Did the Prism Stone of the Great Pyramid exist?
The junction of corridors within the Great Pyramid is a unique and mysterious feature that is greatly misunderstood. This key point of entry was required to gain access to the upper chambers where the burial of the pharaoh and his great treasures would be located.
The corridor junction is completely sealed with three enormous granite blocks that still remain in their final position. This method of closure for the upper chambers of the pyramid is a controversial subject because it does not disguise this point of entry.
This video takes a close examination of the physical evidence and demonstrates that pyramid defense features of the Old Kingdom cannot be judged by the standards of later pharaohs or explorers who ventured inside.
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Perhaps a helpful comment Love this channel, though the diagrams could possibly use a few remarks of orientation ("looked at from the side," looked at from the top") or arrows; it's difficult to orient the diagrams in the few seconds that they're visible.
So excited I found your channel! I love the reasonable application and your logical thought process on the evidence we do see. Thank you for your work. Can't wait for your next video
Yes good thinking and logic are not usually applied to this subject. Great channel.
If the marks had been to place a ladder, in that position they would reduce the space to ascend by half, the marks would have to be at the base. They would only work in that position if they attached a handrail or two guides so that the royal trousseau did not touch the stone. I used google translator.
I was going to write the same observation. So the notches were not for a ladder.
@@tanner1985 I think the notches could have been there for measuring the precise width of the narrowing corridor, they would allow a yardstick/cubitstick to be placed against a real reference. Measuring tapers is tricky compared to other measurements, especially precise acute tapers. Deviating from the design width by a tenth of an inch would result in whole inches deviation of where the granite plugstone would seat.
Right with you on this point. Fascinating to ponder on the truth behind these small details. Thanks!
Egyptology sadly won’t move forward until Dr Hawaas has passed on.
Hate to say this but I agree, as much as ambassador to ancient Egypt he has been I feel now he holds back on lots of things.
The more detail you understand the more you wonder how amazingly organised these people were, Be good if you could do one on how these people actually worked inside as they built, the heat, light, air etc so hard to imagine working on it, boggles the mind 🤪
Hard and skilled work.
Totally agree with you regarding the prism stone. If disguise was the objective, in the dim flickering torchlight of would be thieves, a false ceiling could be textured to mach the rest of the tunnel. A heavy wooden frame supporting a false ceiling would be both practical and efficient. The notches high up, would allow a deep frame to be jammed in tight, taking advantage of the maximum surface area offered by the walls. This would allow a relatively think false plaster ceiling that could (at a pinch) not sound hollow when tapped, yet weigh a small fraction of a solid stone.
Every time I see those nubs on the great pyramid, I think about the Inca walls that have the same feature.
I’m happy t find your channel. I appreciate your analytical approach. Thanks and keep up the quality work!
It's good coming across a channel a little late, you get to binge watch everything :) Great Channel.
something i've been thinking about is: if you have hidden rooms within a structure, it's more likely that robbers will cause unnecessary extra damage, tearing up every surface looking for concealed passages meanwhile, making rooms that are obvious but very difficult to access (e.g. with granite plugs) means that most break-in efforts will be concentrated around those obstacles, potentially saving the rest of the structure
Unlikely but fingers crossed that maybe there's another untouched tomb within, maybe of the real Khufu or his relatives
@@BasileosHerodou another? These pyramids were never tombs
@@BasileosHerodou there has never been a mummy found in any pyramid. There is no evidence these were tombs.
Love all your videos. I was wondering about the tunnel dug in the great pyramid in the 9th century and what it reveals potentially about the interior structure of the pyramid. Are the blocks different sizes as you progress in? How well are interior blocks shaped? Are they fitted tightly together? Is there a way to determine which direction the tunnel was dug?
I will definitely be making a video about the robber’s tunnel that addresses some of those questions.
Is there any writing or hieroglyphs describing how the pyramids were built!
Incredible vid I sincerely hope you continue this series, I’m hooked
Thank you my fine fellow. You are producing great content! Keep it coming brother, and keep on changing lives!
