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Glad you finally got to Egypt. I just went to Egypt in September. Giza and Saqqara are incredible. Was a life changing experience and I’m going to have to go back again.
Really enjoy your videos Luke! As a farmer in Ohio wrapping up corn harvest I enjoy listening to these in the combine. I went on a 2 week mission trip to Guatemala in 2014 laying block and pouring cement for a little church in the countryside in chimelco and had the privilege of seeing Tikal. I would love to hear your thoughts and insights on an amazing complex that gets little attention. Wish you the best and God bless ❤
@@CrashOutCam74 thank you sir I really appreciate that your kind words put a smile on my face after a tough night in the mud trying to slug out our last 150 acres. We should be able to finish hopefully tomorrow or Thursday if everything goes well. Have a blessed day :)
Soo pumped to watch this vid! I'm so happy for you Luke that you finally got to visit Egypt for yourself in person! I'm going this March for the 1st time, and that's largely in thanks to u and a lot of creators like you that inspired me! Thanks for the great content ❤
I always enjoy history or quasi-history content that considers the question of what we don't yet know while keeping in mind what we do know, and (importantly) does so without resorting to lasers, levitation, aliens, etc.. To be able to balance what we don't know without throwing out what we do know seems to be a challenge for a lot of people, so I'm always glad to see someone who can find the balance. Found you about a month ago and have been enjoying your content, thanks! Just wish I'd seen this particular video before your live stream with Stefan Milo rather than after, as you go into some of the questions I had in mind during that live. Anyway, thanks much and keep up the good work!
I have done a Nile cruise and it was great fun. The number of ancient structures is overwhelming but worth the effort. I would recommend a knowledgeable tour guide as there is so much to see. Have a great time.
I enjoyed the content, nice work. I was a little surprised you didn't mention the rubbish pits that were found on the giza plateau. Ancient Architects did a few episodes on them. From what I understand they included objects which may have been cleared during the construction of the Giza mega structure and thusly pre-dated Giza as we know it.
"Pretty much untouched?" Are you kidding? Tomb robbers have been looting these things almost since they were first made. It's rare to find one that hasn't already been looted.
He said that after referring to the small amount of land area they had around the Nile which makes older structures hard to find, untouched as in they haven’t been built over by another 1000years of human construction
@@nwr-1212 I don't know that makes them hard to find, at all. Isn't it the opposite? They're almost always located on the western side of the river, just bit past the agricultural land, near the edge of the desert. Makes it easier to find them, I would think.
No tomb robbers there my friend. They were in the valley of kings. Metal/rock scrappers certainly did a number on the complex in the past 14 thousand years.
I'm so glad someone is deep diving this, thanks Luke! All we ever hear about are just the pre-dynastic and dynastic Egyptians and Pharoahs I wanna know what came before that.
Did you ever notice the huge stone that one corner of the Khefra pyramid stands on? When I was there our Egyptologist pointed it out saying it is likely that there used to be some other structure there. That block is at ground level and is usually obscured by sand. I don't remember its dimensions but it's huge.
Rain fall erosion can only happen with water! Why is this hard to accept for Egyptologists? So, when was there water and rain fall? Before 5000bc and during the ice age. How long does this rock take to erode with consistent water flowing? Ask Geologists, maybe over 1000 years. Also, there are salt deposits on the lower portion of the Great Pyramid which indicates it was under salt water. Therefore it is older as well. This is NOT difficult to understand, just difficult to accept by Egyptologists because it does not fit their doctrine.
Even now there is a rainy season. And the slope of the plateau funnels all the runoff towards the sphinx enclosure. That's why inside the enclosure there's more erosion on one corner. 👍🏼
When you are in the Serapeum, ask yourself how they carved the passages without any scorch marks on the walls and why they never found any Serapis bulls buried there. There is a very interesting cabinet in the Cairo museum containing what looks like glass test tubes and other chemistry equipment. It’s rarely visited.
They used different seed oil lamps... castor seed oil if I'm not mistaken.. It makes very little soot. They talk ALL about the bulls being buried there if you look into the massive shrines in the adjacent rooms that go into great detail about all this including all the different dates of when each bull was buried and by whom and there are many records of offerings to said Apis bulls found in those very same rooms. Anything could have happened to the bulls over the last 3000 years. They were considered deities after all, they could have been moved for some reason, but all of the evidence that we find talks all about the Apis bulls and nothing else whatsoever. You really just have to discard all of that evidence to assert a completely different purpose and far earlier timeline for them when none of the evidence suggests this. Working backwards from a lost civilization premise (or any conclusion) is considered pseudoscientific because it usually requires people to cherry-pick and often decontextualize evidence that fits the conclusion you prefer while ignoring evidence that is inconvenient to whatever conclusion is being worked backward from. It's the same exact process used by creation scientists trying to prove their religion. There is no scenario where they will allow their beliefs to be falsified and they are only interested in things that support their theories. That's pseudoscience by definition. The Serapeum was also built in the later dynastic period when they had better technology to work with, not prior to the younger dryas period (the Natufian period) which was even earlier than the tech we find in the Tas Tepeller sites of Turkey (such as Gobekli Tepe).
Well thank you for your lecture. Although I do not recall discarding any evidence. Just because you read a grafity on a bridge Tom was here 2018, you can’t really assume Tom built the bridge in 2018. Science stops being science when you ban discussion and any challenges. What you talk about is dogma.
Serapis wasn't created until Ptolemy 1 - it was a creature and never divine, despite all the efforts. How you falsley introduce Serapis into a timeline that it has no business in, is mind boggling. The Kemetic priests knew exactly what they were doing, even under duress and duplicity. The origin of Christianity is proven to begin with Serapis.
