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Whoever wrote this video trolled the hell out of you. No mummies have ever been found in the pyramids. Google "how many mummies have been found in the egyptian pyramids" I cant believe you're spreading disinformation... bet you work for the Chinese Communis Party. Jk but seriously pyramids are not tombs google it
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While the narration was discussing the Great Pyramid of Giza (Khufu's pyramid), the video was showing images of Khafre's pyramid. The two are easily distinguished: Khafre's pyramid still has some casing stones around the peak of the pyramid giving it a smooth side, while Khufu's pyramid (the Great Pyramid of Giza) has had virtually all the casing stones removed and is missing the pyramidion (the point at the top). The two are often confused because from a distance Khafre's pyramid looks bigger than Khufu's pyramid, but this is only because it was built on top of a rise in the Giza plane: Khufu's pyramid is actually bigger than Khafre's pyramid.
I keep seeing this mistake being made on many of the videos I've watched about the pyramids of Giza. Makes me want to pull my hair out, what little I have left 😂.
@@party4keeps28 Regarding _"anyone other than a complete layman", what do you specifically mean? Everyone whoms field of study is not _Egyptology?_ Anyone whoms field of study is not specifically Egyptian archaeology, Egyptian Pyramids, or Pyramidology? Anyone whoms profession does not fairly directly involve the pyramids of Giza? I would suggest it's actually a _very_ easy mistake to make, for the vaast majority of the public. Including serious script writers that do good quality information gathering/research. And if you do it once you're very likely to keep doing it. There's many well reputable sources which would be reasonable to turn to, that have gotten this wrong, and even if they were made aware they still haven't gone back to revise or correct those errors in their former content/publications. That goes for written and visual media both, including errors in the content body or contextual information of publications like stock photos and videos, GPL media, 3rd party commercial media etc. Especially if in your info-gathering, your first exposure to this data is from a good quality, reputable source that happen to get this wrong in that particular piece - that's something that would logically be so basic that there's no particular reason why you'd need to be particularly sceptical, distrustful of or intuitively need to fact check that piece of information. And therefore, if or until you get exposure to an equally or more reliable source that shows contradictory information _(and_ you actually pick up on it, you might not notice the discrepancy if you're looking for information about something else) - then you're naturally gonna "keep going with that" piece of faulty information.
@@Baneful_Ben You're correct, over the years they have both been called that. But the Great Pyramid is in fact the northernmost on the Giza plateau and is the "Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops)". And we need to correct this because we all have a responsibility to put out the correct information and not just what seems to be right. The pyramid is a great feat of engineering and Construction and is the only remaining wonder of the original 7 wonders of the world.
Wasn't there a theory that the "Queen's Chamber" was supposed to be a decoy to make tomb robbers think they had found the real treasure room and walk away with only a few trinkets compared to what was really up above?
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1 cubic meter of granite is rougly 26-2700 _kilograms_ (2.6-2.7 metric tons). A thousands cubic meters of granite though, that would be roughly about 2600 Draconian Fuchtonnes of NGHH.
I heard that mistake as well. I had to stop "wait, what?" My engineering brain knows 1m3 of water is 1000kg and rock would be around 2.6 more dense. So yeah typo or oversight. It would be approx 2,600 kg
Recently Simon has stood up and walked away in videos, it's killed my tin foil theory that he is chained to the floor and the producers and editors hand him more and more scripts for the more and more channels they create 😅 I can't complain, he entertains and it's great.
Interesting that this doesn't include any modern theories or research, but rather the same regurgitated timeline that last century's egyptologists have been using to defend for their careers for the last 40 years
Glad someone else said it and realized it too. I was super excited to see if Simon would add updated info but nope, just the same (clearly Bullshit) established narrative that has been spewed by fakers like the great Egyptian bullshitter zaheed hawas
Only issue is, no tomb, nor any evidence of any body being entombed has ever been discovered in any Egyptian pyramid. As far as I know, the only evidence of a pyramid even relating to a pharoah was "Khufu"spelled incorrectly on one of the walls of the Great Pyramid.
I mean sarcophagi existing in the pyramids would be your evidence as well as the documented names of the pharaohs who commissioned the pyramids construction. You think they made them just to look pretty? The fact that we have records of attempted grave robbing of the pyramids going back thousands of years would attest to they had things worth robbing at some point. For reference, when the Roman Empire was at its peak the period these pyramids were constructed in had been over for several thousand years. There's conjecture that the pyramids were robbed *by other Egyptian rulers* long before other civilizations even thought of robbing them.
@@johnirving8037 You could ask the British Museum (or plenty of other places I am sure) or the people who used to grind up mummies to make Mummy Brown paint!
The mummies had valuable amulets and other jewels layered into the bandages, it would make sense to just take the body and extract the jewels at a later time. Other tombs have shown the damaged embalmed bodies ripped apart to get at the amulets inside.