Found your channel recently and love your sober analytical veiw point, thank you😁
Just the genius that shows when explaining the “beam notches” is incredible to think about when considering the state of human kind in the age this was constructed. They were simply brilliant and I can’t imagine how they knew to do this let alone thousands of other seemingly simple but cheeky tricks they used. It’s as if they had built thousands of pyramids and this was no prototype, but a mass produced model slapped together in a hard days work. Everything pre-planned and coming together like an orchestra of well trained laborers who had all done it before. It’s mind boggling to think one person, crew, or even organization could retain such precision when so many different hands took place in the construction. One would think at some point “****up frank” would have messed something up. But it seems as if the entire crew were of one mind. Stunning.
Another video by HfG talks about the evolution of pyramids beginning with the mastabas which led to the Step Pyramid to the Red Pyramid and on to the Great Pyramid.
After 3 videos I have decided to subscribe. very interesting work you do. Since there are quite a few interesting constructions in Egypt I expect many interesting videos in future. Thank You
Almost 200K Subs! I've been watching since you started out and then began collaborating with Ancient Architects!
Another thoroughly interesting story, thank you. I would like to know more about the 'niche' at 10:48, I've always been fascinated by it being there.
Would definitely keep going with the channel, doing an amazing job
Beautiful video and description.. Congratulations. Only one technical question: What is preventing this Prism stone from falling down? Just the notches? I wonder..
Your work is fascinating. Thank you for making these videos.
A concealing method would be ludicrous unless they expected the "robbers" (personally I never believed this was a tomb") had a way to levitate massive objects. Raising the granite blocks to the top of a pyramid using ramps and either people or animals to move them with water or sand to reduce friction then letting gravity work going down into the blockage slope is one thing. Trying to force the blocks back up an ENCLOSED ramp without massive machinery is quite another.
Going to Egypt and seeing the pyramids and other ancient sites there is on the top of my bucket list! My uncle went to Egypt while he was in the navy. He always told me how amazing those sites are.
Admittedly I´m not that familiar with these structures, but how do we know there are 3 stones? We can access stone 1 from below and stone 3 from atop, but how do we know there is a third stone? and its not 1 long stone?
I love your videos and once again I will be waiting for the next one. Then it is only necessary to investigate if it was physically possible to introduce the three granite blocks that plugged the ascending corridor in the 26th dynasty with the pyramid already built many centuries before or if they were already there from the beginning. What is clear is that these questions must be thoroughly investigated. Thanks for the content once again.
NEED MORE PYRAMID VIDEOS WITH 4K FOOTAGE
Discovering your channel is the best treasure i found this year. Your video and explanations are 110%! Can i ask you a question: who are you and what do you do in life? You sure sounds like someone who probably studied in history/archeology/engineering or maybe it's a big hobby of yours?
It’s been a lifelong passive interest, but the past few years I decided to get serious because nobody else was doing the research I felt was important. The big turning point was Egypt started opening up more sites to tourism so I can get quality imagery that is essential for both analysis and presentation.
I really enjoy your channel. I love learning about ancient architecture. Hope this small contribution helps out.
Thank you kindly, it does!
I love your content and appreciate you sharing your knowledge with us. Thank you!
I am not familiar with anything. How dare you .ask me questions.? Time is old. And tellingk
Only thought about the holes being used for a ladder is why would they be in the middle? Seems like a ladder would be better mounted towards the bottom of the opening.
It's a good question. Perhaps it made grave goods easier to grab from above being hunched over in the corridors. It's also possible the ladder had some sort of unusual configuration different from modern ladders with the lateral supports offset in some way. But the main point is that the notches could only support human weight, not megalith weight.
@@HistoryforGRANITE Right. Thanks for the video and the reply. Good luck with your channel. 👍
Pleaw make more videos, they are great to watch and always very interesting!
I misread prism as pyramidon,(the stone to stand atop of the pyramid) so was more interested than I expected. A new perspective is always a useful tool because I am not sure how or if this incredibly large structure is aligned , or if the Giza plateau potential can now be realised ( affected by precession?). The 'relieving chambers' are curious...
NOT BRONZE AGE.................................................CHALCOLITHIC (COPPER) AGE
@@elamite66 The ancient Egyptians chisels in Cairo museum have 3% arsenic present in the copper, too much for a natural impurity and is called arsenical bronze.
