Egypt’s Failed Pyramid: What Happened to the Black Pyramid of Amenemhat III?

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[@Bozemanjustin]

0:39 The oldest carrier names are the fanciest ones. The crappiest ones are more recent. They were trying to duplicate the old ones

[@liningtheclouds]

You mentioned subsidence due to proximity to Nile, what does this say about the recent media on the nile tributary found using satellite images in regards to there construction?

[@Mandarintoenail1]

Built sandcastle too close to the tide… I’ve seen those effects before 😂

[@tomlindsay4629]

One of your best, I was completely ignorant of this pyramid. The subterranean passages look fantastic and I'm looking forward to seeing your look at them. Thanks for posting!

[@HistoryCave]

Pov:you bought a pyramid from Temu😂😂. Great video as usual! Been watching for a while😁

[@AncientArchitects]

Haha

[@itsnot_stupid_ifitworks]

The same channels who claim ancient egyptians couldn't carve and polish Basalt go and stand beside the cap stone in the museum and wonder what it says

[@palladen1933]

Ancient Architects and History for Granite are the best ancient Egyptian channels 😊 👌 Love the detail and graphics in this...😊😊

[@barrywalser2384]

I want to explore those subterranean tunnels. It does look like a maze. Thanks Matt!

[@AncientArchitects]

Thanks for watching Barry!

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

Lived in arid desert Southwest in U.S., lots of adobe used. Worked great, lasted forever... until rain could get at it.

[@yungclinky]

FINALLY someone covering this pyramid

[@AncientArchitects]

Cheers

[@phoneguy4637]

most pyramids from old kingdom look so badly today because of stone robbery during late antiquity and arabian times. the middle- and new kingdom pyramids were cheap copies made of mudbricks, making it even easier to mine them down for building materials. the rest was, of course, erosion by elements. I always wonder how many pyramids were destroyed down to their cores and are now lost for good.

[@BartJBols]

I wonder how many pyramids were built with the blocks from another one. I think its known the great pyramid has weird blocks in its foundation that could have been another pyramid.

[@phoneguy4637]

@@BartJBols I know, right? it's an intriguing thought, since there is indeed archaeological evidence that old kingdom pyramid and temple sites re-used materials from early dynastic sites.

[@lostpony4885]

The good news is some still have cool underground chambers that remain.

[@Fuzzmo147]

@@BartJBols My thoughts exactly! Bingo👍

[@CyFr]

Imagine all the stone being removed actually shows a part of the way it was built... With a lot of back fill.

[@jeno264]

I love that you give us sources or good places to find further details 💖💖

[@AncientArchitects]

Thanks. And thanks for watching

[@antibrevity]

I just wonder how the pharaoh's court explained the slumping during his lifetime. The religious leaders would have had an impossible challenge to come up with a story explaining how their perfect god-king's pyramid cracked apart and had to be replaced. I'd *love* to know how that went and whether people had to suffer for it. Other than the military defeat of your capital city, there's probably not much worse that could happen to a pharaoh than for their holy pyramid to destroy itself. The pyramids were real manifestations of their namesake's divinity and without a better story, I wonder how many "unrighteous" architects and builders had to be fired or executed to purge the darkness from their midst. Do we know enough about the culture during Amenemhat III's rule to estimate any of this? Humans' first choice is always to blame someone we deem less righteous than us. In fact, as some politicians show us today, even if the pharaoh had selected that exact location himself, he could simply lie and say someone else had done it; no one can fact-check a god-king... successfully ;). If something bad happens, it's the obviously the result of evil-doers, for the same humans that are capable of building tremendous pyramids without engines and sending people to the Moon with only primitive computers are also unbelievably dumb and gullible. Many brands depend on it.

[@Eyes_Open]

Now that looks like the result of something that I attempted to build.

[@floydriebe4755]

yup! me too!

