i gotta say, not just your work, which i appreciate very much, but your way of narrating is genuinely enjoyable, the way you build your arguments, and explain everything down to detail is what i wish from everyone who is laying down any argument, the work you do is really awesome, and i look forward to every upload!
I‘m now in Cairo and visited the Egyptian museum today for the first time. Thanks to you I was able to look at some of the objects in display there in a much more inquisitive manner, the level of craftsmanship in some of the older pieces is just mind blowing!
Watching cemetery stone engravers for 35 years, seen turn of the century carvers trying to match that time period they have compressors to use their old chisels, they take a rubbing of the fonts then transfer it to the headstone and chip it out I never seen a stone that looks as clean as the mordern sand blasted ones, but they do match the old style that is what the family was attempting when finished? The old way took much more time could it be that the older statues had been worked on for a longer time?
I have been obsessed with Egypt and their statues since I did a book report on the Sphinx in the 6th grade, I am 54 now. I have a million questions, I watch your videos over and over again with pleasure and gratitude. Thank you for posting them, and will be buying some merch for your work ect.
The dopamine release I get when hearing your intro music is always the same, I know I'm about to treated to a masterfully crafted five course meal of nothing but brain food! Thank you so much for all your hard work Ben, I consider myself very lucky to have found you
Another winner here, Ben. Loved the "Gods Must be Crazy" mention - and so apt. Absolutely a cargo culture on display here but it could be argued, there are more than one.
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
Oh, me too ! I look for small things and it would be helpful to have a video in extreme close up of a particular artifact. Including all sides with good lighting. Exciting! 102822
As a basically life long lover of ancient Egypt, as long as I can remember. This is absolutely fascinating subject and a difference I’ve never been aware of. Like you said at one point about seeing everything in its glory.. it’s hard to even fathom how incredible just some one single pieces would have been.
I highly recommend the Great Courses "The history of Ancient Egypt." Bob Brier does 48 lectures, and they are crazy interesting!!!! It's one credit on Audible which is even crazier to own 48 lectures. Audible used to have all the Great Courses for free it was the most amazing time ever.
This was an exceptional video! Phenomenal commentary, audio/video quality. Fascinating subject matter. This video instantly grabbed my attention and I didn't stop watching until it was finished.
As an illustrator, well as a former illustrator (and artist for fun), I spent many years sporadically sketching Egyptian statues and constructs. Something about the weathered texture of the stone and the desert suns light and shadows that always translated really well onto the page with a good heavy cartridge paper and soft pencil.
I love that you present a full argument every time. You give back ground and entry level information to form your stance about a potential pre-dynastic civilizations each time, so that someone completely unfamiliar with other content you've made can fully understand why you believe this, and I think for that reason it is very compelling.
As most followers know , your research and commitment to Egyptology and ancient history is absolutely phenomenal and groundbreaking. And Yousef and his father are always patiently willing to take time to explain and teach the real wonders and mysticism of these unknown wonders. Without dispute Ben, your tireless efforts are priceless. 🍻
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
Great work as usual Ben. Just awe inspiring. An admission of “we just don’t know how this was done” from the mainstream would be a huge step forward. Love it.
I would love to see them reproduce any of these statues in whole rather than just claiming it's done a certain way, prove it can be done that way. Except there's a reason they have never done it, they can't.
Ben it’s a pleasure to see how far you’ve come. You’ve grown in to a well respected researcher in a field, that demands a lot of attention to details. Now your hanging with people like Randal Carlson, Graham Hanscock and so on. As a long time follower, it makes me proud. Keep up the good work
@@shawnsanborn2057 Don't worry, I will leave you alone on this woo woo channel. Your mental abilities and this silly channel are a perfect match. But remember: "Science works, bitches!" Richard Dawkins in 2013.
Epic work as usual Ben. The mind boggles at what we have lost and what has been hidden and suppressed. Its clear that the history of Humankind is not what we are led to believe and we as a species are far, far older and have risen and fallen barely surviving a number of cataclysmic events. I wonder if that is the reason that there is an obvious manifesto to maintain the 'established timeline'? That evidence found points to a cyclical rise then sudden and cataclysmic fall that is both alarming and threathening to the powers that be.. If there is evidence that civilisations have risen and fallen for tens of thousands of years (if not more!) then religion for one, loses is validity, power and control... Keep up the great work...
Steve, I'm a Bible believer and find nothing wrong with anything Ben said here. It agrees with my Biblical view and it doesn't have to. It's really amazing.
@@mrvax2Hey. Not wanting to get into a theological discussion or argument but it appears to me that most 'believers' cherry pick what they believe in the bible.. Its either literal in which case (for example) its written that the Earth, the Universe and Everything is 7 or 8k years old which is proven to be untrue, or its not literal, in which case what is it other than a collection of passed down and massively rewritten and reinterpreted set of what? Clearly, there was not a bunch of chaps wandering around the Middle East called John, Paul ,George and Ringo so what else has been changed, omitted or amended to fit a narrative defined by a middle ages English King .. Anyway, I'm ok with anyone believing what they wish as long as it does not then forcibly impose on the lives of anyone else..
@@SteveAttwood I'm not sure what material you have seen about the Bible origins. There are New Testament texts made in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It's possible to xlate the Aramaic or Greek into English yourself any time you have questions. In fact, it's fun. We now have software to help you do this easily. BTW: There is no where we find the dates of creation. Anyone who gives you a date is just giving opinion. It helps to carefully look into both sides, pro-Bible, anti-Bible. Then make your own decision.
If cataclysms happen in cycles, and powerful people know this, they will be prepared to weather that storm. They want the rest of us vulnerable to the destruction. They want to be the survivors to carry on the human race.
I never thought about the inherited idea, but I can totally see it, let alone realizing how much sense it really makes. I have noticed some inconsistences in "quality" over the years, but not as much as you have pointed out. The higher quality items were definitely made much earlier by someone else and then reclaimed by Egyptians later on. Obviously, they made their own stuff, but the differences are pretty obvious.
Indeed, consider the fact that it is already plainly understood and accepted that the later dynasties inherited from the former dynasty. 3000 years from the first to the end of the last dynasty. The first dynasty is literally ancient in comparison to latter days of the final dynasty. Cleopatra is closer to the opening of the first McDonalds, than she was to the time the Pyramids of Giza were supposedly built (in just it's currently believed time of construction). Since we already accept this ancient inheritance, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to believe the first dynasty itself also inherited from a former more advanced ancient civilisation.
as an engineer who like to think logically if we human in modern age transition from basic knowledge to digital age in roughly 2000 years, the whole world translate scientific discoveries from European who translate it from Muslims who translate it from Greeks and Chinese and each of them add to the knowledge, it make sense that some sort of advance civilization existed in the past if they have relative peace and prosperity. it won't matter to many people however what really matter if they really existed and died we might face similar fate if we're not far sighted enough and think about the future of our civilization
Keep it up. I would always choose watching your videos over any Nat Geo historical documentary. Truly inspiring to listen to all the research you are doing. Thank you.
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
Absolutely fascinating! Wish we could go back in time and see what kind of civilization built these things and how. A whole segment of our human history we know nothing of, how unfortunate. These documentaries should be on Discovery, Netflix or History channels.
@@hamidhamidi3134 oh Hamid the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians is fairly up in the air they obviously share heritage with the modern day Egyptians but I'd bet it depend on what period of ancient Egypt you would get fair different add mixtures. Plus to take credit for our ancestors deeds especially when it was so long ago is a little bit much. Obviously nothing wrong with being proud of you ancestors. My ancestors once ruled one of the greatest empires ever. Does this give me any kind of power in the modern day unfortunately not......
@@whysogrim697 the author called the people there as a "cargo species", people that somehow ended up with tech they had no understanding of. and the point is, the guides tell tourist their ancestors, as if they are not the culmination of invaders, and conquerors for years and have ties to the contributions other than occupying the land. these invaders have possession of something they neither have lineage to thru blood, nor inheritance. they were the ones that dismantled the monuments to build mosques. there is garbage and trash in the entrance to monuments. africans here thru the slave trade were always told we have no history prior to slavery, and we were inferior, and barefooted and naked until europe saved them, which is obvious lies to support slavery and dominance. most people dont even count egypt as an african society. to date not one movie documentary has ever been produced hinting at egypts original builders or even hints at their origin. people would rather surmise egyptians came from space rather than attribute their accomplishment to africans, who for many years were homogenous. there are sights on the internet (youtube) with stitched together assertions claiming egytpians to be caucasoid (what they will fall back on is the fact that caucasian species now ahas black people included, instead the newbies sharing traits with the original people they undoubtedly come from. recently the term caucasion was formed from a people coming from asia, and forming non melinated people (white euros) at the base of the caucasion mountains. which didnt happen until about 5k bce (approx 7k years ago), which is like about a 2000 years prior to narma . ethiopians and beja people, because of their similar skull, and those people the beja and ethiopians are almost ageless , and somehow are categorized as caucasion. more euro sliding sensibility. and the proof is in the fact that nubia is right next door, and even with the aswan damn construction burying much of the civilization, still has way more pyramids, monuments etc and is considerably older and has no tourist because it is plainly a black african society. egypt captures 12 billion a year and kemets tourist supplies 13% of the jobs for the country, which none of the very few indigenous blacks are allowed to have. the people that are there now dont even consider themselves african. this is another case of african exploitation, without any one saying one word. (note: now the guides will not mention their faux lineage when they see western blacks around, who will definitely shut that bs down)
Excellent and timeless explanation, you are really an historian...I hope Millions of people watch your videos before going to Egypt to really understand what they watch over there
Best Documentary I've ever seen on this matter !! As a Sculptor working mainly in Stone for a Lifetime I am satisfied about your words: Thank you soo much !! - Subscribed immidiately !
