Hi glif, that's true, they filled in between the stones, big reason to keep all the bugs ,ants etc from entering the tombs and to make sure it stuck they wet it first, so I agree with you, thanks mike
Thanks Mike for all your explanations. I have an archaeology and historic preservation background so it's great to hear you explain things with your experience as well
Thank you Mike for the information. Very impressive! Since I have been following you, I have learned a lot about cement and stones. Thank you for the video!
I like your take on the pyramids, I agree with you. The entire place over there is a cemetery. I just now realized you have your own website. Pretty cool! (I follow your Amazon shop too (for some time now), going to pick up a hammer on there sometime soon.) Thanks for the video!
Amazing how you show cutting stone with another stone. Thanks. I think you would enjoy visiting the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain. Some areas look like a castle and the building has all kinds of windows with colored glass.
Be aware of the camels Sir! Thanks for yet another great video, from the pyramids of Egypt. Looking forward for your next great upload Sir. Kind regards Richard
None of them are 100 t to begin with. The heaviest is 45 t and people been moving that with primitive tech up until the era of photography. To hollow out a box, and that's all they are boxes, imperfect without right angles or flat sides, it has been shown how to drill cut and carve the internal corners without steel, with better results than the Serapeum boxes. The narrow corridors are helpful because they give a place where the levers can be used without bringing in frames. They found a box still raised on a sand bed, and winches inside as well as traces of wooden rails. Good luck on getting out of the lost high tech thing. Just like the ancient stone masonry it's not impossible. You just have to put some effort in.
@@adrienledoux357 you want a photo from thousands of years ago, or you to see heavy stones being moved with " primitive" tech? If the second option then sure I can show lots of examples. Though first tell me you a least tried to look for yourself and couldn't find any. I'd be interested to know what search terms you used. If you really can't find them, and you seem to care about it, then I'll send you links, lots of them. This was recently posted, th-cam.com/video/47HAYcii_Q8/w-d-xo.html They have the receipts of them being moved, the names and even how much they were paid.
@@MikeHaduck btw: I've been following your channel/videos for years and have really learned a great deal about masonry. I was able to lay the block in question by watching your vids. It's no big deal. Lol
Nice music, I would also like to see you debate with someone like Ben in uncharted X as to his claim of precision stone work. Having farmed in West Virginia, I know a lot of the old timers did some really remarkable things when it came to lifting and stone removal in their fields which in a few more years, there will probably be people claiming they employed aliens. People back then had more time and patience and weren't a lazy as people are today.
Hi Wayne, I seen the old timers raise houses with wedges when they were short of jacks, a lot of the guys are not stone masons or movers or quarry men, what they are doing is spreading fake news, lol, thanks mike
And they didn't have 10,000 time wasting things to distract them from work when they got to doing it: no radio, no tv, no telephone, no quick car ride to the coffee shop, they worked right on the farm no commuting time, thirty minutes walk at most to the furthest corner, almost no priority work beyond milking a few cows, mucking out and putting down for the horses, picking eggs from a few dozen hens, bit of gardening and then the work of the season was their task.
What's you take on the geopolymers and the UHPC? Reads like there is progress on making alternate hydraulic cements, not using the more heat intensive or at least critical thermal control to make Portland, chemically without the Portland. I need to read into more, though my little perspective was more of a silica glass like method... though different. UHPC is just neat in general. Not so easy to find the metal fibers though... or at least that I've found for small batch cast projects. Great detail as always! Appreciate the details sir. John 14:6
I’ve been watching Uncharted X videos and am curious about what you feel about the millions of granite and diorite vessels they have found within the oldest grave sites in Egypt. These vessels have super fine circular marks that indicate that they have been turned on a lathe. There are tube drill marks and cavities board out in the hardest stone in the world that’s tremendously harder than any copper or bronze cutters. It’s really compelling that it’s possible that a much earlier civilization made these artifacts and the Egyptian people inherited them and claimed them as their own. The collapsed pyramid at Meidun reveals its core, and the walls of the core are so flat and angular that it looks almost like poured concrete. I know if you take quartz and rub it on quartz that’s you can scratch it and wear it down, but for them to take diorite sand and use it to wear a hole in more diorite still would have been tremendously time consuming. And I know it’s not like they had not much else to do. But it would have taken months and months of time to make a bowl that they’d just leave in a tomb.
