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@EarthCreature.

9 ай бұрын

They found a large chamber with the nuon detectors. Thoughts?

@paulroberts7429

9 ай бұрын

Matt please check out Shabaka Stone it glorifies star shafts, thanks for the hard work Matt

@ROBOTRIX_eu

9 ай бұрын

Usualy i don't comment, but.. That is stupid ! If they build with the upper shaft in mind, they would not scizel the !alleged one at 2 mt high".. And this assumption, in your hed, goes to the extend to produce part of the video insinuating.. 2 beams and to plaster a wall? Stipid! The lines you see, were guidance and mark to align the upper and only shafts.

@simonstergaard

9 ай бұрын

this guy is on to something @nightscarab5802

@LifeMyWay007

9 ай бұрын

After watching your content for a while, I think you would enjoy re-evaluating from a 'newly discovered', Scientific Only, evaluation of these Ancient Architectural structures. ie forget about the status quo assumptions, throw out ALL Presumed naming conventions (King's Chamber, Queen's Chamber, Sarcophagus, Air Shaft...) and treat them as New Discoveries of Unknown Build Dates. What would you see then? What are the Possible Uses and When in Time were the structures possibly built? Would you still end up at Dynastic Egyptians, Older, Younger... Where are the remnants of likely tools? How many times were they remodeled, rebuilt, repurposed? What would the construction tools most likely look like? What clues are there to use in the Detective Hunt? Many things seem to be looked over, ignored, hidden, destroyed, displaced, and of course deteriorated over time. But a fresh perspective may lead to new discoveries. I believe from things you have said in the past, you would thoroughly enjoy such an exploration. Let your mind wonder without the constraints of Current Modern Dictated 'Facts' about burial sites ect. You could end up back there, or you could end up closer to what actually happened and why.

Ive loved pyramids, specifically Egyptian, since i was a child some fifty years ago. I admit it took me a while to acclimate to your specific style but that helped me too discard some unrealised prejudices regarding presentation and entertainment in general. Nowadays i wait, often impatiently, for your next instalment of well thought out and impeccably presented material. I thank and commend you for the obviously large amount of work you do. Thanks mate 👍

@AncientArchitects

9 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. I’m a terrible narrator and I use very basic software to make these videos, but I try and focus on quality information over all-singing, all-dancing special effects and crazy ideas :)

@HenryCrown42

9 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects where are you from may i ask. You end your sentences with a drop in pitch.

Love this channel so much. Thanks for the hard work Matt!

@AncientArchitects

9 ай бұрын

Thanks mate 🙏

@armandom28

9 ай бұрын

What hard work? He’s using other people’s research.

@SimonEkendahl

9 ай бұрын

@@armandom28pffft

@stooartbabay

9 ай бұрын

Yeah I love this channel as well, I actually really like the intro music.. it gets me into my happy place mood :)

@paulroberts7429

9 ай бұрын

@@armandom28 whats wrong with that.?

I think they were possibly used as putlog holes for a strong timber to help draw the granite sarcophagus into position.

@_Schwartz

9 ай бұрын

Excellent idea

@Kinghobbe

9 ай бұрын

Was the coffer not dug into the bedrock and then lined with granite slabs or a perhaps there was a granite box inserted after digging out the bedrock to house it.?

Until there have been muon scans of this pyramid, I'll remain skeptical that we really know much about its internal structure.

@mrbaab5932

9 ай бұрын

Technically the muons are always scanning this pyramid, but there haven't been any muon detectors to image them.

@everything777

9 ай бұрын

​@@mrbaab5932slow clap

@OMFGimontheinternet

9 ай бұрын

It was scanned in the 1960s. There is even an Ancient Architects video about the experiment.

@christosvoskresye

9 ай бұрын

@@OMFGimontheinternet Thanks. Well, I'm glad they looked, but disappointed that they found nothing. Apparently, a Grand Gallery to work a counterweight is not really necessary.

@asherajja4206

9 ай бұрын

Hey pyramid scanning isn't a simple thing there are a lot of subtle muons involved...

It's possible that the markings on the wall weren't meant to indicate where more holes should be cut, but were instead meant to indicate some part of the wooden structure that would not be inserted into the wall. Maybe they intended the paving stones to hold the bottom part of the partition wall in place, and the markings just acted as a guide to help the builders make sure they were positioning a cross beam correctly.

