via a ramp while smaller blocks might be raised level by level.
Lastly they transported blocks via wooden sleds pulled by = men and animals. Many overlook draft animal labor. The tomb of Hunefer shows a large sarcophagus being pulled on a wooden sled by a team of yoked oxen. An ox can pull more than 2X its own body weight. The midden heaps of the worker village contained many tens of thousands of cattle bones - placing oxen at Giza during the period of pyramid construction. If they consumed cattle they surely used them for labor as well.
The pyramid is slathered in gypsum mortar - you can see it in the video. It was used as filler and to repair the cracked lintels of the King's Chamber. If however you apply it before large blocks to help "grease the track" the blocks might be maneuvered into final position a bit more easily. Similarly ramps made in part of clay would upon pouring water before heavily laden sleds reduce friction allowing them to be moved more easily. When the Diary of Merer was found at Wadi al-Jarf they also found white limestone blocks dumped into a central area. Leading to them were wooden planks laid into the surface of the ground. Militaries have used "corduroy roads" for centuries. Laying planks into the surface of a ramp would help sleds being pulled move across them more easily.
Hi Vary, I can agree with all the stuff you are saying, on my video "pyramid of khafre" Mike haduck I show the bedrock they built on, on" pyramid of menkaure, I showed how they finished the granite on the outside, on "pyramid of khafre" Mike haduck I show how they moved some of that stuff, , but all the bedroom archeologist don't want to hear it, you are a man with commonsense, you should be doing your own videos or have something solid on the internet, I probably got to say you are as close to the truth and commonsense as it gets, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck Thanks but not my forte. lol! As an old erudite I applaud channels such as yourself which counter the "ancient aliens" nonsense premised upon supposed impossibility. Invariably those claims hinge upon argumentum ad ignorantiam and loads of assumption and innuendo. Pseudoscience/history is very much a cottage industry today. It is premised upon facile logic and takes advantage of the gullible being more Hollywood than history.
As someone who has always enjoyed history I try to push back where I can having spent 40+ years following history as a hobby. My degree and career was spent in an applied science field - I am retired. As such I follow correct scientific method which demands researching all related evidence - preferably from subject-matter experts - to establish plausibility. My goal is to inspire people to think critically about what they see and to recognize = there is usually more evidence out there. One should not assume based upon a minority of opinion. Your videos help to counter such assumption.
Anyways information like postholes and the Sun originate from the former engineer Glen Dash who passed away. His team surveyed the Great Pyramid some years back working with world renowned expert on the Giza necropolis Mark Lehner. Reference to ramps and worker village comes from Lehner as well via his organization AERA. I watched a documentary as well as read the translations of Merer's diary found by Pierre Tallet. He is a French Egyptologist whose team excavated Wadi al-Jarf and found the diary.
In the documentary they show the white blocks so as to show people red ocher quarry markings on them the same as are seen in the relieving chambers of the Great Pyramid or the covering stones for the solar boat pit buried next to it. The Egyptians used phyle names painted onto blocks as graffiti as well as control markings designating what team was responsible for which block. You could see the wooden planks space along the ground leading to the area with the blocks.
The rest I worked out based upon known principles of how they worked. Deir el-Medina outside the Valley of the Kings provided Egyptologists a trove of evidence about the craftsmen and how they lived and operated creating the tombs etc.. I could of course go on - but this shows how much extra evidence is out there people should take into account. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Vary, I agree, the bigger the lie the more people believe it, it is usually just common sense, trial and error, necessity is the mother of invention, and the laziest guy always finds the easiest way, lol, thanks for the comment, Mike
Hey Mike, cool video. What do you think about how they made the granite blocks so smooth? Its always puzzled me. Im guessing its some combination of abrasives and chiseling, as I thought it would be pretty impossible to split granite so perfectly. I dont see how they could have used copper/bronze chisels to work granite though. Maybe they did have iron tools?
