If you like this video, you'll love this debunk battle I did with Rationality Rules about the dinosaurs building the pyramids: th-cam.com/video/DFIHSlFb7fs/w-d-xo.html
When you're used to a certain level of technology and type of culture, it's easy to do. A good chunk of our technology came out of the need/desire to accomplish tasks more quickly, more accurately, more efficiently, or to get around deficiencies in resources or labor. Naturally, older skills and technologies were lost when newer methods supplanted them, so that we look at Stonehenge or Macchu Picchu or the Great Pyramids and our minds go 'Derp' because we only know the modern ways of cutting and moving stone.
Yeah I personally have a real problem digesting the thought that these people hadn't realized that a round object rolls easier than a wheel. Surely they were using wheels long before we give them credit for
I don’t think we do, it’s widely acknowledges that ancient people had technology we either do not know about or cannot replicate their building style but we are more technologically advanced in so many ways, just not in every way.
I remember mentioning to my parents that the pyramids were built by skilled artisans and they legit thought I was wrong because I didn’t agree with the Bible’s interpretation of the pyramids being built by slaves.
@@honeysucklecat I'm not claiming aliens or giants but there is 0 evidence that proves the Egyptians built the great pyramids. We can prove that they built many tombs and and temples, but they were all built with with less advanced engineering.
@@chrisearls3555 Are you referring to the papyrus' found that Egypt refuses to allow carbon dating on? Sorry but I don't accept any written story as fact without evidence to back it up. That's why I don't believe in the bible. There is also a piece of wood that was found in a sealed shaft back in 1872 that we could carbon date but again Egypt refuses to allow it to happen.
The alien theory: a highly intelligent species spent thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of years to cross the interstellar void to show the ancient Egyptians how to pile rocks on top of each other. What? Nothing else? Advanced medicine? Aircraft? Spacecraft? The WHEEL!? No advanced technology left behind? Not so much as an alien candy wrapper? Yet today we're expected to believe these, or perhaps still other aliens are crashing all over the place.
Lenard Segnitz - Duh. Everyone knows that Aliens are notorious pranksters. They knew it would mess with our heads all these centuries later. Also - your “thousands of years assumption?” Clearly you’re unaware of the Aliens patented Pyramid™️ FTL drive. Pick up some copies of ‘80s era National Enquirer and educate yourself. Sheesh.
At 3.48 he says that the egyptians recorded every step of the building of the pyramids, but I have never ever seen hieroglyphs portraying anything about the pyramids or the building of it. He says it was a tomb but they have never found a body in them and the "casket" is to small, nor any hieroglyphics in the pyramids. This is really strange considering all the hieroglyphics depicting the stages of afterlife for the pharaoh graves in the valley of the kings. I've searched and all I could find of proof that it was the egyptians that built the pyramid where a diary where it says they shipped some stones too Giza. It doesn't say how many or how they where used. I don't think it's aliens, but in another video he said that no records of the Jewish migration is proof that it didn't happen, well what does this mean for the pyramids. They found labor graves and laborers, but does it say anywhere that these people built the pyramids? Or is that just a presupposition? Do anybody else know of some better evidence? If so please tell me
@@mykehog6646 They used the African Brontosaurus, both for its superior laden ground speed and the fact that the European Brontosaurus was predominantly trained to transport wine and cheese, and was exploited in an ill-conceived foray into the pickled herring market which rendered them virtually unusable for other tasks. The early Viking poet, Ugh Olagh whom you will remember as the originator of the short lived art of peeing in the snow poetry, recorded the European Brontosaurus as being "An uncomely beast, most foul and fetid. The second verse of his pee poem has baffled scholars thus far but is believed to be a further commentary on their smell or a curse on his mother-in-law, or likely both.
Yeah but , it's possible they used a pair of Stegosaurus when it was the Brontosaurus's day off. They tried the Diplodocus, but he was a lazy fat bastard.
A small correction: when the pyramids were built, Egyptians definitely knew about the wheel. They just didn't utilize it. Their neighbors had it and they interacted with their neighbors
"Ancient man created the Pyramids, modern man created Jersey Shore, we are so much better than our ancestors who were nothing but stinky goat farmers!"
@@lars573 What great things other than Stonehenge did Europeans ever achieve? Dirt mounds? Medieval castles built millenia after the great wonders yet tiny and primitive in comparison?
To be fair, magic hats play special roles in most religions, including state religions which deify authoritarian rulers. So a hat doesn't really exclude the possibility of magical pyramids.
Another thing: The only reason Akhenaten and Tutankhamun's real heads are slightly oblong is because of head binding practices, which we have evidence of. They're not aliens.
I've stopped watching any video on youtube that has pyramid anywhere in the title because I got sick of all the nonsense, I'm glad I decided to watch this one.
I've worked as a mover about 7 years and me and my team have moved solid bank safes and other heavy objects just by using belts, ropes, crowbars and levers, so it's not that farfetched.
Bingo……. people assume that human ingenuity and trial and error didn’t exist until the 1500’s….like humans have survived several extinctions through the millenniums just sitting around staring off into space
@@HolyKoolaid explaining the different methods of rock moving and rock piling without wheels and pulleys is very mechanical engineering and awesome. And Aristotle's point about the wedge/slide and lever being great instruments when used to their full potential instead of taken for granted as weak instruments is really awesome.
It's quite astonishing to know that so many people are in favor of the "Aliens build the pyramids" version, though pyramids of modest size can be found easily in Egypt's neighboring countries in the south. It's easy to understand that the culture of building pyramids was prevalent in that part of Africa for a very long time.
One read I would recommend on this subject is the Wadi al-Jarf Papyri. It is the diaries and logs of an officer named Merer and a small company of transport crews that transported materials from the Sinai through the Nile to the pyramids. They were excavated from 2013 to 2018 and peer-reviewed papers are still coming out about them from how recent it was. It is the oldest written first-hand papyrus account of this time and the only one pertaining to the pyramid of Khufu.
Ok, let's think about this for a moment. The laborers who maybe built the pyramids, or maybe worked on the pyramids in one of what must have been numerous conversation efforts such as continue to this day; or perhaps they were working to expand the Rastau/Giza complex of temples, tombs, canals, and subterranean passages--but regardless, they were laborers who were well-fed and esteemed highly enough to have been entombed at Giza, near to the project upon which they labored. As you can see from the clip of "Dr." Zawhi Hawass, these laborers' tombs contained the elaborate hieroglyph decoration we immediately picture when thinking of Egyptian tombs, because it is ubiquitous in them across the dynasties. Well, almost ubiquitous: there is one rather significant type of "tomb" that for some reason lacks these, and all other forms of decoration found in literally every other Egyptian tomb anyone has excavated. That one variety of "tomb" so conspicuously bare, and indeed, often rough and rather ugly inside, is the pyramid "tomb". Not one of these great "tombs" of the pharaohs have any of the decorations or hieroglyphs that all others have; and keeping in mind that hieroglyphs were seen by the Egyptians not simply as characters and words on a wall, but as operative magical objects in and of themselves; further remembering that the writing and images decorating all other Egyptian tombs were put there, yes, in part to wow the tourists, thousands of years later because the ancient Egyptian ministry of tourism was seriously forward thinking, but also to actually assist the soul on its afterlife journey. Given that the writing and images were understood to have power unto themselves, and that images of gods WERE the gods in a way, their omission from pyramid "tombs" seems a wee bit odd. Maybe the workers were just all tuckered out after building such enormous tombs? No energy left for hieroglyphs? Or maybe they just said, "hey, looks awesome on the outside. That's good enough, don't you think, Pharaoh my man? Nobody will see the inside for a few thousand years until some European asshole dynamites his way in hoping to find your gold and your mummified carcass so he can use it to whip up a batch of salutary mummy tea, while painting a landscape using the rich shade of brown your ground up corpse will impart to his canvas. But hey, that's the risk you take being buried in LITERALLY THE EASIEST PLACE ON EARTH FOR GRAVE ROBBERS TO FIND, right? Good thing the whole 'soul's journey in the afterlife' is a load of shit, amirite?" Hey, maybe that's it: ancient Egyptians were actually atheists with a sense of humor, and a very forward-thinking sense of what tourists in a few thousand years would want to see. I'm not saying it's aliens who built the pyramids either, but I don't think there are branches of academia more guilty of ignoring evidence in favor of pet theories than history and archeology (sociology and psychology are hot on their heels), and Egyptology heads up that group of sunt cum verecundiam scholariam. Construction of pyramids is attributed to particular pharaohs based on single obscure inscriptions within hundreds of lines of texts, or a name on a discarded piece of pottery, and sometimes a piece of historically disputed graffiti. For the most part, this bit of Egyptological cannon was established over a hundred years ago, and much of the dynastic timeline is anchored to it, which is the main, non-conspiratorial reason mainstream academia won't admit the obvious, i.e., at the very least we have misattributed some of the builders of some the pyramids; at worst, our entire Egyptian timeline before Ptolemy might be fantasy. This is further complicated by the fact that pharaohs liked to chisel out the names--and sometimes the faces--of predecessors and take credit for construction by having their own names--and sometimes faces--added in place. It's probably not so bad that everything regarding timelines, dynasties, and pharaonic constructions will need to be rewritten but it's probably bad enough to render whole careers mostly irrelevant, and that's plenty of motivation to treat the explanations and interpretations of orthodox Egyptology as unimpeachable articles of faith. Even when it forces very smart people to say very stupid stuff, like "there is overwhelming evidence that these buildings, which look nothing like tombs and in which we've never found a scrap of mummy wrapping, are tombs." Or the "Pharaoh Sennefru attempted to build THREE pyramids during his reign, even though pyramid construction would have required the focused efforts of most of the society." One of my favorites: "it was absolutely possible that construction of the Great Pyramid was begun and finished during the 20 year reign of Kufu...by a society without the wheel. All that was required was for one block to be placed every 2 minutes or so...24 hrs a day, for 20 years...without stopping." So again, I'm absolutely with you on the "not aliens" perspective, but some of the things mainstream academia claims about ancient Egypt are ludicrous, like "the pyramids were tombs, and built by such and such pharaohs." You'd be better off joining the congregation of a snake-handling church, as you'd only have to have in ideas that haven't necessarily been proven false, and don't openly defy physical laws. Btw, going straight to David Icke is "nut-picking". Stick to the more reasonable and scholarly like Graham Hancock, whose "crazy conspiracy" of a global catastrophe is now, 20 yrs later, accepted history. His debate with convicted criminal "Dr." Hawass should be required viewing. And if that still isn't enough to prise lips from the arses of mainstream historians, remember Gobleki Tepe, which was "impossible" until the carbon dating came back. Or my favorite, the absolutely unassailable article of faith: "Clovis first!" Careers were wrecked over that little piece of bullshit, and it took almost 30 years, or the retirement/death of the generation of researchers who founded the idea, before paleoarcheolgists would admit what was literally sitting in the dirt in front of them.
