The Mystery of Herodotus, Khufu's Pyramid, and The Osiris Shaft

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In the 340s BC, Herodotus described the tomb of Khufu as a coffin on an island surrounded by waters let in by the Nile. In the 1990s this lost tomb was found, but it's not what you'd expect.
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@robertuk444 29 дней назад

Thanks for a great summary of the Orsiris Shaft, I Like many others have wondered what the black goo was, and now I know. This is another monument like so many others that needs a lot more investigation but largely ignored by the Egyptian authorities.

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 21 день назад

I'm glad you learned something. It's not just a tagline when I say we're exploring these places together. I learned so much researching this, I'm not sure I'd even heard of this shaft before, I just wanted to do a video on Herodotus and go wherever the research takes me. I'm pretty sure I had, but I never saw that pump before and never connected it to Herodotus.

@jefflund5685 10 дней назад

Just a little something to add. The Kafre causeway is, I believe, one of the oldest structures at the Giza Plateau. There are cracks in the causeway where one can pour sand in. And pour and pour and pour. They do not fill up, and have not for thousands of years, during which time, the nearby Sphynx has been buried in sand multiple times. It seems to me that it is possible that today's causeway may be the roof of a waterfilled tunnel or something. And, as you noted in your video, it is right next to the Osiris shaft. Just a curiosity you may not know of. I've often wondered if Herodotus was describing under the causeway.

@pilkpulk8284 16 дней назад

Well deserved fakts and conclousions. Never heard of the waterpump at the black Sarkophag. Thanks for this, it explains a lot.. I am a New subscriber for sure!

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 15 дней назад

Thanks, I'd only learned about it trying to figure out the goo during research for this video. I'm glad we were both able to learn the truth.

@pilkpulk8284 15 дней назад

@@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity yeah, where you got this infos aboutt the goo from? I never read this in any book. Cant wait for the next one.😎

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 11 дней назад

@@pilkpulk8284 For some reason, RU-vid did not allow me to put hyperlinks in my descriptions. I think it was the number of videos, but I seem to have that ability now. I've placed my sources in the video description and will go back and edit all my videos to do so. It's always important to provide where I got all my info from.

@pilkpulk8284 11 дней назад

@@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity thanks!

@davidshelley6598 29 дней назад

A facinating and well researched doc. Thanks!

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 21 день назад

I'm glad you enjoyed it. The research for this one was so interesting, it just kept getting more and more mysterious. Imagine trying to figure out how a new kingdom coffin dated to the old kingdom and the answer being that it was radioactive, every answer created a new mystery. I imagine maybe the stone this coffin was made from was noticed to melt snow faster than everything else. They didn't know why, just that it was special, maybe blessed by a god, so that's how it became a coffin.

@OMFGimontheinternet 16 дней назад

I'm not saying this is the most likely explanation, but maybe during the late period khufu and other old kingdom pharaohs were removed from their pyramids and reburied in the osiris shaft. Maybe the osiris shaft was used as a cache of old kingdom mummies similar to how KV35 was used as a cache for new kingdom mummies. Maybe Herodotus was right and one of the sarcophagi did hold Khufu's body.

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 15 дней назад

Wow that's an interesting interpretation. I don't think it's right either, but it's absolutely something worth looking into. The reason I don't think it's a vault though is that each coffin is unique. The smallest, if I remember correctly, had the partial remains of a woman. I think it's more likely the old kingdom kings were placed somewhere in the valley of the kings of whatever dynasty's equivalent.

@tonygarcia0072 9 дней назад

If it was indeed Khufu's intended tomb as described by Herodotus, there is then an added dimension of interest; In the Westcar Papyrus, in the story therein entitled Khufu and the Magician, Khufu expresses a desire to model his "horizon" on that of the god Thoth; could it be that he did succeed in his quest and he did manage to do so? What then of the resemblance to the Osireion, could it be Thoth's "horizon"? and what of the recently discovered burial of a High Priest of Thoth, that also appears to have a symbolic moat carved around his mummy?

@PRH123 21 день назад

Makes sense that it wasn't a real burial, the Egyptians better than anyone knew water levels change, and there's no way you could be sure of the kings mummy staying dry. An empty symbolic sarcophagus makes sense. Or perhaps Herodotus misunderstood what he was being told regarding Khufu in the GP Apparently the floor in any pyramid tomb represented the waters, which rose to the sky through the descending entry corridor. So perhaps this was the priests speaking thus metaphorically, and then due to translation and misunderstanding Herodotus understood it literally...?

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 15 дней назад

I'd heard the floor of a tomb be referenced with spiritual waters before and it's possible. The only possible problem is the time difference between those beliefs of Khufu and Herodotus.

@sunnindawg 14 дней назад

Good vid

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 11 дней назад

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it.

@MarkMyWordsXx 17 дней назад

Why are you certain "kufu was entombed in the kings chamber in the great pyramid"?

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 15 дней назад

Occum's razor. It's the pyramid is his tomb because his name is written all over it in places only accessible to those who built it. The evolution from mastabas to pyramid is clear. It's in the central part of a cemetery where his many of his dignitaries were found. Why the kings chamber specifically is the coffin as well as the fact the queens chamber's walls aren't finished and the underground section is a mess. He could be in the great void, but with the evidence we have, I don't think so. He hasn't been there for a long long time though, the new kingdom probably moved him. If the new kingdom knew he was in the great void, they probably would have dug to him.

@MarkMyWordsXx 15 дней назад

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity that's a reasonable assumption when you present it that way, really, but you can't be certain

@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity 11 дней назад

@@MarkMyWordsXx No, we certainly can't. For all we know the it was always empty and Khufu was buried elsewhere, but it's the most likely possibility in my opinion.