Hi Roberson, I did a demonstration on my ollayantambo video, of course it jut a rough way but it could be done, thanks Mike
So they made the chambers with large blocks as they built the pyramids up and filled in with extraneous stone behind the facing stones as fill?
Hi Thor, no difference today, make the outside look good and fill in the rest with junk. Thanks mike
So they started at the bottom and built up? Interesting. I always thought they started from the top. So it was no big deal. Music is great!
Thanks Alex, mike
I think you failed to mention that they started at the bottom and ended at the top, 4000 years ago???
Hahaha , I like your comment man it’s so funny 😂 built from top to bottom!
What did they do when they got half way up? That's the question. How did they move the heavy blocks up there? Ramp, scaffolding or what
Hi Sean, just like the Roman's built the ramp built at masada, thanks mike
Mike I'm happy to see you traveling the world and enjoying your retirement. But most importantly, no one ever discusses the construction of the ancient pyramids just the looting of them. I really enjoyed you discussing masonry aspects of the stone and the big picture. The tutorial you gave me on my Civil war row house in Philly and how to cement the walls with Portland cement. The walls look beautiful. in case you forgot I'm the guy who left Shamokin 50 yrs ago. Maybe you'll tackle the Great Wall of China next.
Thanks. I am glad it worked, yep I been moving around a lot and going to start climbing the culm banks around tow6. Lol. Good to hear from you, Mike
@@MikeHaduck Mike stay the he'll out of Centralia.
A guy named Myer has a channel re pyramid, says the same thing, casing stones were laid first. He goes further believing the inner stones were floated into place using canals, locks, barge cranes, etc. Fascinating concepts. Step canal locks zig-zagging up the faces.
Thanks Pockets,, mike
What do you guys think of a unpowered world cutting the kings chamber pink granite , the size and flatness / smoothness of that work. Thanks.
Hi Dan, I did a video called ," carving stones with ancient technology, Mike haduck, " no big deal just time and effort, Mike
I value your experience as a stonemason. And your point of view is appreciated.
Would love to hear your point of view with regards to the bigger and harder stones on the king’s chambers
Hi Bush, I have a video out called " carving stones with ancient technology " Mike haduck, that says a lot, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck i am going to check it out
Thanks
Beautiful! Thank you for caring and sharing.
Thanks Jamel, mike
Telling the truth, you nailed it, thanks
Thanks Stephen, Mike
"We're just gonna go to Egypt, no big deal. If you want it ta stick, you gotta wet it a little."
Thanks Rocco, Mike
Loved the video mike. Can't wait for more!
Thanks Moench, mike
honest mike is a blessing
He always seems to show up at the right time, lol, Mike
Mike, you may want to check out the book The Giza Power Plant by Christopher Dunn.....there's a lot more to the pyramids than one might expect......
Hi, the qiza plateau is nothing but a old cemetery, thanks Mike
The overwhelming evidence from Mr. Dunn and others says otherwise, cheers. @@MikeHaduck
@theaustinpowers hi I did a couple videos called " carving stone with ancient technology " Mike haduck, part 1 & 2, it's only stone work on a tomb , nothing else, thanks Mike
On Mike's Tomb Stone it will read - "Jeffery do you agree with me?" Thank You for sharing, hello Mike & Jeffery.
Thanks, I appreciate it mike
@@MikeHaduck Welcome Mike, glad to see that your enjoying travel. Would love to see the pyramids up close. I'm doing well, riding the wave! Takecare!
Great Video Mike: Can't Wait To See To Others
Thanks Bill, they are coming, mike
Did you make hotel and airfare arrangements through "Honest Mike's Travel Agency"?
Hi Jon, How did you know? Lol mike
These buildings were older to Cleopatra than Cleopatra is to us. They're 4000 years old, so 2000 years ago they were 2000 years old. It's mind boggeling.
