How Sand Built the Great Pyramid

The ‘Queen’s Chamber’ in the Great Pyramid of Giza is conspicuously unique in its design, location, and finish. In the passage leading to the chamber, drilling was conducted in 1986 which found anomalous quartz sand behind the stones. Despite the well-graded quartz sand being transported from a great distance, there has not been any follow-up investigations to reveal its purpose.

This video examines the physical properties of the quartz sand and uses it to tie many anomalies of the Queen’s Chamber together. The biggest question that remains, is how much of the Great Pyramid was built using this sand?

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Thanks to @AncientArchitects for a clip of the Queen’s Chamber

Graphics Sources:

"Aspects Techniques Et Physiques De L'Operation Kheops" Annales De L'Institut Technique Du Batiment Et Des Travaux Publics. No 454 - May 1987. Serie: Architecture Et Urbanism

Gilles Dormion & Jean-Patrice Goidin “Les Nouveaux Mystères de le Grande Pyramide” Albin Michel, Paris, 1987

Gilles Dormion “La chambre de Cheops” Librairie Artheme Fayard, 2004

John & Morton Edgar “The Great Pyramid Passages” Bone & Hulley 1910.

“Scanning the Pyramids” HIP Institute, 2017

Mark Lehner & Zahi Hawass “Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History” University of Chicago Press, 2017

Studies in Egyptian Culture No 6 “Non-Destructive Pyramid Investigation (1) By Electromagnetic Wave Method. Waseda University, Tokyo 1987

Studies in Egyptian Culture No 8 “Non-Destructive Pyramid Investigation (2) Waseda University, Tokyo 1987

00:00 Introduction
1:52 Drilling the Pyramid
3:04 Anomalous Sand
4:25 Comparing Sands
5:30 Sand Construction Benefits
7:21 Queen’s Chamber Design
8:42 Construction Clues
10:35 Massive Ceiling Beams
12:18 Removing Stones & Sand
13:34 Discovering the Chamber
14:57 Aligned Joints

[blaxson]

The greatest miracle of this discovery: There was somebody who sold sand to Egypt.

[evanscreekbrahman]

This is some of the absolute BEST content on Youtube.

[kadmii]

the best explanations are those that don't add to the complexity of a thing, but take seemingly complex and disparate things and provide a common explanation that links them together

[chicagocenterformyofascial]

I really appreciate how you say in the video that delving deep into the analysis of the size and shape of the grains of sand was too much for you, so you had to reach out to an expert! That really shows your value at maintaining the highest scientific integrity within all of your videos! We all appreciate your hard work and attention to detail! Now we just need to get the rest of the archaeological community to appreciate the value of your work, and they should integrate your analysis into their working hypotheses and explanations of these pyramids.

[JMMRanMA]

One of, possibly THE, best of channels for understanding the architecture of Ancient Egypt.

[styssine]

I found that History for Granite is the best bed time YouTube channel. Something about the pyramids topic and your speaking style is so soothing to me. Falling asleep thinking about those 4000 years old monuments is just a great way to get a relief from the problems of today.

[srf]

Yours is one of the only channels that I actually get a little excited about new videos. Keep the quality and keep them coming.

[bandittelevision]

Just commenting before watching, the videos can easily be an hour long and we would all still enjoy them!

[bswins]

It always seems longer between videos than it is! Great info as usual. Thank you for continuing to keep coming up with excellent content. Your efforts are definitely not "filler". 🙂

[matthewmiller]

You explain mysterious things in a simple, logical way, and yet somehow don't loose the feel of ancient mystery that keeps so many of us coming back to this structure. Well done.

[lurkmoar]

HFG, You are the most important pyramid archeologist of our time. No one else comes close. Thank you for your channel.

[TheChadSmithPodcast]

Your channel is one of my favorite new finds, I appreciate all your work! Thanks for taking the time to put a channel like this together.

[Miparwo]

The main advantage of coarse, uniform size sand, is that it does not compacts after installation, (and does not require to be compacted). It does not lose volume after installed, so it does not causes cracks in the structure over it.

[evanscreekbrahman]

O.P. has quite a knack for considering all of the facts in hand to arrive at highly plausible, but relatively unique postulates, theories and conclusions.

[nancyM-Boo]

How very kind of you to share your love + adventures in Egypt.
💙

[nickjohnson]

HfG: "How Sand Built the Great Pyramid
*Three weeks later on the History Channel*
"Is Alien Sand responsible for the Great Pyramid? Some Ancient Astronaut Theorists say Yes!"

[zisumevoli]

As an engineer and avid armchair Egyptian historian, this is one of the most compelling and succinct explanations of the queens chamber I've heard.

[chocolatewe]

Genius as always 💙 The ‘I prefer patterns’ at 9:01 before the explanation was great 🤣 gives you chills. patterns are always the way

[mjheffro]

Brilliant insights. The only thing that bothers me is when you state "...the only explanation is ..."

Of course there are many explanations, each of varying plausibility.

[christianlucy]

This is honestly some of the most interesting material on youtube. I am constantly amazed by how clever and measured your analyses are.