How Were the Pyramids Built?
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- Key aspects of pyramid construction from quarry to completion.
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The most common misconception about the pyramids is that they were built by slaves. Recent archeological evidence suggests they were instead constructed by paid workers. Some may have performed this work as a form of tax payment for several months of the year. Skilled engineers would have planned and orchestrated the building. An estimated 10,000-20,000 people would have been working on a pyramid at any one point in time. They were well fed and provided with shelter near the pyramids. Plus their burial sites close by indicate they were respected and were not slaves.
Much of the limestone was quarried from the Giza plateau itself, meaning the stones did not need to be transported far. The granite casing of Menkaure's pyramid, on the other hand, was transported from Aswan, around 600 miles, or 1000 km up the Nile.
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Well the pyramids were built before Isaac Newton invented gravity, so the stones weight wasn't a problem.
Sol Invictus true
is this nasas answer?
you get it hahahahahhh
/r/whoooosh
gloss No he invented gravity
Q: "How were the Pyramids built?"
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Very interesting and entertaining video, not even mad
@@davidacosta193 this is the first Veritasium video I dislike
I knew before click in .......
Actually new research has found the river used to come much closer, and canals were built. These rocks were carried in by barge and only moved across the desert a short distance. Ruins in the desert were originally built when the river flowed there as well before the river changed course.
@@immortalsun but no answer was given, i felt like it was a giant slap in the face. Not used to it in a Veritasium video.
I love that these pyramids are too big to be destroyed. They can be weathered but no empire could take apart the pyramids. It would take considerably more effort to destroy it than building it. It’s a structure that I think the Egyptians knew would outlive their society and maybe humans as a whole. This was their legacy.
One well placed nuke could take out all 3 at once now. Technology is scary
Nuclear hydrogen bombs: lol
I agree with most of what you said except for the part about it taking more effort to destroy than it took to make it. Even without modern technology that statement wouldn’t be true. It would take an insane amount of work to destroy it but that only shows how much work and ingenuity was put into it in the first place
@@lapiztik8620 still ruins would be left
@@lapiztik8620 Well. Nuke wasn’t invented when pyramid was built. If they had the brain to creat such a magnificent structure 4000 years ago, I’m pretty sure they could easily build a structure which can even withstand nuke, if it was built today.
The building of the pyramids, the forging and making of tools, the agricultural input, the building of towns to support the workers and everything else is simply incredible
I see you like me, are watching this in 2023
"If you consider a ten hour work day". Nope. Not when slavery is at play. Lol 🤣 It's not a myth....funny how "skilled workers" makes them not slaves....in the USA the short time we had slaves (relative to Egypt...) we can say they became very skilled...if were not previously. Most slaves in Egypt didn't have Egyptain burial. Perhaps the ones that they considered worthy yes...
They know how they got the stones from that specific quarry how...? If we don't have documents about this? Did I miss something? What says there weren't closer quarries back then?
Ramps found....so concrete evidence. Or STONE evidence .. 😅 I remember learning how the pyramids eere made in Middle school in the 90s. I think it was one of the first times I learned what I was taught as fact was only theory, not "proven without a reasonable doubt." But now everything is so muddled that could be it was well known as fact and people are too hungry for other explanations.Though like many ancient cultures, especially ones with pyramid structures...the Egyptians seemed to worship what could've been fallen angels or even Nephalim. Perhaps after being given certain knowledge and/or technology etc.
Don't forget...in anthropological terms a ramp IS technology. And if we don't know plans of the pyramids I'd like to know more about their theory that no wheels were invented yet, considering wheels could've been made of materials that might weather away faster...what about their chariots etc ..when were those made vs the pyramids? Seems pretty inconsistent to me. Carbon dating isn't super accurate either most times in ancient history...the further back we go so makes one wonder. 🤔
@@ari3lz3pp i ws with you until you said fallen angels and nephilim
Imagine being part of a civilization in which you worked so hard, that a future civilization believes that "aliens did it."
because Egyptians were not white XD
@@malezacaminante9577 plz man no racist stuff
We’ve done way more so people will believe it was gods who made our buildings and all of our technologies.
What if they would good hard working people and everyone was involved in it for years
hahahaha underrated comment
The Egyptians just figured out how to change it to creative mode.
Lmao good one
@@burntrice4418 Eh not really. Probably a copied comment, to be honest. Not entirely sure though.
@@aldrichsmith it was still funny though..
@@burntrice4418 Well, then thanks I guess. Have a great day my friend.
Suprised nobody has griefed them with tnt
Came here from an old repost showing the title and the Top comment.
Same
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Same bro
I love how a single youtuber can make all this quality science/history content, yet the actual History Channel on television can't do any better than pawn stars or storage wars.
What's television?
The history channel epitomises history 😂 History channel is literally history itself
Or talk about “ancient aliens” lol
Yep they just take every other video of people with no clue and just say the same thing sorta, Brilliant. Building the pyramids a step by step video is brilliant
😂 you win the comment section my friend 👏
I think they started from the bottom
Taikamuna hi
...now they're dead
Taikamuna I thought they stared at the top and worked Down
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Sol invictus
It's so awesome how much content accumulated over the years in this channel. I am a relatively recent subscriber and it always blows me away when I get some video-recommendation from this channel.
I hope you revisit this topic some day and collect some experts and kind of give an overview about the current theories on how such big project had been realized back in the days
Why do I always discover new interesting channels right before I was going to sleep...?
