The Age of the Pyramid Builders

More than 4500 years ago, Ancient Egypt came to a height for the first time during the Old Kingdom period. This period saw the development of much of what we now think of as Ancient Egyptian, including the idea of a divine king, the use of hieroglyphics, and the construction of pyramids. Also known as the “Age of the Pyramid Builders,” the Old Kingdom saw some of the greatest monuments ever built by man.
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  • @Taistelukalkkuna
    @Taistelukalkkuna3 жыл бұрын

    6:50 Pharaoh´s lesser known brother, Snafu, was in charge of construction. But he got sacked due incompetence.

  • @navret1707

    @navret1707

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don’t forget his cousin TACFU and grandfather FUBAR, all of whom suffered the same end as SNAFU. 😁

  • @Taistelukalkkuna

    @Taistelukalkkuna

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@navret1707 I wonder whatever happened to their military commander REMF. He was assigned to campaign in Nubia, and no word has , as of yet, come back. His parting words were "let´s go trash some noobs..."

  • @ChiefMiddleFinger

    @ChiefMiddleFinger

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's hilarious !!!

  • @Doobie3010

    @Doobie3010

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@navret1707 Their sister Tofu was tasty,apparently.

  • @revade6698

    @revade6698

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@navret1707 Not to mention the incompetent couple TARFU and FAFU - you remember them...Paul Ankh sang at their wedding.

  • @stenbak88
    @stenbak883 жыл бұрын

    It would be so cool to be able to go back and see the Sphinx when it was in perfect condition I bet it was so grand

  • @deathsheadknight2137

    @deathsheadknight2137

    3 жыл бұрын

    yeah, with the original lion head

  • @dr.froghopper6711

    @dr.froghopper6711

    3 жыл бұрын

    I’d be thoroughly surprised if the original looked very much like it does today. I’ve heard theories that it was a lion, a dog, a woman. All of the notions had some merit and people arguing against them. I’m not sure we’ll ever know. A species with amnesia.

  • @deathsheadknight2137

    @deathsheadknight2137

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dr.froghopper6711 either way, it's got a pinhead now compared to basically every other Sphinx so there was obviously meddling at some point to make the head disproportionately small

  • @OddityDK

    @OddityDK

    3 жыл бұрын

    And the pyramids were white at the time as well. Must have looked spectacular.

  • @deathsheadknight2137

    @deathsheadknight2137

    3 жыл бұрын

    ​@@OddityDK do you supposed they were polished to a shine?

  • @WildBillCox13
    @WildBillCox133 жыл бұрын

    Percy Shelley . . . one of my favorite crazy people, Oh so apropos: I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said-“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

  • @corettaha7855

    @corettaha7855

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don’t play favorites with crazy people. It will only result in heartache.

  • @WildBillCox13

    @WildBillCox13

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@corettaha7855 Thanks for the point. I'm another of my favorite crazy people. As an artist, I know a lot of us. Life is thereby made more interesting, diverting, and wider of option.

  • @johnnybeanz1296

    @johnnybeanz1296

    3 жыл бұрын

    One of his best.

  • @BA-gn3qb
    @BA-gn3qb3 жыл бұрын

    How long does someone have to be dead, to turn a grave robber into an archaeologist?

  • @chasbodaniels1744

    @chasbodaniels1744

    3 жыл бұрын

    There’s an excellent point to ponder. So far, the Titanic “guidelines” are to immediately cease probing in the event human remains are discovered. That’s just barely over one century.

  • @Doobie3010

    @Doobie3010

    3 жыл бұрын

    100 years.

  • @catjudo1

    @catjudo1

    3 жыл бұрын

    There was an archaeologist back in the 1930s that might be able to help with this. He was a professor and was loved by his students (especially the female ones) and while he claimed that the artifacts he found belonged in a museum, his methods were often questionable, as were his philandering ways. As I recall his dad's name was Henry and his own name derived from his childhood dog. Maybe he can help with that excellent question.

  • @BA-gn3qb

    @BA-gn3qb

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@catjudo1 - Sweet! Can you give him a call? Also, ask him why the Nazis were using a WWI British tank in the Middle East?

  • @catjudo1

    @catjudo1

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@BA-gn3qb Pretty sure Rommel's tanks wouldn't arrive for a few years. The Mark IV was there, so they got that running, then added a turret for good measure. Nobody else there would have a tank, so even an old one would put some whoopass on anyone they encountered. That's my guess!