🤣 I'm guessing you don't like Hawas as much as myself! He's a jerk and a camera whore... I've been a subscriber to Biblical Archaeology Review for decades and it struggles for finances and takes advertisements from some wacko outfits including Egyptian tours featuring Hawas! I'd sooner let my crazy cousin lecture me on bitcoin and blockchain!
Although I enjoyed your Videos throughout the years, this I my first time commenting. They just keep getting better and better. More information, more background knowledge, still the same, enjoyable, witty style. Keep up the good work - you just gained an other patron.
Futurama was right: aliens visited the Ancient Egyptians in order to learn the secrets about how to build pyramids and how to scare Abbot & Costello from them. Also Wolfman.
@RAYfighter I personally am not fully convinced it was just a burial tomb. For example, the kings chamber doesn't resemble an Egyptian tomb (no wall art etc.). I've been to valley of the kings and been inside several tombs. They are covered with art, top to bottom. Graham Hancock has some hypotheses that i find very interesting. Nothing conclusive. Im kind of on the fence.
Not finding a body does not mean it was not set up that way. Tombs of "slaves" were robbed and it was well known that the Pharoah was entombed with much treasure. When Egypt was finally conquered by the Arab/Islamic armies around 740 AD, they wasted no time getting at that treasure. Given that the pyramids were ostentatious mausoleums and that showy grave-markers are forbidden under Islam, it makes sense that they would remove the body so that it was no longer a mausoleum. There were some serious attempts to dismantle the pyramids themselves. Happily, they were better soldiers than engineers.
I honestly don't know how we came to the conclusion that the egyptians hadn't discovered the wheel. Many of the tools used are adjacent or similar enough for peoples that constructed pyramids to achieve
One thing that fascinated me when I was learning about ancient history was - bronze age tools were actually in many ways superior to iron age tools. Basically the switch towards iron happened not because people figured out how to smelt it (this actually only happened closer to industrial revolution with invention of blast furnaces) but because they ran out of easily mine able tin, which is a critical component for making bronze. And by itself, copper was inferior to iron, so without bronze Iron was the next best option even if people could not properly smelt it to get rid of impurities, or alloy it. But just saying that people with medieval technologies would never been able to construct something like this, does not mean bronze age civilizations were as disadvantaged. Tragically the collapse of the bronze age also meant that less often used bronze tools were salvaged to make more often used tools. So sleds and pulleys that might've been used in pyramid construction did not survive because they were remade as plows and knives.
I was a piano mover for decades. I have a lot of experience in moving heavy, delicate things in a delicate environment. If you only have muscle to move things, friction is the biggest obstacle. Since an average of 3000+ of the smaller (3-4 ton) sandstone blocks needed to be moved every day, a ramp or a single route would create a bottleneck. The only way to move that many in a day is to have multiple access points. If there were dozens of cranes positioned all around the pyramid on each course, lifting a stone one course at a time does not involve friction, and the workers themselves would be the counterweights. 5 or 6 workers on each course would be sufficient, and each crew could handle dozens if not hundreds of blocks in a day. Until the limestone sides (now gone) were put in place, the pyramid would in effect have steps up the sides. Multiple lifting points also would create competition among the crews, with possible rewards for the crews that moved the most stones. Of course, when it came to moving the big granite stones, everyone in all the crews would be involved. BTW, standing up an obelisk is an interesting challenge. Ask me how to do that.
@@makelikeatree1696 @Makelikeatree I would approach the "turning groove" with the obelisk on a sled. Start cutting away the sled above the turning groove until the balance point is reached. Drop the corner of the obelisk into the turning groove, and you have already tipped it 10-15 degrees.. Build scaffolding over it and hang cowhides full of sand over the lintels to slowly add to the lift at a controlled rate, while levering from below. Add water to the cowhides to increase the pull. Rinse and repeat.
I always feel insulted by those who insist the pyramids were made by aliens because humans couldn't possibly do it, a modern disinterested capitalist economy where everyone wants to make their buck possibly couldn't do it, at least without bankrupting itself, but a kingdom where the king is a god and the kings building project is virtually a religious observance for people who take that stuff much more seriously than we do? There are plenty of things we wouldn't do or couldn't afford that wouldn't even be an issue for people who really believe in the job.
@R Z Excuse me? Hundreds or even thousands of people who view the building of something as not just a job but a religious observance as rabidly as the NRA wanting to arm toddlers couldn't move tonnes of stone on a twenty year building project that was just a bigger version of other projects they'd been doing successfully for centuries, and get pretty bloody good at it come the finish? The real unexplained mystery is how they couldn't, just because we live in an economy where cost is the ultimate god and no one can imagine projects that not only don't have to make a profit but would beggar the nation, and that not mattering, doesn't mean that they did. Their motivations are not ours, we can look at it and say a modern capitalist economy couldn't possibly build it because it's too expensive for absolutely no return, but that's just us, not them, we can't afford to build it doesn't means they were incapable of it.
At 3.48 he says that the egyptians recorded every step of the building of the pyramids, but I have never ever seen hieroglyphs portraying anything about the pyramids or the building of it. He says it was a tomb but they have never found a body in them and the "casket" is to small, nor any hieroglyphics in the pyramids. This is really strange considering all the hieroglyphics depicting the stages of afterlife for the pharaoh graves in the valley of the kings. I've searched and all I could find of proof that it was the egyptians that built the pyramid where a recite where it says they shipped some stones too Giza. It doesn't say how many or how they where used. I don't think it's aliens, but in another video he said that no records of the Jewish migration is proof that it didn't happen, well what does this mean for the pyramids. They found labor graves and laborers, but does it say anywhere that these people built the pyramids? Or is that just a presupposition? Do anybody else know of some better evidence? If so please tell me
Glad you showed off AC Origins. That’s got one of the best representations of ancient Egyptian architecture in its heyday, such as the pyramids when they had their limestone casing and golden pyramidions, as well the most impressive temples.
I worked for a large construction company in the 80's. I won't name it, but the initials are, ED. Anyway, whenever we finished a building we had a "topping off " party. Some of us would actually build coolers why all the bosses went out and picked up beer and booze. Then, we sat on the roof of the structure, such as the Skydome,Sunnybrook hospital, IBM,etc, and got drunk. Yes, the 80's were crazy. I can't imagine that happening in Canada anymore. So imagine the type of party they would throw after building one of those pyramids!
They have lists of the workers that even had a union and a document that describes a union strike. Does not sound like slave labor to me. Also I have seen some of these items on trips around Egypt. Thank you for a honest video on the topic.
I like how some people are more willing to think the Egyptians called upon hyper advanced space ship to fly untold light years to make a pyramid of sandstone and then lend them nothing else instead of the most skilled workers of the era making the best thing they could for a tomb
I really wish I could find that old two-part video about quantum mechanics. The first half was a very good explanation of the double slit experiment and the basics of quantum mechanics... while the second half (tried to) use quantum mechanics to explain that pyramids were built by the egyptians using quantum staves to quantum levitate the stone blocks onto each other. It was such a complete 180 from decent science to the completely fucking batshit crazy absurd, I loved it. Lost track of it though.
There is growing evidence that the pyramids are much older than originally thought and they are likely NOT burial sites, but rather were created as a power source. Either way, they remain a mystery still to be unlocked. I don't doubt that you spent significant time doing your research. However, I've recently seen several credible studies and documentaries that strongly suggest the official story, still pushed by modern Egyptian archeologists doesn't hold up to scrutiny employed by modern international archeologists.
Making this video was a lot of work and expense on your part. I wish to say "thank you", as I remain one of your subscribers. Great work! Quality video! (I sure wish I'd seen some of THIS information before I stupidly gave a book report on _Chariots of the Gods?_ in 6th grade.)
Sassy, but untrue. Daniken (Chariots of the gods) never said pyramids were made by gods or aliens, he quite openly says they were build by our ancestors.
It's not a nuclear reactor. WHy would someone think that? It very well may have been a water pump for irrigation built in order to deal with the drought that started happening right when we think it was built. It is built directly over an aquifer. Nicola Tesla, the guy who invented the basics of all modern technology, built his own pyramid on an aquifer somewhere in the US and was apparently trying to harness the energy that the pyramids would have once harnessed. Who the hell puts millions and millions of man hours and millions and millions of dollars in today's money to build something utterly useless? Nobody. People spend that kind of money to build things that are useful. ALL of the enormous structures we have built in modernity, like nuclear reactors, the hoover damn, oil rigs, etc., they all have one thing in common: power production. It's not at all crazy to speculate that the pyramids had something to do with power production or water or irrigation or something. The only reason I even have to say that is because the mainstream obsesses over the idea that they were freaking tombs and anyone who disagrees has to prove they aren't crazy. It's ridiculous. Nuclear reactor? No evidence. Water pump, or some sort of power generator that used water and harmonics to do something that helped their society survive?Probable.
@@jasonsocrathien6815 naw, it was for the Royal Razor Blade Sharpening industry! Look at the people depicted on the walls in the tombs, no beards! That takes a lot of razor blades to keep sharpened!!