Same here lol
me rn
+Corvux its youtube.. Come back later and it will still be there for you.. so..you can go to sleep..
Hahahaha, YES!!!!
Same and it's the middle of the day smh.
Spoiler Alert: He has no idea how the pyramids were built.
If anything at least he raises the questions people should be asking themselves
ik how
Man built? Who saw it?
I built them mate
@Lady M They were, just in what would eventually be Europe.
I went to the Pyramids to finish some quests in Assassination Creed, I must admit I must appreciate the level of detailing they have done and it was a sight to behold after climbing up the pyramid, you can see the entire city from there.
Origins?
*assassionstion*
Bruh I came from that one Ig post😂😂😂
Me 2 bruhhh
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Imagine how beautiful the pyramids looked like once they were completely finished and the sun shined brightly onto to them.
And the pharaoh, saying to the builders: behold the magnificence I have created!
Or little green man from mama-ship, saying to the pharaoh: Hey, Khufu! Dis yours now, me needs to go, did it for lolz! gl hf
bruh it probably took a couple years or even a decade building it layer by layer or smthin so the lower parts probably have been cracked n stuff
@@yuvl32 that is probably exactly what he said, Quran mentions: “And Pharaoh said to his people: “I have not known a god for you other than myself; so Haman, light me a fire to bake clay so that I could build a rise high enough, maybe I see Moses’ god whom I think is a liar.”
@@pavel9652 hahaha
The Egyptians used an analog 3D printer to build the pyramids.
+zerospin As valid a theory as lifting blocks weighing tons by hand :)
Zyklon - Drake. I'm not sure exactly why you think that is implausible, considering the fact that it only takes 3 people to move an average sized limestone block (with respect to the Great Pyramid) with a sled and a bucket of water. Several people have demonstrated it on youtube. The larger blocks, weighing 6-10 tonnes, only require you to increase the number of workers. Again, we can do it today without any modern tools, contrary to the lie told in basically every "Pyramid Mystery" documentary, which always claim that our cranes can't lift the largest stone (which is only true because we don't make 20 tonne counter weights to keep the crane from tipping over, because we don't use massive stones for our modern buildings). Questioning the time it took to build the pyramid is perfectly reasonable, or the method by which they transported stones to the upper levels. There was actually an internal ramp found not long after this video was made that you might find interesting. But the idea that they couldn't possibly have lifted the stones is pure nonsense. We know for a fact that they could do it, because they drew pictures of themselves doing it in the tombs of the architects who designed them. We have the sleds they used, the tools they cut the stone with, and even a ramp now (albeit internal, as part of the pyramid's structure). Not to mention the massive work camps excavated around the pyramids, complete with the workers tools, chisels, sleds and so on.
Isn’t that just a bunch of dudes, some blueprints and blocks?
George Mason thanks for the paragraph, altho I could also read a whole book instead of reading the paragraph of a comment u took probably 5 years to type :)
Best explaination so far (lol)
Who else came here just to see the meme?
I came here because of a pic from a meme channel but now im learning a lot
LOL SAME
They used mods
I wonder how many they used, because it would have gotten pretty laggy with all those people on at the same time along with those mods, not to mention the giant structure they're constructing. But who knows maybe they had a beast of a server.
Lol
Nice one! They almost broke world physics
w 😂
Piotr Rywciu lol,"wheels mod"
What I found most interesting about pyramids is those projects are so costly that can easily ruin the kingdom budget, the wealth used could be used for agriculture or defence still they choose to do it but, then those projects thousands of year later brings a considerable amount of wealth to Egypt by tourism, a generation worked for a generation 5000 year later.
hmm.
well if you didn't know they actually made pyramids to be tombs for the pharaohs that is why is worked really hard day and night on it and there are lots of pyramids scattered around Egypt and every one of them had the purpose to be a tomb and a place to protect the pharaoh's body from the tomb thieves as they wanted to enter the tombs to take the gold and resources left in them that is the reason they made pyramids.
Interesting point! Never thought of it that way before
That's what we call long term investement.
@@VykingVale so in other words blacks built the pyramid so the brows people can benefit thousand of years after??
Who came here after watching it on meme channel?
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Imagine the look on the faces of the Egyptians if someone would have rolled up in a cart or wagon with wheels on it right after the last block was placed on the pyramid. "Hey guys! Whatcha doin?"
hahahahahahahaha
or if you suddenly time travel and roll up to the pyramid with a forklift... xD
I just woke my dog up 😂
homie probably had the wheels for a minute just being stingy tho
It's Me Lmao
_"Work so hard that people in the future believe that aliens did it!"_
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Yeah poor people in 1800s 🤕
@@aoskej7952 what do you mean 1800 these pyramids were build 4000 years ago not 200
@@asimhussain8716 Wrong.
@@banielha hahaha.. any proof? XD this pyramids are so accurate that we could not even build it with this accuracy today ;) besides the fact that some stones are so heavy that we cant lift them up either ;)
@@DareVinci Really? Do you even think what you write or just repeat blindly things like "we can't even do this or that" without understanding? ;)
How much people came here after seeing Instagram meme😂
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Came from meme page🤣
😂 😂 Same here
I love that even in this age we still can't figure it out.
We kinda did
@@IronpenWorldbuilding tell us then lol
@@davidmccarthy8599 We know that they rafted huge rock pieces to the build site.
