LOST 'Pyramid Branch' of the River Nile Discovered + Hawass Not Happy | Ancient Architects
Many of you will have seen the recent news that a long-lost branch of the River Nile has been discovered, or should I saw 'confirmed'.
It ran through the Nile floodplain on its western side and passed by more than 30 pyramids and the experts are saying it solves the mystery of how stone blocks were transported to each construction site.
Now, anybody that studies Ancient Egypt will know that a long-lost westerly branch of the Nile, is in fact no surprise. For a start, the Valley Temples at the end of each pyramid causeway had to terminate on the banks of a body of water, and so mapping each of the valley temples pretty much maps the position of a missing waterway.
This has been known about for decades, but now scientists have confirmed it, using radar satellite data, geomorphology, geophysical surveys and soil coring.
Watch this video to learn more about the lost Ahramat Branch of the River Nile, including the controversy from the new Facebook post by Zahi Hawass and Mark Lehner.
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Contents:
0:00 Introduction
0:47 New Branch of the Nile Discovered
1:39 Khufu Branch Study 2022
2:45 The Ahramat Branch of the Nile
7:06 New Paper 2024
9:13 Pre-Dynastic Implications of the Study
10:21 The Nile in the African Humid Period
11:58 Zahi Hawass Controversy
Sources:
Conference Abstract: researchers.mq.edu.au/en/publ...
IFL Science News Story: www.iflscience.com/discovery-...
Ghoneim et al. 2024 paper, Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s4324...
Phys Org story: phys.org/news/2022-08-khufu-n...
2022 Khufu Branch paper: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073...
Zahi Hawass Facebook Page: profile.php?...
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I got a STRIKE! Here’s why: My video from 2 weeks ago, on the new discoveries from the Giza Western Cemetery - the geophysics results and excavation news - has been taken down, and my channel has received a Strike (!) from Egyptologist Sakuji Yoshimura. This came without warning to me yesterday, no email communication asking me to take the video down, no comment, nothing. The takedown notice from Yoshimura said I was not allowed to publish diagrams from his latest paper (!) and I also could not publish short 10-20 second clips from a couple of his Instagram videos(!), even though they were used in context and part of a news report. The videos really offered nothing to the video - I was just trying to promote his social media channel out of courtesy. Dr Yoshimura has so far refused to respond to my emails regarding this. So, now this has happened, it is of course very worrying for all science communicators and KZreadrs, and it shows just how precarious it is for people like me, who just want to support archaeologists and give their work a platform to reach a larger, global interested audience. Please can I ask you all to subscribe to what will be my back-up channel if things get worse: kzread.info Thank you.
@claudiaxander
25 күн бұрын
Will do, shame about the strike, some people, sheesh!
@JenneeB927
25 күн бұрын
What a complete dumbash! I saw that video, you were very respectful. Makes you wonder if said Dr. isn't very sure of himself after all. Why publish papers if you don't want people talking about it? I'm already subbed to your 2nd channel and I'm wishing you the best, Matt.
@phoneguy4637
25 күн бұрын
what a shame. there are thousands of troll channels uploading fake trash or pseudoscientific bs - why can't they get a strike... why one of the few channels teaching good and well-researched topics. of course I'm gonna subscribe to your substitute channel.
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
@@phoneguy4637thanks! It’s just there to cover my back. But I’m disappointed. And disappointed he is not even replying to my emails.
@IlSqueak
25 күн бұрын
When Yoshimura has a feature in the Great Pyramid named after him THEN he can complain about the people who actually do have an eponymous feature. I would have subscribed, but it turns out I was already subscribed.
Hawass will never be happy to accept new findings or theories unless there his own, he’s a bitter old man that is long over due to being replaced
@radezzientertainment501
24 күн бұрын
sometimes the people that build a field of study or industry hold on to their power and influence for far too long, probably because it's all they have once they're older
@abelgonzalez158
24 күн бұрын
He is a criminal
@leghunter9201
24 күн бұрын
Replaced as what?