How come this is the first time I've heard of these techniques... Like copper saws with sand grinding its way thru the rock 😲 I've always been fascinated by the pyramids and my ears perk up when I hear anything about them and so I'm shocked there is any infoI haven't heard already. Thank you Koolaid ❤️
He can't because he lies. At least in case of Chariots of the gods - Daniken never said pyramids were build by aliens, he is actually a big debunker of that myth and says thinking so is an insult to our human ancestors.
If you have a large enough labor force it seems they can stack rocks pretty high. But unless they are finding like iphones inside I remain skeptical that it took any advanced aliens to contribute.
I used to roll a 22 foot rowboat off the beach up to my house with a log rolling technique similar to the stone moves of the workers. It worked very well.
Oh damn, wish I could show this vid to my dad. He recently stumbled upon some "documentaries" making the alien shit claims and swallowed them prettymuch whole and I had nothing to refute it with so thoroughly. Except he doesn't know any English. Oops.
Don’t buy that alien shit but don’t buy this shit either. We still don’t know what the hell was going on with those things, it’s all just speculation and educated guesses thus far. And the more we dig the more complicated shit seems to get.
During my interpretation class (we pick a lot of random shit to interpret, don't ask) we learned about a method: You strap 12 logs around the stone and then roll/pull it. A cog before the wheel. You can strap ropes, you can put in stuff in between the logs, and pull and push at the same time.
@@peterblood50 Have 15 000 men working in three shifts for 300 days a year and you can do it. Egypt had its population in the hundred of thousands during that time. The numbers only look scary until you start doing the math.
@@Elkator955 Give me some numbers to work with then. Remembering that they would have to do everything below 1 time every 4 minutes 24/7, 365, for 20 years. Out of the 5,000 men on each shift, how many are working in the quarry, how many are working in the transportation of the stones including the people in the ports who categorize, load, and unload them. ( How many men are working in transporting the stones to the worksite? How many are are involved with lifting the stones to the desired level? How many are involved with actually placing the stones. I'll give you feeding the crews as they say they were housed nearby. I've probably undercut the amount of different segments involved with getting stones of this size and weight from the quarry to the their assigned location. Also, why no written, painted, or carved history of such a monumental event?
@@peterblood50 So, here it goes: The mining of the rock is done by thousands of people/slaves. Egypt built a lot of structures from stone, so the daily production of stone was already there, they just diverted, built less stone houses and more pyramids, plus you can continue expanding quarries as the years go by. (not the first time rulers ignored the everyday people for their gaudy projects). According to the numbers, diverting the work of ~1800 masons is sufficient for 20 years, because you only need to smooth the rocks at the outside layer, the rest can be pretty rough, and here how we get that number: You have 2.6 million cubic meters (The stones that need to look nice) of stone to carve. In 20 years it means you have to do 130 000 cubic meters a year and (assuming 300 days of work) 433 cubic meter a day. If 1000 people can do .25 cubic meters a day (which is not hard, it is the size of a chest) you need 1732 stone masons working a day, and you can break them up in three shifts (and you have 56 days for them to take off too). The transporation of stone, with the log method that I mentioned originally, would require about 15-20 people per stone block, we are going to use the more demanding figure. They can move it without problem, so once the production line is done they can deliver multiple blocks a day. There are 2.8 million stone blocks, now we divide it by 6000 (which is 20 year times 300 days) and the result is 466 blocks per day need to arrive so it will need 9,333 people to move at that speed (466x20). So we can round up to 10000 and double it, and your supply line is probably packed enough that one team can see the one ahead and behind them, and they can probably even stop for harvest season. So far we are working with about 12000 people. Placing the blocks themselves, however is the intersting part, because you don't need the same sized workforce for the entire 20 year duration, because, you see, as the pyramid becomes taller, there is less space to put people in and therefore you can start with a large workforce at the beginning, and then shrink it down as you place down blocks. So while the 15 000 total construction workers may be a bit optimistic, with an initial surge of 10K thousand workers, decreasing into 3K means that with about 20K workers (minus staff, and guards and such) the 20 year deadline seems more than possible. As for the pictures and records, I did find an article about the oldest papyrus talking about the construction of the pyramid in Cairo. Other than that, my answer is simply, i dunno. If I was an egyptian I would have recorded if it was aliens doing it too.
Interesting fact, the wealthy in New Kingdom Egypt (including of course the royal family) often practiced Artificial cranial deformation, so the depictions of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their children with elongated skulls makes more sense. Akhenaten's skull (as show in your video) shows signs of mild deformation. It's far more pronounced in his daughters' depictions.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation The change in art style during Akhenaten's reign further exaggerated physical traits, including artificial cranial deformation. His son Tutankhamen (born Tutankhaten, aka King Tut) is a clear example of this practice, as his mummy shows. Statues and busts of the young King include this elongated skull, as well.
On the Nile side of each pyramid there is a vertical shaft in the ground with plastered watertight walls. (This I have been told.) If this is true, designing a hydraulic lift would be child's play for the Egyptians. They were outstanding engineers and the Nile did not run out of water.
The Nile is currently 5 miles from the Great Pyramid. Now during the flooding season, prior to the building of the Aswan Dam, the Nile would expand significantly, but there's still a significant problem. The ramps are not designed in a way that would make one shred of sense from an engineering/architectural perspective, and they don't even go all the way up. You can view them here: www.google.com/search?q=great+pyramid+blueprint+view&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=1AQM6ubyjuWx-M%252C_IU8Sn5WYIvfEM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSiK109rwXFLrYDCzkd-QMlyJMKlw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE0qDRjfrsAhUrwlkKHWJ0ATcQ9QF6BAgGED4#imgrc=1AQM6ubyjuWx-M
I bet if we found out all the details of the ancient's stoneworking technology, we would probably say, "Oh, ffs, of course that's how it is done. Now that I see it, it's obvious."
Well duh, it’s obvious who built the pyramids. The Mayans. Also the whole thing about the Pharoahs being gods is a bit of a misnomer depending on the tome period. Egyptians tended to think that their rulers became gods after they died, kind of like Roman emperors. During their lives, they were “the sons” of gods. Which in the cultural context of the time meant that they were subordinate, or lesser-than the gods. The Egyptians were under no illusions that their kings were mortal men, just that they had extra special divine favour
@@autobotstarscream765 Closer to that than the notion that the Pharaoh was an actual god. The confusion likely came from modern viewpoint that as a son of a god, the pharaoh must therefore have been viewed as possessing the powers thereof. The more common theme in the bronze age middle east was that of a lieutenant or representative of the gods. In Assyria for instance, the kings were more properly known as the High Priests or vicars of Ashur. As a "son of", he was merely subordinate to the gods, enjoying their divine favour. So practically speaking, yes, rather more like a divine-right king. Which was another reason for why the lineage of the pharaoh was important, but not patrolinealy. Egyptian legitimacy seems to have run through the female line, meaning the pharaohs married into the position sometimes.
@@Anglomachian So basically, "son of a god" not necessarily being a god or even a demigod as a result, as seen in the idea that angels (actually originally called "sons of God", then only later called angels, a loanword from Greek that simply means "messengers") are sons of God but not literally His sons and not gods at all but rather a separate subservient species, leading to the debates as to which sort of "Son of God" Jesus is supposed to be. (God the Son, an angel "son of God", a righteous human prophet "son of God", etc.)
@@autobotstarscream765 In the context of the bronze-age middle-east, "son of god" almost certainly didn't mean literal blood relative of a god. It may have meant "descended from", but the Romans thought a bunch of their sort were literally descendants of gods too, and they didn't tend to delude themselves into thinking they had super powers. Julius Caesar's family claimed to be direct descendants of Venus, and the most Caesar ever seemed to get out of that was being a bit of a lady's man. So far as we know he couldn't shoot magic love lasers. If you look into the writings, especially the official writings, of bronze age rulers, you tend to find that familial terms such as son, brother, mother, sister, etc., were all used in the less literal sense. It's possible that in their languages and with their cultural zeitgeist, those words had different literal meanings than those we give them. Kings of the various empires, such as Egypt, Mitani, Hatti, the Kassite empire, Assyria, all referred to each other as "brother" when speaking to, or referring to one another. Lesser officials in the courts of these kings would often refer to their sovereign as their father. Even in modern-day monarchy, kings and queens are usually viewed from the perspective of their subjects as being a parental figure. But they aren't literally our mothers or fathers.
@@Anglomachian Hence the expression "God the King is our Father, and we are children of the King", which is obviously written in that same royal allegory?
I dare speculate that the idea of "Build it and they will come", as used by resort developers, was the main gig. Ozymandias is attributed as saying "look upon my works..."
When ancient aliens first came out i loved it. It reminded me of the In Search Of series when i was younger. Then it went from heres this stuff we dont know and maybe its aliens to here is stuff we've explained but it was definitely aliens. No thanks wackadoo
one thing to note about the age of the pyramids, they were supposedly built approximately about the same time as the sphinx yea? but here is the kicker, water damage on the feet and around the sphinx suggest it have been exposed to normal weather for around 5k years, but that place started becoming a desert around that time (plus the sphinx was buried for at least the last thousand years or more), so the sphinx is potentially at around 10k years old, if not more.
Thank you. I find it incredibly insulting to the ancient people. "There's no way they could've built this they're way too stupid and primitive it must've been aliens" really annoys me
"Ancient man created the Pyramids, modern man created Jersey Shore, we are so much better than our ancestors who were nothing but stinky goat farmers!"
I used to think the Bible was written about ancient astronauts. When I read the Old testament from that frame of reference it seemed to make more sense to me. That led to me thinking that the pyramids were built by ancient astronauts. Certainly there was a highly technical society thousands of years ago that has somehow been lost, since as I understand it, the pyramids are not something that we could even duplicate today.
One thing you may not noticed is that the blocks of the three piramids are not square bricks, but they enchase one on the other six surrounding. If they were like bricks, any earthquake would dismantle them...
