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It still blows my mind that the Romans are chronologically closer to us than to the pyramid builders by 500 years and the pyramids were also already a tourist spot to them back then too.
I love the account of Pliny the Elder, it's such a Roman description, admonishing the vanity of it all then giving rather detailed measurements, adding how great Caesar is in comparison too.
The Roman civil engineer Julius Frontinus writes in his study ,'The Aqueducts of Rome' - "Compare the scale of these indispensable structures, carrying so much water, with the idle Pyramids or the useless, famous, works of the Greeks!" (The Aqueducts, 2.16).
Completely off topic, but pertains to Rome. After marriage, a man carries a woman out of the altar. I heard it’s the tradition from the founding of Rome.
It’s like he read something from before his time that told him something similar. Fu*kin conspiracy theorists and their ancient texts of human ancestry. USELESS.”
That is fascinating. Even in late BC and early AD, the pyramids were considered a work of "the ancients" by their reference. I like hearing the consistent points mentioned in each story.
Ancient Kemet played a role in everything that mainstream academics and colleges are lying to the public about . Those Ancient Egyptians are some type of weird cross-breed Palestinian middle-east looking Indians that did nothing but try to restore ancient structures . Not pure African like Kemetians . Same area, different people . 12,000 years ago . Dynastic Egyptians are 4,000 years or whenever ago
The very first account doesnt suggest it, it says thats what they used. And that account seems very accurate considering it accurately explains how the Nile was diverted to allow boats up close, a road causeway, and explains the labor in detail. That first account just comes off ridiculously accurate to the non alien theories today
@@Livvvidnow in fairness Herodotus is know to often be less than perfectly accurate in many of his writings and his account on Egypt comes from a time as far separated from the construction of the Pyramids as we are too him... but it is striking how close his accounts of what local Egyptians claimed for construction methods are to what modern Egyptologists postulate based on archeological evidence and over 2 centuries of consideration by modern engineers on how they would do it using only tools ans materials known to be available at the time.
@Pablo-Escabar the pyramids are there. They were made by humans, not magic. Your understanding is entirely your own issue. If you are too ignorant to grasp simple concepts, then there isn't much hope for you
Hot and sunny late afternoon, some years ago, just before we land in Cairo, on my first ever visit there, the Captain's voice comes on to announce: "Ladies and Gentlemen, we'll be on the ground in a few minutes, if you look on our right hand side you can see we have a marvelous view of the famous pyramids of Giza...." And there they were!... Although I visited them (and the Sphinx) up close soon enough...this first impression from the air has been one of my most exciting travel experiences ever... mesmerising, mysterious and timeless... And I even took a picture, or two, or three...(No pics, no proof...)
@@anathema2325 Couldn't agree more...I am still in awe of the very sight of them, and remember the excitement of my first encounter with them...Amazing, bucket list stuff...Stuff that dreams are made of...
@@Battury A sign of the times 😁...so true as well!...When I was there, they were meant to be situated just outside of Cairo, at the Giza Plateau..By now, just another suburb of the ever expanding Megacity...
I really don't know why people have such a hard time figuring this out. You just pile up alot of stone. Sure its hard, it takes long but its not very advanced eaither, lmao.
@@IndicatedGoodLife It gets easier to understand once you realize they can't acknowledge it. Before "aliens", 18th and 19th century racists said it was the Romans who built giant structures in north america or Zimbabwe, not because they actually thought that, but because they couldn't acknowledge it was native americans or Africans capable of monumental architecture.
Look man, until you can find me an alien who said they didn’t pile rocks up, all cool like for us. I don’t think ANYBODY can find an alien who said they didn’t do it. Why, may I ask, won’t aliens say they had no part in? I didn’t build any pyramids, I said it, no problem! Your turn spacemen. I do like how the story went from 20 years to build the foundation, to it was built in 20 years. Not the same stories, like they played no part in building their nest rock piles, because aliens did… Or white people, that would make sense, but not the natives because they ain’t aliens and their boats suck, and their gods are lame as hell, boy. I just gave all the proof needed to know how, and why the aliens did it, what’s the proof that humans made it? They had old school cranes, lots of time, and what seemed like a limitless amount of man hours? Besides the crane part, I have limitless man hours, and I never even tried to build a pyramid. Been like 300 years since they where built, and in that time I haven’t seen anyone make angular rock piles like that, and you know why? It’s hard for humans to do, but you know who it’s not hard for? Aliens.
