Building The Great Pyramid of Giza | Lost Treasures Of Egypt | National Geographic UK

The Great Pyramid of Giza is the largest pyramid ever built and is a staple of Egyptian pyramid architecture. It was built to protect the tomb of King Khufu and was the first-ever true pyramid, due to its perfect shape and extraordinary features. The entrance of the tomb is located 24 feet off centre and even if trespassers found it, a pulley system of ropes 130 feet above the passage dropped 3 enormous granite slabs to seal the burial chamber entrance.

Topped with a layer of white limestone, The Great Pyramid was and is a symbol of the Pharaoh’s reputation and respect. Now, explorers are eagerly searching the pyramid for clues about the life and death of the great King Khufu.

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[Patthebaker]

This has to be the most anticlimactic YouTube upload to exist. Where the heck is the rest of the video??

[asahel]

In high school im amazed of the structure, now as an adult I just see human nature, too full of themselves that they made such marvelous structure for themsellves

[DP-otzf]

My team came back from there a few days ago. What an experience, and we do have some fantastic news! My team spent several hours lifting up one of the bricks to collect debris samples trapped between the bricks. This has always been an important goal, to isolate and retrieve material that has been trapped for many thousands of years, and that is consistent throughout most of the structure. We're still analyzing the data. Anyway, once we were able to free a brick and elevate it, we noticed a set six of circular "studs" protruding from the brick supporting the one we lifted. Each stud measured about 0.4 m diameter by 0.15 m to 0.2 m height. They fit perfectly into the "anti-studs" on the underside of the brick above it. We may have cracked a few corners of a pair of studs. When we go back next year, we plan on painting some of these blocks with bright colors and assembling them into structures of our own designs, including boats, trucks, space ships, and even a castle! We feel like kids again. We can't wait!

[ashiinsane]

The 3 blocks sliding down is a very old theory and is not correct, first if u look at the tunnel where the blocks are, you would see absolutely no marks of sliding, 2nd it doesn't make sense that they would just slide it foolishly like that.. It might break etc.. The Egyptians were far more delicate than such theory...

[fernandosaburit]

Thanks for the video, LOVE the 3D work. But Im lost… ok. Egyptologists say they did it in 20 years. If you do the math of 2, 300, 000 stones in 20 years, that means:
1. You have to cut every stone from the place (which is 18 km from the construction site) with copper and bronze! The stones are approximately 2.5 tons each; thats important!
2. Transport the stones across the desert without an advanced wheel system, and cross the Nile (uploading and downloading a 2.5-ton stone in a boat is difficult!)
3. Align and match the stone with the previous stone.
All that in 4.5 minutes per stone! NO STOP for 20 years!! Thats imposible... Ok, let's say the Egyptologists were VERY wrong and they constructed the pyramid not in 20 years, but in 40.
That means they had to cut, transport, and place each stone every 9 minutes. 24hs NO STOP.. No way! With the technology we have today, that will be impossible. Well, it would not be impossible if you had many stone suppliers and a great project manager, but still, CRAZY!!! Any logical ideas???

[finrodfelagund]

1:03 its mind blowing the image we just look at was built with thousands of people working day and night. They touched these stones, many of them died just here, thousands of citizens, workers, slaves were just standing there and looking at it admiringly.

[Anvarynn]

The animation is also impressive to me for what it is

[ajaynaik]

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[abdullahnoman]