@@elamite66 l am not being adversarial, we all seek knowledge and the age you speak of was a an anglocentrc term although England had excellent tin mineral deposits did they not have this technology? Tin makes superior bronze with greater corrosion capability it is possible that this technology was brought back to the from the Trojan Wars to the UK although Roman Catholicism by the Vatican has controlled history for 4 millenia
At 10:21, in a shot of the exterior, there's a "feature" running diagonally across the face. It starts on the near edge a little more than half way up, and runs down and left toward the entrance. Looking closer, there seem to be several other long diagonal surface features that cross about 30 courses of stones. What are these features? Are they artifacts of construction, material robbing, erosion, or something else?
I see it
they could be patterns that cascading debris made
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I managed to take a flash photo in the Grand Gallery back in the day. The restriction on using flash didn’t make sense as it wasn’t like there was any paintings to possibly fade. So I accidentally forgot which hand had the proper camera and which had the disposable. I don’t regret snapping the picture.
Can you share a link to your photo ?
@@IS-uh5yj yeah, nah, sorry it was back last century with a film camera so I don’t have it digitally
Very interesting idea, did tge guards take your disposable?
Too bad scanners don't exist
@@drum420 nope they didn’t.
I'm not comfortable with the idea of them leaving those notches in the wall right in front of the plug that they "just used for ladders" when the pyramid was open for visitors, the tunnels, chambers and the outside beautifully finished with masterful masonry, plaster, paint etc. Why not have the plug cover up the notches? Doesn't sit right with me. Either the "prism" block didn't fill the entire void but was only a hands width thick or there was some other cover hung from those notches; maybe a painting that shows the pharaohs journey to the underworld or something like that. Even if they didn't bother to conceal any security measures, which does make sense, they would've made it look really nice I'm sure - fit for a king.
You're a damn smart cookie! I really like your quite natural, almost none bias, more or less objective approach to this stone detective work! Keep up the good work! And hopefully one day that "supreme council of antiquity" of Egypt, or whatever it's called.. (the name escapes me at this very moment of writing) will buckle under the pressure from the rest of the world, or simply be replaced by a group of younger less stubborn, less egotistic, boneheaded members.. Because looking at the current council.. boy oh boy! Isn't there just a sea of grey hair and the look and feel, of a get together in a retirement home, every time that council have a meeting on camera? 😏 Anyhow.. the secrets will be revealed! of that I'm sure!😉 Perhaps the Brits will have to "step in", by once again taking charge over Egypt, lol! I know it sound horribly wrong perhaps to most, but.. Not to me, really. At least not if it could be done in a peaceful transitional manner. Not saying that it would be easy nor even possible, most likely. But it sure would feel oh so much better, to let them be in charge of all the unique historical sites and monuments. Just saying! 😄 Anyhow, have a great day!
I wonder if the angle of the ascending passageway and the Grand Gallery was chosen as the minimum slope at which the granite plugging blocks would reliably slide down into place against the friction of the limestone.
Very interesting and well articulated. I especially appreciate the rational approach and lack of “woo”. I’d love to see a video on what you think about The Labyrinth.
Can you give more info about the labyrinth or book you’re talking about?
@@DocBree13 I don’t know of any book, but I watched a video by UnchartedX here on KZhead called: “Finding Ancient Egypt’s Lost Labrynth” and a couple others. NASA allowed a group of researchers to use one of their high dollar satellites to do a LIDAR survey and found it!
Awesome video! New sub here! Very well done videos! Binge-watching now.
Another gem, your backlog is a thing of beauty.
Keep it coming. And thanks!
Your use of logic is impressive and I think the best way forward
By know after looking at all of the pyramids not just the great pyramid i get the distinct impression that the commoners of egypt went into the pyramids regularly. I feel like that would explain a lot. They enter the chambers at the bottom knowing their old god pharaoh lies above them. They use it as a spiritual place and to project power. During their reign the pyramid symbolizes the monarchs hold on the nations and in death they become temples. It makes even more sense with all of the other old kingdom pyramids where the last chamebr is above the others. You walk in until you are physically prevented from going further so you are both very close and very distant from your resting pharao.A genius and quite simple idea and design.
I agree there is a theme of public/private separation in the substructures.
