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@doomed2die595

2 ай бұрын

please visit Kef Kalesi, Ayanis and Cavustepe, be a waste of a trip not going to these sites as well.

Thanks to your channel, I moved from supernatural theories to a pragmatic, balanced, scientific approach of the topic of Egypt. Thank You for your content. Many facts cannot be missed by an open minded person. I was wrong many times, circulating around fairy tale theories, but whoever I listens to Your scientific reserch I couldn't do anything else but admit that You was right. not on every single topic, but common sense allows me to develop my thinking away from many cringe theories, thanks to You. Thank You!!!

@Salmon_Rush_Die

2 ай бұрын

Haha same.. I was one of those guys who wanted the Great Pyramid to be a ram water pump/electric field generator.

@mombaassa

2 ай бұрын

It's always amazing, to learn what people can achieve, even when they don't have suitable technology or equipment. I saw a documentary once, that solved the puzzle of how Ancient Egyptians, placed and erected large obelisks. No, cranes, ropes, pulleys, counter weights... etc. It was all done by shifting sand... and yes, they gave a demonstration.

Interesting structure. Thanks for making this video.

Kings Khasekhem, and his son Khasekhemui (pronounced 'kha-se-khem-oo-wee') built some interesting monuments and had some Nile boats buried near Abydos. Thanks for your wonderful video!

Best documentary channel

Wonderful video, if I ever make it to Egypt Abydos is the first place to see on the list. Thanks for posting!

Nice one Matt, thanks.

I love learning more about the earlier dynasties. Looking forward to your upcoming videos.

Fantastic Friday night viewing.Thanks Matt. Happy Easter 😊

Looking forward to the upcoming videos about the early dynasties

Thanks I'm looking forward to information about the Earlier Dynasty. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼🌻

Would love to see a video on the great pyramid Chevrons

Good to get some info about the 2nd Dynasty. Thanks Matt!

thank you...more please !!!!

Really enjoy your work pal, keep on, you open up an amazing window into a world I can only dream of visiting. I am motivated to get cracking on a plan to visit Egypt every time you blow my puny mind. Super Duper Thanks!

Thank you sir! 👍

Looking forward to more early dynasty videos 😊

The facade is reminiscent of Mesopotamian structures. Thanks for sharing, love your channel.

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

Indeed it is. Uncanny!

@deusgr

2 ай бұрын

Love your channel Egyptologist. African humid period is the best era.

@TheEricthefruitbat

2 ай бұрын

​@@AncientArchitects Not sure if you were being sarcastic, but it isn't uncanny. The style is based on Mesopotamian architecture.

Amazing human history.

Thank you.

My birthday is complete 👍🏼a video from Matt❤ thanx

Great stuff!

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

👍

@scottpetersen2964

2 ай бұрын

Big fan from Omaha, Nebraska, USA. Keep up the great work!!!

What just 5 sec. Ago.? HAPPY Easter All 🐰🐇🥚😽

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

Happy Easter! 🐣

I wish your videos were an hour long.

The NW-SO direction of the building is interesting. My house (built around 1700) in the north of Sweden is in the opposite direction. It has the sun coming to our front side at noon so that the whole afternoon/evening is sunny! The sun is directly pointing to our front porch on the midsummer.

Very reminiscent of the Mesopotamian brick style of building houses, ziggurats, etc. Uruk is a perfect example.

interesting

Looks like a nice swimming pool to me.

Looking forwad to see/hear about 1-3 dinanasty. Lee1💙💙

Woooo

I still say they need to dredge part of the Nile . If they moved massive 100+ ton stones , they must have made mistakes and lost a few during transport.

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

Yeah. I bet there is a lot at the bottom of the Nile!

@russellmillar7132

2 ай бұрын

Most of them likely made it safely to their destinations.

@84Rabbitz

2 ай бұрын

@@russellmillar7132 I think they would have lost a bunch . And also have zero chance of getting them out of the water.

@russellmillar7132

2 ай бұрын

@@84Rabbitz But most of them made it.

@bozo5632

2 ай бұрын

Riverbed penetrating sonar, maybe?

This is the era of Egyptian history I am most interested in.

Matt 👍❤

Where can I score a tame Jackal?