Thanks Reddo, I agree, Mike
What's your opinion on Joseph Davidovits' theory that most of those blocks are artificial geopolymer stone?
Hi Timur, I been working with stone all my life, dosen't make sense, not a chance , I can tell a real stone from a poured one a mile away, thanks Mike
What are your thoughts on the Freemason's Mike?
Hi Bill, everybody was a stone mason at one time, I think that's where it started, other than that I don't know anything about them, thanks mike
Your videos are always informative and entertaining. Glad I found your channel.
Thanks Clint, mike
You made it seemed easy to built - what's your theory as to how they lifted these heavy stone blocks up 480 feet and stacked them with precision?
Hi Aoollo, as they went up the stones got smaller, there are very few stones that are precise, I explain it more on my other egypt videos, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck Good theory. But how do you explain that they stack them up without the use of cranes? Seems like a herculean labor no? Also, I've been on those pyramids myself, and many parts of the exterior stones look synthetic, like the stuff you see in the interior of some of the Las Vegas casinos. Any chance that they could be geopolymer as some theories suggest?
Hi Apollo, I use to work with a guy who moved houses and moving weight is not as big a deal as they want you to believe, I seen the old timers use wedges instead of Jack's, I been working with stone 50 years, I don't see no evidence of the poly stuff, why rip a stone apart go through all the kilns, reforming ,etc and remake it when all you have to do is move the stone? With respect, mike
@@MikeHaduck what if the polymers weren't derived from stones but were synthetically made, and then they poured it on? Wouldn't that make it so much easier than carrying and lifting stones around and stacking them up like that? I think this is the part that mystifies these structures.
Hi Apollo, I don't know what to tell you , it's all simple to me, it's just basic but primitive stone work, I know all these non stone masons want everybody to believe all that stuff, but I been there, I been doing a series on it and it's all common sense to me,, sincerely mike
Did you check out the Serapeum at Saqqara while you were there?
Hi Tom, no I just wanted to get in and out, maybe next time, mike
Nice. Thank you
Thanks again, Mike
How about any objects inside each pyramid? Outside first then inside last. The sarcophagus inside the pyramids were exceptionally well built and extremely heavy. Did they use a crane and lower the sarcophagus last?
Hi Jonah, I would use common sense, If they were to build a huge skyscraper today, wouldn't they have planned before hand to put everything in place before it was finished? Of course, the same with the planners of the pyramids, Thanks Mike
You sitting in front of the pyramid was an perfect shoot.
It feels like your home, among all these stones and pyramids.
Had to bee an great experience.
Great video and note from Honest Mike 😄
Thanks Richard, mike
Thanks Richard, Mike
Great stuff Mike! Love it!
Thanks 111, mike
Mike. I so appreciate your the way you explain things. Looks like you're having a really fun vacation.
If you have a second, (when you're back home) I do have a question. I'm patching up an old foundation, putting rapid set mortar on the inside. But I've been hearing about "breathability", that it's not always good to seal the outside.
Should I be using a more breathable solution on the outside?
I realize it's hard to answer but your general thoughts would be appreciated.
Hi Michael, I have never had a problem in my 50 years of doing it, and I show what I use and how I use it , so I don’t know what to say about that, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck Ok. Thank you. 😊🌅
"Ain't no big deal." I hope you didn't say that in front of the Egyptians!! Since Car Talk went off of the (NPR) air, on Saturdays, there's been a big void in my family's lives, and I'm certain for others as well. Maybe you two can fill that void with your stone humor.😀🥌Just an idea. I'm still befuddled by the newspaper on the edge trick, but I don't think that I'll need to use it. On my project, my (slate) stone treads are going to placed on top of risers made from brick with holes in them. Should I take precaution, and fill all of those holes, let it dry, and then lay the treads? I don't want these treads popping off again. The weather here in TN will hold until the 1st 2 weeks of November, but we could get a frost by Halloween. Thanks Mike!