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

This means something

[@andypandy6063]

Cutting corners and sloppy work is the way of production TODAY. :D

[@AncientArchitects]

😂👀

[@Wirenutz3665]

Love history of Egypt podcast!!

[@derepentlestranger]

Great video as usual. However while the brickwork may not have been the best the bricks were certainly high quality for them to still be there after all these thousands of years

[@MartinCHorowitz]

They needed to watch the Ancient geologists and Ancient civil Engineer channels before construction....

[@redwoodcoast]

uh... you covered all of the requisite info with the exception of the material used to build it. In all of the discussion there is hardly any mention of what it is made of in contrast to all of the other pyramids built of stone. You examine several possibilities and factors that may have contributed or caused its collapse but without examining the innate limitations of building to the sky with a material as weak as mud brick. What we see is not a collapsed mass of limestone blocks but a ruin of mud detritus. You would have done well to connect that to the waters of the Nile and its flooding. Mud doesn't do well in water, so there's that factor to think about.

[@berry-123]

Thank you for another great video❤❤

[@AncientArchitects]

Thanks for watching

[@iggyzorro2406]

yeah, it sure is ugly. but that's what you get when you hire non-union workers. Amenamhat should have contacted the International Brotherhood of Stonecutters, Artisans and Desert Plasterers local 1.

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

Pyramid building so clearly evolved over time. We have all the steps.

[@MartinScharfe]

This plan at 7:37 is so interesting!

[@richardastley1168]

They probably built a moat around it. 😂 Why didn't anyone think to take a picture of it when it was new? 😛🤓

[@KenLieck]

They didn't have enough Dendera lights and Baghdad batteries to support the cameras of the time.

[@themoviesite]

@@KenLieck They did, but you know ... Polaroids... fade over time.

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

Howdy from Temple, Texas, USA! Great content, always interesting, thank you!

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Howdy!

[@aalhard]

6:25 I am shocked they let everyone rub their oils, acids, lotions, and perfume into the artifact! It won't be shiny for long!!

[@Fuzzmo147]

The ‘melted’ steps are due to people having their feet anointed with oils etc…. It definately affects stone

[@Saiphs]

11:50 Even though it has decayed considerably it is still the tallest mudbrick structure from ancient Egypt.

[@justalaborer713]

This is exactly the kind of poor planning and workmanship I would expect from a pyramid project being led by interstellar aliens. Never trust the engineering capabilities of a lizard man.

[@nostalgiccameralife]

It's interesting that when one looks at most of the seriously ruined pyramids, the core structure that survives pretty much invariably is stepped, or terraced.

[@iyeiself-lordandmasterer4888]

...you sure add a lot of CONJECTURE!

[@breannathompson9094]

I cant help but notice how similar these look to some old mesas in the middle of the southwest and northern mexico

[@samdajani2573]

looks like the first low budget project in ancient egypt

[@hobocreativeco]

Could the casing stones have been put in place during the entire construction and not at the end, explaining why we can find casing stones in the rubble even if the pyramid collapsed during construction, and never fully finished?

[@weeroger7048]

Bit of a disaster Im sure the pharoe fed a few of the architects to his crocodiles I wouldnt want to have been in those guys shoes giving the pharoe the bad news

[@DarrenHiles]

"But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand." Matthew 7:26

[@Fuzzmo147]

Weren’t they all built on bedROCK? It’s the mudbrick cores that collapsed once casing stones stolen…. Tea leaves everywhere 😂

[@DarrenHiles]

In the video he talks about a mid-construction “slump” caused by “bedrock” that was brittle and crumbly making it more like sand. Just brought that to mind. Not Christian but it’s the basis of a song that we used to sing in school.

[@timboslice980]

The internal structure looks incredible. Truly the closest to alien looking architecture. Just made some human errors. Mudbrick baby.

