Looting the Great Pyramid - A Step by Step Analysis
The Great Pyramid of Giza was robbed of its treasures thousands of years ago. The passage that all tourists enter today is the Robber’s Tunnel that was presumably used for plundering everything of value inside.
A common observation of the Robber’s Tunnel is that it is extremely accurate for the purposes of bypassing the Great Pyramid defenses. Legends attribute the tunnel to Al-Ma’mun in 832 AD who claims it as his work.
But does this story really hold up to modern scrutiny? Are there still clues left within the tunnel that might reveal the original method of intrusion? What does the tunnel say about who first penetrated the pyramid and the knowledge they possessed? Watch the video and find out!
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That bend is even more proof that the tunnel was dug from both sides. When you dig a tunnel that way, you want the two halves to meet at an angle. If they are parallel, they can miss each other completely. By digging them at an angle, you force them to meet (as any two lines on a plane that are not parallel must meet).
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This works if you are thinking in 2 dimensions, i.e. just the horizontal, but remember this has to work in 3 dimensions. If they worked from both sides, how would they get the vertical axis right too? The tunnel would have to start at exactly the same level to begin with and then not deviate up or down.
@@IfUfindthisURlost The vertical axis is easy. Water levels have been used for thousands of years for tunnels, some even over distances of several kilometres. And with the pyramids, it's even easier, as they could simply rely on the existing layers. When you dig in one specific layer, you're basically in 2D.
@@HenryLoenwind I had discounted them counting the layers, for while it works to stay at the same height working from one side, if you worked from both sides, you would both have to start at the same layer. I don't see how the party digging from inside the pyramid, out, would know they were at the same layer as the outside. Once in the entrance passage, they have no way of judging which corresponding layer they are at, because the walls of this passage are dressed and therefore give no indication as to the layers that run through the pyramid. (If that makes sense).
I love how everything is kept logical in your videos. I'm always hesitant to click any video about pyramid construction for fear of fantastical nonsense, but your videos are exactly what I've been looking for. Between your videos and Jean-Pierre Houdin's theory, construction of the pyramids maintains plausibility without sacrificing amazement.
I have dreamed of going Giza since I was maybe 9 years old. I was 53 in 2017 when we went to Egypt and Jordan. An awe-inspiring trip. Looking forward to watching your videos!!
Valley of the Kings 😮 .. what was that like? 🏴
The skepticism and attention to detail required to study the pyramids is astounding
i love how you turn complicated and seemingly conflicting information into an easily digestible 20 min video. Very good job :D
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I was in all Pyramids, all rooms and all places you have schown in this video. I was even in the releafing chambers, but today you blew my mind my man.
This must be even more fascinating if you've seen the structures: it's tough to get my bearing just via photos.
Oh wow you must know a lot of things and have items that are knowledgeable about things that schow you things like the leaves in the chambers
Absolutely brilliant, as always. Watched it twice already 👏👏👏👏
Awww shucks, you're gonna make me blush!
ouch called me out @19:00ish mad love
Fantastic work, keep it up! Your detailed analsis is great and I'm glad I could help you with my rare video footage of the robber's tunnel. Thanks for the shout out and directing people to my channel. 🙏 Looking forward to seeing more from this channel.
You always have very logic explanations and theories. Your level of detail searching is out of this world and i love how you always easily can find a more reasonable and more logic explanation! Great work! Keep it up! :)
Your videos are too interesting, I keep having "wait a second" moments and have to rewind to process it. Either I'm getting too old or your videos are absolutely outstanding.
I thought the same, but I think a few charts to illustrate his thought process on some of his rather lengthy chaining of ideas would better help viewers follow along without several rewindings...
Anybody else watch these videos at least twice?
I think it was first broken in to at the first opportunity, in other words at the time of the first breakdown of protective state authority for the pyramid. That would have been at the end of the old kingdom about 300 years after the building of the pyramid. I think the robbers knew the interior layout of the pyramid because the thousands who built it would have proudly passed on that knowledge to their children. I think knowledge of the pyramid's interior would have been a source of pride for every family that new it.
Possibly even before that. A number of seemingly intact tombs have been discovered empty of anything valuable, and with no apparent forced entry. The conclusion drawn there is that the very priests who laid them to rest took everything out again before actually sealing up the tomb. The oldest pyramid might actually have even been robbed to furnish the interior of the next, with the guards being the ones responsible.