Hi Carolyn, I can't tell you what to do unless I was there. But I am sure you will do fine, thanks, Mike
You're just too good to us Mike !! Thank you... loved the fact you took a tape measure. Top class video.
Thanks Niall, mike
Thank you for the tour Mike!
Thanks Chris, Mike
very good perspective and insight. For the size & height when there; bigger than expected or less or what you expected? For the original white limestone glazing/casing - seems like restoring that should be doable? would better preserve for another 1K years?
Thanks James, they are not as big to me as everybody says, I don’t think they will ever be restored, they could never do it right, my option, mike
Egyptians.They put the front on and just filled it in. No big deal. Anyone tells you anything about aliens and razor blades, just send 'me here. I love these videos!
Thanks Sean, mike
that is very interesting... amazing that they have stood so many years and years!!
Thanks Sue, Mike
This is a great video thank you for giving us a tour along with the commentary.
Thanks Alex, mike
Mike do you think they wet it first and thats why they stuck together for so long? :)
Hi T3h, I really think they did or the limestones would have sucked the water out keeping it stuck too fast, thanks Mike
Love your videos! I watched all your tutorials so I can parge my basement walls, now I want to build a pyramid!!
Thanks Russell, Mike
What a great vacation mike have a wonderful time cheers
Thanks Darren, mike
A geopolmer guy said the inner blocks were cast that they are a geopolmer limestone with stone base, stone center and stone outer casing. Geopolmer is soft when new making it easier to work with and gains strength like concrete when it ages. Might be where the Roman's learned about concrete since that didn't invent almost anything.
Thanks Mike
WOW Mike! You "Rock". What you are doing is so cool and unique, Well done. Thank you. #Inspirational
Thanks K, mike
Where all this stone came from?
Hi Lewis, around the pyramid area and up river, thanks Mike
@@MikeHaduck and you know this... How?
I wonder if the mortar he is referring to is from restorations works on the site.
Hi, they filled all the voids to keep the ants etc from getting in the tombs, the inside stones were fillers, thanks Mike
Love the video. The Pyramids, ain’t no big deal
Thanks Zac, Mike
Really enjoyable Mike
Thanks Matt, mike
But how did they get the stones on top without bulldozers
Hi just life, I am keeping everybody in suspense till my last video, lol. Mike
Well, a car is about 1.5 tons (3000lbs). Let's say it takes 5 guys to push it up a hill. So it would take ~50 guys to push a 15 ton stone up a hill (use round logs for rollers).
The stones higher up were smaller than below. They used internal spiral ramps on each corner flatbed & grease, ropes & pulleys its easy when you use enough ropes and a greased area
best explanation of how the Great Pyramid was built, and I've heard them all
Thanks Tate, mike
I am so glad that an actual "expert" in stone and building has offered a principled account of these things. You make a good point of the saw cuts and they not necessarily indicating "lost ancient technology" IF all these examples exist ONLY on loose outer stones, they may well indicate they are all of fairly recent (maybe in the twenties or later? when building was accelerated by modern times?)....Also, another thought, a lot of people posit that the oldest works were the best and they "lost" abilities in relatively modern times as if that could NOT BE THE CASE....but consider the natural law of thermodynamics, the second law, I believe....a closed system tends towards disorder and we can see that with out=r grandfather's generation. Houses built early were generally better made with better materials and over time short cuts were taken. One only need look at our current generation to see that young people are not willing to work as hard as even MY generation and the same for me and my fathers and his father's. With few exceptions we learn to make short cuts and set our sights for earlier returns. Could this apply to the Inca work, too? I mean, the older generation had more reverence as materials were more available, they were more spiritual and a decadence set in? Good nuff.
Thanks Wayne, some good points, mike
Hey thats great, thanks for sharing!
Thanks Len, mike
Have you seen the video about how the pyramid stones were floated into place? It shows the use of a pool of water as a level...kinda neat video if you get a chance to watch it.