I love Simons video's, but this one sadly has some of the more widely known misconceptions/outdated theories regarding many of the great pyramids features - I highly recommend the channel "ancient architects" for more thorough exploration and explanation of these. lots of good research on the how and why some of the older ideas are no longer thought to be true and why they stick around.
Ancient Architects is a very good channel, but nothing in this video contradicts any of the info presented in AA's videos. No misconceptions, and no outdated info.
tbf, they could have watched exactly one video from "world of Antiquity" and gotten almost all of the information with the exception of the last bit of the video. But also, if you're interested in the actual history as far as we know it and not conspiracy theories, seriously give World of Antiquity a chance.
Wait there’s no way that a granite block with a volume of 1 meter cubed weighs 2600 tons. I’ve weighed granite stones much larger than this by volume and they only weigh a few tons.
It's already so common to see conspiracy theorists claiming that those blocks in particular would have been impossible to carve and move without aliens/super tech. And now Simon's added fuel by mistakenly claiming that they're a thousand times heavier than they actually are 😂
@MuchToDoAboutNowt@@Crawfishness Have to say i was blinking at the idea of a bit of granite weighing so much myself.. But 1 cubic meter of Granite is just about 27 hundred kilograms, give or take... So they clearly meant THAT.. 2.6 million kilograms seems like some big fucking whips.. whhips.. chool. @TodayIFoundOut A dress! Or at least a skirt.. Si. ( Like you'd review comments.. LOL
Remember when hucksters were claiming razor blades stayed sharper, longer when kept inside a pyramid shape? That's what I'm "sure" is inside...tons of old (and sharp ) Egyptian razor blades.
The Great Pyramid at Giza is the tallest in the world. The Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico is the largest by area and volume. It's really interesting. Maybe you might want to do a video on that place.
Correction - A 1 cubic meter block of granite weighs about 2.6 tonnes (or 2600 kilograms)... It most certainly doesn't weigh 2600 tonnes, as was stated. (A cubic meter of concrete weighs approximately 2.4 tonnes / 2400 kilograms)
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I love this subject thanks Simon. However you consistently showed Khafre's Pyramid when referring to the Great Pyramid. The great pyramid has no casing stones left while khafre's has several levels left at the top. Khafres pyramid appears taller than the great pyramid only because it is sitting at a higher elevation.
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I was excited thinking I was going to see more video of someone walking through the pyramid(s) while Simon narrated..that was a letdown. And I didn't hear anything about why the pyramids are eight-sided unless I missed it looking at the same hand drawn 'blueprint' for the third time 🤔
@ninthheretic2498 nope, sounds like I was fooled yet again 🤦♂️ and that really had my curiosity. How about the wet sand theory because I live right next to a beach and anyone who's watched a skim boarder face-plant when the surf rolled out from under them can probably attest to is that wet sand probably isn't the best way to slide around large, heavy stones...so what about clay 'tracks'? Dig a couple shallow trenches, lay down some thick U-shaped clay tracks, let it dry a bit and harden up, then when it's time to move a block, that individual with their pot of water wets the surface and off you go. What do you think? 🤔
Moderns reading Medieval accounts of the tombs being empty "Where could they have gone?!?" Ancient Egyptians from the Ptolemaic era laughing all the way to bank selling plunder to the Greeks and Romans before humanity even entered the Common Era.
The pyramid of Giza has water from the Nile running under it where there is jagged cut limestone rocks. An extremely good conductor of electricity. If you put a phone at 1% battery in the the Great Pyramid, it'll never die... Now... That do you think it was for? 😂
As someone who has spent significant time at the pyramids in Egypt, I can confirm: 1) The Nile is 9kms away from pyramids of Giza 2) Pure water is an insulator, but river water is an OK conductor 3) The pyramid doesn't recharge your cellphone
@@BatCaveOz 1) so you think people smart enough to create an 8 sided structure that is only visible during the summer and winter equinox... Can't redirect water? 2)They call it a river, but, I challenge you to tell me what natural water resource does the Nile "river" come from? Or, is it salt water???... lmfffaaaooo WOW, and you consider yourself educated???????? 3)Something I can't prove, nore can you... So I'm 2-0-1 while you're 0-0-1 👍 4)I find it funny you liked your own comment. I'm proud of you that you don't not like what you said. So strong of yourself to do 😂🤦♂️
If you run the numbers, the construction of 'The Great Pyramid' would require that one stone block be layed in place every three minutes, 24/7, for 20 straight years. One helluva construction miracle.
🤦🏻♂️ No. That is if one group is doing everything one at a time. Obviously you'd run multiple teams. If you had 100 teams doing any one task, such as moving stone, lifting stone, placing stone, etc, each team would only need to do about 3 blocks a day to get you in the ballpark of being complete in 20 years. Plus, that math uses the incorrect 2.3 million stones number. And most of the stones are rough and filler.