@@IronpenWorldbuilding yeah n used mud as scaffold etc anno man 10000s yrs bk hard graftin n yet these days cant do it baffles me n its dizzin the blood sweat n tears if were clever enuff to build them then clever enuff to leave wee clues there arguments both sides was debating with the Mrs n bn interesting thanks man very intreging place facinates me
@@davidmccarthy8599 that is the worst english ive ever read. I didnt even understand what you said
Pyramid worker 1: I hear they made this new thing called a "wheel" to help move heavy objects.
Pyramid worker 2: Meh, I give it 2 weeks.
Pyramid worker 2: Oh my Ra this is great!
Hallo oldi world breakdown people, my wheels are stuck in the sand again!
Wheels are utterly useless in sand and in mud. That's 95% of Egypt normally, and in the flood: 100%. Egyptians used the wheel for things later on, just like everyone else - but not to travel across the desert on!
@@Chris.Davies Yet, I don't see many sleds in the Dakar Rallye, but plenty of vehicles with wheels.
Honestly i think these should be restored. Can you imagine how spectacular it would look against the sun and stars?
yall know we just came here to pause the video and look through the comments for that one meme we saw
This was much less informative than I expected.
Holy spirit was used in Egypt and was worshipped from people who had way too much of it to people who could regenerate their soul using the pyramids.
Alexander the great (Before the slaughter of egypt): Is it true that one of their pharohs has the strength of 1.000.000 men?
Servent: That's what the reports were saying.
Rome: Slaughter them! ()
@@The-illuminated ☝️🤪
@@Leggir What you goof? God is one.
@@Leggir You can not steal souls.
I don't think people realize how old these pyramids are
By the time the last Wooly Mammoth died, the pyramids were 1000 years old
Cleopatra was born closer to the moon landing than the building of the pyramids.
No, by this time they didn't have the wheel or pulley.
DauntingDays Completely untrue. The pyramids are about 3000 yrs. old. The woolly mammoth died out about 4000 yrs. ago. They died 1000 years BEFORE the pyramids.
***** 2500bc roughly actually which is 4500 years ago
***** Pyramids are much older than 3000 years.
The wheel WAS invented long before the pyramids.
Axel Bengtsson Yeah, but what about the wheel and axle?
I saw the meme of this video and i came here 🤣🤣🤣
Imagine how they looked when not only they were beautiful and new but also a beautiful city around it and probably some kind of decorative park leading to them.
The obviosly used a Ford pick up truck to carry all those stones. Maybe in the later years they upgrades to a Toyota Tundra to save on repair costs
hahahahaha made my day
David Stewart then they saw top gear and bought the Toyota Hilux to save on maintenence costs LoL
I don't think a Tundra could pick up even one of those stones. lol
Yea if they put the 3 ton stone in the bed. Only F350 Diesel has enough power to haul it . If they used a trailer they could have used the tundra pretty easily. And cut down costs since Ford Diesels are very expensive.
maybe used trailers,and the f350 sounds about right.I think they found tire marks in the desert
The biggest flex in history
Haan XD
Best comment 😂
It blows my mind that some of the people who live in Egypt today are direct descendants of the people who built them. Yet the knowledge of how they were built has been lost while the pyramids themselves have stood for all that time. Wouldn’t somebody, somewhere have thought “I’m proud of that achievement so I’m going to write down how we did it.” It’s as astonishing as the pyramids themselves.
the ancient egyptian pharaohs did write shitloads of stuff down, its just that people forgot how to read hieroglyphs
After that many generations, chances are very good, that you yourself are a direct descendant of someone that built the pyramids. I would even say it's absolutely certain you are. Thinking about it that way the pyramids truly became a testimony of humankind.
came to this video after watching a documentary and recognizing him in it! it’s called ancient impossible in case you were wondering and it goes more in depth (i have no idea where you can watch it though because it just came on tv)
To be fair, sleds through sand probably works much better than wheels through sand. To use wheels, they would need to build roads, which would be a significant additional bit of work.
Yeah, they work so well that experimental archeaologists try every year to replicate it and come away with super clumsy attempts that in no way prove it could have been done with the speed required to lay 2,5 million stones, each one of them every 3 minutes whilst weighing 2 tonnes on average, [EDIT: 12 hours] a day for 20-30 years in order to build it in time they claim it was build in and with the initial unparalelled precision.
And that is only the Great Pyramid, let alone the other 2.
@@oleyullah So what you're saying is..?
@@aggebojkalos6518 aliens?
You probably believe they used a rock to cut granite. 😂
@@penguinpog6674 do people still not know that the majority of the pyramids stones were formed and poured like concrete? I didn't think that people still believed that these were solid stones weighing multiple tons and they were moved by hand up ramps......
So...how much was it to climb?
+Patrick Kilduff what's bush eating in that picture? looks like a cat. lmao
+Daniel Muriungi That's Jeremy Clarkson
Evan Rozsa
im pretty sure that's bush
+05r13539 No actually its john cena
+Daniel “Riungi” Mbaabu I think the picture is a cat but it's obviously been photoshopped lol. The original is him biting into corn.
First, I love this channel and your videos, but in this case… I think you’re missing some obvious questions, like: how would pounding dolorite on granite produce such fine and thin cuts and/or the perfect angles that are evident all over (like the granite lids underground in bedrock chambers)… One of the thin cuts was shown behind you in a frame or two when you did the dolorite demonstration. Dolorite and / or copper tools with sand as grit just doesn’t add up.
