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Italian Renaissance palazzi (palaces) have the same kind of design, hard rough granite on the lower levels, higher up sandstone and maybe marble at the top. The reasons were to have harding wearing at the bottom against water, military attacks, weathering, etc.and to show less effects of those phenomenon as they happened. This palazzo approach has been common throughout the centuries, and you can still sometimes see it even on skyscrapers of today.
It is likely that the sand wasnt there when the great pyramids were built. That came from a later cataclysm which is why there are whale skeletons in the middle of the desert. The waters flooded the continent and then receded, leaving structures buried and preserved. Most buried structures, which are being discovered still, have perfect sharp edges and lack any Egyptian markings. I also don't think the official pyramid timeline is correct at all. The advanced precision versions are much older and likely "Atlantean" in origin. All the major pyramids line the shore of where the Nile shore used to be. You can see this on Google Earth. They were definitely designed to interact with water.
Perhaps for the same reason Greco-Roman style architecture is now found all over the world- global trade and the mixing of culture/science/ideas. That's my theory anyhow. Peoples of those truly ancient civilizations had a strong connection to the different continents of the world. I doubt they were insular, like our history books would suggest.
@@rainyday6430 It's too bad their skills were lost for so many years, and by what sort of cataclysm? It's even more mind blowing to know it took us 12k years to be able to replicate just some of their structures and we even had examples to study! How long did it take them to develop their origional designs and refined skills? Something big in our history is missing!!
@@fundog57 believe me these bought and paid for scientists and archaeologists, do not want us to know the truth. its free energy, tesla figured it out. wardencliff tower.
Fascinating. The recently discovered "Burckle crater", circa 3800 bce, caused a tsunami 600 feet high that flowed through the Red Sea into the Mediterranean. A mile wide rock left an 18 mile wide crater after passing through 12,500 feet of the Indian Ocean. One can only imagine the effect such an event had on the local populations, and the myths survivors formulated to explain it.
The 6000th half cycle and the 12000th full cycle repeats itself. It will be harder and harder to dismiss the nova explanation. It has all the answers + it incorporates two different explanations for the craters.
Yeah man, that's super interesting and thank you for sharing this. I've been researching and counting the number of asteroid impacts in europe and i believe just in the last 3000 years we've had at least 2 maybe 3 and hopefully not 4, major events. If my calculations are correct we should be expecting an asteroid impact in europe once ever 500 to 1500 years. And if my research is correct, there's actually a strong chance that the Roman empire was actually wiped out by an asteroid and not the way we were told. I have come to believe that nearly all the damage in Rome, say on the colloseum and forum, are from an impact 100 to 300 km away. Not just that, but it appears that greek structures as well, all around the mediterrainian, suffered from the same impact. Many of the temples show absolute signs of extreme explosion. Major earthquakes have been the scapegoat. But these super earthquakes i believe are from asteroid impacts. I'm not a legitimate scientists, these observations took years to create. I'm an amature. Please take what i have to say with a grain of salt.
Interesting research, HMK. We're a shooting gallery it seems. We build it up, "the gods", knock them down. Not a mathematician myself, but here's a look at what i've been up to over 4 decades: brainelevator.org
Another fascinating look at the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Thanks, Matt, for your ceaseless hard work and endlessly informative and entertaining videos!
@@toomanymarys7355 no atgumemt there. The source of the granite does not prevent people from taking already quarried blocks from a finished pyramid. I argue that the pyramid is NOT unfinished but has been dismantled.
This does make sense, and is a great contribution, particularly the weathering around the Sphinx enclosure. Flash floods in the desert can be destructive and frightening, yet leave little evidence that is dateable.
I have to agree with you Matt. Limestone erodes quickly with water flow. This seems to be a structural feature that also helps with load bearing as granite is a harder stone. As always, a thorough video, thanks!😊
Here's a thought - at 3:14, in this video, we see the flat vs pillow treatment. I wonder if the flat ones were pillowed, to start with, and then heated, for softening, and then carved with a portable CNC mill.
I like the idea of flash flood protection. As an alternative, is it possible that the first courses were lined with water proof granite to aid construction in some way? I remember a video on a proposal that water was channelled and used for lifting blocks... Or could some pyramids have been designed to sit within an encircling moat? Also, is there no evidence of removal of stone from the lower more accessible courses of the great pyramid? I'm still, possibly naively, attached to the idea that the great pyramid and the Sphinx are much older, when water and rainfall generally would have been prevalent.
I cant help but feel like they're far older as well. I dig holes for s living. Swinging around a 16 to 19lb steel bar to break rocks and break up holes. The dynastic Egyptians did not build the pyrimids using copper chisels. Not fucken happening.
@@christopherplourde2921 No not copper, They employed the latest in dolorite polishing tech. They could perfect a granite block, with hand powered rubbing, in as little 20 or 30 thousand years. ;)
@@christopherplourde2921 it's 100% possible especially with how much man power they had. Why is it so hard to believe that people could do this stuff? We've done tons of experiments to prove things like copper chisels, pounding stones, and abrasive based cutting were 100% viable and we have tons of evidence of the work flow in queries and around these monuments. Copper chisels can easily cut even granite and the only issue would be the need to reshape them a few times a day but that's nothing new, chisels would probably be treated like machetes where they'd likely be resharppened up to three times a day and they could easily be repaired on a work site. Its amazing what some belief, two loafs of bread a jug of beer and a lot of elbow grease can do.
I am so impressed that you are now uncovering an international understanding of how our aincient ancestors were aware of water management through geology. Through the many theories on these matters you are a refreshing insight into the alternative. Thank you sir.
I dunno. It's not as entertaining as Armored Skeptics self-aware conspiracy theories on the topic. You should definitely watch it if you miss old school AA.
Those 3D drawings are amazing. Imagine arriving to Giza in a boat and never been there before, the sight was something that amazed anyone, regardless of rank or social status.
They say the largest of the great pyramids is the only eight-sided pyramid in the world, but judging by this video, @ 0:56 you can clearly see that the smallest of the great pyramids is also eight-sided. Did I just make a discovery? 😱
Yes it's true,The Eight sides were used to prevent the Pyramid from crumbling when there's too low pressure inside as this was an Ancient stone made Water Pump using Steam Jet Refrigeration System, the Osiris Shafts serves as Boilers.
The ancient architecture of this entire site is mind boggling...as how much thought, planning, effort and construction they put into it all. God I wish there was a way to see what it looked like when first completed...like an ariel view...it must have been stunning and beyond our wildest imagination.
This region Egypt/Nile outshines all other regions of the world in megalithic construction. It had to have been the capitol of the world prior to the global catastrophe that raised sea levels by 400 feet. Peru is a close second, a remote outpost. Pillow stone knobbed granite casing along the pyramid bases is an indication of respectful rebuilding and veneration by the returning 'South Americans.' Same respect goes for Greeks and Romans rebuilding portions of the Sphinx with square dressed stone blocks especially along the paws of the Sphinx. Egypt is still stellar fascination today.