@@MikeHaduck awesome ! I saw the work down in mexico down near cancun . I love looking at old stone work. the wife is from wales , so when you mention old castles , I've seen tons of close . funny how old roman roads still exist but our roads need to be repaired every other year. old school for the win.
I have laughed for years about all the ideas people have about how something was done instead of asking a stonemason. You see it everywhere, experts guessing instead of talking to guys that actually do the work. Working man always knows much more than society thinks
I always heard there wasn't any Quarries near the tombs? Did the slaves drag those giant pyramid blocks long distances to build them? Either way it is still amazing to see to this day, Thanks for sharing 👍 you always make great videos.
I like how a stone mason and presumably someone who's not an archeologist, comes up with his own, completely plausible theories about archeological sites inspired by personal experience. The idea that the pyramids originated out of a habit of putting bigger and bigger stones on a grave to prevent people from looting those stones sounds to me like a plausible, down to earth, acceptable opinion a lot or most archeologists might agree with (and that has nothing to do with aliens).
Yes - but also religion played a role. The ancient Egyptians believed that to exist in their afterlife you needed several things: 1 - a body or vessel for the spirit (Ka) to inhabit. No body = no afterlife. That is why they mummified their bodies - and why coincidentally they began to place statues of themselves in tombs and temples. They believed that absent a body - robbers typically destroyed the mummy in the course of robbing it - the spirit would cease to exist in the afterlife. Destroying the mummy prevented the spirit of the dead from haunting the robber. Also that is why you see so many statues in Egypt with their noses chiseled off as they believed doing so prevented the spirit of the person from breathing = thus preventing them from inhabiting the statue. 2 - preserving one's name and making offerings. Pharaohs needed their names to be remembered in order to exist in the afterlife. Thus they built tombs to "stand out" + temples where offerings could be made in their name. Wealthier Pharaohs who were younger and thus could expect to rule a long time built larger/fanciful tombs. Pharaohs during periods of economic plight and who might have been older sufficed with smaller less ornate tombs. 3 - grave goods. The Egyptians believed that what you used in life you also used in death. Thus grave goods were instrumental in Egyptian burial practices - even servants. So wealthier individuals would be buried with miniature statues of people doing various tasks to symbolize servants in the afterlife. Unfortunately that promoted tomb robbing of course. A papyrus detailing the trials of tomb robbers in the Valley of the Kings during the reign of Ramses IX relates how they would bypass the tombs of lessers to focus on royalty as they knew that is where the money was. So placing stones offers a measure of protection against marauding animals. It later was seen as an attempt to prevent pilferage via larger coverings such as mastabas with false entrances. Increasing tomb sizes was a method of "keeping up with the Jones" whereby Pharaohs tried to outdo their predecessors to make themselves stand out. Later Pharaohs during the New Kingdom went further. They would chisel the names of Pharaohs off of their temples and have their own chiseled in its place to take credit for what others before them did - this is where those supposed "helicopters" or "tanks" etc. come into play. Anything to put their own name out there.
What's Up Mike ??? So basically the entire area is a Cemetery ??? Where people were buried, including the Pharaohs in their big 'ol Pyramids ... Great ... You saved me a trip ...
Pharaoh "Just build me a giant pyramid, no big deal!"
Thanks glif, time and money, lol,Mike
It's no big deal at all.
The ancient Egyptians knew the secret was the get it wet.. get it wet so that it sticks.. no big deal.. not trying to make a project out of it…
Hi glif, that's true, they filled in between the stones, big reason to keep all the bugs ,ants etc from entering the tombs and to make sure it stuck they wet it first, so I agree with you, thanks mike
So good. River King Mine in my hometown Belleville Illinois. All of our houses sunk. .
Thanks Mike, Mikey
Mike you are too sweet and I mean that in the nicest way possible! You saved my (end of) day yet again. Thank you.
Thanks Juliet, I appreciate the kind words, Mike
These vids from Dr. Haduck are priceless like this .... The education is free and generous. Love Honest Mike makes these
Thanks Thor, I appreciate it, Mike
Thanks Mike for all your explanations. I have an archaeology and historic preservation background so it's great to hear you explain things with your experience as well
Thanks Dr, I appreciate that, Mike
pretty interesting!! I still like that song too! You've travelled way more than I ever have lol..
Thanks Sue, Mike
Honest Mike travelling again! I worked out of Cairo in the 90s, very familiar with these tombs.
Thanks James, Mike
I just love all your trips and commentary!
Thanks Nena, Mike
Great video as always Mike. Thanks for the music video at the end. It was an added treat.
