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@That_german_guy.

4 ай бұрын

Please make a video about the pyramid at south saqqara

@MM-zh8yd

4 ай бұрын

Hi, Great vid! Where do i find these 1996 photos of the interior?

“Hudjefa” isn’t a name of a king despite being on king lists, but means “missing” or “erased”. It’s likely scribes were working off of an earlier list that no longer exists, and the king names were so worn or deliberately removed that the scribes merely referenced a placeholder on their list.

@KnightsWithoutATable

4 ай бұрын

Names of kings in Egypt have been attempted to be erased before. We have evidence for this.

Matt I am glad we have you to explore these obscure and forgotten pyramids on our behalf. Thanks for all you do.

I'd never even heard of this one, so thanks for the information!

@AncientArchitects

4 ай бұрын

Thank you

Thanks so much Matt, I had never heard of this pyramid and you have managed, with very limited data, to construct a cohesive story which has painted an informative picture of this important piece of Ancient Egypt. It's a pity that modern Egyptology doesn't seem to share that view.

Great vid! That area is fascinating especially with it being in a military zone. The pit of zawyet el aryan is truly an enigma. With the tub and and all the red granite at the bottom of it. Something was definitely going down there in the distant past. Love your vids, Matt! Keep up the great work!

Thank you for presenting this. It’s a such a travesty that further research has not been done. As it stands we have no idea what can be learned or what will be lost.

Than k you for the Closed Captions. Keep up the good work.

Well done Matt

@AncientArchitects

4 ай бұрын

Thanks mate

Thank you Matt The intro music is back🎉❤

@AncientArchitects

4 ай бұрын

Ha! Mixing things up

Thanks for posting these!

Highly intriguing, Thank you Matt!

Another fascinating video that reveals as much about conflict within the field(s) as about the ancient architecture. The disagreement in measurement is odd, but less so than the destruction of an interplanetary vessel crashing because people confused American-Imperial and Metric. It might be interesting to investigate which measurement systems were used by various explorers. Some of the videos about ancient Egypt translate between ancient Egyptian metrics and modern ones, are such translations really accurate? To use your famous phrase, "I don't know." Thanks again, and best wishes for your continuing production and prosperity going forward!

This pyramid complex was used as a filming location for Howard Hawks' Hollywood epic LAND OF THE PHARAOHS (WB, 1955). He filled it with Egyptian extras as pyramid builders, showing a great shot of the workers carrying a huge oval-shaped stone sarcophagus with ropes at the bottom of an excavated area at the center of the pyramid, which was unfinished.

Thank you so much for your very important work. In fact, we need to rewrite History. Cumprimentos do Brasil :D

@AncientArchitects

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

This is new to me. I would definitely join the queue. Thanks Matt!

Best pyramid channel. Period.

@fluffbuck3t

4 ай бұрын

look up history for granite, its just as good if not better and they have collaborated together before

Thank you for paying attention to detail. I especially like the fact that I can follow, easily follow you with the Closed Captions. Keep up the good work.

Fascinating, thank you. How sad that it has been allowed to deteriorate and fall into neglect.

Excellent work, yet again. Thank you, kind sir.

I had read that the "unfinished" pyramid site nearby was being used as a garbage dump by the military. I hope that's not true for this one as well.

This is one of the absolute best channels on KZread. Keep up the great work!

no way, I was just thinking about this after listening to the History of Egypt Podcast. Which I highly recommend, by the way.

@AncientArchitects

4 ай бұрын

I’ll have a listen. Thanks

@robertpaulos1

4 ай бұрын

Can you kindly share the link for the podcast please?

@sancheeez

4 ай бұрын

@@robertpaulos1 well I replied with a link, and I even checked my post to see that the link worked, and now the post has disappeared. So I guess I can't share the link.

Very interesting exposition of this pyramid, definitely 3rd Dynasty, left unfinished. It is a real shame the Egyptian Department of Antiquities has not excavated this site.

Another excellent video. I've been watching your videos for a long time but these last few are ON POINT! I wonder if there's been a study of the evolution of pyramid building with details of which quarries depths of the cuts etc. It would seem that you could study the similarities and differences to come up with how the Khufu pyramid was built. They apparently had been building steps for a long time. As Matt pointed out a few videos ago the Khufu pyramid was built in steps, why is this not more common knowledge? it would defiantly change a lot of what's considered mystery. After a few centuries of building steps and then evolving to pyramids, it's no bugger stretch than going from timber homes 4 or 5 stories high to building skyscrapers..... and in a similar timeline. and we build large buildings in less time than a home took 200 years ago. Khufu's pyramid probably went up with little effort compared to what we are assuming it did. Also it does strongly suggest that even though there's no body it was most likely built for a king. Although I still think it was repurposed many times. And I'm still bummed it wasn't the high command led by admiral Bastet. Thats it I'm throwing away my Ancient Aliens DVD's

Surely it was finished if there was a surrounding necropolis. Surely the lack of finishing stones on site is likely because of it's position so close to the Nile.