@@HistoryforGRANITE
Closing the ascending passage with 15 tons of granite blocks. How did they do it?kzhead.info/sun/hdlre5WacHusg5E/bejne.html
If I had designed that junction, the concealing limestone would also have been tapered to fit when placed in from above, and finished flush with the rest of the top of the tunnel. So I assume the builders would have done the same. Are you aware of the idea that AlMamun dug his tunnel to get something out, rather than as a way in?
I will make a video on the robber’s tunnel that I’m sure you will enjoy!
This..
@@HistoryforGRANITE yes please!
The movie site: smart observation.
Thank God someone has a brain around here!! There is no way that the caliph Al mamun blindly dug a tunnel that ended exactly were the ascending corridor and the descending corridor meet up. I’m thinking he found a way to get in using the original entrance under the Chevrons. Then once he found what he wanted to take out he realized it was too big to remove on the angle that the descending corridor makes to exit the pyramid. Does he dug out his own exit to remove this item that he was trying to take out the great pyramid. Of course the caliph never spoke about what he removed in any of his ventures because he didn’t want to look like a thief stealing treasure.
Makes you wonder, who was the first person to say, "I need stone for my project. Hey, there's a big pile of cut stones sitting there and no one is using it..."
The best explanation for how the ancient Egyptians were able to build such massive structures in such a short time is that they built on top of an existing structure. This doesn't diminish the abilities of the Egyptians but it would help explain how they were able to complete the huge structure in 20 - 30 years time.
Closing the ascending passage with 15 tons of granite blocks. How did they do it?kzhead.info/sun/hdlre5WacHusg5E/bejne.html
Is there a site at Giza which models the layout of the interior corridors? I heard there was north and east of the great pyramid.
Love everything you put out!
Very professional. I like your work!
Excellent reasoning. I doubt very much there are chambers yet to be discovered. I have spent many hours alone inside the GP, the interior architecture is so spectacular it is highly unlikely that it is all a decoy for treasure hunters.
Fresh and interesting topics, great narrative and visuals, I love it man. Great stuff
All this needs is 40 + minutes long videos.
@@pittypatterputzzler5311 honestly i think 20 minutes is perfect
Very good Chanel !!! Looking for more content.
Have you come across the work of Joseph Davidovits from the French Geopolymer Institute? Definitely worth looking into IMO. Provides the easiest solution to the problem of quarrying, cutting, transporting and lifting large stones, at least for the limestone. It is also the only way I can see of building with polygonal masonry that makes any sense.
Check out ronwyatt he has a good explanation as well
The fact that the Stone of the Pregnant Woman exists as it does dismisses the idea of geopolymer used. Besides, it's not possible to make geopolymer blocks that are that big, and to create geopolymer blocks you have to grind all material to a very fine powder first.
It is a machine that sends ionization energy into the Atmosphere to bond the 02 and C02 ions to make H20 (see:jacobs ladder)...
Looks like a big ofen to me
I agree with you on everything except the idea that the notches were for a ladder. I'm looking at that diagram and I just can't fathom any reason why a ladder would be mounted in the center of the passage and not at the bottom. Such a ladder would be in its own way. Also the fact that the notches are flush with the bottom of the blocks seems more than mere coincidence.
Maybe it was a thin facing slab. It looks like it would support itself if one edge was inserted first then slid to lean against the other side. There may be a missing lip.
Great work as always
Chisel rock for the placement of a ladder?? This cannot be the real reason. More like a main stream archeological explanation. You usually have much better explanations. Thanks as always.
I do like your written in stone (or lack thereof) approach and enjoy your narration. Stone, paper, papyrus, clay or the stars if it fits and supports the single set of events that constitute the past it is golden if it doesn't fit it may be fiction or the place it does fit hasn't been discovered yet. Five hundred and some moons ago I read Zecharia Sitchin's "12th Planet" since then I've read most of his books. In my humble opinion chapter eight "The Pyramid Wars" and chapter ten "The Prisoner In The Pyramid" of Sitchin's "The Wars of Gods and Men" would row your boat or rock your boat, it may be you've already read this book in any case cheers and keep up the good work!
Thanks for the reading tip. $7.99 for a new copy on Amazon.
Sitchin basically wrote science-fiction and he has been thoroughly discredited.