@@IndicatedGoodLife That is not easy. We still really do not know how they are built or why. No bones have ever been found in these pyramids. Looters don’t take bones they take treasure. It is perfect mathematics and even reflects the three stars in Orion’s Belt. Definitely not aliens. But not just like a bunch of rocks piled up as if it’s a primitive normal thing. The best pyramids are the oldest and the newer ones are falling apart. So it really isn’t just piled up rocks that anyone can do. It’s a science beyond ahead of the time it was created. People who think it’s whatever or just triangles have obviously never been to Giza. Unlike any pyramids in the world.
Simple machines were around for such a long period of time. i dont understand how people dont believe that large constructs could not be built using them, because they supposedly weren't invented yet.
If you think there are no questions left to uncover about the creation of these insane structures then you simply haven't informed yourself on the nature of their construction. Not everything on this earth is currently known, our history beyond a certain point is mysterious and unknown.
@@charleswalker2484 And the pyramids are not one of those things. We understand early bronze age Egypt enough to ascertain who built them, how, and why. The actual mysteries left regard idiosyncrasies like specific methods, and reconstructions. If you want to sink your teeth in some real mystery, I implore you to research something like the Etruscans, because the pyramids aren’t very mysterious anymore.
It's really neat to see how the perception of the pyramids changed over time. Herodotus: The pyramids are gigantic and impressive structures built to serve as tombs for the great kings of the day. Diodorus: The pyramids are gigantic and impressive structures built to serve as tombs for the great kings of the day. Strabo: The pyramids are gigantic and impressive structures built to serve as tombs for the great kings of the day. Pliny the Elder: Nobody really knows why the pyramids were built; and they're not that impressive anyway. Egeria: The pyramids were giant grain silos.
I love Herodotus. He's essentially the father of recording history due to his impartial and exact way of writing down events. He's the best to read too.
@@dj_koen1265 He tried, unlike the others that were prone to working fantasy into historical data. I truly believe he thought he was giving a true to life recounting of history.
16:27 the "lentles" are simply fossils of unicellular creatures called nummulites (google them, they're cute (for geologists and palaeontologists)), which make up local egyptian rocks having sedimented 45 million years ago. They are sometimes big as coins, hence their name "nummus/money". They are the biggest known unicellular beings.
Ooooh, interesting! I'd never heard of that! But that would make sense, seeing as they were breaking up rocks where said fossils were probably trapped. Fascinating.
I'm pretty sure the Pyramids were still shiny white during around 60BC, a time that we have written accounts of. My source: I played Assassin's Creed Origins on the PS4, so I'm basically a historian.
This is such a great channel. Thank you for your inspiring, hard work. I love listening to how people perceived their era, even if often tempered, it’s fascinating.
I can hear the Egyptian pharaoh’s wives nagging them about not having a pyramid for them. “Jenny said her husband is building her a pyramid for the afterlife. Why won’t you build one for me, too?”
Yeah... "You never take me anywhere!..." (The voice of experience) 😂 - "Darling, when you die, would you like like to be buried, or cremated?..." -"Gee, I don't know Dear....Why don't you just...surprise me!.." 🤭😁😅🤣
@@myshepspud1 He said one was buried up to it's head and the others were only half visible. They were already thousands of years old at this point with people walking around doing whatever and armies just arriving all the time so it makes sense that almost the whole place was destroyed lol. Maybe the other ones were pulled down just by some drunk guy who knows
There was only one Great Sphinx, the one made out of the bedrock. There were probably other smaller sphinx carvings. In Luxor there was a major processional avenue with sphinxes on either side of it.
@@Nooneaskedforthis Yes, but that was a state secret and still hundreds of years after the mainstream date for the pyramids. The Egyptians did not even have bronze at this time, but only copper and stone tools.
Yes. And if the accounts of some ancient egyptians, that the pyramids were old as 3 400 years B.C., no way the egyptians could have iron tools. The dating of the pyramids is still a matter of debate. Even the use of C14 dating of wood found inside the pyramids give results that not all are "happy" with; you know, discrepancies here and there.
@@arkangeln910c8 Thats right, and I will say this... Just having an open mind, and looking at it from both sides of the fence, because the Egyptians did some pretty incredible things for supposedly only having copper and stone... There are some really entertaining and sometimes credible ideas out there leaning towards advanced lost technology. Not necessarily you know, in the way we think of technology now, but just some lost art forms and ways to have made these incredible works more feasible.