Thanks Dean, Mike
Mike, I really enjoy the anecdotes you share from your experience. Thanks!
Thanks Matt, Mike
Lol.. even the camels didn't want you over there.. love your videos Mike
Thanks Kyle, Mike
Coal mining blues! Great tune Mike.
I like how you demystified the pyramid construction with actual examples.
Thanks Jim, Mike
Thank you Mike for the information. Very impressive! Since I have been following you, I have learned a lot about cement and stones. Thank you for the video!
Thanks Bob, Mike
Fascinating video, thank you for sharing Mike.
Thanks Joey, Mike
You have a great life. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Robert, Mike
Thanks for the video, Mike. I loved this one.
I also enjoy all of your masonry videos. About to start my CMU block storm shelter soon, thanks to you.
Thanks Ernest, Mike
I like your take on the pyramids, I agree with you. The entire place over there is a cemetery. I just now realized you have your own website. Pretty cool! (I follow your Amazon shop too (for some time now), going to pick up a hammer on there sometime soon.) Thanks for the video!
Thanks Luke, I appreciate that, Mike
Mike, were you able to look at the Serapeum of Saqqara? The "Apus Bulls" sarcophagi? Puzzling place.
Hi Roger, they had jewelers in those days that could do anything with stone, thanks mike
Carpe Diem….not even fertilizer in the desert. Seize the Day. Thanks Mike. Incredible.
Thanks Again Mike, Mike
always enjoy the perspectives. keep it simple. thanks
Thanks old man, Mike
Hey Mike, that band really.... rocks!
Thanks Gary, Mike
Amazing how you show cutting stone with another stone. Thanks. I think you would enjoy visiting the Sagrada Familia church in Barcelona, Spain. Some areas look like a castle and the building has all kinds of windows with colored glass.
Thanks angel, I heard of that, thanks Mike
You are a very knowledgeable person and an extraordinary Mason.
Thanks Matthew, I appreciate the kind words, Mike
Be aware of the camels Sir!
Thanks for yet another great video, from the pyramids of Egypt.
Looking forward for your next great upload Sir.
Kind regards
Richard
Thanks Richard, Mike
Hi Mike, I’d love to see the video where you carve a 100T diorite sarcophagus with bronze hammer and drag it into the sérapéum of saqqarah. Good luck!
None of them are 100 t to begin with. The heaviest is 45 t and people been moving that with primitive tech up until the era of photography.
To hollow out a box, and that's all they are boxes, imperfect without right angles or flat sides, it has been shown how to drill cut and carve the internal corners without steel, with better results than the Serapeum boxes. The narrow corridors are helpful because they give a place where the levers can be used without bringing in frames.
They found a box still raised on a sand bed, and winches inside as well as traces of wooden rails.
Good luck on getting out of the lost high tech thing. Just like the ancient stone masonry it's not impossible. You just have to put some effort in.
Hi Adrien, no problem, gonna take a lot of time and money, I got a PayPal account that you can contribute to so I can get started, thanks mike
@@SacredGeometryDecoded please show me a picture of one being moved. Please quote anyone saying they moved it...
@@adrienledoux357 you want a photo from thousands of years ago, or you to see heavy stones being moved with " primitive" tech?
If the second option then sure I can show lots of examples. Though first tell me you a least tried to look for yourself and couldn't find any. I'd be interested to know what search terms you used.
If you really can't find them, and you seem to care about it, then I'll send you links, lots of them.
This was recently posted,
th-cam.com/video/47HAYcii_Q8/w-d-xo.html
They have the receipts of them being moved, the names and even how much they were paid.
@@SacredGeometryDecoded Nice moustache! This is only mixing Mariette with Houdin. You should go there and visit the persian shaft too!
Thanks Mike for educating me. Your channel is the best. I'm learning alot. It is like going to college of Masonry.
Thanks, Mike
Wow! Putting the wheel around the block interesting.
Thanks, it's a common sense, time and money, nothing more, thanks Mike
I didn't know that Mike made music 😊 Thanks for the video!
Thanks Daan, Mike
I would love to see what Mike thinks is a big deal...😀
Thanks Rogue, Mike
3:50 "I'm just over the hill, a little bit."
60 is the new 40 Mike!
Thanks Masashi, Mike
Thanks, Mike great info. I saw a video saying they used concrete to make the bigger pyramids.
Hi John, not a chance, it's all stone, thanks mike
Nice video Mike. Very informative.