First is they are less "perfect" than you assume. Look at pictures of the Great Pyramid from a distance = it appears "clean". Now look at ones of it close up = note the obvious imperfections. Thus your brain plays tricks with your eyes all the time via "filling in the blanks" when you observe something from a distance.
Next is dolerite and fire was used to obtain workable shapes from the bedrock = blocks or obelisks. Those in turn were then finished using other tools - copper/gneiss stone tools and polishing using abrasives such as corundum or sand. You must also take in account "dating" as well. Egyptian sites were destroyed + cannibalized for raw materials to build other things. Thus if you see a picture of say a block with saw marks in it you can not assume they date to when the temple or whatever was built as they could just as easily reflect work centuries later - using iron tools - where someone was cutting up a destroyed temple for stone to make something else.
Last point. Granite sarcophagi as but one example date back to at least Djoser's time. Also not just Pharaohs had stone sarcophagi. There was a huge economy in ancient Egypt around burial items. Egyptologists have unearthed underground caches at Saqqara which contained mummified animals for burial or offerings - literally millions of them. There was a huge industry built around fabricating things which spanned millennia. So stone quarries might have partially completed or entirely completed sarcophagi on hand having started work on them previously awaiting some customer. Do not assume they began to make these things only on demand.
@@varyolla435 That is popular theory since there are no tools found on sites. Many precise cuts cant be explained by that theory, and it would take hundred years for one polished sarcophagus to be made. And there are objects (granite sarcophagi, vases, cups) with visible machining marks and so precisely made that only recently in our history did we have tools to measure them accurately. Maybe some vases would be possible to be made with hands but it would take 50-100 years and still wouldn't explain machining marks, since pounding and polishing stones with abrasive doesn't produce those.
@@TDDoooOOOooo Wrong on all accounts. So much for "internet claims". Dig deeper.
Hammering would be a bulk material removal process. You remove most of the material by pounding because it's relatively fast. Then you do fine finishing with abrasives. That is easily enough to get the precision of the sarcophagi, which are not nearly as precise as you think they are.
This method of imprecise bulk material removal followed by precise finishing is common in virtually all subtractive manufacturing processes, from those done today, all the way back for thousands of years.
@@TDDoooOOOooo You are pulling numbers completely out of thin air. Usually the advanced ancient technology theorists don't quantify their claims, so at least you've made a bit of progress.
Great vid chief !
Seems to me you got some Egyptian blood in you after all :)
*Some minor notes* :
"Wheels" were well known in Egypt at the time, but they were never half as practical as "sledges" for moving big objects exceeding a certain density.
"Zallaga" _(the Egyptian word for "Sledge" & wherefrom the latter originates linguistically) _ means slippery in the sense of viscosity (like a snail emerged in its own mucus), not in the sense of surface smoothness (like silk).
In the tableau you featured, you'll find that the man with the jar is actually pouring a mixture of natural Mucins (from various plant & animal sources) whereby he's creating a "Gel-track" under the rails ..[ like a giant snail/tank :) ]
The the other guy who is clapping on the top is actually the "coxswain" of the 4 puller-teams. He's responsible for coordinating the 4 alternating discrete pulls in a cyclic rotation. ( like a 4-cylinder engine :)
He must insure that the sledge never stops to a halt, all the way until the lay-down site.
_ [ it is crucial to keep moving within the comforts of "Dynamic Friction" to avoid burnouts in both Man-power & Mucin under "Static Friction" ... one could only imagine the colossal heat generated by a 1st nudge to such a Gigantor _ :)
All in all great show chief 👍
yeah I'd bet wheels would just get stuck in the sand, using a wheeled to pull such a big rock would require industrial style roads and vehicles wouldn't it? basically trucking it
@@supercellex4D Exactly !
Reinforced roads would've been a necessity.
However, for the delivery of many such structures, even roads wouldn't suffice.
A wheeled mode of transit therefor meant industrial-class wheeled- *carts on rails*
"If these workers had been slaves, they would not have received such honorable burials."
Or maybe the Pharaoh believed it was important to bring his slaves to the afterlife too...
Wow , the king would have and still have a horrible shock. To find himself in hell fire. That would have been his after life.
Wow , the king would have and still have a horrible shock. To find himself in hell fire. That would have been his after life.
You mean Jeff bezo.
@@rosettaeagle1718 That's just speculation..
@@ashok7946 Singular Bezo.
It was easy!!
each worker get 10 friends to add a block, and each of them get 10 friends to add a block #pyramidScheme 😄
😂😂😂😂nice one
Lol... You got me there
Haha
Lol such an underrated comment
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Eugenes memes right
@@user-lo9kl1sq9b yah im from there
"Wheels weren't not invented then"
Me riding in a chariot in AC Origins : Uh, okay.
AC Origins takes place at the end of the Ptolemaic period.
That's more than 2,500 years after those Giza pyramids were built.
"but it's not free"
welp, that gonna cost a lot, since you're a tourist
Some of that money is given as a bribe to the police force there as it's illegal to climb the pyramids.
Mi Stein Yeah it is. It used to not be illegal but a lot of tourist died climbing back down. Climbing up is the easy part. Coming down , some of the stones are over 6ft high. To jump down that far is a risk as you might slip or the stone breaks off.