This is so far the best of your reports, at least to me. I didn't know about these structural details of Khafra's Pyramid. I still didn't enter it, but the exterior layout is already complex and interesting, but nobody speaks about. Less talk about is the interior of the second Pyramid. That is why I Thank you a lot for your valuable research and information

I have one suggestion: in addition to giving the measurements of Egyptian artifacts in meters or feet/inches, you might also give them in the Egyptian cubit and/or Egyp. Royal cubit measures. There may -- or may not -- be significance in the numbers when given in the units the Egyptians themselves used.

@bigsweatyboy1

9 ай бұрын

Replying incase this bumps the comment up

@AllStyleNoSubstance1

9 ай бұрын

Or you could learn the proper conversion and do it yourself

@bigsweatyboy1

9 ай бұрын

@@AllStyleNoSubstance1 Or I could go outside and spent time with my friends and family

@bigsweatyboy1

9 ай бұрын

@@AllStyleNoSubstance1 what a braindead reply

@lutze5086

9 ай бұрын

​@@AllStyleNoSubstance1yes the hundred odd thousands people who watch the video should do the conversion for every measurement individually. Great idea 💡

In my opinion, the accepted explanation related to the shafts in these chambers is absolutely true. The idea adopted by the ancient Egyptians to build a camouflage wall deserves praise. Since it was only possible to build this wall after burial, the idea of ​​how to do it is really good and shows the extensive construction knowledge of the Egyptians.

Always enjoy your undimmed enthusiasm for all things pyramid. Love your work massive respect for the level of research you apply to all theories.

@Alarix246

9 ай бұрын

Matt, I think it shouldn't be hard for you to apply for and defend a doctorate of Egyptology by now.

Absolutely loving this channel! Great job! Big fan

Much needed video! No content out there on this topic. Thank you!

I always feel like this pyramid is criminally understudied in modern times, and it makes me SO happy and excited to see my favorite ancient history channel do a video on it. It drives me crazy how no one seems to pay attention to Khafre’s pyramid and only focus on the Great Pyramid. I’ve never understood why some people go into crazy detail trying to explain the “true purpose/function” of the pyramids in Egypt using every detail of the Great Pyramid to explain it, but the pyramid right next to it, almost the same size, has very little of the features the Great Pyramid has that they use to explain its purpose and construction. So many people just get lost in the details of the Great Pyramid that they lose focus and don’t realize that the one next to it has none of the features they use to explain why or how it was built. I also have always felt like there is much more to be discovered in Khafre’s pyramid. I hope more attention is given to it now than in the recent past and more effort and technology is put into learning more about it.

@Khaymen223

9 ай бұрын

Certainly there would be the best of the best scientists studying it daily if it wasn't for the still well positioned Hawass and the Egyptian s.o.a.

@jesseleesamples

9 ай бұрын

@@Khaymen223 Probably true. I’m speaking more on the independent researchers and people who make videos on KZread though. There’s very little content on KZread about many of the other pyramids in Egypt because the Great Pyramid gets so much of the attention. I’ve searched for videos on other pyramids and monuments in Egypt, and the few that usually are available are just basic explanations of the size and interior of them and that’s it. If you search the Great Pyramid however, you can find endless videos where people have went into every tiny detail of it and present every theory you could imagine about it’s construction and purpose. I hope to someday see these great independent researchers putting those same efforts into the other interesting monuments. It definitely would help if Hawass is replaced by someone more open minded and less stubborn though.

@JohnMSawyer

4 ай бұрын

And nobody should short-shrift Menkaure either

@jesseleesamples

4 ай бұрын

@@JohnMSawyer I agree but I feel like it actually gets even more attention than Khafre’s. Khafre’s pyramid has always been treated a bit like the middle child of Giza lol

Fascinating!

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Absolutely brilliant video as always . Thank you .

Very interesting. Thank you for your continuing valuable insights.

Another great in-depth discovery..

Given the natural concretions they'd have to have been familiar with in that area I suspect they could've disguised chambers and tunnels in the bedrock. The lack of cosmic ray scans can't even rule out undiscovered areas in the masonry much less in the bedrock below.