  • @18Bees
    @18Bees3 жыл бұрын

    It’s a great reminder that civilizations come and go and we are no different.

  • @pattonpending7390

    @pattonpending7390

    3 жыл бұрын

    But, we ARE different. We have the capacity to take out the rest of the world with us when we go. {shudder}

  • @sirmounted8499

    @sirmounted8499

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pattonpending7390 A reset on humanity wouldn't be so bad. I wish we could work things out and not have to start from a new, but I doubt it will happen.

  • @sirmounted8499

    @sirmounted8499

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@new-lviv If you only knew my friend.

  • @seanharlow3091

    @seanharlow3091

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pattonpending7390 except not every nation ends in nuclear fire or total war, centuries of political strife and can lead to new nation borders. I bet the map of the world in 1000 years will be unrecognizable

  • @seanharlow3091

    @seanharlow3091

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sirmounted8499 edgy boy alert

  • @David-bf6bz
    @David-bf6bz3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for covering the other theories on the Sphinx. There are a lot of conflicting data when it comes to Egyptian works.

  • @keithtorgersen9664

    @keithtorgersen9664

    Жыл бұрын

    There’s another theory that falls under the Old Sphinx category, and it’s that the Sphinx may not have been originally built with a human head, but may have been a complete sculpture of a lion. This comes from a documentary I had seen many years ago, probably from the discovery channel.

  • @myapopova
    @myapopova3 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou for addressing the Sphinx erosion hypothesis. It is so mysterious, as you say, and we will never have a clearer picture if it isn't investigated thoroughly

  • @stebur4277

    @stebur4277

    3 жыл бұрын

    Robert Schoch has done amazing work investigating this. Please check out Graham Hancock and Schoch on KZread.

  • @boathousejoed9005

    @boathousejoed9005

    3 жыл бұрын

    Could it have been constant libations?

  • @swirvinbirds1971

    @swirvinbirds1971

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@stebur4277 somebody took a left hand turn to pseudoscience avenue...

  • @darrylmcginty1296

    @darrylmcginty1296

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can’t mention those two names without Brien Forster

  • @raypelling6440

    @raypelling6440

    3 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely. Geologists place the weathering of the Sphinx and some other forms around the Pyramid complex to 25,000 BC. This places it at a time when the sphinx would line up with the rising constellation of Leo the Lion. Anyone who looks at the sphinx can see that the head is not proportional to the rest of the body. I humbly ubmit some later goose was vain enough to carve his likeness out of the lion's head originally there. Most Egyptologists ignore the Geologist's evidence because it messes with their timelines, which are sometimes based on rubbish that a brittish lord scribbled in the Great Pyramid. A better explanation for the evidence of the Geologists is that there have been mutliple "Dark Ages" in human history, and we are only just now coming out of much larger one than the Middle Ages that usually bears the name. Study of the Great Pyramid and Sphinx is fascinating and more folks should be open to evidence and mystery.

  • @SSRCalifornia
    @SSRCalifornia3 жыл бұрын

    I have scoured your channel and have found only one reference to the city of St. Nazaire, France, in your video last year about the Normandie transatlantic ocean liner. My interest in the town is its place in the history of World War II as the location of the Normandie dry dock: one of the largest dry docks in the world and the only dry dock on the Atlantic coast capable of servicing the German battleships Tirpitz and Bismarck. St. Nazaire was the location of the raid known in British military circles as "The Greatest Raid of All." It was a raid in which British commandos and sailors set about to destroy the dry dock and deny the German battleships access to repair facilities on the Atlantic coast. This past February, just before the COVID-19 pandemic took hold of the world, I was able to kick an item off my bucket list by visiting the site of the Greatest Raid of All. It was, for me, a humbling experience to walk on ground that played host to one of the most brazen military raids in history, and it deserves to be remembered. Could we see an episode on "The Greatest Raid of All"?

  • @FunkyMonk4Life
    @FunkyMonk4Life3 жыл бұрын

    I've only recently discovered this channel and have been on a binge with your content. As a history buff and an information junkie, this channel is a veritable treasure trove of content that is, quite possibly, unparalleled on KZread. It's the first channel I've ever joined as a patron. Keep up the fantastic work History Guy and thank you for your efforts.

