How Did The Ancient Egyptians Cut The Granite Blocks To Build The Pyramids? | Blowing Up History 

I like how the title says “how did they cut the granite blocks” but goes on to not mention how they did it at all lol

Lower the music and effects lol, what is this

This is about limestone blocks, which are extremely soft. Not the same thing as quarrying granite.

I'd suggest making the music far louder next time. It will be even more unpleasent to watch. The achivement will be incredible!

The guy that did the pyramid disassembling animation seems to have been very proud of his work.

The sound effects are louder than the narrator. Fail.

40 years studying the pyramids and still no idea how they were built.

I watched a separate vid about the pyramids and it stated how even the measurements of this structure is so advance of its time and how it has hidden purpose to locate things in the sky. And now i'm even more amazed by how it's built inside.. the intricate design of its interior and each and every single corner has a purpose of its own. 😮 how astonishing

I can't hear anything. All I know is that these animations are slick af

The title of this video is "How Did The Ancient Egyptians Cut The Granite Blocks To Build The Pyramids" but we only see limestones being carved. This is misleading. How did they cut 70 - 100 tons of "granite" (not limestone) and move it above the chambers in many of the pyramids?

The question is not how you work limestone with steel, it's how you work granite with copper.

Well there's two problems. First, when one of the ancient Greek historians (can't remember the name, think it began with an S) spoke to one of the Egyptian priests and asked how they made the Pyramids, the priest said that they didn't make it and don't know who made it, that the Pyramids and Sphinx were already there when the original Mesopotamian colonists first established Egypt. So, that right there answers your question and is supported by the extremely blatant water erosion on the walls of the pit-like area the Sphinx is in. Which also makes sense due to new discoveries about when the Sahara was lush with life. Who knows what's under the desert sands? The second problem is that the Egyptians had and have a habit of tearing down and repurposing everything once it's no longer useful. So, any structures and tools created to make large stone structures would have been taken down and used for other things, removing any evidence of their existence. Except for the Egyptian's habit of recording everything, which has zero record of how they shaped stone, moved stone long distances, etc.

I have the answer to the question in the title of the video .... NO ONE KNOWS !!!!

It is quite common knowledge that Khufu was NEVER interned in that Pyramid or EVER lay in the granite box. No One knows when the pyramid was built. All that this video shows is pure speculation.

Things to remember: 1 - quarries do not typically cut stone "on demand". Quarries run in continuous operation and thus = they should have partially quarried blocks on hand at any given time. 2 - the Egyptian engineers would have known how much granite was required before the foundation of the pyramid was even laid out. 3 - so the quarry such as Aswan would have had literally years to quarry what granite was needed and transport it to Giza before it would need to be placed in the pyramid. 4 - what granite you see in Old Kingdom pyramids = basic shapes - typically blocks. 5 - so blocks could be obtained from the bedrock via dolerite pounders and fire. More precise cutting could be done using weighted copper saws and an abrasive such as sand or corundum. Polishing would be done via flat blocks and an abrasive. A sarcophagus could be cut using saws to obtain the exterior shape which is then polished smooth. The interior could be removed via chipping out using gneiss stone tools and/or possible copper tube drills to remove cores of stone. The inside would then be polished smooth the same as the exterior. Yes it is time consuming = but they had the time. Work on the sarcophagus which would have taken the longest time to fabricate likely began soon after Khufu assumed the throne - which is when work on a Pharaoh's tomb typically began. It then would have been placed in the King's Chamber before the walls went up much the same as a bathtub is installed in a room when it is wider than the door and the room constructed around it. Next to Khafre's valley temple adjacent the Sphinx was once a deepwater harbor. Merer's diary relates how during the months of the annual Nile flood is when stone from distant quarries would be transported to Giza via a system of canals and dikes they created to channel water to the harbor so as to allow heavily laden ships to access it. So granite and other basalts along with the white Tura limestone casing stones would be shipped in on barges to Giza during this time of high water each year.