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ITS ONLY A MYSTERY CAUSE THEY TRY TO REMOVE AFRICANS WHO BUILT IT FROM THE HISTORY AND PUT CACAZOID ARAB INVADERS WHO ARE NOT PYRAMID BUILDERS.. NOTHING IN ARABIA
the Sphinx was made up of 3 different strata layers of limestone. The top strata layer (the head) is much denser than the bottom two strata layers. This is why Egyptians put brickwork around the bottom layers to make it look better right from the beginning. They always would have known the body was of a much more porous, and thus fragile limestone types so the brickwork was to protect the body and make it look better. It couldn't have been built much earlier than the early dynastic period because around 5000 B.C.E. the limestone outcropping that the Sphinx was carved from was right out in the middle of the Nile River current. No relativily soft limestone statue could have ever survived thousands of years of river current erosion so it had to have been carved after the course of the Nile migrated away from said outcropping (after 5000 B.C.E.).
@ The nile would pass by the area up until the aswan dam was built. I have held in my hand original photographs of the nile passing by the pyramids from the early 1900s. You can look it up there are photos online.
How do you know the random passage ways led to nowhere if you weren't allowed to explore them? How do you know where they led or what their purpose was? How were you able to date them before the pyramids?
Exactly. The entire comolex is a result of degree of ingenuity and planning WELL beyond what we can do even now, and all that leads...nowhere? I guess that if you entertain the idea that all this was built for the sole purpose of depositing dead bodies, perhaps it might make sense that, whoever built all of that, designed tunnels, channels and corridors just to have something to build and for it to be of no purpose.
@@mk5346 do you seriously not believe we could not build a pyramid complex today? It's almost entirely made up of stone age technology (minus the sawing of the stone blocks which was most likely done with copper/bronze saws with quartzite abrasives). It represents the pinnacle of tens of thousands of years of stone age technology, but largely stone age nevertheless. We can build space telescopes, carried into orbit by rockets that can capture images the cosmic microwave background radiation. We can build skyscrapers and explore the deepest parts of the ocean floor. The Egyptians were impressive for their time period, but we're jut talking about stacking stone blocks in a relatively straightforward configuration at the end of the day. There are more reasons to assume the pyramids were tombs than for any other purpose. What other evidence do we have for their purpose? The Egyptians definitely buried their royalty in them and we have multiple examples of them talking about doing so and we've even found mummy fragments and sarcophagi in some of them so I suppose you'd have to place your theory upon the premise of them being way older than the Egyptian civilization, but all the carbon dating and historical context points to them being built in the Old Kindom or possible late predynastic period at the very latest if you really wanted to push the limits of credulity.
Luke, the Egypt trip sounds like the coolest thing ever, but unfortunately I won’t be able to make it this time for a few reasons. Is this something you could make into a reoccurring trip? I could possibly go next year!
Although fiction the emerald tablet says that Thoth built the great pyramid 36,000 a leader and after the fall of Atlantis from a flood and that traversed the cosmos and buried his space craft under the Sphinx, truly captivating ancient histories as it surpasses out short finite linear existence that maybe history teaches us people may have tried to change if life is indeed like that. Cheers for the video.
Good channel keep it up! Subbed. Btw whoever said to get the Indiana jones hat called it! I think it would behoove us to search areas that we think have been covered in desert for a long time and so dont look.
Thanks Luke! Egypt is amazing. I'm hoping to go there in a couple of months. What do you think of the idea that the Spinx was originally Anubis. He is a guardian of the dead so it would make sense ❤
I really enjoyed this video and the depth of research you put into it! It got me thinking, though-do you think we might be overestimating the intelligence of ancient civilizations? I'm starting to wonder if some of the advanced structures we admire weren't just a result of sheer luck or trial and error rather than a sophisticated understanding of engineering. Would love to hear what others think!
Explanation: Windblown sand erodes horizontally, look at any desert mesa for proof. Water erodes vertically- this is how waterfalls recede (move backwards). The erosion in question is vertical- hence water. There is also horizontal erosion. That pit that the sphinx sits in- it's been there for a bloody long time.
Luke I love your level headed approach to all these questions, especially your interest in the Olmecs and Maya structures lost to the jungles. Regarding Egypt and it's deep history, do you think it'd be beneficial to base archeological surveys along the basis of Milankovitch Cycle effects in that region? Wouldn't civilizations follow where the water flows because that's where the food goes and where life thrives? How much effect do those cycles even have on the Nile, and in turn ancient Egyptian placements?
PLEASE share some sources for more info about the lost mastaba that Petrie documented. Where can a person read more about it? What is the source of the schematic diagram? What do we know about it's approximate location? I want to learn more but I can't find any detailed sources through Google searches or AI queries.
Here's the thing about the geological damage to the area around the sphinx (and this is taking the more recent theories about ground saturation and Nile flood flows in to account), is that the erosion was itself buried by sand for the last x amount of centuries. Understand?
Well, for one thing, was Egypt a desert before the Giza Pyramid's were built? Or, was it fertile land capable of sustaining a large population in North Africa. There is talk of dried up rivers around Giza, which may have been the method for stone transportation.
I would say they could have turned the sphinx enclosure into a pool with the sides showing erosion being from man-made waterfalls. However the erosion patterns does seem to look more like from rainfall rather than an even and steady flow
if it was all rain erosion, why isn't it equal on all the enclosure walls? It wouldn't favor one or two sides and you'd find the same erosion pattern on the Sphinx temple that was built from the same limestone that was removed from the Sphinx enclosure thus dating it to the same period.
@@jellyrollthunder3625 rain doesnt fall equally. It comes at an angle. Just because the temple was built with the same limestone you cant ignore the water erosion. It's clearly older than some of the surrounding structures.
@@GG-ng6zm What about the fact that the site would have been completely submerged in the Nile River prior to 6000-7000 years ago? How did the Sphinx survive thousands of years of direct river erosion?