The simple idea that technology changes over time, at all, really only entered the public mind sometime in the past 300 years or so. That's why, for example, renaissance paintings often depict Roman legionaries as marching around in 15th century plate armor carrying halberds and longbows - that's the way soldiers looked in the 1400s, so they assumed that soldiers had always looked like that, and always would.
Lmao if you do the math on that statement it's pretty clearly bullshit. Aliens explain the insane anomalies of Egypt just as good as any explanation we have so far because simply put we have no idea what was going on in Zep Tepi. It shows someone is a rube who hasn't informed themselves of the details (by scholars who actually went there and took measurements etc in the 1800s onward) when they say things like this. You want to own the dummies who watch history channel but in fact they're probably just as informed as you are.
they arent aliens exactly but all these old stone structure all over the world are from the fallen angels (nordics) look into the acxounts of white bearded men etc in south america. they came before the flood and after it. The bible says everything on the face of the earth died so presumably things under ground or by that point off world(many ancient ufo sightings etc) because they are thousands of years ahead. its kind of crazy that ur arguing for traditional timescale even though the achademic establishment has already started inflating known times just to keep pulling the wool over. right now there is a push to say that covilization goes back twice as far as we thought because theism is winning as science moves on and the marxists are changing history literally now... they need more years but also it undermines creationism. the actual illuminati gnostic occultists literally believe in a you g earth creation google masonry year of the light. they push this idea that slaves made the pyramid as a joke, inside joke probly, because they are works based witches and hate Jesus Christ who promotes the free gift they believe in a gnostic interpretation of God which seeks to undermine this free gift and get mad if you point to it. they do not believe in naturalism/materialism/uniformitarianism/evolutionism/monkey surf theory etc these are just humiliation rituals basically and they underscore their beliefs in a non literal sense for the plebians to believe so they stay dumb and apiritually unaware so they cannot call on the power of Yah.
When i was building my cabin and hit upon a conundrum, id think to myself" now what would the Egyptians do?" My watchers guffuwed my rudimentary efforts declaring itd last 5 years if im lucky. Five n a half years later and many storms weathered, its standing as strong as the day i built it. Not bad for a diy enthusiast with RU-vid as my tutor!
I thought that too - but I think it was the muzlamic wars against the Christian west which caused the Dark Ages, and that it was the monasteries and abbeys which kept literature and learning alive @@tma2001
@@user-cl5vx9em4e the first one that wrote about this was Herodotus and that was 300 or so BC the pyramids were built around 2500 BC so they were already over two thousand years old
>Be Pharaoh >No idea how to govern this empty desert sand hole >"Uhh, you see those rocks?" >"Yes my lord." >"Stack them" >They start doing it, I go back to my harem >10 years later >"What is this going to be for lord?" >"When I die." >Go back to my harem >10 years later >"When are you going to pay us my lord?" >"When I die." >Die, don't pay them, get buried in much nicer secret tomb because a pile of rocks is dumb. >mfw I invented governing
I enjoy these letter/story videos. They recite details of people who actually lived from their point of view not from a textbook point of view that is often hit or miss at being accurate. As history is always modified, omitted, reviewed and facts/stories taken out. because history is written by the winners.
The ancient historians were unfortunately also products of their times and prone to making things up, exaggeration and believing fantastical accounts of others.
The architects and the people that built the pyramid deserve the credit, truth. I have always hated when they say a king built this or a rich person built that, etc. Financed, sure, but built, nope, that was the people.
16:59 My crazy theory is that maybe, just maybe, they actually DID flood the area and/or made canals in order to float the blocks right up to the base of the pyramid. And they did this using 1. An advanced system of waterworks, which included Lake Moeris 14:05 , and 2. (and this just my own nutty idea that keeps popping into my head) some sort of clever and massive pump-like mechanism that drew the ground water from beneath the area. This "mechanism" basically is/became a part of the Great Pyramid, which was built around it. The Grand Gallery may have served as a track for some kind of giant "piston" (or something that slid along it/through it). Which drew/pumped water from that strange subterranean chamber underneath the pyramid (to me, it looks like it was submerged in water in the past). It also has that odd hole/ditch going straight down. Which is filled in with rubble now, but maybe it once connected that chamber to the underground water system? It's a bit far-fetched, I admit. But otherwise I still think "controlled flooding" with a clever system of water works and canals seems like a good explanation (at least) for how they transported blocks directly to the pyramid. Which may explain why a boat was found next to the pyramid. I've also wondered if perhaps it could account for the signs of water erosion around the walls of the Sphinx enclosure? Perhaps the "secret tunnel/chamber" beneath the Sphinx was (originally) a "drain"/conduit leading to the underground water system, so it didn't become submerged in water during flooding?