@@rianfelis3156 - I've always tried to give the priests the benefit of the doubt and think that possibly they were trying to maintain a cult and temples that had gone out of popularity and sold off the treasures a bit at a time to make ends meet. They could easily have been displayed and then tucked away until required. A few centuries of that would account for a lot. Cynical, but keeps the business going. There were at least some priests trying to preserve the royal mummies by hiding them even if that was the best they could do, centuries after the Pharaoh's deaths and long after anyone else cared what happened to them. The Pharaohs certainly weren't above stealing each other's treasures either.
Knowing the interior layout is different than knowing exact tunnelling coordinates. So then after that knowledge of the exact interior coordinates of the pyramid was lost after that Time of Troubles? And still having been passed down for at most, I suppose, 300 years, would still be quite a feat! I think Khafre looted it.
It's a plausible theory, but it would only relate to the particular tomb that that family was involved with. Wouldn't it?.
@@scottzema3103 coordinates are easily followed by the grid the blocks are laid in.
Never so glad, I stumbled onto an excellent channel by accident. A great job as always.
I started following your channel just by coincidence, but I must say, I am blown away. You do actual research, investigate, gather evidence, THINK, conclude, re-think, re-conclude and make your videos. Not 2 x per day 20 minutes each for maximum attention w*oring - but ONLY when you have something to say. I've been to the great pyramid a few times, lucky enough even being the only visitor at times, and I'm 100% certain that building something like that as only a tomb would make NO SENSE. So many details in the great pyramid speak against usage as a tomb. There is still a lot going on in the pyramid behind the scenes, every time I go there, I notice that something has been dug up - closed - moved - dug some more - cleaned - fixed - etc. The Egyptians are absolutely full on it to find something major. I'm actually hoping, someone would start up a historical archive on the pyramids, displaying tourist photos over the years. So much changes all the time. And I'm sure, all those pictures would help you too A LOT, Mr. History for Granite. The locals know SO MUCH more than they share with us. Or at least search more than they let us know. God bless you, I'm following your videos with HUGE interest. Archeology in the making.
Every other pyramid was a tomb
Great Video. It mostly matched the information we were told decades ago about the tunnel being made to remove a heavy object incapable of being taken up a slope. Great introspection.
Been looking forward to this new episode. This channel is amazing 👏
Easily my favorite new channel. Subscribed. Keep up the great work.
Keep up the great work mate, all your videos are so fascinating and refreshing.
All your videos are so informative and well done. Your efforts are truly appreciated.
Fast follow up from the other video, thanks for not making us wait long, I've been excited for this one!!!!
I always look forwards to your new videos! Another excellent one!
Great breakdown. I'd heard the theory that the robbers tunnel was an exit before, but never the idea that it had been dug from both ends. Definitely food for thought!
Robbed? You'd have assume there was something to rob before claiming being robbed, wouldn't you? Moron.
From both ends for another reason. They, the people digging from the inside, would have had less material to transport outside, other wise they would either get stuck in the material they were digging, or they would have to transport it outside thought the descending corridor/entrance which in this case would be ascending...
@@roberthak3695 they didn't have to take rubble from the tunnel out of the pyramid, there's hundreds of feet of empty corridor below to dump rubble in. they already would have known the lower chamber was empty, and therrefore they didn't need to keep it accessible while removing the portculis blocks and later excavating the tunnel.
Again I like your original observation approach .. combined with infill from the historical record .. haha and the channel name enforces the idea that we shouldn't take History we have been taught for granted .. because fresh-eye approach encourages us to see what was been in front of us all along! Thank you! Insightful!
I love this channel… it’s so refreshing to listen to the narrator attempt to uncover mysteries using rational thought and logic to come up with a reasonable explanation… unlike idiotic channels like UnchartedX or Brian Forster…
Big fan,keep up the great videos,your videos are quickly becoming the gold standard
I’m so glad I found this channel. I’m going thru a little pyramid phase right now (will be in Egypt in December!).
they found something BIG that they really wanted, and did not want to brake it down and bring out pieces, it's amazing that it's lost to history or still hidden.
They probably wanted to take the lid to the carcophogus back with them, because there wasn't anything else in there. What do you think the black stone in the center of Mecca is?