@@GG-ng6zm you're just wrong there is a new study titled "Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE" that you can look up on the PNAS website that shows the Nile would have run directly over the Sphinx site because back in the Old Kingdom whenever the water came right up to the edge of the Sphinx Temple it was only at roughly 40% of its Holocene maximum. 40%. That means it only gets deeper the further back you go and if it was already right at the doorstep of the site in the mid-3rd millennium B.C.E. it would have been inundated not long before that. The Giza plateau would have been inhospitable to human life during the African humid period according to that study. There is a good video on this by Ancient Architects called "LOST 'Pyramid Branch' of the River Nile Discovered" right around the 9:15 mark he is addressing this directly. We can't just ignore this because we so desperately want the Sphinx to be 12,000 + years old.
The triangle shape and the walls leaning in on themselves are the precursor to the arch which requires a keystone. These are loose joints where gravity provides the stability in the joints
All the shafts are part of the pulley system the whole Giza plateau and all three of the pyramids are all working together as a independent pulley system I have a 10’ x10’ model that will show everything
that would account for the lopsided erosion pattern much better than rain. The area wasn't even habitable until after the 4th millennium B.C.E. The Nile was only at 40% of it's holocene maximum in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. it would have been inhospitable during the African humid period
@@fullmetaljackalope8408 yes the limestone outcropping it was carved from would have been submerged not long before the old kingdom because the water was already right up at the foot of the Spinx Temple in the early dynastic period and it was already below the halfway point of its holocene maximum at that time. new-ish studies show the entire area would have been inhospitable for thousands of years prior to the 3rd-4th millennium B.C.E. so the erosion patterns on the sphinx enclosure are sadly more irrelevant than ever. They could be from all sorts of different things, but rain seems the least likely considering all the variables that conflict with that narrative. I believe it was clearly flood runoff on that side. That what occam's razor would suggest, not invoking a lost, Ice Age civilization of "megalith" builders with scuba gear.
@ thank you for explaining it all. I think maybe I heard something like that on Ancient Architects channel but had forgotten all the details. It’s all so interesting!
The worst thing a highly trained archaeologist can face are a stone mason - that know he'/her's trade - and I can tell you - they do not consider the pyramids masonry made by simple hand tools as a posibility. I don't say how they made them, just the obvious, they wheren't made with copper/chisel/sand/water by hand.
The area wasn't even habitable until after the 4th millennium B.C.E. The Nile was only at 40% of it's holocene maximum in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. it would have been inhospitable during the African humid period
There were many carved stone lions in the same position as the sphinx found around there too. Since the sphinx's head is so much smaller than the body, it seems likely that the head was originally a lion's head from the era of the lion figurines in that same position. There is a way to tell what's under the sand by using satellite imaging. They can tell where rivers and lakes used to be, so presumably cities too.
7000 years ago the limestone outcropping the Sphinx was carved from was right out in the middle of the Nile. It would have never survived 1000s of years or river current erosion intact. It really could have only been carved near the beginnings of the Old Kingdom or perhaps within 1000 years back into the predynastic era at the earliest.
They built the Pyramids with water hydraulics & water transportation so all of this tracks and seems to make sense. A lot of artificial water management, dams, levees, reservoirs were needed. The Pyramids probably relied on a mix of contracted seasonal labor from local citizens who in their off season from farming would labor for the Pyramid construction, gathering of materials and slave labor.
It was a well....then it was marked so people could see it...then a larger structure built so you could see from far away that there was a water source there closer than the river
Luke? Your map highlights an issue for me…. Are we aware of the movement of the river Nile in terms of the meandering movements … I have heard or read that the Nile was much nearer to the pyramids in antiquity? Any thoughts? The river must have a direct effect on the Sphinx and the pyramids …. ? Cheers Andrew⚔️
Hi, you said that towards the end of the Old Kingdom Egypt was about to be completely dried up. This is not quite true, large parts of northern Egypt was still a dry savannah at the start of the Middle Kingdom. The aridization process that led to conditions similar to present day Egypt didn't really finish until the second intermediary period.
Why does this channel suppress academic citations in the comments section? I did an experiment to figure out exactly why my comments kept disappearing and the citations of studies got deleted EVERY SINGLE TIME.
@@lukecaverns I was just trying to mention the sites you could go to. I wasn't even trying to post the links because I knew outside links commonly get deleted, even to other youtube videos. There are clearly some sort of triggers that are automatically deleting my comments related to the academic citations, even when I just copy/paste the title of the paper in connection with talking about the Giza Plateau. Most of my other comments showed up, but none of the ones with academic citations have. I was able to use the Ancient Architects name without it being deleted but everytime I try to mention World Of Antiquity it immediately deletes the comment. Every time. I did experimenting back and forth to figure out exactly what was triggering the filter and that's the common thread: academic citations. try it yourself and see if it doesn't do the same thing. I don't see any academic citations anywhere in your comments section.. so either people here have no interest in such things or their comments are being deleted. UnchartedX's comments section displays a similar phenomenon.
I've tried to respond to this comment multiple times and all of them that mention anything about academic citations have been deleted (this is the only one that it liked)
it immediately deletes comments with YT links. I just did an experiment with that. You should test it yourself. Experiment and see what kind of topics get immediately deleted
Living in the Arizona desert I've long dreamed about constructing an underground home to escape the extreme heat... what technological treasures lie below?
I don’t know. Probably not stopped midway. They say the Pyramids of Meidum & the Bent Pyramids were both failed Pyramids, but that really is a lot of speculation. As far as pyramids are just sitting out there 50% constructed (as far as I know) no!