@beanzieobeanz2955
24 күн бұрын
@@abelgonzalez158 i hope people don't read this fact as an opinion
@mybackhurts7020
24 күн бұрын
@@radezzientertainment501 True he would’ve had more respect if he had stepped down years ago. Now when it happens the entire community will have a sigh of relief
Anything that upsets Hawass makes me happy. He caused so much chaos &, IMO, prevented honest documentation of Kemet/Egypt and it's inhabitants. He hates anything newly found that he can't get his greedy hate filled hands on. Even the investigation into new timelines for some of the monuments & artifacts were blocked by him. Can honestly say that he is the worst thing that ever happened to Egypt since the early Victorian researchers. Happy for every new find. Thank you for this!
Hawass is a problem for egyptolgy - essentially if the ring wasn't kissed, and Hawass wasn't given major credit on any paper about Egypt he thriws a major hissy fit.
@RamblingRodeo
14 күн бұрын
Oh yeah, that man is apart of the problem and he has to be in on covering up things, i cant wait until he is just GONE!
3 giant white pyramid shaped structures in front of a beautiful lake must've been such a sight for the old civilization to see
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
Mesmerising
@chase5331
24 күн бұрын
@@AncientArchitects @rodricbr It has long been known that only the great pyramid had "white" casing stones. The other two pyramids were cased in black granite and red sandstone. Meaning there was a white, red, and black pyramid on the Giza plateau.
@chase5331
24 күн бұрын
See below.
@cesiumalloy
24 күн бұрын
4 big pyramids according to an early notable explorer, later believed to have been completely robbed by the 13/14th century (by thieving Arabs). However, he described the forth as "black"
@Piratesjunior
24 күн бұрын
@@cesiumalloyNo that was just an illustration of Menkaure queen pyramid.
Great video! The end is particularly relevant. It’s always the people complaining about not getting cited who are the biggest perpetrators of selectively citing their friends over other work.
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
Thanks for watching GRANITE!
@americanwoman6246
25 күн бұрын
It's so awesome to see you two collaborating. Obviously my two favorite ancient Egypt channels. Thank you!
@americanwoman6246
25 күн бұрын
Ive seen old black and white pictures with water right up to the temples.
@Yum_Yum_Delicious_Cum
24 күн бұрын
Reversed psychology
@huckleberryharrison6248
24 күн бұрын
You're channel is frickin amazing, and of course you're commenting on AA's channel.
"The established Egyptologists don't think this is correct, so therefore it's not correct. And I am the establishment. Pyramid." -Hawass
@Slickboot21
21 күн бұрын
I saw what you did there(.) SHAME ON YOU, ZAHI!! Catch up or go away! -- Texas
@gw7157
20 күн бұрын
Hawass is Egyptology as Fauci is the Science
If anyone’s veracity is questionable, it is that of Zahi Hiwass. He has singlehandedly set archeology in Egypt back a millennia.
@vyogh
21 күн бұрын
Too bad that humanity relies on the mood of one corrupted person to officialize thousands of years of history
Nothing makes my day more than seeing a funny and capturing title like yours, with those three beautiful words, “Hawass not Happy!” It’s funny as, Bro!
Clearly Hawass did not get his usual kickback or bribe
Don't trust hawass he's always been covering things up
@TheJurnalyst
25 күн бұрын
Zahi is a Hawasshole.
@huckleberryharrison6248
24 күн бұрын
Why does he wear clothes anyway. Probably just to cover something up..
@alanfowler.
24 күн бұрын
Whilst pilfering and selling artifacts. Estimated he's made 12 million out of it.
@Socrates-ti2dh
23 күн бұрын
A.R.E.
@liteflexin8129
23 күн бұрын
Serious question. If they floated the blocks why haven’t they found any ship wrecks? Modern boat building has to be more advanced and yet our water ways are filled with ship wrecks with their contents still nearby yet I can’t remember of ever hearing of an Egyptian boat wreck why? Pretty sure they moved them in a different manner
Harass has been in charge of the flow of information coming out of Egypt for a long time. If the information doesn't cross his desk before being released, he will definitely fight it. Slow down the flow of information and increase the speculation.
