What are the Largest Pyramid Stones Saying? 

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I've found the pyramids of Giza fascinating since I was a young child (near 60 now). It's so hard to find anything new, creative or even correct about them on the internet. This channel has exceptional, detailed videos on intriguing and unique subjects. Thank you and keep it up please.

I like big rocks and I cannot lie.

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I still can't comprehend how they constructed the pyramids, after the endless videos/pictures/reading I've done about them the more mind boggling it becomes. The logistics of it and all the engineering, man power, ingenuity, innovation, blue prints, drafting, quality control etc etc from truly ancient times is insane. I would love to have a time machine and see just how the hell they did it.

Thanks! This is the premier channel for Egypt, Pyramids and humans who can think and evaluate for themselves.

Watching this on my lunch break, I can't help but wonder about these ancient Mega-Structures. Thanks for getting me invested in History once again!

Always look forward to your videos. You help us see things that we all may just take for “granted”, unintentionally. Great information and content as always 👏

Another top-notch video, presenting us with more fascinating details & deeper questions that are overlooked by all the big money cable shows. Kudos to you and all you do for our eager minds! Thank you!!

I get so excited when I see your videos are up!

Thank you for all of the fascinating topics. Your videos are by far my favorite and I always look forward to your new content.. I'm almost a little embarrassed by how many times I have re-watched your videos. Hang in there during tough times, you have many people who appreciate you.

I think this guy’s videos showcase ideas that make far more sense to explain how and why the pyramids were constructed than what the conventional Egyptologists believe. Unfortunately they tend to think in singular terms about each structure and don’t seem to look at the totality of the many structures like this guy does to find the commonalities and trends that explicate their intentions. Egyptologists seem to miss the forest for the trees too often and don’t analyze across multiple structures to try to identify the commonalities and differences. This series is just as valuable and interesting as any graduate thesis and any good school should consider granting him a degree based on this series alone considering the contributions he’s made to advancing the field. It’s an impressive body of work and deserves recognition even though it’s in a different format than what academia normally accepts. Well done! 👍🏻

You have to wonder what was it like to have lived when these were being built? Most certainly the topic of the construction was part of daily conversation. Did they have tours, were there festivals? We tend to think of the finished pyramids as showing the king's power, but the construction process itself, cutting the stones, moving them, and placing them would have been a daily testament to that.

Always looking forward to your informative videos! I wish more people would be inspired by the same passion, maybe this way more would be done to investigate the pyramids more thoroughly. The pyramids, at least the big ones, have been a sensation for four and a half millennia, it's a pity people give up so easily finding more about them. Thank you for your work!

A new video just after I finished re-binging all of your older ones... perfect timing!

I always look forward to new videos on this channel. Thank you for your fascinating work.

Thanks for another amazing video! I am visiting Cairo in a few days, a lifelong dream of mine, and I owe so much of my foreknowledge of the pyramids to this channel. I have background now on the politics of Egyptology and I have things to keep my eye out for that point to the mastery of the Egyptians- all of this is going to make my trip much more interesting. Thanks for making education on them accessible, interesting, and exciting!

Once again you gift us with a well crafted and researched piece. Interesting point you raise on the accessibility to the pyramids. I sure hope you can develop it further on some upcoming projects.

Always look forward to a new vid. Fascinating as always

I've been waiting for another one of your videos. Thank you!

Conjecture: Oversized lintels for decorations painted or mounted on them. These may have faded over the 1,000s of years if not having been carved. A decorative idea would want a large frame thus a larger block face. Two smaller blocks would disrupt the mural with the dividing line. Purely conjecture but it is a factor that would favor the large lintel.

Another great video. Maybe you could do a series on how they cut them, saw marks etc but absolutely no drawings or tools found that could do it

As always more excellent insight. Love this channel!

I really appreciate the in-depth and careful analysis. You manage to demystify and clarify many aspects of this subject, that are often left to the interpretation of so-called experts, with an agenda. Keep it up :)

Great great channel bro!

A new video from History for Granite is like an unexpected present which turns out to be exactly what you wanted even though you didn't tell anyone.

Love this channel. Sometime you should make a two hour special. You do some fascinating exploring.

Yes! Fresh Content! Love your videos.

Will you please cover the topic of the surfaces of the stone and what we can learn from it? i.e. Made using chisel or saw? Did they grind or sand the surfaces to make them so smooth? Was it rough and then finish as it was placed? Location of quarry? How they decided on type of stone depending on where it was set. etc.

Great videos as always. I did notice some shear cracking in some the large lintels. Not reinforced of course but it is why beams nowadays are reinforced there. Particularly in earthquake zones. Keep up the great work!

I love nerding out about stones with your videos!