Pyramid of Djedefre was possibly unfinished. 5 miles from Great Pyramid . Son Of Khufu, Built before Kahfre . its hard to tell since it been completely dismanted by Romans and others
The pyramid of Amenemhat III was a failure. They did complete it, just before abandoning it and making another one. It was structurally unsound as they had too many chambers so it kept on collapsing on them. He wanted everyone and their dog being buried with him so they had to put in wooden support beams to help keep it up and then to top it off, because it was so close to the Nile it then flooded. Using mud brick and being so near a lot of water probably wasnt very smart either lol.. It also had all of its casing stones taken off it not that long afterwards by Ramses the great.
Camels were not known in the Middle East before 600 BC as they appeared there around that time, originating from eastern Asia. Before that time donkeys were used for transport.
How about the fact that the Nile itself has been creeping eastward for many many thousands of years as a reason for burying the dead west of the Nile. That way ensuring that the buried are never disturbed by the river at some point in the future.
Train of thought. A sextant, or the principles of concept of a sextant, can also be used on dry land. Losing an object location to the "Sands of Time" is highly unlikely. Someone somewhere knows the coordinates of that Mustafa.
Who leveled the Giza Ridge, which extends to the east side of the Nile, to create the Giza Plateau, which has a floor of massive blocks of limestone? They leveled the entire plateau! Who knew enough to do that and then build on the base? Unbelievable.
20 days studying the Giza plateau you say ? So how did they raise those 70 tonne granite blocks hundreds of feet in the air , thousands of years ago ? Can you give us a proper true answer different from the mainstream guys ?
So, the absence of ANY maner of ANY knowledge of how, Megolithic, Polygonal, Cyclopial, & knobbed Megablocks were constructured is puzzling; yet when the underground Megatropolis on Giza was Megadisastered under 100,000's of years of Sedimentary dust; (why isnt this a game changer?
Here’s something interesting I pulled from an Internet search of the sacred dimensions in the tombs. The dimensions of 35 feet tall by 18 feet in circumference are the measurements of the bronze pillars Jachin and Boaz, which stood on the porch of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The pillars' size indicate the amount of work that went into creating them. The pillars are also used as symbols in Freemasonry and religious architecture. In Freemasonry, the pillars represent spiritual principles that are the basis of life. Jachin represents the unity that comes from being, while Boaz represents the unity that comes from love. In the Old Testament, Jachin was the fourth son of Simeon and one of the 70 people who traveled with Jacob to Egypt. The name Jachin means "he establishes" and "thankful". I wonder how far this goes? Must be something significant we have forgotten.
Jump on my Egypt tour in 2 months! We have a few spots left. Can’t wait to get back out there. adeptexpeditions.com/tours/secrets-egypt-tour-with-luke-caverns-anyextee/
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thnx for sharing! sweeettt!! i agree that alignment is telling us something way more important! (we need to keep diggin)
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If I hear the name Khufu once again in connection with the Great pyramid of Giza, I will literally vomit all over the internet
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Glad you finally got to Egypt. I just went to Egypt in September. Giza and Saqqara are incredible. Was a life changing experience and I’m going to have to go back again.
Really enjoy your videos Luke! As a farmer in Ohio wrapping up corn harvest I enjoy listening to these in the combine. I went on a 2 week mission trip to Guatemala in 2014 laying block and pouring cement for a little church in the countryside in chimelco and had the privilege of seeing Tikal. I would love to hear your thoughts and insights on an amazing complex that gets little attention. Wish you the best and God bless ❤
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@@CrashOutCam74 thank you sir I really appreciate that your kind words put a smile on my face after a tough night in the mud trying to slug out our last 150 acres. We should be able to finish hopefully tomorrow or Thursday if everything goes well. Have a blessed day :)
@ you as well sir 🫡
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Soo pumped to watch this vid! I'm so happy for you Luke that you finally got to visit Egypt for yourself in person! I'm going this March for the 1st time, and that's largely in thanks to u and a lot of creators like you that inspired me! Thanks for the great content ❤
I always enjoy history or quasi-history content that considers the question of what we don't yet know while keeping in mind what we do know, and (importantly) does so without resorting to lasers, levitation, aliens, etc.. To be able to balance what we don't know without throwing out what we do know seems to be a challenge for a lot of people, so I'm always glad to see someone who can find the balance.
Found you about a month ago and have been enjoying your content, thanks! Just wish I'd seen this particular video before your live stream with Stefan Milo rather than after, as you go into some of the questions I had in mind during that live.
Anyway, thanks much and keep up the good work!
I have done a Nile cruise and it was great fun. The number of ancient structures is overwhelming but worth the effort. I would recommend a knowledgeable tour guide as there is so much to see. Have a great time.
My 15 year old daughter recommended me your channel and sent me this, great video 👍🏾
Very interesting and well presented, I bet your tour is a great experience.
I believe that those Pyramids are more enigmatic than all the theories together. Those bottomless shafts are spooky spooky spooky!!!
I got all alerts turned on for your channel Luke, your level head is always appreciated
Hell yeah dude. You got better at Storytelling, and your views have really taken off👍🏽
I enjoyed the content, nice work. I was a little surprised you didn't mention the rubbish pits that were found on the giza plateau. Ancient Architects did a few episodes on them. From what I understand they included objects which may have been cleared during the construction of the Giza mega structure and thusly pre-dated Giza as we know it.
Thank you… but there is a whole segment here about a rubbish pit at Giza
Fascinatingly pertinent and of interest Luke
"Pretty much untouched?" Are you kidding? Tomb robbers have been looting these things almost since they were first made. It's rare to find one that hasn't already been looted.
He said that after referring to the small amount of land area they had around the Nile which makes older structures hard to find, untouched as in they haven’t been built over by another 1000years of human construction
@@nwr-1212 I don't know that makes them hard to find, at all. Isn't it the opposite? They're almost always located on the western side of the river, just bit past the agricultural land, near the edge of the desert. Makes it easier to find them, I would think.