Time and time again; when a clip shows “how” blocks were shaped and cut, all they are really showing is “how they weren’t”

And in 40 years he never realized there was no mummy or treasure ever found there, even though it was sealed when originally found? And I kind of feel like those narrow tunnels wouldn't have been very practical for getting all that treasure in or out. And Occam's Razor would say that starting with an arbitrary timeline and trying to invent building techniques to make the timeline plausible is a lot of mental gymnastics when a more likely explanation would be that Kufu didn't build it and it's probably a lot older than they say.

"How Did The Ancient Egyptians Cut The Granite Blocks" 'We don't know but watch us use modern tools to cut a limestone one'

Is this a parody? Nobody could seriously be this far behind on this subject.

MISLEADING TITLE: They never talk about *how* the ancients cut granite blocks at all. They only discussed cutting limestone. I’d love to see them explain how they cut, shaped, and positioned 2.3 million granite blocks in 20 years. They would have had to place each block every 3 minutes for 20 years straight with no breaks 24/7 x 365.

the sound is ridiculously loud XD I can barley hear the guy talk bro

Watching this video leaves you with more questions than answers. 40 years of research and gained the knowledge equivalent to what is taught in high school

I believe that the entire Kings chamber and Grand Gallery were built with granite blocks weighing 80k+ lbs each with some being hoisted(or whatever) over 300ft off the ground and placed with pinpoint precision. You don't do that with ropes, pulleys, and manpower. There's something we don't know.

can't hear commentary for all the racket.

Imagine researching something for 40 years and not realizing there was never a mummy found inside the Great Pyramid.

Modern scientists just love to call these structures 'primitive' but the are still puzzled on how they egyptians built it

Again you have to have in mind that the Egyptians had many many workers carving those stones. We could possible say they were working almost 24hrs a day. I'm guessing which is why they finished in such a short time.

how did they sand out the saw marks to perfectly flat? the finish work would take a long time with big flat sanding tools

Didn't even touch on the granite..only the limestone.... cutting granite with copper tools? I don't think so!

I love how that manipulative "expert" calls it a primitive machine lol. Those are not thombs by any means, but even if they are/where, they are anything but primitive.

There's at least 2 million blocks. If they found, cut, placed 275 blocks a day, it would have taken 20 years. So we are told. Impossible.

“This whole thing is like a primitive machine” Couldn’t have said it better my self

This looked interesting, I wonder what they were saying.

Apparently it wasn’t very effective since his grave is empty.

Chairs, bread and beer, eh? What a time to be alive.

It was limestone concrete Not cut blocks

Whoever edited the audio on this was drunk

What is truly staggering about these massive pyramids is the wealth required to build just one Even the Taj Mahal does not even come close

These videos are eye filling and I watch them just for that. Over my long life I heard many theories and I know by now that every young people like express his own theory. And I leave at that-just an opinion that every one has the right to express.

7:15 This is the original meaning of the phrase “good tools is half the job”, because it used to take literally as much time to keep tools in good condition as doing the actual craft.

Not the first time the sound effects are super loud, there is enough comments to maybe have a look into it ?

There's so much wrong with this video and explanations, it's almost worse than listening to a politician.

A few criticisms: 1) They are still pushing this narrative that it was a tomb. 2) As "Jeff" commented they never explained how the blocks were cut with copper tools when the men in the video didn't even cut one with modern tools. 3) It was sometimes hard to hear the narrative with the overpowering dramatic music and sound effects. 4) This is a regurgitation of the crap taught from history books 50 years ago.

Got to love how the guy says "primitive" we still don't know how they were made LOL