@@LarsLarsen77 that is a lot of work for a heavy stone lid, unless it was Gold
@@LarsLarsen77 Isn't it part of a meteorite?
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Your channel is wonderfully insightive and inspirational!
I like these videos before i watch them. Some of the best content knowledge and information on ancient times you can find.
Thank you so much for being the logical/rational Egyptologist on YT.
See also kzhead.info/sun/dsONqNN9bYZmgZ8/bejne.html
This channel is a breath of fresh air among the vast majority of the crazy ass , lame brain, conspiracy laced, pyramid related channels. This is the place I run to first when the numbing stupidity of conspiratorial mouth breathers has got me down. Your calm logical presentation is soothing, and give hope that insanity will not rule out
Had seen a couple of your videos, although this one had me subscribing. Well done in its information and explanation, thank you for sharing.😎👍
Love your videos. Have been binge watching them for couple days now and i l love ancient egypt!
They had Indiana hawass doing the dirty work behind the scenes for VIP pirates so let's hope there's something left worth finding.
I'm convinced the pyramid was robbed long before Al mamun, who knows what was in there? At least the lid of the sarcophagus, along with many other treasures. Thank you for the video!
Your mentioning the mortar usage is interesting, I have a feeling that mortar usage in ancient Egyptian monuments is vastly misunderstood, or just not plainly unknown by the public at large; an idea for a future videos, perhaps?
Thanks for this, really interesting, I've seen many documentaries on the pyramids, but never one looking at how this one was looted.
Are there 3D models of the interior of the pyramids that we can zoom around and look at ? Sometimes I have a hard time following the diagrams and images. This channel is absolutely fantastic, by the way, loving it.
I seem to remember finding one a long time ago. I think they exist, but you may have to do some googling. Maybe ask ChatGP? Seems like a good use for AI.
Yes, and in the same size !
There's a link to the 3D file in a video by the "Lines in Sand" channel.
kzhead.info/sun/q6lsabueiISQf2w/bejne.html
Jean-Pierre Houdin made a 3D model using Dassault Systems CAD - the project named "Khufu Reborn". There used to be a interactive 3D viewer (with narration) available for download and freely roaming about the model, but unfortunately the site seems to have been abandoned. Here is a YT video that is a recording of that viewer.
The robbers tunnel entrance always left questions to me: How could a hole on the outside of the pyramid remain unseen during its original excavation ?? Your theories on different excavators at different times raises the possibilities that "Party 0" was discovered and the hole left unfixed for decades or centuries. Therefore making the hole on the outside of the pyramid less obvious as it's been left forgotten in plain sight for generations making "Party 1" less conspicuous, if they made a tunnel that joined the tunnel of "Party 0" that was known to led to the hole on the outside of the pyramid. Obviously digging signatures may now have all been lost to show if different techniques were used in each tunnel section, or at different times Thank You for raising new theories. Before your analysis, I had never thought of robber tunnels meeting at a junction point within the pyramid.
People were not allowed to be near that place so a canvas stretched on a wooden frame could be used as door and if you properly painted it then you would need modern binoculars to spoot it... You can also threw out rubble at night. But most likely the guards were also taking part in that crime. I also expect that the robbers got access to a model of the pyramid internal design, stuff like that is used even nowdays and it would most likely be left for future generations to be amazed how well made, amazing and smart was the whole construction...
@@Bialy_1 Some researchers believe that so called Trial Passages are in fact the pyramid internal design model ( not far away from the pyramid itself).
Amazing, well structured presentation. Thank you for your work 👏👏👏
Wow I wasn’t aware of the vertical dig next to the plugs.
Keep in mind that the earliest version of the Al-Ma’mun story was written about 200 years after he supposedly broke into the pyramid and there are a couple of different versions. It's debatable that it happened the way it was described. Certainly the Robber's Entrance might have predatedAl-Ma’mun. In Greco-Roman times people were inside the pyramid all the time, although only to the lower chamber and the original door was easy enough to find. There's certainly a lot of room for doubt about who got to the upper chambers first.
The best of the narrated videos you’ve put out so far
Such cool videos you are making !! I love them all :) do you have one on the sphinx ? I’ve heard a lot of cool findings from archeologists about how there is water erosion on the sides of it when they dug downward !