I think that the water there was a problem so they found a way to use it and get rid it. My theory, it went down to the subchamber of the great pyramid. Gathered speed and created vacuum in the well shaft. That vacuum powered the inner works of the pyramid a balanced sled in the gallery a counterweight above in the chamber that hasn't been revealed yet. The well shaft comes up where the 2 chambers split. They were vacuum chambers. The chamber shafts used rectangular stones as pistons. That's why the shafts are "polished." The stone ball found was a bleed down valve. Flows freely one way, and slowly the other by covering an orifice.
The stone pistons pulled ropes that led outside, around a spool, to create 2 construction cranes on the North and South side. The King's chamber has a lip at the floor to keep the door stone from getting pulled in under vacuum.
What's fascinating is that even 2,000 years ago the Egyptians themselves did not know how they were built as the accounts differ and are in no way certain. Surely that is telling.
It's telling me that when a thousand years go by and all you have to go by are legends and tall tales things get a little boolshiatty. Good thing we have science to help us find sane answers.
It's interesting that Pliny the Elder mentions Rhodopis and the old wives' tale about how one of the pyramids was supposedly built for her: Rhodopis, a real person who lived at the same time as Aesop, was a courtesan who became the Pharaoh's mistress, and later the basis for the Egyptian version of "Cinderella" . . . which is the earliest version of the story that we have. Also, the Christian writer at 19:15 is already spewing the misinformation that the pyramids were made by Joseph to store grain, which Ben Carson got so much backlash for asserting: he probably thought that this 4th-century testimony constituted unassailable, first-hand proof.
Ya know, I'm sitting here watching this and I'm thinking, "Dude, Pliny the Elder is kind of a dick and he sounds way more dumb, naive, and gullible as history makes him out to be..."
That was an educated guess; many a secular writer of the time, and in these days, make equally inaccurate assumptions. Aside from the above, there have recently been found HUGE underground Egyptian grain stores probably used at the time of Joseph.
@@johncharleson8733. Actually, researchers have found tons of Egyptian-style granaries at archaeological digs, and they look nothing like the pyramids at all. In fact, people living in Egypt right have been using something very similar, at the time that Egeria was writing. So, the idea of end educated guess does not wash with me.
@@johncharleson8733 "In fact, people living in Egypt right have been using something very similar, at the time that Egeria was writing." Weren't listening, were you? So what are YOU "going on about"? I think we're done here.😎
Actually, since you mention it, one of the things we have in 3-D printing are special plastics that are designed to dissolve in, e.g., water. They're used to provide structural support during the print, and when it's done, you just wash 'em away. I love the idea that the Egyptians may have used a similar technique all those millennia ago.
"bro let me pile ONE more mastaba on top of my mastaba on top of my mastaba, just one more I swear, bro just one more mastaba, a tiny one, the last one, for real this time, bro it's gonna look so pointy when it's done, give me one last mastaba bro PLEASE"
Minister : "My lord, we have so many people with nothing to do. They can't make money or trade enough to afford food, Crime is at an all time high and a lot are blaming you and want to kill you!.". Other minister : "We should fund a project to get them working again, Something big!. But we already have a very good set up. Roads, Hospitals, Arenas.. We have everything we need, What else could we make?". Pharaoh: "I'm thinking.... Big pile of rocks!" *silence* All ministers at once look at eachother and reply: "big pile of rocks it is, My lord".
It sounds like all his info was through a telephone game of different monks. “The phoenix dies here after 500 years of life,” is my favorite. Like, what? 😂
The talent of the narrator is remarkable. His inflections, timing, he’s a master wordsmith. A rare skill in modern times. Also, I fucking love this channel!!❤
I find it absolutely fascinating to hear a first-hand account of the famous Sphinx being buried up to its neck in sand all the way back in 60BC, knowing it was not only at least 3000+ years old already but sat there unchanged for another 1800+ years!
The Egyptians (especially when the pyramids were made) didn’t have iron tools, but bronze. Which makes it even more impressive that “they” could accomplish building the pyramids.
I believe at the time they even used more copper then bronze tools, and limestone as the predominantly used material isn't very hard. Arsenic copper is almost as hard as bronze and there is also a method to harden copper for a period of time by hammering (it distorts the metals crystal structure and changes its properties). That's also why copper smiths have to heat up their workpiece's during production, to make them malleable again.
the natives of americas built their own types of pyramids too, and they didnt even know how to make bronze, they just used rock tools. It isnt so unbelievable.
