The Entrance Vault to the Great Pyramid and ScanPyramids corridor explained
The enormous gabled chevron blocks above the entrance to the Great Pyramid have confounded explorers and researchers for centuries. The purpose for this Tura limestone saddle vault ceiling has seemed inexplicable, because the corridor below doesn't use them to relieve weight from above.
In 2016 the ScanPyramids research mission shocked the world by announcing the detection of a hidden corridor-like space behind the chevron blocks that sit above the entrance. Egyptology has not yet fully investigated this phenomenon, nor given a realistic explanation for its existence.
In this video we meticulously reconstruct the partially destroyed Entrance Vault to determine its original design and a likely purpose for its construction. We then connect the ScanPyramids corridor to the Entrance Vault for a complete analysis, and peer back into time to determine what the Old Kingdom Egyptians were really up to.
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Woah, you called it a year ago. How amazing we got to actually see some progress on this long hidden chamber, in our lifetime. Great content, man!
The chamber has been known for many years but Zahi Hawass tried to censor it and largely succeeded, he was/is corrupt and unscientific.
Duh it was eventually gonna happen stupid lol
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I dispute that
Na Bolivians pumapunku is absolutely ridiculous
@@russianbot8423 LMAO 🤣
Hahaha I love that. It’s so true
Wow, I just binged on every video you have! ~ Absolutely top-notch in style, graphics/pictorials, intelligent flow, delivered concisely! The presentation draws me in from start to finish. Your in-depth, keen-insight analysis is highly appreciated. I have watched every video on Egyptology out there and yours is the best, (for fact junkies like me lol). I have liked and subscribed and can't wait for more. There are many more pyramids and archeological sites to choose from and I trust you will give each one the attention you have thus far. Your pick sir ~ Hats off and regards
Agreed 100%.
Endorsed
It would be interesting to see an FEA model of the Pyramid, where every block is modeled as thousands of tiny blocks pressing against each other, slightly deforming under pressure and temperature. Finite Element Analysis of the chevron structures, corbeling and tunnels might give insight to design subtleties and choices of stone
good Lord, finite elements... I'm taken back to my college engineering analysis class
This is the most complete explanation of the entrance I have ever seen and heard! I congratulate you on this presentation. I'm so glad I found your channel.
The gatekeeper's worst fear is upon him that non-invasive science and open-source hypotheses can thoroughly refute his dogma. We are nearing a new era of unfettered discovery.
Just rewatched again after looking at the endoscopic photo stills that were published. Love to see an update and I'm sure you're all over it. Keep up the great work. Thanks!
The outside chevrons are sloped inward, in case the 1st chevrons failed, the weight would push toward the area of least resistance, which would be toward the outside of the pyramid, so they are angled inward to stop the pyramid from bulging outward if the first set were to fail, because they are so close to the exterior. Having each set join at different angles would also help distribute better , instead of all the stones loading down on the same points, you would be directing the weight over a larger area. This is why they are not staggered like the queens chamber. An inspections shaft, makes a lot of sense, to be able to check the integrity of the highest/main load bearing casing stones.
I have to congratulate you guys for this channel. I'm an enthusiast of the great pyramid and I find yours to be one of the best out there. Really in depth info, and it's clear that you are really well informed about the subject. Thanks for the content, please keep it coming! And I really really hope they "open" this door soon. Some experts believe you only need to push the weirdly shaped stone to get to the inside (including JP Houdin). It's understandable that egyptian authourities don't want destructive actions to discover, but that would be totally non-destructive if done right.
The "weirdly shaped stone" is probably only weirdly shaped because it was never intended to be visible. More likely this entire exposed section was the entrance to a shrine for offerings at a time when the GP was still a stepped pyramid before the exterior was filled in/leveld out to become the true pyramid it is today. Therefore the "weirdly shaped stone" likely just part of assorted quarry rubble backfill, and the 'void' behind this is more likely a density differential caused by uneven backfill rather than a true void or open space. Non intrusive doesn't mean what you think it means though. Intrusive = an intrusion, it doesn't imply destructive or non destructive means. A burglary is intrusive, that doesn't mean that a skilled burglar cannot get in without causing damage.
If they do, we will never see it..
@@ddevil4980 why? We saw them drilling Gantenbrink's door, why not this one?
you,& this guy,are so missinformed,or just recite mainstream bs.. if the truth came out about why & who,,built the original pyramids,, world wide,, religion,egypt history, gov,s would fail.. history is a farce.. to protect our real history.. we are mushrooms,,kept in the dark & fed sht..
oh yeh,,plus,, destruction of the pyramids,, there allready destroyed from what they were, does it matter..
loving your work and research and putting just the facts into videos instead of a lot of speculation that's not based on the facts at hand, keep up the great work :)
Great stuff! Who would imagine that a pile of rock could create so much interest, confusion, speculation, mystery and chatter for thousands of years? We human beings are truly a strange lot. Great stuff!
@@bittasweetsymphony726 Uh, ...OK.
"pile of rock" -- if it was just a pile of rock it wouldn't be interesting at all. It's the largest structure ever built on earth, and to this day nobody knows when it was built, by whom, and for what purpose. One thing we do know is that it was certainly NOT a tomb built for the Pharoah Khufu.