Interesting how you are satisfied with his words . As a stonemason I cannot believe your comment unless you have not listened to what Ben has said , or you are not in fact a sculptor.
Always had been fascinated by the complexity, detailing, precision & beauty of the things from older civilization. The skills & how they were made really baffle the mind
Hi Ben. Great work. Totally agree we are looking at one possible two previous civilizations prior to the Younger Dryas. Great summary of our last trip. Great shot of my belly:) I see I need to stay away from the food bar on the boat on these trips:) See you again next month in Egypt again!
Of course the YD event was not just a one off, before which was millennia of global climatic tranquility. Civilizations may have come and gone with tidal regularity over countless millennia. I guess I'm stating the obvious really.
One of your absolute best comprehensive videos. I also find it charming that people from Australia also use the expression "knipsion". That really caught me by surprise. Just goes to prove how small our world really is. Love your work Ben. Cheers!
Excited to watch! Thanks for putting out all of these videos with all the technological inconsistencies but none of the wierd aliens and magic stuff. I can't see how the mainstream take could be right at this point.
incredible video again ben comparing the first statue to just that of the knee of the second REALLY puts it into perspective the difference in the work hats off again!
26:57 the giant thumb and debris field. I wonder if it is possible to do a detailed 3D scan of that debris field and all the parts and have A.I. reassemble it? Seems crazy, but might be possible.
Thank you so much for how you carefully study, document, take videos, and also inclusively share your trips with all of us. You are an amazing person and I want you to know how much you are appreciated!
on the statue where you point out the dual cuts forming an angle...in the armpit....has anyone tried to measure the depth along the length of each? Because if its variable in each or both, depth measurements could be used to calculate a possible radius of the cutting tool proving a circular cutter. Proving the use of a rotary tool would be significant i think. ...Excellent presentation, thank you!
No other channel puts out content of this quality. Great arguments, observations, and attention to detail. Most vids on this topic are lazy and repetitive, or credit everything to ancient aliens. Glad you take your time on these and do them right. Great job👊 Enough commenting, back to finish watching
Dude this was one of the best videos on the subject of ancient enigmas I've ever seen. Surely with so many glaring inconsistencies academia will be forced to broaden their range and stop insisting on their beloved institutionalized dogma. In my experience, one of the great hardships of trying to maintain a free and open mind is the alienation and subsequent negativity that we can get mired down by. Ben does a great job of being proactive in combatting this. Hosting tours, making thought provoking videos, and continuing to be accepting of any and all possibilities. Grateful for all those seekers of truth out there!
So excited to see this kind of content back on your channel again, I've been subscribed since early days and although I love the content with other creators it's your in depth research and methodical layout of facts that I enjoy the most, as always amazing delivery and brings it all around full circle to your previous videos. Awesome
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
I just recently visit Istanbul and went there to archaeological museum which have collection of great sculpture. The quality is astonishing. It would be great if you could explain in video differences in tech used by greeks and romans to this in Egypt.
My mind is blown, unparalleled evidence right in our face this whole time. I remember learning these dogmatic timelines in gradeschool... such mockery of human achievement
Your mind is blown for what reason, conjecture? Let's compare my wood shed to the Sisteen chapel? Omg, the only logical explanation is aliens, or technology left by a long lost, advanced, forgotten culture. Surely with all the advancements of modem man, my wood shed should be orders of magnitude beyond a church made nearly 600 years ago. Think about that, the Sisteen chapel has a level of craftsmanship *LIGHTYEARS* beyond anything the Egyptians could ever dream of creating, and it was created nearly 600 years ago. Ig, never underestimate the abilities of man, especially those whom dedicated their entire lives to a single craft. K suspect there were literally thousands of men whom did nothing but make stone boxes, and they're people that are part of a craft handed down from generations. He keeps harping on *MOS SCALE* and high polishes, as if that equates to anything remotely relevant. Yiu do realize cherts and quarts were used as tools by cavemen, and they both have a Mos hardness of 8++. Dolerite is very similar to quarts, as is the entirety of the stone used by the ancient Egyptians, because it is very easy to work with. In regards to polish, ffs, the children probably did the polishing. Polishing is not difficult, it's time consuming, and you could literally use you hand, and sand, to create a mirror polish on Dolerite. Their works are impressive, but pale in comparison to other works of art created by man, in which we have no question who, and when they were built. The Flavian Amphitheater was finished in 80AD. That's two thousand years ago, and is objectively a far greater display of craftsmanship than the pyramids. The Parthenon, temple of Athena, any number of Greek buildings have columns that are literally *THOUSANDS OF TONS* larger than anything the dynastic; I have no idea why he chooses to highlight the Egyptians were dynastic, it doesn't make him sound smarter Egyptians created. Why is it believable that the Greeks built temples and used pillars 150ft tall (larger than anything in Egypt) and used hundreds of pillars that were 500 tons, over two thousand years ago! When comparing the accomplishments of the Egyptians to the Greeks, the Roman's or the Chinese, Egypt, is not that impressive. This is comically ridiculous. Btw every time he gives a weight on something, he's literally off by thousands of tons. For instance I'm watching this as a type and he just claimed a 5 ton object is 1000 tons.. This entire video is conjecture and ridiculous.
@Thomas Jackson you sound like your well convinced of idiocy. Your timeline is so far off idk what you're on about. Lot of off subject stuff. You are obviously not an engineering major, please save your long winded breath. Your living in the past, stay there if you'd like.
@@dubselectorr345 When you take the claims of someone so failing in even the most basic understanding of the subject, who overestimates the masses involved, then pretends it's not possible to do something that is clearly possible, you don't have any pretense to call someone else an idiot.
@nobody special Interesting claims you make there was no one being called an idiot, it is quite a fallacy to believe you can do these works as you and your colleagues like Zahi tell us was done with sticks and copper. Basic understanding fails to understand your logic nor anyone who claims this is "possible" by traditional means. You have no clue what your talking about.
@@dubselectorr345 If you don't think telling people what they believe is idiotic isn't calling them idiots, then stop and think about it more. Now, I know you think you know what you're talking about, but you clearly don't. The only people claiming the Egyptians carved granite with copper chisels are people like you, because archeologists say they used dolerite, which can easily be used to shape granite by simply hitting it. If you think that's impossible, then do everyone a favor and try it for yourself than come back and tell us how easy it was to actually shape the granite instead of how you simply "know" it's not.
Must be amazing seeing these things so close and in person. Especially knowing how old it all is. TY so much for your channel. Really makes you look at all of this different
The evidence found in the stone already validates the existence of a civilization that *Mastered* stone carving in precataclysm times, so one has to wonder what advancements they had also achieved in medicine, machinery and mathematics
No it doesn't. If you are relying on TH-cam videos to present 'evidence' then you will have a skewed view of the archaeological finds that have been discovered. There are so many factual inaccuracies in this video that it presents a false view of what is known by those who work Egyptian archaeology; you aren't getting the complete picture. We have an insight into Ancient Egyptian medicine, machinery and mathematics from their early documentation.
Ben, are there any studies utilizing LiDAR or 3d scanning technology to analyze the symmetry and uniformity of the faces of these megalithic statues? Such a study would provide powerful evidence favouring machine-guided vs human hand-guided techniques for creation. Thanks. Love your work.
@Epoxygleu dang…I thought I was the biggest Beatles fan I know of. I’d have to expand my list to include 11 people, when going back 300 years. I do commend you for your excellence…it’s inspiring. I hope you have have as good of a sense of humor as you have taste in music. there will never be a greater 4 in the same group as those Liverpool Lads.
I can’t believe you made a reference to The Gods Must Be Crazy! I’ve actually had a copy of it on my hard drive for years. I love it! An absolutely hilarious movie. There’s even a sequel! As always, thank you, and keep up the great work!
Great work Ben! I found you on the JRE, and have since started a deep into your work and the work of Randall and Graham as well. Looking forward to the next one. Having studied Astronomy, Astrophysics, Geology, geophysics, siezmology and plate technics, etc getting my degrees... this stuff really hits home. I'm in engineering today. I'm glad people are starting to see the 'big picture'. And grateful for people like you are are doing this sort of work.
Someone interviewed on this channel made the comment: It's like in 1930 you designed a Porsche 911 GT3 and then in 2022 you designed a Volkswagen Beetle. Such a scenario is only credible if your sophisticated factory, the designers and the drawings were destroyed and you had to basically start again from a very low base.
Can you make an episode on how the mainstream and other analysis can explain the crazy distruction of statuses and large stones and columns?! What would break such things made of hundreds of tons of hard stone? I wish someone can talk about this topic i searched all youtube about it
Thunderboltsproject looks at the occurrence of cosmic plasma events in the past in our cosmic neighborhood. These come close to explaining the scale and type of destruction evident in these megaliths.