@@laughingdaffodils5450 older structures are more likely to be eroded away or buried deep which makes them harder to find
No tomb robbers there my friend. They were in the valley of kings. Metal/rock scrappers certainly did a number on the complex in the past 14 thousand years.
There’s not actually any evidence to suggest anybody got into the great pyramid until we dug our way into it not so long ago.
Your enthusiasm is infectious! Thanks for your curiosity.
I LIKE YOUR STYLE. GREAT NARRATIVE.
Great and refreshing presentation.
Ancient architecture has done a new one about the causeway and sphinx which makes alot of sense about it all.
I'm so glad someone is deep diving this, thanks Luke! All we ever hear about are just the pre-dynastic and dynastic Egyptians and Pharoahs
I wanna know what came before that.
Love your enthusiasm for the ancient history. Subscribing now. Glad you enjoyed your trip to Egypt.
A brilliant video mate ! Well done.
Did you ever notice the huge stone that one corner of the Khefra pyramid stands on? When I was there our Egyptologist pointed it out saying it is likely that there used to be some other structure there. That block is at ground level and is usually obscured by sand. I don't remember its dimensions but it's huge.
Rain fall erosion can only happen with water! Why is this hard to accept for Egyptologists? So, when was there water and rain fall? Before 5000bc and during the ice age. How long does this rock take to erode with consistent water flowing? Ask Geologists, maybe over 1000 years. Also, there are salt deposits on the lower portion of the Great Pyramid which indicates it was under salt water. Therefore it is older as well. This is NOT difficult to understand, just difficult to accept by Egyptologists because it does not fit their doctrine.
Even now there is a rainy season. And the slope of the plateau funnels all the runoff towards the sphinx enclosure. That's why inside the enclosure there's more erosion on one corner. 👍🏼
When you are in the Serapeum, ask yourself how they carved the passages without any scorch marks on the walls and why they never found any Serapis bulls buried there. There is a very interesting cabinet in the Cairo museum containing what looks like glass test tubes and other chemistry equipment. It’s rarely visited.
They used different seed oil lamps... castor seed oil if I'm not mistaken.. It makes very little soot. They talk ALL about the bulls being buried there if you look into the massive shrines in the adjacent rooms that go into great detail about all this including all the different dates of when each bull was buried and by whom and there are many records of offerings to said Apis bulls found in those very same rooms. Anything could have happened to the bulls over the last 3000 years. They were considered deities after all, they could have been moved for some reason, but all of the evidence that we find talks all about the Apis bulls and nothing else whatsoever. You really just have to discard all of that evidence to assert a completely different purpose and far earlier timeline for them when none of the evidence suggests this. Working backwards from a lost civilization premise (or any conclusion) is considered pseudoscientific because it usually requires people to cherry-pick and often decontextualize evidence that fits the conclusion you prefer while ignoring evidence that is inconvenient to whatever conclusion is being worked backward from. It's the same exact process used by creation scientists trying to prove their religion. There is no scenario where they will allow their beliefs to be falsified and they are only interested in things that support their theories. That's pseudoscience by definition. The Serapeum was also built in the later dynastic period when they had better technology to work with, not prior to the younger dryas period (the Natufian period) which was even earlier than the tech we find in the Tas Tepeller sites of Turkey (such as Gobekli Tepe).
Perhaps there was no ceiling. They finished what needed to be done then built the ceiling and onto the next floor up? Just a thought.
Well thank you for your lecture. Although I do not recall discarding any evidence. Just because you read a grafity on a bridge Tom was here 2018, you can’t really assume Tom built the bridge in 2018. Science stops being science when you ban discussion and any challenges. What you talk about is dogma.
Serapis wasn't created until Ptolemy 1 - it was a creature and never divine, despite all the efforts.
How you falsley introduce Serapis into a timeline that it has no business in, is mind boggling.
The Kemetic priests knew exactly what they were doing, even under duress and duplicity.
The origin of Christianity is proven to begin with Serapis.
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When I first posted geoffery drums ideas onto your video comments, you thought it was crazy. Happy to see this video!
Yet he doesnt mention Land of Chem at all..
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Land of chem does some excellent video production but I'm not a big fan of his chemical plant theories...
the builders took the natural energies of the Earth & subjected them to vibrational frequencies, just as Tesla described...
@@IronicallyVague Magical Tesla does magic cause Tesla.
Another great vid Luke....I really look forward to you posting a new one ...keep I up and you will be doing your dream job very soon ..if not sooner ...take care Luke..all the best from the UK
Still so many mysteries 😮great video 👍
ITS ONLY A MYSTERY CAUSE THEY TRY TO REMOVE AFRICANS WHO BUILT IT FROM THE HISTORY AND PUT CACAZOID ARAB INVADERS WHO ARE NOT PYRAMID BUILDERS.. NOTHING IN ARABIA
Awesome, keep up the good work!!
regarding the sphinx and the wearing on the surrounding rock, you forgot to factor in the flooding of the nile at the time.
the Sphinx was made up of 3 different strata layers of limestone. The top strata layer (the head) is much denser than the bottom two strata layers. This is why Egyptians put brickwork around the bottom layers to make it look better right from the beginning. They always would have known the body was of a much more porous, and thus fragile limestone types so the brickwork was to protect the body and make it look better. It couldn't have been built much earlier than the early dynastic period because around 5000 B.C.E. the limestone outcropping that the Sphinx was carved from was right out in the middle of the Nile River current. No relativily soft limestone statue could have ever survived thousands of years of river current erosion so it had to have been carved after the course of the Nile migrated away from said outcropping (after 5000 B.C.E.).
@ The nile would pass by the area up until the aswan dam was built. I have held in my hand original photographs of the nile passing by the pyramids from the early 1900s. You can look it up there are photos online.