  • @djolley61
    @djolley613 жыл бұрын

    There were small populations of mammoths still living in remote areas when the great pyramids were being built.

  • @generalkayoss7347

    @generalkayoss7347

    3 жыл бұрын

    Mammoths are irrelevant, they had a large population of modern elephants available right on their doorstep.

  • @djolley61

    @djolley61

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@generalkayoss7347 I wasn't implying they used mammoths to help build the pyramids, was just providing some perspective on how long ago it was.

  • @mikelatta484
    @mikelatta4843 жыл бұрын

    Great. Now I have The Bangles stuck in my head.

  • @KarlBunker

    @KarlBunker

    3 жыл бұрын

    You mean their hit song "Walk With an Erection"?

  • @caturdaynite7217

    @caturdaynite7217

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or Steve Martin? Could have won a Grammy. Buried in his jammies.

  • @HemlockRidge

    @HemlockRidge

    3 жыл бұрын

    Could be worse. You could have some sucky rap thing in there.

  • @tsopmocful1958

    @tsopmocful1958

    3 жыл бұрын

    I even cop them every Monday.

  • @randallmason9687

    @randallmason9687

    3 жыл бұрын

    Most sexy eye roll in history!

  • @QPRTokyo
    @QPRTokyo3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. Your videos are very interesting. Not only do your videos educate me, they cheer me up. Thank you again.🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

  • @rcrevel5767
    @rcrevel57673 жыл бұрын

    Many Thanks History Guy. You have made quarantine a bit easier to endure. Bravo Sir.

  • @jamescooley7849
    @jamescooley78493 жыл бұрын

    I've been there while in the army. The area radiates with the feeling of old. Keep up the history it's more important than most give credit. Excellent job history guy!

  • @johndowe7003

    @johndowe7003

    3 жыл бұрын

    now theres just trash blowing in the winds lol

  • @steveclark4291
    @steveclark42913 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for a very interesting and informative article !

  • @ethankegley14
    @ethankegley143 жыл бұрын

    8:29 this is correct, the erosion on the base and cut out shows that the complex is much older than most current egyptology.

  • @ulrichkamp6291

    @ulrichkamp6291

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, given that "current Egyptology" is only around 150 years old, you are correct ... !

  • @sgtspazz4321
    @sgtspazz43213 жыл бұрын

    Very enjoyable video, thanks. Suggestions for future episodes: 1) First Special Service Force, 2) The Black Watch Snipers, 3) Something on privateers. Thanks

  • @rboston33
    @rboston333 жыл бұрын

    Hi. I enjoy your work and the professionalism of your presentations.

  • @Ellesmere888
    @Ellesmere8883 жыл бұрын

    Excellent presentation ... as usual.

  • @bobalouie2413
    @bobalouie24133 жыл бұрын

    "Look on my works ye mighty and despair"!

  • @BHuang92
    @BHuang923 жыл бұрын

    The Pyramids. The oldest buildings paid by beer..........

  • @Taistelukalkkuna

    @Taistelukalkkuna

    3 жыл бұрын

    With that you could hire horde of bros.

  • @51WCDodge

    @51WCDodge

    3 жыл бұрын

    I remember a friend of mine was quoted a fortune to knock down an old barn. So he bought a lot of cheap beer and scrumpy cider , then invited us all to bring a sledge hammer:-)

  • @ChiefMiddleFinger

    @ChiefMiddleFinger

    3 жыл бұрын

    Meade ot beer ?

  • @51WCDodge

    @51WCDodge

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ChiefMiddleFinger We British will steal any good idea. :-) kzread.info/dash/bejne/m66k0cexibGXXZs.html

  • @deathsheadknight2137

    @deathsheadknight2137

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@davenew-wave3546 I was peeling a garlic clove in one hand at the exact moment I read that

  • @marymoriarity2555
    @marymoriarity2555 Жыл бұрын

    I am very familiar with your channel for some reason. Had totally missed this episode on the pyramids. Great episode. Thank you.

  • @1962vid
    @1962vid3 жыл бұрын

    One of the best channels on KZread! Thanks again for another great video.

  • @TCK71
    @TCK713 жыл бұрын

    Great video, I love the delivery.