The flaking off of granite on the Giza blocks was not due to "weathering". It was due to delamination caused by a layer of stone being forcefully separated from the main mass by expanding crystals of ice or salt. Are you not a geologist? I would think that the term "weathering" would only apply to what is seen on the limestone of the Sphinx and the huge temple blocks. No doubt crystals would have greatly accelerated the natural weathering caused by driving rain and sandy winds. Granite is not calcareous (being siliceous instead) so it is not vulnerable to water or acid. You can squirt car battery acid on igneous rock and it does nothing...which I was surprised to see when I did it. It's because of its silica nature...which makes glass...which is invulnerable to all but one type of acid.
A very good, original (as far as I know) and interesting theory. In my humble opinion... it holds water (sorry, I couldn't resist, but it really is a good theory!) :-)
My guess: Since the great Pyramids were on the banks of the ancient Nile, tough granite casing stones prevented erosion and undermining when the Nile flooded high. You can see that same erosion on the softer stone of the nearby Sphinx.
That lake sediment record & its implications for unprecedented agricultural plenty along the Nile makes so much sense of how the pyramid-building era was able to leverage such particularly incredible wealth & human-power for their megalithic projects, in contrast with other Egyptian dynasties! Fascinating analysis of the impact on the construction on the plateau, too, really appreciated it.
The lower casingstones formed the foundation for the upper casingstones, making the loads on the lower casingstones much higher in comparison to the upper stones, , thus requiring stronger and stiffer materials, which may have been the reason for applying granite on the lower casingstones.
It's great to be back in Egypt. When you showed us that the lower part of the Kahfre and Menkaure casing stones are granite my mouth opened in awe and closed just as quickly. A2, we have to remember that the granite came from hundreds of kilometers away and that each stone had to be cut and shaped to exactly fit the place where it would lie. Does anyone realize the work that goes in to just shaping one huge block of granite? We are talking about structures that continue to boggle our imagination to the max. I am more and more convinced that we are looking at the skeleton-structures of which were once elegant, almost gem-like stone structures that have yet to be fully understood. This was certainly an electrical-industrial complex where all the structures weren't just made to make it picture-perfect. No; these structures were all made for a purpose and with any luck A2 is going to find out exactly what they are.
What a giant puzzle the giza plateau is..there is so much to theorize and investigate. That's why the internet is a blessing for about all the sciences..everybody can submit theories and be discussed with people all over the world....progress guaranteed!! Thx for your thoughts Matt
Brilliant hypothesis!! And so utterly plausible!! The simplicity and rationale of this hypothesis makes it simply beautiful! Also beautiful example of Occam’s Razor! ❤️
I don’t think this necessitates contact. Ancient people were very smart about the things they knew. I feel it’s reasonable that multiple groups in different areas would arrive at very similar conclusions to handle very similar problems. I feel if there was global contact, the dates on these similarities would have to be matched. Also, if all these people had global contact, I feel like the droughts that ended dynasties would have worked differently if intercontinental trade and communication existed
As a layman with extremely minimal knowledge of your field of study, I have to say you present some very interesting theories. Definitely give the layman something to think about that's for sure I appreciate your channel I wish I was in a financial ability to help you with your enlightening work.👍👍 Some day
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I don’t know if anyone has said this before me, as I said at the end, but this video is dated and records in the public domain this original work. I know I came to this idea myself but it’s possible someone else has this idea before me 🤷♂️
"Hello everybody, and welcome to Ancient Mariners" ;) Yes, if you recall your video hypothesizing about a possible well or spring on the Giza plateau and a subsequent video about relationships between other pyramids or 'temple' complexes and the possibility of springs or wells at these sites it struck me as very plausible. More on an intuitive or subconscious level I suppose as I am not the research kinda person but water and the management of water is important to the extent it's a prerequisite for any organized society. Like the chart showing correlation between bloom and collapse and the water levels. And if we are to progress beyond it's either a temple or a tomb, and think more in terms of practicality and real tangible purpose, water and water management should be on top of the list. The 'either temple or tomb' isn't entirely to be mocked, but it's a surface level view. What first is purely practical becomes tradition. Tradition turns into ritual. Ritual into symbolism. And ritual and symbolism can in turn become religious. This process is usually encouraged by those in power. If a ruler would have successfully engineered and constructed an irrigation system, adding and expanding land to grow crops, he would of course boast "I, your King, have brought you the water of life" etc. Similarly a deliberate created network of wells and springs would sooner or later fall in the hands of the priesthood. The surrounding complexes being given a religious tinge. The amount of times this must have repeated throughout the Holocene, worldwide, on small and large scale must be astronomical. By the time they wrote down how Moses once singlehandedly cracked open a rock to give the people water some must have seriously face palmed. Like Really? That old cliché? Yes. Because water is pretty much literally life. Though we moderns with our tap and bottled water have become quite oblivious to that fact. At any rate, before it turns into a novel, water; yes. Balancing it always. Too much or too little, either quite damaging. Friend and foe alike. Us puny humans trying to control it, a huge chapter in the story of civilization.
I can agree with and/or understand everything you say. Thank you, however, for the mental - visual of people at this age hearing the “water from a rock”, and doing a Fauci!! LOL
If the granite stones were to protect against flooding, then Pyramids of Giza are a lot older than we think. Your theory is a game changer. Great work!
I agree. The whole complex (pyramids, Sphinx, etc.) may predate Egypt (which Egypt would never admit to as it would mean they were not the first great society as they love to claim.)
An excellent line of extrapolative reasoning,all the more elegant for its undeniable causality . Am greatly enjoying the 'new renaissance ' of your wonderful channel & greatly apreeatiative of what seems like even more hard work on your part. As can be only obvious, particularly, when one considers the enormous amounts of work to import both the red & black granite found at these - & other - sites,there has to be a purpose above & beyond ,merely decorative?! Establish this & we will be a step closer to an explanation?! Kudos for the new direction & the deeper though invested into all these disperate sites; as ever,a pleasure, thank you. Very best wishes to you&yours👋🌟💯✌
nice to see you revisiting Egypt with some new ideas Matt , great thinking on the granite blocks i can't see another reason for their use apart from decoration and the evident wear and erosion on the blocks backs up your assumption . great thinking keep it up .
Taking into account, Cheops Law and the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics. They would go much higher than 2 courses. I don't think Cole's law would apply though.