Agreed. Human beings back then were not mentally deficient in some way. They were like humans today, engineers, artists, inventors, visionaries, (imperial and murderous at times)... The fascinating engineering questions that current scientific method churns revolves around rediscovery of lost practical methods. Time has blurred amazing methods that produced all these head-scratching structures. As in all science, there will be a current theories for future discoveries to disprove. Fascinating stuff...
Hell yea this is what i pay for lol. Very well done cleared up some of my thoughts over the making of the pyramids and maybe if they had you on history tv or whatever that channel is called you could learn real things instead of ALIENS this and that.
Thanks! I'm really glad you liked it. I thought this would be a super easy video to make but wound up taking way longer to research because I had no idea just how rich and fascinating Egypt's history is. It's definitely on my bucket list of places to go now. And thanks for continuing to support my work. You've been a patron for a while now, and it's gone a long way. :)
Two things, I’ve heard they have never found a body buried in a pyramid so it couldn’t be a pharaoh’s tomb. Second, check out Bright Insight’s channel.
... there's an entire page on wikipedia just listing the (identified) bodies in the pyramids and we know a large amount of information about the Pharohs and their family lines because of that preservation. Not only is it very clear that the pyramids served as monuments to the deceased (multiple pharohs because they took hundreds of years to build), you can actually go see the preserved remains yourself. I actually saw a corpse or "mummy" in person that was removed from a step in Egypt, they're very real. Some of the bodies are missing because of tomb raiders and thieves but the egyptians wrote out exactly what the tombs were meant for. www.britannica.com/story/whats-inside-the-great-pyramid
While watching this vid, TH-cam decided I should see an ad for a fung shui (spelling?) bracelet that if I wear it correctly, my life will turn around, driven by good luck, all my health issues would go away, and I would be happy and wealthy forever. This confused me.
Or maybe not? There's a difference between researching a particular claim and doing an entire video for just one guy. Any engagement is engagement, and it may very well end up promoting him and his videos.
Personally, I love David Icke’s books! They’re very entertaining. In between all the bs, he has some interesting theories. But most of it is odd, to say the least. But I’ve always been a fan of science fiction, so that explains it.
@@lisaspikes4291 Nothing wrong with that when I was younger I would do homework while Alex Jones told me what was "really going on" if you pay attention Jones actually has no continuity to his stories but it was fun listening to him. Having said all that Alex Jones and David Ike are prolly toxic for the public discourse because they spread misinformation.
@@travelerfinder7840 Yeah, I notice this stuff tends to work a lot better as fiction, hence why Artemis the Moon Cat is the now and forever king of the doomsday conspiracy talkers. 👑😼🌙
The fact of the remarkable vessels created from Granite are still difficult to explain. The Egyptians may have inherited these things, along with their pyramids. They may have been built before the Younger-Dryas period?
@Anne Hatter yea I get it, I just meant maybe they lined up their construction survey for the pyramids wrong. So it was inaccurate when they made them and it happened to line up with the stars at another point in time. Just a guess. Maybe they were lining them up based on a legend of the start of the Egyptian civilization, like how we make monuments to our history these days. I'm not dismissing the idea that they could have been built earlier than the accepted date, just saying that there are other explanations. And it's easy to construct an interpretation of history if you start from an idea and look for evidence to support it. It happens all the time in science. And it's especially easy for ancient history as their are fewer pieces of evidence to draw conclusions from. It would be really cool if society reached the level of building fantastic pyramids and then collapsed for some reason, and it's definitely possible as we know great civilizations have collapsed throughout all of history. I hope we get more evidence and can figure it out if that is what happened. I'll be very excited if it gets to a point where it is clear that civilization got wiped out in a asteroid storm or something like graham Hancock thinks.
Jay W how do you account for 5000 years of water erosion around the enclosure of the sphinx when it hasn’t rained like that in that part of the world for 6000 years?
@@bulldoguf7318 there are geologists who have looked at it and said it isn't necessarily caused by rainfall. So same thing as before, there are other explanations. I can't really make a judgement either way on the evidence because I haven't studied geology. I have learned enough about science to say that our intuition isn't always accurate so even if it looks like water erosion to me, that doesn't mean it necessarily is. I like the idea of ancient sphinx builders that predate the accepted date, but for now I have to defer to people who have dedicated years and decades of their lives to studying it. They can be wrong of course, and I've recently been captivated by the concept of unknown knowns, and I could easily see that applying to archaeological and geological data. And maybe egyptologists are just entrenched in an already accepted theory. But I don't know enough to say either way. Hopefully, evidence comes to light that proves it definitively either way. You should look into going to school for geology or archaeology since you seem interested in it.
@@bulldoguf7318 there are geologists who have looked at it and said it isn't necessarily caused by rainfall. So same thing as before, there are other explanations. I can't really make a judgement either way on the evidence because I haven't studied geology. I have learned enough about science to say that our intuition isn't always accurate so even if it looks like water erosion to me, that doesn't mean it necessarily is. I like the idea of ancient sphinx builders that predate the accepted date, but for now I have to defer to people who have dedicated years and decades of their lives to studying it. They can be wrong of course, and I've recently been captivated by the concept of unknown knowns, and I could easily see that applying to archaeological and geological data. And maybe egyptologists are just entrenched in an already accepted theory. But I don't know enough to say either way. Hopefully, evidence comes to light that proves it definitively either way. You should look into going to school for geology or archaeology since you seem interested in it.
there is something inherently arrogant within the idea that something needs to be super/extra-natural just because its beyond ones own imagination. "its impossible since i cant think of how it might work, and since no one is smarter than me, its out of the natural world."
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We completely underestimate how advanced our ancestors really were just because they didn't have smartphones.
When you're used to a certain level of technology and type of culture, it's easy to do. A good chunk of our technology came out of the need/desire to accomplish tasks more quickly, more accurately, more efficiently, or to get around deficiencies in resources or labor. Naturally, older skills and technologies were lost when newer methods supplanted them, so that we look at Stonehenge or Macchu Picchu or the Great Pyramids and our minds go 'Derp' because we only know the modern ways of cutting and moving stone.
Yeah I personally have a real problem digesting the thought that these people hadn't realized that a round object rolls easier than a wheel. Surely they were using wheels long before we give them credit for
NASA put men on the moon without smartphones, though some people don't believe that, either...
The problem is that they had the help of ALLIENS.THEY used their technology.
I don’t think we do, it’s widely acknowledges that ancient people had technology we either do not know about or cannot replicate their building style but we are more technologically advanced in so many ways, just not in every way.
I remember mentioning to my parents that the pyramids were built by skilled artisans and they legit thought I was wrong because I didn’t agree with the Bible’s interpretation of the pyramids being built by slaves.
I'm not saying it was Egyptians...
...but it was Egyptians.
From Egypt? those Egyptians?
@@billywindsock9597 I know right! Shocking isn't it.
Indeed, you're not saying it was Egyptians....
...you're writing it.
Gou'ald
@@joshuaperrine2019 Indeed
I worked with a guy who legit thought I was crazy because I didn’t think aliens built the pyramids
hahahahaha
Isn't it also amazing how you simply can not present any evidence to them that they'll listen to without insulting you?
@@honeysucklecat I'm not claiming aliens or giants but there is 0 evidence that proves the Egyptians built the great pyramids. We can prove that they built many tombs and and temples, but they were all built with with less advanced engineering.
jon s you mean besides the hieroglyphs they made showing them building the pyramids...🤔
@@chrisearls3555 Are you referring to the papyrus' found that Egypt refuses to allow carbon dating on? Sorry but I don't accept any written story as fact without evidence to back it up. That's why I don't believe in the bible.
There is also a piece of wood that was found in a sealed shaft back in 1872 that we could carbon date but again Egypt refuses to allow it to happen.
The alien theory: a highly intelligent species spent thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of years to cross the interstellar void to show the ancient Egyptians how to pile rocks on top of each other. What? Nothing else? Advanced medicine? Aircraft? Spacecraft? The WHEEL!?
No advanced technology left behind? Not so much as an alien candy wrapper? Yet today we're expected to believe these, or perhaps still other aliens are crashing all over the place.
Lenard Segnitz - Duh. Everyone knows that Aliens are notorious pranksters. They knew it would mess with our heads all these centuries later. Also - your “thousands of years assumption?” Clearly you’re unaware of the Aliens patented Pyramid™️ FTL drive.
Pick up some copies of ‘80s era National Enquirer and educate yourself.
Sheesh.
A couple of arches would have saved them the effort of moving those bigger blocks as well.
At 3.48 he says that the egyptians recorded every step of the building of the pyramids, but I have never ever seen hieroglyphs portraying anything about the pyramids or the building of it. He says it was a tomb but they have never found a body in them and the "casket" is to small, nor any hieroglyphics in the pyramids. This is really strange considering all the hieroglyphics depicting the stages of afterlife for the pharaoh graves in the valley of the kings.
I've searched and all I could find of proof that it was the egyptians that built the pyramid where a diary where it says they shipped some stones too Giza. It doesn't say how many or how they where used.
I don't think it's aliens, but in another video he said that no records of the Jewish migration is proof that it didn't happen, well what does this mean for the pyramids. They found labor graves and laborers, but does it say anywhere that these people built the pyramids? Or is that just a presupposition? Do anybody else know of some better evidence? If so please tell me
What would an alien candy bar be made of I wonder? Hopefully not fukin Martian nougat
@@maximilianjohandson3382 cutting granite with copper: th-cam.com/video/7FSRhBZGYJg/w-d-xo.html
This is nonsense, science has proven that those rocks could not have been moved without the use of a Brontosaurus.
african or european brontosaurus?...and was it domesticated or wild?..i hear they were easily trained..
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They used the African Brontosaurus, both for its superior laden ground speed and the fact that the European Brontosaurus was predominantly trained to transport wine and cheese, and was exploited in an ill-conceived foray into the pickled herring market which rendered them virtually unusable for other tasks.