@@TheManWithNoName686 With humor dear friend, always with a little bit of humor. It's called "tongue in cheek" humor.
History for granite@ I understand that such an assessment has historically caused much turmoil and heartache for the great minds that detailed such events. But I would love to hear your exact thought on how the pyramids we’re constructed, in your opinion. I love how you have so many episodes detailing each and every aspect of it’s known construction. I feel like a conglomeration of all of these episodes that described in lesser detail aboit how they came to be. I feel that your profound knowledge on these ancient structures shouldn’t be ignored and could very well help mankind understand these magnificent feats of engineering in a way that’s never been detailed in years past. Thank you for your work sbd dedication. The world owes you a great deal of recognition for your work. Thanks again. I’m just an old country boy lacking much education so you will have to excuse my ability to be grammatically correct.
Very nice article and interesting proposal. The interior structure of the Great Pyramid differs so significantly from its predecessors that the idea that some design verification would be desirable is certainly plausible. It is rather curious that nothing like the ascending corridor was ever attempted again - it is unique.
Wow....would love an update now the news is 'official' and endoscopy has been completed.
I really love how you use real measurement numbers to suggest the varied configuration a passageway would take. Drilling into these structures need to be done with great care so as to not compromise future research with even newer theories. Of this amazing structures.
Would be cool to see a picture of the pyramid from a basis of the stress on each individual block, seems it was takin into maximum importance to the builders, like they had a high awareness of space, intention and its properties
I genuinely love how diligent you are to be as detailed as you personally can and how you carefully word things... It's good because thats what we should always do, but also gotta do it cause of the trolls and ones kinda like them who I can tell that you know theyre gonna be coming at ya from all angles in the comment section.
I welcome anyone to give their opinion, so long as its reasonably on-topic and not just pointless flaming. I'm trying to push the analysis forward with reasonable caution. It's a delicate balance of keeping things interesting, citing evidence, and questioning assumptions.
Exceptional video! I've been wondering about the latest on this project and this was quite a deep dive into the subject. Great work! Also my History for Granite shirt fits great! I got it in purple and I've been wearing it on live streams from time to time.
This just makes me so happy 😎
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Thank you for your videos. I think your work is very excellent. :) Something I don't think I have seen anywhere is a good primer on the evolution of pyramid-building and monolithic architecture in Egypt. Most videos everywhere, as here, seem to focus mostly on the Giza complex, as if those are the only pyramid structures in existence, and ignore the foundations of understanding that start with mustaba, then Djoser & Imhotep, where the lessons learned there are forgotten until Sneferu picks back up to reinvent, and refine the basics with several pyramids, from where we get near continuous pyramid building until the practice fell out of favor.
It's amazing how precious they are when someone else wants to drill a tiny hole, but do the most destructive investigations themselves.
Your corridor was discovered for real now, congratulations.
Wonderful stuff, very well done. Humans love a mystery, and the monumental architecture of the ancient Egyptians provides many of the most fascinating mysteries of the past. The almost unimaginable investment of human and physical resources they put into their structures boggles the imagination. They surely assigned immense importance to these structures. Revealing and understanding this importance is one of the great challenges we face in our efforts to understand these remarkable ancestors.
It's so nice to watch this, based in common sense and logic. So much about Egypt on youtube is based on theories without a real explanation of why and basically adds shade and conjecture for the sake of views. This is a really compelling case.
Great in-depth breakdown on some of the architectural features of the GP. Thanks.
An excellent and concise video. Thank you for bringing this to us!
Found this channel recently and great work man, love the effort and investigations in such details and keep up the good work, cheers
Excellent! I watched all your videos so far. Thanks for doing these. I think you are making important contributions to the field. Congratulations.
Thanks, I appreciate your encouragement!
I started watching this guys videos like two weeks ago and then crazy pyramid news is released. I was well prepped.
Hi Higgy, I think the 'notched timpanum' is actually an ancient (before records were made)remnant of exploratory works to determine whether or not there was a passage behind the saddle blocks. Only specific areas of stone were removed, revealing the untouched blocks behind, and the corners of the timpanum were left unmolested, presumably to prevent the above weight causing a catastrophic failure. I assume that it was the initial work to try and find the entrance passage, and that upon deciding to down tools, that efforts were made to reveal the true known 'entrance vault'.
The notched timpanum could only have been made before the outer chevron layers were added. So they couldn't have possible been used for the removal of the outer layers for exploration. But the notches do look too imprecise to have been made by the original builders tho...
The descriptive terminology of construction has really helped in this issue. The presentation and narrative commendable. I am left to consider the collaboration of natural products with that of the distribution to the force of wieght and proportion in these reveals. A mechanical Engineering feat the knowledge of which for myself and the uninitiated is yet to be discovered.
@@locryStudios I think he means that what you think is an architectectural design is actually damage to a normal lime stone block in an attempt to find the entrance
@@locryStudios A simple notched block sat atop and between the extant notched blocks would be able to be managed to allow or prevent rope movement/slippage, and would be the first aspect to be removed forevermore.
@@locryStudios What do you mean? Look at the outer chevron blocks and you’ll see the lower surfaces of the two blocks don’t even join up. Also look at almost every structural ( non veneer) block. There’s gaps all over the place.