@@zzzarkka I tried in 89, it's relatively easy (at least forf me, I'm 6'4"), stones are 80-120 cm tall sometimes more... usually people climb a few of steps and get tired pretty fast. Even in april past 9-10 am it's already too hot there.
Tom F I know climbing up is the easy part. Climbing down is the hard and dangerous part.
@@mistein837 Yeah there is only one person that can climb it
So they can mathematically get every alignment down to the perfect degree to markings that wrap the planet and to a star constellation but can't think of a wheel?
Devan Matthew and they could replicate a human statue made out of gold aswell
and they couldn't even invent the internet when it's just metal and wires
Devan Matthew - do wheels really make sense in sand? I mean you try to make them sounds dumb but listen to yourself.
Devan Matthew derp. Is the answer.
se7en Errm no it doesn't mean electricity.......
Interesting. Liked the clip. I've heard a theory to the effect that a ramp was indeed used and was part of the pyramid, so that the blocks were pushed up a rising course the coiled around the structure and then backfilled on the way donwn in a manner of speaking.
You should really look into this more. Because this ramp theory cannot explain how any of the interior rose granite was done. The sealed entrance has a wedged formation with a downward angle that was set to slam closed which occurred during the first attempts to enter the main chamber which we still can't open to this day. Also the queens chamber ceiling is confounding, and no internal ramp has been found in scans or radar nothing. There is also the mysterious opening near the top that was found to lead to an inner hall that has a tiny chamber and another opening. So they wouldve had to build and extior ramp and the dimensions of this would be astronomical. Not to mention carrying 5-7 80ton granite rectangles for the kinds chamber alone. The amount of wood it would take to support this at the height of the actual chambers holds the ramp theory in great question. Not to mention we have no archeological evidence of any saws or tools on the scale that would be needed for such massive excavation and in 20years at that
I came here through meme 🤣 😆😆😆 lol
Me too bro
@@j.venkatasandeep1894 😆👍
We should build another pyramid. Just to see if modern technology granted us the ability to do so.
do you assume we havent built another pyramid since Giza?
@@CptFishy yes
Cpt. Fishy glass panes on a hollow building don't count
You cant really think we couldnt build a pyramid with modern technology
About 500 meters
Mighty architecture is the signature of a mighty civilization. The fact they were wiped out so badly we cant even understand what they were doing just stands as a deep reminder to mankind that no matter how great you think you've become, you will cone to an end
Bro they literally piled on a bunch of rocks
@@rxdr9672 bro show us how to do it then
Just like the Ozymandias poem by Percy Shelley🙌
The Egyptians were mighty but because they were so spoiled by protection of the natural environment like desert, mountains, and canyons they never developed a great defense. That's why they kept getting conquered over and over. Makes you wonder just how strong the usa's D really is since it's never truly been tested because of the pacific and atlantic........
I would say that mighty architecture is, in most cases, a sign of authoritarian government.
Who else came here after watching on Instagram
Let's be honest who came here after that meme? 🙂🤧🤲
Well, now you should add the fact that there are multiple tunnels inside and under each pyramid (and not only the giza ones), so they certainly followed some type of engineering project to make it perfect. Those guys were crazy intelligent.
so intelligent they couldn't make a wheel
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@@barnagainhousefellowship2450 dumbass alert!
bro if u can build a 147m tall pyramid without using wheels u are even smarter
fun fact: all the pyramids were built within 1 centimeter of each other on the level ground. I can't even draw a parallel lines within 1 centimeter :)
@@barnagainhousefellowship2450 Haven't even seen this comment but egyptians did have wheels. It is well known they used animals attached to wagons to carry materials.
One thing that always upsets me when people try to figure out how the pyramids were built is that assertion that they carved out these _huge_ blocks by smashing little rocks repeatedly into them. The time involved in that kind of a technique would absolutely preclude that possibility, as they would have required a gigantic army of people (far too many to fit in all the quarries in Aswan) to produce blocks fast enough to have built the pyramids in 20 years time.
I know it _seems_ like a conspiracy theory to believe that they had technology more advanced than rocks and copper chisels, but the evidence seems quite clear. The Ancient Egyptians were _way_ more advanced than we give them credit for. Consider how much weight these people placed on geometry, precision, craftsmanship. Their language is a lot more advanced than any other language at the time which we know of, and that hints at a _vastly_ greater intelligence than we give them credit for.
The harsh conditions would also have destroyed most "soft" technology, like papyrus records or even string. There is a lot of advanced mathematics that one can do with nothing more than a straight edge and a string, actually, and their later obsession with measuring and dividing up lands into sections is well documented, and used no more advanced materials than chains and poles. They may have even had other "soft" technologies like this. Anything from glass blowing and electroplating of metals, to iron tools or basic wooden furniture, would _not_ have survived to even the Middle Kingdom period unless it was hidden in a Tomb. We forget, the Ancient Egyptians were as distant from the Middle Kingdom as those people were to the Late Kingdom, who were just as ancient to the Ancient Greeks, who were again as ancient to the Ancient Romans, who in turn just as ancient to the Medieval period, who are just as distant in time from us. This is _remarkably_ ancient stuff, here.
Basically, I'm not saying aliens did it. What I'm saying is that modern Egyptology has the Egyptians pegged all wrong.
The problem is that we can only really do assumptions here. So even though it seems a bit unlikely that they used only the "smack stone on stone" technic to do these blocks, we don't have any evidence to back up anything else.
We don't have much evidence to back up any statement at all.
