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@ricknick5318

3 ай бұрын

Logic dictates the grooves in front of the plugging stones are for steps or a ladder similar to Indian temples that require steps to enter

@fluxstudio7569

3 ай бұрын

The Blueprint for the Great Pyramid is in Nazca.

@markvickers6641

3 ай бұрын

No chance your reasoning is flawed

@XPFTP

3 ай бұрын

inchs feet yards miles. iam stupid person in amarica. hahhahahaha

@stanlee2200

3 ай бұрын

IF KUFU BUILT THE GREAT PYRAMID AND YOU CAN PROVE IT ILL EAT MY FOOT THE SILLY QUARRY MARK THATS IN IT DOEST COUNT AS NOONE BELIEVES THATS EVEN FROM THE SAME ERA OF THAT PYRAMID...THIS IS INHERETENCE

Just finished watching History for Granites stream about the portcullis systems and then BOOM a new Ancient Architects pyramid vid, what is this my birthday?

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Ha! Granite’s was fantastic!

@JonnoPlays

3 ай бұрын

Same here

@thetroll1247

3 ай бұрын

Like they work together 🤔

@PRH123

3 ай бұрын

Me too, literally minutes ago....!!!

@timcarbone007

3 ай бұрын

Me too! Today is a good day

Today is an ancient Egyptian history and archaeology double header! Thanks to your Ancient Architects' and History in Granite's hard work and critical thinking, we have a much better idea of how and why the Pyramids were built as they were. Stay calm and carry on with the excellent work!

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Cheers 👍

@Yeoldelole

3 ай бұрын

We are SO LUCKY to have these two gentlemen creating content. Holy cow. Lets support these guys. They deserve it in spades!

Wow, thank you for the shoutout! Great work, Matt. And I really appreciate the mention

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

No worries. You’ve been inside more pyramids and ancient structures that most. So thank you for sharing such valuable footage!

From one Matt to another... Thankyou, brother. I don't think I've seen a single video of yours that hasn't taught me something meaningful. Trust me, given the typical KZread video, that's the highest praise I could possibly give. Cheers mate.

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

I visited this pyramid in 2022 but did not go in. The guard at the front was very friendly and I planned to return and check it out when I had more time. But I never did. I did however find a strange structure nearby on one side of the bent pyramid. Lots to find in this area. Including a very interesting walkway.

Thanks Matt! The red line on the wall is a string line (metre line), I suppose. We use this when we build a house and we draw a line on the wall 1000 mm above the future floor level (nowadays we use laser but a few decades ago it was only a water level tool for this available). This is used to keep the floor and ceiling fully levelled horizontally (you measure upwards or downwards from this line knowing that it is 100% horizontal so pretty much this is a guide line), it makes sense they used one cubit as a basic height for this. However to leave a construction line in a chamber containing royal remains, important artefacts somewhat seems weird to me.

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info and personal comments!

@nicholasklangos9704

3 ай бұрын

Logical explanation in proper construction techniques now and then, thanks for the information!

Excellent video of a pyramid I have never heard of

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@NPCONSULTING247-jy3pz

3 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects Do you know about the Bosnian Pyramids? Cheers Bro

@KenLieck

3 ай бұрын

@@NPCONSULTING247-jy3pz He knows they aren't

I know my opinion isn't worth much, but your channel is my favorite. I greatly appreciate the work you put into these videos.

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Your opinion therefore means a huge amount to me. Thank you so much.

As an Architect, it does look remarkably like a model one might make, to show the possibilities and devices for protection {ie. plug blocks !}, before embarking on the main structure ! Maybe trying out a new plug release mechanism, perhaps ? What do you think ? Take care Stu xx

@heatherprice588

3 ай бұрын

Yes you are correct & the archaolgists of yesteryear thought the same thing its the new people that are trying to rewrite history.

I never knew this! The parallels are undeniable and it's amazing that it isn't discussed more. Thanks for another great video.

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Cheers 👋

Thanks for introducing this little known construction to the public. A very factual and precise description, in a highly comprehensible way =the typical Matt trademark ! 👍👏

My theory on the pit is that it's a rubbish pit for the builders. It probably isn't, but I always like to find and test the simplest explanation for things, then evaluate if it 'functions' theoretically. These days, people sweep things under the floorboards and hope nobody will notice, or leave half bags of cement in the ground when installing a shed base (annoying when you want to work on the garden later). Carrying off-cuts of material and worn tools out of the pyramid would have been time consuming, with nothing to be gained. Leaving a hole in a spot that would eventually be under the floor to throw them into, on the other hand, would be easy. Another theory I always like when there's a vertical drop, though, is counterweights for something, possibly dragging the plugging blocks up the ramp.