@@mikeheffernan Hi Mike, the only fiction book written by Sitchin that I am aware of is "The Lost Book of Enki" . Please inform me of who you think discredited Sitchin and if they did so the evidence they used to accomplish that. Cheers.
@@lanzlocz Google “Sitchin debunked”
around 4.35 mark you suggest that beams were angled slightly untill they could be pushed into the notches as your diagram shows. In that scenario it would be hard to plug up the void within either side of the notch as there would be a gap where the beam would slide back and forth through? What use do you think these had? Even with the Gap or do you think these were filled up? Do you have any evidence to suggest they were wooden beams?
I keep finding videos of yours covering the granite plugs. But still have not found how they were actually installed, other than being slided into place from the grand gallery.
That video isn’t too far off.
Perhaps the notches were there to support another kind of camouflage - maybe they built something out of wood and then used plaster to cover the side of the wood facing the corridor? It would be light weight enough for the notches to be enough to hold it. I mean, think of it from someone who does want to hide it. Do you go through insane lengths to add a heavy stone in a place where there are no supports or do you try at least to camouflage it the best you can with the materials you can use? The reason the gaps are right below the plugging stones is not to be ignored. Sure no solution was likely going to last as long as stonework but who knows how long they thought they'd have to "defend" the entrance for anyway ...
7:57 That shot of the bat is perfectly timed. And hilarious.
Silly question here: how do you enter the ascending pasage if it's plugged at the bottom?
...to the end? You kept me enthralled the whole way! Just long enough, too!!!!
great channel, amazingly insightfulll
Accounts of the forced entry by al Mahmud mention a loud thud during the excavation. Interesting to check if the other two pyramids have corresponding prism stones.
what do you think of the perfect granite blocks , extraction and transportation ??
Perhaps covering the plugs, wasn't about concealment, but simply aesthetics?
Great channel, I need more videos :)
Cool Channel... I've never been to Egypt.... but seen the Peruvian works with stone... it's really not understood until you see it and touch it in person.
Great video and makes complete sense, which i find lacking in today's Egyptologists.
Base on an experiment that limestone block can be made artificially (Joseph Davidovits) can we take that prism cavity was filled by wet limestone concrete turn hard over time? If so the shallow notches is suffice to keep the block stay put.
You have not concidered metal rod's/clamps of bronze or copper,or Evan a decorative bronze plate,great content ,thankyou
I was wandering if anybody examined what is above the granite plugs, could there be another entrance onto another sloping corridor which leads to the great void ? I am speculating for the 2 way junctions could there also be a three way junction ? As these plugs would force explores or grave robbers to go around them and not above them as they may have seen in othe pyramid robbings ?
Fantastic..... thank you Very interesting 👍👍
The idea that the notches on either side of the granite block were used to support a ladder, etc before final blocking doesn’t make sense, because you could simply lag the ladder on the floor of the ascending corridor.
The ladder may have been for large, awkward grave goods that needed to take a gentler turn upwards.
@@HistoryforGRANITE no, if you put a ladder in the notches, it’s end would be halfway up above the floor of the ascending corridor. If put on the floor of it as I suggest, you could achieve a more gentle slope and a heavy object would exit near the floor, which would be better for both heavy objects and people. So the notches don’t make sense for a ladder.
The notches could have been used for mounting crystals which were illuminated by the electricity in the stones.
yeah i agree it seems from the picture the ladder / ramp would take up half the entrance , maybe the beam slot for a pully
If they simply dropped those huge granite plugs down the shaft then there would be hell to pay when they accelerated down and hit the narrow part. The blocks at the narrow passage would have been severely fractured. Instead perhaps the two notches held a barrier door that held back sand filling the shaft. This way the granite plugs could have been lowered down the shaft by slowly draining the sand out through a sand drain opening in the door. After the granite plugs are in their final resting place, then the door could be removed. The need to carefully lower the granite plugs down the shaft would explain why the solid prism piece could not be used. Perhaps the two notches were then used to hold a special prism block designed with self locking extensions that popped out when in place. For example, if the prism block had a hole drilled through it from notch to notch with 10 inch long copper plugs that fit inside each hole. Then a mechanism that pushes the copper plugs outward into the two notches to hold the prism block in place. The mechanism that pushes the two copper plugs out is in between the two copper plugs and extends out the top of the prism block through another hole drilled into the block. The mechanism is activated by pressing the prism block up against the granite block. The granite block pushes down on a lever or rod sticking out of the prism top which then presses against the copper plugs from inside the drilled hole. Once the prism block is pushed in place, the copper plugs can not be retracted without removing the granite block. The fact that the sarcophagus lids had locking mechanisms make this very plausible.
