ANCIENT EGYPTIAN Pyramid Built Using WATER?

A fascinating new paper has put forward the idea that the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara was built using a hydraulic lift system. This intriguing hypothesis suggests that features close to this ancient Egyptian pyramid acted as a dam and water treatment system. Its shafts, granite boxes and other structures then made up a hydraulic mechanism for lifting the huge stone blocks into place.

As far as I know, this idea has only been suggested for the Step Pyramid. However, it would be interesting to see if attributes of other ancient Egyptian pyramids also look like they could have been part of such a system. Let me know what you think of the hypothesis and the evidence to support it in the comments!

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✨ IN THIS EPISODE

00:00 Introduction
01:14 Saqqara Water Sources
04:03 The Gisr el-Mudir ‘Dam’
06:04 A Water Treatment System
07:53 Central Hydraulic Lift System

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Landreau, X., Piton, G., Morin, G., Bartout, P., Touchart, L., Giraud, C., Barre, J.C., Guerin, C., Alibert, A. and Lallemand, C., 2024. On the possible use of hydraulic force to assist with building the Step Pyramid of Saqqara. PloS one, 19(8).

✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS

Diagrams related to the hydraulic lift, credit: Landreau, VX., et al., in the paper referenced above.

Step Pyramid of Djoser, credit: GT1976

Step Pyramid of Djoser from a distance, credit: Buyoof

[garyworokevich]

Looking forward to this report Laura. I've heard of this with no great detail.

[judeel]

This is very interesting. Trying to get an engineering friend interested in ancient hydraulics in other areas. This may help. Thanks. Love your work

[The_Robert.Fletcher]

It seems every few years someone gives us a hypothesis on how and why the Pyramids were built. More papers are needed.

[storkythepunk]

You are correct Laura, it does have merit, and there are many possible things that it could've been used for, but I keep thinking about those huge Granite Obelisk's, but then you use all of the tools in your tool kit, not just the hammer.

[davidcreager]

Hopefully with continued research we will finally get some answers to this questions and many others . Thanks for the update, Laura .

[d.t.]

Such a large population would require a complex water system for both drinking and sanitation. Why not make a King Size bath house if you have the water and the rock. Thank you, keep working.

[barrywalser]

I’m still skeptical, but open minded. All those channels and tunnels do look hydraulic in nature. I can see how it’s a plausible theory. They could work through the center and out the top of the shaft. I, of course, love the term “Volcano Method”. 🌋😄 Thanks Laura!

[aidanmacdougall]

Spiritual role in a moat!!!😂😂 why do researchers only think that the ancients were spiritual not practical! Says far more about them than about the ancients! Great vid, thanks 👍😊

[floydriebe]

hokay, Laura! finally got to watch was giving me fits, yesterday😡 an interesting possibilities of such engineering are ancient Egyptians were definitely capable of this kind of thought and were able to "make it so", obviously....the evidence is there, just what it was for is the mystery🤔

thanks, Laura! another fine mystery you've brought us. hopefully, the near future will bring an answer👍🤞

[scottzema]

As to the need for water at Giza, all of the arguments for the need for water on site and for the benefit of users apply without resort to hydraulics. But at Giza I believe that water had another important use, and that would have been to create the concrete blocks that were used to build much of the the Great Pyramid itself.

[dieterl.frischknecht]

The British industrial revolution was based on waterpower, and steam. Why we deny old cultures the same assets, escapes me.
Dieter Frischknecht, Switzerland

[madderhat]

This would have been an amazing site, if true. Not that it's not now, no offence Djoser😅

[scottzema]

Water in any case would have been useful during construction and for the benefit of pilgrims even if the hydraulic system was not used. And I don't think that some kind of hydraulic system was the outcome. I DO think that the use and construction of the complex and the pyramid required a water supply, but once again in Egyptology imagination runs riot and we get into issues of overly sophisticated engineering ideas.

The question arises, why would they need a hydraulic system to build this monument? What would this buy you? It is not apparent that there is anything about this structure that would require an extraordinary lift system when ordinary manpower, ramps, ladders, counterweighted cranes and stairways would just as easily have built the thing, there being no special point to inventing a hydraulic system to accomplish the same purpose. All of the construction is at one level underground, reached by a descending stair ramp from the surface. Why do they need a lift?

[bobharris]

Excellent. Love your research. Keep an open mind and keep researching. And, OH great that you are hot. I’m 80 YRS old, so I just saying fact.

[toi_techno]

Cool vid
For too long the racist, ancient alien nutjobs have had a bit of a monopoly on how the pyramids were built