@@jellyrollthunder3625 i think you misunderstood my original comment as being in support of a much older sphinx, which it is not.
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How do you know the random passage ways led to nowhere if you weren't allowed to explore them? How do you know where they led or what their purpose was? How were you able to date them before the pyramids?
Exactly. The entire comolex is a result of degree of ingenuity and planning WELL beyond what we can do even now, and all that leads...nowhere? I guess that if you entertain the idea that all this was built for the sole purpose of depositing dead bodies, perhaps it might make sense that, whoever built all of that, designed tunnels, channels and corridors just to have something to build and for it to be of no purpose.
@@mk5346 do you seriously not believe we could not build a pyramid complex today? It's almost entirely made up of stone age technology (minus the sawing of the stone blocks which was most likely done with copper/bronze saws with quartzite abrasives). It represents the pinnacle of tens of thousands of years of stone age technology, but largely stone age nevertheless. We can build space telescopes, carried into orbit by rockets that can capture images the cosmic microwave background radiation. We can build skyscrapers and explore the deepest parts of the ocean floor. The Egyptians were impressive for their time period, but we're jut talking about stacking stone blocks in a relatively straightforward configuration at the end of the day. There are more reasons to assume the pyramids were tombs than for any other purpose. What other evidence do we have for their purpose? The Egyptians definitely buried their royalty in them and we have multiple examples of them talking about doing so and we've even found mummy fragments and sarcophagi in some of them so I suppose you'd have to place your theory upon the premise of them being way older than the Egyptian civilization, but all the carbon dating and historical context points to them being built in the Old Kindom or possible late predynastic period at the very latest if you really wanted to push the limits of credulity.
Luke, the Egypt trip sounds like the coolest thing ever, but unfortunately I won’t be able to make it this time for a few reasons.
Is this something you could make into a reoccurring trip? I could possibly go next year!
Although fiction the emerald tablet says that Thoth built the great pyramid 36,000 a leader and after the fall of Atlantis from a flood and that traversed the cosmos and buried his space craft under the Sphinx, truly captivating ancient histories as it surpasses out short finite linear existence that maybe history teaches us people may have tried to change if life is indeed like that. Cheers for the video.
There have been people living around, moving around and dealing with the "sphinx" outcropping for hundreds of thousands of years.
Good channel keep it up! Subbed. Btw whoever said to get the Indiana jones hat called it! I think it would behoove us to search areas that we think have been covered in desert for a long time and so dont look.
Thanks Luke!
Egypt is amazing. I'm hoping to go there in a couple of months.
What do you think of the idea that the Spinx was originally Anubis. He is a guardian of the dead so it would make sense ❤
I really enjoyed this video and the depth of research you put into it! It got me thinking, though-do you think we might be overestimating the intelligence of ancient civilizations? I'm starting to wonder if some of the advanced structures we admire weren't just a result of sheer luck or trial and error rather than a sophisticated understanding of engineering. Would love to hear what others think!
Your timing is off on the pyramids. You say 4000 years?way older
I like you man...waiting for your next message.
An Egyptian man who loves his country ❤❤❤
Luke, nice video. Any idea if there is underground water proximal to the Sphynx?
Luke must be a great moderating influence on J James' flights of imagination.
Love 'em both.
Good stuff, Luke!
Love the Indianna Jones jacket. lol.
Wasn't there "erosion was caused by wind ad sand" explanation?
Explanation:
Windblown sand erodes horizontally, look at any desert mesa for proof.
Water erodes vertically- this is how waterfalls recede (move backwards).
The erosion in question is vertical- hence water.
There is also horizontal erosion.
That pit that the sphinx sits in- it's been there for a bloody long time.
Luke I love your level headed approach to all these questions, especially your interest in the Olmecs and Maya structures lost to the jungles. Regarding Egypt and it's deep history, do you think it'd be beneficial to base archeological surveys along the basis of Milankovitch Cycle effects in that region? Wouldn't civilizations follow where the water flows because that's where the food goes and where life thrives? How much effect do those cycles even have on the Nile, and in turn ancient Egyptian placements?
Great video Luke!
awesome video Luke, looking forward to more! Turn up the volume a tad bit brother
PLEASE share some sources for more info about the lost mastaba that Petrie documented. Where can a person read more about it? What is the source of the schematic diagram? What do we know about it's approximate location? I want to learn more but I can't find any detailed sources through Google searches or AI queries.
Here's the thing about the geological damage to the area around the sphinx (and this is taking the more recent theories about ground saturation and Nile flood flows in to account), is that the erosion was itself buried by sand for the last x amount of centuries. Understand?
Well, for one thing, was Egypt a desert before the Giza Pyramid's were built? Or, was it fertile land capable of sustaining a large population in North Africa. There is talk of dried up rivers around Giza, which may have been the method for stone transportation.
Khufu was a title, not a single individual. They have no idea what's going on in prehistory
I would say they could have turned the sphinx enclosure into a pool with the sides showing erosion being from man-made waterfalls. However the erosion patterns does seem to look more like from rainfall rather than an even and steady flow
if it was all rain erosion, why isn't it equal on all the enclosure walls? It wouldn't favor one or two sides and you'd find the same erosion pattern on the Sphinx temple that was built from the same limestone that was removed from the Sphinx enclosure thus dating it to the same period.
@@jellyrollthunder3625 rain doesnt fall equally. It comes at an angle. Just because the temple was built with the same limestone you cant ignore the water erosion. It's clearly older than some of the surrounding structures.
@@GG-ng6zm What about the fact that the site would have been completely submerged in the Nile River prior to 6000-7000 years ago? How did the Sphinx survive thousands of years of direct river erosion?
@@jellyrollthunder3625 false, the nile used to be very close to the pyramids but it was never where the sphinx is.