See the videos about aging the Sphinx by Dr. David Miano on the "World of Antiquity" channel. I recently saw one with a discussion with a geologist who said that the Sphinx could not be older than 5000BC (or was it 5000 years ago?), because the period before that was a wet period for Nile, the entire area would have been under water for thousands of years before that, and it would not have been possible to carve the Sphinx there in that period. The above one is titled "Geologist Talks THE SPHINX (feat. Robert Schneiker)." In the other one, Dr. Miano reviews and summarizes the arguments of various geologists, it is titled "The Age of the Sphinx | Battle of the Geologists."
Great new video. I like the way that you approach the topic in a forensic manor like a crime scence analysis - actually it was a crime scene!
We'll definitely circle back to who the likely culprits were at some point - there's a fun lesson in human nature and some interesting questions that arise from it.
love the channel, I've been looking forward to this video!
Love the idea of the two tunnels meeting it the middle and that's why there's a bend! Makes sense!
As I keep going through your videos I keep being amazed at the breadth of information, when we eventually visit the pyramids it will be nice to mention some of what I have learned from you and impress my family 😉 Once again thank you for your impressive work and sharing this with us, your findings and thoughts are gold to us pyramid enthusiasts.
Oh oohhhh yes you are thankful for it
New subscriber. I really appreciate your analysis and even I can understand a lot of what you say. Thanks.
Love your channel amazing content man can't get enough
Like given before the video started... Watching the video, I can say it's a very linear and clear explanation (Ockham's Razor style), plus I enjoyed the usual clarity on tables and figures (I LOVE the tables from Dormion's book and Maragioglio/Rinaldi's older text). Great job, again!!!
Fascinating analysis and you answered my questions as soon as I asked them. Great stuff. You could usefully do a review of Jean Pierre Houdin's theory of construction to see if the predictions stand up to your level of scrutiny. I can't stop wondering about that block in the wall behind the sarcophagus in the king's chamber which could be a corridor plug. If plugging material was granite, a good way to hide corridor plugs is to make the walls of the same material meaning no lines of material weakness to exploit as with the ascending corridor plugs.
When were all the Hieroglyphics stolen? The idea that the dynastic Egyptians built the great pyramid is nothing shy of stupid....
@@mrrooster4876 what on earth are you talking about?
Mr. Houdin's theories make the mistake I believe of trying to make much more of the construction techniques for the pyramid than they warrant (and he is certainly not at the top of the list when it comes to outlandishness). The muon experiments showed where the voids in the pyramid were and no amount of theorizing or elaborating can conceal the fact that the pyramid was not built with ramps, exterior or interior (except for one , perpendicular to the structure to the abandoned entry from the desert floor which was necessary to build the damn structure and haul EVERYTHING into the pyramid, from workers to big stones and including visiting living pharaohs. One thing that Mr. Houdin seems to have gotten right, and its an important discovery supported by evidence, that the Grand Gallery was the home of a mechanical mechanism that moved stones upwards and into the pyramid. One thing that Dr. Hawass and he keep ignoring is that the so-called abandoned entry was the TRUE entry to the pyramid, and until this fact is accepted people will continue to struggle with the layout of the pyramid and its functionality.
Absurd premises underlie your theory!
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Brilliant channel, great video as always
Fascinating post as always. Thank you 👍🏼
In all my years of watching this kind of content, I never realised the upwarth tunnel behind the blocking stones. I am flabbergasted 😁
These videos are fantastic. Your logical approach to this information is so refreshing and far more interesting than the typical accepted history. It is so disappointing how much modern Egyptology ignores physical evidence and refuses to consider any information that differs from their "definitive" narrative. Keep up the great work. 👍
I agree, the 'robbers' tunnel was accomplished from excavating from both directions. The clues are there. The deduction of its construction allowing for extraction of larger objects is then obvious. It is amazing that we really don't know who or when the looting took place.
Valuable large objects of gold would be a liability to both keep and get rid of- presuming it was robbers and not another later pharaoh who took it. Therefore gold and gems would readily have been broken up and carried out? Anyone would rather do that than dig through metres of solid rock, which it seems the robbers did? Therefore the object they wanted to get out must have HAD to be kept in one piece at all costs. I can think of only 1 known artefact from ancient times that nobody, absolutely nobody would want to tamper with, and that is the Ark of the Covenant. It was highly dangerous to all around it by all accounts. No one would ever break that into pieces to take out. If it was the Ark, then it would have been revered as the work of god, and possibly placed in the pyramid during construction. Just a thought anyway.
