The Mystery of the Pyramids' Construction

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[geckomaniac]

But how many Toyota corrolas would fit in that pyramid?

Oh wait wrong channel

[cup_check_official]

I was offered a job building Egyptian tombs







Turned out to be a pyramid scheme

[josephwodarczyk]

Now this is how you do a sponsorship. You gave a really cool part of the game's world without advertising the game being the focus of the video. And, you made me want to play Assassins' Creed Origins so double success.

[Niohimself]

Every time I see the thumbnail, I'm thinking of a huge USB cable being plugged into the pyramid.

[firstpersonidiot]

"The pyramids were built from the bottom to top"

[johnnytweed]

Just a heads-up... The Great Pyramid (Khufu) doesn't have any of its polished limestone outer casing blocks, and the pyramid you actually talked about and showed (1:36) was Khafre's Pyramid, a smaller, newer pyramid at the complex. A lot of people mistake that pyramid for The Great Pyramid. Not to be harsh on you, and with all due respect of course... but if you can correct that in the video with an annotation or edit, you really should, because it's this exact mistake people (photographers, vloggers, etc) keep making that propagates and perpetuates this incorrect information and identification of The Great Pyramid. It really is an important detail to be able to correctly identify what is, and is not, one of mankind's greatest engineering feats of all-time, and the only remaining wonder of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World.

[camruss]

Can we just take a second to appreciate how informative and objective this is? It's hard to come by nowadays.

[GaryMcKinnonUFO]

What's more mystifying are the statues, cut from solid blocks of granite that are laced with quartz. So you have a tool that does a perfectly symmetrical face and body, with hugely varying radii and leaves a polished finish with absolutely no sign of tooling.

[dashsocur]

Glad to see you mention Jean-Pierre's theory. it is by far the most plausible one I've yet seen. I was getting ready to look it up to suggest it to you when you beat me to it. Perhaps next time I should listen to your whole presentation before trying to add anything to it. ;)

[Aerospaceman]

Nice presentation and the fact you included basic physics for an inclined slope was nicely done. The coefficient of kinetic friction should also could have been included. However I have to agree that Jon Pierre's explanation totally makes beautiful sense solving one major mystery.

[darkkhof]

There is no mention in all ancient Egyptian writings about how did they built the pyramids although they wrote about everything they did in their lives
That makes you wonder if they really did build it or some advanced nation came before them and their knowledge has lost

[kunalchangoiwala]

What software is used to create such mesmerising animations and thumbnails???

[benjones]

Real engineering is my pretty little Galway engineer

[PFMediaServices]

Gotta be one of the best sponsor integrations I've come across. Nicely done.

[kevinrosenfeldtwoodworking]

The real question is, how did they cut the granite and other hard stone so precise? And what tools were used? Please dont say chisels and pounding stones

[selimshakur]

Well, even if assassin's creed is a violent game, ubisoft can do a great job at reproducing entire cities and places. Sometime when I see Italy pictures, I feel like I've already been there (AS2)

[TristanVeerbeek]

The Egyptians were absolute masters to be able to build something as incredible and difficult as that.
I have a lot of respect to them.

[brooklynground]

I’m from South Korea, and I find your videos are tremendously informative. Thanks a lot!

[commanderjonas]

I got something you can look into.
The Eiffel Tower, it was made with prefabrication technique that for some reason was barely used until after world war 2.

And there was another design that was suggested, this design was made of masonry and would have been so heavy that it would have collapsed long before they finished it.

[tummywubs]

Am i the only fucker out there who wants to restore the pyramids to its original state?
EDIT: or just you know.... make it look neat.