@@anzacman5 I wouldn't put much stock in "solar plasma events" as advertised if I was you. The issue isn't how to explain how "solar plasma" could mess stuff up, the problem is trying to explain how any such thing was bad enough to do that there without slagging the entire side of the planet facing that way at the time. When the sun does fire off a big bubble of plasma it's usually wider than Earth when it forms and is generally a million miles wide or more by the time it gets out this way. Considering there was no mass extinction like killed the dinos then nothing remotely like that could've happened. Massive earthquakes would've been much more common between 18000 and 6000 BC as the ice sheets melted. It's not just the crust under the glaciers rebounding there also the 120 meters of added water column as all that H2O returns to the seas. That's over 100 metric tons per square meter of seafloor. This includes the Mediterranean and it's entirely possible that when that mass left the oceans and went to the ice sheets any number of faults now sealed shut by that weight might've been open and much more active than today all throughout the iceage. That could explain the prevalence of monolithic polygonal monuments (they might've learned it was all that would stay up) _and_ how so much of it is extremely damaged today.
The answer doesn't have to be that complicated.. often when a new ruler came into power, possibly with new religious rules/practices, for one reason or another they tried to delete/erase the ruler before. This has been shown many times by chiseling off the face of a pharoah on wall descriptions, etc. When it comes to the statues, earthquakes aside, you get a bunch of people, throw some large ropes over the statue and pull till it topples over. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Badda bing, badda boom. Done. You let gravity do the work.
@@secretnewmeta1981 As for the idea that currently silent or relatively inactive faults may loosen while sea levels drop idk. Short of experiencing another iceage perhaps computer modeling with best seismic scans of the sea floor may be able to answer it. As for the idea that melting glaciers would've seen an incredible uptick of how strongly and how often quakes would occur, that's not really controversial though unclear in detail. We know we're talking about >40 _million_ cubic kilometers of water going from ice sheets to ocean basins after it's had time to depress continental crust half a mile in spots. There's a well known correlation between seasonal snow load and the background of low level tremors; basically the crust in temperate areas deform ever so slightly under winter snow accumulation then bounce back when its gone. The quakes aren't normally perceptible though. That's nowhere near as much effect as an actual ice sheet would impose even if it takes a thousand times longer to accumulate and dissipate. And while the ocean crusts wouldn't see the same point loads as where the ice sheets were those ocean plates are much thinner and most happen to have well known spreading faults like the Pacific's Ring of Fire where frankly all hell would basically have to break lose compared to what we experience today. Egypt has only apparently had one major quake in the last three thousand years or so but it does bound the Med and every square meter of the med would've seen over 100 metric tons added. Like most places there was never any glaciers close by during the iceage but there's a long list of places near salt water basins seeing a degree of loading and unloading far beyond anything experienced in recorded history... Unless someone was recording it but their civilizations records didn't make it through anyway.
Hey Ben, glad to see you are back at it and making your excellent series and docs. I have to be honest with you, I was getting burned out with watching all those podcasts you were doing with 2 or 3 other U tubers. Your style and explanation stands on its own two feet and keeps me glued and dialed in.
You've confused fan-fiction with documentaries. This guy is either sincerely deluded or a huckster for clicks, making absurd rationalizations that defy all reason.
It's really weird how the quality of the pyramid construction went down over time. It still happens though, I'd cite the Jurassic Park films as an example.
It didn't go down over time, pyramid construction progressed up to the construction of the Giza pyramids, then after a time they stopped making these structures and later ones were less sophisticated - he's given you half the truth.
I don't know if they you talked about it, but I once saw a drawing of how a city in Greece would have looked like. Can they do that with these statues- figure out the pieces and put them back together? I think that would be better than leaving them lay on the ground. I have a headstone at the cemetery that has been vandalized and knocked over-I said we lucked out because it looks like it's just toppled and not damaged. Online, they had a way of guessing the weight of a granite stone. This one was 2 feet by 4 feet by 4 feet. So yeah it weighs a lot.
Another great vid Ben. Unrelated to this one, I know you've done a vid on the stone lathed urns before, but I would be interested in your expanded thoughts about how they were made. What intrigues me about their manufacturing is how the handles that you see on many of them would have been crafted if they were turned on a lathe? Keep up your great content mate.
Ancient Persia and East India have a deep history of ancient stone turning techniques that is where those vases came from. They have clay tablets that tell of the laves process and accounting records of sales to other countries. 3000 bc Persia was the richest country alive according to there ancient records.
Exactly, when looking inside the vases sometimes the turn makes are visible, especially closer to the base. Those side nubs (because I wouldn't even call them, handles) throw even a larger wrench in to our attempts to explain the methods of manufacturing, even in the context of our current tools. As a machinist, I don't even entertain the absurd, mind-numbingly inadequate explanations given by academia. Brut force and Copper is laughable to anyone who has physically built anything. The sheer number of them at over forty thousand is astounding, as well. Another issue I see is how unbelievably thin the walls are in some vases. The speed of rotation required to effectively cut that material would produce incredible centrifugal force, undoubtedly causing the brittle material to explode and fly in all directions. Those vases and many other artifacts were made with tools we can't comprehend and have nothing analogous to them.
@@vadimbellous8313 it just make it all that much more mysterious that we, in modern times, could not replicate the results with current technology let alone buy hand with copper chisels.
Saw you on the Koncrete podcast, amazing content you are making. Couldt agree more with you on the excellent points you make in the video, allot pointing to a much older civilizations megaliths/technology being inherited/usurped, and then carved by the dynastic egyptians. Subbed and looking forward to following you on your journey!
Amazing work as usual Ben, what you do is really awesome. Have you considered taking a look at Angkor Wat in Cambodia? The stonework is pretty incredible and like other megalithic sites across the world it has astronomical alignment built into the site. I would love to see your take on it, I suspect that it is much older than the 12th Century date mainstream archaeology assigns it. Thank you!
I believe that Angkor Wat is much older. The detail is much finer than the Egyptians. I feel Angkor Wat is much more interesting because of its detailed beauty. Would love to visit and touch the temples and walk the grounds. What a dream trip. Wow!
@@NothingButDanks that's very interesting. While the stonework isn't as impressive as the polygonal masonry of cusco or sacsayhuaman (and very few places are to be fair), the overall layout of the site hints of ancient technology. Also some of the blocks are absolutely huge and one wonders how they could be quarried, transported and raised so high and fit together like a jigsaw in such an unforgiving environment with no modern tools. Would love Ben to take a look at this site as it could be another piece of the jigsaw of our lost advanced civilisation.
@@lawrencedawson9697 Angkor Wat, Giza, Machu Picchu, and Easter Island (among other megalithic sites) form a perfect great circle around the world. The odds of this happening by chance are practically ZERO. This was created by design, but why? And by whom? I believe these sites were arranged in this manner by an ancient advanced civilization as a clue for future humanity that advanced life once existed on Earth in the past, and that we could face the same demise as they did.
@@AustinKoleCarlisle by perfect circle do you mean a latitudinal line around the circumference of the globe? If so there would definitely be equivalent maths problems about mapping X number of points onto a topographical sphere such that they show the same property. As a trained mathematician that actually intrigues me a lot and I'm gonna go look into it now, thanks!
If we're honest, there is a deep rooted love and feeling for ancient Kemet by all that acknowledge the wisdom. This wisdom has been taken and hidden by those that wanted to keep us in ignorance. Now is the time Woman and Man to shine again
One problem with the two strangely distinct industries is that it might simply reflect a complete separation between the group of skilled sculptors and the priestly scribes tasked with carving in all those sacred hieroglyphics. One group would care all about the artistry and accuracy of the work while the other might not have cared at all as long as the written word was legible. This in no way erases the questions and issues with just how the sculptors managed what they did without iron (supposedly) but when you consider how important name magic was in dynastic Egypt for instance it could be that the scribes and sculptors even if of the same time period didn't share technique or the same concerns. "Not my department" as it were. Edit: not that this tells us it was so much less what time period it was all done in but the status quo would probably just say that the power of the inscription was in the word not in how finely it was carved and leave it at that.
Scribes might have drawn glyphs , but it's still stone carvers doing the work. They must have had access to the same tools. Clearly they didnt - and there are many unarguable examples of the glyphs coming later. Its two different levels of technology.
@@UnchartedX Oh there's clearly a lot of appropriation and I definitely agree there is a great deal that Dynastic Egyptians just couldn't do with the tools attributed to them. Either there was a totally different culture/period lumped in or they had very different techniques than believed or both. The suggestion that it's just "two different guys" explaining the difference in quality between every inscription vs every sculpture is just cringe worthy. Like there would be teams of skilled artisans with a common purpose and standard but then this one guy who's carving all the writing like a kid crudely scratching something "metal" like Icarus into their school desk. It's not even lazy thinking it's just stupid. In contrast it's at least somewhat plausible that the priests could've had their own stone carvers with their own "corporate culture" even if they were contemporary members of the same actual culture. No I don't find it very compelling either but the fact the mainstream hasn't bothered to put even that much thought into it is very telling imo.
@@johnassal5838, for me is hard to believe, that those statues are pre-dynastic, because of the inscriptions on them-but might be I can agree with Ben , that the sculptors used a different; much more advanced tools, than copper chisel or stone hammer, might be it was their secrets as you suggested also. For me, the real pre-dynastic remains are the Giza pyramid complex, the Osireon and the Serapeum...
you have to keep in mind, in 1000 years or so all our modern buildings would be gone without a trace, but mount rushmore would remain, so what we see are just the stone items left and all the other buildings and vehicles and technology is gone, paper everything
Excellent documentary, Ben! The giant stone hand with the striated stone has the cartouche of Amenhotep III on the end of the scroll the hand is holding, not Ramoses II. Amenhotep III in the mid-18th Dynasty was also a master builder of huge statues and monuments. It's amazing to think that Amenhotep III's colossal 60-foot-tall so-called "Colossi of Memnon" once flanked the entrance of a huge stone temple he had built right behind them, now vanished. Not one stone remains, having been quarried away in antiquity.