As always, great video!

this gets me thinking how the largest blocks are oriented can give clues to how they and the rest are brought to be in those positions if you think about what direction could they have slid in, how it would turn before getting there. was it lifted in or pushed along a path, etc. still so many mysteries! love this channel!

What is truly impressive is that no one knows how they were able to cut granite so precisely, which is something you take for granite.

Fantastic topic!

A very excellent video like all the rest! I sincerly enjoy your eye opening technical overviews focusing on verifiable facts+science and keeping a skeptical eye on assumptions and hearsay. GOOD WORK MAN!!!!

Yet another brilliant, insightful analysis. You always make excellent observations and reach highly logical conclusions. This is easily the best channel of its kind on RU-vid, so please keep up the good work. It's very much appreciated.

Love your video, as always. It's great that you're able to look at things in the context of the time they were created in. For an Egyptian living so many thousands of years ago, the pyramids must have been truly works of wonder. Even walking underneath a heavy stone portcullis, or arch, or maybe even being in a stone building might have been a privilege. The adoption of new technologies took a long long time in the past, so something that might be completely normal for us, might have been special for ancient Egyptian royalty, and absolutely mind blowing for the regular Egyptians. That's probably why the Pharaohs were considered Gods. Looking at things in that context, the pyramids become even more special.

Always interesting, thanks !

And once again... brilliant and insightful! Thanks, mate. 👍

Do we know why the Egyptians build condensation chambers inside the pyramids? At 8:43 you can clearly see the design of a condensation chamber, the high roof for cooling and the drip edges to collect the condensate. You can also see the dark streaks on the drip edges which is I think condensate of water vapor from humid air.

Your videos are always mind blowing. The research you do is incredible. I wish someone would make animations of possible sequences of construction. So many of the design choices pyramid builders made are mysterious

Great work as always👍 Thank You

Love your vids, brother.

The way you transform dry research into such an engaging and enlightening narrative is always a delight from this end. You pose questions I hadn't gotten around to considering, and all without ancient aliens. Thank you.

I would absolutely love if you would talk about how these stones were shaped. Dyrite pounding stones and sand can’t be c all there is. There is so much misinformation and bad information about that topic, I’d love for you to cut through it and provide your insights.

Excellent video…thank you for continuing to educate us about new finds and also the construction of the pyramids.

I really like the stone analysis of what can be seen. Very informative & insightful.

Another of your always interesting and thought-provoking pyramid videos. I've never thought about it before, and "looks like" doesn't mean is, but the sketch of the relieving chambers looks like a Djed. Thanks again for your fascinating work!

As always I really enjoy your videos.

Your work and channel are amazing! Instant click when a new video hits . Thank you.

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Fascinating video, esp to a hard-rock geologist. Because those massive granite blocks were quarried far away, mostly upstream the Nile in Aswan. Just imagine the logistics of creating an architectural spec, sending requirements to Aswan, arranging the quarry work, conducting the removal operation, more prep work at quarry, transport to the Nile, float hundreds of miles north, then movement from river to site, and then... finally... it gets installed. And it fits.

Love your channel!

Another superb video. Many thanks

I love this channel and your content, I will never take it for Granite that's for sure.

Recently, a void in the Great Pyramid of Giza was detected using muons. If that space hasn't been polluted by the torches and lanterns of visitors, perhaps the soot on its walls would be from the builders' torches. Carbon-dating that soot might reveal/confirm when it was built.

Excellent work! Very interesting.

Your presentations make me interested in things ive never thought of!!

What I'd like to see are the plans to build these things, they can't have just built them on the fly there must have been an exact set of plans with every stone calculated.

It's possible the stones were ordered in bulk assuming some would break. Every once in a while the would have too many big ones and just put them in the next most sensible place. These stones were probably quarried months in advance of use and rather than hold up construction they had some stones as 'backups' in case of late delivery.

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Another insightful episode. Thanks for sharing 👍

@6:11 Perpendicular to the lintel on the right, the 2 courses would move more had the lintel be lower ( and marrying or 'well toothed' between the lintel and the wall it joins), the vertical interface is less likely to move with a tall lintel bonded to the face of the coursework. The 'plinth' under the huge lintel is in the middle, like a fulcrum, so the continuity of vertical compression between the 2 courses above the first course and lintel has a stronger supportive bond. @6:14 the fracture is the stress shearing the lintel. That damage would've been more significant had the lintel been shorter, and remaining as long. The left of the lintel moved down, the right moved up, spreading the lower section of the crack apart. Settlement and displacement expose joins to moisture, and stresses creating the known 'fails' to happen in designated points. So I'd guess the openings are stress relief points too, and given a purpose beyond proving impressive engineering sympathetic to the movement of Earth's crust as a by-product. A physically moving monument to learn from. Stimulating content!