@@GG-ng6zm you're just wrong there is a new study titled "Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE" that you can look up on the PNAS website that shows the Nile would have run directly over the Sphinx site because back in the Old Kingdom whenever the water came right up to the edge of the Sphinx Temple it was only at roughly 40% of its Holocene maximum. 40%. That means it only gets deeper the further back you go and if it was already right at the doorstep of the site in the mid-3rd millennium B.C.E. it would have been inundated not long before that. The Giza plateau would have been inhospitable to human life during the African humid period according to that study.
There is a good video on this by Ancient Architects called "LOST 'Pyramid Branch' of the River Nile Discovered" right around the 9:15 mark he is addressing this directly. We can't just ignore this because we so desperately want the Sphinx to be 12,000 + years old.
The triangle shape and the walls leaning in on themselves are the precursor to the arch which requires a keystone. These are loose joints where gravity provides the stability in the joints
The nile ran beside them, the river has moved a lot over time like all rivers. Plus it wasn't always a desert, there is a lot hidden under the sands.
“The Land of Chem”. Geoffrey Drumm is a good rabbit hole for ancient Egypt (Khemet)
All the shafts are part of the pulley system the whole Giza plateau and all three of the pyramids are all working together as a independent pulley system I have a 10’ x10’ model that will show everything
That is an excellent question
Not all tombs are on the West Bank. In Amarna all tombs are on the East Bank.
Could the erosion be from all the flooding instead of rain? I think I’ve heard that.
that would account for the lopsided erosion pattern much better than rain. The area wasn't even habitable until after the 4th millennium B.C.E. The Nile was only at 40% of it's holocene maximum in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. it would have been inhospitable during the African humid period
@ right and the sphinx would have been under water then?
@@fullmetaljackalope8408 yes the limestone outcropping it was carved from would have been submerged not long before the old kingdom because the water was already right up at the foot of the Spinx Temple in the early dynastic period and it was already below the halfway point of its holocene maximum at that time. new-ish studies show the entire area would have been inhospitable for thousands of years prior to the 3rd-4th millennium B.C.E. so the erosion patterns on the sphinx enclosure are sadly more irrelevant than ever. They could be from all sorts of different things, but rain seems the least likely considering all the variables that conflict with that narrative. I believe it was clearly flood runoff on that side. That what occam's razor would suggest, not invoking a lost, Ice Age civilization of "megalith" builders with scuba gear.
@ thank you for explaining it all. I think maybe I heard something like that on Ancient Architects channel but had forgotten all the details. It’s all so interesting!
Mount Kailash in Tibet is 6666 km from North Pole & Giza Pyramid is also 6666 km from North Pole. Any co incidence?
Is what we see as the bottom of the pyramid really the bottom, or does it continue down below sand level?
It is a space ship for white christian people led by Fürer Orbán Elongated Muscovite and Madame Trumpova
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Okay what existed before the creation of the super accurately "carved" vases that we can't replicate today
I don't think he is ready to go there, or discuss Atlantis for that matter.
The worst thing a highly trained archaeologist can face are a stone mason - that know he'/her's trade - and I can tell you - they do not consider the pyramids masonry made by simple hand tools as a posibility. I don't say how they made them, just the obvious, they wheren't made with copper/chisel/sand/water by hand.
I love holes and shafts!
That’s what she said. Lol just joking. I do too.
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5:55 just thinking about how the West did the same thing with "El" as an indicator of God: Michael, Daniel, Ezichiel, etc.
Did you check Kuhfu is having tilak on his forehead? Was he from a lost Vedic civilization?
ANCIENT AFRICANS LIVED IN INDIA FIRST SO YES. THEY ARE THE PYRAMID BUILDERS.
Great post - solid info - thankfully no AI, no talk of aliens, or vanished hi-tech civilizations.
can we discuss the form work. and the stones that make the formation of the Giza plateau. like what Luke says. what was at the beginning and before
Given that the sahara was green as late as 5,000 years ago wouldn't there be lots of locations where pre-dynastic settlements still exist?
The area wasn't even habitable until after the 4th millennium B.C.E. The Nile was only at 40% of it's holocene maximum in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. it would have been inhospitable during the African humid period
There were many carved stone lions in the same position as the sphinx found around there too. Since the sphinx's head is so much smaller than the body, it seems likely that the head was originally a lion's head from the era of the lion figurines in that same position. There is a way to tell what's under the sand by using satellite imaging. They can tell where rivers and lakes used to be, so presumably cities too.
7000 years ago the limestone outcropping the Sphinx was carved from was right out in the middle of the Nile. It would have never survived 1000s of years or river current erosion intact. It really could have only been carved near the beginnings of the Old Kingdom or perhaps within 1000 years back into the predynastic era at the earliest.
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They built the Pyramids with water hydraulics & water transportation so all of this tracks and seems to make sense. A lot of artificial water management, dams, levees, reservoirs were needed. The Pyramids probably relied on a mix of contracted seasonal labor from local citizens who in their off season from farming would labor for the Pyramid construction, gathering of materials and slave labor.
you cant float 80 ton granite beams
It was a well....then it was marked so people could see it...then a larger structure built so you could see from far away that there was a water source there closer than the river
Luke? Your map highlights an issue for me…. Are we aware of the movement of the river Nile in terms of the meandering movements … I have heard or read that the Nile was much nearer to the pyramids in antiquity? Any thoughts? The river must have a direct effect on the Sphinx and the pyramids …. ?
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You will wear the jacket the whole trip yes?
What kind of a wanker insults someones cloths?
He looks good in it
Hi, you said that towards the end of the Old Kingdom Egypt was about to be completely dried up. This is not quite true, large parts of northern Egypt was still a dry savannah at the start of the Middle Kingdom. The aridization process that led to conditions similar to present day Egypt didn't really finish until the second intermediary period.
