I visited the pyramids in May of 2023 and they are very, very impressive to see in person. I went inside of Khafre pyramid to the burial chamber. It was a fantastic experience and I highly recommend visiting the pyramids, if you ever get the chance to.
I have a connection with Giza there more hidden rooms in that pyramid they just doesn't show it I think I was in Egypt yesterday finding another temple with Egyptian government
@@_chosen_remnant I formed a plausible idea of how the pyramids were constructed. Basically, the builders used the sides of the pyramids as the ramp. A temporary smooth facing 'ramp', very similar to the finished smooth pyramid exterior, would have been built on at least two sides, opposite of each other, as the pyramid was built. This 'ramp' would only need to have been about 20 or so feet wide. I say "temporary" ramp because the stones pulled up on them would have worn the surface of the stones - but they could have been re-surfaced and reused. Sand spread in front of the stones would reduce friction. Or maybe the temporary ramp sitting on the 'steps' of the pyramid could have been made of wood, with wooden skids under the stones being pulled up to reduce friction. Adding water would reduce friction even more. The way it would work, is ropes would have been draped over a log pulley near the top edge of the pyramid, crossed over to the opposite side, gone over another pulley, and down the pyramid on the opposite side. The workers own weight helping pull downhill would have made it much easier and faster to pull the blocks up the opposite side. When the workers reached the bottom, they attached their ropes to the next stone, and a 2nd group of workers on the opposite side pulled it up, as the first group climbed up to prepare to repeat the process. There could have easily been at least two additional groups of workers on the other two sides working at the same time. The stones all the way to the top, including the capstone, could have been raised this way. Fast, simple, and effective.
@@cram1nblaze Well, I'm assuming it's *not* because after his lifetime they won't be around. More likely it's that after his lifetime *he* won't be doing too much sightseeing! Make sense?
I used to think that until I seen some YTers go and what it's turned into with the scammers harassing tourists and the lines to get into everything. There's are some simply outstanding sites out there that aren't famous I feel would be much better to see. Especially in Turkey.
At long last, an Egypt documentary almost entirely void of Zahi Hawass. Very refreshing. (Although they did have one obligatory mention of his name. But still...)
Still pushing the nonsense story that the pyramid was a tomb, even though no mummies were ever found there. If you want some sensible information, read "The Giza Power Plant", by Christopher Dunn.
Those Egyptians were geniuses. Creating a work force during the seasonal downtime and using the flooded Nile to transport materials to the site. Plus keeping written records on papyrus. It was so long ago but they were so resourceful. Imagine what they could have gotten done with our technology.
Yep, and people (also textbooks) like to paint them out to be Neanderthals.... They have proof, they figured out electricity and were actively using it.
@@WilsonPendarvis-tn3wm Horsepucky. The Egyptians didn't build every pyramid on the planet, just the ones in Egypt. It just happens to be a sensible method of putting one rock on another, that's all. Those other pyramids were built by their respective cultures in wildly different time periods. Stop spreading bullshit.
As usual, NOVA comes through with flying colors with another great Documentary that has more information than several other poorly done documentaries put together! Thanks NOVA...
i thought this was a joke, The pyramids were clearly not a burial chamber, that box doesnt look anything like thier carcophgus. No art, no records, nothing, its absolutely hilarous how they just make up all this crap as they go along. Teslas wardencliff looked exactly llike the pyramids and it was also built on a spring. The pyramid is made with special materials that conduct electricity and insulate also. It uses special stones and special slabs that are pizzio electric. There is many documentaries on this its been known for along time its amazing they are still saying its a tomb that has been debunked so long ago, these people are humilitating themselves. This was not built by the egyptions they did not have the technolgy to cut and move stone, alot of this stuff is from a previous civilization that was destroyed in an apocolypse, just a like all the other crazy megalithic stuff that we have no idea how they cut or moved the rock. This is a lost tech that we do not understand and the earth is much older than we think we are not the first high tech civilzation, were not even sure who exactly built the moon its kinda wierd how our moon is exactly 1/4 the size of the earth at the perfect distance to have total eclipses, and has a low enough mass to have these perfect seasons. The chance of this kind of thing happenign naturally is pretty hard to swallow.