3:04 3:12 to 3:27 3:43 cc (rationale behind how this could not be a fortress) 3:51 to 4:04 NB ( not to mention all those hornets and wild jackals 😶) 4:20 to 4:31 (Mornington Crescent, anyone?) 4:47 to 4:57 5:12

Hiya Matt, whatcha got for us today?

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

It’s an old one “remastered”. Easter is a time to tidy up old content. So hard to concentrate on script writing with the kids off.

Khasekhemwy also build a similar structure at Nekhen

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Amazing feeling when you see the real Egyptian constructions, using small stone bricks and blocks. Real way to differentiate from the builder's of the pyramids at giza and other monolithic giant block stones constructions the Egyptians had nothing to do with. 😅

Do a video on why they rock cutting and carving etc are similar throughout the worlds ancient structures and who passed on this knowledge?

@mattking993

2 ай бұрын

How else are you going to cut/carve rocks? The old guy with all the experience is going to teach the young guy who has no experience.

@PABYT506

2 ай бұрын

@@mattking993 no i meant like why are the Famous " Nubs" found all over the world

@mattking993

2 ай бұрын

@@PABYT506 Personally i think the rocks are just unfinished. When the rock is quarried you do not want to be the guy under that thing when the last bit of unwanted rock is removed. The experts think that wood was placed under the rock after it was almost finished being quarried and they would pour water on the wood causing the wood to expand and break the rock loose. I think those nubs are what is left of the points where it was still attached. I heard some where that the experts think those nubs were used to help move the rocks but i do not know much about that.

@AveragePicker

2 ай бұрын

@@PABYT506 Nubs aren't found all over the world and we see some nubs and some indentions. Nobody needs to have passed this idea. If you need a way to secure something from slipping or prop it or leverage from...it's a very practical solution. There are also probably some that get called nubs that were likely platform supports or some other sort of use.

@PABYT506

2 ай бұрын

@@AveragePicker graham hancock thinks man with handbags passed it on 😉

That mud brick is a long way from The Great Pyramid and Giza plateau

@AveragePicker

2 ай бұрын

By a couple of dynasties

@MickRac10

2 ай бұрын

@@AveragePicker khasekhemwy was about 110 years before the accepted archaeology date of the Great Pyramid. That's a very short time to go from mud brick to giant megalith building. That was the gyst

@AveragePicker

2 ай бұрын

@MickRac10 They never stopped using mud brick and were working stone then too...

@AnExcellentChef

2 ай бұрын

@@MickRac10 Stranger things have happened. It only took some 66 years to go from the Wright brothers' first flight to man setting foot on the Moon.

@MickRac10

2 ай бұрын

@@AnExcellentChef That is true, but technology changed and there is a record of it. The record states that the Egyptians were using copper chisels all through that period. That's not getting through granite. Mud brick I can understand. Even some limestone

4th, 29 March 2024

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

Hey Merlin!

Comment

What is your opinion on the apparent 8-sides of the Great Pyramid? According to World of Antiquity it is merely a side effect of how it was built and later Pyramids corrected their strategy accordingly. Is that the consensus? It seems likely, but it seems to me equally likely they intended it. I'm just curious what everybody else thinks of it. At first I thought maybe it was all a hoax, but the indentations are really there.

@AveragePicker

2 ай бұрын

It seems to be a result from a number of things from construction to shifting and settling to erosion, to when casing stones and blocks were rolled off the upper levels. The sort of 8 sided concavity pattern appears on other pyramids as well. No side of any of them are the same though, even on the same pyramid. They are off center, don't run all the way to the top, the "inner" line isn't even the same height across the various sides, they are also unevenly distributed to the left and right, tend to widen but again different on each side, etc. There are a few research papers on it that did some various modeling. I'm not sure there is a complete consensus, all the papers I've looked at and read seem to suggest a variety of reasons but then weight one more than the other, which leads me to think it is just a combination. It is also only visible under certain lighting conditions from overhead and with the contrast cranked way up. There is no way it was intentional. The inner core, IE under the casing stones, is not that precise and there are is a lot of just filler stone and even crude mortar dumped into the cracks between the limestones blocks, of which no two are the same. This concavity can also be inferred in some of the collapsed ones, in the way the rubble has given way.