Very insightful that the tunnels in these pyramids were built low in order to make it difficult for their items to be removed, and also to prevent a thief from gaining the necessary leverage to destroy blocked entrances, while the servicing tunnels were built at a normal height for the exact opposite reasons. That never would've occurred to me, but once you hear it you know it's true. It's insight like that that really gets me engrossed.
You think aliens had that on there mind could be right. Wait till they find ufo out of petrol up top
Ancient Architects was right. This channel has intelligent, well informed and keenly observed insights, logic and deductions.
Thank you for creating this video and helping us to understand more of mankind's ancient history
I think they made the outer chevrons more angled because it was more aligned with the outside of the pyramid. Also, the pressure from above decreases when going more towards the outside so they can be more flat!
I am a contractor and have been one since 1988 common building practices caused me to wonder how many arches they built this thing with and how high the arched go in the pyramid cause it’s all hidden you can’t tell what it’s built like I think it’s would be amazing to literally disassemble one of them and then rebuild it.
Ill call the boys and well get right on it
Basically we can’t because we don’t really know what’s inside there other than what has been mapped. There could be hundreds of caverns we don’t know about. We don’t know what we don’t know and the Egyptian govt isn’t going to let us look for decades at least
A very instructive video of the Entrance vault of the Great Pyramid and Scan Pyramids corridor. Thank you for the detail.
I sure love your videos. Came across them this week. Have started from the first and now watching all. Thank you and now following.
keep making them I'll keep sharing them I am truly impressed with your skills as a producer
Rewatching again and patiently waiting for your video sir. Thanks
Your work is so good. I can just get absorbed in my imagination thinking about how they were working, what they were thinking. Just great.
Magnífico! 👏👏👏 Este es el informe más serio que he visto sobre las pirámides!
Thanks for this! Now I can model the ship inside. May you make more contents like these.
Even if the void is a weight relief design element, it will also be a super pristine time capsule. Maybe the last guy in dropped his phone:) good stuff
That wouldn't be too far from the truth, when exploring one of the shafts from the queens chamber the found a ticket that was from the 60s I beleive if I'm correct. It shouldnt have been there at all, they also found a chipped out area close to the ticket, making people beleive thebshaft has been accessed atleast once before the robot explorations
Be an old Nokia - down to 6% battery by now
Voids do not relieve weight at all. The chevron stones exist for that purpose, but they only divert weight, which is why they need to be thicker and larger. It's not even certain that it is a voide at all - the muon scan only reveals a density differential to the surrounding stone work. This could be explained by uneven back filled rubble, sand and mortar used to fill in a space as his been found in other 'voids' within the pyramid.
It is a disgrace that the Egyptian authorities will not let scientist explore the undiscovered Chambers, it is a crime against archaeology.
@@philb8566 LOL. Such an underrated comment, yet so true as well lol
Im currently going through all your videos from the start and I’m hooked. You have a new subscriber and huge fan of your work in me. Do you have any books on the pyramids that you would consider essential reading? Im always curious for more information. You’ve mentioned books in your previous videos and wasn’t sure if you would recommend getting them. Any info is appreciated. Thank you for all your work on this fascinating subject! ❤
really great video and in-depth knowledge of the subject. I fell on this by accident and i hope i fall on these kind of well informed videos more.
It is mind boggling that this amazing construction was done so long before calculus, computers and modern technology. Huge props to humanity's desire to overcome obstacles... and a reminder how sad and undeserving of existence our species has become.
Actually, no. It was built in the last nova cycle, 15000+ year's.. They lacked for nothing
@@richardscathouse Sorry, but I have no idea what you are talking about. Are you sure it was my comment you meant this response for?
@@the-trustees Conspiracy nut. Don't worry about them.
lol what he is saying, is that they had the technology needed as they were built before the younger dryas. plus you don't need calculus or a computer.
@@everythinghate666 Nobody ever said they NEEDED calculus or a computer. That they had neither makes the accomplishment that much greater. Toi bad the ones who built these structures never tried to convince their rulers that god(s) were unnecessary... or maybe we'd now be a species that doesn't deserve extinction.
And finally they made the endoscopy to find a chevron ceiling. It just happend yesterday.
I am absolutely glued to this channel.👍
Great analysis, easy to grasp with good visuals, thanks, well done
So Mr granite, how many views are you getting now after the endoscope reveal? I commented this on your post earlier and after rewatching this I have my own new observations. 1. This 'passage' doesn't look like any other pyramid passage I've seen before. 2. This doesn't look like it was decorated nor were the stones dressed so I assume it serves some kind of utility. 3. It seems relatively undisturbed. I don't see any clear breaks or debris lying around that would indicate that vandals broke it. 4. It looks like there is erosion happening in here, most notebly on the right where it appears to be a channel had formed. 5. I'm starting to think the passage was much bigger during construction and was filled it once they no longer needed the big space to move large material inside. Then it was made smaller. The blocks were angled inwards to stop this 'plug' from pushing outward and downward toward the north. I would lean a block inward to stop something from pushing the other way. Perhaps it even provided access to move the granite plugs in place or get the people out. Either way, I'm still looking forward to your next video on the subject.
The entrance vault seems quite similar to the hieroglyphic sign Aa5, according to Gardiner's list. By the way, group 'Aa' is called "Unclassified", although it is an "architectural element". Grammars of Middle Egyptian describe the sign as phonogram «Hp» or ideogram for «Hipt» "oar", but also it is found as determinative in words meaning “hide, concealed, etc.”. Anyway, thanks for this video.