@@BottleBri / well that’s a novel theory i’ve never heard before
@@leland818 the kings chamber sarcophagus is said to be the same internal size as the Ark of the Covenant.
@@BottleBri If it was made from a solid metal then you could not chop it into pieces inside with ancient tools... also the story about liability that you presenting here is fine for modern times and kinda silly for ancient times with no photos, TV or books with printed pictures of the artefacts... Who would be able to identify an artefacts that was hiden from human eyes for 50 years?! And why not take that stuff to some other kingdom and sell it there?! And the Ark of the Covenant was propably made after this robbery took place and most likely was nothing alike the one from The Indiana Jones movie...
@@Bialy_1 it wasn’t ‘solid metal’ it was a wooden box covered in gold. And the Ark is described in the bible exactly how it was made- with the measurements etc.
Truly excellent video , you completely nailed it in every respect , much respect , keep up the amazing work , peace ✌️
Keeping your orientation and the deductions feasible in that morass is most impressive
Very informative and logical presentation. Thumbs up !
Interesting thoughts. It strikes me odd that the big prize had to wait 3 thousand years to get looted, especially as it seemed there were determined people in antiquity who were capable and many subsequent invaders and rulers who might also have a eye to plunder. To bypass the portcullis system suggests insider knowledge, the portcullis system being somewhat weird also. To lift them isn’t so tough unless they are locked. Really enjoy this channel, it’s so tough to get a grip on deep history as all we have is what they left us.
There was writing on the limestone blocks covering the pyramids, perhaps there were clues there that the early Arabs were able to pick up on, though I doubt they could read ancient Egyptian.
@@whiteeagle6370 yes my understanding to. I believe a historian, possibly Herodotus spoke of four languages visible, however I fear it could have been a fashionable addition from a later kingdom.
This man is a genius! All his videos make a whole lot of sense. Please do the Osiron & Zayat El Aryan & the Osirus shaft next!
This seems like an awesome video game idea. Digging through a pyramid without letting it collapse.
I've been anxiously awaiting for this video! Thanks very very much for this! One of my favorite subjects ever, your insights are just amazing! Just can't get enough. Have an awesome weekend!
😀 Your vid gives quite a good sense of ‘being there’, and i’m very impressed with your discernments and conclusions, but also, I can’t get away from my nagging thoughts of ‘just how much rubble, etc., has been interfered with during the past’, and also, if all the wooden ‘visitor’ steps and ramps were removed, the interiors would look very different and be much less navigable. Having worked in stone, my mind has a hard time visualising people ‘wrecking’ a structure that they’re inside of, due to the risk of ‘life’, so thanks for your similar thoughts pointing this out. Nice work, well done. 😀
Fascinating - great summary of what is known, logically interpreted.
I notice the roof of the tunnel has notches in it like they had to cut a Chanel to allow the removal of goods that where to big to fit through freely... hummm Great narration very easy to understand. AWSOME subject 👌 😀 👏 👍
Please note a portcullis mechanism is designed to be ‘raised’ as well as lowered.You would never go to the effort of installing them unless you meant to raise them .Otherwise blocking stones would be far easier and far more permanent. Also note in the New Kingdom we have priests writing instructing workers to loot burial chambers ( ie recycle the grave goods).It’s possible that was happening from the earliest times. I note in king Tut’s grave goods is a throne/ chair that belonged to his father.Wouldn’t his father have wanted that buried with him? Recycled? Gold is rare stuff!
Ha ha like flowers in churches for weddings or funerals x)
Gold may be rare but chairs were gilded with gold leaf and at only fractions of a millimetre thick gold leaf is worth very little.
@@teeanahera8949 You mean like Trumps golden commode? The weight and cost of a solid gold toilet is ridiculous. To say nothing of support underneath. Obviously guilded. Or if porcelain were coated with silver solution ( an old lab arts technique for low temp soldering to glass) then it should be posible to electroplate gold onto porcelain, glass, ceramic etc. There's also vapor deposition such as in electronics.