Probably 2 purposes, flash flood and wind erosion protection. Perhaps also for protection against human origin wear and tear, like the Renaissance palazzos in Italy, that has rough stone casings on the 1st level
I really love your videos and your work. You and History for Granite are the two best channels on TH-cam by far!! So I want to give a little hint in return, nobody has ever considered: We know for sure that the pyramids were surrounded by water. Limestone is a problem because the water dissolves the limestone over time and the lime settles everywhere. So you have to use a natural stone like granite. But there is another problem with granite. Anyone who has a fountain in their garden knows the problem with water and sun very well. The stone turns green from algae and becomes very dirty over time. You can prevent algae growth naturally by simply using copper! We know for a fact that the Egyptians had copper in abundance and certainly used it to threaten water. So I'm pretty sure copper was used in various places and also needed to be replaced. Besides, it's the only valuable thing you can steal from the pyramids!
3:15 The blocks were soft, pliable, consistancy of "Playdough" or soft clay perhaps. The blocks maybe were extruded possibly, into place, not wholly but some to fill. Then at the extrusion point on the blocks (those knobs), they snipped them off.
All I know is I actually worked as a contractor once building retaining walls out of granite for a fancy "camp" on a lake... Once. I would never do that job again. Took 3 guys 3 weeks and we had a full size excavator to use to place the stones. It is extremely difficult to stack heavy stones in such a way that they are stable enough to create a retaining wall. It is well beyond my brain to process how they could have fit such a wall out of granite so well together that it is essentially water-tight.
Like, sure, regardless what advanced techniques were used to shape the stones is amazing itself... But I don't think most people realize that not only does granite have a super high hardness... But it is also extremely heavy and very difficult simply to move... Much less get it into the precise spot etc.
Thank you for saying this! I have been trying to comment on every video about this! They’ve all that proven this information. I’ve had this theory for years! Funny that you run this channel, but didn’t know this info 🤷🏽♀️
I don't think I have heard anyone else bring up the flash flood protection theory. Others have mentioned flash flooding happened, but not that the pyramids needed protection from them, nor that something was done to try and protect them. I think this is interesting and would love to hear more.
You mention the runoff, from the plateau, and the retaining walls around the lesser pyramids. Would not the retaining walls also have held water? Surrounding the pyramids like a moat? Would it be conceivable that this could have been intentional? Making the area around the pyramid into a reservoir? Holding water to be used after the flooding and rains ceased?
That's a cool idea re- reservoir. Wouldn't the retaining walls themselves and ground surface not have to be cased in granite aswell though? And you could build a reservoir without a pyramid, or risking flooding a pyramid with sub terrainean chambers. Its a neat idea. He also mentioned something about an ancient well. If drainage led to a well, that would support your idea
Great theory Matt! A very well presented and practical explanation for the use of the granite (which I have often wondered about). I also wonder though... How is it that this same type of granite work (you call it poly-something) is found in Peru and in Egypt (and elsewhere)?
@@AncientArchitects Yeah I guess it could be either, but it seems less likely to me that different people's in different times would develop such a similar stonework method. It's not just that the end result looks the same. It is my understanding that there must have been a very complex and process to be able to work with granite so precisely to create walls of granite which fit together so well. Like, I have no idea really, I'm sure these civilizations got quite good at working with stone... And considering how many hundreds and thousands of years they each often existed, it would make sense that they develop similar processes and techniques independently... But still. Every time I see pictures of the work in Peru and on the pyramids here, it looks like the same contractor did it... Lol
There are also other indicators of a shared culture. It seems likely that there was at one time a semi-global civilization. Or in the least, that pre-antiquity travel between the continents was not as nonexistent or rare as we've previously thought. The North Atlantic looks pretty small compared to the Polynesian territories in the Pacific.
@@thomastmc And this (I feel) is a super important thing to consider... That there may have been some other culture (as yet undefined) which pre-dated accepted ancient cultures from which knowledge of certain things (such as working with stone) came from. Obviously, there is no definitive "proof" of such a culture... But the existence of such definitely would explain a few things...
@@thomastmc There's one quote from the guy with the crazy hair from Ancient Aliens that I watched one time that always makes me laugh: He said: "I'm not saying it was aliens... But it was aliens." Haha! I love that one. Not just because he totally contradicts himself in literally one sentence... But that it is actually true. Not (to me at least) that everything unexplained from ancient times must have been done from a race that came from outer space... But that the fact that many of these feats simply cannot be reasonably or logically explained within the confines of our "understanding" of physics presently. So in that respect it is alien, to us.
This is so fascinating to me, I have so much respect for your opinion and agree with most of your theories. They just make sense. I can't get enough information on the pyramids of Giza. They are an interesting enigma! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this subject with great details on your theories and why you think this has happened. You never leave holes in you hypotheses!
I can’t say I always agree with your theories but they certainly are worth a second thought. I think these pyramids are much older than anyone imagines. Thanks
Very Good Matt. I live in Tucson and we are in extreme draught condition, but even today flash floods are a problem here. I also have a friend who lives in Cairo who tells me the two cities have similar weather conditions. I really enjoy your well throughout views. I learn something new every video.
Except for the fact that the lowest level casings show obvious signs of having been fitted like it was clay. A rough backing stone can be seen perfectly fitted to the back of the casing. Requiring some very difficult chiseling, trying fit, marking high points, more chiseling, re-trying fit, etc. No, not buying that.
I think something sudden and powerful swept the workers leveling off the surfaces in the act in a trice. Yet did not leave explosive or flaming damage. I think such catastrophe answering to those precondition would be a tidal wave, or sudden on rush of water rise as to obviate any more pealing away of the fake granite/clay-like concrete.
I was always under the impression that the small pyramid was covered in more expensive casing blocks because it was the smallest and the king wanted it to stand out,againts the two big once
The inevitable consequence of relying on *grain,* the “backbone” of civilization. Too much rain or too little is equally devastating. Boom and bust, just like a casino.
@@AncientArchitects I found his book (book!!) Elongated Skulls to be extremely helpful because of the map that shows where the museums are that have the skulls. It's a little morbid but also interesting to research "shrunken skulls " and pre-Columbian history. 🤔
If it was for water protection why were only the second ”khafre” and third ”menkaure” pyramids and not the great pyramid ”khufu” covered with granite casing stones?
”khafre” and third ”menkaure” pyramids had to be protected back then for suitable reasons. this means the "GP" did not need to be protected this time. in architecture different requirements for the structure, usually suggest different building time periods, in same place
I'd be interested to find out if the height of the pyramid above the granite stones corresponds at all to the original size of the pyramid before they expanded it, as you posited in your other video
"Most scholarly accounts state unequivocally that it was Ma'mun who first forced his way into the upper reaches of the pyramid, in the year 820 A.D." www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/inside-the-great-pyramid-75164298/
From your link: "But other aspects of these early accounts are far less credible. Read in the original, the Arab histories paint a confused and contradictory picture of the pyramids; most were composed several centuries after Ma'mun's time, and none so much as mentions the vital date-820 A.D.- so confidently stated in every Western work published since the 1860s."
One of your best video. Many thanks for your great work. Pleas continue your research on these stones. There must have been a technology transfer here from one continent to another.