[@DalHrusk]

The older pyramids were build by aliens. This one was build later by egyptian cargo cultists :P (If you don't know, google what cargo cult reffers to ;)

[@timboslice980]

@@DalHrusk lmao! You guys are so fun! Funny that aliens used slag to fill the gaps in the oldest pyramids. Just busted up rocks and mortar to fill the hollow gaps preventing collapse. The problem is theres organic content in that that strata and it has been dated. So the aliens mustve came down here, made a bunch of human mistakes, created something humans were definitely capable of making themselves, and just rolled out without explanation? Lmao. Yall wonder why nobody takes that stuff seriously.

[@DalHrusk]

@@timboslice980 I'm sorry I probably confused you. My first comment was meant purely as a joke. The alien pyramid builders theories are BS, of course. Although the cargo cult is an interesting topic.

[@timboslice980]

@@DalHrusk Whew thanks for clearing that up! I may actually look into that cargo cult now, i was like no way im looking up anyone that thinks the older pyramids were made by aliens lol! Ah text based conversation, it has its pros and cons

[@themoviesite]

The megalithic pyramids have nothing to do with those amateur mud-brick monstrosities.

[@kevkfz5226]

Good video

[@mrains100]

Thank you.

[@tomrichardson1426]

Okay...after 8 years you have finally caught up to my BS degree in Earth Science from 1984. Now you have my attention because of the speed of the computer processor. Broad band internet is faster than the speed of sound but not as fast as the constant speed of light. Mud brick is not the same as rose granite. The upper Nile and lower Nile are not the same in terms of history. May I sugest doing more resurch on plant/vegitation so that you can find a better carbon dating time reference that will beter establish a linear time line from BC (bce) to AD (ce) . It's because of your channel that I want to do more research on the Egyptian Calander and the U.S. Calander with leap year.

[@christopherlawley1842]

Ooo. Proper dungeon

[@BillSikes.]

It looks more like a butte or a messa, similar to those at Monument Valley UT 🤔

[@AncientArchitects]

It was once upon a time.

[@pawekranzberg6259]

Maybe pharaoh Snafu wanted a pyramid in the shape of a butte 😂 I'll see myself out.

[@timkenney5510]

That was exactly my first thought, as I had never seen pics of this pyramid.

[@Turdfergusen382]

“Wool”come to New Zealand

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Hello everybody

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[@bigantplowright5711]

Definately a Tofu Dreg project!

[@Machine9000]

I was wondering what the etymology of pyramid was. Im kinda intrigued. Fire vessel? As in a furnace of sorts? Hmm The word "pyramid" comes from the ancient Greek word pyramis, which had multiple meanings: Pyramid-shaped structure The word pyramis referred to a pyramid-shaped structure, with the visible surfaces converging toward the top. Wheat cake The word pyramis also referred to a type of wheat cake, possibly made of wheat flour and honey. The Greeks may have used the word to describe the ancient Egyptian pyramids because they reminded them of pointy-topped wheat cakes. Fire-shovel The word pyramis may be linked to the Greek word pyrame, which means "fire-shovel". The word pyramis comes from the Greek words pyr ("fire") and amis ("vessel"), which may highlight the shape's pointed, flame-like appearance. The word pyramis was borrowed into Latin as pyramis, and the Byzantine Greek term pyramída influenced the evolution of the word into "pyramid" in English and other languages.

[@spykerhond7008]

brick storage? for exports?

[@bmj1680]

I suppose he was not as wealthy as his predecessor.

[@ianh3365]

It’s yet more evidence that civilisation development is not a straight line. We actually get better at making things, then regress and back to progress again. The same could also be true pre and post Göbekli tepe, definitely is true pre and post the romans and probably the same is true during the transition from hunter gather to an agricultural society.

[@billysgarden-u9s]

scorched by the x factor event that caused the mudflood. meltology melted red brick

[@koukouvania]

is the substructure of this also very similar to that of the bent pyramid or only the superstructure? edit: doesnt seem to be, so not much evidence it was a practice for the bent pyramid; what is the evidence that it was bent (this one)?