Beautifully put together and filmed, a logical narrative and a fascinating and plausible description.

Very clever hypothesis and it would make sense that the drawing of red lines (used for measuring purpose) are left visible, precisely if the whole structure is just was a blueprint.

I knew nothing of the internal layout of this pyramid. Very good comparison. Thanks Matt!

Another great video about a fascinating, but little publicised ancient structure. Thanks for making this.

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@philbarker7477

3 ай бұрын

I never understand why they would start with such a gigantic excavation downwards when all they do is then go up again into the pyramid .It makes no engineering sesnse. It suggests to me ( and the tomb robbers that there is something down there.@@AncientArchitects

@effinchad

3 ай бұрын

​@@philbarker7477I spent a moment within that thought as well during this video. Particularly why the descending and ascending meet at roughly the same elevation to their respective pyramids. My initial conclusion is simplicity mixed with necessary function. Meaning the primary goal is to have the main (King's) chamber exist in the core of the pyramid. The heart of the pyramid if you will. Then have it secured by way of plugging the access by gravity. The fact that they each go below bedrock is just a consequence of completing all of this internal design at a lower level of the overall structure rather than higher. The remaining mysteries being, besides other unfounded chambers, is why some things are found in an incomplete state, or why there was a chamber (subterranean chamber) or dead end tunnel created and abamdoned. It seems like the dynastic Egyptians didn't care as much about 'incomplete' work on the interior as much as they do the exteriors. Overall, there seems to never have been a great job done plugging these pyramids. Regardless if people could find a way to rigorously dig into them if needed.

As long as researchers start with the premise that the pyramids were tombs, the pyramids will forever remain mysterious.

The answers have always been in front of us. The problem is that many in the field make it more complicated than what it really is. Their brains can fathom that man made it all.

It's so weird that a civilization that wrote down everything didn't write down anything about these

I'm your fan Matt! This was one of your very best videos. Just watched Gregg's channel before yours and it never ceases to amaze me how great you both are in your field. This was superb. I will have to watch this one again to fully absorb it all. Thank you.

Thank you for sharing this Video !!!!! Good information, and very interesting. !;!!;

"Beautiful simplicity"... an accurate assessment, well said. That said, it's only simplistic compared to the other more grander Pyramids. However, I still look at the tech that went into its construction and struggle to believe it was with cooper tools of the period. Thank you, great video.

Great video, this seriously made a bunch of details click together for me. I feel like this work really pairs nicely with History for Granite’s recent videos. Thanks

It's interesting to look at the almost 5000 year old statues and reliefs of Snefru, which appear to be actual likenesses, not idealized portraits. He seems to have a weak or double chin and a round face, something that makes him seem more human 5 millennia later. Thanks, Matt!

Hey Matt ❤ thank you

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Hey Lynn!

Nice Work & Video 👍

Another great, interesting video Matt!

Between history for granite and ancient architects, we are getting so much better analysis of the pyramids than what mainstream egyptologist say

I just clued in when you said pyramids got some excavations done before the ramps were added back in to be finished. This reminded me of your analysis of the unfinished pyramids of Abu Roash and Zawyet Al Aryan.

Thank you! I'm so happy I found you and History For Granite!

I genuinely Love ❤️ you Matt . Your videos are so awesome and chuck full of so much interesting ideas and questions . From the bottom of all our hearts . Thank you ! 🙏❤️😉👍

this was truly a fascinating video - thank you.

Enjoyed listening to your viewpoint as always.

Fascinating, as always. Thank you

Very interesting! Good stuff

Excellent as always!

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Cheers

This was an really well put together mini piramid documentary,really good production with the combination of animation,photos,drawings and footage,excerllent

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thank you! It took a while :)

This is without a doubt the best Egyptology channel on the whole of KZread.. All the best bro 🤙

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

Great episode.

Another incredible video Matt! I was curious, have you made a video on how people entered and exited these upon completion? Why are there no stairs in the long shafts? Did they use ropes/ladders for access control?

14:28 what is that black stuff on the edge of all the blocks?