@Bart-Did-it
25 күн бұрын
Underrated comment
@TheJurnalyst
24 күн бұрын
He's such a Hawasshole.
One of your most noteworthy traits, Matt, is your willingness to go over previous work* and update, expand, edit or replace where necessary according to recent discoveries or recently recovered forgotten discoveries. This proves your honesty, devotion to details, factuality, and willingness to engage in self correction. Once again, Kudos well earned and well deserved 🏆🏅🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇 *Note I remember at lest one or two previous videos here, on this topic, but as as unproven [as yet] speculation. Thanks for the update!
I know very little of Hawass, but the first time I watched a documentary with him in it, I saw what a jerk he really is. In the documentary he was taking a young female archaeologist or student with a film crew in a tunnel in one of the pyramids, I believe the “Great” pyramid. While in the tunnel, the woman told Hawass she had to go to the bathroom. But Hawass would have none of it and forced her to keep going. When they finally got to their destination, she couldn’t hold it any longer and wet herself. Well that set off a tirade by Hawas yelling at her for doing that. He told her she was being incredibly disrespectful and yelled at her until she broke down in tears. He also told her she was banned from the pyramids for life and ended the tour. I believe I saw this documentary at least the decade ago and I remember very little about it except for that incident from Hawass. To this day, that is all I recall about Hawass and all I ever think about when I see his face. I have total contempt for this bad, hateful man that thinks he’s too good for others and sees himself as the supreme keeper of Egyptian antiquities. In any branch of science, performing an independent study, that doesn’t start from the same basis as previous knowledge and findings should be embraced. If ultimately the same conclusion as the previously discovered, all the better. It helps validate the generally accepted findings. That’s how real science works. The science is king and Hawass is just a subject.
@jandrews6254
24 күн бұрын
He was unaware of the discovery of Gobekli Tepe! How could a real archaeologist totally miss that? Well obviously his position was granted through family connection, ie nepotism, or he bought it
@bettinafullerton6452
18 күн бұрын
I remember watching that, he was an absolute pig to that poor girl.
@awuma
17 күн бұрын
@@bettinafullerton6452 Shocking abuse.
Hawass Not Happy - is the best tittle XD
Hawass is a "special" person. I have been following the subject of Egyptian archeology since the 90's. All I can say is that Hawass is, just, one of those people who have a hard time with sciences and new ideas. 30 years of following the subject.
@charlesbeehner5378
23 күн бұрын
And he's a thief, selling priceless items that belong in a museum to rich people that will put it somewhere few will have the chance to see, and certainly few working class
@martinharris5017
23 күн бұрын
Yep I've been following since the 80s and he's always been a childish individual.
@michaelwills1926
19 күн бұрын
He is the rigidity of academia in a nutshell
@hal4192
18 күн бұрын
He's probably ( almost certainly) a narcissist...
@awuma
17 күн бұрын
I don't think that Hawass has a hard time with "sciences and new ideas". After all, he was part of the DNA work of over a dozen years ago. Also, in his reaction to Ghoneim et al. 2024, he is objecting to an inadequate literature survey in the paper, but then he fails to acknowledge the new data in the paper, understandably in his annoyance at being omitted from the references. Bad omission by Ghoneim et al., whatever one may think of Hawass. Rather, it is the control Hawass is perceived to have on who can study what in Egypt, and profit from it. That may be to ensure that Egyptian egyptologists get a large chunk of that, but it's also driven by Egypt's economic interests in maximising tourist income, especially from wealthy non-academic enthusiasts on the fringes of speculative archaeology.
The water reflected pyramids would have been quite spectacular to see. It would really add a new visual dynamic to the whole scene.
