The Famous 'Melted' Steps at Dendera, EXPLAINED!

We scrutinize the stairwell at Hathor's Temple in Dendera Egypt, as there has been much controversy and discussion on whether or not these stairs are eroded through much use and foot traffic, or if they have been melted by something...

[askefantenthefool]

The explanation by this dude is more facinating than the stairs itself...

[DDay-vvec]

Cigarette butt laying there. Pisses me off how disrespectful these monuments are treated..

[mattferrigno]

3:15 - Very respectful kid. His parents taught him well. He saw a video was being taken and didnt want to interrupt. Class act.

[Duje]

It is possible that the stairs were originally built like that. After all, this place is not an ordinary place and everything has a certain meaning.

[dekismokton]

these stairs prove Egyptians invented the wheel chair

[transientdreams]

LOL...First he claims the stairs are "Sandstone". Then he claims that "hundreds of thousands" walked up and down the steps "daily". Um, NO they didn't. It's a SACRED TEMPLE!! THEN he seems to have NO idea what the steps are made of by questioning whether or not they are made of "limestone".

[catalinss]

How "simple mind " can be somebody when pretending that those steps was eroded by millions of steps going up or down ??

[brianlarson]

here is what really happened...

the steps are not melted.. (only damage on steps).. it is not erosion..(erosion would not explain the build up of stone) it was not an alchemist..(dripping stuff)
the steps are not sandstone.. (the glaze from thousands of foot falls says way to hard for sandstone) the steps are made of something else)

the only explanation is:

the steps are a geo polymer.. they were poured like concrete or cement into a mold to make the steps..

it was the last step of their construction
the workers built the mold for the steps.
then poured the stone geo-polymer into the mold..

working their way up

then they sealed it off while the steps hardened..


the mold catastrophically failed at the top and the slurry geo-polymer flowed down to the next step and that next mold broke.. the flow got heavier and more pronounced as it cascaded down from step to step.. which explains the big “puddle of stone” at the bottom of the both staircases ..

so it was not solar flairs or nuclear bombs or chemical spills or

peoples shoes breaking apart the stone and transferring bits of stone down then the sand particles magically turn back to stone over time.. (which is the official explanation)

it was simply a bad job..
and when it was discovered it was probably “to expensive” to fix

or they ordered the execution of the engineer that screwed up and since he or she was gone, nobody knew how to fix it..

[MerlinOpeth]

I'm a granite and marble fabricator of 20+ years, and that is not worn.

[brianlarson]

your question is extremely astute.
yea his answer to your question is really crazy.. his answer would require the laws of chemistry and physics to be completely wrong..

if his answer is truth then the particles would have broken away and there would be just sand left over.. and sand only turns back into sandstone under heat and pressure.. there would be missing material and sand everywhere..

not piles of really hard stone..

besides it looked (from your low angle in the video ) like the stone was really hard and polished to an exceptional smooth surface in placed where thousands of shoes have made contact..

the problem of it being a slurry geo polymer.. is mainstream archeology does not accept that the ancients could make synthetic stone.. as we are just learning the technology now..

however such a technology would fully explain the amazing stone “carvings” found in the area..

[MrJonathanwarriner]

It does not explain what the stone is melted in the shaft. To me it looks like large piece of machinery got hot and melted it.

[robertvalderaz]

I still say they were melted to be by erosion and traffic would seem to take longer then the actual age. Of the structure.

[coxlwxq]

Interesting, so let's see other real world examples of this totally isolated phenomena

[kingtrill]

If it's from wear and tear where are examples in other staircases made out of similar grade material this affect can't even be found in wooden staircases ...since each step is solid weight is distributed evenly no matter where you step and why would the whole temple be kept so magnificently maintained but the steps allowed to deteriorate and look not magnificent...and you would have this effect in concrete sidewalks of present time from people always walking on the middle so many times and also the walk ways all around ancient sites would display this affect if his wear in tear theory was true

[homelandertheicandowhatev]

His English is very easy to understand. Interesting explanation for the stairs.

[bbqchickenwingsofredemptio]

It's made out of granite, one of the hardest stones, not sandy stone, that would've wore out long ago.

[HIT]

I can actually imagine this material in liquid state being carried up the stairs and being dropped everytime the object that carries it goes up a step. Imagine a trolley bouncing when pulled fast up the stairs. Hence the fact that the material now solidified is higher closer to the inside of each step. Also, you can see that the quantity of "liquid" is less and less as we go up the stairs. Another remark is the fact that these are not the only stairs where this happens. There's another set of stairs which don't have an opening on the wall like the one on the video (the next set of stairs if you keep going up). So it couldn't be melting because of the sun like some people claimed.

On the other stairs I'm mentioning it looks as if a hot boiling ball rolled down the stairs and it melted the steps while rolling until it stopped. Like lava running down the mountain slowly. and as you go up and up you will see different ways it has melted the steps.

[bearorion]

Something was coming thru the window into the main chamber and causing some kind of reaction. If u look. The took down most of the building that would explain the rest of it.

[Jonathan-mkju]

it the same an old coal the coal would come through than opening in sacks hit the floor then drag it downwards using a melt hock. Then at the lower steps you lift the bag with the hock and put it up slightly to keep the motion when it hits the bottom so you can keep it moving. All this whilst using the edge of the steps to pull the sack.

[crazybox]

but the steps are not limestone. they are granite. i have been there. also if they are "built up" from the surrounding dust, the edges would be more smooth, not the rounded almost "pancake" kind of formation you see. in the one shot where the camera comes close to the stone it has the sparkle of quartz which you only see in granite. i have no idea what caused the granite of these stairs to become like this. my guide who was from the area, and whose family had been there for generations called the stones "melted"