Keep up this level of work and you will surely be rewarded. Thanks for the awesome videos
Brilliant video. Thank you for your contributions to this amazing structure
I like your prototype theory. So far its the only explanation that fits all the facts even if its not my favorite thing should it be true. I like the chevrons being a nice entryway trim as they look like at first glance. I always wondered why they would be concealed, maybe it was open for a while then concealed or something like that which suggests some more public role for the structure during a heyday and i really like that idea.
Yeah maybe it was a training area for apprentices to learn the techniques. Or a highly visible decoy entrance (during build) to distract enemy spies/future looters.
Absolutely superb presentation. The subject of the Great Pyramid's original entrance has long fascinated me. \ To think that When Caliph Al Mamoon first broke in, the actual entrance was not visible at all from outside.
Excellent explanation of the design and possible chamber located above the entrance. I really enjoy your explanations based on what makes logical sense of evidence in front of you. I have a interesting thought on the possible chamber above the entrance tunnel. If I was to hide a secret passage either for construction, setting traps or other valuables I would hide it behind a false front. Knowing there will be some indication of where the front door is as intruders dig around they would stop once a chevron is reached. It indicates a ceiling. By placing the chamber behind rather then below the chevrons it would remain hidden.
This was an absolutely fascinating and entertaining video. Thank you so much.
I think the entrance stones lean inwards,because the shaft slants downwards toward those giant stones,and likely they are roof slabs fitted one against the next ,exerting weight down and outwards,which they worried about.the other possibility is that there was movement of the chevrons towards the final completion of the piramid,and the slabs behind had cracked and collapsed into the inspection space(unfixable with whole piramid built on top,and the finished 3rd 4th and 5th chevrons,were an attempt at bolstering inwards a failure (unfixable) within).just a hypothesis at this point,but logically it's a feasable internal repair attempt ( :
That was more or less the impression I had. If the shaft was built for access to get items easily into the pyramid during construction, once they have finished using the passage they would have blocked off the entrance. Then laid the slanted stones as a brace, that way when they build the structure of the pyramid over the top of the entrance, it would load up the sloped roof and they were worried this might cause a slip.
Fascinating video. I love these pyramids. It’s a shame that you can’t just go and easily visit these sites without getting constantly hassled by locals trying to cheat and rip you off.
Yes, or visit Italy to see great art, only to be constantly concerned about pickpockets and vendors trying to jack up prices by 1000% for tourists.
Business is business! Camel ride, anyone? These locals all have several wives and many children to support.
At least they are not handing out hammers so you can bust off- a piece and then charging you for the peace you broke off
Indeed! Even the so-called "guardians" of the sites are just trying to bleed off as much money off you as they can. It takes a very high degree of level-headedness to manage them politely. I found that the at less visited sites - e.g. at Dahshur, Meidum and middle kingdom pyramids, they are less interested at ripping you off and more about really showing you around. If only Egypt could deal with that, they would get even more tourists and money!
No need for the casual racism against the locals, folks.
I have to rewatch it again now 👏. Great stuff. Looking foward to your new video mate.
I'm watching this video again after the release of the footage from the Scan Pyramids team and looking forward to your next video on this subject.
I think the pyramid was built in multiple stages. Initially a smaller pyramid was built, this is where the "ventilation shafts" from the Queen's chamber end. It was then enlarged by adding an outer layer. The empty space behind chevrons spans the distance between the inner and the outer layer. So does the "notch" found high on the north-east edge. Adding an outer layer was a challenge. Existing parts of the structure had to be reinforced and that's why the arrangement of blocks looks odd.
I've been under the same impression
The great pyramid is a structure within a structure, it's a technology or device and a living record all in one.
@@mindlightwave aliens man
I think the pyramids that are perfect were built by another civilization, then the Egyptians discovered them, and then built the bent pyramid along with the other sorry excuse. The shitty built pyramids are just the result of someone who just looked and thought they could then construct something just like it. They couldn't.
@@anopoabednego6173 It's possible however one feature often found inside the pyramids is the corbel arch a.k.a. false arch. It's a more primitive version of the true arch, something that one would expect to find in such case. However we should be open to the possibility that these structures were simply discovered and repurposed. Same case with the Serapeum of Saqqara. The so-called "sarcophagi" were found empty (even the unopened ones) and the mainstream theory is not convincing.
What's your explanation/opinion on the new discovered corridor ?
Prescient analysis. Thank you.
I’m new to this channel but I ALREADY LOVE ❤️ THE CONTENT AND NARRATION
huge win for you today
Within a few years sounds optimistic, but all right. I want to believe in JPH's idea that the other entrance is for ceremonial purposes and the other is for construction/maintenance purposes. If we get to the other side of the chevrons, we should find the ceremonial entrance along with additional corridors and ante chambers.
Randomly found this channel, I'm hooked
Love the analyses in your videos. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!
Came here after hearing about therecent exploration of the chamber behind the chevrons.
Anxiously awaiting your follow up video! --- I'm curious if Petrie ever suggested/predicted that the chevrons continued into the chamber, as recently revealed? And why they wouldn't be offset as you stated, if they were meant for load bearing? --- Regardless, great work!