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
Would have been amazing
@RaikenXion
23 күн бұрын
And don't forget Solid Gold Capstones too. Not just a pretty decoration but a conductor too.
The landscape at that time looked lush and green, and looked like paradise on earth. It makes me cringe when I still hear scientists and archaeologists talk about that time as if it was a desert landscape as well. Nope, it wasn't. Thanks, Matt!
@jellyrollthunder3625
24 күн бұрын
When were scientists claiming Giza was a desert? during the Old Kingdom or the wet period prior to that? During the Old Kingdom it was in a transitional state moving into a desert climate.
Water would have been an absolute neccesity for the building, both for the blocks and the support of the people working
Stand up for this channel, guys.
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
🙏
@devinwalters8808
24 күн бұрын
I will when he starts telling just the facts and not his wrong ass opinion LMFAOOOOO
@Yeoldelole
24 күн бұрын
@@devinwalters8808support your statement. It’s his channel and therefore he has the right to express his opinion. You’re here by choice.
With Hawass it seems to me to be less about politics and more about ego. I could be wrong, but I doubt that I am! Great video though Matt. You explain things very clearly and give us the facts that we need to understand the concepts under discussion. Thank you for all your hard work.
why is Hawas still there ...
@Bart-Did-it
25 күн бұрын
Exactly he was done for stealing artefacts .. what was the out come I wonder
@testboga5991
24 күн бұрын
💯
@RaikenXion
23 күн бұрын
Money/Power/Corruption
Outstanding. Honestly, has anyone ever seen Hawass look happy? It can’t be any fun knowing your job is to keep important truths from the world.
I thought this was common knowlege. My history teacher in around 1960told us that the Nile changed course many times. At times it lapped up against the pyramids. He also told us that the channels in the delta often changed course which made it hard to identify specific sites mentioned in ancient texts. Finally he told us that these ancient texts talked of a canal between the Red Sea and the Nile.
Hawas used to be respected, now he seems to just get in the way, he should be happy about new discoveries.
@abelgonzalez158
24 күн бұрын
He got busted a while back selling artifacts illegally supposedly, I wonder how he beat that too!
@beanzieobeanz2955
24 күн бұрын
"Hawas used to be respected" very very briefly until the self-serving lies and proven criminality were uncovered
Maybe im crazy but could it be this wasnt a branch but the nile itself, knowing most rivers "move" over time and how large this branch was?
@floydriebe4755
25 күн бұрын
my thoughts exactly, etchart!
@grantschiff7544
24 күн бұрын
A 60 kilometer branch
@awuma
17 күн бұрын
The data seem to show a branch.
Archeology in Egypt will be better off when Hawass ins’t with us anymore.
Hawass has set egyptology research back decades! With him it's always about "me, me, me"...
Hawass is not happy about a lot of things. Has single handedly 'manoeuvered' the direction of Egyptology for too long
Hawass has an enormous ego. No doubt he’s had theories about the Nile and wasn’t mentioned in their paper.
@awuma
17 күн бұрын
Yes, but academic ethics quite clearly require that his (and others') earlier work should have been referenced.
What can I say: Great topic, great delivery and great video, as usual. And thanks for waiting with the video until the actual paper comes out 🤗 Always enjoyable, learning something new every time. 🙏
It's absolutely understandable that Hawass is irritated that an existing and largely already proven hypothesis is being reported as a major new discovery. Correct attribution of concepts and acknowledgement of prior work is what sets current work into academic context. I think he was wrong in saying "he saw nothing new" in this work. But I can understand people being annoyed at how this work is being portrayed.
@awuma
17 күн бұрын
I agree.
Fascinating, thank you! So pleased to hear more about this issue.
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
Thanks
Now I'm waiting to see what the Japanese team of archaeologists will discover next to the Great pyramid
@awuma
17 күн бұрын
Depends on which Japanese. I saw a video about Yoshimura's work, and found it not very believable.
Yes! Science and KZread content channels can agree. I keep coming back to your channel because you keep following the facts.