Good work. I agree w your taste, but maybe the Egyptians liked two tone better. Flood and sand protection tho, certainly seems a much better reason...... Please use Before Present rather than BC. Many viewers might not be using the European calendar, and even those of us who do still have to do math to tell how long ago something happened.
In my opinion, the Egyptians went to all of these lengths to make sure that this stuff would be around for us to find. They knew they would be wiped out by a cataclysm that was inevitable and unavoidable. Think of it as a nudge in the right direction to understanding humanity and preserving everything that their entire culture was based off of: The afterlife. Us modern day humans have just been too ignorant to see it as we just love to give the most simplistic explanation for something that is anything but simple
Even from the pictures you can see that the granite acts as a foundation for the pyramids that would withstand flooding much better than limestone ever could
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I have been in areas of the southern US that would flood quickly during heavy but almost always short rainstorms ( about 5 to 20 minutes. ) The large empty ditches and sloped ground would flood quickly but the well engineered surfaces would drain the rainwater away. I think you are correct. The smoother area around the drain would make sense. I wonder if my " mysterious vertical dimples" were actually to help in drainage? And if they were more efficient maybe the Great pyramid wouldn't need the Granite facings.
I appreciate your straight to the facts approach with pros and cons and sometimes your opinion or options. Maybe you've covered this in another video, but how were the granite blocks cut? Interesting observation on the obelisk; there are scooping patterns towards the peak. Shaping cuts with some sort of tool. Chisels would not have created a scooped effect. I've seen other videos of the obelisk and the same scoops are found on the sides and underneath. Your thoughts on how these scoops were created would be most appreciated. Cheers!
Interesting theory. Are you suggesting the Pyramid of Menkaura, which was constructed in the 4th dynasty, was also encased in granite in the same period? Given the copper tools of the time I wonder how they managed to fit the granite so perfectly however maybe the granite casing was added later? I agree that that the lower granite casing stone would protect against water damage as would the retaining wall. It's a shame that the tools of the time don't support granite working and also the unfinished nature of the facing stones is puzzling given how perfectly flat the finished casing stones are compared with the unfinished ones. The Osirion also has a wall which appears to be unfinished with only the upper part "smoothed" just like the Menkaura Pyramid, in fact I'm convinced the same tool was used in both cases. Is it possible that both the Pyramid of Menkaura AND the Osirian were interrupted at the same time? Thanks for sharing.
Noting that, like Giza, "Osirion" has distinct building periods which exhibit distinctive techniques - maybe that is what you have observed ? Most people think it was all done by the one group in one time frame. ))
@ancientarchitects , love what you’re doing. If I could ask anything its that you take notice to the last word of every sentence you narrate is pronounced long.
Nice study! The amount of rain water the pyramids would collect (assuming a smooth casing stone) would be considerable. As we know, the sides of the pyramid are also not flat, but angle slightly to the centre line. Is this also a method to channel water to specific areas. Could water channeling be a "use" for these large structures..? Water has a lot of uses / energy if harnessed correctly..?
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Italian Renaissance palazzi (palaces) have the same kind of design, hard rough granite on the lower levels, higher up sandstone and maybe marble at the top. The reasons were to have harding wearing at the bottom against water, military attacks, weathering, etc.and to show less effects of those phenomenon as they happened.
This palazzo approach has been common throughout the centuries, and you can still sometimes see it even on skyscrapers of today.
Sand moving at low levels due to wind storms can "sandblast" limestone, but hardly affects granite.
It is likely that the sand wasnt there when the great pyramids were built. That came from a later cataclysm which is why there are whale skeletons in the middle of the desert. The waters flooded the continent and then receded, leaving structures buried and preserved. Most buried structures, which are being discovered still, have perfect sharp edges and lack any Egyptian markings. I also don't think the official pyramid timeline is correct at all. The advanced precision versions are much older and likely "Atlantean" in origin. All the major pyramids line the shore of where the Nile shore used to be. You can see this on Google Earth. They were definitely designed to interact with water.
@@energ8t Some good points, but aren't the whale bones, fossils, and millions, not thousands of years old ?
@@terryenglish7132 nope, you are thinking of trilobytes in the Andes probably
@@energ8t where are these whales skeletons? Sources please
@@energ8t you are funny.
If I didn’t admit this is fascinating, I’d be in de Nile.
Or...you could get chucked into it...for this comment😁
You're ready for your own show in Vegas .....
.... at the Luxor of course !!!!! (Ba-dum-disss!) ;)
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@@unoefxz I always heard it more as "Ba doo, tshhh"
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I'm a trained concrete technician with over 20 years experience..even before your hypothesis I said water erosion.
I'd like to know how and why this style of megalithic stoneworking is found around the entire world.
Perhaps for the same reason Greco-Roman style architecture is now found all over the world- global trade and the mixing of culture/science/ideas. That's my theory anyhow. Peoples of those truly ancient civilizations had a strong connection to the different continents of the world. I doubt they were insular, like our history books would suggest.
Well they didn’t trade well because their crops were all different. If they all traded we would have had all the same veggies.
@@rainyday6430 It's too bad their skills were lost for so many years, and by what sort of cataclysm? It's even more mind blowing to know it took us 12k years to be able to replicate just some of their structures and we even had examples to study! How long did it take them to develop their origional designs and refined skills? Something big in our history is missing!!
Since it isn't, your quest solved itself.
So would everyone except the few who are claimed to be able to have authority over public opinion on such issues.
Your intuition and deductive reasoning are just some of the reasons why I love this channel. Keep up the good work!
These things are vastly older than anyone would admit. There have been several civilisations completely lost to time.
Exactly! Refer to the Egyptians as squatters!
Are they? If that were true, scientists and archaeologists would be the first to admit it.
The Egyptians wrote about building them.
@@fundog57 believe me these bought and paid for scientists and archaeologists, do not want us to know the truth. its free energy, tesla figured it out. wardencliff tower.
@@willywokeup9112 who's buying and paying for scientists and archaeologists?
Fascinating. The recently discovered "Burckle crater", circa 3800 bce, caused a tsunami 600 feet high that flowed through the Red Sea into the Mediterranean. A mile wide rock left an 18 mile wide crater after passing through 12,500 feet of the Indian Ocean. One can only imagine the effect such an event had on the local populations, and the myths survivors formulated to explain it.
Amazing
The 6000th half cycle and the 12000th full cycle repeats itself. It will be harder and harder to dismiss the nova explanation. It has all the answers + it incorporates two different explanations for the craters.
Yeah man, that's super interesting and thank you for sharing this. I've been researching and counting the number of asteroid impacts in europe and i believe just in the last 3000 years we've had at least 2 maybe 3 and hopefully not 4, major events. If my calculations are correct we should be expecting an asteroid impact in europe once ever 500 to 1500 years. And if my research is correct, there's actually a strong chance that the Roman empire was actually wiped out by an asteroid and not the way we were told.