Don't take your history for granite

"resin barn"... 😂

"Originally some were excited to think it was a pyramid, but were disappointed to find that it was something else." -> What kind of a dumbass would be excited to find another pyramid? Are there too few of those in Egypt? I would be excited to find just about any other type of building(s).

Um... all jackals are wild. I did have a chuckle at that description of burrowing jackals. No such thing as a domesticated jackal. And yes, shredding fine hairs, some can be tamed if started early enough but they will always be wild ie undomesticated no matter what. And your lovely "tamed" jackal will destroy your furniture, require actual prey meat, many hours free roaming, and etc including elimination of waste. There are some listed countries in the article I checked that allow a jackal as a pet but it is considered an exotic and subject to all perquisite licenses and requirements, if not for you to just be in business as a zoo.

@cameronbartlett6593

2 ай бұрын

Fun Fact: Not all fun facts are fun facts.

How can we be sure that the; [Dinysties, Mustafa's]; weren't add ons to this Ancient Fort?

@mattking993

2 ай бұрын

Until they find evidence that suggests they are add-ons why would anyone bother to assume that?

not sure how I feel about the heavy restoration work...

@AveragePicker

2 ай бұрын

I don't mind restoration work...but I kind of wish they would paint the restoration parts a bright pink. lol... It can be very difficult to tell on some of it just how much or how little is a restore/rescue.

@cameronbartlett6593

2 ай бұрын

There is a huge meeting Monday. If you're not there, they are going to got at and get 'er done.

"older than the Great pyramid"? 🤨 Sooo, they already had bricks? Then they decided, "instead of making better bricks, we'll use great big slabs of giant rock"? 😐

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

Mud bricks don’t last as long as stone. It’s an obvious transition for longevity.

@billcook7285

2 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects that was actually my first thought. then it occurred to me that the brick, in the temple that's older than the pyramid, is still there. Now I know what you're going to say. "There's a little difference". I can dig it. But still, it seems like a strange transition choice. I mean, what was that conversation like? "Hey pharaoh, these mud bricks might not look too good in 5,000 years, what do you say, instead of making better bricks, we move on to the big fkn rock phase"?

@AveragePicker

2 ай бұрын

​@billcook7285 They never really stopped using mud brick. Like today we build different things out of different things.

@billcook7285

2 ай бұрын

@@AveragePicker you know that makes a lot of sense.

@russellmillar7132

2 ай бұрын

@@billcook7285 Giza was a limestone quarry where the 2,5 ton blocks could be cut and then dragged to the site about 100 meters. This site likely didn't have easy access to that quantity and quality of limestone. The design and construction know how likely hadn't been fully conceived this early, The mixture and method they used for making bricks obviously resulted in a very durable product, similar to that used some places in Mesopotamia.

from Buliding Pyramids to mudbrick structures.. wow the gyptians really did build those pyramids and polished granite stones with rocks and sticks and what not

from Granite stones to MUDBRICKS !!! nothing to see here..

@AncientArchitects

2 ай бұрын

From Mudbrick to limestone/granite, you mean.

@patrickck8185

2 ай бұрын

@@AncientArchitects no the other way around.. pyramids are much older than anything constructed from mudbricks, since they are falling apart pyramids were done by another civilization and got nothing to do with the egyptians, that's how I see it. for example, mudbricks were used in eastern Europe in the early 1900's for constructing family houses..

@morkusmorkus6040

2 ай бұрын

​@@patrickck8185 Lol. No. Very obviously the pyramids are 4th Dynasty. You just WANT to believe they're older so you just dismiss any evidence to the contrary (which is almost all of it). Its cringe.

@patrickck8185

2 ай бұрын

@@morkusmorkus6040 primitive comment just like anything built from mudbricks

@patrickck8185

2 ай бұрын

@@morkusmorkus6040 300years gap between the 2nd and 4th dynasty, so you telling me egyptians went from mudbricks to huge granite blocks and back to mudbricks or smaller structures? and back to less defined columns and statues? are your blind or just ignorant?

Measuring the age of things with respect to the pyramids is elusive. There is enough circumstantial evidence to cast doubt on the accepted age of the pyramids. This is not a game, but if it were the score would be 17 to 0 in favor of the conspiracy theorists. Other than that, interesting video. Raiding the whole issue of dating old non-organic finds from this general period. I’m no more confident of the dating of mid-bricks than I am with stone pyramids. Fox out

@mattking993

2 ай бұрын

Heya Fox, haven't seen you in a long time. As usual i do not agree with any of that stuff you said. Judging by the number of conspiracy theories that have been thoroughly debunked i think you are looking at the score board all wrong. I guess it is to be expected though since the people on that side of the fence love to get the facts all wrong. Anyways, good to see your still alive and doing well i hope.