The early Viking poet, Ugh Olagh whom you will remember as the originator of the short lived art of peeing in the snow poetry, recorded the European Brontosaurus as being "An uncomely beast, most foul and fetid. The second verse of his pee poem has baffled scholars thus far but is believed to be a further commentary on their smell or a curse on his mother-in-law, or likely both.
I've seen old clips of Fred Flintstone driving a brontosaurus - and if I've seen it then IT IS REAL!!! TAKE THAT ATHEISTS!
But stompy saur was rebranded in Apatosaur
Yeah but , it's possible they used a pair of Stegosaurus when it was the Brontosaurus's day off. They tried the Diplodocus, but he was a lazy fat bastard.
A small correction: when the pyramids were built, Egyptians definitely knew about the wheel. They just didn't utilize it. Their neighbors had it and they interacted with their neighbors
Correct. One evidence is that their children had toys with wheels.
Honestly, wheels in a mostly sandy environment just don't sound too good when you can use sleds
What baffles me about conspirationist is that they don't want to believe that human are capable of achieving great things. But nope, it must be alien.
And then those aliens will build pyramids with some shitty rocks that took 20 years. If they were superior technologically shuda taken them 8 minutes
"Ancient man created the Pyramids, modern man created Jersey Shore, we are so much better than our ancestors who were nothing but stinky goat farmers!"
@Naukumaija Mau-mau Except the British! 🇬🇧
More they don't want non-Europeans to have achieved great things on their own.
@@lars573 What great things other than Stonehenge did Europeans ever achieve?
Dirt mounds?
Medieval castles built millenia after the great wonders yet tiny and primitive in comparison?
"It's a hat guys, its HAT" LOL😂😂😂
To be fair, magic hats play special roles in most religions, including state religions which deify authoritarian rulers.
So a hat doesn't really exclude the possibility of magical pyramids.
Yeah😂
@@NJ-wb1cz True, magical anythings just exclude themselves.
Another thing: The only reason Akhenaten and Tutankhamun's real heads are slightly oblong is because of head binding practices, which we have evidence of. They're not aliens.
The way he's talking like all of listener just a bunch of little kids
I've stopped watching any video on youtube that has pyramid anywhere in the title because I got sick of all the nonsense, I'm glad I decided to watch this one.
I've worked as a mover about 7 years and me and my team have moved solid bank safes and other heavy objects just by using belts, ropes, crowbars and levers, so it's not that farfetched.
Bingo……. people assume that human ingenuity and trial and error didn’t exist until the 1500’s….like humans have survived several extinctions through the millenniums just sitting around staring off into space
It’s easy moving really heavy things……..you just have to imagine you’re nicking it ! 😂
Brilliant antidote to the so-called History channel. This is becoming one of my favorite channels on youtube.
Hi$tory channel now
Try The History Guy.
If you turn them over I'm sure there's a marking "Made in Egypt".
And stamped 2,500 BC
Point taken: the pyramids are astounding enough without all the UFO and Christian wackiness surrounding them.
Dude,
I've been subscribed for, at least a couple years, but this is the most fascinating video you've made.
Thanks, man. That means a lot. I'm glad you liked it.
@@HolyKoolaid explaining the different methods of rock moving and rock piling without wheels and pulleys is very mechanical engineering and awesome. And Aristotle's point about the wedge/slide and lever being great instruments when used to their full potential instead of taken for granted as weak instruments is really awesome.
It's quite astonishing to know that so many people are in favor of the "Aliens build the pyramids" version, though pyramids of modest size can be found easily in Egypt's neighboring countries in the south. It's easy to understand that the culture of building pyramids was prevalent in that part of Africa for a very long time.
One read I would recommend on this subject is the Wadi al-Jarf Papyri. It is the diaries and logs of an officer named Merer and a small company of transport crews that transported materials from the Sinai through the Nile to the pyramids. They were excavated from 2013 to 2018 and peer-reviewed papers are still coming out about them from how recent it was. It is the oldest written first-hand papyrus account of this time and the only one pertaining to the pyramid of Khufu.
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"Men fear Time. Time fears The Pyramids." (Egyptian Proverb)
Ok, let's think about this for a moment. The laborers who maybe built the pyramids, or maybe worked on the pyramids in one of what must have been numerous conversation efforts such as continue to this day; or perhaps they were working to expand the Rastau/Giza complex of temples, tombs, canals, and subterranean passages--but regardless, they were laborers who were well-fed and esteemed highly enough to have been entombed at Giza, near to the project upon which they labored. As you can see from the clip of "Dr." Zawhi Hawass, these laborers' tombs contained the elaborate hieroglyph decoration we immediately picture when thinking of Egyptian tombs, because it is ubiquitous in them across the dynasties. Well, almost ubiquitous: there is one rather significant type of "tomb" that for some reason lacks these, and all other forms of decoration found in literally every other Egyptian tomb anyone has excavated. That one variety of "tomb" so conspicuously bare, and indeed, often rough and rather ugly inside, is the pyramid "tomb". Not one of these great "tombs" of the pharaohs have any of the decorations or hieroglyphs that all others have; and keeping in mind that hieroglyphs were seen by the Egyptians not simply as characters and words on a wall, but as operative magical objects in and of themselves; further remembering that the writing and images decorating all other Egyptian tombs were put there, yes, in part to wow the tourists, thousands of years later because the ancient Egyptian ministry of tourism was seriously forward thinking, but also to actually assist the soul on its afterlife journey. Given that the writing and images were understood to have power unto themselves, and that images of gods WERE the gods in a way, their omission from pyramid "tombs" seems a wee bit odd. Maybe the workers were just all tuckered out after building such enormous tombs? No energy left for hieroglyphs? Or maybe they just said, "hey, looks awesome on the outside. That's good enough, don't you think, Pharaoh my man? Nobody will see the inside for a few thousand years until some European asshole dynamites his way in hoping to find your gold and your mummified carcass so he can use it to whip up a batch of salutary mummy tea, while painting a landscape using the rich shade of brown your ground up corpse will impart to his canvas. But hey, that's the risk you take being buried in LITERALLY THE EASIEST PLACE ON EARTH FOR GRAVE ROBBERS TO FIND, right? Good thing the whole 'soul's journey in the afterlife' is a load of shit, amirite?" Hey, maybe that's it: ancient Egyptians were actually atheists with a sense of humor, and a very forward-thinking sense of what tourists in a few thousand years would want to see.
I'm not saying it's aliens who built the pyramids either, but I don't think there are branches of academia more guilty of ignoring evidence in favor of pet theories than history and archeology (sociology and psychology are hot on their heels), and Egyptology heads up that group of sunt cum verecundiam scholariam. Construction of pyramids is attributed to particular pharaohs based on single obscure inscriptions within hundreds of lines of texts, or a name on a discarded piece of pottery, and sometimes a piece of historically disputed graffiti. For the most part, this bit of Egyptological cannon was established over a hundred years ago, and much of the dynastic timeline is anchored to it, which is the main, non-conspiratorial reason mainstream academia won't admit the obvious, i.e., at the very least we have misattributed some of the builders of some the pyramids; at worst, our entire Egyptian timeline before Ptolemy might be fantasy. This is further complicated by the fact that pharaohs liked to chisel out the names--and sometimes the faces--of predecessors and take credit for construction by having their own names--and sometimes faces--added in place.
It's probably not so bad that everything regarding timelines, dynasties, and pharaonic constructions will need to be rewritten but it's probably bad enough to render whole careers mostly irrelevant, and that's plenty of motivation to treat the explanations and interpretations of orthodox Egyptology as unimpeachable articles of faith. Even when it forces very smart people to say very stupid stuff, like "there is overwhelming evidence that these buildings, which look nothing like tombs and in which we've never found a scrap of mummy wrapping, are tombs." Or the "Pharaoh Sennefru attempted to build THREE pyramids during his reign, even though pyramid construction would have required the focused efforts of most of the society." One of my favorites: "it was absolutely possible that construction of the Great Pyramid was begun and finished during the 20 year reign of Kufu...by a society without the wheel. All that was required was for one block to be placed every 2 minutes or so...24 hrs a day, for 20 years...without stopping."
So again, I'm absolutely with you on the "not aliens" perspective, but some of the things mainstream academia claims about ancient Egypt are ludicrous, like "the pyramids were tombs, and built by such and such pharaohs." You'd be better off joining the congregation of a snake-handling church, as you'd only have to have in ideas that haven't necessarily been proven false, and don't openly defy physical laws.
Btw, going straight to David Icke is "nut-picking". Stick to the more reasonable and scholarly like Graham Hancock, whose "crazy conspiracy" of a global catastrophe is now, 20 yrs later, accepted history. His debate with convicted criminal "Dr." Hawass should be required viewing. And if that still isn't enough to prise lips from the arses of mainstream historians, remember Gobleki Tepe, which was "impossible" until the carbon dating came back. Or my favorite, the absolutely unassailable article of faith: "Clovis first!" Careers were wrecked over that little piece of bullshit, and it took almost 30 years, or the retirement/death of the generation of researchers who founded the idea, before paleoarcheolgists would admit what was literally sitting in the dirt in front of them.
Hatuletoh well said!
🤣 I'm guessing you don't like Hawas as much as myself! He's a jerk and a camera whore... I've been a subscriber to Biblical Archaeology Review for decades and it struggles for finances and takes advertisements from some wacko outfits including Egyptian tours featuring Hawas! I'd sooner let my crazy cousin lecture me on bitcoin and blockchain!
Although I enjoyed your Videos throughout the years, this I my first time commenting. They just keep getting better and better. More information, more background knowledge, still the same, enjoyable, witty style. Keep up the good work - you just gained an other patron.
Edison said "Necessity is the mother of invention." The Egyptians had a necessity and rose to the occasion.
Futurama was right: aliens visited the Ancient Egyptians in order to learn the secrets about how to build pyramids and how to scare Abbot & Costello from them. Also Wolfman.
Wolfman? 🤔 You're onto something there!