The Wheel was already invented in India (including Pakistan). The Epic of Mahabharat aka the Kurukshetra War (3,102 B.C.E) mentions about the Wheel, which was called "Kaal Chakra". They also had Aircraft at that time. Those aircraft in the Mahabharat were called "Vimana". en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurukshetra_War According to the Mahabharat, 1.7 Billion people (including civilians) perished in the War. Central to the epic is the Bhagvad Gita that was revealed from Krishna to warrior Arjun during the war. The Mahabharat contains 200,000 verses, 2 Million words, and broken down into 18 books, originally written in Sanskrit language.
A technique to easily cut stones, especially ones of such incredible sizes was to wedge large pieces of wood between rocks and soak the wood with water. As the wood absorbs the water, it obviously expands and this exerts huge amounts of force on the rock as it cannot be compressed, causing the rock to be cut. This technique was used by many ancient civilizations. One other example of an ancient society that used this was Carthage. This process is faster and more efficient than just simply using chisels although I image that chisels were also involved, maybe for small touch ups and adjustments for the rocks to fit easier together.
There are many pieces of evidence coming up on the fact that we got ancient people all wrong, Gobekli tepe being one of many other, it wouldn't be that strange that people were more advanced as we thought and some kind of natural disaster (like a comet) sent us back in the stone age. Check out the Joe Rogan Experience #1124 - Robert Schoch
Anyone came back to this video from a community post 😹😹
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Here because of the meme
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same LMAO
Would be awesome to build a modern pyramid to represent how far we've come in our understanding of the universe, using advanced materials so it could potentially last quite a bit longer than the ones of Giza
lol all of our modern pyramids went nowhere close to be as good as the ones made in the past,they will always be the best
I thought the rock in the pyramids were made out of carved stone, not concrete slabs?
That said, wouldn't it depend on the materials used and the actual construction. Before I continue, I don't exactly mean we build another mountain of stone, but a structure, that's pyramid shaped and capable of withstanding a fair amount of time being battered by nature.
Something that shows how we build things using the advances in metallurgy and material science in general.
I mean, I wonder how a 2 inch sheet of carbon fibre around the whole thing would last. Eventually I can see that getting replaced with some kind of woven sheet of carbon nano tubes.
Ah, I picked it up as a rhetorical question, my bad.
You seem to have missed the point in my original comment, the point wasn't to build it the same way as the Egyptians did with modern technology, I couldn't care less about how they did it. So I don't care for any points you make on the subject of building the same way they did.
The point was, to build a completely unique structure, using our knowledge that we have now and design it so that it may last longer than the Pyramids of Giza. Something that represents how far we've come
We wouldn't even need to have a completely solid structure, we could build it fairly light, using things like multi-layered graphene sheets (several inches thick should be good for some time) to cover the outside whilst having the inside climate controlled to help prevent things like the oxidation of any steel that may be used. You know, something like that.
Wouldn't you say that stone is the perfect material to use, if you wanted a structure to last for a long time? Do you think that by using our modern technology, we could build a replica of the Great Pyramid, but to an even greater standard?
Oh Yes AB! It's a great material sure, but there is better if you compare it's properties (though it does depend on the type of stone) to some materials (I don't necessarily mean concrete and steel, heck we could technically build one out of diamond assuming the foundation is sound enough to support such a structure) and why would we even build a replica?
Clearly the Egyptians were Minecrafters.
very funny
This sounds like an insult
@@vinodkumaraug bruh it’s a joke have fun on r/wooosh ;D
The top comment in this video became a legendary meme
I like how you can see that the dismantling of the pyramid was suddenly ceased. It's like they one day while carrying down rock they thought "maybe we should not"
i'm blown away that this video was uploaded in 2014, awesome quality for the time
right? this almost demands its own conspiracy. How the f*ck did he achieve this quality so many years ago?
Bruh 2014 wasn't long ago stop talking like this was uploaded in 1961
I think aliens might have made it.
Please tell me this is sarcasm
“That would have been a sight to behold” but then no digital image of a rendered shiny pyramid. Looks like I gotta do it.
I did try for myself, but I couldn't resist make them look futurist with a flying saucer going out. XD
Did you make it? Can I see it?? :)
I, too, would very much like to see it.
Try Assassin's Creed: Origins or Discovery Tour: Ancient Egypt for digital reconstructions.
Id like to see an updated video on this
I like how I watched this video and it didn’t explain at all how the pyramids were built. At best it explains what they are composed of, but provided not a shred of evidence how those materials were quarried and positioned with astonishing precision. The hieroglyph showing 172 people moving a single statue doesn’t compare to 25k people building those pyramids in 12 years. It’s a feat we can’t in any way replicate today, and the explanation is they poured water on sand to drag multi-ton stones over the desert using ropes, used copper and sand to cut granite, and used Nile flood waters and barges to take a few million tons of granite hundreds of miles to the construction site? Cmon man. I’m not saying it’s extraterrestrial technology but I am definitely saying we need a more plausible explanation.
"You can see where they had to level that ground" *holds camera at 34.6857 degree angle*
The Garden of Eatin fucked me up. Why did you do that man?
@Ki Rex what? what did you google?
@Ki Rex haha it was just a joke
Wait what, no mention of using the desert on their advantage? Create the first base floor, bury it, elevate second floor, bury it, elevate third floor, bury it...
They only had to put dirt around it maybe 30 ft
+Victor Miranda-Martin 1593...
8064...