I have come to believe that nearly all the damage in Rome, say on the colloseum and forum, are from an impact 100 to 300 km away. Not just that, but it appears that greek structures as well, all around the mediterrainian, suffered from the same impact. Many of the temples show absolute signs of extreme explosion. Major earthquakes have been the scapegoat. But these super earthquakes i believe are from asteroid impacts.
I'm not a legitimate scientists, these observations took years to create. I'm an amature. Please take what i have to say with a grain of salt.
@@R0jiv4 carry the 2
Interesting research, HMK. We're a shooting gallery it seems. We build it up, "the gods", knock them down. Not a mathematician myself, but here's a look at what i've been up to over 4 decades: brainelevator.org
I watch all kinds of science and ancient civilization vids... But Ancient Architects is the only channel I have on notification... ;)
Thank you :)
Another fascinating look at the Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Thanks, Matt, for your ceaseless hard work and endlessly informative and entertaining videos!
Granite missing from blocks taken - not from never being finished. The granite casing stones seem to indicate a much more ancient build.
No. The granite came from Aswan.
@@toomanymarys7355 no atgumemt there. The source of the granite does not prevent people from taking already quarried blocks from a finished pyramid. I argue that the pyramid is NOT unfinished but has been dismantled.
This does make sense, and is a great contribution, particularly the weathering around the Sphinx enclosure. Flash floods in the desert can be destructive and frightening, yet leave little evidence that is dateable.
Love your theories, keep m coming. Especially water related... Water is the source of life.
Thanks
At last! my beloved pyramid of Menkaure. I've never been inside, maybe next time I will make it. of course I'll film it😋
It’s a great structure
I just watchet. Very logical conclusions
@L Train45 i'm rather skeptical
Privet ...I enjoy yr presentations 🙆 Oudachi !
@L Train45 I think that most of the lost high-tech theorists don't realize how advanced ancient Egyptian civilisation was.
I have to agree with you Matt. Limestone erodes quickly with water flow. This seems to be a structural feature that also helps with load bearing as granite is a harder stone.
As always, a thorough video, thanks!😊
Thanks
The groundwater level is surprisingly high and the nile ran alot closer at one time.
This was the first World Fair. Everybody stopped by to show how to make slightly different blocks in their own style lol
Your not far off.
Repair work from a previous civilization...
Here's a thought - at 3:14, in this video, we see the flat vs pillow treatment. I wonder if the flat ones were pillowed, to start with, and then heated, for softening, and then carved with a portable CNC mill.
Interesting and well done, as always.
Thank you
You got the water part right but not from floods, it holds water as a retaining wall was also present.
I like the idea of flash flood protection. As an alternative, is it possible that the first courses were lined with water proof granite to aid construction in some way? I remember a video on a proposal that water was channelled and used for lifting blocks... Or could some pyramids have been designed to sit within an encircling moat? Also, is there no evidence of removal of stone from the lower more accessible courses of the great pyramid? I'm still, possibly naively, attached to the idea that the great pyramid and the Sphinx are much older, when water and rainfall generally would have been prevalent.
I cant help but feel like they're far older as well. I dig holes for s living. Swinging around a 16 to 19lb steel bar to break rocks and break up holes. The dynastic Egyptians did not build the pyrimids using copper chisels. Not fucken happening.
@@christopherplourde2921 No not copper, They employed the latest in dolorite polishing tech. They could perfect a granite block, with hand powered rubbing, in as little 20 or 30 thousand years. ;)
@@christopherplourde2921 it's 100% possible especially with how much man power they had. Why is it so hard to believe that people could do this stuff? We've done tons of experiments to prove things like copper chisels, pounding stones, and abrasive based cutting were 100% viable and we have tons of evidence of the work flow in queries and around these monuments. Copper chisels can easily cut even granite and the only issue would be the need to reshape them a few times a day but that's nothing new, chisels would probably be treated like machetes where they'd likely be resharppened up to three times a day and they could easily be repaired on a work site.
Its amazing what some belief, two loafs of bread a jug of beer and a lot of elbow grease can do.
My first thought was also thaf there could have been a moat around these pyramids initially… but if there’s no proof to be found
Egypt is the cornerstone of this channel. Glad that you made this video.
I always come back to it :) If I have something new to say!
I am so impressed that you are now uncovering an international understanding of how our aincient ancestors were aware of water management through geology. Through the many theories on these matters you are a refreshing insight into the alternative. Thank you sir.
Thank you for that. Means a lot
I dunno. It's not as entertaining as Armored Skeptics self-aware conspiracy theories on the topic. You should definitely watch it if you miss old school AA.
Those 3D drawings are amazing. Imagine arriving to Giza in a boat and never been there before, the sight was something that amazed anyone, regardless of rank or social status.
They say the largest of the great pyramids is the only eight-sided pyramid in the world, but judging by this video, @ 0:56 you can clearly see that the smallest of the great pyramids is also eight-sided. Did I just make a discovery? 😱
Nice 👍 i think you’re right!
No you didn't make a discovery..nice eye though.. it's fairly well know the smallest is also 8 sided..
Yes it's true,The Eight sides were used to prevent the Pyramid from crumbling when there's too low pressure inside as this was an Ancient stone made Water Pump using Steam Jet Refrigeration System, the Osiris Shafts serves as Boilers.
@@rexcataluna4617 awesome!
The ancient architecture of this entire site is mind boggling...as how much thought, planning, effort and construction they put into it all. God I wish there was a way to see what it looked like when first completed...like an ariel view...it must have been stunning and beyond our wildest imagination.
This region Egypt/Nile outshines all other regions of the world in megalithic construction. It had to have been the capitol of the world prior to the global catastrophe that raised sea levels by 400 feet. Peru is a close second, a remote outpost. Pillow stone knobbed granite casing along the pyramid bases is an indication of respectful rebuilding and veneration by the returning 'South Americans.' Same respect goes for Greeks and Romans rebuilding portions of the Sphinx with square dressed stone blocks especially along the paws of the Sphinx. Egypt is still stellar fascination today.
Yes, this is an innovative explanation. Thanks, Andrew!
Man! I’ve missed these.
Then I watch a binge or two.
Like the theory, makes sense, so why not is the questions answer.
The flaking off of granite on the Giza blocks was not due to "weathering". It was due to delamination caused by a layer of stone being forcefully separated from the main mass by expanding crystals of ice or salt.
Are you not a geologist? I would think that the term "weathering" would only apply to what is seen on the limestone of the Sphinx and the huge temple blocks. No doubt crystals would have greatly accelerated the natural weathering caused by driving rain and sandy winds.
Granite is not calcareous (being siliceous instead) so it is not vulnerable to water or acid. You can squirt car battery acid on igneous rock and it does nothing...which I was surprised to see when I did it. It's because of its silica nature...which makes glass...which is invulnerable to all but one type of acid.
What acid?
@@Fuzzmo147 Hydrofluoric acid. Very dangerous to just about everything.