Do the maths add up? Mark Lehner is on record as saying that the pyramid was built in 85 years. If Kufu reigned for 36 years then how did he order the pyramid to be completed by his death? Also, let's look at the maths on a very simplistic level. First, we turn 85 years into minutes: 85 x 365 x 24 x 60 = 44,676,000 (being the number of minutes in 85 years). Then we divide those minutes by the number of stones placed within the structure. Many accept the number to be 2.3 million stones. Let's be generous, let's say 2 million. All we have to do now is divide the number of minutes in 85 years by the number of stones laid and we will get the time in minutes it took to lay the stones. 44,676,000 divided by 2,000,000 = 22.33. What this means is that the Egyptians, working on the model presented in this film, quarried, transported and installed a block of stone, some weighing 7 tons or more, every 22.3 minutes, 24 hours a day for 85 years. The film itself states at 08.05 that experts believe it would have taken the craftsmen half a day just to square the stone off. Half a day excluding the quarrying, transportation and installation. Let's bear in mind two other factors. 1. That we believe the blocks were transported on the Nile and that possibly can only happen when it is in flood. This means that transportation of blocks, which would have to go on day and night if we accept the thesis of this film, probably could not be conducted year-round but only in certain months. 2. These figures concerning the 2 million stones does not include the building of the infrastructure of the pyramid and nor does it include the extensive work done in preparing the foundations. If we accept the thesis of this film then we can start by multiplying the number of stones by 6 hours (half a working day): 2.3 million x 6 = 13,800,000. That is 13,800,000 hours just to shape the blocks by the film's own demonstration. Divide this by 24 gives us the number of days and divide by 365 gives us the number of years. 13,800,000 divide by 24 divide by 365 = 1575. That's one thousand, five hundred and seventy-five years just to shape the blocks. And let us remember that this film production is using steel tools for the task they can only complete in half a day. According to the same experts, the Egyptians only had copper tools which were weaker and much less effective than steel. The final assumption that a technique of rubble infill for the internal structure speeds up the build time cannot possibly be true because that infill is not counted in the 2 million stones used to construct the main architecture. The figures above still apply but you have to try and work out how much extra time they took creating the rubble infill. In that calculation, you also have to take into account that a lot of the internal structure is actually precisely fitted and built. If a degree level student in engineering tried to propose such an idea it is doubtful they would obtain any qualification. The real problem here is whether we can ask if this film represents a woeful lack of scholarship. All we are doing is looking at the numbers and I ask you whether you think they add up? I am not proposing any other theory about the pyramids, I am not suggesting any radical ideas, all I am saying is that if we do the maths then the whole premise of this film has to be questioned severely. But why is it that supposedly intelligent people are running with a theory which is so questionable? More worryingly, what on earth is going on in academia when archaeology faculties cannot question their own established histories and apply critical thinking?

There's nothing more in this world that I'd like to know more than how the ancients cut, moved and placed megalith structures. Hope to know in my lifetime.

could you lower your voice, I can't hear the background music

Need to lower the background music, guys.

Don't make me laugh the great Pyramid is not from Khufu's time period. It is far older.

"The Great Pyramid of Giza contains 2.3 million individual blocks of stone, meaning one block would have to be laid every five minutes of every hour, 24 hours a day, for the entire 20 years. The problem? Each block weighs at least 2 tons. That’s 1,764,000 pounds of stone being laid every day for 20 years." Explain this Discovery if you can

the animations are over the top, but the sound effects are _so_ over the top you can't even hear the narrator lmfao

Short Answer to the title: They didn’t.

it will likely not happen in my lifetime but I believe someday science will realize the Egyptians did not build the pyramids

No pharos were found inside neither hieroglyphics

The Great Pyramid is not made of granite. It's made of limestone, with some granite parts. {:o:O:}

the music is so loud you can't hear the man talk

After watching the compelling cases of the ancient astronaut theories and pyramids all around the world- this conventional explanation sounds like cartoon stories for kids. If only there's a time machine, haha

Bright Insight's video: "Demonstration Proves we have No Idea How the Ancient Egyptians Built the Pyramids..." Is way better than this crap.

I still find it very hard to believe they were able to do this 4,000 years ago

I visited the great Pyramids in Egypt in 2016.To see one of the wonders of the world and how people built the pyramids.You have to be there to see and believe it.

The fact they still think the pyramids were tombs is hysterical.

Now explain how they made the granite vases of which there are thousands, some of which are the thickness of glass.

1974 Joseph Davidovits, a French concrete chemist, has been proposing that the pyramids and tem- ples of Old Kingdom Egypt were built of geopolymer "con- crete" poured into molds, rather than quarried blocks of limestone

...show us a video of someone chiselling just ONE square foot of blue granite...

I can't begin to imagine the amount of manpower it took to build these pyramids. Absolutely amazing!