Oh..... I was very confused by two of these sources talking about "Babylon" close to Memphis. I thought surely this was an indication that they'd never been to Egypt and they were confused about the geography. But it turns out there was Roman Fortress, confusingly named Babylon, near to Memphis. Thanks Romans! Such helpful naming! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylon_Fortress
I remember a story when the first ambassadors from Korea to Europe (Joseon dynasty) visited Egypt, they were offered to climb up pyramids but refused to do so since it is disrespectful to climb up a tomb of a king, let alone a commoner.
Remember that a Roman foot is about 11 inches of our feet, Six Roman feet are 66", that is, 5'6" US. So when giving the measurements of the Sphinx, its important to take that into account. Although i do think the head has been reshaped. Considering that they say its head was sticking out and body was under sand, it is understandable that thousands of years of sand blasting would reduce its size.
I don't know if any of these building accounts are correct. John Anthony West believed the great pyramids were built between 24,000 and 36,000 years ago by a long lost advanced civilization. Whoever built them, they did it with ease; If you look at the Aswan quarry, where the pyramid blocks came from, the mark's left in the granite looks like the rock was scooped out with the ease of mashed potatoes. I believe the big heavy blocks were also easily moved and didn't require 100,000 slaves to move and put them in place.
The author likely assumed that the Ancient Egyptians used the same materials that were availiable at his time. It is also possible that it is a minor translation mistake and that the true material was either a similarly named - but wholly different - metal, or was a more ambiguous term for metal that was commonly attributed to iron. Either way, hard to fault a tourist or even traveling scholar, for misattributing certain aspects of works that were ancient even in their time. Really puts into perspective how even back then, people were getting details wrong, despite being chronologically closer to the event.
History channel: "wE hAvE nO sOuRcEs ExPlaInInG hOw ThE eGyPtIaNs BuiLt tHeIr PyRaMiDs. iTs a MyStErY. iT wAs ALiEnS!" Herodotus, 424 BC: Am I a joke to you?
I can only assume water was the main tool used to cut the stones and move them into place. If you google most powerful saw. It’s a water saw. More powerful than a diamond bit. The people who made the pyramids must have figured out how to focus large bodies of water into smaller and smaller tubes or shafts to a tiny hole to make a water saw. I can also envision some way how they moved the blocks with some force of water as well. 10,000 years ago egypt was wet like rain forest.
The first description must be of one of the later mudbrick pyramids. There is no way the priests of 454bc knew of the construction methods of the the great pyramids constructed thousands of years earlier.
10:20 god i cant get the mental picture of them talking about the bass pro shop pyramid in this account out of my head. great videos man, first hand accounts like this are awesome
The construction method is hot topic online. But i find the oldest description of Herodotus the most obvious one. 2:03 Just use simple wooden levers to lift the block inch by inch until you reach the hight of the next level then push them onto that level and repeat the proces. Its simple and compact. hundreds of teams can do the same trick at the same time. I dont see the mistery tbh😅
The oldest is by Khufu himself who said he didn’t build it or the Sphinx either. This from a culture that never Once admitted defeat in one single battle and took off the names of previous pharaohs on monuments and buildings to claim them as their own.
These accounts prove to me perfectly the problem of egyptology when it comes to the great pyramids, they pick and choose which parts of these accounts they use to explain the construction methods, 20 years, name of pharaoh changes, it is telephone, a tale of a stairs to a ramp, no evidence of neither, only a tale of the construction from a priest who was 3000 years removed from the construction time, even though oral tradition was a strong component of past education, it still changed between herodotus to siculus. They disregard all the accounts of zeptepi as myth but take numbers from tourists that heard it from a priest as fact. I always wondered where the idea 20 years it took to build the great pyramids came from. I would agree it took at least 50-100 years to construct based on all the necessary work they stated that had to be done by hand with copper tools. Since we all know Herodotus didn't know about the copper.
Thank you for these actual real historical accounts and not all the crazy ancient alien nonsense out there. The truth is more fascinating than that stuff
Pliny the elder's whining, chauvinist hurt/pique at the Egyptians being able to build such expensive, mega structures. thousands of years before Rome, with which Rome could not compete. Was hilarious. Id have loved to have seen the gnashing of teeth, if he had managed to travel to India or China lolol
Seems odd that no one has replicated any of the purported techniques to quarry, shape, & assemble even a few blocks of such size into the tiniest of pyramids. The size of a house, for example. One could doubtless get huge funding for such a project, not to mention a billion RU-vid views.