A very good, original (as far as I know) and interesting theory. In my humble opinion... it holds water (sorry, I couldn't resist, but it really is a good theory!) :-)
I like how you often say maybe, and not “is”or “fact” to your ideas and theories. Thanks for another cracking video 👍
My guess: Since the great Pyramids were on the banks of the ancient Nile, tough granite casing stones prevented erosion and undermining when the Nile flooded high. You can see that same erosion on the softer stone of the nearby Sphinx.
That lake sediment record & its implications for unprecedented agricultural plenty along the Nile makes so much sense of how the pyramid-building era was able to leverage such particularly incredible wealth & human-power for their megalithic projects, in contrast with other Egyptian dynasties! Fascinating analysis of the impact on the construction on the plateau, too, really appreciated it.
The lower casingstones formed the foundation for the upper casingstones, making the loads on the lower casingstones much higher in comparison to the upper stones, , thus requiring stronger and stiffer materials, which may have been the reason for applying granite on the lower casingstones.
I've been waiting a long time for new Giza content on this channel. Thanks Matt
It's great to be back in Egypt. When you showed us that the lower part of the Kahfre and Menkaure casing stones are granite my mouth opened in awe and closed just as quickly. A2, we have to remember that the granite came from hundreds of kilometers away and that each stone had to be cut and shaped to exactly fit the place where it would lie. Does anyone realize the work that goes in to just shaping one huge block of granite? We are talking about structures that continue to boggle our imagination to the max. I am more and more convinced that we are looking at the skeleton-structures of which were once elegant, almost gem-like stone structures that have yet to be fully understood. This was certainly an electrical-industrial complex where all the structures weren't just made to make it picture-perfect. No; these structures were all made for a purpose and with any luck A2 is going to find out exactly what they are.
they were tombs and thats it
@@trader2137 That's a good starting point. Keep going!
What a giant puzzle the giza plateau is..there is so much to theorize and investigate. That's why the internet is a blessing for about all the sciences..everybody can submit theories and be discussed with people all over the world....progress guaranteed!! Thx for your thoughts Matt
or, that granite was there and was stolen. this has been a quarry for years for Cairo.
Brilliant hypothesis!! And so utterly plausible!! The simplicity and rationale of this hypothesis makes it simply beautiful! Also beautiful example of Occam’s Razor! ❤️
Your theory is very plausible and if true is just one more reason to believe that there was global communication between societies.
I think it was one culture that spent thousands of years traveling and building megalithics as they move to new location
I don’t think this necessitates contact. Ancient people were very smart about the things they knew. I feel it’s reasonable that multiple groups in different areas would arrive at very similar conclusions to handle very similar problems. I feel if there was global contact, the dates on these similarities would have to be matched. Also, if all these people had global contact, I feel like the droughts that ended dynasties would have worked differently if intercontinental trade and communication existed
Always a pleasure to watch your videos. Especially about my favorite topic the pyramids
Thank you
As a layman with extremely minimal knowledge of your field of study, I have to say you present some very interesting theories. Definitely give the layman something to think about that's for sure I appreciate your channel I wish I was in a financial ability to help you with your enlightening work.👍👍 Some day
Thank you... I’m really just a layman, a geologist, but with a strong interest and an open mind. I’m getting good at researching now. I think 😀
@@AncientArchitects
Don't give me that crap 🤪 you're no layman, I can tell by your presentations that you obviously have letters behind your name and in a video or two you stated some educational background but you're no layman by far sir 😁 I can tell, by your presentations & you're willingness to stand up for your theories unless they can be disproven. Also, you do amend your previous videos when you come across information that you find is misinformation or misleading. I said I just wish I was in a financial situation to be able to help. But if you ever come to Florida, I will buy you a 🍻pint, 🍺quart or any🍷🍸🍹🥂 beverage of your choice 🤔 keep up the good work and let's get through the rest of 2021 always looking 👀 keeping an eye out for that somewhat insignificant little detail🕵️
Again an awesome video. I hope you publish this in some way to safe guard your original hypotheses, because I think you are onto something!
I don’t know if anyone has said this before me, as I said at the end, but this video is dated and records in the public domain this original work. I know I came to this idea myself but it’s possible someone else has this idea before me 🤷♂️
"Hello everybody, and welcome to Ancient Mariners" ;) Yes, if you recall your video hypothesizing about a possible well or spring on the Giza plateau and a subsequent video about relationships between other pyramids or 'temple' complexes and the possibility of springs or wells at these sites it struck me as very plausible. More on an intuitive or subconscious level I suppose as I am not the research kinda person but water and the management of water is important to the extent it's a prerequisite for any organized society. Like the chart showing correlation between bloom and collapse and the water levels. And if we are to progress beyond it's either a temple or a tomb, and think more in terms of practicality and real tangible purpose, water and water management should be on top of the list.
The 'either temple or tomb' isn't entirely to be mocked, but it's a surface level view. What first is purely practical becomes tradition. Tradition turns into ritual. Ritual into symbolism. And ritual and symbolism can in turn become religious. This process is usually encouraged by those in power. If a ruler would have successfully engineered and constructed an irrigation system, adding and expanding land to grow crops, he would of course boast "I, your King, have brought you the water of life" etc. Similarly a deliberate created network of wells and springs would sooner or later fall in the hands of the priesthood. The surrounding complexes being given a religious tinge. The amount of times this must have repeated throughout the Holocene, worldwide, on small and large scale must be astronomical. By the time they wrote down how Moses once singlehandedly cracked open a rock to give the people water some must have seriously face palmed. Like Really? That old cliché? Yes. Because water is pretty much literally life. Though we moderns with our tap and bottled water have become quite oblivious to that fact.
At any rate, before it turns into a novel, water; yes. Balancing it always. Too much or too little, either quite damaging. Friend and foe alike. Us puny humans trying to control it, a huge chapter in the story of civilization.
I can agree with and/or understand everything you say. Thank you, however, for the mental - visual of people at this age hearing the “water from a rock”, and doing a Fauci!! LOL
This video is bloody fantastic.
Excellent, excellent work. Thank-you thank-you thank-you!
If the granite stones were to protect against flooding, then Pyramids of Giza are a lot older than we think. Your theory is a game changer.
Great work!
I agree. The whole complex (pyramids, Sphinx, etc.) may predate Egypt (which Egypt would never admit to as it would mean they were not the first great society as they love to claim.)
Very well done. Always appreciate your references. And, you have beautiful graphics as well. I save msg to study later on.
That is such a thought provoking intriguing and practicable explanation. Thank you for speaking about this.
Thank you for watching
@@AncientArchitects Totally my pleasure. I enjoy hearing your thoughts and ideas about our intriguing past and find your take on things refreshing.
always great research. not resorting to mysticism or invoking some sort of "lost ancient technology". thank you.
Thank you, Matt❤🌠❤
Thanks Lynn!