I appreciate your work and the way you present it. Much better than the ego maniac at the granite channel. That guy went and erased every comment on his video that critiqued his findings. Literally every comment now is a glowing review of his work. That’s very weak and shows his insecurity. Thank you for your videos and for keeping an open mind and allowing people to disagree with you. Your channel should be hugely popular. Not sure why KZread doesn’t promote you more

@Eyes_Open

3 ай бұрын

Comments are not deleted on the History for Granite channel. There are always negative comments.

@kzrlgo

3 ай бұрын

Do you have proof of this? I very much doubt History for Granite is insecure about people disagreeing with his pyramid theory. It sounds more like you are a little lost and projecting to try and make sense of your world. Could it not be that Granite presented a remarkably well put together theory that impressed viewers, even if there are some gaps? Confidence in one's self, especially after having put in the time and effort, is not the same as egotism.

Thank you for shedding some light on this pyramid, there are far to many structures in Egypt that are largely ignored by the so called Egyptoligist and Egypian goverment, either they dont fit the narative or they are not a valuable tourist commodity. But we will never understand the big picture unless we pay emore attention to the detail and that includes all of the smaller structures and how they relate to each other. looking at the great pyramid in isolation is a mistake. The other pyramid that really interest me is Hawara and though it is mud brick and middle kingdom, it did have an interesting plugging system. sadly now flooded and ignored by the mainstream.

Great video! Hopefully the muon technology used in the great pyramid will be used to detect hidden chambers in other structures, too.

Good work

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Cheers

Fascinating! Do you think there could be tunnels connecting to the shaft ?

Matt, I want AA merchandise featuring your face on the Sphinx. Your channel is my longest (5 years) subscription.

Exciting!

excellent job 👍

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thank you

TY for your research.

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

So fascinating

Another great video and I do agree they are covering up what people want to see and not looking at the whole picture x

Very cool. Thank you for sharing!

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

Incredible comparison

Seems like maybe the casing stones of all 6 Giza Pyramids were used to build Cairo. I'm glad 3 of them survive

Thank you for all your hard work! I’m writing a SF novel that will involve archeology and the work that you and History for Granite is invaluable! ❤

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Good luck! I love a good SF novel

Selling Egypt's history to a bunch of tourists is one level above pillaging the treasure left therein. Most of the treasure is now long gone but the wondrous construction accomplishments are obvious. Now we are left to the commercialization of what is left.

Thanks for a very interesting video yet again. Very much appreciate your work, and clear presentation. Didn't know this structure existed, but Pharoah Sneferu was obviously a very busy and ambitious one. When I look at that beautifully constructed Grand Gallery, I see the architect saying to his foreman and workers, " You got the # of corbels correctly and it looks great; but, isn't the 'room" supposed to be a lot longer, north and south, (you dummies,")?And that's the last anyone ever saw of that architect. Is it me, or shouldn't it be functional, or useful in some way other than housing the crypt? It's also strange to me that in other earlier pyramids from Saqqara and Dahshur that the architect/builders didn't seem to have a clue how to use the corbelling for any intended purpose, but just as an impressive feature helping the deceased Pharoah to be reborn in the realm of the Gods? We now know that the GG in the Great Pyramid had its uses, but is there any evidence this one performed anything more important? (The flat roof of the KC in the Great Pyramid obviously didn't need to be corbelled, to alleviate weight, they just mounted even more weight over it for some unknown reason?) It's just fantastic you are investigating these monuments that few will get to see or even know about. Thanks for sharing your work. Lovely to see this platform grow.🙋🤗

Thank you sir!👍

U are amazing in all think u introduced..i am motaz from Egypt.please i want to talk to u necessary.realy i have the most important discovery of how pyramid in giza were built .how can i talk to u ???? Finally we want video about the quarry behind all pyramids specialisty Khufu's and khafra pyramid....thanks

I hope further exploration of the trial passages is done !

Informative as always, seeing as the bent pyramids satellite has similarities to the great pyramid it could be possible that the great pyramid has some similarities to the bent pyramid. The great void, above the grand gallery, in the great pyramid could be accessed by a passage with its entrance located on it's western face, as in the bent pyramid interior passages. I wonder if anyone is looking?

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Doesn’t seem to be any evidence yet, but if it’s been plugged with limestone, not even muon scans would show it

Wow.... what a great comment. Thanks, never would have thought this. But making a model is what today's architects also do. To show off their work. ❤

Hello everybody

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

And welcome to Ancient Architects

Sneferu was just the best. So much was going on during the 4th dynasty we can't even begin to guess. Civilizations all have their high-water marks, but Egypt's is dumbfounding in the extreme. Thanks for posting!