Thanks Brian, Mike
Hey Mikey God-bless you buddy
Thanks Leo, Mike
thanks for this video. Question: can I lay a course of 8" block on top of existing 8" block wall with ladder ties and not use rebar? thought I'd ask.
Hi Roger , I can't say unless I was there to see it, thanks mike
@@MikeHaduck btw: I've been following your channel/videos for years and have really learned a great deal about masonry. I was able to lay the block in question by watching your vids. It's no big deal. Lol
Thanks Roger, Mike
Nice music, I would also like to see you debate with someone like Ben in uncharted X as to his claim of precision stone work. Having farmed in West Virginia, I know a lot of the old timers did some really remarkable things when it came to lifting and stone removal in their fields which in a few more years, there will probably be people claiming they employed aliens. People back then had more time and patience and weren't a lazy as people are today.
Hi Wayne, I seen the old timers raise houses with wedges when they were short of jacks, a lot of the guys are not stone masons or movers or quarry men, what they are doing is spreading fake news, lol, thanks mike
And they didn't have 10,000 time wasting things to distract them from work when they got to doing it: no radio, no tv, no telephone, no quick car ride to the coffee shop, they worked right on the farm no commuting time, thirty minutes walk at most to the furthest corner, almost no priority work beyond milking a few cows, mucking out and putting down for the horses, picking eggs from a few dozen hens, bit of gardening and then the work of the season was their task.
What's you take on the geopolymers and the UHPC? Reads like there is progress on making alternate hydraulic cements, not using the more heat intensive or at least critical thermal control to make Portland, chemically without the Portland. I need to read into more, though my little perspective was more of a silica glass like method... though different. UHPC is just neat in general. Not so easy to find the metal fibers though... or at least that I've found for small batch cast projects. Great detail as always! Appreciate the details sir. John 14:6
Thanks John, stone is stone, some is harder than others, that's all they used in those days. Thanks Mike
Another week another dollar. And another zMike Haddock lesson in masonry.I'm a rich man.
Thanks Banner, I appreciate the kind words, Mike
Thanks for sharing Mike!
Thanks Hopper, Mike
I’ve been watching Uncharted X videos and am curious about what you feel about the millions of granite and diorite vessels they have found within the oldest grave sites in Egypt. These vessels have super fine circular marks that indicate that they have been turned on a lathe. There are tube drill marks and cavities board out in the hardest stone in the world that’s tremendously harder than any copper or bronze cutters. It’s really compelling that it’s possible that a much earlier civilization made these artifacts and the Egyptian people inherited them and claimed them as their own. The collapsed pyramid at Meidun reveals its core, and the walls of the core are so flat and angular that it looks almost like poured concrete. I know if you take quartz and rub it on quartz that’s you can scratch it and wear it down, but for them to take diorite sand and use it to wear a hole in more diorite still would have been tremendously time consuming. And I know it’s not like they had not much else to do. But it would have taken months and months of time to make a bowl that they’d just leave in a tomb.
Hi Joe, It's just time and money, thanks Mike
This is fantastic
Thanks Human, Mike
You explain it well MH! What do you think about those big trilothon stones at baalbeck that weigh a million tons ea.? They are placed well too.
Hi Rudy, all it takes is time effort and money thanks Mike
Really cool video mike!!
Thanks Anthony, Mike
Great presentation. Thank you.
Thanks Ken, Mike
Love the music!
Thanks Raymond, Mike
Hi Mike. Curious, do you find a lot of fossils in that shale up in Wilkes Barre? Thanks
Hi closer, yes I do, just walk the culm banks or where they are strip mining, thanks Mike
how many times have you been to Egypt Mike?
Hi skitzo,,, three times, Mike
The great pyramid was built to scale of the earth using sacred geometry. Pretty fascinating stuff. Plus it was a forest at that time…
Hi donk, I don't think it's that big a deal, the cathedrals are more impressive to me , thanks, Mike
@@MikeHaduck those follow sacred geometry too…. Just more recent and elaborate. Think they are both fascinating
cool! would love to have seen Egypt .
Thanks Tim, I was there 3 times, that's enough. Lol, Mike
@@MikeHaduck awesome ! I saw the work down in mexico down near cancun . I love looking at old stone work. the wife is from wales , so when you mention old castles , I've seen tons of close . funny how old roman roads still exist but our roads need to be repaired every other year. old school for the win.
Fascinating!!