Do a video that goes through the math for moving that toppled statue on flat ground. Could a sled be constructed with just wood granite copper and rope?
I enjoy all your videos. The first thought with these monumental statues and stone works is, what forces were necessary to knock over 1000-ton statues? What forces were present to cast huge stone blocks as if they were paper machete? Massive tsunamis? Cataclysmic earthquakes? Imagine going through those sites and piecing together the jigsaw of ruins into something resembling their past. Thank you again.
@@UnchartedX have a theory of my own, *bare with me* early on in the bible it refers to a time were there were a race of humans called nephilim, they were supposed to be human/angel hybrids brought about from angels that had come to earth to be with 'the daughters of man' creating material bodies for themselves and eventually who's wives gave birth to these humans that become monstrously big, now! If the fathers were infact angels that had come to earth, they would have been around during the creation of the universe and they'd know the infinite details of the make up of literally everything, don't you think if an angel came to earth to chase booty in this dust bowl he'd want to at least make life a little nicer/easier for himself? With his knowledge of the universe combined with the size and strength of his 'superhuman' ofspring, they could create all sorts of power and machines humans couldn't even dream of! Crazy i know but just let it sink in the more i look into it the more it makes sense, even looking at the size of all the ancient ruins around the world! Why are they all built so big! Petra is a really good example of this.
Great video, I love these ones the most. I hadn't considered something now, the the pre-cataclysm stonework would looked especially good in a forest of some variant as back then it's unlikely that area would've been desert and sands.
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
The tour guide made a point about rougher surfaces in some statues being intentionally made like that so that paint would adhere better. This would support the fact that there were two different crafts in the process and may also give hints to the decline in quality. Maybe they worked out it that it was harder to make these super hard smooth surfaces look exotic or realistic and intentionally made that mistake.. did ceramics originally come from Egypt?
Thank you for dedicating your 'life' to unravelling multi - multi millennia of civilisations. It's so overwhelming to conceive but I follow all of your very open discussion. How many more civilisations will grow and fall before we unlock our history. Old git, UK
Even without the tube drilled holes and such being found, the fact that ANYONE, seeing the level of detail in these statues, could at any point say that this level of detail was done with primitive tools, to this scale, is an absolute moron. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it takes more than a hammer and chisel to produce detail from the finger nails down to the individual muscle definition in the arms.
I’d love the hear Sir Christopher Dunn’s hypothesis on what engineering mechanics would be required to create the structures. And a modern artist’s opinion on the soulless perfection of them.
Thx for mentioning Baalbek ...but you should come and see it, it is really amazing...the three huge stones have been put on top of smaller ones...which is hard to explain and seems illogical....so many unanswered questions in Baalbek...come and visit Ben, worth it...PS: I'm a Lebanese following your channel since a long time and i am originally from a village close to Baalbek
@@UnchartedX don't worry about travel recommendations from the US ...everybody is coming here and it is safe...it's an honor to receive you in Lebanon, somebody who analyzes and thinks instead of just accepting what's written
I'd really like for Ben to have a debate with Ancient Architects. Even though I get bothered by his continued affirmations of having "solved" the mysteries of ancient constructions, sometimes he makes good points for mainstream archeology. I think It could be a productive conversation.
@@UnchartedX Ey Ben! I'm aware of some of those conversations, but i was mostly proposing a proper debate. You are quite possibly the most informed, reasonable and articulate of alternative researchers, threading very carefully around the most outlandish hypotheses. And as such, the best person to confront ideas with mainstream ideologies. In any case, thank you for your awesome work.
I share Ben's fascination with these statues in particular, while megalithic polygonal masonry and box construction fascinates me as well, these statues are seemingly far and away much more difficult to carve, impossibly complex with their highly artistic impossibly perfect symmetry, supremely accurate curvatures and polished to reflective perfection, I would love to see Ben do a video comparing later methods of carving such as Michelangelo's David to the possible carving methods that created these Egyptian masterworks.
It’s really not that much a mystery. Sharp flint rock works just fine for intricate cuts through granite and quartzite. It’s labor intensive. But, the ancient Egyptians didn’t share our 21st century sense of urgency. You certainly don’t need a lost technologically advanced ancient civilization to shape stone. You just need skilled craftsmen and time. Ancient Egyptians had plenty of both.
@@lutherandross3165 There is no way one could carve granite to symmetrical perfection, polish to a mirror finish and leave no tool marks with pieces of flint. I am envious that you have still to realize this and to come to the realization that there was something incredibly fascinating and mysterious taking place in ancient times that so far is entirely unexplainable. Godspeed on this journey!
Since my childhood I always wondered while going to school which passed by the Pyramids and Sphinx, how our ancestors were able to build such remarkable buildings, my father always told me stories that has been passed through generations that the Pyramids were a powerhouse that gave energy through the nile, every time now I go back to Egypt I go to a cafe near the Pyramids and keep watching them for hours, After I feel like I’m recharged. May god bless Egypt 🇪🇬 my beloved homeland.
It's almost like...the "ancient Egyptians" discovered these statues and massive buildings, then emulated the style of dress they saw their "gods" wearing in the statues, then stamped their graffiti into the objects in order to control their own history and say it was their great-grandfather or something.
&the so called Elites of today who use all the symbolism etc are, by extention, a cargo cult derived from a cargo cult..embarrassing really. no wonder they obfuscate it all so much..
i gotta say, not just your work, which i appreciate very much, but your way of narrating is genuinely enjoyable, the way you build your arguments, and explain everything down to detail is what i wish from everyone who is laying down any argument, the work you do is really awesome, and i look forward to every upload!
Ditto!
Same
I discovered him from the Koncrete podcast that he did and that’s what drew me to his channel is the way he explained everything
Enjoy putting his vids on whilst drifting off to sleep 😁
You took the words from my mouth...I love listening to this channel.
I‘m now in Cairo and visited the Egyptian museum today for the first time. Thanks to you I was able to look at some of the objects in display there in a much more inquisitive manner, the level of craftsmanship in some of the older pieces is just mind blowing!
Did you go into the great Pyramid? If so, what's your thoughts on that experience.
Fantastic ❤
Watching cemetery stone engravers for 35 years, seen turn of the century carvers trying to match that time period they have compressors to use their old chisels, they take a rubbing of the fonts then transfer it to the headstone and chip it out I never seen a stone that looks as clean as the mordern sand blasted ones, but they do match the old style that is what the family was attempting when finished? The old way took much more time could it be that the older statues had been worked on for a longer time?
Last time I was this early the pyramids had casing stones.
Don't remind me
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@@Movetheproduct super cringe haha
Lol I didn't think it was cringe
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I have been obsessed with Egypt and their statues since I did a book report on the Sphinx in the 6th grade, I am 54 now. I have a million questions, I watch your videos over and over again with pleasure and gratitude. Thank you for posting them, and will be buying some merch for your work ect.
The dopamine release I get when hearing your intro music is always the same, I know I'm about to treated to a masterfully crafted five course meal of nothing but brain food!
Thank you so much for all your hard work Ben, I consider myself very lucky to have found you
51:55 That guy sitting on a camel while using a phone, that's an example of 2 technologies from 2 different timelines 😁
Another winner here, Ben. Loved the "Gods Must be Crazy" mention - and so apt. Absolutely a cargo culture on display here but it could be argued, there are more than one.
Aye yai yai....... yai YAI!
The 3rd Gods Must Be Crazy is still hilarious if you didn’t know about it. Summon the spirit of Bruce Lee!
Putting YOUR name on someone else's work, is not this called plagiarism? And is this not common enough among egomaniacs and sophomoric juveniles?
Bens videos are the best to rewatch to sleep at night. Calm, relatively soft, relaxed, certain, settled. Just excellent.
As an artist I really appreciate the close ups of these masterpieces.
Bro you’re a Soundcloud rapper
@@samdavis456 He can be two things.
@@samdavis456 Please tell me you're not that stupid?
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
Oh, me too ! I look for small things and it would be helpful to have a video in extreme close up of a particular artifact. Including all sides with good lighting. Exciting! 102822
As a basically life long lover of ancient Egypt, as long as I can remember. This is absolutely fascinating subject and a difference I’ve never been aware of. Like you said at one point about seeing everything in its glory.. it’s hard to even fathom how incredible just some one single pieces would have been.
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I highly recommend the Great Courses "The history of Ancient Egypt." Bob Brier does 48 lectures, and they are crazy interesting!!!!
It's one credit on Audible which is even crazier to own 48 lectures. Audible used to have all the Great Courses for free it was the most amazing time ever.
Another great video. I can never get enough. You're honestly the best channel on TH-cam!!!
This was an exceptional video! Phenomenal commentary, audio/video quality. Fascinating subject matter. This video instantly grabbed my attention and I didn't stop watching until it was finished.
Same here. Never seen this channel before. I just subbed.
As an illustrator, well as a former illustrator (and artist for fun), I spent many years sporadically sketching Egyptian statues and constructs. Something about the weathered texture of the stone and the desert suns light and shadows that always translated really well onto the page with a good heavy cartridge paper and soft pencil.
