Why Did The Ancient Egyptians Build So Many Pyramids? | Egypt Detectives | Unearthed History

Join archaeologist Miriam Cooke and Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat as they unravel the mystery of why the ancient Egyptians kept changing locations and building pyramids. Explore the religious and practical considerations behind the moves, from the first pyramid at Sakkara to the great pyramid of Giza and beyond. Was it a matter of geology, a deeper spiritual connection, or a unique perspective on sun worship?
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  • @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602
    @fabiodeoliveiraribeiro16024 ай бұрын

    Egypt was a populous country dedicated to agriculture, depending entirely on the natural cycles that caused the Nile River to flood. Sowing and harvesting could only occur after the water drained and the planting areas became dry. For several months of the year, Egyptians would have no work at all if the government didn't do something. So it is necessary to admit the hypothesis that the construction of pyramids had a triple purpose: religious, because the construction of the appropriate tomb would make the Pharaoh revive after death as Osiris; economic, providing work and income for the population in a period of floods when agriculture was impossible; political, in order to keep the population busy and disciplined, avoiding conspiracies, ruptures and civil wars. The Egyptians did not build pyramids during the period of greatest political stability. In fact they built political stability by maintaining the pyramid building program.

  • @frankgrizzard
    @frankgrizzard4 ай бұрын

    Is much more interesting why there are so many other countries in the world that have more pyramids than Egypt

  • @AmbassadorDavis
    @AmbassadorDavis4 ай бұрын

    They had massive whips, Rimmer. Massive, massive whips

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman9 күн бұрын

    Come on, anyone whose been to Cairo knows the overlooking plateau makes any monument look more impressive. The ling covered walks from where the funeral boat drops off the sarcophagus for dragging up to its final resting place just adds to the prestige of the occupant.

  • @JenneeB927
    @JenneeB9274 ай бұрын

    I think economics had a lot to do with it. It's well known the 1st intermediate period happened shortly after the 4th dynasty. The economic cost of building the pyramids was astronomical. Quite frankly, they ran out of money.

  • @marybeckham4495
    @marybeckham44954 ай бұрын

    Baal Worship? Electromagnetic properties inside.

  • @ivanj.conway9919
    @ivanj.conway99194 ай бұрын

    Can we not please, start being open to the slimmest, possibility that the pyramids were more than mere, burial chambers, please.

  • @AndyJarman
    @AndyJarman9 күн бұрын

    As an Australian I cringe whenever I see a bare headed Pom standing out in the blazing Sun!

  • @neilputland9407
    @neilputland94074 ай бұрын

    no one has metioned doing it on a whim.

  • @LeeHoFooks
    @LeeHoFooks3 ай бұрын

    Because they wanted too.

  • @lawerancelanham
    @lawerancelanham4 ай бұрын

    plot twist. The smaller pyramids are newer and the sphynx was already there 😂

  • @Jason-xb3jh
    @Jason-xb3jh4 ай бұрын

    😂😂

  • @Acc3ssd3n13d4
    @Acc3ssd3n13d44 ай бұрын

    Ego.

  • @rogerscottcathey
    @rogerscottcathey4 ай бұрын

    Nonsense.

  • @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095
    @ansfridaeyowulfsdottir80954 ай бұрын

    Dreadful acting. {:o:O:}

  • @noonehere1793
    @noonehere17934 ай бұрын

    Because they needed SOMETHING to do with all the people they had enslaved over the years?🙂

  • @Ubique2927

    @Ubique2927

    3 ай бұрын

    Enslaved? Who?

  • @bunzeebear2973
    @bunzeebear29734 ай бұрын

    Just another "theory"- they of today dreamed up.

  • @davidcameron1792
    @davidcameron17924 ай бұрын

    Egyptians never built the pyrmids

  • @mk1479

    @mk1479

    4 ай бұрын

    @@wildrose2748 Certainly not the the Egyptians. It's said it took 15-30yrs to build. OK.. look at how many granite block there are, and then do a small calculation. It turns out that they had to place one block in its proper position in a three-dimensional puzzle with no blueprints/drawings every 2 minutes. That's excluding the cutting and polishing, tolerances that are hard to come by even today. All that done with copper tools?

  • @mk1479

    @mk1479

    4 ай бұрын

    @@wildrose2748 Your guess is as good as mine. They were there long before the Egyptians came to be. An advanced Pre-flood civilization possibly? As history is deliberately obfuscated to follow a set paradigm, one will never know.

  • @mk1479

    @mk1479

    4 ай бұрын

    @@wildrose2748 Nope, there are no aliens, but that's another rabbit hole that goes somewhat deep.

  • @dewardroy6531

    @dewardroy6531

    4 ай бұрын

    The video shows the pyramids were built with limestone blocks, much softer and easier to work than granite, making copper tools quite plausible.

  • @Ubique2927

    @Ubique2927

    3 ай бұрын

    @@mk1479.. you need to go to maths school.

  • @paulhammersley4562
    @paulhammersley45624 ай бұрын

    "Why Did The Ancient Egyptians Build So Many Pyramids?"... sorry to disappoint you darling but they did NOT build the pyramids.

  • @mk1479

    @mk1479

    4 ай бұрын

    @@wildrose2748 Look at my post above.

  • @paulhammersley4562

    @paulhammersley4562

    4 ай бұрын

    @@wildrose2748 no idea, but definitely not the Egyptians, if you look at all the hieroglyphs/carvings in Egypt there's not one description of pyramid building.

  • @Ubique2927

    @Ubique2927

    3 ай бұрын

    Oh dear. Not another idiot proving just how big an idiot.

  • @scottdiamond74

    @scottdiamond74

    3 ай бұрын

    👽👽👽👽