An excellent line of extrapolative reasoning,all the more elegant for its undeniable causality . Am greatly enjoying the 'new renaissance ' of your wonderful channel & greatly apreeatiative of what seems like even more hard work on your part. As can be only obvious, particularly, when one considers the enormous amounts of work to import both the red & black granite found at these - & other - sites,there has to be a purpose above & beyond ,merely decorative?! Establish this & we will be a step closer to an explanation?! Kudos for the new direction & the deeper though invested into all these disperate sites; as ever,a pleasure, thank you. Very best wishes to you&yours👋🌟💯✌
granite has very interesting electrical properties
Agreed.
There is far more to this than monuments.
The brains of idiots have interesting properties too.
nice to see you revisiting Egypt with some new ideas Matt , great thinking on the granite blocks i can't see another reason for their use apart from decoration and the evident wear and erosion on the blocks backs up your assumption . great thinking keep it up .
Flooding or "burglar bars" near ground level might justify granite. There are also electric and acoustic frequency reasons for both materials. Peace
Fantastic video once again
The granite casing would only need to be two layers high to protect from runoff...
i almost spit out my sweet tea when he said flashfloods i sincerely thought it was a deadpan joke
Taking into account, Cheops Law and the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics. They would go much higher than 2 courses. I don't think Cole's law would apply though.
Probably 2 purposes, flash flood and wind erosion protection.
Perhaps also for protection against human origin wear and tear, like the Renaissance palazzos in Italy, that has rough stone casings on the 1st level
I really love your videos and your work. You and History for Granite are the two best channels on TH-cam by far!!
So I want to give a little hint in return, nobody has ever considered:
We know for sure that the pyramids were surrounded by water. Limestone is a problem because the water dissolves the limestone over time and the lime settles everywhere. So you have to use a natural stone like granite. But there is another problem with granite. Anyone who has a fountain in their garden knows the problem with water and sun very well. The stone turns green from algae and becomes very dirty over time. You can prevent algae growth naturally by simply using copper! We know for a fact that the Egyptians had copper in abundance and certainly used it to threaten water.
So I'm pretty sure copper was used in various places and also needed to be replaced. Besides, it's the only valuable thing you can steal from the pyramids!
3:15 The blocks were soft, pliable, consistancy of "Playdough" or soft clay perhaps. The blocks maybe were extruded possibly, into place, not wholly but some to fill. Then at the extrusion point on the blocks (those knobs), they snipped them off.
I don’t think they were soft and pliable. Look to be natural granite. But obviously I can’t say for sure.
All I know is I actually worked as a contractor once building retaining walls out of granite for a fancy "camp" on a lake...
Once. I would never do that job again. Took 3 guys 3 weeks and we had a full size excavator to use to place the stones.
It is extremely difficult to stack heavy stones in such a way that they are stable enough to create a retaining wall.
It is well beyond my brain to process how they could have fit such a wall out of granite so well together that it is essentially water-tight.
Like, sure, regardless what advanced techniques were used to shape the stones is amazing itself... But I don't think most people realize that not only does granite have a super high hardness... But it is also extremely heavy and very difficult simply to move... Much less get it into the precise spot etc.
@@AncientArchitects yeah no it FORMED granite over time. Dudes not wrong that’s their leading theory on how they were made
Thank you for saying this! I have been trying to comment on every video about this! They’ve all that proven this information. I’ve had this theory for years! Funny that you run this channel, but didn’t know this info 🤷🏽♀️
I don't think I have heard anyone else bring up the flash flood protection theory. Others have mentioned flash flooding happened, but not that the pyramids needed protection from them, nor that something was done to try and protect them. I think this is interesting and would love to hear more.
I’m already researching a follow-up video. I think it explains the Khafre Valley Temple, being right on the water front during high inundation.
You mention the runoff, from the plateau, and the retaining walls around the lesser pyramids. Would not the retaining walls also have held water? Surrounding the pyramids like a moat? Would it be conceivable that this could have been intentional? Making the area around the pyramid into a reservoir? Holding water to be used after the flooding and rains ceased?
That's a cool idea re- reservoir. Wouldn't the retaining walls themselves and ground surface not have to be cased in granite aswell though? And you could build a reservoir without a pyramid, or risking flooding a pyramid with sub terrainean chambers. Its a neat idea. He also mentioned something about an ancient well. If drainage led to a well, that would support your idea
I think your water theory is spot on. Awesome job.
Thank you
Great theory Matt! A very well presented and practical explanation for the use of the granite (which I have often wondered about).
I also wonder though... How is it that this same type of granite work (you call it poly-something) is found in Peru and in Egypt (and elsewhere)?
Maybe they just figured out that tight fitting stonework is more watertight. Or maybe people migrated over time, taking their knowledge with them :)
@@AncientArchitects Yeah I guess it could be either, but it seems less likely to me that different people's in different times would develop such a similar stonework method.
It's not just that the end result looks the same. It is my understanding that there must have been a very complex and process to be able to work with granite so precisely to create walls of granite which fit together so well.
Like, I have no idea really, I'm sure these civilizations got quite good at working with stone... And considering how many hundreds and thousands of years they each often existed, it would make sense that they develop similar processes and techniques independently... But still. Every time I see pictures of the work in Peru and on the pyramids here, it looks like the same contractor did it... Lol
There are also other indicators of a shared culture. It seems likely that there was at one time a semi-global civilization. Or in the least, that pre-antiquity travel between the continents was not as nonexistent or rare as we've previously thought. The North Atlantic looks pretty small compared to the Polynesian territories in the Pacific.
@@thomastmc And this (I feel) is a super important thing to consider... That there may have been some other culture (as yet undefined) which pre-dated accepted ancient cultures from which knowledge of certain things (such as working with stone) came from.
Obviously, there is no definitive "proof" of such a culture... But the existence of such definitely would explain a few things...
@@thomastmc There's one quote from the guy with the crazy hair from Ancient Aliens that I watched one time that always makes me laugh:
He said: "I'm not saying it was aliens... But it was aliens."
Haha!
I love that one. Not just because he totally contradicts himself in literally one sentence... But that it is actually true. Not (to me at least) that everything unexplained from ancient times must have been done from a race that came from outer space... But that the fact that many of these feats simply cannot be reasonably or logically explained within the confines of our "understanding" of physics presently. So in that respect it is alien, to us.
This is so fascinating to me, I have so much respect for your opinion and agree with most of your theories. They just make sense. I can't get enough information on the pyramids of Giza. They are an interesting enigma! Thanks for sharing your thoughts on this subject with great details on your theories and why you think this has happened. You never leave holes in you hypotheses!
The entire project had a function.
I can’t say I always agree with your theories but they certainly are worth a second thought.
I think these pyramids are much older than anyone imagines.
Thanks
it could be, it seems to me as a logical explanation.., I have nothing else to say. hmm Jusef A. is great man to talk to about this..