Why does this channel suppress academic citations in the comments section? I did an experiment to figure out exactly why my comments kept disappearing and the citations of studies got deleted EVERY SINGLE TIME.
It’s probably from posting links - I don’t even see the citations you’re attempting to post
@@lukecaverns I was just trying to mention the sites you could go to. I wasn't even trying to post the links because I knew outside links commonly get deleted, even to other youtube videos. There are clearly some sort of triggers that are automatically deleting my comments related to the academic citations, even when I just copy/paste the title of the paper in connection with talking about the Giza Plateau. Most of my other comments showed up, but none of the ones with academic citations have. I was able to use the Ancient Architects name without it being deleted but everytime I try to mention World Of Antiquity it immediately deletes the comment. Every time. I did experimenting back and forth to figure out exactly what was triggering the filter and that's the common thread: academic citations. try it yourself and see if it doesn't do the same thing. I don't see any academic citations anywhere in your comments section.. so either people here have no interest in such things or their comments are being deleted. UnchartedX's comments section displays a similar phenomenon.
I've tried to respond to this comment multiple times and all of them that mention anything about academic citations have been deleted (this is the only one that it liked)
@@lukecaverns just tried to post a youtube link: immediately deleted
it immediately deletes comments with YT links. I just did an experiment with that. You should test it yourself. Experiment and see what kind of topics get immediately deleted
Living in the Arizona desert I've long dreamed about constructing an underground home to escape the extreme heat...
what technological treasures lie below?
The predynastic Maadi Culture was known as having Egypt’s first monumental stone architecture.
3:01 Way too many ads on TH-cam these days, everything is unwatchable 😔 bye..
Are there any failed pyramids? Like something happened and the construction was stopped mid-way?
I don’t know. Probably not stopped midway. They say the Pyramids of Meidum & the Bent Pyramids were both failed Pyramids, but that really is a lot of speculation.
As far as pyramids are just sitting out there 50% constructed (as far as I know) no!
Pyramid of Djedefre was possibly unfinished. 5 miles from Great Pyramid . Son Of Khufu, Built before Kahfre . its hard to tell since it been completely dismanted by Romans and others
The pyramid of Amenemhat III was a failure. They did complete it, just before abandoning it and making another one. It was structurally unsound as they had too many chambers so it kept on collapsing on them. He wanted everyone and their dog being buried with him so they had to put in wooden support beams to help keep it up and then to top it off, because it was so close to the Nile it then flooded. Using mud brick and being so near a lot of water probably wasnt very smart either lol.. It also had all of its casing stones taken off it not that long afterwards by Ramses the great.
Why haven't they done any aerial ground penetrating radar in and around the Gaza plaza? Or further out? I've never heard anyone say they've done that?
Camels were not known in the Middle East before 600 BC as they appeared there around that time, originating from eastern Asia. Before that time donkeys were used for transport.
Great stuff. I hope Joe Rogan watches this. I think you are doing a great job.
What did Joe Rogan get wrong? I can find that program
@ very funny. Can’t deny that
How about the fact that the Nile itself has been creeping eastward for many many thousands of years as a reason for burying the dead west of the Nile. That way ensuring that the buried are never disturbed by the river at some point in the future.
Maybe in your next video you will mention Geoffrey Drumm and The Land of Chem..
..maybe..
Why is it, that Indiana Jones comes to my mind?
Keep up the good work...
Am I the only one who got excited when he talked about tombs, tunnels, shafts and holes....
Yes
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Train of thought. A sextant, or the principles of concept of a sextant, can also be used on dry land. Losing an object location to the "Sands of Time" is highly unlikely. Someone somewhere knows the coordinates of that Mustafa.
The age of Leo is between 10,800 to 8650 bce.
Whats below the pyramid osiris tomb
CAN WE NOT USE GROUND PENETRATING RADAR ?
Sure...First fill out the necessary paperwork & wait 403 years for it to be considered
Who leveled the Giza Ridge, which extends to the east side of the Nile, to create the Giza Plateau, which has a floor of massive blocks of limestone? They leveled the entire plateau! Who knew enough to do that and then build on the base? Unbelievable.
20 days studying the Giza plateau you say ? So how did they raise those 70 tonne granite blocks hundreds of feet in the air , thousands of years ago ? Can you give us a proper true answer different from the mainstream guys ?
They were metal mines, right?
An aerial survey with ground penetrating radar might help reveal a lot of locations underneath the sand
Please leave my ancestors alone let them rest ....digging grave is barbaric ...
Have they done ground penetrating radar?
Yes they've started in recent years after getting rid of zahi hawass
@@ReapingTheHarvest he’s gone?!
You are slowly becoming my favorite youtuber
So, the absence of ANY maner of ANY knowledge of how, Megolithic, Polygonal, Cyclopial, & knobbed Megablocks were constructured is puzzling; yet when the underground Megatropolis on Giza was Megadisastered under 100,000's of years of Sedimentary dust; (why isnt this a game changer?
No shot in my mind that they carved the sphinx and left water erosion untouched, as in i don't think the slab was outcropped for that long
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Here’s something interesting I pulled from an Internet search of the sacred dimensions in the tombs.
The dimensions of 35 feet tall by 18 feet in circumference are the measurements of the bronze pillars Jachin and Boaz, which stood on the porch of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem. The pillars' size indicate the amount of work that went into creating them.
The pillars are also used as symbols in Freemasonry and religious architecture. In Freemasonry, the pillars represent spiritual principles that are the basis of life. Jachin represents the unity that comes from being, while Boaz represents the unity that comes from love.
In the Old Testament, Jachin was the fourth son of Simeon and one of the 70 people who traveled with Jacob to Egypt. The name Jachin means "he establishes" and "thankful".
I wonder how far this goes? Must be something significant we have forgotten.
Shorter pyramids?