Wally Wallington-@wallingtonw has been moving massive stones by himself for years. Not a billion RU-vid views. The pyramid stones were moved by possibly thousands.
This isn’t true. Someone did replicate it on a small scale, sort of. Coral Castle in Florida was built by a single man, moving 1 ton rocks on his own to create a castle. Though it’s small, so it’s better compared to Stonehenge, he used many techniques that scientists believe Pyramid builders used- just with many more men on a much larger scale. If one man can build Coral Castle, several thousand can absolutely build the Pyramids.
Fun Fact: After ages of absolute absurd answers on how the ancient Egyptians managed to get the base as level as they did, it turns out that they... simply carved a grid pattern into the base, filled the grid with water and sanded it down to the water level. Ancient peoples were no less clever than modern ones, they simply had fewer tools. Saying people "haven't replicated" any of the purported techniques is actually very disingenuous, or so incredibly specific as to be useless. There are many different ways for people to move large-as-hell blocks of stone, and when you've got hundreds of thousands of laborers and months to go on, a whole lot of stuff can get moved. If you really want your mind blown, think about how labor intensive the stone cities in the Americas were, as they didn't have roads, rivers or any form of draft animal and yet they moved multi-ton rocks from mountain to mountain for miles.
@@KafkaExMachina This avoids the question, which is simply why are there no modern replications for anyone to point to? There would be countless RU-vid videos documenting it & it would be a major tourist destination. Cheers~
Heridotos 454 BC: *Gives pretty good descrition passed down by Egyptians on how humans built the structures and why* Some humans 2500 years later: "No you idiot. They were built by aliens as energy harvesting machines, duh"
The fact that he says its an account of how the pyramids were built was fair right up until he describes the cost of buying iron for the tools to cut the stone.Iron tools were not used 2500- 3000 years prior to Herodotus account at 454BC when the pyramids were built. Brass (mixture of copper and tin)was the highest metallurgical advancement at the time.The iron age begun somewhere betweent 1200 BC- 600 BC. Some small iron knifes etc have been found earlier and crafted from metorites by Hitties etc, but nothing in large quantities to supply tool making.
There was no historic academia as we have today, no pictures, most likely no texts of the time he had access to or could read. He could only write what others had written, what he was told and what he assumed from his own lifetime
By the time Herodotus was writing, the Iron Age had been around for nearly a millennium. IDK how he could have known that there was a time when making iron tools was considered impractical.
What is intresting is that Herodutus says that the Pyramid builds were not popular and were a burden on the Egyptian people per the Egyptian preisthood and that there are chambers under the pyramid where probably they buried the pharoah's for real.
crazy how these pyramids have lasted all these years, they have seen, may empires come and go, and will still be there after today and after im gone, crazy that these are 12000-10000 years old.
I think Herodotus was pretty accurate in some accounts. He said that they use wooden leaver for lifting up the limestone. I think he might has miss translated the local Egyptian language and the wooden leaver mean by the local guide that told him is the wooden sledge that use to drag up the stone.
Ancient Greek Historian: "Here's an exactly description of how the pyramids were built." Modern Conspiracy theorists: "You know, we have no idea how they were able to make the pyramids, so obviously it was aliens."
I love how even thousands of years ago the construction of the Great Pyramids was just hearsay; and even then said method were still thought ridiculous.
@@noneyabizz8337 I’ve just been going over it with ChatGPT and iron was available at the time the pyramids were built and it’s unlikely such valuable tools would be left behind to be found like copper tools. Also, in the conditions around the Nile at that time any iron tools lost would rust away in a few decades at most. I’ve no idea what the truth is but I do find it interesting and enjoyable to question the official narratives with tools like AI.
Herodotus lived in the iron age, he didn't know people used bronze before that. the Egyptians mainly used copper alloys, but some meteorite iron was used for tools.
@@InimitaPaul Respectfully, as a historian, I find it unfortunate that people trust AI enough to take its answers seriously. I've played around with ChatGPT re: historical subjects, and it's often confidently wrong. When it comes to retrieving pre-existing data, it's nothing more than synthesized search data aggregation, except you don't know which sources it weighted.
@@Folkmjolk I’m just me but if I were one of the architects with access to iron I’d most certainly use it for the intricate carving seen around Egypt at the very least and use manpower with copper etc for the less important elements. It certainly wouldn’t be left behind anywhere obvious for archaeologists to find.