I love that you present a full argument every time. You give back ground and entry level information to form your stance about a potential pre-dynastic civilizations each time, so that someone completely unfamiliar with other content you've made can fully understand why you believe this, and I think for that reason it is very compelling.
Yeah, too bad most of what he states is incorrect, but whatever.
As most followers know , your research and commitment to Egyptology and ancient history is absolutely phenomenal and groundbreaking. And Yousef and his father are always patiently willing to take time to explain and teach the real wonders and mysticism of these unknown wonders.
Without dispute Ben, your tireless efforts are priceless. 🍻
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
Great work as usual Ben. Just awe inspiring. An admission of “we just don’t know how this was done” from the mainstream would be a huge step forward. Love it.
I would love to see them reproduce any of these statues in whole rather than just claiming it's done a certain way, prove it can be done that way. Except there's a reason they have never done it, they can't.
Your diligence, long hours, and integrity are greatly appreciated!
One of the best channels out there on this subject. Well done mate! I am binge-ing all your stuff!
Ben it’s a pleasure to see how far you’ve come. You’ve grown in to a well respected researcher in a field, that demands a lot of attention to details. Now your hanging with people like Randal Carlson, Graham Hanscock and so on. As a long time follower, it makes me proud. Keep up the good work
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@Tony Clifton 'well respected researcher ' Now that is really funny.
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@@speedingatheist go back to quackadamia where you belong.
@@shawnsanborn2057 Don't worry, I will leave you alone on this woo woo channel. Your mental abilities and this silly channel are a perfect match. But remember: "Science works, bitches!" Richard Dawkins in 2013.
Epic work as usual Ben. The mind boggles at what we have lost and what has been hidden and suppressed. Its clear that the history of Humankind is not what we are led to believe and we as a species are far, far older and have risen and fallen barely surviving a number of cataclysmic events.
I wonder if that is the reason that there is an obvious manifesto to maintain the 'established timeline'? That evidence found points to a cyclical rise then sudden and cataclysmic fall that is both alarming and threathening to the powers that be..
If there is evidence that civilisations have risen and fallen for tens of thousands of years (if not more!) then religion for one, loses is validity, power and control...
Keep up the great work...
Steve, I'm a Bible believer and find nothing wrong with anything Ben said here. It agrees with my Biblical view and it doesn't have to. It's really amazing.
@@tc25d Agreed. Some people believe that our "space brothers" is the same beings that made contact years ago.
@@mrvax2Hey. Not wanting to get into a theological discussion or argument but it appears to me that most 'believers' cherry pick what they believe in the bible.. Its either literal in which case (for example) its written that the Earth, the Universe and Everything is 7 or 8k years old which is proven to be untrue, or its not literal, in which case what is it other than a collection of passed down and massively rewritten and reinterpreted set of what? Clearly, there was not a bunch of chaps wandering around the Middle East called John, Paul ,George and Ringo so what else has been changed, omitted or amended to fit a narrative defined by a middle ages English King .. Anyway, I'm ok with anyone believing what they wish as long as it does not then forcibly impose on the lives of anyone else..
@@SteveAttwood I'm not sure what material you have seen about the Bible origins. There are New Testament texts made in the 2nd and 3rd centuries. It's possible to xlate the Aramaic or Greek into English yourself any time you have questions. In fact, it's fun. We now have software to help you do this easily. BTW: There is no where we find the dates of creation. Anyone who gives you a date is just giving opinion. It helps to carefully look into both sides, pro-Bible, anti-Bible. Then make your own decision.
If cataclysms happen in cycles, and powerful people know this, they will be prepared to weather that storm. They want the rest of us vulnerable to the destruction. They want to be the survivors to carry on the human race.
Good work, your audio dB rises drastically between live tours and narration. Narration offer perfect levels. Keep up the great work.
I never thought about the inherited idea, but I can totally see it, let alone realizing how much sense it really makes. I have noticed some inconsistences in "quality" over the years, but not as much as you have pointed out. The higher quality items were definitely made much earlier by someone else and then reclaimed by Egyptians later on. Obviously, they made their own stuff, but the differences are pretty obvious.
Indeed, consider the fact that it is already plainly understood and accepted that the later dynasties inherited from the former dynasty.
3000 years from the first to the end of the last dynasty.
The first dynasty is literally ancient in comparison to latter days of the final dynasty. Cleopatra is closer to the opening of the first McDonalds, than she was to the time the Pyramids of Giza were supposedly built (in just it's currently believed time of construction).
Since we already accept this ancient inheritance, it wouldn't be much of a stretch to believe the first dynasty itself also inherited from a former more advanced ancient civilisation.
The whole united states was inherited
Nice to see more people realising this.
as an engineer who like to think logically if we human in modern age transition from basic knowledge to digital age in roughly 2000 years, the whole world translate scientific discoveries from European who translate it from Muslims who translate it from Greeks and Chinese and each of them add to the knowledge, it make sense that some sort of advance civilization existed in the past if they have relative peace and prosperity. it won't matter to many people however what really matter if they really existed and died we might face similar fate if we're not far sighted enough and think about the future of our civilization
Keep it up. I would always choose watching your videos over any Nat Geo historical documentary. Truly inspiring to listen to all the research you are doing. Thank you.
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
Absolutely fascinating! Wish we could go back in time and see what kind of civilization built these things and how. A whole segment of our human history we know nothing of, how unfortunate. These documentaries should be on Discovery, Netflix or History channels.
I agree. Replace ancient aliens with UnchartedX
Give you a clue it was the Egyptians
Total BS. Just say you can't believe Egypt was that advanced when your ancestors were living in the caves.
@@hamidhamidi3134 oh Hamid the ethnicity of the ancient Egyptians is fairly up in the air they obviously share heritage with the modern day Egyptians but I'd bet it depend on what period of ancient Egypt you would get fair different add mixtures. Plus to take credit for our ancestors deeds especially when it was so long ago is a little bit much. Obviously nothing wrong with being proud of you ancestors. My ancestors once ruled one of the greatest empires ever. Does this give me any kind of power in the modern day unfortunately not......
@@whysogrim697 the author called the people there as a "cargo species", people that somehow ended up with tech they had no understanding of.
and the point is, the guides tell tourist their ancestors, as if they are not the culmination of invaders, and conquerors for years and have ties to the contributions other than occupying the land.
these invaders have possession of something they neither have lineage to thru blood, nor inheritance. they were the ones that dismantled the monuments to build mosques. there is garbage and trash in the entrance to monuments.
africans here thru the slave trade were always told we have no history prior to slavery, and we were inferior, and barefooted and naked until europe saved them, which is obvious lies to support slavery and dominance. most people dont even count egypt as an african society. to date not one movie documentary has ever been produced hinting at egypts original builders or even hints at their origin. people would rather surmise egyptians came from space rather than attribute their accomplishment to africans, who for many years were homogenous.
there are sights on the internet (youtube) with stitched together assertions claiming egytpians to be caucasoid (what they will fall back on is the fact that caucasian species now ahas black people included, instead the newbies sharing traits with the original people they undoubtedly come from. recently the term caucasion was formed from a people coming from asia, and forming non melinated people (white euros) at the base of the caucasion mountains. which didnt happen until about 5k bce (approx 7k years ago), which is like about a 2000 years prior to narma . ethiopians and beja people, because of their similar skull, and those people the beja and ethiopians are almost ageless , and somehow are categorized as caucasion.
more euro sliding sensibility.
and the proof is in the fact that nubia is right next door, and even with the aswan damn construction burying much of the civilization, still has way more pyramids, monuments etc and is considerably older and has no tourist because it is plainly a black african society.
egypt captures 12 billion a year and kemets tourist supplies 13% of the jobs for the country, which none of the very few indigenous blacks are allowed to have.
the people that are there now dont even consider themselves african.
this is another case of african exploitation, without any one saying one word.
(note: now the guides will not mention their faux lineage when they see western blacks around, who will definitely shut that bs down)
Excellent and timeless explanation, you are really an historian...I hope Millions of people watch your videos before going to Egypt to really understand what they watch over there
AWESOME BEN.
once again, you have made one hell of a video. Beautifully made my good friend.
Much love and respect from Maine
Best Documentary I've ever seen on this matter !! As a Sculptor working mainly in Stone for a Lifetime I am satisfied about your words: Thank you soo much !! - Subscribed immidiately !
Interesting how you are satisfied with his words .
As a stonemason I cannot believe your comment unless you have not listened to what Ben has said , or you are not in fact a sculptor.
Always had been fascinated by the complexity, detailing, precision & beauty of the things from older civilization. The skills & how they were made really baffle the mind
Hi Ben. Great work. Totally agree we are looking at one possible two previous civilizations prior to the Younger Dryas. Great summary of our last trip. Great shot of my belly:) I see I need to stay away from the food bar on the boat on these trips:) See you again next month in Egypt again!
Of course the YD event was not just a one off, before which was millennia of global climatic tranquility. Civilizations may have come and gone with tidal regularity over countless millennia.
I guess I'm stating the obvious really.
Saw you on the JRE podcast and been binge watching your channel for days. My brain is melting from all this information. Incredible. Thank you.
You have a very good case for ancient timeline.
Amazing to just look around at everything and know this was left from a civilization that thrived thousands of years before you were even a thought.