@vulpesvulpes5177

2 ай бұрын

@@mattking993 Mean, nasty still kicking. Still prowling the less beaten paths. Seems to me we once agreed to disagree. That said I guess it depends on which conspiracy theories your talking about. This video is simple. All the key issues are one of age and dating. Get one item dated incorrectly. Say by “dynasty”. A purely subjective guess-t-mate. Then you start tying other finds to that find. Pretty soon you e got a house of cards. Until some independent empirical dating process come up. We, you and I, have witnessed just such in only the last 10 years. “Modern man” just leaped from 40,000 to almost 200,000 years old. Largely unheralded. Just sort of snuck in on us. Largely by the process of uranium decay and some new excellent samples. More of this is coming. And you know the drill with a house of cards. Pull one out, the whole thing collapses. “Minor adjustments” are very difficult in that stack of cards. So. Just hypothetically. Push the pyramids back 1000 years. What’s that do to all these second dynasty mud brick constructs? What’s that do to the “who built what” thing built upon our take on “dynasties”. Then enter the recent DNA data. That’s all out of kilter with our idea of peoples and migrations. They can only patch up the old time line so much. Then they need to start with a clean page. Then it’s 18 to 0, set game match. Or not. It just goes on. Fox out

@mattking993

2 ай бұрын

@@vulpesvulpes5177 Mean, nasty and still kicking and your mind is still sharp as a razor. Good memory, yes we did agree to disagree :). I can only attest to the conspiracy theories that i have heard of and that would mostly be the 1s that have tried to used ancient Egypt to prove their hypothesis. Mud bricks can be carbon dated. If the method for dating a site is shady or weak it is contested until more reliable data is gathered. I will have to accept what you said about modern man as i do not keep up with that subject very well. I will start googling later and read up on this. Since your last paragraph is purely hypothetical i am not really going to say much except that even if the age of the pyramids were pushed back 1,000 yrs that still would not be a point for the conspiracy theorists since they are pushing for a far older age.

@vulpesvulpes5177

2 ай бұрын

@@mattking993 Well Matt. I intuit we are not really that much at odds. There are conspiracy theories and then Conspiracy theories. Last week I spent considerable time kicking horns with a couple guys that were flat-earth types and one who insisted that Homo evolved somewhere in Eurasia and migrated into, not out of Africa. Now you just alluded to photo-luminescence dating. Yes. They can date mud bricks IF there are sufficient sticks or straw in the mud. That used to be a long shot, back when C14 was less efficient than it is today. They can almost date flys tracks now. Photo-luminescence is still touchy. Every thing has to be just right. Quartz or feldspar minerals in the sample. Adequate light exposure for activation. Adequately large sample size. Redundant samples. Perfect sample collection and storage. Perfect lab technique. It’s just not a forgiving process. One “aw-shit” and your out of luck. Back to square one. But on stuff like cut stones it’s the only way to date the cut, not the parent stone. With time it will get better. Like uranium decay and C14. Traditional subjective dating or geological dating by layers or proximity will never get better. It was the best they had three generations ago. Nothing has or can improve on that technique now or in the future. The more they cross reference with some type of empirical test the shakier old “conventional “ dates become. That’s a fact. Not a conspiracy theory. But it’s a hard fact for many older archaeologists to swallow. Maybe we will cross paths more often. Nothing really radical in this video. I just picked up on the turn of the phrase in the title and came to watch. I don’t frequent here often. Fox out

Boring

I love your vids, but the title would suggest you are siding with the baseless claims of Egyptologists on the age of the Pyramids !

@BillSikes.

2 ай бұрын

They're not baseless claims, we know who built what, there's documentary evidence everywhere 🙄

@mattking993

2 ай бұрын

Did you say baseless? Yup you actually said baseless wahahaha. What rock have you been hiding under?

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2700BC means………the white race was in caucus mountains neanderthal caves then. Arabs are caucasian and they also know that history. BOTH are brothers.