One correction: no burial sites or mummies have been ever discovered inside the pyramids, but at the sites close to them.
That doesn't matter, to him.
@RAYfighter It may served as something different than a burual tomb? Not saying it was aliens, just not an tomb.
@RAYfighter I personally am not fully convinced it was just a burial tomb. For example, the kings chamber doesn't resemble an Egyptian tomb (no wall art etc.). I've been to valley of the kings and been inside several tombs. They are covered with art, top to bottom. Graham Hancock has some hypotheses that i find very interesting. Nothing conclusive. Im kind of on the fence.
Not finding a body does not mean it was not set up that way. Tombs of "slaves" were robbed and it was well known that the Pharoah was entombed with much treasure. When Egypt was finally conquered by the Arab/Islamic armies around 740 AD, they wasted no time getting at that treasure.
Given that the pyramids were ostentatious mausoleums and that showy grave-markers are forbidden under Islam, it makes sense that they would remove the body so that it was no longer a mausoleum. There were some serious attempts to dismantle the pyramids themselves. Happily, they were better soldiers than engineers.
@@DiceyMedia Interesting they find plenty of tombs in the Valley of the Kings. Not in Pyramids but under ground.
You doubt the work of Dr Daniel Jackson?!
Was hoping to find another SG reference.
WOW an SG1 reference. I didn’t realize anyone else watched that show!
@@ilovezuko80 Daniel is dead, again, so we can't ask him for a rebuttal :-)
Yes ! He showed they were landing pads for the alien ships
@@ilovezuko80 So you thought they made 10 seasons of a show just for you? 😆 (p.s. not criticising, just joking)
I honestly don't know how we came to the conclusion that the egyptians hadn't discovered the wheel. Many of the tools used are adjacent or similar enough for peoples that constructed pyramids to achieve
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Three dudes? It would definitely be a lizard person.
The great pyramid actually has 8 sides. Which makes it even more difficult to construct.
Yes, this is true. Often goes unstated.
Well, *actually* it has *nine* sides.
Pffft, amateurs!
That one's probably aliens.
Actually more than 8. It has 8 tree sides, a very large number.
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One thing that fascinated me when I was learning about ancient history was - bronze age tools were actually in many ways superior to iron age tools.
Basically the switch towards iron happened not because people figured out how to smelt it (this actually only happened closer to industrial revolution with invention of blast furnaces) but because they ran out of easily mine able tin, which is a critical component for making bronze.
And by itself, copper was inferior to iron, so without bronze Iron was the next best option even if people could not properly smelt it to get rid of impurities, or alloy it.
But just saying that people with medieval technologies would never been able to construct something like this, does not mean bronze age civilizations were as disadvantaged.
Tragically the collapse of the bronze age also meant that less often used bronze tools were salvaged to make more often used tools. So sleds and pulleys that might've been used in pyramid construction did not survive because they were remade as plows and knives.
I was a piano mover for decades. I have a lot of experience in moving heavy, delicate things in a delicate environment.
If you only have muscle to move things, friction is the biggest obstacle. Since an average of 3000+ of the smaller (3-4 ton) sandstone blocks needed to be moved every day, a ramp or a single route would create a bottleneck. The only way to move that many in a day is to have multiple access points.
If there were dozens of cranes positioned all around the pyramid on each course, lifting a stone one course at a time does not involve friction, and the workers themselves would be the counterweights. 5 or 6 workers on each course would be sufficient, and each crew could handle dozens if not hundreds of blocks in a day. Until the limestone sides (now gone) were put in place, the pyramid would in effect have steps up the sides.
Multiple lifting points also would create competition among the crews, with possible rewards for the crews that moved the most stones. Of course, when it came to moving the big granite stones, everyone in all the crews would be involved.
BTW, standing up an obelisk is an interesting challenge. Ask me how to do that.
Well shit, man. How do you stand up an obelisk?
@@makelikeatree1696 @Makelikeatree I would approach the "turning groove" with the obelisk on a sled. Start cutting away the sled above the turning groove until the balance point is reached. Drop the corner of the obelisk into the turning groove, and you have already tipped it 10-15 degrees.. Build scaffolding over it and hang cowhides full of sand over the lintels to slowly add to the lift at a controlled rate, while levering from below. Add water to the cowhides to increase the pull. Rinse and repeat.
Sounds like you were there. Good explanation.
I always feel insulted by those who insist the pyramids were made by aliens because humans couldn't possibly do it, a modern disinterested capitalist economy where everyone wants to make their buck possibly couldn't do it, at least without bankrupting itself, but a kingdom where the king is a god and the kings building project is virtually a religious observance for people who take that stuff much more seriously than we do? There are plenty of things we wouldn't do or couldn't afford that wouldn't even be an issue for people who really believe in the job.
@R Z Excuse me? Hundreds or even thousands of people who view the building of something as not just a job but a religious observance as rabidly as the NRA wanting to arm toddlers couldn't move tonnes of stone on a twenty year building project that was just a bigger version of other projects they'd been doing successfully for centuries, and get pretty bloody good at it come the finish?
The real unexplained mystery is how they couldn't, just because we live in an economy where cost is the ultimate god and no one can imagine projects that not only don't have to make a profit but would beggar the nation, and that not mattering, doesn't mean that they did. Their motivations are not ours, we can look at it and say a modern capitalist economy couldn't possibly build it because it's too expensive for absolutely no return, but that's just us, not them, we can't afford to build it doesn't means they were incapable of it.
At 3.48 he says that the egyptians recorded every step of the building of the pyramids, but I have never ever seen hieroglyphs portraying anything about the pyramids or the building of it. He says it was a tomb but they have never found a body in them and the "casket" is to small, nor any hieroglyphics in the pyramids. This is really strange considering all the hieroglyphics depicting the stages of afterlife for the pharaoh graves in the valley of the kings.
I've searched and all I could find of proof that it was the egyptians that built the pyramid where a recite where it says they shipped some stones too Giza. It doesn't say how many or how they where used.
I don't think it's aliens, but in another video he said that no records of the Jewish migration is proof that it didn't happen, well what does this mean for the pyramids. They found labor graves and laborers, but does it say anywhere that these people built the pyramids? Or is that just a presupposition? Do anybody else know of some better evidence? If so please tell me
That's one of the things that's always annoyed me about the alien theories, it downplays the awesome accomplishments of humans with a purpose.
Glad you showed off AC Origins. That’s got one of the best representations of ancient Egyptian architecture in its heyday, such as the pyramids when they had their limestone casing and golden pyramidions, as well the most impressive temples.
I worked for a large construction company in the 80's. I won't name it, but the initials are, ED.
Anyway, whenever we finished a building we had a "topping off " party. Some of us would actually build coolers why all the bosses went out and picked up beer and booze. Then, we sat on the roof of the structure, such as the Skydome,Sunnybrook hospital, IBM,etc, and got drunk. Yes, the 80's were crazy. I can't imagine that happening in Canada anymore. So imagine the type of party they would throw after building one of those pyramids!
They have lists of the workers that even had a union and a document that describes a union strike. Does not sound like slave labor to me. Also I have seen some of these items on trips around Egypt. Thank you for a honest video on the topic.
Say it isn't so! Ancient Egyptians were socialists.
Homie, your channel is amazing. I just stumbled upon you tonight and I'm ready to go down as deep a rabbit hole as I can with your channel.
Well-placed landing point for video linkage at the end! And I like the quote; quite apropos.
I like how some people are more willing to think the Egyptians called upon hyper advanced space ship to fly untold light years to make a pyramid of sandstone and then lend them nothing else instead of the most skilled workers of the era making the best thing they could for a tomb
Great video. You teach this stuff in a way a non intellectual like myself can understand. More please!
What the pyramids demonstrate is the absolutely ingenuity of the our early ancestors.
Fantastic job! Keep it up!
I really wish I could find that old two-part video about quantum mechanics. The first half was a very good explanation of the double slit experiment and the basics of quantum mechanics... while the second half (tried to) use quantum mechanics to explain that pyramids were built by the egyptians using quantum staves to quantum levitate the stone blocks onto each other.
It was such a complete 180 from decent science to the completely fucking batshit crazy absurd, I loved it. Lost track of it though.
To “ancient alien” types, all old dates are equal, so a 1,000 year difference between a pharaoh and an event is irrelevant to them.
There is growing evidence that the pyramids are much older than originally thought and they are likely NOT burial sites, but rather were created as a power source. Either way, they remain a mystery still to be unlocked. I don't doubt that you spent significant time doing your research. However, I've recently seen several credible studies and documentaries that strongly suggest the official story, still pushed by modern Egyptian archeologists doesn't hold up to scrutiny employed by modern international archeologists.
When you factor in the "cocaine mummies", the pyramids start to make a whole lot more sense. ;)
Like everyone else he only factors in things that support his logic.
They were built by Rick James Great Great Grandfather!! Cocaine is a h*ll of a drug!!
@@randallmason9687 but have you tried DMT?
@Herbal Shaman By whom then?
Making this video was a lot of work and expense on your part. I wish to say "thank you", as I remain one of your subscribers. Great work! Quality video! (I sure wish I'd seen some of THIS information before I stupidly gave a book report on _Chariots of the Gods?_ in 6th grade.)
I'm a minute and a half in and there's some seriously critical levels of sass in the video.
Sassy, but untrue. Daniken (Chariots of the gods) never said pyramids were made by gods or aliens, he quite openly says they were build by our ancestors.
Nice video. But one of the biggest puzzles to me: where those gigantic chunks of stone came from and how?