@@AveragePicker Provide the mechanism by which 100 teams brought 100 stones simultaneously up the sides of the pyramid such that 100 stones arrived at their designated resting place at the same time. We'll go from there. Basically, un-bottledneck the bottlenecks for us.
@imacmill They don't have to arrive at the same time. 🤦🏻♂️ The point is each team would only have to bring up 3 or 4 blocks during the day and you could obviously run multiple teams lifting and placing at the same time. (Like when you get a roof replaced there isn't one person working on the roof one shingle at a time.)
@imacmill the 2.3 comes from Romer who estimated 5 million tons cut from the quarry, and then divided that roughly in half by an average guessed weight. It keeps the math easy enough but treats every block as equal. Given that there is a lot of filler it's a misleading number. Even if the number is more, it would be counting small filler stones, essentially large gravel/rubble, which could be transported and dumped en masse. It doesn't overly make a difference though, at least to me, because even treating everything as an equal block, it would still be doable with enough people.
I always had the hunch they were really Proto Yucatals . The ability to create ice in the ancient world would be a technology the entire civilization could get behind and rally around. It has all the parts and structures needed and would make these essentially large refrigerators to store meat and grain for lean times. Today the shafts are frozen shut but they likely could manipulate temperature inside by adjusting these shafts according to wind direction and outer temperature etc.
I like that idea! IMHO-Clearly the Great Pyramid is more than just a ‘tomb’. Some technological marvel we have yet to remember/understand. (There is supposedly some evidence for energy production, with residues inside some of the shafts. Some people also talk about the piezoelectric effect with the ‘tuned’ quartz granite pieces inside. On top of that there are pictographs and murals inside the queens chamber, possibly depicting Noah’s ark and the great flood- but clearly a lot more going on* than the current ‘experts’ are willing, or able, to admit) *edit fixed an autocorrected in back to on
Btw- What exactly is a proto yucatal? And how do I find more about them? When I try to search I just get Mayan language and Mexico Yucatán results. Edit: Wow, when I put quotes to remove the Mayan and Mexico results I get -“No more results found for "yucatals".” somebody either doesn’t like that information or I’m missing the key context to be able to search for it correctly..
@@HuheJasscalm down lol, I think it's a typo. Something called a yakchal was an early refrigeration structure from Iran but they only date back to 400bc. Also this is just some left field theory take off your crinkly hat. Who would be trying to cover up an ancient Egyptian cold cellar lol?
@@friedsensei Without going into crinkly hat territory, there is without any doubt things in the pyramids that the Egyptian experts roudaboutly admit they are not allowed to talk about, or confirm the existence of. Why would they cover it up? Who knows, but they are concealing some stuff for sure
It's interesting the idea of pyramid like buildings also ended up being done, by other cultures, obviously a good example of a solid variety of building.
The triangle is the strongest shape in nature, it probably didn't take too long for ancient cultures to figure that out based on which buildings were still standing after monsoon season or an earthquake. Still neat though!
Technically speaking, only Egypt made actual pyramids. The rest of them weren't exactly a pyramid even though we call them that. Pyramid, meaning that they are 4 equal sides that all go up to a point. For instance, not one of the Egyptian pyramids weren't meant to be climbed, smooth sides would have been a major feature. TMK, all of the south American structures were built with stairs going to the top and were all built in tiers. Most of them having some sort of ritual or spiritual structure on the top of them. Similar structures in that they taper upwards, but they couldn't be more different in features and techniques. But so many conspiracy channels lump them all in together and then go a step further and obliterate the idea that the cultures that built them were often thousands of years apart. When you really start to look at the actual differences between the structures, you see that the similarities are essentially "tapered building" and nothing more
@@00700556 The pyramids in Sudan came around 1000 years after the Egyptian pyramids and were influenced directly by them in shape and purpose. Though, only being around 100ft tall max and a lot steeper. Also made mostly from mud brick and stone. These are definitely the closest, but have pretty solid records. The Nigerian pyramids I assume you're talking about are the lost pyramids by the Igbo? They were more round and terraced and much newer.
“Its entrance was plugged with 3 enormous granite blocks, each around 1-meter-cubed, and weighing 2,600 tons.” Either, the pyramids were built by aliens - with out-of-this-world highly-dense granite - that was cut into 2,600 ton blocks to a size that would fit in a pickup truck, Or, You mean ‘2,600 kilograms’.
This was enjoyable albeit a bit brief & inaccurate… “History For Granite”, there’s some sexy accurate multiple dynastic pyramid history if you really want some!