This may also explain why the ancient egyptians stopped building pyramids: They didn't have easy access to quarries in order to build the main structures closer to the Nile or to get the granite blocks to the plateau where the other pyramids were built.
Great, detailed information. Thanks Matt!
Hawas and Lehanar will try to shut down any information that does not suit their narrative. Any new information should add to scholarly debate for everyone. Thanks for highlighting this Matt. Let the debate begin.
@aleksakocijasevic6613
24 күн бұрын
Yes, but they will be gone soon.
@BartSliggers
24 күн бұрын
I'd bet if you would casually ask them about the definition of science , you would get some kind of fairytale about doing research while scrutiny would never be mentioned once.
@OMFGimontheinternet
23 күн бұрын
Hawas wasn't saying the information was wrong, he was saying it was already known, which is mostly true. I am not a hawas fan, but as far as I can tell the main points of his statement are correct.
@random22026
22 күн бұрын
Both 'experts' are on the take. 💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷💷🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑🤑
Giza Plateau still being depicted as desert during the Old Kingdom when in fact it was a savannah at that time. It's even shown as such on the wall of the funerary complex of sixth dynasty pharaoh Pepy II.
I've been excited for your video on this when I saw the news the other day
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
Cheers
I wonder how the presence of this path of the Nile in immediate proximity to the sphynx will alter the dating conclusions of the water erosion theory of Schoch.
imagine all the building that would have been built on the east side of the Nile, that got complety eroded away over the years, with nothing left behind.
You are SO helpful with the headlines! Thank you for the speed of your reporting / having aspects of this ready to go! Much obliged.
Hawas is obnoxious and narcissistic.. SMH
Always love your videos bro! You work hard and it shows, great job!
Thank you Matt. Like always interesting video. Since many years my favourite channel.🎉
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
Thank you! I had a ‘Strike’ this week. It was unfair in my opinion. Please subscribe to what will be my back-up channel: kzread.info
Hi Matt, thanks for another great informative video!
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
Cheers
Again, Edgar Cayce is correct. Called it in the 30s. Maybe they will find the tunnel from the hall of records. It certainly doesn't show how the pyramids were built.
Hawass uses word "LITIGATED". I didn't know Hawas and Lehner OWNED Egyptian history and will SUE for damages.
@awuma
17 күн бұрын
Strange use of the word, but he wasn't using it in the legal sense. Perhaps a better word would be "contested".
AA - ONE OF THE FEW CHANNELS WITH RELIABLE CONTENT.
I knew it! 😄 Actually I did, because this was in the news a week ago.
@AncientArchitects
25 күн бұрын
Haha
Hawass is just jealous because he didn't discover it or was included.
Great see new data, sadly Hawass does not like new data, there is always the possibilty it would spoil his narrative.
I like anything that makes Mr. Hawass unhappy.
It's fantastic how science allows ideas and understanding to progress. I was in Egypt in 2006. The theory I heard at that time was that the annual inundation of Nile allowed the barges to sail up to the plateau. I remember sitting on the edge of the plateau lookin east, imagining water covering the now suburbs of Giza, Cairo for as far as the eye could see. It would have been stunning. However, I agree a permanent watercourse giving year round access makes much more sense.
i always enjoy your content so will always stand by you.
It would be interesting to scan the sands where the lagoons and river once were . They had to have accidents and lost many blocks , possibly large granite ones . That will be a very interesting study if they found them and see the conditions of the blocks to see if they were finished off completely or done at the site . Excellent video Matt ! And yes I agree with you on politics in Egyptology. It’s ego related sadly .
@juliavixen176
20 күн бұрын
They _have_ found a granite block that fell into the Nile near the great pyramid complex.
Bloody fascinating, thank you, love your posts.
We love your videos, thank you for your efforts
As an early subscriber to AA I'm happy to sub to your other channel. It's too bad Mr. Yoshimura does not realize the integrity and good will of your channel. Thanks for all the great content. Carry on.