One of your absolute best comprehensive videos. I also find it charming that people from Australia also use the expression "knipsion". That really caught me by surprise. Just goes to prove how small our world really is. Love your work Ben. Cheers!
@@haaggus Excuse me, I wrote it in dialect.
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Excited to watch! Thanks for putting out all of these videos with all the technological inconsistencies but none of the wierd aliens and magic stuff. I can't see how the mainstream take could be right at this point.
But have you personally checked out the research papers of the other side to understand why the consensus reaches certain conclusions?
@@Vision_2 yes. Every single one.
@@atlaspowershrugged I am impressed. Well done. So you can see the flaws in Ben's views.
As always Ben you are on point!
Best explanatory video of this subject I have seen. Excellent work
Brilliant video!
You have shown so much detail that Iv never seen in so many videos I've watched over the year. Thank you.
Damn.. Ben.. You made this weekend much more bearable! Thank You very much. You are doing really great job. The best ancient technology channel on YT.
Awesome work, Ben! I really appreciate your attention to detail!
incredible video again ben
comparing the first statue to just that of the knee of the second REALLY puts it into perspective the difference in the work
hats off again!
26:57 the giant thumb and debris field. I wonder if it is possible to do a detailed 3D scan of that debris field and all the parts and have A.I. reassemble it? Seems crazy, but might be possible.
Not crazy at all, this is a brilliant idea! Unfortunately there are those like zahi hawass who are condoms on the head of progress.
Thank you so much for how you carefully study, document, take videos, and also inclusively share your trips with all of us. You are an amazing person and I want you to know how much you are appreciated!
on the statue where you point out the dual cuts forming an angle...in the armpit....has anyone tried to measure the depth along the length of each? Because if its variable in each or both, depth measurements could be used to calculate a possible radius of the cutting tool proving a circular cutter. Proving the use of a rotary tool would be significant i think. ...Excellent presentation, thank you!
Good logic
No other channel puts out content of this quality. Great arguments, observations, and attention to detail. Most vids on this topic are lazy and repetitive, or credit everything to ancient aliens. Glad you take your time on these and do them right. Great job👊
Enough commenting, back to finish watching
Ben, I can't tell you how much I look forward to your content. Absolutely brilliant. The work you are doing is slowly eroding the orthodox ideology
"Slowly eroding". On the subject of ancient Egypt. Nice one 👌.
Not sure if consensus is changing.
Thanks
Dude this was one of the best videos on the subject of ancient enigmas I've ever seen. Surely with so many glaring inconsistencies academia will be forced to broaden their range and stop insisting on their beloved institutionalized dogma.
In my experience, one of the great hardships of trying to maintain a free and open mind is the alienation and subsequent negativity that we can get mired down by. Ben does a great job of being proactive in combatting this. Hosting tours, making thought provoking videos, and continuing to be accepting of any and all possibilities. Grateful for all those seekers of truth out there!
So excited to see this kind of content back on your channel again, I've been subscribed since early days and although I love the content with other creators it's your in depth research and methodical layout of facts that I enjoy the most, as always amazing delivery and brings it all around full circle to your previous videos. Awesome
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
I just recently visit Istanbul and went there to archaeological museum which have collection of great sculpture. The quality is astonishing. It would be great if you could explain in video differences in tech used by greeks and romans to this in Egypt.
My mind is blown, unparalleled evidence right in our face this whole time. I remember learning these dogmatic timelines in gradeschool... such mockery of human achievement
Your mind is blown for what reason, conjecture? Let's compare my wood shed to the Sisteen chapel? Omg, the only logical explanation is aliens, or technology left by a long lost, advanced, forgotten culture. Surely with all the advancements of modem man, my wood shed should be orders of magnitude beyond a church made nearly 600 years ago. Think about that, the Sisteen chapel has a level of craftsmanship *LIGHTYEARS* beyond anything the Egyptians could ever dream of creating, and it was created nearly 600 years ago. Ig, never underestimate the abilities of man, especially those whom dedicated their entire lives to a single craft. K suspect there were literally thousands of men whom did nothing but make stone boxes, and they're people that are part of a craft handed down from generations. He keeps harping on *MOS SCALE* and high polishes, as if that equates to anything remotely relevant. Yiu do realize cherts and quarts were used as tools by cavemen, and they both have a Mos hardness of 8++. Dolerite is very similar to quarts, as is the entirety of the stone used by the ancient Egyptians, because it is very easy to work with. In regards to polish, ffs, the children probably did the polishing. Polishing is not difficult, it's time consuming, and you could literally use you hand, and sand, to create a mirror polish on Dolerite.
Their works are impressive, but pale in comparison to other works of art created by man, in which we have no question who, and when they were built. The Flavian Amphitheater was finished in 80AD. That's two thousand years ago, and is objectively a far greater display of craftsmanship than the pyramids. The Parthenon, temple of Athena, any number of Greek buildings have columns that are literally *THOUSANDS OF TONS* larger than anything the dynastic; I have no idea why he chooses to highlight the Egyptians were dynastic, it doesn't make him sound smarter Egyptians created. Why is it believable that the Greeks built temples and used pillars 150ft tall (larger than anything in Egypt) and used hundreds of pillars that were 500 tons, over two thousand years ago! When comparing the accomplishments of the Egyptians to the Greeks, the Roman's or the Chinese, Egypt, is not that impressive. This is comically ridiculous.
Btw every time he gives a weight on something, he's literally off by thousands of tons. For instance I'm watching this as a type and he just claimed a 5 ton object is 1000 tons.. This entire video is conjecture and ridiculous.
@Thomas Jackson you sound like your well convinced of idiocy. Your timeline is so far off idk what you're on about. Lot of off subject stuff. You are obviously not an engineering major, please save your long winded breath. Your living in the past, stay there if you'd like.
@@dubselectorr345 When you take the claims of someone so failing in even the most basic understanding of the subject, who overestimates the masses involved, then pretends it's not possible to do something that is clearly possible, you don't have any pretense to call someone else an idiot.
@nobody special Interesting claims you make there was no one being called an idiot, it is quite a fallacy to believe you can do these works as you and your colleagues like Zahi tell us was done with sticks and copper. Basic understanding fails to understand your logic nor anyone who claims this is "possible" by traditional means. You have no clue what your talking about.
@@dubselectorr345 If you don't think telling people what they believe is idiotic isn't calling them idiots, then stop and think about it more. Now, I know you think you know what you're talking about, but you clearly don't. The only people claiming the Egyptians carved granite with copper chisels are people like you, because archeologists say they used dolerite, which can easily be used to shape granite by simply hitting it. If you think that's impossible, then do everyone a favor and try it for yourself than come back and tell us how easy it was to actually shape the granite instead of how you simply "know" it's not.
Must be amazing seeing these things so close and in person. Especially knowing how old it all is. TY so much for your channel. Really makes you look at all of this different
Did anyone else catch that moving in the sky at 38:55, amazing work btw.
Loving your work Ben.
Tfsharing your research with us.
Cheers.
The evidence found in the stone already validates the existence of a civilization that *Mastered* stone carving in precataclysm times, so one has to wonder what advancements they had also achieved in medicine, machinery and mathematics
No it doesn't. If you are relying on TH-cam videos to present 'evidence' then you will have a skewed view of the archaeological finds that have been discovered. There are so many factual inaccuracies in this video that it presents a false view of what is known by those who work Egyptian archaeology; you aren't getting the complete picture. We have an insight into Ancient Egyptian medicine, machinery and mathematics from their early documentation.
@@edelgyn2699 so what are the inaccuracies
@@edelgyn2699 The Egyptians had copper as the hardest base metal for their tools, which is extremely impractical for cutting stone.
Ben, are there any studies utilizing LiDAR or 3d scanning technology to analyze the symmetry and uniformity of the faces of these megalithic statues? Such a study would provide powerful evidence favouring machine-guided vs human hand-guided techniques for creation. Thanks. Love your work.
@Epoxygleu dang…I thought I was the biggest Beatles fan I know of. I’d have to expand my list to include 11 people, when going back 300 years.
I do commend you for your excellence…it’s inspiring.
I hope you have have as good of a sense of humor as you have taste in music. there will never be a greater 4 in the same group as those Liverpool Lads.
@@corporalclegg914 Absolutely!!!
Evidence for ancient technology part 2 youtube
Water, gravity and strings were used to make templates and other temporary measuring construction objects. No machinery.
@@hd-be7dihow? Is that similar to the methods of Edward leedskalnin?
Wicked video buddy, such a cool subject. Insane, how perfect those objects were made
Here because of JRE podcasts..been missing out. Great work
I absolutely love your intro song. Fantastic research ofcourse. But the song has such a relaxing beat
I can’t believe you made a reference to The Gods Must Be Crazy! I’ve actually had a copy of it on my hard drive for years. I love it!
An absolutely hilarious movie. There’s even a sequel!
As always, thank you, and keep up the great work!
Great work Ben! I found you on the JRE, and have since started a deep into your work and the work of Randall and Graham as well. Looking forward to the next one. Having studied Astronomy, Astrophysics, Geology, geophysics, siezmology and plate technics, etc getting my degrees... this stuff really hits home. I'm in engineering today. I'm glad people are starting to see the 'big picture'. And grateful for people like you are are doing this sort of work.
What exactly are you trying to say? That youre an expert in everything and therefore your belief is true?