Thanks again, Mike
Good show.
Thanks al, Mike
I have laughed for years about all the ideas people have about how something was done instead of asking a stonemason. You see it everywhere, experts guessing instead of talking to guys that actually do the work.
Working man always knows much more than society thinks
Thanks James, it's true, lots of craftsman out there and instead they are listening to the bedroom archeologist, Mike
thanks you 🙏
Thanks Vn, Mike
Thankyou for the tour of Egypt. You look like "INDIANA JONES". I love it.🤣
Thanks Anna, Mike
Pretty interesting. The pyramids are over 4,500 years old and they are still standing tall. Stone is a great building material.
Thanks Das, Mike
A lot of answers here thank you.
Thanks ,Mike
Hold on Mike, you mean to tell me it wasn't done by space aliens....
Hi Bill, orange ones, lol, Mike
Wow great content! Would love to go there and check it out one time in my life!👍
Thanks Nick, it's a crazy part of the world, thanks Mike
I always heard there wasn't any Quarries near the tombs? Did the slaves drag those giant pyramid blocks long distances to build them? Either way it is still amazing to see to this day, Thanks for sharing 👍 you always make great videos.
Thanks Steve, the whole Giza plateau was a quarry, thanks Mike
Its a commonly held myth that the pyramids where built by slaves when in fact the workers where paid and feed well.
I like how a stone mason and presumably someone who's not an archeologist, comes up with his own, completely plausible theories about archeological sites inspired by personal experience. The idea that the pyramids originated out of a habit of putting bigger and bigger stones on a grave to prevent people from looting those stones sounds to me like a plausible, down to earth, acceptable opinion a lot or most archeologists might agree with (and that has nothing to do with aliens).
Thanks Reddo, Mike
Yes - but also religion played a role. The ancient Egyptians believed that to exist in their afterlife you needed several things:
1 - a body or vessel for the spirit (Ka) to inhabit. No body = no afterlife. That is why they mummified their bodies - and why coincidentally they began to place statues of themselves in tombs and temples. They believed that absent a body - robbers typically destroyed the mummy in the course of robbing it - the spirit would cease to exist in the afterlife. Destroying the mummy prevented the spirit of the dead from haunting the robber. Also that is why you see so many statues in Egypt with their noses chiseled off as they believed doing so prevented the spirit of the person from breathing = thus preventing them from inhabiting the statue.
2 - preserving one's name and making offerings. Pharaohs needed their names to be remembered in order to exist in the afterlife. Thus they built tombs to "stand out" + temples where offerings could be made in their name. Wealthier Pharaohs who were younger and thus could expect to rule a long time built larger/fanciful tombs. Pharaohs during periods of economic plight and who might have been older sufficed with smaller less ornate tombs.
3 - grave goods. The Egyptians believed that what you used in life you also used in death. Thus grave goods were instrumental in Egyptian burial practices - even servants. So wealthier individuals would be buried with miniature statues of people doing various tasks to symbolize servants in the afterlife. Unfortunately that promoted tomb robbing of course. A papyrus detailing the trials of tomb robbers in the Valley of the Kings during the reign of Ramses IX relates how they would bypass the tombs of lessers to focus on royalty as they knew that is where the money was.
So placing stones offers a measure of protection against marauding animals. It later was seen as an attempt to prevent pilferage via larger coverings such as mastabas with false entrances. Increasing tomb sizes was a method of "keeping up with the Jones" whereby Pharaohs tried to outdo their predecessors to make themselves stand out. Later Pharaohs during the New Kingdom went further. They would chisel the names of Pharaohs off of their temples and have their own chiseled in its place to take credit for what others before them did - this is where those supposed "helicopters" or "tanks" etc. come into play. Anything to put their own name out there.
Whatever, it's still a tomb, thanks Mike
What's Up Mike ??? So basically the entire area is a Cemetery ??? Where people were buried, including the Pharaohs in their big 'ol Pyramids ... Great ... You saved me a trip ...
Thanks super dive, I appreciate it, Mike
watch out for mummies
Thanks geo, lol, Mike
The Aliens were great at mining!
Thanks Declar, Mike
Not a big deal folks!
Thanks Tyler, Mike
That's no tumb that's a mine shaft
Thanks Jan, Mike
Those are Limestone Alien droppings. You canst fools me.
Thanks aloha, I agree, lol, Mike
If only honest Mike could be in the band....aaahhhh.no big deal.
Thanks Texs, Mike