+Ciscogrande When the pyramids were built the area was forest not desert derrrr
I thought that was common knowledge
Whoops i nearly forgot, hunter gatherers built the pyramids 4500 years ago. hahahaha
john flanders hahah you are joking, right?
+Ciscogrande It seems only the top few % of the population are allowed see certain things as they truly are. If you're from a 2nd world country such as U S A, U K and most of europe you are being transitioned into becoming a 3rd world country by design. So you are fed by your media and authorities things that will help that transition easier and faster.
Along with chemicals that are put in your food and water supplies to decrease IQ. So you are now unable to comprehend whats going on.
I actually feel sorry for you guys, but you can't stop progress i guess.
So for you .... Yes hunter gatherers built the pyramids 4500 years ago and that area has always been and will always be desert!!!
With cutting rates of only a few millimeters per hour, it would take weeks (sometimes months) to cut a single block. Impressive they managed to quarry 1 every 3 minutes to keep up with the placement rate, without sacrificing precision. What is the accepted explanation for that?
Who is here after watching insta memes
Guide: wanna climb it?
Derek: *internal thinking "I know this guy is gonna rob me"
Those tour guides are absolute scammers. They have no right to charge you anything to climab it because it’s illegal to climb the pyramids, and their rates for foreigners are 10 times what they are for locals
@@joshuah.4496 This was my way of thinking.
@@joshuah.4496 yeah becauss they know that american visitors are probably quite rich if they can take a trip to egpyt.
Egyptians: We finally did it!
2020: It was aliens
Egyptians: 👁️👄👁️
true,i was offended i'm an egyptian btw
Ra created the pyramid
What I found most interesting about pyramids is those projects are so costly that can easily ruin the kingdom budget, the wealth used could be used for agriculture or defence still they choose to do it but, then those projects thousands of year later brings a considerable amount of wealth to Egypt by tourism, a generation worked for a generation 5000 year later.
@Jake W they literally said it wasn’t slaves
@Osel Somar and the pyramid builders weren’t “jewish slaves” either :)
lol the jump transition at around 3:12 😂
In same breath, " Amazing forgotten technologies!" "never invented the wheel". bruh
1000 videos about contruction of Pyramids, 0 videos answer the question
There is 1.. check channel Farsight Press video is remote viewing Giza pyramid
2:00 you can use both. Slaves to carry rocks, skilled stone cutters to cut it, and skilled stone fitters to direct the slaves to place the stones
Yeah this is the most common modern theory. You'd need an ENORMOUS amount of laborers, there just wouldn't be enough skilled laborers for the whole thing, and slaves were abundant in ancient Egypt.
Pyramids werent built with slaves
I totally agree, slaves probably did the hardest work of moving the rocks. Skilled workers stepped in to do the final placement and touching up as needed. Basically skilled workers would have been there acting as supervisors to the slaves. That's usually how things work, slaves do the hardest part of a job while everyone else above them does the easiest parts, if they do anything at all.
So many historians in here... 🙄
@@synctrox9679 Epic insight that totally isn't ignoring the nuances of this middle of the road theory
I’m always wondered why we don’t try to re-create how they built to at least test theories
Just because he says that it would require “placing a stone every 3 min” doesn’t mean that they placed stones in series. At any one time, they would have had multiple crews working to place stones at multiple locations simultaneously, in parallel.
Exactly. People who bandy about the inane "X blocks per......." nonsense = hyping for media. No one as you noted actually builds that way. Rather teams working in tandem will be simultaneously laying blocks or whatever in multiple locations. Hence if a single team can place a block in say 2 hrs = then 10 teams can place 10 blocks in about the same span of time in multiple locations and so on. So the more teams working in tandem the more blocks placed in a given span of time. People must stop thinking "1 at a time". 🤔
“You want to climb the pyramids”
“Yeah”
“But it’s not free”
That got him suckered in lol
i wonder how much it cost
20$
100$
1000$
@@TKainZero between $1 and $10
I'm glad Veritasium can remain entertaining and informing while some other science genre youtubers (scishow, vsauce,...) are quickly losing their originality and watchability.
Vsauce hasn't changed because his fans enjoy his videos. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Vsauce2 and Vsauce3 always experiment with new types of videos. So if you want originality, go watch them.
I think the ones you mentioned are still just as highly watchable and entertaining as before... they've just almost completely stopped putting videos out! Same with Veritasium and Smarter Everyday... where the videos at, guys??
standingunder They've always been making new videos at this rate. It's just that the first time you see them, you have a lot of videos to watch. When you watch them all, you have to wait for new ones.
hristaki99 Y'know what you're right... I binge-watched each of those channels when I first found them... :(
standingunder I didn't say anything about watching all their videos in one day. I've been subscribed to Vsauce for over a year and I've just barely finished watching all his videos. Now I feel like he doesn't make new content because back then, I could just click on his channel and find a video to watch. Now I can't because I've watched them all.
I think the pyramids are wayyyyy older and a civilization more advanced built it and got taken out by a cataclysm, then the Egyptians used the remanence of what was left, hence the pharaohs head being considerably smaller that the body, it is believed to have been a lions head and they changed it to the pharaoh
Bahaha go tug off your mate Graham Hancock, you clearly can’t get enough of his BS
Make a video about processing the stone into certain shape. How much energy/work it requires from modern equipment vs human work.
they used troll physics
lol
hax
use magnets for faster
They used water to drag rocks from different places
Egyptian: Ah, so thirsty wheres all the water.