  • @robertmorris2388
    @robertmorris23883 жыл бұрын

    I was impressed as a primary school child to build the Gaza pyramid complex, Sphinx and all. National Geographic and well meaning teachers planting the seeds of my interest in History, I too, LOVE History. Thanks History Guy Team.

  • @scottfitchet9499
    @scottfitchet94993 жыл бұрын

    Hoping you’ll mention something about the likelihood of some of the large pyramids being water pumps.

  • @Chabink
    @Chabink3 жыл бұрын

    SuperLove that tie!!

  • @grimreaper6557
    @grimreaper65573 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for another awesome bit of history

  • @duanepigden1337
    @duanepigden13373 жыл бұрын

    Love this guy.

  • @mrains100
    @mrains1003 жыл бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @vincegiaccone4411
    @vincegiaccone44113 жыл бұрын

    Intriguing. Thanks.

  • @jacobhawley60
    @jacobhawley603 жыл бұрын

    Hey History Guy, just got one of your mugs and it’s absolutely amazing and I feel proud that I’m preserving history with every sip of my morning coffe! I’m very happy with my purchase and I will definitely become a member as well! Thanks History Guy!

  • @TheIhredpower
    @TheIhredpower3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you. That is all I can say. Just thank you for all you do.

  • @jjbode1
    @jjbode13 жыл бұрын

    Excellent review. Many thanks.

  • @russwoodward8251
    @russwoodward82513 жыл бұрын

    Thanks!

  • @larryfromwisconsin9970
    @larryfromwisconsin99703 жыл бұрын

    We visited Giza and Sakkara in 2005 and Angkor Wat in 2006. These should be on everyone's bucket list. Next Mayan temples. Great Barrier Reef, there is so much to do.

  • @VIpanfried
    @VIpanfried3 жыл бұрын

    Well done!

  • @skpjoecoursegold366
    @skpjoecoursegold3663 жыл бұрын

    thanks for the history.

  • @TerryC69
    @TerryC693 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful content!

  • @franknicholson6108
    @franknicholson61083 жыл бұрын

    excellent as usual thanks for the info.

  • @sandycee89
    @sandycee892 жыл бұрын

    Dynamic material, THG. I caught an episode you posted, millions of yrs earlier that north African desert was an ocean. That photo exposing, there jutting through the desert dunes, whale bones of an extinct species. Outstanding THG

  • @ravenslaves
    @ravenslaves3 жыл бұрын

    So much of history is the discovery that what we thought we knew, was wrong. It's hard enough to keep up on all of the new discoveries and harder still to connect the pieces. However, there is history under every footstep we take. We just have to remember to look down from time to time.

  • @stevedietrich8936
    @stevedietrich89363 жыл бұрын

    Good Morning THG. We visited Egypt in the late 1970s while I was stationed in Germany. The Step Pyramid was spelled Zoser at that time, so you might see different spellings. Saqqara was pronounced sah-KAH-ra, at least by our tour guide. We've got the obligatory tourist pictures of riding camels up the hill to the pyramids at Giza. Good times!

  • @hassanwally9161

    @hassanwally9161

    3 жыл бұрын

    You are totally right. That’s how they are pronounced.

  • @Ted_E_Bear
    @Ted_E_Bear3 жыл бұрын

    Great video!

  • @Mountain8ear
    @Mountain8ear Жыл бұрын

    I'd rather listen to actual geologists that say the water erosion predates what we believe the Sphinx's age was to begin with. Egyptologists are a really insular group, and they don't like listening to other specialists when they step on their long held, comfortable theories. You're awesome for bringing up the alternate theories.

  • @datasailor8132
    @datasailor81323 жыл бұрын

    My late father in law was a builder and a CB Battalion Commander in WW II finishing up on Okinawa. Back home he bid on the contract to move the statuary that would be affected by the Aswan Dam project. He was awarded the contract but on the day before he was to go to Egypt he was told that the contract had been awarded to an outfit “with connections.”.

  • @xvsj5833
    @xvsj58333 жыл бұрын

    Excellent Research THG ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @davidbogard8576
    @davidbogard85763 жыл бұрын

    May I recommend an episode on the USS Liberty. It's forgotten/hidden history worth remembering.

  • @rayceeya8659
    @rayceeya86593 жыл бұрын

    The HGs summery at the end just makes me think of Ozymandius.

  • @baarni
    @baarni3 жыл бұрын

    This is a great channel....

