What Destroyed the Black PYRAMID of Egypt? | Ancient Architects
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- Egypt is famed for its incredible array of pyramids, and although they are long standing symbols of the ingenuity of the ancient architects and builders, one pyramid really stands out as a great pyramid disaster.
I’m talking about the badly weathered and eroded Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III, the lob-sided monstrosity of the Egyptian skyline.
All that remains today of this Middle Kingdom pyramid is a ruinous mound of mudbrick, with most of the outer backing and casing stone taken and re-used. But why is it like this?
The project was a disaster right from the start and in this video, I'll tell you example what happened.
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Contents:
0:00 Introduction
1:43 The Black Pyramid
3:33 The Dilapidated Superstructure
5:18 The Pyramidion of Amenemhat III
7:01 How the Pyramid Became a Ruin
8:03 The Bedrock & the Floodplain
11:11 After the Pyramid was Complete
12:01 Concluding Remarks
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0:39 The oldest carrier names are the fanciest ones. The crappiest ones are more recent. They were trying to duplicate the old ones
They probably built a moat around it. 😂
Why didn't anyone think to take a picture of it when it was new? 😛🤓
Pov:you bought a pyramid from Temu😂😂. Great video as usual! Been watching for a while😁
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most pyramids from old kingdom look so badly today because of stone robbery during late antiquity and arabian times. the middle- and new kingdom pyramids were cheap copies made of mudbricks, making it even easier to mine them down for building materials. the rest was, of course, erosion by elements. I always wonder how many pyramids were destroyed down to their cores and are now lost for good.
I wonder how many pyramids were built with the blocks from another one. I think its known the great pyramid has weird blocks in its foundation that could have been another pyramid.
@@BartJBols I know, right? it's an intriguing thought, since there is indeed archaeological evidence that old kingdom pyramid and temple sites re-used materials from early dynastic sites.
Hello everybody
And welcome to Ancient Architects
Built sandcastle too close to the tide… I’ve seen those effects before 😂
I just wonder how the pharaoh's court explained the slumping during his lifetime. The religious leaders would have had an impossible challenge to come up with a story explaining how their perfect god-king's pyramid cracked apart and had to be replaced. I'd *love* to know how that went and whether people had to suffer for it.
Other than the military defeat of your capital city, there's probably not much worse that could happen to a pharaoh than for their holy pyramid to destroy itself. The pyramids were real manifestations of their namesake's divinity and without a better story, I wonder how many "unrighteous" architects and builders had to be fired or executed to purge the darkness from their midst. Do we know enough about the culture during Amenemhat III's rule to estimate any of this?
Humans' first choice is always to blame someone we deem less righteous than us. In fact, as some politicians show us today, even if the pharaoh had selected that exact location himself, he could simply lie and say someone else had done it; no one can fact-check a god-king... successfully ;).
If something bad happens, it's the obviously the result of evil-doers, for the same humans that are capable of building tremendous pyramids without engines and sending people to the Moon with only primitive computers are also unbelievably dumb and gullible. Many brands depend on it.
Now that looks like the result of something that I attempted to build.
yup! me too!
6:25 I am shocked they let everyone rub their oils, acids, lotions, and perfume into the artifact! It won't be shiny for long!!
Could the casing stones have been put in place during the entire construction and not at the end, explaining why we can find casing stones in the rubble even if the pyramid collapsed during construction, and never fully finished?
The same channels who claim ancient egyptians couldn't carve and polish Basalt go and stand beside the cap stone in the museum and wonder what it says
Love history of Egypt podcast!!
It looks more like a butte or a messa, similar to those at Monument Valley UT 🤔
It was once upon a time.
Maybe pharaoh Snafu wanted a pyramid in the shape of a butte 😂
I'll see myself out.
Howdy from Temple, Texas, USA! Great content, always interesting, thank you!
What happened to it? Death rays from Alpha Centaurians. No, nuclear bombs from Atlantis--Atlantians were pissed at the ancient Egyptians over a trade war... no, it was a curse from Moses.
Lived in arid desert Southwest in U.S., lots of adobe used. Worked great, lasted forever... until rain could get at it.
OOPS!!! and some folks want us to believe pyramids were built by gods! or aliens! yeah, right😂
They needed to watch the Ancient geologists and Ancient civil Engineer channels before construction....
Cutting corners and sloppy work is the way of production TODAY. :D
FINALLY someone covering this pyramid
I want to explore those subterranean tunnels. It does look like a maze. Thanks Matt!
I love that you give us sources or good places to find further details 💖💖
Thank you for another great video❤❤
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Like the Romans, at the end.. 🤔
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Floodwater.
Inflation.
I destroyed it, Matt.
I knew it!
Wasted life’s piling up stones ? No spiritual way to Heaven
In this case, Mudbricks!
The Egyptians spent a lot of time thinking about death. I wouldn't discount all the time they put into it.
I was wondering what the etymology of pyramid was. Im kinda intrigued. Fire vessel? As in a furnace of sorts? Hmm
The word "pyramid" comes from the ancient Greek word pyramis, which had multiple meanings:
Pyramid-shaped structure
The word pyramis referred to a pyramid-shaped structure, with the visible surfaces converging toward the top.
Wheat cake
The word pyramis also referred to a type of wheat cake, possibly made of wheat flour and honey. The Greeks may have used the word to describe the ancient Egyptian pyramids because they reminded them of pointy-topped wheat cakes.
Fire-shovel
The word pyramis may be linked to the Greek word pyrame, which means "fire-shovel".
The word pyramis comes from the Greek words pyr ("fire") and amis ("vessel"), which may highlight the shape's pointed, flame-like appearance.
The word pyramis was borrowed into Latin as pyramis, and the Byzantine Greek term pyramída influenced the evolution of the word into "pyramid" in English and other languages.
Looks like the knowledge of pyramid building was lost during that era.
What's ironic is the original name of the pyramid, Amenemhat is mighty and perfect, I don't know how the Pharaoh kept a straight face. - Matt Sibson
haha, lol !
Wow! What a rubbish pyramid. Was it built by Disney?
7th, 30 September 2024
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Merlin is the best @@AncientArchitects
7:22 Were there chambers or passages within body of pyramid?
The work of OG pyramidiots.
Ancient nuclear holocaust.
Why is it that perfection across cultures was reached so early and then forgotten?
Maybe because that "perfection" is non-vital show off? 🙂
Also, rises and downfalls of civilisations were often just results of shifts in climate.
This is about all the Egyptian people could do, I believe. They did not build the pyramids, they inherited them.
Sad true
Your inability to understand science is astounding. Insert talking points from beaten ideas and call it truth. You are very disappointing
Don’t beat yourself up so badly.