Fascinating . as always .. thank you !!

It's tempting to speculate on the possibility of looting as the reason for the absence of clues leading to a much better understanding of the situation around the time of the construction. Surely the looting would have had a profit motive and the individual items could one by one be lost. Such a shame.

great work!

Thank you for your excellent summary and for highlighting this tragedy Matt - this needs to be made a UNESCO site tout de suite. I was at the layer pyramid only 5 days ago and have photos of an entrance or a chasm that does not seem to be in the same position as per your video. Also, not to dishearten viewers more than they already may be, but part of the site is now a rubbish dump. Feel free to ping me if you would like to look at the photos

@paulroberts7429

4 ай бұрын

no Zahi Hawass rule out any archaeology here, Edf says military base as been funded till at least 2035, pretty sad.🤭

Great video ! Just makes me wonder about how much of ancient Egypt that we know anything about .

Haha, at 10:19 I got on the video) Thanks for the film!

Thank you sir! 👍

I was wondering maybe along with others if the military presence isn’t a coincidence. I can’t help but feel someone knows more on these two important structures .It certainly is a crime to let these structures fall into destruction. Thanks Matt .

I read along time ago these layered Pyramid had sand ramps on each level during construction and Sarcopagus were lowered using sand via vertical shafts

Surprised more work isn't done, but it looks more like a mud brick pyramid melting away from a solid core.

Fascinating.

Thank you.

interesting video.

Greetings and Salutations for 2024 from Temple, Texas, USA!

@AncientArchitects

4 ай бұрын

Thank you! Same to you from cold England 🥶

Thanks👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thanks!

I was checking upon the "Unfinished pyramid" in Zawyet el Aryan and came a across this episode. Unbelievably sad how the Egyptian government deliberately destroys ancient monuments in modern times. :-( Still thanks for sharing.

It's so frustrating that things move so slowly in the world of archeology excavations. Shame about this site and the other one from the 4th dynasty. Shame shame shame. There are plenty of teams and money to complete the work on the scans of voids in the Great Pyramid and yet we hear nothing. My other frustration is the Labyrinth. Hush hush. . . They are letting it stay flooded. So much is being lost. One can only imagine. Thank you. Love your work.

Hi Matt👍

Yes, it's really a shame. I hope in the future the military will go away (I remember that also in the area of Snefru pyramids there was the same situation).

Reminds me of an industrial building or factory with store rooms.

Дякую за цікаву розповідь! Про цю піраміду я майже нічого не знав.

I'm late to the Egyptology party so please forgive what may be an ignorant question, but what's up with the extensive underground storage chambers shown on these layer/step pyramids and what's the thinking on why they aren't present on the more famous Giza pyramids?

The thing I think is not covered enough is the antechamber in Khufu I can barely find anything on it

the marble bowls had etching that didn't match the quality of the bowls looks just sorta carved in later like the black boxes in theS

@AveragePicker

4 ай бұрын

In the Serapeum of Saqqara? What? Those engravings are fantastic. But I get it, "doesn't match the quality," just means uncharted x and hancock and an advanced civilization because who needs facts when you can just look at something and make up whatever you want and can't wrap your head around the fact that we as a people have been working with stone for our entire history.

Honestly, this pyramid really reminds me a lot of some of the Mesoamerican pyramids. They have a number of five-tier pyramids, such as the pyramid of Quetzalcoatl at the Tula site in Mexico.

Its a most intriguing pyramid with much speculation of the 3rd dynasty, The problem here is the 3rd dynasty it needs deep research chronologically because to much speculation is going round in circles, there is a beautiful story here but it maybe lost due to state neglect, who builds an Army base next to a potential tourist and major historical site, Nice breakdown Matt but I think this one is lost.

@dnocturn84

4 ай бұрын

Both sites were heavily damaged and in a sorry state, even before they turned the area into a military installation. Both were also dangerous and "fragile" for explorers, scientists and visitors in general. So being "something for tourists" (or turning it into something for tourists) was never a question for the Egyptian authorities. But yes, using it for this military purpose was still a stupid choice. So many unanswered questions and still options for better future analysis were ignored. Sad.

@paulroberts7429

4 ай бұрын

@@dnocturn84 For research there maybe plenty to learn, we only have crude summaries to go off, New discoveries could still be awaiting or not, lets be optimistic dnocturn84.

@mindsight9732

4 ай бұрын

Building like that gives you an advantage. Americans ask you to move your stuff before they destroy it.

@paulroberts7429

4 ай бұрын

@@mindsight9732 Think it may already have been destroyed, trash pit now, what a shame for all.

I can't believe something this important is so poorly known.

@donaldgminski8621

4 ай бұрын

Why do you find it "so important "?? It's nothing more than a slave owners dilapidated grave site

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@AncientArchitects

4 ай бұрын

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Huni the Smiter

@AncientArchitects

4 ай бұрын

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6:30 Aidan Datsun

Is this the one with the underground rooms found by penetrating radar

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Supposedly the Unfinished Pyramid is being used as a refuse dump.