Hi Jason, I got some serious doubts, still got to get it on and off the barges. I seen the videos but i think they were farther advanced in moving techniques than that, thanks for the comment mik
Your brother's comment "aliens didn't do it" is the most important piece of information in this excellent video.
Thanks , I will tell him, mike
PLEASE: Im looking for advice from stonemasons, i may have (partly) figured out how they made the scallop marks on the unfinished obelisk at Aswan!! If you have a dolerite ball the size of a basketball, roped so that the vase is exposed and even lengths of rope come off each direction horizontally...and a crew of workers on each side rapidly pull and release the rope you create a hammer drill of sorts. NOW to prevent the granite being shattered , a layer of wet sand was added to dissipate the force ( they used wet sand for other techniques such as coring drillholes) that has a powerful abrasive action. Its also slightly irregular and would result in marks JUST LIKE those on the unfinished obelisk!!! I want to setup a recreation experiment!!!
Hi Lance, I did a video " carving stones with ancient techniques, Mike haduck, that might help thanks Mike
But how did they move these massive rocks?
Hi Shawn, I got some examples on my khafre video, Mike
Thank you Mike 🌻
Thanks Eman, Mike
I was there last year. I am also from PA.
Thanks, mike
Mike Haduck Masonry PA rocks.
3:52 nobody said that the inner limestone was cut to perfection
Thanks, very true, mike
Enjoying your video, thanks. Though the following left me scratching my head - about 9:36: "...pushed the stone with bulldozers..." - bulldozers in ancient Egypt?
No, that was a huge job I worked on, in the 70s, but no diffrence using a buldozer or team of horses or oxen, you just don't have to feed a buldozer, thanks Mike
Mike, we would love for you to recreate those scoop marks on Granite? Many would love to see it.
I did a little demo on my ollyatambo video. I do a little more on my upcoming red pyramid video, thanks mike
Mike and Brother. This was the best Pyramid Documentary EVER MADE. Great job guys. Fantastic.
Thanks for the kind words, mike
Ok Mike Egyptians had chariots with wheels, so why wouldn't they used wheels to build the pyramids?
Hi Dennis, they did, I have examples on my khafre video, and carving stones with ancient technology, thanks Mike
great vid ty
Ty hrxy, Mike
the stones at 5:10 had no mortar between them. they are super tight
Hi philly, they used it on almost everything , otherwise it would have been infested with insects, you would have to be there to see it, thanks mike
Nice video
Thanks Luis, Mike
This is cool
Thanks Carlos, mike
If it's as easy as you say it is to build the pyramids, then why hasn't someone replicated this? Surely this would be a worthy challenge for anyone to make a name for themselves.
I am Sure you could build one, all it takes is lots of money and manpower, plus all the hoops you got to go through with permits and unions, but if your gonna build one ,let me know I would love to film it, thanks Mike
One of the many questions we have all been given is, How could they lay so many stones in the time allotted? must have had 'help'
Turns out they only put stones on the outside and the inside was basically rubble. That is a very human thing to do.
I worked on a lot of huge projects, they start out slow but as they get a system and a mode it moves fast, thanks mike
The One Day sale ad found in the Egyptian sand was hilarious!
Thanks, I appreciate it, mike
cool bro, cool vid
Thanks Vermilion, mike
Why would there be a boat in the middle of the desert?
Thanks shabby, good question, Mike
Hey Mike,
really interesting video, and great to see a man who loves his job.
I have a question for you - when looking at the unfinished oblisk in Egypt I see what looks like marks from a ball drill to me. The sides are parallel and the depressions at
the bottom are rounded, by the ball I guess. A good example is in this video
ua-cam.com/video/8tnrkahCLHw/v-deo.html
and there are some nice images at time 46:54 in that video.
If you were to make a big ball drill like this how would you do it? Do you think it would even be possible?
Many thanks.
A.