This is a really good video dude. I just got recommended, I gotta see what else you got. I appreciate your analytic outlook on it.
I am a crusty old engineer from Australia and your explanations make sense to me.
😀 Very nice, logical presentation and well done, but for my curiosity, I can’t see why a hole for a miniature endoscopy camera isn’t the obvious thing to have done several years ago. It reminds me of ‘Ben’ of ‘uncharted X’ examining the ‘sand pouring’ holes enigma on the Giza plateau. Has someone in higher authority got a problem with finding out knowledge of these hidden areas? Thanks for all your work. 😀
Yes, there is an alternate purpose as to why they wont allow the mystery. It's called Tourism and the fact that almost any other thing in that area is not enough to draw tourists. You can see this in the fact that with enough money and the right guide, you can get yo nearly anything and buy nearly anything from those who are in the know. Any thing that diminishes that "mystery" or threatens the UNESCO status, they are not going to risk. Money talks where peoples walk!
@@Chamonix.frequently I thought so ! 👍
Todays egyptian council of antiquities is extremely conservative regarding any such archeological measures. There are historic reasons for this as over the decades, countless artifacts and ancient monuments have been damaged/destroyed by domestic tomb raiders and especially foreign "treasure hunters" from Europe and the USA calling themselves archeologists during the early 20th century. Money easily convinced the corrupt egyptian government and authorities back then to let them drill and blast their way into graves and pyramids whenever they had a hunch it may lead to a mummy or treasure. This sad chapter of Egypts history left painful marks and shall never repeat itself. So even today, especially when you're an non-egyptian archeologist, you have to come up with some real solid evidence to get the permission to drill a hole into something, especially at such publicly visible spot. Much more evidence for a truly meaningful scientific discovery is required here that justifies such an invasive measure. And a highly unrealiable and unprecise muon scan combined with some equally sketchy assumptions plus the high likeliness that its just tiny empty space filled with construction rubble.... just doesn't cut it.
Nicely done. Having watched about everything out there on the subject, one can't help but think the Egyptian antiquities ministry is covering up all sorts of things.
Book of Enoch talks of the great pyramid as an alter ,and a library to house all the writings of God . The way he explains it' s building makes more sense then some of the stories made up to explain it as a King ordered it built to be buried in..... It would take men decades or more to build .No politician then or today would have something built they could never see! All the kings where buried in a area away from the pyramids in a valley of tombs cut into the rock. .
Oooooo I am watching these in order and loving it. I also know about the recent discovery and can’t wait to watch the video on this know that we have more details!
I really respected your logical approach!
The scholarly book on the great pyramic by Peter Tompkins, makes a great deal from what is an agreed upon unit of measure that the pyrmaids builders used in it's construction, termed the "Pyramid inch," and it's application to dimensions of the pyramid with stupefying results. The First revelation in using that measure on the outer length of the base results in a number to several decimal places that corresponds to the time for a standard solar year. But more amazing still is the measure of the sides incorporating the indent found at the center of each side and resulting in a bigger number and that number, again taken out to several decimal names the time for a standard year including the extra time introduced by the wobble on the Earth's axis. and was only recently discovered with the help of telescopes and specific stars as reference points. When one really begins to study the Great Pyramid, it becomes clear that, to some extent, it was a statement by it's builders.
so,your saying, people sat around for thopusands of yrs to work out precession.. i think not.. all that knowledge was given to them by beings that are for alder than humans. WORLD WIDE. work that out maths genius. plus,, its mathematically impossible, for the moon to be there.. something for your brain to look into.." times before the moon"..
@@harrywalker968 Actually, that's not what I'm saying at all. But first, if you go back and reread what I've written, you'll notice, nowhere in any of that do I suggest that the Cheops pyramid was built by humans. Given all the data provided in Tompkin's work, I'm led to believe that either a race of humans existed over ten thousand years ago that was far more advanced than we humans are today with the only remaining example (not counting the moon), of their having been here and has survived the ages is the Cheops pyramid, or, it was built by "someone" else. I'm betting on that last one. One of the facts that Tompkins brought to light was that, when looked at in terms of latitude and longitude, it becomes apparent that the Great pyramid was located on the one spot on Earth where those two lines traverse the largest amount of land. Think of that, the one place, on land, on the entire planet where the longitude and latitude lines cover more land than at any other point. The conclusion was that, the only way to have gotten that information was from looking at the Earth..... from above. But there is far more information from Tompkins book and if someone would really like to marvel at the immense confluence of unexplained facts surrounding the Great Pyramid, I don't know of any other work that provides more researched information. And while I'm no genius mathematically, I understand enough to understand the conclusions Tompkins and other mathematicians he cited have come to when addressing the many mathematical concepts incorporated into that structure. Personally, I believe that an alien race placed that huge monument where they did to make the statement, "Someone other than you was here," that would last long enough that even the slowly evolving race of humans on the planet would, at some point develop enough to recognize the puzzle presented to us and decode enough of it to appreciate that fact and perhaps grow a bit as well.
@@harrywalker968 ...There must be a more intelligent race. Just look at your attempt to sound smart. Take a good look at it. Oh, wait, you were trying to sound like a dickhead. You were successful. No wonder you have no faith that humans developed knowledge outside of their Earthbound existence.