Makes sense that they would reuse stuff. It's not the value, it's the workmanship and time. Why have it sitting there forever when it could be reused but you wonder why it was left there in the end.
Your theory simply contradicts itself... so why Tut's father chair/throne was left in Tut's grave but not in his father grave?! Tut could have this throne/chair from his father or it was a memento of his father that reminded him of him... Its to easy to forget how long ago that was and for how many generations this system worked fine before it colapsed and robbery was easy...
Outstanding video as always. Thank you so much for producing such high quality and thought provoking material.
Thank you for making all these videos to the end👍
I can't get enough of these videos
tomb robbing continues until this day, they are searching and robbing them as fast as they can find them
The graffiti and trash being littered is just as infuriating to me. It’s crazy to see graffiti inside and outside the pyramids even in the 1st photos of it, the same goes with some very historically significant places in Israel. Some of the graffiti almost certainly comes from the locals who grew up around these magnificent places which is crazy because you’d think they’d be the ones with the most respect for the place.
As we speak they are digging into the hidden chamber above the kings chamber.
But not digging encourages more homosexual special rights. Should diggers stay in Mexico ?
The dead can't take it with them right?
@@Icehax1 got a source on this?
Awesome analysis.
This is fantastic information. When my time machine finally comes online, I'll know exactly how to rob the pyrimid. I never take my. . . . history for granite.
Fascinating story! I truly wish average adults were able to organize their thoughts and present their arguments so briefly, cogently, and succinctly.
Many thanks!
Perhaps it was not actually looting but Government work crews performing state sanctioned reaquisition of Royal valuables. Would it have been possible for robbers to break in unnoticed with thier digging equipment and obvious tunnel rubble. Maybe there was a statute of limitations on tomb valuables? Really interesting channel, thank you!
Brilliant deductive reasoning for the construction of the robber’s tunnel if the looters were indeed concerned about maintaining the integrity of the artifacts instead of simply stripping off the gold.
Or maybe the artifact simply couldn’t be broken up? I can think of 1 ancient artefact known to have existed that nobody in their right mind would try and break up- the Ark of the Covenant. That thing was a liability to all around it. But if you really wanted it out of that pyramid, you would put teams to work hacking the corridor larger rather than trying to take it apart! Also they say the coffer in the kings chamber would have fitted the Ark nicely.
I've seen several of your videos now, & I'm now a fan. You won a subscribe from me. Great work
Wow. A great topic. I haven't seen a video like yours before. A ++++
its like listening to hamilton's pharmacopeia but this shits so much more interesting than listening about drugs i'm not actively doing lol
Why were the pyramid corridors only 1 metre high? Surely this would make a funeral procession into a farce? There must be a reason for them being so short? Maybe the treasures too large to get through the corridors were placed into the pyramid during construction? Anything at all that was too big to go through any of the corridors would NEED to be placed inside during construction, because it certainly wouldn’t fit through afterwards. The small size of the corridors has always puzzled me. It would certainly make it a huge task for anyone, to get something ‘out’ from inside that was too big for the corridors. From a security standpoint that makes sense. The rooms are large enough though, to keep large items in. But once the pyramid was built around them, look at the absolutely HUGE task of digging the robbers tunnel to get something very valuable out. Months of work by two teams of men no doubt. Yet they did it. They had to. Whatever it was couldn’t be ‘broken up’ like gold etc but had to remain in one piece. What could that be? Well I know ONE ancient artefact that did exist and no one would want to tamper with AT ALL, and that is the Ark of the Covenant. You certainly wouldn’t want to be tampering with that.
This PROVES they were not tombs.
I always find the looting methods of the Pyramids just as fascinating as the original construction methods. They would have been robbed a few centuries after being built, with inside knowledge. This explains why the Romans found nothing when they went in the Great Pyramid. The Romans would have reported it, if they found anything. The Pyramid burglars were very clever in the method they used. They had inside knowledge from ‘loose lips’ or original drawings. This must mean there are no more undiscovered chambers, because the original burglars would have been in there like a rat up a drainpipe.
a good robber finds nothing.