I did a video called " carving stone with ancient technology " Mike haduck, anything that works, the laziest guy always finds the easiest way, lol not a big deal ,like anything else money and time, thanks Mike
If you hold a $1 bill up to the light and look at the base of the pyramid you can see an inscription on the bottom row of blocks that reads in latin: "Im 'non iens ut multam de eo faciam. Iustus adepto fieri"
Thanks Kurt, Mike
and where do you get all this money to travel the world??? i cannot even leave san diego ... and it is 97 deg today in oct the 22nd ??? but keep the travels up mike enjoy . ... i only wish this video was a hour or more long...
Hi John, I can live on 20 thousand a year here own a home and used car no problem, but I was paid for half of those trips by playing music, and I still drive a 1989 truck with carburetor and distributor, I heard everybody’s leaving California, back in the 60s and the 70s when I was going thru it was the promised land, things change, live as cheap as you can, and buy everything off honest mike, lol. Mike
@@MikeHaduck yes everybody is suffering here in calif from tax and high prices on homes so crazy now it is sad. many are leaving but a two bedroom one bath on a 10k size lot is 400k at 20% down payment and 4 % loan which is good. if you can find a one with no HOA. now it would be a 1950 style home old fixer uper.
Impressive boats
Thanks
Yea but did they wet it 1st? Cause it wont stick if you dont wet it 1st.
Hi Sean, actually they did to get the lime in, thanks mike
The mystery involved with the Pyramids goes much deeper than its construction, I do find it strange the so called just out of the cave man era they knew how to make concrete, smelt gold, and why would they use 15 ton stones at all? if they supposedly had all that wood to build mammoth ramps and ropes strong enough to pull 15 ton stones, why wouldn't they just build the thing out of wood? Too many questions that dont seem to have any logical answer.
Hi Mijemu, it’s just a huge stone tomb to me, I will make my case as I finish the other videos, thanks mike
The pyramids are magnificent. Their construction is awesome. Your video and analysis is captivating. But aren't those goings on actually grave desecration?
Hi 6tcsx, no one complained, lol, Mike
thats a lot of stone to lay out dry
Thanks Steven, That’s one way to look at, lol, Mike
What does a used camel go for? And how did the aliens move the large stones?
yopagedotcom for $1500 they’ll throw in a hump full of water lol
Honest mike wanted way too much, lol. Mike
Couple two-tree dollars, lol. Thanks Mike
It’s easy if each block of stone is not 3-5 tons and if you didn’t have to carry them up to 400 feet in the air. And it would be easy if there weren’t 2.5 to 3 millions of stones in each pyramid. Come on Mike ! This was a very big deal . It was 6,000 years ago and how did they move such heavy and huge stones like that with no modern technology? This is crazy man . That’s why it was wonder of the world 🌍 hahaha🤣🤣🤣🤣great show as always Mike ! I know you are just joking, No Big Deal !
Hi veronica, if you worked as a mechanic all your life it wouldn't be a big deal ripping out an engine of a locomotive rebuild it and then place it on the tracks, same thing if your a mason, ain't no big deal with stone, the whole wizard plateau is nothing but a cemetery, thanks Mike
Egyptian Restorer: We are currently in the process of restoring the pyramids
Mike: Mix only what you need, take the sprayer and wet it first, use your hands if you have to and remember - a patch job will only last for so long. Ain't no big deal...
Thanks Frank, mike
@@MikeHaduck No sir - thank you.
Built from inside/out. The passageways entrances & chambers are as intersting as the outer stones in there construction. Counterweight systems was used theres signs of this inside certain areas in the entrances & antechamber
Thanks Bill, mike
How many men do you think it would take to pull one of those stones? I find it interesting there are people who doubt it was just a group of guys with ropes and sleds.
Hi ,Jaye, check out " amish shed move" youtube, thanks Mike
No aliens? Phew, thanks Mike and Jeff.
Thank you, mike