It is interesting to note that despite Egyptians putting Hieroglyphs on all their important buildings, the Pyramids don't have any original writing on them. Also interesting is that Egyptian Pharaohs are known for meticulously recording every great thing they have ever done, but not a single Pharaoh ever claimed to have build the Pyramids and only one Pharaoh claimed to have "restored" the sphinx, meaning it was already ancient and in need of repair by the time the known ancient Egyptians came around. So the idea that the Pyramids and the Sphinx where build by known Pharaohs is based on basically nothing much and is only a wild guess at this point.
If is interesting to hear somebody with obviously absolutely no knowledge of the history of egyptian writing making wild assumptions that something is "interesting" or "wild guess" .... How well,this is the internet.
There's a mass of evidence of Khufu and his family and the pyramid and other construction at Giza. Where have you been... The history of Egypt spans 4500 years, styles changed over time... in some periods they didn't write stuff on building, in others they did, nothing surprising about that....
Just a second. 2.3 million tonnes of stone. Only approx 300,000 blocks of stone were used. The remainder was clay bricks, mortar, rubble, gravel aggregate ballast, voids, caverns, gallery chambers, passageways, etc.
Thanks, this is indeed one of the common mistake being repeated everywhere "2.3 M stones perfectly assembled". The egyptian were not stupid, they did not bother to carve exactly stones just to fill not visible parts of the pyramids.
The reason the pyramid had tunnels that were blocked off and had to be reexcavated is because it was blocked by Egyptian tour guides who didn’t want to spend so long inside the pyramid each time
The pyramids (full of gold and valuables) were somehat TOO visible and looted that they stopped building them (besides the cost which was not bearable).
That's wrong...one intact pharaoh was actually found in his resting place the sarcophagus of his pyramid... ofc not many were found though... its logical you wouldn't find anything in a known box after thousands of years passed .... certainly not a mummie that is like a burrito filled with valuables and robbers liked to burn them to collect all the jewelry easier.
Simon's biggest error in the video is that he says the three plugging stones weigh 2,600 tons. The reality is one cubic meter of granite weighs 2.7 tons or 100X LESS!
Love tuning in and watching you slam down cereal and ask for a pledge. Get a good glass of OJ and swirl that around, cup o’ Joe, etc.? I doubt there’s anything in the Pyramids. Maybe get Geraldo to go in and stick his neck out again. Good show, mate!!
I know it's well known now, but it still seems strange to see the shots of the pyramids with the metropolis of Giza right next to them... I guess the movies have influenced me a bit too much...
We now return our souls to the creator, as we stand on the edge of eternal darkness. Let our chant fill the void, in order that others may know. In the land of the night, the ship of the sun, is drawn by the grateful dead. ~Egyptian Book of the Dead~ poem/prayer
Cept no mummy has ever been found in a major pyramid. Actually have a design for a power system that id love to actually build one day. However it doesnt lend well to small prototypes due to heat and pressures and i highly doubt egypt would let me try to reactivate any of theirs... If they even would from years of destroying a machine built to be a sealed unit.
I hate to beg your pardon, but if that Pyramid will design like any of the other pyramids and it had been looted, that could mean that 1 of these solid granite walls had come down in front of the door it was set there as a security track if that had happened then yes, you would have to. Come in from another way to get into other parts of the pyramid
Yeah but out of all the hieroglyphs left behind there is nothing describing their creation... I would love to see a video about Ghram Hancock or even just the younger dryas impact theory.
Why would there be? There is no record of how they built the Sistine Chapel, or pretty much ANY great building of the world, because they used to pass the knowledge on through apprenticeships, and most people couldn't read and write. Graham Hancock is a charlatan. You would do well to remember that he gets all his information from archaeologists. The difference between an archaeologist and Graham Hancock is that archaeologists are scientists, so they don't spout wild theories that have no basis. If they did, Graham Hancock would be out of a job, because he is nothing more than a middleman, who takes the valid information discovered by others, and adds wild, completely unsupported theories to it, then plays the victim when his nonsense is pointed out as nonsense.
Napoleon got lost and couldnt find the exit.. he didnt see anything, he just faced his mortality of being entombed.. at least thats my hypothesis given the narcissism..
People who have been placed in solitary confinement often mention hallucinations brought on by darkness and lack of human contact. Could also be that his monkey brain was making him see things that weren't there.
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The stone plugs roughly measure only 1 cubed meter, but weigh 2600 tons?? Did I hear that wrong or was that an error on Simon’s end? There’s no way that can be possible, can it?
What if they were started during their reign and when they pass away is the layer they place the body. The king lasted a bit longer than usual so they moved his tomb higher towards the sky.
20 minute video with the same popular tripe about the pyramids. dates and times don't work, forgot to mention they found 50,000 year old carved stone vessels under the step pyramid.....stone that would need to be cut with hard metal, supposedly unavailable to humans until a few thousand years ago.