  • @daviddeangelo1330
    @daviddeangelo13303 жыл бұрын

    The Phaser is back on the shelf!!

  • @ap1701a

    @ap1701a

    3 жыл бұрын

    I noticed that too!

  • @MarshOakDojoTimPruitt
    @MarshOakDojoTimPruitt3 жыл бұрын

    thanks

  • @CyberThug1080i
    @CyberThug1080i3 жыл бұрын

    Good Show.

  • @donwold1622
    @donwold16223 жыл бұрын

    Actually the Sphinx is believed to be much older than the pyramids due to the weathering and water damage noted on it.

  • @joewelling7691
    @joewelling76913 жыл бұрын

    On Pepi II's pyramid, at around 12:00, you say a wall built around it was intended to buttress the structure to prevent it from "collapsing in on itself." I think a buttress only resists lateral forces that would allow the structure to collapse outward, not inward.

  • @timmyt603
    @timmyt6033 жыл бұрын

    I just recently discovered your channel for myself over the last few months and I love your work! With that said, I truly believe your passion for Magellan. I can't honestly say (as someone who watches KZread instead of cable) that I've ever believed the pitch for sponsors from other KZreadrs I watch but Magellan sounds cool and it really does seem like it's something you believe in. I'm gonna check it out. Thanks for the work you do! Love it!

  • @timmyt603

    @timmyt603

    3 жыл бұрын

    Immediately after watching this one your video for Mrs. Sherlock Holmes came on and I wanted to expand on my appreciation: thank you to both you and your wife!

  • @SteveHazel
    @SteveHazel3 жыл бұрын

    I kinda think the History Guy should read some Graham Hancock :)

  • @SteveHazel

    @SteveHazel

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@heskethowner Yeah, that sounds about right. If you haven't put in the work, name calling is probably a good option...

  • @SteveHazel

    @SteveHazel

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@heskethowner i thought his point with the sphinx was that it is much much older than the Egyptian historians say it is. and that many of the structures could be much older - including the pyramids. Say what you want about Graham Hancock but he has dedicated his life to investigating, researching, going to ALL of the ancient places (including diving to see them) and discovering NEW things. Not just in Egypt. Everywhere. All of the islands, in Asia, in America - eeevery single one of the ancient places. Egypt is not the most ancient place. Colombia is 14,000 years old. There are ochre paintings of mastadons and giant sloths that went extinct around 14,000 plus years ago. He has energized so many new archaeologists. He doesn't just read. Writing goes back maybe 3500bc. But humans have been around 300,000. And Homo erectus 2 million. Graham Hancock is leading the charge and finding out new things. Maybe some of it isn't true. Who cares. Some of it is! And all of it is new. Not stuff that's already been written down. New. So, you know, stuff you didn't read about when you got your degree. All degrees are is a point of pride. Show me the work. Cuz he sure as heck has put some work into it.

  • @brokeannbroken2547
    @brokeannbroken25473 жыл бұрын

    Please do a video on WW2 POW's that where shipped to the USA & how many, what what the POW's thought at being 1st captured to the end of the WW2. Mainly German POW's.I'm amazed at the lack of history. I just stumbled upon your channel. Go going.

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile3 жыл бұрын

    What do you call a group of cranky old men standing next to the great pyramids? A bunch of old Gizas

  • @JrGoonior

    @JrGoonior

    3 жыл бұрын

    You're in De Nile aren't you?

  • @51WCDodge

    @51WCDodge

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@JrGoonior Even the Camels have the hump !

  • @StuSaville

    @StuSaville

    3 жыл бұрын

    They're probably cranky from straining their necks looking up at the pyramids Send them to the Cairopractor...

  • @Taistelukalkkuna

    @Taistelukalkkuna

    3 жыл бұрын

    Those guys are plotting some pyramid scheme.