@@makomichael this
@@makomichael exactly....muon scans indicate high probability more chambers and I believe true I believe there is a hidden access to a chamber in kings chamber and one near original entrance and possibly in the well shaft area
@@makomichael It seems like the front entrance has never been excavated in modern times. I believe there’s a reason the ancient robbers decided to leave the original entrance alone. It is probably a booby-trap for unsuspecting looters.
@@Dallasguy1972 No treasure, no tombs, no mummys, no hieroglyphics, nothing like this has been found inside the great pyramid. The reason why, its a machine way older then the egyptians who just stumbled upon it. The chemical residue left inside the kings and queens chambers show its not for storing a worshipped leader. A simple vid on this iskzhead.info/sun/i7ltaaqLgKpmkp8/bejne.html Does a really awesome job showing its not what mainstream says it is.
The Al Mamun corridor is a narrow corridor built in 2500 BC but later enlarged. The internal architecture of this pyramid is probably technical. Sincerely jmc and bonjour from France.
Isn't the reason looters didnt attack the granite directly but went 3 meters down is because they were afraid that the granite may smash them and block the descending passage forever...
Presumably you could attack the side above it with minimal fear of dislodging it accidentally. What if it was only 1 meter or less of granite? Then you'd probably just want to get it unplugged. You also could prop the granite plug up with a few wooden beams if you were truly concerned.
easier/less dangerous to go around/past them
Very refreshing to see someone who's actually a relevant expert, weighing in on these issues. Keep up the great work!
One thing that gets overlooked... Do the tooling marks look like they where going in, or going out?
Clearly on the outside mate 😂😂😂
Grabbing popcorn now! This will be great!
Thanks again 👍👍 I do remember thinking to myself it seems wide for a entrance tunnel
Someone may have found a depiction of the original design or a type of ancient map showing the tunnel entrance. There is clearly a different type of building hidden behind the structure of the pyramid!
Almost first. Great channel. I upvote before watching.
Fashionably late.
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Fortunately your vids are 500% better than the name...Great work, thank you
I would love to see a video giving a history of all the "restorations" that have been made (when, why, how), additional digging (like how the interior robber's tunnel you mention was expanded for visitors) etc. It could even go as far back to the New Kingdom and what evidence we have of renovation then but especially I"d love to see you collect and talk about all the more modern changes made together and see the patterns of reasoning/motivation etc and get an idea of how much damage this has caused, or what parts of it, if any, were actually good or necessary in some way. You have probably covered a lot or even all of it in other videos but I feel like having it all in one place could be a useful thing toward a philosophy of history/restoration. There is a path to be walked I'm sure as allowing access to the Pyramids has aided in getting funding etc but there is also a destructive cost to that. Then there are the seemingly totally unnecessary "restorations" that attempt to recreate/rebuild something the "restorers" didn't even have certainty that they understood. This is my first comment but I drop into your channel a lot. I was actually only vaguely interested in Egyptology and that more from a standpoint of sociopolitical structure and culture around the times they were made, but your videos have made me learn about and consider questions of engineering, masonry, etc that I never would've thought I'd find interesting (and these things actually reveal clues about the sociopolitical structures and culture as well). I most love you willingness to both heavily criticize totally groundless and fantastical claims of fringe researchers while still acknowledging that even people operating under extremely mistaken notions can collect and provide evidence or ideas worth considering in a different context. So much of archaeology and even anthropology and social history etc make the mistakes of assuming people who believed absurd things were totally unable to contribute anything. It's a strange notion given the fact that ancient people themselves believed a host of things we know have no real connection to reality and yet were capable of feats and understanding both that in some cases teach modern minds some things. Surely a person that believes the Pyramids were built by psychic bigfoots could still make an insightful comment about how the masonry is different in one room than the other, for instance. I also love your willingness to admit how flawed and biased some of the prevailing views in academia can be as well. Whole dominant and respected schools of thought in so many different areas of history and science have just been dead wrong and harmful with their wrongness and we need to acknowledge that while still strongly considering their evidence and adhering to scientific and self critical methods of investigation (and not just saying "all opinions are equal maybe it was bigfoots")
When you right a book I will buy it.
I say the robbers tunnel was set there during construction. No one can randomly burrow an hole in that perfect path of angle to where it meets the ascending tunnel and meet perfectly. The lower face of construction is so big to know where to tunnel exact to that point of meeting the ascending passage.