This was one of your best videos.
Wow. That`s elementary new material. Thank you so much !
Nice one Matt. Thanks.
Thank you for reporting on this new study - confirmation of the old Nile channel is another piece to the puzzle. I am looking forward to your video on the Sphinx - I was kinda hoping that it would get confirmed to be considerably older that the pyramids, as that would mix the cards nicely, nut having a more solid evidence on its true age is great. I would also love to hear your take on the finds of the incredibly precisely made vases that were apparently made latest during the 3rd dynasty and never made at that level of precision again. Thank you
Great information and good news. As for Hawass, everyone else pretty much covered it.
Thanks as always Matt! Yes, the channel was known about, but it's much better to have scientific evidence of the actual path which it took.
Great information I had missed the news with the recent media reports. Whilst watching I starting thinking about this natural defence there would have been against forces from the East. A much wider Nile, plus a swampy area and another river would surely make attacking harder. Once the Swamps and second river dried up this would have made attacking easier.
With these discoveries, you are supposed to give credit to the ones that came before you in the scientific field. You can claim something "new", when it is actually something entirely new. But if you just confirm older studies, even through new technologies and even with little differences and nuances, you are supposed to at least mention the previous work, that your claim is "connected" to. They should have just mentioned them and explained, that their methods are entirely different, their results differ and that they've basically confirmed what was known before. Their critizism isn't entirely unfair.
Now we wait for some lost settlements and temples to be found. Hawass is dusting off his hat and his jean shirt after signing a new deal with National Geographic,ready for his next discovery located along the new branch.
Well done 😊 always interesting 🧐🤨🤔😊🤗
Thank you for another video showing exactly what is needed not what some think is wanted 🐪
The presumed layout of the causeway to the Khufu temple is particularly interesting. Because what it shows is the causeway to the pyramid skirting the Eastern Cemetery to the north of the cemetery instead of cutting south to join the Khafre Temple lagoon on its way to its own dock and Valley Temple. Perhaps this means that the Eastern Cemetery existed before the Great Pyramid and is the oldest part of the complex. SZ BA MA
The problem with Hawass is ,yes he is very knowledgeable but he came up with theories and answers that he wants setting in stone and people come along with evidence of other answers and theories and he dismisses them too readily ,unfortunately he's holding back a lot of progress .
I saw similar info about a Giza Nile branch in another history channel on as ancient Egypt. Hawass likes to be large and in charge as the final authority.
Don't see the problem, it's indeed a big issue in academia with people putting forth other peoples work as their own. We've known for ages that a branch of the nile came right up to giza, to publish a paper now claiming to have discovered this is pretty bogus. My father once told me how he attended a conference, and watched someone stand up and present one of his papers that he had published in the past word for word, you can bet he was pretty mad about it... professors have been dismissed for such things....
I have never liked or trusted Hawass. I think he knows way more than we know. Why?
@przemog88
23 күн бұрын
Because he wants to make sure that there is a mystery which brings tourists.
@TheCritterWindow
23 күн бұрын
@@przemog88 Yea but I think the mystery of more would always be there. He is hiding something.
Why doesn't anyone mention Hawass's criminal past? How he's in charge of anything other than toilet cleaning in a prison, is something I'll never understand
If you built a canal NEAR or AROUND the Sphinx. It is possible to make rapid erosion. On the walls around the Sphinx, and base of the Sphinx. That has been debated. I suggested they had a canal nearby, and when they emptied the canal. Either by accident, or on purpose. It eroded the stones quicker than a bunch of rain, over years, and years of ANCIENT rains. Which Robert Shuak suggested.
Confirming a major waterway as suspected for decades is all well and good but I still can’t get past the suggestion of floating the blocks down the river. You have to say that the blocks (the size that they are in the Great Pyramid) and other much larger blocks that have been suggested were moved via the river, were done by a massive barge. I think about the Thunderstone and what it took to float it! 2 warships on the sides of the barge just to stabilize it. No hieroglyphs showing such a major move, yet all else is documented. Something is off there.