Will Hirsch - pleased to know some one else appreciates Peter Tompkins book. It got me hooked on pyraminds soon after it came out.
How are you supposed to measure ANY edge of the great Pyramid, to even the nearest INCH, nevermind multiple decimal places? The outer stones are all gone, and nobody knows exactly where any of the edges were
It's amazing that it took as long as it did for them to just go get an endoscopic camera and check. Why did it take them so long when they didn't even have to drill into or disturb anything to do it!
I guess some people (like Hawass) don't want all the answers at once, they need to write 10 more books, 100 more articles in Nature, so they slow down the progress as much as they can.
even in this video, he says they have to drill dude. Proposals and bureaucracy takes time, that is the way the world works, and many things are not simple even if a reasonable individual without knowledge of details think otherwise.
@@ardmate This video is a year old. Most recent reports say that the camera was fed in whiteout having to drill.
@@glenn_r_frank_author yeah but it doesnt change the fact that this is what was thought of, before it happened. Maybe it happened now because they realized this was the case, otherwise it could have taken even longer, I don't know the details but it is a possibility. It is like u get a prognosis of cancer and after a month of careful debate u decide to undergo chemo only to be told that u were misdiagnosed. No one can say why u bothered thinking over this for a month when u didn't even have cancer. This is not the same situation of course, but all I am saying is bureaucracy and proposals all take time even for the simplest things and it was not "just get an endoscopic camera and check." I am not saying it should be that way, of course not, but unfortunately it is not hard to see it happening that way for many valid or nonvalid reasons.
Because Egyptians have to cover up any proof they didn't build them. Lots of corruption.
Subbed. This is top shelf in my humble opinion. Well spoken and you follow the scientific process. 👍🏻 thank you so much, when I am more financially not in the ground I will definitely contribute. Keep up the great work!
Your kind words are the best type of gift. I love sharing my research with those who can appreciate it.
@@HistoryforGRANITE appreciated it is!
They put a camera in there today. Rough finished walls and vaulted ceiling. Level to slightly up slope as it goes into the pyramid.
Once again, an excellent video, putting your thesis in coherent, well thought out steps with great examples and sources. Is the crawl tunnel leading to the 'relieving chambers' modern or ancient and that starts at the top of the Grand Gallery? Have there been any updates from the ScansPyramid mob? I've looked at their website ( which is dreadfully designed lol) but it appears that the latest info posted dates back to 2017. Thanks again for a great video... cheers
The ScanPyramids work is ongoing, and Muon scans take months at a time for each film. So we must be patient. The tunnel from the Grand Gallery to the so-called 'relieving chambers' is considered to be ancient because it travels perfectly around the granite that only someone with knowledge of construction would choose, and there was nothing up there for a looter to go digging for.
@@HistoryforGRANITE Thank you for the reply.... greatly appreciated! 👍
@@HistoryforGRANITE Vyse and Davison extended the tunnel to the upper relieving chambers by dynamite in the 1700s
Yes, that's correct. But the tunnel to the lowest space above the King's Chamber is ancient, and it takes a path that would require knowing the internal construction.
@@HistoryforGRANITE yes
Nice. I am enthralled by the sheer meticulousness of these investigations! On problem though. I'm already sold on Matt from Ancient Architects theory that the pyramid was extended, with the the Queen's Chamber shafts reaching the outside before extra size was added. Indeed, amongst other evidence he presents, the last stone of the southern shaft is fine Tura limestone. If Matt is right, this makes the entrance vault the third saddle vault to be constructed, not the first. The measurements indicate that the whole entrance vault size as suggested by Scan Pyramids is part of the extension. So then maybe the role was to monitor the effect that the extension may have on the other two chambers. Particularly if the ceiling stones of the King's Chamber were already cracked when it started. What do you think?
I like Matt from Ancient Architects a lot, and he has many interesting ideas. I think if the Great Pyramid was expanded in size we would see evidence in the descending corridor masonry - the same way you can see it very obviously in the Bent and Medium pyramid corridors. There's also Vyse's southern face excavation which doesn't show signs of expansion either. It could be that the outer casing layer was last to be installed, but I don't think that would effect the Entrance Vault. The Queen's shaft's ending in Tura is very interesting, but it's a very big leap to assume there's an entire casing layer at that level without additional evidence. It would also be extremely complicated to install the Entrance Vault as a final step, because the infrastructure for bringing in enormous chevrons would no longer be present.
@History for GRANITE Well, I'm probably not doing Matt much justice here. But he does note more anomalies in the Queen's Chamber southern shaft as well as both King's Chamber shafts. He also mentions not able to find pictures and detailed measurements for the Queen's Chamber northern shaft or descending passage to confirm anything there, needed for any real confirmation. I don't think he is suggesting that there is another hidden layer of casing stones. Rather that the originals were stripped back and/or never completed. This wouldn't have happened for the ends of the Queen's Chamber shafts though, due to the shape of the blocks and difficulty extracting them. The distance from the end of the Queen's Chamber shafts to the outside of the pyramid is around 14m, I don't think Vyse got that deep! Also the infrastructure for an extension proposed is Houdin's interior ramp, which for the chevrons could just have been on the exterior initially. The Great Pyramid shows evolution over Medium and the Bent Pyramid, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was only very subtle evidence in the descending passage. What Matt points to in the King's Chamber shafts suggests attempts at a cleaner join than what is seen at the Bent Pyramid. Thinking about it now, perhaps the real reason for the chevrons is to reduce stresses on the extended part of the descending passage and avoid a step appearing due to subsidence. Also, if there is another entrance there, the two passages would come closer than originally intended which may also have been viewed as a weak point.