0:22 One tries to suggest a relatively primitive processing of the contact surfaces of the Giza quarry limestone blocks by drawing with large gaps at the joints. Other drawings show an accuracy of the structure in the range of half a Millimeter. However, CAT drawings such as those made by Gantenbrink show the accuracy of the structure. Some take this picture of the outer walls which was destroyed by two thousands of years, of quarrig work on the site, as an example of the quality of the inner block structure. But if, as in the drawings shown here, there should only be a 5 mm gap between the stones, the number of blocks would result in settlements in the 10 meter range. The outer skin of the Tura limestone casing would have caused by settle movements of the structure crumble and fallen off by itself after a few hundred years.

Very informative

Wonderful .. presentation

Copper chisels and pounding stones of course 🤣

That's right, they built a perfectly aligned to true north megalith with 2.3 million high precision cut stones of different sizes, with intricite hallways and angled corridors (no steps) leading to atleast 3 distinct chambers and 4 sealed vents pointing to revered astronomical markers along with 100 ton blocks of hard granite in the core for.... A tomb in which no bodies were ever found, without any heiroglyphs or inscriptions typically found in EVERY actual burial chamber. They don't bury pharohs in pyramids so already this started off with a bullshit mainstream narrative which therefore means the rest of the assumptions are most likely....

You guys got it wrong? The channel is actually asking us how they built the pyramids

So, how did they cut and transport the granite used in the pyramid?

It’s a fact nothing was found in the kings room lol crazy how they’ll just lie

This is kind of insulting. Exactly Zero bodies, coffins, intricate etched wall art or burial artifacts have ever been found at the great pyramid. Also, recent evidence suggests it was built way before 2500 BC.

A THOMB? WTF THIS IS WHAT MAIN ACADEMIA WANTS YOU TO KNOW...

Whenever I hear an archaeologist say that the pyramids were built using basic copper tools, it sounds like they're insulting my intelligence.

5:35 those aren’t chiseled marks! The structure is 3500yrs old now and looking at the condition of the worlds climate, weathering will definitely take place. He’s saying it like they were chiseled last 2yrs lmaooo. Theirs pyramid were smoother than we think.

No mummy or treasure was ever found inside the pyramid.

thanks for better explain of pyramids . Videography...background music .explaination are very excellent.

I’m impressed how smooth the rocks are inside the tomb.

Damn, you'd think Discovery UK would have top sounds guys working on their videos.

I really want to visit Egypt and see those pyramids .

Imagine living in 2022 still telling people that the pyramids were used as tombs, even though there has never been a body or any "treasure" found within them. Amazing that these are the people we're listening to within universities.

Can you turn the music down I can’t hear

I think they were more advanced than us😀

This is almost laughable. This theory has been disproven.

How is no one in the comment section talking about the loud music. Can't hear the narration

the title of this video should have been "How Did The Ancient Egyptians Cut The Granite Blocks To Build The Pyramids? We will have this question unanswered."

I think it's hilarious for anyone to believe the pyramids were built by hand with no master plan...

Let's see hawas copper chisel just one PERFECTLY SQUARE BLOCK OF 3TONNES.

AMAZING ANIMATION...LOVE THIS CHANNEL

Would like to see a scale model made with real copper tools that look like copper and have to be continually reformed.

Whatever they used. It was beyond precise.

Right off the bat the author claims this is a tomb. I left at that nonsense. That whole theory has been thoroughly exploded many times over. Yawn.

Primitive Machine? It Impressed the hell out of me.

I CANT IMAGINE HOW MANY ALIENS IT TOOK TO HAUL THESE HUGE BLOCKS UP THAT RAMP !!!

music and sound effect is louder than his voice

Facts that you can check ur self: -there were no mummies ever found in any of the great pyramids. -ancient Egyptian never mentioned the great pyramids, who built them & why. -there was not a single hieroglyph word found inside any of the great pyramids. -we can’t replicate any of the pyramids with our modern day technology. -the pyramids were meant to be power plants, not tombs.

hi this is a fantastic vid! with excellent production quality, but... the sound levels throughout are inconsistent, the music is too loud, and the narrative is too low, this greatly detracts from the overall quality and watchability, I would re-do it, and make it an amazing video!.. for time!! like the pyramids! :-D We make videos for any purpose, and have a large repository, and many playlists! hi from Mexico!

The block that are shown does not look like granite. They are the softer limestone.