A question occurs to me: the exterior of Khufu is very irregular, were these blocks shaken into disorganization by earthquakes, and if not, how could the Egyptians create a surface of smooth casing stones over such a rough irregular substrate?
The casing stones are mostly laid upon each other, and thus benefit from the flat surface of each neighboring block. You can see in the granite casing stones at Khafre/Menkaure they would use mortar or fill to quickly bond the inner layers to them.
With regard to the 4 air shafts.Ancient architects hypotheses that the reason the 2 Queens chamber shafts end equally short of the outer edge is because the pyramid may have been built ( effectively) twice.The first one smaller and the second enlarged.This two burial chambers. This makes a lot of sense to me.
Compared to other burial chambers in Egypt, why would someone build thees enormous constructions? How long would it take to build them with the technology of the Egyptians and with the tools of that time. I do not belive it would have been possible.
@@arnehofoss9109 Yet, the structure exists.
You say the notches would not be sutiable, due to the weight of a solid blocks bearing upon it. But that demands that a solid block, rather than hollow concealment, would be required.
Is there any evidence that the notches are as old as the pyramid itself, as you assume ? They could be added any time as a support to pry or dislodgde the block, the block even seems to have some marks here.
I would hazard a guess that the 'notches' may well have been to hold a temporary, small support beam which in turn supported several posts long enough to sit on the floor below and allow the first stone to be slid down and come to rest slightly above or onto the tops of the posts, where it could be adjusted with wedges to ensure correct alignment . The timbers etc then removed after the other two stones were slid into place. An access ladder would surely have been leaned against the floor of the ascending shaft rather than a small beam halfway up the face of the opening?
At 4 mins 21 secs, why is the wooden blocking slab second from the right so large?
If I understand correctly those three plugs blocked the only access to the chambers? How do you supposed they would have been lowered into place from the outside? Looking at the seams between the bottom plug and the walls, there is no way you will ever convince me that those stones were cut with primitive tools to match each other so perfectly. One of the problems with fitting two things together like that is you need to place them together to check the fit, separate them and make small adjustments, over and over. In my experience this is quite a chore even with soft materials like wood and aluminium, let alone gigantic blocks of granite. I'm also highly skeptical of your idea about the notches being to hold a ladder. A ladder would stay put perfectly well without notches above (notches in the floor would be far more practical), and placing it smack in the middle of the corridor as in your diagram would be kinda dumb. Also, the notches appear to line up perfectly with the bottom surface of the plug, too perfectly to not have more significance than just a ladder holder - I mean how long would it take to carve out each notch, and why bother making them so nicely square, or so large? I agree that there is no reason to think the plug was camouflaged though.
Closing the ascending passage with 15 tons of granite blocks. How did they do it?kzhead.info/sun/hdlre5WacHusg5E/bejne.html
The notches are an alignment marker. Stones were proved level and designed to collapse and seal the interior, slowly..
3:33 Notches. I assume that the blocks were opened again and again, it is a form-fitting closure. in order to attach a tool, it must be fixed in the middle of the block. the tool could have held by a bar that was fixed in the notches on the left and right. the tool itself was supported on the opposite wall.
Well, the ancients were in and out of the Great Pyramid all the time and Herodotus was told that there was nothing of interest to see in there, just a wet basement chamber with rats scurrying around. Nobody saw either entrance to the chambers above in all that time. I've got to believe both were cleverly concealed, and the legend of Al-Mamun suggests that the lentil falling off the ceiling was what led the robbers to find the corridor. Also broken up stone blocks can be seen in old photos of the corridors that probably came from the concealing stones. All of that was cleared out by modern Egyptians as well as the Greek, Latin, Arab and English graffiti that were written on all the walls. I don't buy the theory that the granite blocks were just left like that because people would have suspected there was something above.