This is what I needed... Just pure enjoyment and I love it! Always really informative and well presented... Never fails to be an hour or so VERY well spent with PBS Nova! 😊🌎❤️🕺🏻🐶
@@_chosen_remnant eh, it's not going. I want to dance more and crank up the sound. Hope thou is doing well and enjoying your evening! I shall have a lot more fun when I'm dancing on the furniture or whatever and unable to hear my own singing. 😁🕺🏻
Giza is such an amazing complex, we couldn't have asked for a better monument on this planet that marked the start of civilization and the beginning of technology, freaking unreal
As a retired construction engineering, My theory of the building of the pyramids is using counter weight method. Pulleys at the top would transfer the load to workers walking downhill. We use similar method for elevators. The pyramids are just indicators of a highly advanced civilization.
Yes, and the pyramids were built near the BEGINNING of their civilization, not near the middle or end, when you might expect a society to have collectively acquired and learned the skills to build them. Nope, right at the beginning -- they were highly advanced.
Great. Still many mysteries. We are looking at such small shreds of such a huge and long lived history. So much dedicated work being done. As amazing as the work that went into building them. 🤪🥴😊❤
Amazing video and I love seeing how the pyramids were built and how it was a nation working together for a common goal. If nations today could work together there is nothign we couldn't do.
It be interesting to see a Nova episode kind of like a sequel talking about the two dozen pyramids built in the fifth and sixth dynasties and they had all failed. Of my understanding there were other pyramids built for kings after Khufu would could have rivaled the Great Pyramids.
We can’t even have a documentary now without all the hyper intrusive background, music, special effects, rapid screenshots, etc. My goodness we have become an unlettered bunch.
I concur. We've become practically illiterate as a " culture '.No one reads anymore or even thinks. Education in our culture has hit the lowest common denominator. We get more stupid as our society " advances" technologically. A tragedy.....no wonder Americans voted for a moron for president ( Trump).... the perfect representation of perfect American ignorance.
@user-hy7zb2vl3t I'm sure if you would ask the people worldwide, you can cover the cost of restorations. Just look at the responses that Notre Dame received!
I love how the documentary opens with Mark Lehner talking about going to Egypt in the 1970s to find out about Atlantis. Fortunately for him and us, reality soon entranced him. ^_^
I think it's likely that's the same people who thought it silly to go out in the hot sun and build a big heavy stone something, were the same kind of people who later stripped the outside of these pyramids when anything valuable and probably looted the inside as well. I smell a strong dedication to personal health and to heck what national pride.
It shouldn't because they knew about wheels. They just didn't use wheeled transportation, despite the fact that their neighbors did, whom they traded with.
The science based on evidence in this documentary was great! But, I kept getting annoyed by the theories that were presented as fact, with no evidence to support them.
Like when at 26.20 they say the great pyramid kings chamber held the Pharoah's mummified remains. No such remains were ever found. Nothing was found in there, yet they lie straight to us ! Not good ay mate ! Cheers from New Zealand
The Great Pyramid always have been to me is a kind of chemical reaction technology that creates power by harnessing energy from the Sun. The gold cap is extraordinary, effective, and efficient in absorbing the Sun's Energy, some sort of transformer or inverter is then used to convert this energy into practical power levels. I wouldn't be surprised if the water that flows underneath had something to do with the currents of this energy. A Pure Gold Top and Megaton Limestone Boulders at that height takes in the power of the Sun and charge the water neath and spread it throughout the Nile. Agriculture was booming for the whole world when the Pyramid was activated. It supercharged the water and created comfortable temperatures for all kinds of life forms throughout our universe.
I like the fact that history clearly says there was no abundance of slaves ...just making the story of Moses exactly that, a story and since there was no prince Moses and they weren't called Jews just makes it all the better
I purchased to view the pyramid all the time at a certain time and place on a daily basis it looks like a illuminated light & has sounds of high winds I could email you??? Great upload Thanks 😊
Khufu may be elsewhere in Pyramid. The King's Chamber may be false. Another mummy put there, w Khufu treasures, to fool robbers. Again, they weren't stupid.
2 and a half million stones, supposedly built over the course of 20 years. If you do the math, and the workers work non stop that's a stone quarried, moved several miles, and laid into place every 2 and a half minutes. It's not one of the great mysteries of the world. It's THE great mystery of the world.
My parents visited The Pyramids with a tour group during the early 1980's. My mother told me that everyone in the group came down with diarrhea. Half of them were too sick to take the bus ride to the Giza Plateau.