I see ,where you are going with the extension of the internal chamber's, and am very familiar with matt's masterfully imaginative geological/architectural work over the year's(will look for that show)my favourites of his were silsbury hill being a natural mud spring,and the stone henge stones being local erratic's.i wondered about the piramid's 'tapping natural spring's'and the 1000 ton stature of' sorry'megnon'not being transported on reeds/copper tubes via an aqua duct across the vast desert,but could possibly be natural local erratic's that were transported by geological processes.i am personally interested in astro archaeology in relation to megaliths marking points in time.i am very intrigued by how the predeluvian humans measured the size of the day in minutes,and the approximate size of the earth.in relation to egypt I am extremely interested in how the mathematics encoded in the piramids in relation to the size of minute's and the size of the earth as established with water clock's in Egypt,and maybe gigantic pendulums that could mark exact duration of the transit of venus in exact measurements of seconds and arc seconds.apparently the greeks "didn't" know the transit of venus in exact seconds and size and shape of the planet,and distances in space,but the piramid builders and possibly Indian builders did know
There are a lot of anomalies in the shafts, and the vertical joint in one of them is interesting but the shafts have no 'standard' design. For me, it's more interesting that the King's northern shaft has an unfinished cutting that blocks almost half of the open space! My core issue with the Entrance Vault chevrons is that they violate every design rule for them to be a protective measure. The 100% over-designed protection are the outer lintels of the descending corridor... protecting the corridor from the chevrons. It's often very hard to guess how the builders evaluated the strength of any given design, but you can compare the lintels of every other pyramid entrance corridor to see that they are anomalously large at the Great Pyramid.
Sorry just my interests,but I think the story is that the "kings"stones were broken in 50 AD by a lightning strike(I'm guessing roman times partly)and those stones might have freely vibrated emitting a constant tone,maybe moisture internally,from the extinct piramid ground water well/spring ionised the high chamber 50 tonner's,that vibrated somehow in sympathy having a certain amount of wetness and "freeness" as 50 tonne granite slab's,like a xylophone stacked up.what may I ask your superb architectural stone expertise is your opinion about this historically structural aspect of the so called relieving ceiling slabs of the "Kings chamber"being actually not structural but freely vibrating?.in accordance with an ancient myth that the piramid emitted a constant tone(100 decibel sound) across the deserts until the piramid was struck by lightning(or vandals)in 50AD. maybe this was activated by water and the sun creeping around the degrees of four surfaces of the piramid.for any stone age machine/due pond to work there needs to be some kind of internal differential between cold night air/water upon the positively charged/earthed structural stone's surface area's.its this electrical difference of a positively charged 'structural stones surface area,being exposed to the negatively charged night air or water or both that generates the transfer of water to the stones free to vibrate surface area that charged from the day's heat in the greatest ever stone pile,or conversely the hot arid air vibrates a dry ,freely vibrating slabs in the day after dowsing maybe,which could concentrate electrical charge at the apex(fire or light)and or a constant sound.which ever way,Siemens measured the static from the now defunct apex of the in the 1800s,and anything ,effect or machine beyond that requires the qualities of the stone's chemical/mineralogical electric/accoustic's,hot and cold internally and externally,and air and water(possibly batteries)
This video is hot fire 🔥🔥🔥 Can't wait to hear about the chambers when they're finally explored
Excellent content. Thanks for sharing such a great information
I thought that the Old Kingdom Egyptians did not build the Pyramids, that they were already there well before them. ?
I think most of the ancient structures around the world were already there and just reclaimed or renovated by whoever found them.
There is clear evidence of the various cultures that coalesced in the Nile Valley well before any Egyptian kingdom was established, but no evidence that anyone was building such structures before the 3rd dynasty.
Bingo. Lost Ancient civs built them. Long before Egyptians arrived.
@@natalielambert4378 Carbon dating don't real I guess
It wouldn't be too difficult to drill a narrow bore hole through the joint and pass through an endoscope. I'm surprised no one has done it by now. My curiosity would kill me ! 🙂
Yes... I hope we're getting close to this.
Why is Egypt so opposed to such explorations? It feel like they are intentionally holding discoveries back.
@@jeffjorczak I suspect it may be that Hawass doesn't want anyone else to get the glory of finding anything.
70% of the giza pyramid annual visitors believe in alternative theories. It's economically wise to keep the truth mysterious.