Where might I find some of the original photos of stones seen in the corridors? I am curious to see them. I hope they were documented before being removed because they were significantly informative.
@@gandolph999Look through some of the earlier videos on the Ancient Architects page at kzhead.info . Besides tons of sand clogging up the corridors, you can see there are pieces of granite blocks in 100-year-p;d photos.
@@danpetitpas Many thanks.
Off topic: in what degree does the sphinx look onto / over the nile?
Dead east
@@drum420 did you know that there are possible findings of a sphinx and pyramid near the dead sea. So you where very close. Except for the letter T. Also babylonia was a place of pre great pyramid dynasty further to the east. Was that where their knowledge came from? Who knows...
Good video thanks ✌🏴
What do you think of the slots on the benches in the Grand gallery? What could they have been used for?
There are slots, notches, and grooves and there was very likely different/multiple uses for them. It’s not an easy reconstruction, but I’m optimistic the Big Void will help solve that mystery - if we ever get a look inside.
@@HistoryforGRANITE Yeah, i also hope that the Big Void will shed more light on this matter, but i personally think that it would turn out that these chambers were used practically for the purpose of the construction of the Kings chamber with its huge granite beams.
@@Gravitacionimanevar This is a likely scenario, but the GG may have had a similar function for lower courses. So a comparison of the two will be extremely useful!
They may have been used to mount crystals which glowed bright light due to the electrical charge in the gallery.
The square slot holes along the sides of the GrandGallery floor were used for the wooden track & rollers to be placed as to create a Counterweight run up and down the Grand Gallery. It was a used to Counterweight lift all the granite for the Kings Chamber
WE NEED A MOVIE FOR THIS.
I don't get it? Why are we so sure the prism stone would have been lifted into place instead of just being dropped in before the other plugs?
Do you have a video about the desecration?
A 5 fold block-puzzle, each block 400kg so rather easy to handle for those skilled masons would be sufficient to be placed as a camouflage schism block, the 2 shallow nockholes are strong enough to hold the entire block in place. A simple mix of plaster added would cover the small gaps.
Very interesting. Question: Based on this video, why do we believe there are no more rooms to discover in the pyramid of Khafre?
I do not know of any theory or observation that indicates Khafre should have more spaces to discover, but it seems like a wasted opportunity if there are none.
Your videos are great.
Hey bro.. just the way this is set up.. couldn't it be like a pressure release valve? I haven't got my head around the setup inside the pyrimid but about 6mins deep I'm thinking this could be like a spring valve using the weight of the three blocks.. cheers 😎👍
3 granite blocks, ~50 tons each, the lowest one wedged into all four walls instead of a square seat for extra friction.. The pressure needed to move those blocks even a micron would cause havoc I'm sure. P = F/A A = 1,2m * 1,2m = 1.44m² F = 50,000 Kg * 3 * 9.81m/s² = 1.471.500N P = 1.471.500N / 1.44m² ~= 2,118,960 Pa or 21.19 bar or 307.3 psi This is for lifting them vertically, so for let's say 30° incline that's 0.33 * 2,118,960 Pa = 699,256.8 Pa or 7 bar or 101.4 psi. Edit: I found a coefficient of kinetic friction for granite on granite μ=0.43. My gut says a softer rock like sandstone as a base would increase friction. μ = f/N -> f = μ * N f = 0.43 * 1,471,500N = 632,745N Adding that force to the above pressure calculation gives us (1,471,500N * 0.33 + 632,745N) / 1.44m² = 1,332,001.8 Pa or 13.3 bar or 193.2 psi Be aware that this friction is kinetic friction, which is lower than static friction. To initially get it to move you'd need more than that again + surface imperfections + the wedgie of doom. I don't think anything below 20 bar differential pressure would break those blocks loose. So yeah, I don't think so. Fun idea though.
Nice, awesome calculation bro 🖐😎
@@jamescgardner1269 I corrected a unit mistake and added friction. It's way more reasonable now. Thanks though :)
Khufu's pyramid is "well made" but it is certainly not an example of "precision" by any definition I am aware of. Today we have a full understanding of what precision is, and Khufu's Pyramid is a pile of hand-worked stones covered with smooth casing stones. We might call it precise by the standards of the day - but not by the standards of today, where a millimetre is a massive distance.