I think some people, if they get a time machine, and see the Egyptians building the pyramids, they will still deny it. Why? Because Egyptians are not Europeans, and that’s when INFERIORITY COMPLEX kicks in.
A lot of these documentaries assume "simple tools." I think that actually tools, especially for measuring the placement of the blocks, must have existed but are currently lost to time. Cutting, measuring and weighing was more complex, of necessity to shape the outer casing at least. If it was all copper, that's interesting, but the exact nature of the tools is everything.
Finally an irrefutable evidence of EGYPTIANS, people of the land of pyramids, having built them. The papyrus of Merer removes any doubt. Inferiority complex leading people to say the Egyptians did not build the pyramids now sounds exactly like that: inferiority complex. Thanks to the Egyptians’ dedication to their king and land, they have created an everlasting monument that has kept their country in the books. They have brought immortal GLORY to Egypt.
Ol' Mark Lehner. If _History for Granite_ has taught me anything, it's that Lehner is a fine presenter as long as that's what he's doing: presenting. But anything that smacks of a conclusion should be taken with a big grain of salt.
@@Oddball5.0Oh I own a couple of his books. _The Complete Pyramids_ has plenty of good information as long as you skirt around data which treads into conjecture. But I'm afraid I don't subscribe to your _"I need to be in the field myself to arrive at meaningfully well-considered judgments"_ flavor of legitimacy.
@@Oddball5.0 I manifestly disagree. Being invested enough to own literature on a topic is already a comically high demand. Don't get too bent out of shape, but people are capable of logical trains of thought regardless of whatever arbitrary thresholds of commitment you'd care to conjure.
I believe the great pyramid was build around the internal chambers and up in concentric layers. They used leverage and climbed up while increasing the size... layer by layer, coat by coat. You know what I mean?
Tbh I feel like the newer Nova documentaries seem overly dramatic (in music and commentary) compared to the older ones. Think I might stick to looking up more of the older videos
For all the documentaries I've watched about the pyramids, I have still yet to be walked through the basic evidence for 1) Why they are convinced it was built by/for Khufu, and 2) why the believe it is a tomb. There is nothing written anywhere ... no hieroglyphs on the wall with prayers for the Pharaoh, no name, no anything anywhere. The other tombs in the valley of kings are bursting to the seams with names, prayers, grave goods etc.
True and True. It is my understanding that they think it was built by and for Khufu because his name was found written in the ceiling of one of the chambers. But his name could have been written hundreds of years, a thousand years, two thousand years after the pyramid was built.
Hard to imagine you've put much effort into it. There's lots of good literature and documentaries, like World of Antiquities 'Who Built the Pyramids? Giza Uncovered'
Stating it is a tomb within the first 48 seconds is ignotantly arrogant. at this point. Likewise stating as fact that Kufu built based on the one piece of graffiti deep inside. This guy is slick and knowledgeable in tbe ways of the establishment and the wisdom to keep the status and income at the top of his peers.
There's more than one piece of "graffiti." ...not the only evidence either. I don't know what you are on about with "the establishment." Look, there would be far far far more money and fame in being able to prove some hyper advanced ancient civilization built them.
Lehner thinks the Egyptians were ramp builders more than pyramid builders. He had a ramp system that looked like an LA freeway system wrapped around Khoufu's pyramid. Ridiculous!
Nothing is more convincing in a documentary, than having the people who created the documentary, continuously show the wrong pyramid they are referring too. Really? None of your editors could catch that you're showing the furthest most right pyramid, and not the "great pyramid"?
I think some people, if they get a time machine, and see the Egyptians building the pyramids, they will still deny it. Why? Because Egyptians are not Europeans, and that’s when INFERIORITY COMPLEX kicks in.
They were around way before we came along. They were people. I don’t know if they know it now but they’re still recognized as building some of the tallest and most technologically advanced stuff to this day. Badass. I don’t know what happened to them. I dunno. Maybe give them some space. I dunno. Ancient Egypt is amazing. They did some S^^^
Why do you feel the need to parrot word for word what you heard on RU-vid without fact checking the claims before repeating it? You are wrong. The 6th dynasty pyramid by Merenre I had a mummy inside of it, and parts of human bodies were also found in several of the other pyramids including the Step pyramid of Djoser.