A though that occurred to me watching this video (which is excellent btw), the above ground pyramids had those outcrops of bedrock in the center of the foundation, 'primeval mounds' they're often referred to. Obviously not an option when they moved the stuff underground. Maybe the increased apparent significance of the lintel is related to this? Perhaps it's a replacement for that mound?

Outstanding! As always! Still bummed I can't make the trip!

Great stuff !

What does it mean when you stop everything you're doing in the now, just to learn what happened 1000's of years ago? Maybe an addiction? I can live with that!

Your carefully chosen photography really accentuates your perspective. Personally, with a modicum of building/creativity experience, I think the 'entrance' to sacred spaces were very carefully considered. In the case of the evolving Egyptian lintels; I think the intent may have been to illustrate the overwhelming burden of the 'material'/corporeal world, vs the ethereal world.

love your channel.. Thank you for the time and energy you put into your videos.

Yes! I love this channel! Watching this immediately!

while i may be really sceptical about dynastic egyptians actually constructing these stone mountains as the official timeline insists but the way you investigate and present your findings is clear logical insightful and compelling.. great channel and my thanks and regards for your obvious care and effort in producing each upload.. this is how the history channel should be.

It would certainly seem reasonable that having gone to the trouble of building such an impressive 'burial' place a pharaoh would want people to visit and be impressed. Maybe there were ongoing 'rites' within the pyramids post burial? Any thoughts as to how far within a pyramid visitors would be expected to go (seemingly all the way) and for how long that would happen given they did seem to be designed to be sealed off eventually? As always thank you for your thoughtful insights and videos. As an aside I occasionally wonder if the people who come up with bizarre theories like "The pyramids were power stations" might in a way be vaguely recognising such monuments must have been functional buildings that people visited and used both inside and out, not just places to put an important corpse - possibly I'm being overly charitable.

Always learn something new watching your videos. Thank you.

Refreshing and fascinating analysis. I think you are on to something.

I talked to an engineer about the interior of the great pyramid who was versed in the modern theories. He laughed and pointed out that the kings chamber was moved twice, and the final kings chamber was a nightmare of engineering. The grand gallery was potentially a massive counterweight system to get the granite slabs up to the building level. He laughed and pointed out its the earliest example of "The client wants WHAT???"

When quarrying stone you get small pieces and bigger pieces. Yes, you would use the bigger pieces in places that have structural importance...or just because you want to put them there. I think sometimes we look for meaning in things where there is none. The simple answers are usually the right ones.

Fantastic content thank you for the hard work

WOW Mate!! Great footage and discovery, I watched it a few times and will a few more

My thoughts on the largest stones have always been the same. When quarrying the stones they must have had large chunks naturally breaking off. When you have a large chunk of rock the temptation must be to shape it rather than break it down into lots of smaller pieces, and thus *much more surface area to work on.* Think about it, you're quarrying stones of around 1 to 5 tonnes and then suddenly a huge crack forms and you naturally have a much larger stone detach spontaneously, say 15 or 30 tonnes, 60, whatever. Why not simply shape that stone itself with a larger team rather than create lots of smaller stones and therefore more surface area to work on by breaking it down? If you have the capacity to move it, why not shape it and do so? I would. Especially considering that most of these very large stones are "outward" facing (barring structurally neccesary ones) and would need the surfaces worked to a greater precision. Lots of small stones means much more precision work than one massive stone. Seems totally intuitive to me.

it's unfortunate so much knowledge about the Pyramids has been lost to time, i would love to know the why's and the how's.

Thanks for sharing

EXCELLENT work. I really love this channel

Please, sir, I want some more

Спасибо. На моём родном языке слишком много видео пропитано бредовой альтернативой. Ваш канал - глоток свежего воздуха.

For something so niche, that was fascinating.

Hey dude, I like your videos, thanks for all your hard work!

Another well put together and informative video. But to tell you the truth today in the modern era we have a difficult enough time quarrying, cutting, polishing and transporting stones that are nowhere near the size of a lot of these stones. This is a ridiculous amount of stones, not to mention all other buildings, statues, and temples. And egyptologist are trying to tell us that they cut all of these millions of gargantuan blocks with stone hammers and copper chisels?? Not to mention transporting them the distances they did! I don't believe for a minute that they could transport those huge stones on their crappy little barges. They, or somebody, were building things that we can't even do today! Something is definitely wrong here.

I feel like after watching this episode I have a much better idea of the way the pyramid builders understood physics. Unfortunately it's not so much better that I can simply explain it in this comment. Something about how the blocks are like interconnecting puzzle pieces, and the way they tall narrowing ceilings have stacked blocks which are poking out just a little bit. Probably the first person who stacked blocks like that thought I wonder how high this can go, and then someone else came along and suggested making the blocks like interconnected puzzle pieces. I wonder what it must have been like to be a math/physics nerd back then!