  • @tylerm8143

    @tylerm8143

    3 жыл бұрын

    This pun really sphinx ;)

  • @garynorris4648
    @garynorris46483 жыл бұрын

    Superb

  • @walterulasinksi7031
    @walterulasinksi70313 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for stating that the great pyramid and the others, ( 4 according to Herodotus, as a Black Pyramid was also constructed at Giza,)were built by well paid stone craftsmen. From a historical standpoint, they can be considered along with the Pyramids before as politically astute public works projects. While. Many Egyptologist still cling to the pronouncements of early archeologists such as Albright, in declaring that these structures were sold built using manpower, the evidence from the workers midens ( trash heaps) indicate the likelihood of the use of cattle for the heaviest of transport. And historically this would make sense as Egyptian farmers used them for cultivating their fields and would know that they could easily pull heavier loads and if the cattle died, it was time for a barbecue. As the other animal bones found were from goats. Even with the interregnum between the Old Kingdom,through the Middle Kingdom( the time of strife and the split in power between upper and lower Egypt) and then into the New Kingdom, the knowledge of masonry was not lost, but could not be paid for, to create monuments of great size. It was not until the 18th Dynasty when except for temples, great stone structures were again constructed. This coincided with both the Hebrew account of the Exodus from the Lower Egyptian rule of the Hyksos, then the expulsion of the Hyksos and the reunification of upper and lower Egypt. When multi speciality approaches are used, the method of the construction of the great pyramid can be determined and similarly, the account of the Middle Kingdom Hebrews,in the Nile Delta(Goshen), can be reconciled as is told they were forced to make mud bricks for the building of the two cities there Ramses and Pitom. With the modern techniques of Ground Penetrating Radar, the river stone foundations of Ramses have been located and such foundations could not have immediately supported the monumental stone of Pi- Ramses found at where it was moved to at Tanis, indicates that Ramses was first built with what the foundations could support. Mud Brick. All evidence can support a proper historical timeline narrative when approached with an open mind.

  • @Ben1159a
    @Ben1159a3 жыл бұрын

    This was fantastic, thank you.

  • @geoben1810
    @geoben18103 жыл бұрын

    Amazing history, beautiful country and beautiful people. Imagine being there when it was first built. Love from the USA🇺🇸✌

  • @kevinrwhooley9439
    @kevinrwhooley94393 жыл бұрын

    Every time I posted on the internet the fact that Newgrange is older than the pyramids, I get some loony claiming that the pyramids are actually 15 thousand years old and weren't actually built by the Egyptians.

  • @Mitchmeow

    @Mitchmeow

    3 жыл бұрын

    True enough, Newgrange is older. I just wish we knew what it really looked like, before it was "rebuilt."

  • @kevinrwhooley9439

    @kevinrwhooley9439

    3 жыл бұрын

    @C M Then why did you watch this video? Also get your info from reputable archaeologists and Egyptologists, not alternative facts conspiracy theorists.

  • @kevinrwhooley9439

    @kevinrwhooley9439

    3 жыл бұрын

    @C M also the carbon isotopes from the mortar corroborated that the Pyramid of Djoser was built around the time their accepted as being built.

  • @melvynobrien6193

    @melvynobrien6193

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kevinrwhooley9439 Nobody knows when or how the pyramids were built; archaeologists have to keep in line and follow the standard views on the pyramids, otherwise they lose tenure, funding and even their jobs. Don't start talking about "conspiracy theorists." That's a means by which people dismiss any alternative viewpoints. The Great Pyramid was never a tomb. Look at the "sarcophagus." It's not ornate like real sarcophagi. It clearly had a purpose of which we have no idea; but tomb it was not. It's all speculation, unconfirmed. Believe what you like, but too many "appears to be" and "seems to be" and "could be" and "may have been" in this video.

  • @melvynobrien6193

    @melvynobrien6193

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kevinrwhooley9439 Researchers have shown that there were over 50,000 floodings of the Nile around the Sphinx, when they counted the silt deposits. There's a video on KZread about it, but I can't recall the title. Don't believe what mainstream scientists tell you; they have to be careful about what they say.

  • @dghrimwolf9442
    @dghrimwolf94423 жыл бұрын

    This wasn't a video it was a commercial for Magellan Tv

  • @felixar90
    @felixar903 жыл бұрын

    The craziest thing to wrap your head around is that the pyramids and the sphynx were already 1000+ years old mythical relics when Tutankhamun came around, who was himself dead for over 1000 years by the time of Cleopatra's reign, and in fact we live closer in time to Cleopatra than she did to Kheops. And she died over 2000 years ago. Even crazier is how the Triceratops and Brontosaurus are actually separated by some 60 million years, and the triceratops is about as old as the brontosaurus was when the triceratops lived, give or take 10 million years.