Isn't it observable by the markings in or from which direction the rocks in the robber tunnel were chipped/chiseled to determine single or double approach?
great video once again. Always watch till the end
Great commentary. Thanks for sharing.
I'd say most tombs were looted not a thousand years or even a hundred years after a burial, but more like five or ten years after.
While this is a wonderful video, like all of yours, it is more than a little melancholy seeing how the robbers got past everything to loot the pyramid, and I suspect destroy the mummy of Khufu . Just wish that one Old Kingdom royal burial was left intact . Still, it is fascinating, to see how this was done, and I salute your efforts, trying to figure this out . I also like how you steer between the more “speculative” people, and the more pat explanations of some Egyptologists . I’ve been interested in Egypt since I was a kid, and watching your videos, I am learning things that I never knew . Thanks !
It is not obvious to me that any mummies were ever present in this pyramid, or any pyramid
The "Great Pyramid" was never a tomb & it was not built by Khufu. It is a form of energy generator. It is likely way older than 4500 yrs. All Egyptian Royal tombs are full of illustrations & hieroglyfics depicting the life of the entombed & the journey to the afterlife. There are none in any Egyptian pyramid.
@@carolcamp4828 Then we can reasonably expect to find considerably more evidence for the devices the energy was used to power. Tell us when you find some. That would be considerably easier than a study of the magnetic alignment of the dust particles in the loose-fill between the stones in the pyramid itself. That presumes the power generated was electricity and the magnetic persistence of those same particles has not changed since the power source was shut down. But why stop there? That same effect would (maybe) be seen in the ground around the pyramids. Anything other than N-S and you have a clue. I read several articles that suggested that the underground arrangement of the underground tunnels was a giant ram-pump. Another good example of something that looks like something that isn't and never was. The lack of hieroglyphics mean what exactly? Remember that Egypt fell to the Arabs around the year 620. And they were Muslim in the most enthusiastic form. The images of living things would have been an anathema to them and the complete removal of all they could find would be an act of faith. Similarly, ostentatious tombs would (still are for some) something to be avoided so, the removal of the pyramids incumbent would have been seen as perfectly normal. That much has not changed: Khorsabad, The winged bulls at Nineveh, Mosque of The Prophet Younis (Jonah's Tomb), Nimrud, Mosul museum, Hatra, Mari, Tell Ajaja and Tell Brak and many more. Cemeteries were also routinly despoiled where the graves did not meet strict Islamic standards. All that in the past 20 years alone. Do remember also that there was even an attempt to dismantle them entirely, not just for building materials but, because they were considered unclean.
@@carolcamp4828 Have you been hitting the bong?
Nothing wrong with plundering graves, a grave is merely an extension of man's narscism and inability to cope with the fact that life ends one day, in this particular case at an unfathomable scale. It is unfortunate that we still collectively form a circle jerk around any form of "royalty", ancient or modern. The pyramids, as grand as they are, were nothing more than monuments to greed and manipulation of masses through religion and legislation. Khufu himself was almost certainly a power hungry egomaniac, so it's quite fitting his grave was probably "plundered" by the priests who laid him to rest.
I always wondered about those holes soooo fun this vid THANKS>
Very good research. Very well done. Thanks again.
Good video. I was wondering if there were any tool markings in the tunnels that might indicate directionality of progress to support the theory of working from 2 ends and meeting in the middle.
It's a good question, but with so much enlargement and renovation over the centuries you would need a very comprehensive examination to be confident in the analysis.
@@HistoryforGRANITE As you said in the video, it is a reasonable presumption that over the years any enlargement of the original looters' tunnel was done by lowering its floor, leaving the roof as originally excavated. To do otherwise would have been foolishly reckless. Even a very quick examination of tool marks on the roof should therefore be quite telling of the directionality of original excavation. Comprehensive examination might not be necessary to confirm your directionality theory.
@@HistoryforGRANITE Has anyone ever thought on why only Khufu's and Menkaure's pyramids display 8 sided construction but not Khafre's?!!... can it give some clues on their constructions methods?!!
@@dravidakumar1697 I studied this in engineering school - the facets on the four sides (creating eight surfaces) would have acted like a brace against the weight of the stones and harden the structure against earthquakes as the faceting would apply symmetrical forces on the structure. Good question as to why only two of the three Giza pyramids utilized this approach...