Thanks for the update. Very informative. 👍👍
I really like your analysis here and having binge read and watched info on ancient Egyptian architecture in the past, this was very enlightening along with your other videos on a topic I haven't seen covered much. I do want to offer some further speculation on your ideas here. If their intention was to use this construction as some form of test for this type of architecture, why would they choose to build it differently than they would later choose? Surely they could have realized an improvement that could be made after the fact but honestly, it just doesn't make complete sense to me that they would try different angles on these stones in the first place. It makes a lot more sense to me that the angle of the stones was transitioning from a weight relieving formation, to a purely visual element in eventually matching the face of the pyramid. Going back on the topic regarding the offset stones visible elsewhere, I think it would be important to keep in mind that we have a single remaining set of stones, that appear to be situated against a wall that is flat against the opposing side. Possible alternative answers could include that the missing sets could have been offset, or it being deemed too difficult to create offset stones with so many complex angles and parameters or possibly deemed it unnecessary to offset the stones for this specific location, as you mentioned, due to the much lighter load that these stones would experience in contrast to the queen's chamber. Regarding the typanum, I think its reasonable speculation that it wasn't intended as a decorative element and instead held some other necessary purpose but I don't know that I fully buy in to the idea that it was used to construct the chevrons. Unless I'm unaware, we don't have any similar examples used else where with these types of ceiling structures. This also doesn't explain the far right divot which would line up with nothing apparent here. That isn't to say that the purpose wasn't as you suggest. I'd like further exploration on this later if anything similar can be located. Lastly, it would surely be interesting to explore what happened to these large stones and why and how they were removed in the first place.
Hey! Great video production, love how you color in the area you’re referring to, much easier to follow along in sync. Did you make all the illustrations yourself too? Top notch, find a little royalty free or public domain suitable music behind it and that’s a legit documentary! I personally believe that the Pyramids, Sphinx, etc. where all there for thousands of years before the Dynastic Egyptians came along. But I like your point of view too, your research Is very thorough and you kept my interest from beginning to end, very interesting, I look forward to future content, thank you!
Thanks HFG, you've done yet another beautifully made & stimulating video for us all to ponder. I must admit, I'd never given these lintels a minutes thought I'd assumed they were just load bearing devices. One small complication if I may, if this is an in situ load testing area, why would the results be useful when there is very little load above the beams (cf the King's Chamber)? I do love the notion that the guys were just working it out as they go, sounds comforting and low-tech, like my home extension work!
I think they were mostly interested in testing if the chevrons would cantilever horizontally. Deep inside the pyramid there's no way to know for certain how much lateral force will be exerted as the stonework settles. But in the Entrance Vault they could artificially create lateral force by leaning the stones inward, and observing if that caused any cantilevering as the pyramid grew.
Your pronunciation of words is excellent. At video’s beginning, the topography that the pyramid sits atop shows a high slope. This may be North of structure. (If the gabled entrance is on North face.) That shot as camera moves over to the subject matter is breathtaking in itself.
@history for granite. Just found your channel, what amazing work. Thank you 😊
I would love to see you make a video on the incredible granite boxes of the Serapeum. In my opinion these have been completely overlooked as spiritual objects when in reality I don't believe the ancient people possessed the tools or precision to create them at all. Say nothing of moving them or placing them where they are today. They are a real paradox and I don't think we could create them, even today. Ben at uncharted X did the best presentation about them and I would highly recommend you check out his videos. Your videos and research are amazing and I think if you keep following the evidence it will lead you in his direction eventually anyway.
Ben was the first guest on this new podcast. They presented some evidence about lowering the boxes at the Serapeum at the end of the video. The 2nd episode is with a guest from another channel who has several videos about the boxes. kzhead.info
"Ben at uncharted X did the best presentation about them" He's a crank who cherry picks evidence to suit a story which keeps his foolish audience around his chennel to buy more of his merch. When someone constantly advertises products as he does it's a good idea to take what they say with a healthy mountain of salt. Same thing for Brien Foerster - they're birds of a crooked feather who denigrate archaeologists even as they profit from their work 😒
@@mnomadvfx Totally agree! I am sick & tired of these quacks bending minds against the truth. 🇬🇧
@@susannebrunberg4174 Theres 'truths' that are evidence backed & 'truths' that are made up by pure unfounded speculation!
They exist and they are as old as they say they are so there’s only one reasonable explanation. The ancients did create them. The only other explanation is that they are modern. It’s one or the other
There is another entrance vault at a different complex than any you have listed. It’s in one of Vlad9vt’s earlier KZhead videos… it’s a lot of footage to go through to find it. It has some guy with a selfie stick and he is always wearing sandals with shorts. Kind of like a modern hippie. He also seems to have paid big money to the guards cause he is always alone when they let him in to venture alone at these sites. I’ll spend some time trying to find out which site/video it was cause you did such a great job with this presentation.
Dakota of earth.
@@natalielambert4378 THANK YOU!!!!! 🙏.
@@caseyalexander1705 No worries. I just saw one of his drone videos of Karahan Tepe. Good stuff.
Could it be this one: instagram.com/p/CVANwG4gCB8/ Queen's Neferheteps Pyramid, south of Userkaf's, Saqqara
@@st.armanini9521 Thank you. I think that is the one!
Fascinating analysis.
There is one thing that really makes my head hurt and that's the sheer sizes of the stone blocks! It's all so massive and fits so snug and sometimes lacks size context. x.x
This discovery was made 6months ago by CORRADO MALANGA and FILIPPO BIONDI
This is extremely interesting to say the very least. One thing that has occurred to me Since it evidently took some years to build.... perhaps like building today some changes were made as they built it . So, some things that now seem quite mystifying may just be the results of such changes and serve no real purpose in the final build
Thanks for making and sharing the video..
Today (3-2-23) they confirmed the void size and shape. No more refuting the muon study. Amazing find