  • @RedXlV

    @RedXlV

    3 жыл бұрын

    The gap between Allosaurus and Tyrannosaurus is 77 million years. Whereas the gap between Tyrannosaurus and us is only 66 million years.

  • @felixar90

    @felixar90

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@RedXlV Yeah, Allosaurus. That's the one I was trying to remember. Thanks!

  • @jynxmangrove1769
    @jynxmangrove17693 жыл бұрын

    You forgot and important fact. A pyramid is not a shape it is a name. Pyra (fire) Midos (middle) meaning the house with fire in the middle. What the Pyramids were used for is untold.

  • @troynewly
    @troynewly Жыл бұрын

    Nicely done. Another snippet of history about something as monumental as the pyramids. Thank you. I watched it twice, back to back for there's a lot to be remembered.

  • @pumpkinghead15
    @pumpkinghead153 жыл бұрын

    hi THG! I was wondering if you'd consider doing an episode on the Gurkhas of Nepal. They're almost mythological and I'd love to hear you explain some of their history.

  • @stephenrick6672
    @stephenrick66723 жыл бұрын

    Very informative, thanks!

  • @Svensk7119
    @Svensk7119 Жыл бұрын

    " '...look on my works, ye mighty, and despair.' Nothing beside remains..." Ozymandias

  • @dralexmclean
    @dralexmclean3 жыл бұрын

    Your bit on Soapy Smith reminded me of one of our local legends. A man born Ezra Allen Miner in 1847 in Kentucky. He's something of a local legend in the Kamloops British Columbia area as the "Gentleman Bandit" for his exploits as a train and Stagecoach robber. Unfailingly polite while committing his crimes he is worth looking into for an episode on your Channel. The Wikipedia link on "Bill Miner" as he became known follows: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Miner Love the channel, keep up the fascinating work.

  • @benjaminwatt2469
    @benjaminwatt24693 жыл бұрын

    I love seeing a video on ancient history. it would be nice if you continued to put out videos on some of the interesting cultures and events of BC history

  • @joegordon5117
    @joegordon5117 Жыл бұрын

    Another fascinating piece, although slightly sad that THG didn't finish off by treating us to singing a chorus of "Walk Like an Egyptian" 😁

  • @bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish
    @bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish3 жыл бұрын

    Great piece! My brother and I had the adventure of galloping on horseback around these great Giza pyramids and Sphynx many years ago.

  • @kiwibonsai2355
    @kiwibonsai23553 жыл бұрын

    Id like to see them restored .

  • @rigo1124
    @rigo112410 ай бұрын

    The last wonder of the world. How incredible!

  • @rickkinsman7400
    @rickkinsman74003 жыл бұрын

    Interesting point to note is that nowhere in the Great pyramid of Khufu is his name mentioned, nor was his body or any other remotely Egyptian artifact or writing found inside it. Not a single trace of Egyptian presence or activity can be found anywhere in or on it. Another interesting point is that the quality of pyramids, contrary to the growth and sophistication of Egyptian culture as time passed, declined as time went by, an unprecedented situation in ancient history bringing into question whether the Great Pyramids of Giza were built by the dynastic Egyptians at all. The conclusion being that most, if not all, other (dynastic) Egyptian pyramids were simply poor copies of something they didn't really understand and had no knowledge of how to recreate. Likewise with the Sphynx; there is no record yet found giving credit to its builder and there exists a substantial body of evidence that it is probably in the region of 27,000 years old - or older.

  • @brickchains1
    @brickchains13 жыл бұрын

    YO ANCIENT EGYPT IS MY JAM I FUCKING LOVE THE HISTORY GUY

  • @rutabagasteu
    @rutabagasteu3 жыл бұрын

    Geologists and Egyptologists don't agree on the age of the Sphinx. Geologists say it is twenty five thousand years old. Egyptologists are certain it is newer than that.

  • @funnerthanbefore4947
    @funnerthanbefore4947 Жыл бұрын

    Its a shame I haven't found this channel till June of 22.....

  • @CybranM
    @CybranM3 жыл бұрын

    The Magellan TV docu mentioned in this video doesnt seem to be available in Europe, dont waste your time signing up if youre outside of the US

  • @george6252
    @george62523 жыл бұрын

    I enjoyed this, especially the ending remarks. Thumbs up.

