Why Were Archaeologists So Puzzled By This Ancient Statue? | Egypt Detectives | Unearthed History

Join archaeologist Miriam Cooke and Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat as they delve into the mystery of a perfectly preserved statue of Pharaoh Khafre. Carved from an exotic iridescent stone not native to the area, it raises the question of how it arrived at Giza 4,000 years ago. Watch as Egypt detectives trace its origin from the Valley Temple to the distant quarries of Aswan, unveiling a captivating tale of ancient engineering and the lost secrets of Pharaoh Khafre's civilization

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[kevinfoster]

I've never found myself disliking someone whom I've never met as much as I dislike Zahi Hawass!

[bweaverla]

The second video of Ahkenaten asked a very interesting question, one that I havent seen asked anywhere else. That is, did Akhenaten leave Thebes in a hurry out of fear of a mob. He had just closed the Amun temple, the largest employer in Thebes and largest distributor of food. People now had no food nor "currency" (not money but beer, meat, metals, etc.) to live on. And had taken away their god Amun after hundreds of years. Were the Thebans so angered that one or more assasination attempts had been attempted, were there riots in the streets, did they come for the royal family? Is that why Akhenaten began his "spiritual revolution" and moved away to Akhetaten? His "spiritual revolution" was anything but. There is evidence now after opening the graveyards of Amarna that he worked children, young people and adults to death to build his city perhaps even while they were suffering from the plague at the end of his reign. The man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, the son of the wealthiest man in the world at the time who probably never met a common person perhaps built more of a police state than a utopia as some have had it.

[cindysteffens]

More importantly, how did they carve it? The level of perfection is astonishing.

[bweaverla]

Lovely to have Charles Dance's wonderful voice narrating.

[marcometachternaam]

Seriously? A mystery how they moved a 3 ton stone?? C'mon, that's about the weight of a SUV.. Ancient Egypt moved stones of multiple hundreds of tons. Those are a true mystery, not a 3 ton stone..

[ebayerr]

As soon as he said, "Giza, the final resting place of three of the greatest Pharaohs..."
I was done with the video.

[tullyontherocks]

FYI: Gneiss is the spelling of the stone used (Nice). Captions say "nice, " the correct pronunciation so I had to double check, it's Gneiss rock.

[j.l.emerson]

The new city was called Akhetaten, not Amarna. Amarna is the name of a nearby modern city.

[jusdafax]

Sorry but as soon as Zahi Hawass shows up putting his 2 cents worth in, I know that the rest of the video is going to be so much BS. That man takes credit for every discovery ever made in Egypt, even if it was made a century before he was born.

[cowdaddy]

Zahi Hawass should have been deported from Egypt and exiled somewhere in Siberia years ago.

[Ubique]

Rubbish being spouted in the video. The wetter Egypt in those times has been known for years. That area was probably green and wet then. We know that they dug canals to move stones. we know that there were many many seasonal workers then etc etc.

[connorleeferguson]

Wow. Didn’t think you could cram so many adds in one video.

[chrisrose_krii_lun_aus]

I swear the music on these mockumentaries kill me. It's so loud.

[nytnqsi]

Like that this shows us some art depiction

[paulacornelison]

It always surprises me that viewers of history videos expect stone statues and pyramids to be created within months.
In the Middle Ages, it took 50 years to create a castle or a church. I have never heard anyone complain about the time it took to build them. Stone had to be carved and dragged to the building site and then erected.
Get a grip on reality.

[Nasauniverse]

I get irritated when I'm told the 3 pyramids were tombs. Not tombs, or at least not started out as tombs!

[rungun]

The true mystery is the boats. The biggest boat they had couldnt hold up to the weight. Not to mention the dammage done in loading and unloading. Then the rope. Man that rope had to be stronger than supermans hair. So why does no one consider the rope.

[sakkmatt]

The statue had to glue his ears a hundred times because they were always broken when he was hammered with a stone ball.

[dougg]

It’s amazing, I mean what would happen if you made a mistake and cracked it? Took a lot of blood sweat and tears to bring the stone.

[tedschuler]

This is experimental archeology at its best