Great video as always, very insightful. Thanks for posting!

Fantastic information and graphics. Thank you!

Good work Matt!

Awesome info and perspective as always thanks!!

@AncientArchitects

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching

Very enlightening. Wonderful presentation as usual.

Interesting vid as always👏🏻

Another great documentary Matt, thank you for your hard work.

Thanks, we never hear enough about the other pyramids. My first thought when seeing the holes in the chamber was that they were beam slots. We see them in Castle construction. So to consider them as the only finished slots for a partition certainly seems plausible, considering the witness marks for slots further down.

Thanks for posting.

thanks again for this excellent video!

Incredible documentary! Have the best day ever!

I cant believe there are no chambers or corridors in the whole of that structure. Has this pyramid ever been muon scanned?

@francischambless5919

9 ай бұрын

was wondering that myself.

@EV0LS1D0G

9 ай бұрын

was looking for this question in the comments :)

@scotth6814

9 ай бұрын

Luis Alvarez (the physicist who discovered that an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs) scanned the Khafre pyramid from 1965-1969. He found nothing, but he was using primitive equipment. I think the Scan Pyramids project is currently, or plans to, scan it again.

@MrSixxshooter

9 ай бұрын

Yes it was . Matt posted a video on this topic . I asked him the same question and Matt investigated . It’s was done before the great pyramid but with weaker more intermediate technology . Unfortunately they found nothing above . We all agree that a new scan must be done with the more up to date technology. Maybe one day .

Every ancient architects video that posts gets a view from me I love it!!! Thanx!

Great informative video... thanks.

Great video Matt. We need a modern muon scan of this Khafre pyramid- it seems so unlike the ancient Egyptians to build all that pyramid and not put ANYTHING in the whole body of it. Especially considering they just had the experience of building the Great Pyramid with all it’s built in intricacies. 👍

Excellent Matt !

I love your intro. That is a compliment almost never given from me. Soothing and short with an epic feel to fit the subject matter. I enjoy all your videos thanks for all your work.

Awesome video

Love it!

Another interesting video thanks.

Have you a video on the history of archeology? Love this presentation as I do all your work. Thank you. 😊

Excellent

More superb content, Matt. Thank you for your continued dedication and hard work bringing these brilliant videos to your eager viewers.

I got your mysterious shaft right here

@AncientArchitects

9 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@AaronNellessen

9 ай бұрын

Haha I hope this becomes the top comment 🤣

@JeremyDahl

9 ай бұрын

You take this thumbs up, and you fuckin like it. 💦

@stephengallagher2209

9 ай бұрын

FFS, tone officially lowered... well played lol

@WangNurMouth

9 ай бұрын

I got an explorer for that shaft right here. "We can fit anything, any size, anywhere!". Here at ForceNLube, we use a dual patented interchangeable system of either force and or lube to ensure the tightest fit possible. Because when you want some pushed in, you want it forced in.

Great work, Matt. Your professionalism shines a light on this ancient history.

Fascinating stuff man. I hope i get to see Giza one day.

You bought a new mic. And yes, it sounds great.

Very informative

18:55 soo true!!! This great point should always be in consideration. #yolo

Revealing thank you.

Thank you Matt❤

@AncientArchitects

9 ай бұрын

Thanks Lynn!

Is no one else looking at the "Tide Mark" in the Kings chamber ?

You are absolutly right Matt

Thank you

It is amazing for all the years that it has looked at and investigated there are still so many questions. But maybe that's good. Then we might think we know everything and stop asking questions. We always need to ask questions. Thanks for the video.

Nice

Good work ❤Matt as usual Please make video on pyramid of unas And where is the video ending BGM 😊

The holes might have been for stabilizing scaffolding. Great presentation!

Has anyone suggested that the internal ramp was actually an external ramp over a smaller already existing pyramid that just contained the queen's chamber and explains why those air shafts stop. Because that was the original edge of the pyramid. Has anyone else postulated this theory yet?

@Js-rq9uj

9 ай бұрын

yeah when they sent the robot into the air shafts, snake bros has a great video going over the whole expedition. I think I just figured out why they had to rebuild the pyramid over the old one is because the north-south alignment became off somehow, or they calculated incorrectly the first time. Maybe that explains the 8 sides?