  • @oldgysgt
    @oldgysgt3 жыл бұрын

    We all have the desire to be remembered after we are gone. As long as a person is remembered, they are not completely dead. But to be totally forgotten is almost the same as never existing in the first place.

  • @socratesDude
    @socratesDude3 жыл бұрын

    An interesting fact about the great pyramid is that it is said to have taken 20 years to build and when you calculate how many stones are in that structure they would have had to have been placed one every 4 minutes for those 20 years without any stops working day and night. I also wonder how people with copper tools worked the granite so easily. Some of the finer work is in granite and is as if machine tooled. Another interesting point is that stone cannot be dated and many assumptions have been made and accepted. Like the erosion on the Sphinx that could only have occurred when the rainfall was heavy enough to cause it, over 9,000 years ago. The fine stone observatory at Gobekli Tepe is over 12,000 years old so it isn't a stretch that the Egyptian area is much older than officially thought.

  • @buckberthod5007

    @buckberthod5007

    2 жыл бұрын

    But they had 100,000 men working on it over that 20 years. With that much man power, it certainly seems doable.

  • @wesleyguseman1468
    @wesleyguseman14683 жыл бұрын

    Hey history guy I would love to see you do your thing on honey. It's been a staple for thousands of years and found in tombs in Egypt . I think you're take on it would be a sweet thing.

  • @handimanjay6642
    @handimanjay66423 жыл бұрын

    Been there! It’s awe inspiring!

  • @rhark25
    @rhark253 жыл бұрын

    Just noticed the hand phaser on the knick-knack shelf behind you. Are you thinking of doing some videos on future history a la Robert Heinlein? :)

  • @01Phenom
    @01Phenom3 жыл бұрын

    could you talk about the hole on the head of the sphinx or the tunnels/chamber under it?

  • @davidandrews2340
    @davidandrews23403 жыл бұрын

    Always cool to check out the trinkets in the bookshelves 👍 Phaser, enterprise from tng, batman... just adds flavor to the interesting topics!!

  • @eatportchops
    @eatportchops3 жыл бұрын

    If you go to Egypt be sure to visit the Red Pyramid. It is large and well preserved, but not a mob scene like Giza. Few people visit it.

  • @patricks_music
    @patricks_music3 жыл бұрын

    People will build crazy things for religion

  • @janisreifsteck78
    @janisreifsteck783 жыл бұрын

    Please do an episode on 90-day wonders. What was their dropout rate? How many candidates went through the program in WW2?

  • @uwusmolbean
    @uwusmolbean3 жыл бұрын

    #BuildBackBetter

  • @JohnDoe-pv2iu
    @JohnDoe-pv2iu3 жыл бұрын

    Imagine if anyone understood and embraced the concept of building something 'to last', in the current world. Great video! Take Care and be safe, John

  • @raykewin3608
    @raykewin36083 жыл бұрын

    Rock erosion around the sphinx was done by a lot of running water. A long time before it was dry.

  • @DanEspresso
    @DanEspresso3 жыл бұрын

    It's pretty clearly been 4500 years since we really built something to last. Would love to see our civilization build something to last like the pyramids. So that whatever thing comes after us will at least know we were here.

  • @paulaweaver6508
    @paulaweaver65083 жыл бұрын

    Hello. Thank you for your episodes of history. They are greatly appreciated and enjoyable. Your style reminds me of Charles Karult on Sunday Morning. It is very pleasant. Again thank you

  • @maximelarocque2708
    @maximelarocque27083 жыл бұрын

    Great history capsules. I enjoys your shows on a daily basis.i like your style , its both very touching and instructive.Being a cook i learn much about food. As an history entousiast i learn about where we've been and and star gaze about where we are heading. As a human being ,i learn much about humilty and hope. Thank you very much, sir. I got a few suggestions. Shoes. Rice and noodles. Louis Riel . Two mile island . New found land and its discovery by vickings that settled at l'anse aux méduses who might have had difficulties with the béothuks ...who i think might have bred the labrador dog.

  • @johntabler349
    @johntabler3493 жыл бұрын

    A fascinating aspect of pyramids is that they appear in so many different ancient cultures perhaps food for another episode?

  • @shawnr771

    @shawnr771

    3 жыл бұрын

    Actually just a good way to stack large stone blocks.

  • @johntabler349

    @johntabler349

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shawnr771 it could be form reflects function or it could be a common historical source the idea is interesting at least