Have you heard the one about the great pyramid being a kind of nuclear reactor? That was an amazing video
It's not a nuclear reactor. WHy would someone think that? It very well may have been a water pump for irrigation built in order to deal with the drought that started happening right when we think it was built. It is built directly over an aquifer. Nicola Tesla, the guy who invented the basics of all modern technology, built his own pyramid on an aquifer somewhere in the US and was apparently trying to harness the energy that the pyramids would have once harnessed. Who the hell puts millions and millions of man hours and millions and millions of dollars in today's money to build something utterly useless? Nobody. People spend that kind of money to build things that are useful. ALL of the enormous structures we have built in modernity, like nuclear reactors, the hoover damn, oil rigs, etc., they all have one thing in common: power production. It's not at all crazy to speculate that the pyramids had something to do with power production or water or irrigation or something. The only reason I even have to say that is because the mainstream obsesses over the idea that they were freaking tombs and anyone who disagrees has to prove they aren't crazy. It's ridiculous.
Nuclear reactor? No evidence.
Water pump, or some sort of power generator that used water and harmonics to do something that helped their society survive?Probable.
@@jasonsocrathien6815 Probable? Why?
@@jasonsocrathien6815 naw, it was for the Royal Razor Blade Sharpening industry! Look at the people depicted on the walls in the tombs, no beards! That takes a lot of razor blades to keep sharpened!!
How come this is the first time I've heard of these techniques... Like copper saws with sand grinding its way thru the rock 😲
I've always been fascinated by the pyramids and my ears perk up when I hear anything about them and so I'm shocked there is any infoI haven't heard already. Thank you Koolaid ❤️
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I wish you’d put your sources in the show notes so people I share your video with can do further reading on their own.
He can't because he lies. At least in case of Chariots of the gods - Daniken never said pyramids were build by aliens, he is actually a big debunker of that myth and says thinking so is an insult to our human ancestors.
If you have a large enough labor force it seems they can stack rocks pretty high. But unless they are finding like iphones inside I remain skeptical that it took any advanced aliens to contribute.
Go Stargate man! You will know everything after you watch Stargate!
I used to roll a 22 foot rowboat off the beach up to my house with a log rolling technique similar to the stone moves of the workers. It worked very well.
Oh damn, wish I could show this vid to my dad. He recently stumbled upon some "documentaries" making the alien shit claims and swallowed them prettymuch whole and I had nothing to refute it with so thoroughly. Except he doesn't know any English. Oops.
I don't know how busy you are, but you could translate it and put it in as subtitles. Though that can take quite some times.
Ah, the History Channel at its best.
Don’t buy that alien shit but don’t buy this shit either. We still don’t know what the hell was going on with those things, it’s all just speculation and educated guesses thus far. And the more we dig the more complicated shit seems to get.
Which language does he speak?
@@lucofparis4819 Hungarian
Chad Egyptians:wears cool hats
Jealous white people: *ALIENS*
There is only one thing I have to say:....."Jaffa! Kree!!!" (damn, but I miss that show ^_^)
The fourth Chevron is locked!
The pyramids aren't spaceships, they are the landing pads for spaceships. Haven't you watched the Stargate Documentary series?
During my interpretation class (we pick a lot of random shit to interpret, don't ask) we learned about a method: You strap 12 logs around the stone and then roll/pull it.
A cog before the wheel. You can strap ropes, you can put in stuff in between the logs, and pull and push at the same time.
Cut, transport, and place one multi-ton block every four minutes 24/7, 365, without interruption for 20 years. Think about it.
@@peterblood50 Have 15 000 men working in three shifts for 300 days a year and you can do it. Egypt had its population in the hundred of thousands during that time. The numbers only look scary until you start doing the math.
@@Elkator955
Give me some numbers to work with then. Remembering that they would have to do everything below 1 time every 4 minutes 24/7, 365, for 20 years. Out of the 5,000 men on each shift, how many are working in the quarry, how many are working in the transportation of the stones including the people in the ports who categorize, load, and unload them. ( How many men are working in transporting the stones to the worksite? How many are are involved with lifting the stones to the desired level? How many are involved with actually placing the stones. I'll give you feeding the crews as they say they were housed nearby.
I've probably undercut the amount of different segments involved with getting stones of this size and weight from the quarry to the their assigned location.
Also, why no written, painted, or carved history of such a monumental event?
@@peterblood50 So, here it goes:
The mining of the rock is done by thousands of people/slaves. Egypt built a lot of structures from stone, so the daily production of stone was already there, they just diverted, built less stone houses and more pyramids, plus you can continue expanding quarries as the years go by. (not the first time rulers ignored the everyday people for their gaudy projects). According to the numbers, diverting the work of ~1800 masons is sufficient for 20 years, because you only need to smooth the rocks at the outside layer, the rest can be pretty rough, and here how we get that number: You have 2.6 million cubic meters (The stones that need to look nice) of stone to carve. In 20 years it means you have to do 130 000 cubic meters a year and (assuming 300 days of work) 433 cubic meter a day. If 1000 people can do .25 cubic meters a day (which is not hard, it is the size of a chest) you need 1732 stone masons working a day, and you can break them up in three shifts (and you have 56 days for them to take off too).
The transporation of stone, with the log method that I mentioned originally, would require about 15-20 people per stone block, we are going to use the more demanding figure. They can move it without problem, so once the production line is done they can deliver multiple blocks a day. There are 2.8 million stone blocks, now we divide it by 6000 (which is 20 year times 300 days) and the result is 466 blocks per day need to arrive so it will need 9,333 people to move at that speed (466x20). So we can round up to 10000 and double it, and your supply line is probably packed enough that one team can see the one ahead and behind them, and they can probably even stop for harvest season.
So far we are working with about 12000 people. Placing the blocks themselves, however is the intersting part, because you don't need the same sized workforce for the entire 20 year duration, because, you see, as the pyramid becomes taller, there is less space to put people in and therefore you can start with a large workforce at the beginning, and then shrink it down as you place down blocks. So while the 15 000 total construction workers may be a bit optimistic, with an initial surge of 10K thousand workers, decreasing into 3K means that with about 20K workers (minus staff, and guards and such) the 20 year deadline seems more than possible.
As for the pictures and records, I did find an article about the oldest papyrus talking about the construction of the pyramid in Cairo. Other than that, my answer is simply, i dunno. If I was an egyptian I would have recorded if it was aliens doing it too.
Interesting fact, the wealthy in New Kingdom Egypt (including of course the royal family) often practiced Artificial cranial deformation, so the depictions of Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their children with elongated skulls makes more sense. Akhenaten's skull (as show in your video) shows signs of mild deformation. It's far more pronounced in his daughters' depictions.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_cranial_deformation
The change in art style during Akhenaten's reign further exaggerated physical traits, including artificial cranial deformation. His son Tutankhamen (born Tutankhaten, aka King Tut) is a clear example of this practice, as his mummy shows. Statues and busts of the young King include this elongated skull, as well.
"It's a hat guys. A hat."
originally covered in tin foil.
new to this channel.. its awesome mate, thank you!
Holy Koolaid is the best flavor, even better than cherry!
On the Nile side of each pyramid there is a vertical shaft in the ground with plastered watertight walls. (This I have been told.) If this is true, designing a hydraulic lift would be child's play for the Egyptians. They were outstanding engineers and the Nile did not run out of water.
The Nile is currently 5 miles from the Great Pyramid. Now during the flooding season, prior to the building of the Aswan Dam, the Nile would expand significantly, but there's still a significant problem. The ramps are not designed in a way that would make one shred of sense from an engineering/architectural perspective, and they don't even go all the way up. You can view them here:
www.google.com/search?q=great+pyramid+blueprint+view&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=1AQM6ubyjuWx-M%252C_IU8Sn5WYIvfEM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSiK109rwXFLrYDCzkd-QMlyJMKlw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE0qDRjfrsAhUrwlkKHWJ0ATcQ9QF6BAgGED4#imgrc=1AQM6ubyjuWx-M
"behind this door"
Reminds me of futerama
Plz enter The scarry door
That was a Twilight skit. I miss futurama, it was so much better than the Simpson
@@shanehull6235 truly one of The best shows ever
@@shanehull6235 You might still be able to find it on a streaming service. Else they can be bought on DVD or perhaps even Blue Ray
I like rick and morty.
I bet if we found out all the details of the ancient's stoneworking technology, we would probably say, "Oh, ffs, of course that's how it is done. Now that I see it, it's obvious."
Well duh, it’s obvious who built the pyramids. The Mayans.
Also the whole thing about the Pharoahs being gods is a bit of a misnomer depending on the tome period. Egyptians tended to think that their rulers became gods after they died, kind of like Roman emperors. During their lives, they were “the sons” of gods. Which in the cultural context of the time meant that they were subordinate, or lesser-than the gods. The Egyptians were under no illusions that their kings were mortal men, just that they had extra special divine favour
Which still gave them power over the common man, a version of "the divine right of kings", yes?
@@autobotstarscream765 Closer to that than the notion that the Pharaoh was an actual god. The confusion likely came from modern viewpoint that as a son of a god, the pharaoh must therefore have been viewed as possessing the powers thereof. The more common theme in the bronze age middle east was that of a lieutenant or representative of the gods. In Assyria for instance, the kings were more properly known as the High Priests or vicars of Ashur. As a "son of", he was merely subordinate to the gods, enjoying their divine favour.
So practically speaking, yes, rather more like a divine-right king. Which was another reason for why the lineage of the pharaoh was important, but not patrolinealy. Egyptian legitimacy seems to have run through the female line, meaning the pharaohs married into the position sometimes.
@@Anglomachian So basically, "son of a god" not necessarily being a god or even a demigod as a result, as seen in the idea that angels (actually originally called "sons of God", then only later called angels, a loanword from Greek that simply means "messengers") are sons of God but not literally His sons and not gods at all but rather a separate subservient species, leading to the debates as to which sort of "Son of God" Jesus is supposed to be. (God the Son, an angel "son of God", a righteous human prophet "son of God", etc.)
@@autobotstarscream765 In the context of the bronze-age middle-east, "son of god" almost certainly didn't mean literal blood relative of a god. It may have meant "descended from", but the Romans thought a bunch of their sort were literally descendants of gods too, and they didn't tend to delude themselves into thinking they had super powers. Julius Caesar's family claimed to be direct descendants of Venus, and the most Caesar ever seemed to get out of that was being a bit of a lady's man. So far as we know he couldn't shoot magic love lasers.