Egyptology has got to be one of the most frustrating fields of study in the world. In what other science is knowledge bottlenecked to this extent by such inexplicable neglect by its political gatekeeper?

@mindsight9732

4 ай бұрын

climate studies, Anthropology in general.

@ryann6067

4 ай бұрын

This is typical to archaeology, not just Egyptology.

30 years ago as visiting this pyramid I was arrested by the military. They keep me for 2 hours and confiscate my films

@ryandavis4448

4 ай бұрын

Wow, that's sad. I never understand why people want to prohibit investigation.

Man they gotta a lotta stuff buried over there in Egypt said the fool - the foolnme

Aw

Egypt's treasures are wasted on the current Egyptian Authorities.

@AveragePicker

4 ай бұрын

...said every museum that stole from Egypt.

@conniebenny

4 ай бұрын

@@AveragePicker I might agree with your sanctimonious comment more were it not for the fact that at least in museums the artefacts are a lot less likely to be left to decay out of existence.

@MildaGoesWild

4 ай бұрын

​@@AveragePickerif Egyptian Authorities were reasonable, not corrupt and more open then maybe returning some artefacts would sound like a good idea. It sure isn't at the moment.

@KyleEvra

3 ай бұрын

Agreed.

This one appears to be from the "pre-building code" dynasty, by the looke of it :D no, seriously, it's interesting

It is mud brick😮

They need to get the crack team of hawass & lehner to crack it !!! two egyptologists at the cutting edge😮😮

Isn't that more of a Mustaba, than a pyramid, like Menes' step pyramid???

@duru2882

4 ай бұрын

Mastaba

Can you imagine how much different we must understand the egyptian history the moment it becomes fact that the pyramids on the giza plateau are far more older than what is taught in college.😮

I think they just want to funnel visitors to one or two sites. That way they can charge more.

No treasures of bodies makes it of no interest to the superiors

Aryan means exactly what you think it means.

The poor state of the Pyramid, is why no Pharaoh claimed as his own. Since all the other good ones were rebooted, this one was left for the buzzards. Geo-Time-Dating is not mentioned yet artifacts are claimed as Age of Construction?

89th, 16 January 2024

Maybe cannibalized? 🤔

No artifacts, "unused"(?), with an assumed "burial chamber".... Maybe it wasn't funerary at all.

Why do you think it's forgotten and like many of the ones the Egyptians actually built? They don't want their timelines and narrative questioned, or disputed. Simple. Egyptians couldn't build things to last, everyone knows this, and the difference between true Egyptian building can be easily differentiated or identified by the size of the blocks they used. Ancient Egyptians never managed to replicate the columns, statues, not even the hieroglyphics or buildings they settled around in. Also poor in comparison to the apparent laser made ones, 3d made impressions in many of the ancient megalithic sites . The tripe statue they claim is of kuhufu menkaure etc could also be someone else, just was found by one of the three and like the pyramids also attributed to them.

The Arabs have little empathy with dynastic Egypt.

Why would they put a military site there?. My opinion is there's something the EGYPTIAN government doesn't want anyone to find.

@IblameBlame

4 ай бұрын

A STARGÅTE obviously.

@nos9784

4 ай бұрын

​@@IblameBlame No, no. Two stargates and a Reichsflugscheibe full off gold! (reichsflugscheibe = nazi ufo)

@IblameBlame

4 ай бұрын

@@nos9784 Nah, the latter are in Antarctica... which also has a Stargate. :O

@nos9784

4 ай бұрын

​@@IblameBlamethe antarctica ones moved on to the moon. The military here hides a crashed one, of course. Trust me, i'm joking!

@AveragePicker

4 ай бұрын

Yes, obviously the Egyptian government has something of great hidden, how else do you explain their futuristic military and their world domination as a super power...oh....wait a second.... So what exactly do you think they are hiding? Because they don't seem to have benefited too greatly from it

None of the pyramids were built as burial tombs. If anyone was buried inside it would have been an afterthought, like maybe they died while living inside.

@przemog88

4 ай бұрын

Got any evidence for that claim? No? Then don't come back until you find any.

I truly believe that religion is the main reason for the lack of exploration. The Islamic religious factors will not endorse any other religious belief ancient or modern that conflicts with it's own.

@ryann6067

4 ай бұрын

Nope

Pyramids were ice houses

Please do captions so people can turn the sound OFF! CRINGE 😵📳🙉

You need to understand that no pyramids were burial tombs until Tut Ankh Amun. It was he who decided to reinstate the gods that Akhenaten wanted to remove from worship.

@VladSparaStoria

4 ай бұрын

source: i made it up

@josephturner7569

4 ай бұрын

He was buried in the Valley of the Kings.

@lisad1993

4 ай бұрын

He wasn't buried in a pyramid

@NewChannel-wi7vj

4 ай бұрын

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These sights along with others should not be handled by the people living there as a money making cow because crap like this is allowed to happen over and over again.

Thank you.