*Theory of Building Pyramids* :-
The stones from which the pyramids were built are not natural stones, but rather manufactured stones with the same idea as the manufacture of bricks or blocks, and these stones were not moved or carried to their high positions (which increase in height with increasing height in building). Rather, each stone was manufactured in its location (It is the same as its current location) and it was never moved or carried from its place. These stones are characterized by precision in their manufacture, and the connected stones are relatively similar. Each stone is also characterized by an increase in the width and length of its base (compared to its height), but they gradually decrease the higher its position in the building, and while below we will review a vision of how to build of external frame for pyramid, regardless of the internal divisions (which could be done using traditional methods of construction in conjunction with the construction of the external structure of the pyramid).
*The idea of building the external structure of the pyramid* :-
The external structure of the pyramid consists of several levels (or rows), starting with the base and ending with the top. Each level consists of stacked stones in the form of a square with regular dimensions and high precision (right angles and equal sides). The dimensions of the square decrease at the top level, and this shows how the staircase shape of the pyramid appears. The stones on each level are almost identical, and the dimensions of the base of each stone are several times its height. These dimensions decrease at the upper level and continue to decrease gradually until the top. Three-quarters of the base of each stone on the upper level is above the stones of the lower level, while a quarter of the base of each stone remains suspended in the air. Each stone is manufactured on site using wooden molds made up of several facades (from five to three facades depending on the location of the stone and the number of adjacent stones), and each facade consists of several flat, strong, tightly packed wooden planks. These molds are used in the same way as making blocks or bricks. The ancient Egyptians came up with a specific chemical formula that was mixed with desert sand, and perhaps a certain liquid was added to it (perhaps water). This resulted in a mixture similar to the cement mixture we have today, where workers carry it using special containers and pour it into wooden molds (with the same idea as concrete pouring). This mixture dries quickly, so the wooden molds are removed to begin making the adjacent stone until the current level is completed and then move to the next level, and so on. After these stones dry, they become very hard, just like rocks.
*Scientific evidence of the validity of the theory* :-
1- There is no doubt that the ancient Egyptians had some secrets of chemistry that we do not know yet, such as the secret of the materials used in mummification, which is still a mystery that baffles scientists. Likewise, they discovered a chemical formula for making the mixture used in making stones for construction, but they did not convey to us the nature of those compositions that It has become one of their mysterious secrets. It is not logical to believe that there is a secret in a specific dye used in mummification, but not believe that there is a secret in a specific mixture used in construction.
2- The color of the pyramid stones is completely similar to the color of the desert sand surrounding the pyramids, which confirms that the pyramid stones were made from that desert sand, noting that the color of the rocks tends to be dark in all the mountains surrounding that desert, which are very far from the site of the pyramids.
3- The absence of any rocky mountains in the areas near the pyramids, thus ruling out bringing real rocks from the mountains to build the pyramids, noting the large size of those rocks used in building the pyramids, thus ruling out the idea of carrying and transporting those rocks using classical tools.

[adamb]

We have literal written records of the ordering of the white limestone and where it was quarried from... these are not guesses.

[kilroy-cc]

Why did they want to seal the pyramid ? What were they hiding?

[AnNguyen-pyjo]

This makes me think that humans devolved significantly before we started to evolve again

[KAZIMAINULHAQUE]

The Giza pyramids were simply an electrical study center.. This was to transfer ground electricity to the top of the pyramid.

[t.y.]

The pyramids of Giza are made of concrete. In other words, the pyramid stones were not carved from rocks, no one carried the stones. Many of the megalithic structures that can be found all over the world prove that the earth is hollow. (Hollow earth) I am sure, I can explain it with visuals to anyone who wants. Example: Sacsayhuaman megaliths.
But I'm afraid of the monsters of the hollow earth.

[mkaaa]

I believe this is not how a pyramid is build and also not build by Egyptian. Long ago there is an extinct giant human race who is known as Aad. This is a giant human race whose height for an adult male is an average of about 30 meters. This race is very skillful in a building construction and have a massive strength that lifting each block of 15 tons of rock to build a pyramid is just like lifting a 15 kg of block of ice to construct a bungalow size igloo.
Whats behind the building of pyramid??? I believe the King of ancient Egypt has a good relation with the King of Aad race. Both offer business trade with each other. King of Egypt hire Aad race as a building contractor and trade them with gold, livestock, animal skin etc. Who knows. However Aad race is already extinct and non of their bodies can be found. A continuos 7 days of unimaginable worst natural disaster occur at their homeland (probably Atlantis) :- a deadly killing strong wind and a massive sink hole that collapse and swallow whole ground surface layer of their homeland very deep beneath the earth, burried and killed all of them. There are no survivor and non of the body can be found (buried very deep beneath the earth)

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[efootballmania]

Thank God its so heavy or else it will end up in someone's mesuem.

[patrickcrabtree]

Good lord. Not a tomb. NOT A TOMB n-o-t a t-o-m-b. #*#*tomb it is not****

[adriantuesta]

Why on earth thoese this vidoe says that the Great pyramid was result of hundreds of years of pyramid building trial and error.When the forst pyramid was built in 2600 bc the step pyramid and the Great pyramid 2500 bc

[jaseservos]

It's time to address the mainstream version of history is a lie