@drummerdad80

3 ай бұрын

The Egyptians were amazing! It's sad some channels try to discredit them and make them to dumb to carve or haul a rock truly sad....

@JasonAtlas

3 ай бұрын

I was always fascinated by the conspiracies I didn't realise mos ppeople came up with them because they thought Egyptians were an inferior race. It really ruined the fun for me.

@drummerdad80

3 ай бұрын

@JasonAtlas yep climb out of the rabbit hole, all that's down there is misinformation and you can drown on the kool-aid

In both this Bent pyramid & the Great pyramid, they have rooms with corbelled ceilings. Imagine how it would appear @ night in there, before completed... The priests would have been able to use those rooms for precise astronomical alignment, as you'd have a perfect view of a singular slice of the sky.

@astra6712

3 ай бұрын

The greatest clue is why the shafts were aligned to specific star systems.

@DaDudeb

3 ай бұрын

@@astra6712 They have turns, so you can't see through them.

@astra6712

3 ай бұрын

@@DaDudeb and the shafts are blocked off in locations too. However, there’s a reason the shafts point at specific star systems like Sirius and Kochab. It’s on,y a mystery if we pretend for it to be a mystery as we continue to hang on to religious and scientific dogma.

Always fascinating. What's the intro music please?

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Ross Bugden: Olympus

@Bonbon1948

3 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects Thanks! BTW.. To me, this looks like a blueprint for a jail or a safe. Meant to keep stuff inside. Why would you build it like this? :D

Surely the shaft is a well-shaft linking the chamber to a nearby dried up branch of the Nile - see the latest news about this, with the newly found river once flowing past all the pyramid sites. It has to also to be that the blocked up shaft in the Great Pyramid's subterranean chamber had a likewise function, with water still flowing beneath the Giza plateau. Amazingly fitted stone-work but again no reliefs!

Thank you

Many saw History for Granite's video, but very few mention that you don't agree on the use of plugs in the Great Pyramid. He says the King's chamber was meant to be visited, not plugged forever. And that Queen's and underground chambers were not contingency chambers because of the rough cut 1X1m passages that lead there. Did I get something wrong?

@kzrlgo

3 ай бұрын

Yes.

1. If the Great pyramid uses the plugs x3 act as a counterweight to the portcullis x 3 using a 1:2 slope. 2. If these plugs slide along the 2 cubit wide gallery gap. 3. If the combined length of the 3 plugs is the same length as the slab that covered the queens chamber passage. Then applying that principle to this satellite pyramid, may imply that the 'stuck plugs' x2 cover over a horizontal passage slab...only at the other end of the gallery. This would require a horizontal straight shot that would have to avoid the pit in the chamber. Now in the horizontal queens chamber passage you also have a pit called the well shaft. Question. Would the pyramid of Khufu not also = Sneferu satellite ? It would ironically be a cute way to say Khufus tomb ....which one ? Would a grave robber intinctively expect riches in the biggest one ? So interesting thoughts.

Thanks!

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you 🙏

Interesting.

Another excellent video from you. I'm afraid that Egypt itself has very little interest in further exploring this or many other pyramids, as the whole "mystique of the pyramids" and the subsequent touristic attention are of far more real world value to the people in charge. Plus, with an audience ready to believe anything but the truth, it's easier to portray yourself and your crackpot theories as expertise 😅 All the more reason why channels like yours and History for Granite are so important. Thank you for your continued work!!

Those floor grooves and the associated holes in the wall just make me think there was a wheel of some sort in there at one point.

What are the red markings made from? Can the material be dated?

Awesome video! The shaft is fascinating. But to assume they would use simple rubble as a filler for a foundation area seems like a weird conclusion.

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

Covered with huge, thick floor slabs, and then possible another floor over the top. They probably didn’t have to worry about what they filled it with as they didn’t assume the floor would be pulled up 🤷‍♂️

Since there are acres of blocks inside of pyramids and temples I wonder if a hand held XRF could detect traces of the tools used to cut them? If copper chisels were used there would be traces of copper left on the faces of the blocks. Likewise for iron (meteoric probably) and any other tool used. In the Grand Gallery there is plenty of blocks up too high for visitors to have touched.

he’s on a roll

I'll reiterate how delighted I am at the timeliness of this video! History for Granite's video on the portcullis system coupled with this video on the satellite pyramid of the Bent Pyramid dovetail so nicely!