Very Good Matt. I live in Tucson and we are in extreme draught condition, but even today flash floods are a problem here. I also have a friend who lives in Cairo who tells me the two cities have similar weather conditions.
I really enjoy your well throughout views. I learn something new every video.
Except for the fact that the lowest level casings show obvious signs of having been fitted like it was clay. A rough backing stone can be seen perfectly fitted to the back of the casing. Requiring some very difficult chiseling, trying fit, marking high points, more chiseling, re-trying fit, etc. No, not buying that.
I think something sudden and powerful swept the workers leveling off the surfaces in the act in a trice. Yet did not leave explosive or flaming damage. I think such catastrophe answering to those precondition would be a tidal wave, or sudden on rush of water rise as to obviate any more pealing away of the fake granite/clay-like concrete.
I was always under the impression that the small pyramid was covered in more expensive casing blocks because it was the smallest and the king wanted it to stand out,againts the two big once
I can feel my IQ go up every time i watch your latest post, thanks Matt.😁👍👍👍👍
Ha. Thank you
The flattened area actualy looks like it was being ground down with the same machine they used in aswan. You can see grinding marks
It most definitely wasnt chisels and pounding rocks! Youd have to pay big money for your indoctrination to believe that it was.
@@mikehunt8375 I get to believe it for free.
Simply brilliant Matt!🤓
Granite contains quartz that attracts electrical charges...
Another awesome video, and a very interesting theory to boot 😁
Cheers
Ancient Egyptians: spend billions fortifying against destructive floods.
Also Ancient Egyptians: riots and destruction over not enough flooding.
Very true 😂
@@AncientArchitects There's just no pleasing everyone. lol
The inevitable consequence of relying on *grain,* the “backbone” of civilization. Too much rain or too little is equally devastating. Boom and bust, just like a casino.
Brien Forester makes his connection with Peru and Egypt in 2014.
Between his books and your videos, all of my questions have been answered.
Does he? Brilliant. I didn’t know. I’ll search his videos
@@AncientArchitects I found his book (book!!) Elongated Skulls to be extremely helpful because of the map that shows where the museums are that have the skulls. It's a little morbid but also interesting to research "shrunken skulls " and pre-Columbian history. 🤔
If it was for water protection why were only the second ”khafre” and third ”menkaure” pyramids and not the great pyramid ”khufu” covered with granite casing stones?
”khafre” and third ”menkaure” pyramids had to be protected back then for suitable reasons. this means the "GP" did not need to be protected this time. in architecture different requirements for the structure, usually suggest different building time periods, in same place
Thank you. It's always nice to see some fresh content on this archeology subject.
I'd be interested to find out if the height of the pyramid above the granite stones corresponds at all to the original size of the pyramid before they expanded it, as you posited in your other video
Brilliant work. Evidence is compelling.
"Huge gash dug by Arab explorers". Correction: Plunderers and tomb robbers, or do you have a source?
"Most scholarly accounts state unequivocally that it was Ma'mun who first forced his way into the upper reaches of the pyramid, in the year 820 A.D."
www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/inside-the-great-pyramid-75164298/
From your link: "But other aspects of these early accounts are far less credible. Read in the original, the Arab histories paint a confused and contradictory picture of the pyramids; most were composed several centuries after Ma'mun's time, and none so much as mentions the vital date-820 A.D.- so confidently stated in every Western work published since the 1860s."
One of your best video. Many thanks for your great work. Pleas continue your research on these stones. There must have been a technology transfer here from one continent to another.
Statues of Tamil ladies wearing ear rings and with jasmin flowers in their hair are there in pyramids which trow light into great migration
Amazing video as ever 👌
The whole area was covered in water gardens. I didn't think that was even a debate any more.
Good work. I agree w your taste, but maybe the Egyptians liked two tone better. Flood and sand protection tho, certainly seems a much better reason...... Please use Before Present rather than BC. Many viewers might not be using the European calendar, and even those of us who do still have to do math to tell how long ago something happened.
I thought it was to stop scuff marks from all the space-ships, taking off and taxiing around them.
In my opinion, the Egyptians went to all of these lengths to make sure that this stuff would be around for us to find. They knew they would be wiped out by a cataclysm that was inevitable and unavoidable. Think of it as a nudge in the right direction to understanding humanity and preserving everything that their entire culture was based off of: The afterlife. Us modern day humans have just been too ignorant to see it as we just love to give the most simplistic explanation for something that is anything but simple
Even from the pictures you can see that the granite acts as a foundation for the pyramids that would withstand flooding much better than limestone ever could
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I have been in areas of the southern US that would flood quickly during heavy but almost always short rainstorms ( about 5 to 20 minutes. ) The large empty ditches and sloped ground would flood quickly but the well engineered surfaces would drain the rainwater away. I think you are correct. The smoother area around the drain would make sense. I wonder if my " mysterious vertical dimples" were actually to help in drainage? And if they were more efficient maybe the Great pyramid wouldn't need the Granite facings.
Back on Egypt , this is where the channel shines
I’ve missed it!
gah, just saw this pop up and i'm heading out to dinner, will watch tonight. been looking forward to it matt! cheers.
Very interesting and good work.
I appreciate your straight to the facts approach with pros and cons and sometimes your opinion or options. Maybe you've covered this in another video, but how were the granite blocks cut? Interesting observation on the obelisk; there are scooping patterns towards the peak. Shaping cuts with some sort of tool. Chisels would not have created a scooped effect. I've seen other videos of the obelisk and the same scoops are found on the sides and underneath. Your thoughts on how these scoops were created would be most appreciated. Cheers!
Interesting theory. Are you suggesting the Pyramid of Menkaura, which was constructed in the 4th dynasty, was also encased in granite in the same period? Given the copper tools of the time I wonder how they managed to fit the granite so perfectly however maybe the granite casing was added later? I agree that that the lower granite casing stone would protect against water damage as would the retaining wall. It's a shame that the tools of the time don't support granite working and also the unfinished nature of the facing stones is puzzling given how perfectly flat the finished casing stones are compared with the unfinished ones. The Osirion also has a wall which appears to be unfinished with only the upper part "smoothed" just like the Menkaura Pyramid, in fact I'm convinced the same tool was used in both cases. Is it possible that both the Pyramid of Menkaura AND the Osirian were interrupted at the same time? Thanks for sharing.
Noting that, like Giza, "Osirion" has distinct building periods which exhibit distinctive techniques - maybe that is what you have observed ? Most people think it was all done by the one group in one time frame. ))
@ancientarchitects , love what you’re doing. If I could ask anything its that you take notice to the last word of every sentence you narrate is pronounced long.
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Nice study! The amount of rain water the pyramids would collect (assuming a smooth casing stone) would be considerable. As we know, the sides of the pyramid are also not flat, but angle slightly to the centre line. Is this also a method to channel water to specific areas. Could water channeling be a "use" for these large structures..? Water has a lot of uses / energy if harnessed correctly..?
Bollocks. It’s a tomb.