Other Egyptian: Remember it was used to wet sand in order to pull a giant rock.
Joe Smith the water is in the Nile river which is where the civilizations were
Water is a renewable resource
That actually makes me think of Easter Island. They cut down a ton of trees to make rollers to move the stone faces, and though there may have been a blight that destroyed many trees as well, it looks like they kind of hastened their downfall. On a low lying island, with no trees to anchor the topsoil, they weren’t able to grow crops as well, then at all. Then they hunted the game to extinction, then they kept using the tallest beat trees for rollers for that, and eventually... they were destroyed by their actions. Their zeal to appease and praise the high powers they felt loyalty to resumed in an avoidable death of a culture, or at least sped it up really well.
If the gods help those who help themselves, well, they came unprepared, went to a measured battle of logic armed only with prayers and very skilled but starving carvers.
The leader > the people
I never thought of that theory... Nice one. I was thinking they move the stones with sound. That how UFOs fly around too I believe.. good ol vibrations
Same Awsom and quality content even from 7yrs ago
I enjoyed this video as much as ur newest one
The video title must be:
"We don't know how the pyramids were built"
Wish you made a 3D rendering of how they could've looked like back then when they were just new
they were white i think, play assassins creed origins and there it is lol
@@laserpoint3741 Yep, they were white and most likely had a gold top.
The last polished white limestone have been taken off as late as 200 years ago, by an Egyptian king, to build a mosque for himself
Loving the great comments and discussion on this video. You guys rock! Now I'm off to the airport. Phoenix in 24 hours...
you inspire me to do my best in my college courses... i tell my kid (2 yrs old) when we watch your videos how i want him to be as smart as you are... would really like to meet you in phoenix.. i am currently attending Northern Arizona University here in Flagstaff...
So... How were the pyramids built? ;)
You mentioned dolomite rocks and copper saws as tools but that doesn't explain the precision core drilled granite you find scattered throughout.. Let's also not forget the whole hidden underground tunnel system that still hasn't been unearthed!
It's the pyramids!! They, aswell as the symbol itself, is engraved in all our minds. The mysteriousness and secret of it fascinates us all.
Are you guys going to do live shows anywhere else? I love all of your channels and would love to see you guys, but I live in california
How arrogant is our modern society that once humans in the past were so advanced that they built this amazing structure
Pov: You went here just to see that comment from a meme.
Ohh yes😂
3:54 did this smart man just hit a rock on a piece of history?
He was at the quarry, not the pyramids,
But euh, yeah still a piece of history I guess since almost everything is a piece of history…
Entropy always grows! Any guesses what had happened to Sphinx's nose? 😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I'm out mate
Now the history is finished
3:55 Smashes rock into ruins over and over...
Thata was a not free..
I was just thinking that 💀
demon: “why am i being summoned?”
That appears to be the unfinished obelisk at the Aswan Quarry.
Not sure why anyone is allowed into the ruins to smash a rock destroying over time the little evidence that we have to trace back our origins.
Yeah. What an disrespectful idiot.
How did the live show in Alabama went? It seemed a great show with all those stars you mentioned
Here in 2023 we have people like Shaquille oneal and yao ming roaming this earth. I wouldnt doubt many giants who were bigger in size existed back then .
You just got scammed by that bald man who said do you want to climb the pyramid...pyramid climbing Is actually illegal in Egypt😂..your lucky you got away
this was made 5 years ago
Its a pretty important rule imagine if you fell you'd be crippled for life or dead
You're
@@KevinRamirez-nk7cu no actually you're be crippled for life doesn't make sense
@@mostafaahmedibrahim2541 Kevin answered to nano meter actually :D
02:00 - "The Egyptian's didn't know about wheels..."
Except the pieces of Old Kingdom chariots that they have found dating to the same dynasty as the very first pyramid built in Egypt, the Pyramid of Djoser.
I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?! This dude even claims that they used diorite pounders to wear away stone. Has he been asleep the last 15 years?
@@Lamster66 do you not even know what diorite is? Or are you 5?
Pro Tip: Its a very hard stone.
@@Lamster66 if you are correct then you still understand what i meant thus still making you an asshole.(could have stated that in the beginning)
Yea I find it hard to believe the didnt know about wheels when they had such advanced trigonomics and crafty water pumps and levelling systems. Pretty sure even apes can understand the concept of a wheel. Perhaps the problem is that wheels dont work so well in sand.
@@patrickryckman3867 wasnt always sand in Giza.
Who's here after the instagram reel
About that guy who said about isaac newton?
@@ascendantgigachancetosee1in3mi i think so
Yeah me
Me
UnchartedX has a great channel about this sort of thing. I'm always amazed at how academics repeat the mainstream views about the history of the pyramids.....like...how they carved channels in granite by bouncing a stone??? And how they were smart enough to make a pyramid...but not smart enough to roll something heavy on a log??? To anyone who is curious I suggest Graham Hancock / Randall Carlson, Bright Insight. Many others too but that will get you started.
Yes
💯 I watch all of those channels. Makes a lot more sense.
So many unanswered questions. And mainstream academics seems to be quite happy with that.
scrolled down to find this. Yes, everyone must venture down this rabbithole. I did several years ago and have been obsessed ever since. Making my way through Randall Carlson's "Kosmographia" podcast now
My guess they might be older than oldest site tested. I like to think 30000 years