Someone interviewed on this channel made the comment: It's like in 1930 you designed a Porsche 911 GT3 and then in 2022 you designed a Volkswagen Beetle. Such a scenario is only credible if your sophisticated factory, the designers and the drawings were destroyed and you had to basically start again from a very low base.
It's really good to get new fresh thoughts instead of old beliefs! Great video!👍🏻
Thanks!
Thank you!
Can you make an episode on how the mainstream and other analysis can explain the crazy distruction of statuses and large stones and columns?! What would break such things made of hundreds of tons of hard stone? I wish someone can talk about this topic i searched all youtube about it
Thunderboltsproject looks at the occurrence of cosmic plasma events in the past in our cosmic neighborhood. These come close to explaining the scale and type of destruction evident in these megaliths.
@@anzacman5 I wouldn't put much stock in "solar plasma events" as advertised if I was you. The issue isn't how to explain how "solar plasma" could mess stuff up, the problem is trying to explain how any such thing was bad enough to do that there without slagging the entire side of the planet facing that way at the time.
When the sun does fire off a big bubble of plasma it's usually wider than Earth when it forms and is generally a million miles wide or more by the time it gets out this way. Considering there was no mass extinction like killed the dinos then nothing remotely like that could've happened.
Massive earthquakes would've been much more common between 18000 and 6000 BC as the ice sheets melted. It's not just the crust under the glaciers rebounding there also the 120 meters of added water column as all that H2O returns to the seas. That's over 100 metric tons per square meter of seafloor. This includes the Mediterranean and it's entirely possible that when that mass left the oceans and went to the ice sheets any number of faults now sealed shut by that weight might've been open and much more active than today all throughout the iceage. That could explain the prevalence of monolithic polygonal monuments (they might've learned it was all that would stay up) _and_ how so much of it is extremely damaged today.
The answer doesn't have to be that complicated.. often when a new ruler came into power, possibly with new religious rules/practices, for one reason or another they tried to delete/erase the ruler before. This has been shown many times by chiseling off the face of a pharoah on wall descriptions, etc. When it comes to the statues, earthquakes aside, you get a bunch of people, throw some large ropes over the statue and pull till it topples over. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Badda bing, badda boom. Done. You let gravity do the work.
@@johnassal5838 Interesting theory about earthquakes. I wonder if there's any way they can figure out if it's true.
@@secretnewmeta1981 As for the idea that currently silent or relatively inactive faults may loosen while sea levels drop idk. Short of experiencing another iceage perhaps computer modeling with best seismic scans of the sea floor may be able to answer it.
As for the idea that melting glaciers would've seen an incredible uptick of how strongly and how often quakes would occur, that's not really controversial though unclear in detail. We know we're talking about >40 _million_ cubic kilometers of water going from ice sheets to ocean basins after it's had time to depress continental crust half a mile in spots.
There's a well known correlation between seasonal snow load and the background of low level tremors; basically the crust in temperate areas deform ever so slightly under winter snow accumulation then bounce back when its gone. The quakes aren't normally perceptible though. That's nowhere near as much effect as an actual ice sheet would impose even if it takes a thousand times longer to accumulate and dissipate. And while the ocean crusts wouldn't see the same point loads as where the ice sheets were those ocean plates are much thinner and most happen to have well known spreading faults like the Pacific's Ring of Fire where frankly all hell would basically have to break lose compared to what we experience today.
Egypt has only apparently had one major quake in the last three thousand years or so but it does bound the Med and every square meter of the med would've seen over 100 metric tons added. Like most places there was never any glaciers close by during the iceage but there's a long list of places near salt water basins seeing a degree of loading and unloading far beyond anything experienced in recorded history... Unless someone was recording it but their civilizations records didn't make it through anyway.
Hey Ben, glad to see you are back at it and making your excellent series and docs. I have to be honest with you, I was getting burned out with watching all those podcasts you were doing with 2 or 3 other U tubers. Your style and explanation stands on its own two feet and keeps me glued and dialed in.
You've confused fan-fiction with documentaries. This guy is either sincerely deluded or a huckster for clicks, making absurd rationalizations that defy all reason.
It's really weird how the quality of the pyramid construction went down over time. It still happens though, I'd cite the Jurassic Park films as an example.
It didn't go down over time, pyramid construction progressed up to the construction of the Giza pyramids, then after a time they stopped making these structures and later ones were less sophisticated - he's given you half the truth.
@@edelgyn2699 I assume you are correct. I mean, I don't seriously come to TH-cam for accurate information anyway. I usually use it as a sleep aid. 🥱
Thank you
Very much thought provoking
I take your effort in mind x
I don't know if they you talked about it, but I once saw a drawing of how a city in Greece would have looked like. Can they do that with these statues- figure out the pieces and put them back together? I think that would be better than leaving them lay on the ground. I have a headstone at the cemetery that has been vandalized and knocked over-I said we lucked out because it looks like it's just toppled and not damaged. Online, they had a way of guessing the weight of a granite stone. This one was 2 feet by 4 feet by 4 feet. So yeah it weighs a lot.
Another great vid Ben.
Unrelated to this one, I know you've done a vid on the stone lathed urns before, but I would be interested in your expanded thoughts about how they were made.
What intrigues me about their manufacturing is how the handles that you see on many of them would have been crafted if they were turned on a lathe?
Keep up your great content mate.
Ancient Persia and East India have a deep history of ancient stone turning techniques that is where those vases came from.
They have clay tablets that tell of the laves process and accounting records
of sales to other countries. 3000 bc Persia was the richest country alive
according to there ancient records.
yes there was obviously other tools/techniques involved for the handles, but much of the vase was turned, the toolmarks alone tell us this
Exactly, when looking inside the vases sometimes the turn makes are visible, especially closer to the base. Those side nubs (because I wouldn't even call them, handles) throw even a larger wrench in to our attempts to explain the methods of manufacturing, even in the context of our current tools. As a machinist, I don't even entertain the absurd, mind-numbingly inadequate explanations given by academia. Brut force and Copper is laughable to anyone who has physically built anything. The sheer number of them at over forty thousand is astounding, as well. Another issue I see is how unbelievably thin the walls are in some vases. The speed of rotation required to effectively cut that material would produce incredible centrifugal force, undoubtedly causing the brittle material to explode and fly in all directions. Those vases and many other artifacts were made with tools we can't comprehend and have nothing analogous to them.
@@vadimbellous8313 Agreed!!
@@vadimbellous8313 it just make it all that much more mysterious that we, in modern times, could not replicate the results with current technology let alone buy hand with copper chisels.
Saw you on the Koncrete podcast, amazing content you are making. Couldt agree more with you on the excellent points you make in the video, allot pointing to a much older civilizations megaliths/technology being inherited/usurped, and then carved by the dynastic egyptians. Subbed and looking forward to following you on your journey!
Amazing work as usual Ben, what you do is really awesome. Have you considered taking a look at Angkor Wat in Cambodia? The stonework is pretty incredible and like other megalithic sites across the world it has astronomical alignment built into the site. I would love to see your take on it, I suspect that it is much older than the 12th Century date mainstream archaeology assigns it. Thank you!
I believe that Angkor Wat is much older. The detail is much finer than the Egyptians. I feel Angkor Wat is much more interesting because of its detailed beauty. Would love to visit and touch the temples and walk the grounds. What a dream trip. Wow!
As a Cambodia myself, stories from my grandparents and great grandparents are that Angkor Wat been there longer than Cambodia itself.
@@NothingButDanks that's very interesting. While the stonework isn't as impressive as the polygonal masonry of cusco or sacsayhuaman (and very few places are to be fair), the overall layout of the site hints of ancient technology. Also some of the blocks are absolutely huge and one wonders how they could be quarried, transported and raised so high and fit together like a jigsaw in such an unforgiving environment with no modern tools. Would love Ben to take a look at this site as it could be another piece of the jigsaw of our lost advanced civilisation.
@@lawrencedawson9697 Angkor Wat, Giza, Machu Picchu, and Easter Island (among other megalithic sites) form a perfect great circle around the world. The odds of this happening by chance are practically ZERO. This was created by design, but why? And by whom? I believe these sites were arranged in this manner by an ancient advanced civilization as a clue for future humanity that advanced life once existed on Earth in the past, and that we could face the same demise as they did.
@@AustinKoleCarlisle by perfect circle do you mean a latitudinal line around the circumference of the globe? If so there would definitely be equivalent maths problems about mapping X number of points onto a topographical sphere such that they show the same property. As a trained mathematician that actually intrigues me a lot and I'm gonna go look into it now, thanks!
Some of the faces that they carved are simply amazing to behold.
If we're honest, there is a deep rooted love and feeling for ancient Kemet by all that acknowledge the wisdom. This wisdom has been taken and hidden by those that wanted to keep us in ignorance. Now is the time Woman and Man to shine again
One problem with the two strangely distinct industries is that it might simply reflect a complete separation between the group of skilled sculptors and the priestly scribes tasked with carving in all those sacred hieroglyphics. One group would care all about the artistry and accuracy of the work while the other might not have cared at all as long as the written word was legible. This in no way erases the questions and issues with just how the sculptors managed what they did without iron (supposedly) but when you consider how important name magic was in dynastic Egypt for instance it could be that the scribes and sculptors even if of the same time period didn't share technique or the same concerns. "Not my department" as it were.
Edit: not that this tells us it was so much less what time period it was all done in but the status quo would probably just say that the power of the inscription was in the word not in how finely it was carved and leave it at that.
