Oh my, they look so much more imposing and awesome now that you are so close to them, I love how the bent pyramide shows it's original smooth sides. Also it must be quite claustrophobic going into them haha! Amazing video, really struck something within me!
It's not that claustrophobic, just very uncomfortable (imho). Especially the ascent from the Red Pyramid to get back out - it's a long, steep and very low corridor, so when you finally get out, your legs and back hate you like never before.
I love your channel. It’s amazing you’re able to do this. Keep it up, the quality is absolutely outstanding. I’m not sure if you’ve visited Mexico but it could give you lots of material, and probably cheaper than traveling to classical archaeology destinations. Congrats on your work.
Thanks for this wonderful tour. Seeing the interior was super interesting. I love these oldest pyramids and how the building techniques evolved. Cheers from Denmark.
The bent pyramid is something I will never forget. It looks like you had a similar experience as I did. It was just myself and the pyramid in the middle of the desert.
I was thinking that when I was watching too, it seems like the lesser known pyramids are just out there by themselves with no one touring them? Almost eerie
I'm pissed that when I visited (December 2017), only the Red Pyramid was open, so I didn't get to go inside the Bent one. Still, the Red Pyramid, to me, was a marvel. Words can't tell how relieved I was to get back out of it. Fresh air, numb knees, breathing like a sprinting horse...
The Egyptians believed the pharaoh's spirit would climb the pyramid toward the sun and the afterlife. This is why the Valley of the Kings was chosen, because a pyramid-shaped rock was in the center of the Valley.
Also there were influenced by earlier monumental tombs. Basically you had earlier mastabas, then stepped pyramids, then "true" pyramids (of course also often in parallel and such). It's a long evolution of building techniques.
It amazes me that later pharaohs didn't guard the tombs of predecessors to prevent looting. And punish very harshly tomb robbers or attempts at tomb robbing. (I think I read of one pharaoh who did execute some tome robbers!) You would think they would want to take action so that their own tomb would not be desecrated in the future.
@@cherylwood5202 I think they probably did try to protect old tombs but when you consider how much treasure there was and how many thieves, it was probably like trying to plug holes in a dike.
I have absolutely no basis for this idea, but after thinking about it, maybe big items were put in before the chambers were completed and then the chambers were roofed. However, that would make it more difficult to complete any necessary interior finishes and would mean that things removed from the chambers would have to be disassembled or broken to be removed. Kind of like building a stone cottage around a huge iron bathtub.
@@GnomaPhobic That's is how I'd learned where it's from but sometimes acronyms come from REAL words as meme joke sometimes so this seemed to fit and people were into Egypt stuff as Egypt got colonized by European researching the pyramids 1800s-1900s
We actually have no clue that this is the first pyramid or that this is close in construction time to the great pyramid. That's all conjecture and assumptions.
Oh my, they look so much more imposing and awesome now that you are so close to them, I love how the bent pyramide shows it's original smooth sides.
Also it must be quite claustrophobic going into them haha!
Amazing video, really struck something within me!
It's not that claustrophobic, just very uncomfortable (imho). Especially the ascent from the Red Pyramid to get back out - it's a long, steep and very low corridor, so when you finally get out, your legs and back hate you like never before.
Inside views are very VERY impressive. Extraordinary engineering, needed precise stone placement from the ground level.
Amazing that the
5000 year old cedar beams are still extant
I love your channel. It’s amazing you’re able to do this. Keep it up, the quality is absolutely outstanding. I’m not sure if you’ve visited Mexico but it could give you lots of material, and probably cheaper than traveling to classical archaeology destinations. Congrats on your work.
Belize is a lovely country, and they've got pyramids! Beautiful scuba diving, too.
Ah Mexico, the famous Roman province of Mexico
@@fuzzyco.3336 that’s my bad, I thought he did general archaeology videos, is he specialized in Roman settlements/ruins?
@@rodrigor.gutierrez500 yeah, he’s a Roman and Greek historian, it’d be cool if he covered the ruins in other parts of the world though
Thanks for this wonderful tour. Seeing the interior was super interesting. I love these oldest pyramids and how the building techniques evolved. Cheers from Denmark.
Underrated camera work at 5:32 that DJI does good work
It's always smooth!
great TH-cam channel, super interesting historical videos that are short but packed with knowledge, and still consistently uploads.
The original timber braces are incredible, I guess thats; the advantage of such arid conditions.
The bent pyramid is something I will never forget. It looks like you had a similar experience as I did. It was just myself and the pyramid in the middle of the desert.