[@alanablythe]

interesting

[@spykerhond7008]

overheated bake factory or very bad post roman renovation.

[@lukecaverns]

I destroyed it, Matt.

[@AncientArchitects]

I knew it!

[@balazspalanki-wieszt6970]

Ancient Chernobyl... If scientists did a lot of research, they would probably find the dark mass produced when the nuclear reaktor fuel melts down here as well. Which the rescue units found in Chernobyl and Fukushima...

[@brosettastone7520]

Imagine what a massive flood would do to a mud brick pyramid….hmmm🤔

[@ShortbusMooner]

Like the Romans, at the end.. 🤔

[@ankh228]

Floodwater.

[@lachbullen8014]

There is no such thing as perfect

[@eldraque4556]

why didn't Ramsees steel th elime stone from here instead of the complete other pyramid of senorsret?

[@terryenglish7132]

Wooden connectors, surprising. They're also metal, poured metal or rock.

[@pepperspray7386]

only the good pyramids were built by aliens, the crumbled ones were human made. mystery solved xD

[@hickey4747]

Of they were built for energy storage as one theory goes and this one had some sort of disaster.

[@simmonsjn8]

was it the first pyramid of it's size and kind? maybe it was proof of concept!

[@floydriebe4755]

OOPS!!! and some folks want us to believe pyramids were built by gods! or aliens! yeah, right😂

[@MrGaborseres]

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[@bimmjim]

I wonder what Egypt was like back when it was a Christian country ❓ Is there any writing from that time❓

[@spykerhond7008]

how old is sandblasting?

[@LordDustinDeWynd]

7:22 Were there chambers or passages within body of pyramid?

[@AncientArchitects]

No, below ground. But the ground is clay rich and subsidence is a huge problem

[@uhohwhy]

big and black

[@wakcackle3555]

Inflation.

[@MrTryAnotherOne]

Looks like the knowledge of pyramid building was lost during that era.

[@lundysden6781]

funny how you expect folks to believe in your theories yet you still preach that they were used as tombs?

[@MysteriesUnveiled-t4w]

Why didn't anyone think to take a picture of it when it was new?

[@ruthc8407]

What happened to it? Death rays from Alpha Centaurians. No, nuclear bombs from Atlantis--Atlantians were pissed at the ancient Egyptians over a trade war... no, it was a curse from Moses.

[@sitindogmas]

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[@shepcon7892]

Why is it that perfection across cultures was reached so early and then forgotten?

[@DalHrusk]

Maybe because that "perfection" is non-vital show off? 🙂 Also, rises and downfalls of civilisations were often just results of shifts in climate.

[@pawekranzberg6259]

The work of OG pyramidiots.

[@conniebenny]

Wow! What a rubbish pyramid. Was it built by Disney?

[@AncientArchitects]

Temu

[@weeroger7048]

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[@gmeyer6657]

This is about all the Egyptian people could do, I believe. They did not build the pyramids, they inherited them.

[@DalHrusk]

Sad true

[@przemog88]

Only according to scammers and ignorants.

[@DalHrusk]

@przemog88 They inherited pyramids from older civilisations (not aliens or what). Civilisations change during millennia.

[@merlinwizard1000]

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[@Salmon_Rush_Die]

Ancient nuclear holocaust.

[@ericb-hk3hf]

Nothing happened to it. It was constructed in the late dynastic period when pyramids had long fell out of style to more of a Greek architecture. It was constructed very poorly, By a people that has long forgot how to Build them. It quickly degraded for many reasons. Terrible quality, light easily moved material, along with tons of fill in the structure. Later it was pillaged many times By local, raiding ottoman for its outer stones to make use of. Thats why you see all of the fill piled up around it. I.E. Just read a Book and you don't have to make this stupid video.

[@Zourkoskey]

Who has time to read a whole book lol