It's great that u mentioned the age of the sphinx. I was just thinking that when you reached the part of the video about how high the water level would have been thousands of years earlier. It backs up your mate's video on the same subject ...I can't remember his name...but that video seems to have been forgot about
Thank you for this expanded information. To be honest, the headline BBC (and others with them) used was a misleading clickbait. This branch does not explain how pyramids were built, it explains how the material was transported. Still an interesting and important discovery and thank you again for this and all the other videos.
Serious question. If they floated the blocks why haven’t they found any ship wrecks? Modern boat building has to be more advanced and yet our water ways are filled with ship wrecks with their contents still nearby yet I can’t remember of ever hearing of an Egyptian boat wreck why? Pretty sure they moved them in a different manner
@juliavixen176
20 күн бұрын
Because wood rots in a flowing river, and they _have_ actually found a large granite block that fell/sank into the Nile near the boat docks at the bottom of the Giza plateau.
Brilliant as always.
Africa is full of surprises!
to me the most interesting find is that before .. did you say 3000BC?... the nile would have made it inhospitable to live along the nile. that is very interesting! and it does indeed tell us a lot about the occupation of earliest egypt. great coverage as usual! thank you for explaining this!!
Hey Matt, how much time is there between the old kingdom and the intermediate period? How long did it take for that branch to move east? Thank you!
great episode.
Fascinating thanks😊
Please do a video of the "Harbours" that show the artifacts or evidence that they were intact at the valley temples. Would really show all the doubters this is how they were built. Great video again always leaning done thing new from your video. Thank you for your hard work in bringing us great, useful videos to increase our knowledge 👍👍👍💯
I knew the oddly angled causeways had to be built that way for a reason. I'm sure I wasn't the only one to suspect something.
If Augustus Caeser built a viewing platform in front of the Sphinx, then it means that this branch was dried up prior to his reign in Rome.
And the elephant in the room, moden egypt has destroyed the nile ecolocy by urbanising the entire plain, and building a heavily drained city - preventing the flood plain as working like a flood plain anymore, which will likely cause long term a drier climate.
Just knew a video from your good self would soon arrive following the MSM interest, thanks Matt appreciated and well presented. I agree it stands out on its own as an important piece of work, ignore the politics, it is all good for our understanding of Ancient Egypt. For me there are still two stand out questions that remain... 1. Building the pyramids. Some still try to progress the long ramp theory, however this is now obsolete as the ramp would have been someway from the port so that now makes no sense. We still need a good theory on building it, lifting and placing huge weights accurately, all within 20 years. Just stating 'ropes and pulleys' is not good enough. 2. As stated by many, and also concerning even larger, heavier blocks than the granite used at Giza...... 'They were floated along the river and unloaded at site.' By what exactly? I have not seen any Egyptian boat(s) that could possibly do this to date nor any idea how they would load and unload such enormous weights. Not presenting an answer myself of course just stating that we do not yet know... any theories? 2a. Well done Leicester City this season. 👍
I agree with your opinion at the end!
Amazing!!! science is proving what was believed for years. Also, it makes sense now that the causeways to the pyramids could have been used as the ramps to being the stones up to the construction sites.
This settles some matters for me, thanks for saving me the trouble. And remember the story about the statue on Corvus Island in the Azores, the Portuguese eventually destroyed it because it was proof that someone had discovered the Azores before them....I wonder whether it was Norse or Phonecian?
That's pretty sweet. Probably would go be a good place to find artifacts.
I was EXCITED when I heard they found that ancient branch of the Nile. It gave more veracity to one of my theories of how they could have used powered tools for moving and construction/cutting/drilling.... Its so simple. yet no one has mentioned it as a possibility
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Alien supervision? 🤔
Well, this makes perfectly good sense. As scientist should, further research from many branches of science should be conducted that may support or disprove earlier findings.
Thtas actually huge. Thank you!