@redwoodcoast

9 ай бұрын

I know that exactly that smaller-to-larger theory is viewed as explaining the building (and assumed expanding) of the step pyramid, but I think I recall that at least once I've heard it applied to explaining the shorter length of the Queen's chamber shafts. But analysis of the center pyramid is seemingly quite rare and far between.

@paulroberts7429

9 ай бұрын

That is a fantastic suggestion, good job

@shanerobertson6267

8 ай бұрын

Matt done a whole movie on it. Suggested gp was smaller. Perhaps it’s been enlarged and renovated by Khufu.

hell yeah its Matt time ! we have to give props to belzoni for preserving the writings in the chamber 8:58 he really was smarter than most of his time and after him realising that the writing were very fragil he took the time to get them immortalised

I just realized how little I know of this pyramid compared to the Great Pyramid, which indeed does steal the spotlight.

19th century tomb explorers: non-destructive investigations? what`s that? Johnny bring me a cartridge of TNT

Mystery shafts? I’m in.

❤️🤍💙..... Thank You !!

@AncientArchitects

9 ай бұрын

👍

It dropped 7 minutes ago we are the 355th view and the 43rd like, from Boise Idaho USA.

@AncientArchitects

9 ай бұрын

Thank you 🙏

It's hard to believe all that stone above what's dug into the limestone bedrock has absolutely no hidden chambers/voids in it either

If the chamber is in the bedrock has there been any investigation to find any chambers further up in the overall mass of the pyramid? If the Grand Gallery in the Great Pyramid was used for construction purposes, shouldn't this pyramid have something similar?

@shadowranger9592

9 ай бұрын

Assuming there are no other chambers hidden in the superstructure, there aren't any particulary large blocks of masonry higher up in the pyramid. Grand Gallery and/or Big Void were most likely been used as a ramp for a counterweight to help haul the largest single blocks weighing up to 50 tons to the height of the King's Chamber and relieving chambers above it. If there are no similar blocks high up in the Chafre's pyramid, there's no need for a structure like that. Blocks that form the gabled ceiling in the Chafre's burial chamber are really close to ground level so a small ramp would seem sufficient, no need for an inclined corridor high up.

@kennethferland5579

4 ай бұрын

It would not need any such features because it has no massive blocks above ground level, the burial chamber room lintals would be put in place first even before the chamber is dug out and would only need to be dragged into place across level ground.

You have a great way of, kinda reading my mind i was just wondering do they build the small shafts in, surely thty do. Then you answered my question. Can see why people go into this subject, it's fascinating.

@AncientArchitects

9 ай бұрын

Thanks 🙏

@stephenlamley541

9 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects np

While I was watching the video and seeing the photos and diagrams of the two holes in the Khafre Burial Chamber, something clicked and I thought "I wonder if they were intended to hold the two ends of a wooden beam, which was used as part of the supporting framework for a partition?" Then I watched another couple minutes of the video, and heard my theory (hypothesis?) put into audible words.

My guess is the square holes in the walls were for anchoring wooden beams that were used to lift & move heavy objects (sarcophagus) and support structure as the limestone ceiling blocks were positioned.

I have always wondered about the construction of the Khafre pyramid given that it is within the generation of the Great pyramid, yet does not exhibit the technology used previously to move the stones. (e.g. the grand gallery or the spiral ramp). Finally it is a large structure that apperently has not been imaged using muon or any other cosmic ray process.

@johnassal5838

9 ай бұрын

If the Khefre pyramid truly has never been scanned then it's very possible there are indeed undiscovered chambers and tunnels.

@paulroberts7429

9 ай бұрын

In Bob Briers book and lectures he found evidence that the health of the pharaoh determined the grandeur meaning the vizier played it safe by first putting the tomb in the bedrock.

I really always thought those shafts are there for the burning of candles or whatever light source the ancient Egyptians would have used. I imagine soot and smoke would be a massive problem if people were to spend any amount of time in these chambers so an "airshaft" would be needed for breathing good air, ventilation and for the removal of smoke an soot for lighting.

Another very interesting video. Thank you Matt.

Fascinating as always! The Khafre pyramid does need more study. Thanks Matt!