I was thinking that when I was watching too, it seems like the lesser known pyramids are just out there by themselves with no one touring them? Almost eerie
A collab with History for Granite would be amazing
I have great memories of my visit to Dashur more than 20 years ago. Lovely videos, thanks.
There was nobody at the Bent & Red pyramids while I was there too!
Damn, a toldinstone video about the pyramids, christmas came early this year 😁
I went there this April🎉incredible
Oh hell yeah. This is what I'm talking about. I'll be there a week from today!!
I will be visiting these in November, can't wait!
Oldest pyramid is said to be in Sudan, Original Mt, Meroe ,area.
The inside of this pyramid is awesome.👍
Great as usual. But at 4:53 you mean the red pyramid, don't you?
Yeah, I caught it too
I always wonder how these beauties looked like during their peak.
Great video, would love to visit some pyramids one day.
its amazing how the bats managed to get inside that pyramid
I love that the Red Pyramid has the lowest angles. "Okay guys, let's play it really safe, we can't afford to screw it up again..."
"Exploring Egypt's Oldest Pyramids" And there's me thinking it would take a full 9 minutes!
AWESOME
Our Told-in-Stone Boy .... lost forever at the bottom of the Bent Pyramid.
I'm pissed that when I visited (December 2017), only the Red Pyramid was open, so I didn't get to go inside the Bent one. Still, the Red Pyramid, to me, was a marvel. Words can't tell how relieved I was to get back out of it. Fresh air, numb knees, breathing like a sprinting horse...
My quads were burning the day after I made this video.
Amazing, wondering what's the temperature like inside?
I would imagine it's similar to the effect of caves where they wind up cooler than the outside, but I dunno. Maybe it's miserable in there.
When I visited a pyramid in Giza it was cooler on the inside than on the outside, but it was much more moist and therefore rather unpleasant.
@@stevanvasiljevic6072 thanks for the info!
That was great! How much $$$ did you have to pay to get private access??? Or is your TH-cam fame sufficent? 😊😊😊
It's open to the public
@@scenicroutestothepast Right, but you were in there all by yourself. At least it looked and sounded like you were. Did you just go real early?
Sneferu was the man!
What is the reason for the Egyptian's interest in pyramid shaped monuments?
The Egyptians believed the pharaoh's spirit would climb the pyramid toward the sun and the afterlife. This is why the Valley of the Kings was chosen, because a pyramid-shaped rock was in the center of the Valley.
From my memory the pyramid form is a very strong and stable structure
Also there were influenced by earlier monumental tombs. Basically you had earlier mastabas, then stepped pyramids, then "true" pyramids (of course also often in parallel and such). It's a long evolution of building techniques.
It amazes me that later pharaohs didn't guard the tombs of predecessors to prevent looting. And punish very harshly tomb robbers or attempts at tomb robbing. (I think I read of one pharaoh who did execute some tome robbers!) You would think they would want to take action so that their own tomb would not be desecrated in the future.
@@cherylwood5202 I think they probably did try to protect old tombs but when you consider how much treasure there was and how many thieves, it was probably like trying to plug holes in a dike.
How did they ever transport items, for the afterlife, into these chambers? The passage ways look difficult, low, cramped and perilous.
These never had big objects in them like the tombs in the Valley of The Kings with entire rooms filled with big objects
I have absolutely no basis for this idea, but after thinking about it, maybe big items were put in before the chambers were completed and then the chambers were roofed. However, that would make it more difficult to complete any necessary interior finishes and would mean that things removed from the chambers would have to be disassembled or broken to be removed.
Kind of like building a stone cottage around a huge iron bathtub.
How did they build the pyramids and what proof is there they were tombs?
I always find it weird weird how there’s not a soul around
What are you doing Step (pyramid) bro?!
Haha
Pretty sure time travelers of extraterrestrials helped
Literally is that where the word SNAFU make a big mistake comes from?!?
Sadly no. It's an acronym dating to the Second World War, short for "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up". A classic case of soldiers' black humor.
@@GnomaPhobic That's is how I'd learned where it's from but sometimes acronyms come from REAL words as meme joke sometimes so this seemed to fit and people were into Egypt stuff as Egypt got colonized by European researching the pyramids 1800s-1900s
Is Egypt even real
Wdym?
We actually have no clue that this is the first pyramid or that this is close in construction time to the great pyramid. That's all conjecture and assumptions.
Our video host earned a PhD and has years of experience, so I’ll accept what he tells us.
Why not talk about the pyramids in Sudan they are older and more than Egypt
The largest pyramid in the world is in the the Americas
They're not tombs
Then what are they exactly?
How’d they cut those stones ??? Aliens 👽
I always find it weird weird how there’s not a soul around