Scribes might have drawn glyphs , but it's still stone carvers doing the work. They must have had access to the same tools. Clearly they didnt - and there are many unarguable examples of the glyphs coming later. Its two different levels of technology.
@@UnchartedX Oh there's clearly a lot of appropriation and I definitely agree there is a great deal that Dynastic Egyptians just couldn't do with the tools attributed to them. Either there was a totally different culture/period lumped in or they had very different techniques than believed or both. The suggestion that it's just "two different guys" explaining the difference in quality between every inscription vs every sculpture is just cringe worthy. Like there would be teams of skilled artisans with a common purpose and standard but then this one guy who's carving all the writing like a kid crudely scratching something "metal" like Icarus into their school desk. It's not even lazy thinking it's just stupid.
In contrast it's at least somewhat plausible that the priests could've had their own stone carvers with their own "corporate culture" even if they were contemporary members of the same actual culture. No I don't find it very compelling either but the fact the mainstream hasn't bothered to put even that much thought into it is very telling imo.
@@johnassal5838, for me is hard to believe, that those statues are pre-dynastic, because of the inscriptions on them-but might be I can agree with Ben , that the sculptors used a different; much more advanced tools, than copper chisel or stone hammer, might be it was their secrets as you suggested also. For me, the real pre-dynastic remains are the Giza pyramid complex, the Osireon and the Serapeum...
I think that these enormous works were carved during the Pleistocene and certainly before the upheaval of the Younger Dryas.
yes, carved by unknown alien civilization some 18,000 years ago
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Great work Ben. Top effort as usual!
you have to keep in mind, in 1000 years or so all our modern buildings would be gone without a trace, but mount rushmore would remain, so what we see are just the stone items left and all the other buildings and vehicles and technology is gone, paper everything
Excellent documentary, Ben! The giant stone hand with the striated stone has the cartouche of Amenhotep III on the end of the scroll the hand is holding, not Ramoses II. Amenhotep III in the mid-18th Dynasty was also a master builder of huge statues and monuments.
It's amazing to think that Amenhotep III's colossal 60-foot-tall so-called "Colossi of Memnon" once flanked the entrance of a huge stone temple he had built right behind them, now vanished. Not one stone remains, having been quarried away in antiquity.
I gotta say this channel has become my all tune fav sub's to date..
Kudos Ben for such epic work and coverage
Do a video that goes through the math for moving that toppled statue on flat ground. Could a sled be constructed with just wood granite copper and rope?
i have my doubts, and so do a lot of people far more qualified than me to make that analysis
I enjoy all your videos. The first thought with these monumental statues and stone works is, what forces were necessary to knock over 1000-ton statues? What forces were present to cast huge stone blocks as if they were paper machete? Massive tsunamis? Cataclysmic earthquakes? Imagine going through those sites and piecing together the jigsaw of ruins into something resembling their past. Thank you again.
the hands of men in later eras, I suspect.
@@UnchartedX have a theory of my own, *bare with me* early on in the bible it refers to a time were there were a race of humans called nephilim, they were supposed to be human/angel hybrids brought about from angels that had come to earth to be with 'the daughters of man' creating material bodies for themselves and eventually who's wives gave birth to these humans that become monstrously big, now! If the fathers were infact angels that had come to earth, they would have been around during the creation of the universe and they'd know the infinite details of the make up of literally everything, don't you think if an angel came to earth to chase booty in this dust bowl he'd want to at least make life a little nicer/easier for himself? With his knowledge of the universe combined with the size and strength of his 'superhuman' ofspring, they could create all sorts of power and machines humans couldn't even dream of! Crazy i know but just let it sink in the more i look into it the more it makes sense, even looking at the size of all the ancient ruins around the world! Why are they all built so big! Petra is a really good example of this.
@@UnchartedXyup Islam like to destroy things 😂expecially statue
Wow the quality of your argument and evidence is on point. Amazing video.
Such a fascinating and quality stream on cutting edge research into the megaliths, pyramids, and statuary of Gizeh and 🇪🇬 Egypt!❤😂
Great video, I love these ones the most. I hadn't considered something now, the the pre-cataclysm stonework would looked especially good in a forest of some variant as back then it's unlikely that area would've been desert and sands.
If you haven't heard, its proven that each block is poured, each statue is from clay molds, each vase is from clay molds, each hyro is printed with clay molds while the concrete is fresh. poly concrete..... If you keep trying to understand its because you're not paying attention to the studies. Watch Pyramid 4k 2019. There was no transportation of huge stones. Stop spreading bullshit.
The tour guide made a point about rougher surfaces in some statues being intentionally made like that so that paint would adhere better. This would support the fact that there were two different crafts in the process and may also give hints to the decline in quality. Maybe they worked out it that it was harder to make these super hard smooth surfaces look exotic or realistic and intentionally made that mistake.. did ceramics originally come from Egypt?
There was also paint, which has long since worn away.
Can you just imagine what this must of looked like back in the day? How did all of these statues get broken?
Cataclysmic events
@@spaceofmind4962 Park your car in a field, come back in 10 years and tell us what cataclysm happened that caused your car to fall apart.
1000+ton granite car?
Just the idea that these ancient people completed the magnificent statues with comparatively primitive tools is impossible.
Thank you for dedicating your 'life' to unravelling multi - multi millennia of civilisations. It's so overwhelming to conceive but I follow all of your very open discussion.
How many more civilisations will grow and fall before we unlock our history.
Old git, UK
Another excellent episode Ben. Thankyou very much for your always awesome content.
Yousef seems like such a cool dude.
Good video as usual! I wonder if anyone has studied the faces and analyzed them for similarities related to the quality (age) of the statues.
Even without the tube drilled holes and such being found, the fact that ANYONE, seeing the level of detail in these statues, could at any point say that this level of detail was done with primitive tools, to this scale, is an absolute moron. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that it takes more than a hammer and chisel to produce detail from the finger nails down to the individual muscle definition in the arms.
That black stone vase standing on its tip gets me every time! - with 2 latches nonetheless.
I’d love the hear Sir Christopher Dunn’s hypothesis on what engineering mechanics would be required to create the structures. And a modern artist’s opinion on the soulless perfection of them.
Thx for mentioning Baalbek ...but you should come and see it, it is really amazing...the three huge stones have been put on top of smaller ones...which is hard to explain and seems illogical....so many unanswered questions in Baalbek...come and visit Ben, worth it...PS: I'm a Lebanese following your channel since a long time and i am originally from a village close to Baalbek
I definitely hope to get there soon
@@UnchartedX don't worry about travel recommendations from the US ...everybody is coming here and it is safe...it's an honor to receive you in Lebanon, somebody who analyzes and thinks instead of just accepting what's written
I'd really like for Ben to have a debate with Ancient Architects. Even though I get bothered by his continued affirmations of having "solved" the mysteries of ancient constructions, sometimes he makes good points for mainstream archeology. I think It could be a productive conversation.
I talk with Matt all the time.
@@UnchartedX Ey Ben! I'm aware of some of those conversations, but i was mostly proposing a proper debate. You are quite possibly the most informed, reasonable and articulate of alternative researchers, threading very carefully around the most outlandish hypotheses. And as such, the best person to confront ideas with mainstream ideologies. In any case, thank you for your awesome work.
Would rather see a debate with World of Antiquity.
I share Ben's fascination with these statues in particular, while megalithic polygonal masonry and box construction fascinates me as well, these statues are seemingly far and away much more difficult to carve, impossibly complex with their highly artistic impossibly perfect symmetry, supremely accurate curvatures and polished to reflective perfection, I would love to see Ben do a video comparing later methods of carving such as Michelangelo's David to the possible carving methods that created these Egyptian masterworks.
David is made of a much softer stone, much much much
It’s really not that much a mystery. Sharp flint rock works just fine for intricate cuts through granite and quartzite. It’s labor intensive. But, the ancient Egyptians didn’t share our 21st century sense of urgency. You certainly don’t need a lost technologically advanced ancient civilization to shape stone. You just need skilled craftsmen and time. Ancient Egyptians had plenty of both.
@@lutherandross3165 There is no way one could carve granite to symmetrical perfection, polish to a mirror finish and leave no tool marks with pieces of flint. I am envious that you have still to realize this and to come to the realization that there was something incredibly fascinating and mysterious taking place in ancient times that so far is entirely unexplainable. Godspeed on this journey!
@@scotch_onrocks1876 Still a nice accomplishment though, for a man in his 20's. Ha
true. its the oldest trade in the world. Humans have been shaping stone since humans began.
@@lutherandross3165
Another brilliant, knowledgeable videos ❤
Since my childhood I always wondered while going to school which passed by the Pyramids and Sphinx, how our ancestors were able to build such remarkable buildings, my father always told me stories that has been passed through generations that the Pyramids were a powerhouse that gave energy through the nile, every time now I go back to Egypt I go to a cafe near the Pyramids and keep watching them for hours, After I feel like I’m recharged. May god bless Egypt 🇪🇬 my beloved homeland.
It's almost like...the "ancient Egyptians" discovered these statues and massive buildings, then emulated the style of dress they saw their "gods" wearing in the statues, then stamped their graffiti into the objects in order to control their own history and say it was their great-grandfather or something.
yep, almost like just that :)
&the so called Elites of today who use all the symbolism etc are, by extention, a cargo cult derived from a cargo cult..embarrassing really. no wonder they obfuscate it all so much..