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

And he mentions this pyramid too! I had no idea. And he didn’t know I was working on this. And I talk to him pretty much daily 😂

@davebeth2576

3 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects Amazing! If you'd said you had collaborated and synched those videos I would totally believe it!

It seems like they had a mechanical function. And no, not a burial function.

Could you imagine getting past the plug blocks only to be trapped by the two stuck at the top?

The shaft in the main chamber of Snefrus subsidiary pyramid is comparable to the shaft in Khufu's subterranean chamber. Shaft going down into the ground to guide the deceased on his journey into the after-/netherworld.

lovely govely

If two of the blocks slid down the ascending corridor, how is it possible to access the ascending corridor?

Very interesting. So the chamber isn't on bedrock but a few feet above bedrock? And since the chamber is above the trench that was dug and then filled in by masonry, then the chamber is actually sitting on stone coming up from the trench rather than stone used to build the pyramid? The other pyramids that have upper chambers usually had them sitting on bedrock and then building the pyramid around them. This seems to be an intermediary solution by resting the chamber on the masonry in the trench. When the Great Pyramid was built, the King's Chamber and probably the Queen's Chamber were nestled inside the pyramid on the pyramid's building blocks.

this video looks so interesting but the way you read the information makes me really confused. The rhythm is really making it hard to follow you.

I wonder how they made all those chemicals they were famous for. I wonder how they compensated for not having the technology to make pressure chambers?

I think the ancient Egyptians had a written language that was different from Hieroglyphs. I say this because there is a lot of math involved in the construction of the pyramids and that math had to be communicated not just locally but over hundreds of miles away. For example, "we need a stone, made out of this material, with these dimensions". This information had to be communicated about every stone set. I have never seen math and measurements described with pictorial Hieroglyphs, so the logical conclusion is: They had another written language that is perhaps now lost to time or not yet rediscovered. I think Hieroglyphs is perhaps a pictorial language they dreamed up to communicate stories to the far future (to us today) rather than for everyday communications.

@juliavixen176

3 ай бұрын

No, there are businesses records written, in hieroglyphics, in the fourth dynasty, and purchase receipts for goods and services. In fact, the written orders for how many stones the Pharoah wanted to purchase from a quarry to build one of Kufu's pyramids _still exists_. Anyway, the Babylonians were writing mathematics before Egypt became a kingdom. Euclid's textbook "The Elements" is basically a compilation of all the geometry knowledge/techniques/education that everyone around the Mediterranean (especially Egypt) had been using for millenia.

@dougayers7517

3 ай бұрын

@@juliavixen176 well if this is the formula for the volume of a pyramid V = (Abase × h) / 3 then how would you write that in Hieroglyphics? Or how would you write 'The incline of the tunnel is 34.4 degrees in hieroglyphys? Where are the examples of how they wrote mathmatical formulas in hieroglyhs (cranes, squiggly lines, and sun beam). Seems difficult to me and more an interpretation than a concise way of writing. Not saying it's impossible, just saying I have not seen any math or construction design examples up till now. My conclusion is they had a more convenient way to communicate than drawing pictures of animals and plants (something they thought people of the far future would still have around and be able to decode the meaning of).

Were these plug blocks granite? If so why were they able to remove them here, for this tiny pyramid, but not in the great pyramid?

What about the correspondence of the pyramids with the constellation of the belt of Orion?

The amount of money needed to build all these buildings in Sneferues time must have been enormous! Where did the money come from to pay , feed the workmen??

It would have been tricky getting those plug blocks into position considering their role. They must gave been put there when it was still a pit?

Could the subsidiary pyramid simply be a prototype or training piece for the masons of the great pyramid? But then, why build it so big just to test? Maybe, it would have to be greater than a certain height in order to test the build of the internal chambers and passages. Whatever the answer, it was another great video. Thank you.

All that masonry beneath could definitively house something... The Entrance probably from the lowest point of the descending corridor. First digging a hole and then filling it totally with masonry without purpose feels very unnecessary, or? There has been many that has suspected that the real grave in some pyramids is below the floor, I just realized that You are always one step in front of my thinking, now when I have watched the whole video. :D .

I love a good subsidiary pyramid in the morning.

-DREAM STEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELA!!!-

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

👍

Two words… “Scale Model”

@AncientArchitects

3 ай бұрын

It came first though 👍

@Spark010

3 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects meant it was a scale model for the great pyramid.

@roomclear

3 ай бұрын

@@Spark010 Like an architectural model!

How come there's nothing about what's under the pyramid