@dazuk1969

9 ай бұрын

I agree with that. I am convinced there is more in there than we know. One little chamber in a pyramid of that size ?. Believe it or not the Khafre pyramid is the third largest. The red pyramid is the second largest so also needs a lot more study.

@barrywalser2384

9 ай бұрын

@@dazuk1969 I agree with that. I have been in the Red Pyramid and it is amazing.

Ancient Architects, you should put a warning on your videos saying, my videos will always end with me pissing on your fire! LOL

Fascinating,, the phrase you can't see the forest for the trees involves every single Egyptian structure 😅 lol you need to try to deconstruct them all and figure out their purpose. I would hate to think anyone would disagree that there's not as many passages and rooms above-ground inside that pyramid as the other one. It's going to be the last great chance to find evidence of exactly what those things were for. The fact zahi hawass is not trying to find an opening is a crime against humanity. Great Video! Thanks

so the chamber ceiling of khafra's was once painted? how interesting! are there ANY details about the colours?

Hieroglyphs (time 6:00) The center hieroglyphs appear to be cloth-serpent-duck, which spells ‘setchpa’ and means ‘food’ or ‘provisions’. The eye glyph is ‘ari’ and can refer to counting, but the following glyphs are too fragmentary to be sure. Ralph

I think this is the first time I have seen inside this piromid

The holes "niche's" were there to hold Magical Bricks as found in later burial chambers in Egypt.

I would like to know if anyone has tried infrared or ultraviolet photography of these chambers. This might bring out traces of paint which would provide some new evidence of what went on after construction.

I'm still fascinated about that ticket and plastic spool way up the shaft in the Queens chamber ... and that window named after you!!! Any news about that?

El video está genial, por favor, subtítulos en español 😉

quaried floor with hyroglyphs at the bottom would lead the guy to think there is something hidden.

Great infy

The first time I saw these, I thought they looked like they would hold a beam across which could be draped a large curtain, not unlike the one that was in the Hebrew temple. So perhaps they started with the idea of constructing a wall and ended with the idea of employing elaborate drapery.

👍🏼

wow.

I think those shafts contain cable to monitor any collapse of the structure while closing the rest of the pyramid, sometimes it’s just simple.

13:03 are these graphics by you Matt?

As a bloke who has builders around him his whole life I am going to say they there was timber beam that ran from north to south probably as a support for the builders to work on

perhaps the planned or dug high holes were for support beams for lifting or maneuvering the coffer or other things long gone at that step below the holes.

Although I can not disprove your theory for what the holes were made for when I first saw them in your video I thought, "Oh, they must have had a wooden or metal beam that went between the holes on which they hung tapestries or fabric of some kind."

Hi, really enjoyed this one....fantastic info...very well presented....all the best and thank you.....

the Great Pyramid of Khufu the Excellent Pyramid of Khafre the Pretty Damn Good Pyramid of Menkaure .....the Well, It's The Thought That Counts Pyramid of Amenemhat III

I think that assuming that a contruction of this pyramid or the bent pyramid had unfinished fitures is like a modern skyscrapers builders not compleating the last week of work. By the time these massive pyramids (even the smaller ones are massive) i don't think the builders would have made mistakes.

13:45 probably holding some wooden structures? In Provadia, Bulgaria, we have this super old ancient city called Solnitsata believed to be flourishing around 4700-4200 BC, and it which has similar carvings into the stone in places, believed to be for the purpose of inserting wooden structures like doors and such. Just a suggestion, obviously, you're much more familiar with Egyptian stuff lol.

Air shaft, I knew that girl back in high school. It was like throwing a hotdog down a hallway

@johngriffiths118

9 ай бұрын

I knew her sister

"Painted" has 2 meanings and you're conflating them. If they had designs on them, then it would've been described as such. Obviously, the ceilings just had a coat of paint applied. This doesn't qualify as hieroglyphics by any stretch. Try again.

How about the drubbing that World of Antiquities gave those unshartedx guys?? Haha marvelous

The drawing shown at 11:22 in this video has the outline of the roof slabs. The horizontal axis of the shafts intersects that. If they were originally intended to be air shafts, oops! Builders would have had to start again at a lower level, or give up on the shafts. Note that something that was original supposed to be an air shaft could later have been repurposed to hold a beam.

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