If you look into the writings, especially the official writings, of bronze age rulers, you tend to find that familial terms such as son, brother, mother, sister, etc., were all used in the less literal sense. It's possible that in their languages and with their cultural zeitgeist, those words had different literal meanings than those we give them. Kings of the various empires, such as Egypt, Mitani, Hatti, the Kassite empire, Assyria, all referred to each other as "brother" when speaking to, or referring to one another. Lesser officials in the courts of these kings would often refer to their sovereign as their father. Even in modern-day monarchy, kings and queens are usually viewed from the perspective of their subjects as being a parental figure. But they aren't literally our mothers or fathers.
@@Anglomachian Hence the expression "God the King is our Father, and we are children of the King", which is obviously written in that same royal allegory?
On the '7 wonders' thing: you might have mentioned it's the only surviving wonder of the seven.
I legitimately thought this was an Internet Historian video.
I dare speculate that the idea of "Build it and they will come", as used by resort developers, was the main gig. Ozymandias is attributed as saying "look upon my works..."
When ancient aliens first came out i loved it. It reminded me of the In Search Of series when i was younger. Then it went from heres this stuff we dont know and maybe its aliens to here is stuff we've explained but it was definitely aliens. No thanks wackadoo
When you realise each episode has 5 minutes of footage and they repeat everything 5 or more times in an episode.
Ancient Aliens: Exhibit A of what running out of ideas looks like.
one thing to note about the age of the pyramids, they were supposedly built approximately about the same time as the sphinx yea? but here is the kicker, water damage on the feet and around the sphinx suggest it have been exposed to normal weather for around 5k years, but that place started becoming a desert around that time (plus the sphinx was buried for at least the last thousand years or more), so the sphinx is potentially at around 10k years old, if not more.
According to stand up philosopher Steven Wright, they were at least financed by a guy named Eddie.
It was a pyramid scheme:)
Future archeologists discovering anime art: "It's amazing that people's eyes used to be so big! Maybe they were aliens!"
Thank you. I find it incredibly insulting to the ancient people. "There's no way they could've built this they're way too stupid and primitive it must've been aliens" really annoys me
"Ancient man created the Pyramids, modern man created Jersey Shore, we are so much better than our ancestors who were nothing but stinky goat farmers!"
Many of you are confused. Please wake up.
I used to think the Bible was written about ancient astronauts. When I read the Old testament from that frame of reference it seemed to make more sense to me. That led to me thinking that the pyramids were built by ancient astronauts. Certainly there was a highly technical society thousands of years ago that has somehow been lost, since as I understand it, the pyramids are not something that we could even duplicate today.
Wait so Egyptians constructed the pyramids in mexico? Thailand?
The only thing I find astonishing is that they had not developed the wheel. Seriously, how is that possible? Seems so obvious.
That meme is as ancient as the pyramids, but damn it was hilarious
r/woosh
Woosh....
The Egyptians built the pyramids, but they got the parts from Ikea.
Spoiler: it was aliens.
It was African’s
@@shanehull6235 The correct word is KANGZ
It was aliens.....illegal ones! Build that sphinx! Build that sphinx!
they are called goa'uld
@@sadev101 lol
One thing you may not noticed is that the blocks of the three piramids are not square bricks, but they enchase one on the other six surrounding. If they were like bricks, any earthquake would dismantle them...
We know who. How, is still up for debate.
Agreed. Human beings back then were not mentally deficient in some way. They were like humans today, engineers, artists, inventors, visionaries, (imperial and murderous at times)... The fascinating engineering questions that current scientific method churns revolves around rediscovery of lost practical methods. Time has blurred amazing methods that produced all these head-scratching structures. As in all science, there will be a current theories for future discoveries to disprove. Fascinating stuff...
Hell yea this is what i pay for lol. Very well done cleared up some of my thoughts over the making of the pyramids and maybe if they had you on history tv or whatever that channel is called you could learn real things instead of ALIENS this and that.
Thanks! I'm really glad you liked it. I thought this would be a super easy video to make but wound up taking way longer to research because I had no idea just how rich and fascinating Egypt's history is. It's definitely on my bucket list of places to go now.
And thanks for continuing to support my work. You've been a patron for a while now, and it's gone a long way. :)
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@@HolyKoolaid Love going through bronze age civilizations. Only matched by the last couple centuries grand works.
@@aallpprr8998 They are a patron and get early release of videos.
@@aallpprr8998 it was unlisted for a while so you wont see it unless you look for it also a patron. so i get to view his videos early.
no mummies or hieroglyphs were ever found in the great pyramid.
Wow that was refreshing. Best thing I have seen on the pyramids. I am going with the levers and flipping the stones up. That is how I would do it.
All 2.4 millions of them? Good luck!
This shouldn't be a debate anymore since the diary of Merer was found.
"Aliens" is shorthand for "brown people couldn't have done this themselves."
Oh gawd. Because everything is about race. 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
Glad to see (hear) your improved audio.
Two things, I’ve heard they have never found a body buried in a pyramid so it couldn’t be a pharaoh’s tomb. Second, check out Bright Insight’s channel.
... there's an entire page on wikipedia just listing the (identified) bodies in the pyramids and we know a large amount of information about the Pharohs and their family lines because of that preservation. Not only is it very clear that the pyramids served as monuments to the deceased (multiple pharohs because they took hundreds of years to build), you can actually go see the preserved remains yourself. I actually saw a corpse or "mummy" in person that was removed from a step in Egypt, they're very real. Some of the bodies are missing because of tomb raiders and thieves but the egyptians wrote out exactly what the tombs were meant for. www.britannica.com/story/whats-inside-the-great-pyramid
Yes, I also want Holy Koolaid to watch Bright Insight and make many videos discussing their videos. 😈
@@autobotstarscream765 Me too.
While watching this vid, TH-cam decided I should see an ad for a fung shui (spelling?) bracelet that if I wear it correctly, my life will turn around, driven by good luck, all my health issues would go away, and I would be happy and wealthy forever.
This confused me.
You should do a deep dive into all crazy thing David Ike.
Or maybe not? There's a difference between researching a particular claim and doing an entire video for just one guy. Any engagement is engagement, and it may very well end up promoting him and his videos.
Personally, I love David Icke’s books! They’re very entertaining. In between all the bs, he has some interesting theories. But most of it is odd, to say the least. But I’ve always been a fan of science fiction, so that explains it.
@@lisaspikes4291 Nothing wrong with that when I was younger I would do homework while Alex Jones told me what was "really going on" if you pay attention Jones actually has no continuity to his stories but it was fun listening to him. Having said all that Alex Jones and David Ike are prolly toxic for the public discourse because they spread misinformation.
@@travelerfinder7840 Yeah, I notice this stuff tends to work a lot better as fiction, hence why Artemis the Moon Cat is the now and forever king of the doomsday conspiracy talkers. 👑😼🌙
The fact of the remarkable vessels created from Granite are still difficult to explain. The Egyptians may have inherited these things, along with their pyramids. They may have been built before the Younger-Dryas period?
Pyramids lineup with ORIONS BELT 11000 years ago.
Maybe they just screwed up the survey 5000 years ago.
@Anne Hatter yea I get it, I just meant maybe they lined up their construction survey for the pyramids wrong. So it was inaccurate when they made them and it happened to line up with the stars at another point in time.
Just a guess. Maybe they were lining them up based on a legend of the start of the Egyptian civilization, like how we make monuments to our history these days.
I'm not dismissing the idea that they could have been built earlier than the accepted date, just saying that there are other explanations. And it's easy to construct an interpretation of history if you start from an idea and look for evidence to support it. It happens all the time in science. And it's especially easy for ancient history as their are fewer pieces of evidence to draw conclusions from.
It would be really cool if society reached the level of building fantastic pyramids and then collapsed for some reason, and it's definitely possible as we know great civilizations have collapsed throughout all of history. I hope we get more evidence and can figure it out if that is what happened.
I'll be very excited if it gets to a point where it is clear that civilization got wiped out in a asteroid storm or something like graham Hancock thinks.
Jay W how do you account for 5000 years of water erosion around the enclosure of the sphinx when it hasn’t rained like that in that part of the world for 6000 years?
@@bulldoguf7318 there are geologists who have looked at it and said it isn't necessarily caused by rainfall. So same thing as before, there are other explanations. I can't really make a judgement either way on the evidence because I haven't studied geology. I have learned enough about science to say that our intuition isn't always accurate so even if it looks like water erosion to me, that doesn't mean it necessarily is.
I like the idea of ancient sphinx builders that predate the accepted date, but for now I have to defer to people who have dedicated years and decades of their lives to studying it. They can be wrong of course, and I've recently been captivated by the concept of unknown knowns, and I could easily see that applying to archaeological and geological data. And maybe egyptologists are just entrenched in an already accepted theory. But I don't know enough to say either way.
Hopefully, evidence comes to light that proves it definitively either way.
You should look into going to school for geology or archaeology since you seem interested in it.
@@bulldoguf7318 there are geologists who have looked at it and said it isn't necessarily caused by rainfall. So same thing as before, there are other explanations. I can't really make a judgement either way on the evidence because I haven't studied geology. I have learned enough about science to say that our intuition isn't always accurate so even if it looks like water erosion to me, that doesn't mean it necessarily is.
I like the idea of ancient sphinx builders that predate the accepted date, but for now I have to defer to people who have dedicated years and decades of their lives to studying it. They can be wrong of course, and I've recently been captivated by the concept of unknown knowns, and I could easily see that applying to archaeological and geological data. And maybe egyptologists are just entrenched in an already accepted theory. But I don't know enough to say either way.
Hopefully, evidence comes to light that proves it definitively either way.
You should look into going to school for geology or archaeology since you seem interested in it.
there is something inherently arrogant within the idea that something needs to be super/extra-natural just because its beyond ones own imagination. "its impossible since i cant think of how it might work, and since no one is smarter than me, its out of the natural world."