Another excellent video, thank you

Fascinating video

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You have some really good insights thank you❤

Good job once again.

One thing strikes me in my quest to figure out how these truly magnificent giant structures were built is that the guys who were on site , have to be the most dedicated , hard working crew ever assembled ! Just think of the hard labour required every single day , the heat and sandstorms , the pressures they were put under by their overseer bosses and the dangerous physical and mental strains they were working under ! It must have been horrendously challenging . So chapeau to every one of them who created unequalled perfection some 4500 odd years sgo

Thank you for your analysis of the pyramids. Nothing has caused me more to ask questions in my mind of how such structures were made by bronze age people. The theories and observations you and other researchers have made show us structures that to this day defy understanding. As a lay perspective, nothing in The Great Pyramid's contstruction points to a resting place for a pharoah or king. Look at what my research has come up with to back the idea that whomever constructed the pyramid knew that one day we would be able to interpret their message: The Great Pyramid of Giza was a library, a machine, a manufacturing plant and a power structure. 1. It is 3/60th of a single degree of true north 2. It weighs 6 million tons 3. Its footprint is 13 acres 4. It is more than 755.9 feet along each side 5. The Great Pyramid is 146.75 m high, its height X a million equals the distance from the Earth to the sun 6. It has more than 2.3 million individual blocks of stone 7. It is locked into the Cardinal dimensions of our planet; The dimensions of the Earth are incorporated into its dimensions 8. If you take the height and multiply it by 43,200 you get the polar radius of the Earth 9. If you measure the base perimeter of the pyramid accurately and multiply that measurement by 43,200 you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth 10. The scale is not random, the number 43,200 is derived from a key motion of the Earth, which is called the precession of the Earth’s axis 11. The Earth wobbles on its axis very slowly at the rate of 1 degree every 72 years; 43,200 is a multiple of 72; 600 X 72 12. The Great Pyramid of Giza gives us the dimensions of the planet on a scale defined by the planet itself 13. There are several 70-ton blocks of granite from a quarry 500 kilometers away, one of hardest stones, raised 300 feet above the ground 14. It has eight sides, and at the spring equinox and the autumn equinox one side of the pyramid is in the shade in the morning and again in the late afternoon and can only be seen from the air 15. It is a calendar 16. It has expansion joints 17. It is located at the exact intersection of the longest line of latitude and the longest line of longitude of the Earth, in other words The Great Pyramid is located at the precise center of the Earth’s land mass 18. The builders possessed highly sophisticated knowledge of mathematics and geometry and they had knowledge of the true dimensions of the Earth to extreme precision 19. The builders possessed exceptionally advanced technical instrumentation (laser guided surveying tools?) to site The Great Pyramid 20. Pi = C over D Phi = Divided by 5 + 1 over 2. Archimedes discovered Pi about 250 BC, but Egyptians knew of it 2,250 years earlier 21. If you subtract the inner circle of the base from the outer circle around the base (the circumference of The Great Pyramid), you get the speed of light in meters to four decimal points: 299,792,458 meters per second 22. The weight of The Great Pyramid is 5,273, 000 tons and that multiplied by a billion is the weight of the Earth (please check your sources) 23. The three inner rooms; the king’s chamber, the queen’s chamber and the unfinished chamber under the pyramid are proportional to the distances between Mercury, Venus and the Earth 24. The distance from The Great Pyramid to the North Pole is the same as the distance from The Great Pyramid to the center of the Earth 25. If you divide the perimeter of the pyramid by 1/2 its height the result is 3.14 Pi h/2 = Pi 26. The base side length is 364.242 which is exactly the time in days it takes for the earth to orbit the sun 27. The high chamber is built on a double square, which leads us to the golden ratio geometry 28. Pyramids in China, Mexico and Egypt align with the Orion star system

Your channel rules, bro. Super cool stuff. When I found out you're acquainted with Matt from AA, that made it even better. Been a big fan of his for years. Your content is the same, but totally different in the best possible way. Amazing work homie. Be well.

thanks hfg . the amount science. and architectual knowledge you have on the pyramids is mind blowing. no other you tube videos provide the knowledge you have on these wonderful structures. great work as always . thanks for all the hard work and and investigation into one of the biggest puzzles in my life . how the hell did they build these wonders. much respect to you

Thank you again for this informative video.

Even if the official date has me seriously doubting whether dynastic Egyptians ever built these stone mountains, the way you conducted your research and presented your conclusions is impressive. This is how the history channel should be; fantastic channel, and my thanks and respects for your apparent care and effort in preparing each upload.