Decoding the Great Pyramid (2019) FULL SPECIAL | NOVA | PBS America

How did the Egyptians engineer the Great Pyramid of Giza so precisely, and who were the thousands of laborers who raised the stones? New archaeological evidence--including alogbook of a labor team leader--provides new insights into these age-old questions. NOVA delves into these construction secrets to trace how mobilizing labor and resources on such a massive scale transformed ancient Egypt.
First Broadcast Date: February 06, 2019
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[@SueFerreira75]

Why do the narrators of US documentaries sound so over panicked and over dramatic? The music is loud and awful making this fascinating documentary challenging to watch.. Just talk normally and intelligently, PLEASE!

[@wordsayer641]

Those pyramids were already old when the Ancient Egyptians were around.

[@TheDavidlloydjones]

No, they weren't. You're imagining things and posting average normal KZbin horsefeathers. The dates of their construction are known to the nearest decade. No mysteries there. Like the Great Wall of China, they're a normal ordinary government make-work project, designed to keep the agricultural workers busy in the off season so they wouldn't take it into their minds to march on the capital.

[@liukang3545]

@@TheDavidlloydjones they were you pissbrain HAHA

[@Etherglide]

@@TheDavidlloydjones Nobody knows how they were even built. We couldn’t build it now. So, dating it to the nearest decade is horseshit.

[@brandonstrong2048]

@@TheDavidlloydjonespyramids were not built as tombs for pharaohs, get real lol. There is history that we don’t know about, how is that surprising? Egyptians didn’t have technology to drill 12” diameter holes through 13ft of solid granite at 1000rpm.

[@Julian-pb4lr]

@@TheDavidlloydjones The Romans used bread and circuses to keep their people happy. Enormous building projects? not so much.

[@yourstruely9896]

Kufu they only found a tiny grafiti above the kings chambre saying kufu probably fake because paint analasys was bannen and prosecuted.

[@surfman6230]

If the bent pyramid was built wrong why line it with casing stones. Then build another one.

[@gineve2915]

There are many archaeologists and experts in other fields who disagree with many of the claims made here and some of the claims have already been proven wrong.

[@laique8797]

For the past, probably for more than 5000+ years, different civilisations are still doing the never ending business of decoding the Great Pyramids. In another 2000 years to the future, we would still be decoding the Pyramid😂

[@judithlungen6958]

Thank you fascinating!!! Amazing discoveries from so many years ago. Thank you for posting ❤❤❤

[@maryanneazzopardi12345]

I wish to visit one day I'm very curious. 😊

[@萩原耕介]

Oh! I love Pyramid veryvery much. yeah! who did make the slope way to the King's Room? 92yrs.Japanese.

[@yoyaoceans8233]

Amazing structure built by Egyptians

[@bijoylaha7245]

Because power is available

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

ANCIENT EGYPTIAN TOUR GUIDE: Hey mates, here comes that annoying Greek dude with all the questions - quick let’s make up some BS story about how the Ancients built The Pyramids! HERODOTUS: Hello there, Djehutmose, can I ask you something more?

[@TranquilTravels92]

kzbin.info-RyN0brjVQ0?si=KRlwi6v3SpnPYjRN Discovering the Great Pyramids: Egypt's Timeless Wonders

[@bijoylaha7245]

Focus this life technology futher this technology use timeline spacecraft have create other galaxy transportation

[@STONJAUS_FILMS]

I disagree with the ramp theory, they are building stairs ffs use them sideways with a pivot point to lift and pan ... then the outer layer build it from top to bottom going downstairs. They show a drawing on the sketch at the beginning.

[@fariduabbas2956]

I think I see something similar with this kind of drawings of these buildings from my old father's book written by one of the old tribe languages here in east Africa , Tanzania book he kept for Soo long before I was born Lol he also got that from his grandparents My father has a very old book, a book he kept for many years until now, you will be able to know the day of your death, using your name and the day you were born or the period you were born and the length of your shadow, the book also explains how to treat someone who has broken a bone by using your shadow, it has also explained how to find out the behavior or intention hidden in someone by using your name and the goat's forehead and it has explained the issues of building houses like rising up Example like (towers) and it has also explained geographical issues and sea issues

[@bijoylaha7245]

Rain night prymid colours have change

[@GeraldWood-ig9rw]

Then left us behind 😊

[@johnmitchell4043]

we dont know kufu had it built. he may have just claimed responsebility for it. it was so far back we just dont know. we do know that the 3 pyramids at giza are not tombs, there are no inscriptions found on or in any of them.

[@reynaldoalcala5857]

Wowwww!!!❤

[@ibmibm691]

Inside the King's chamber was a prism. Someone removed or stole it. There were mechanical pulley system as means to increased or lowered the prisms position to direct the light refracted out of the prism towards designated positions.

[@maryanneazzopardi12345]

When I heard the name Cairo it reminded me of a family friend ...we use to call him Guzie tal Cairo...he was gay he had a lot of chiwawa black dogs ...he lived in our capital city in valletta ...he was always asking about me with he loved me a lot ...and one of my dauthers have a neighbour with the nickname Giza ...how many couinsedances we meet in life 🤔

[@helenasplace]

Where were the lavatories? 😊

[@inforabit]

What makes more sense is that Kofu found the Pyramids and had his people excavate the site.He then claimed that this was his.It could be possible that it was him who robbed the site in the first place then later had repairs done

[@michaelmayhem350]

Right because the aliens built it or maybe the ancient lizard people.

[@dadbod80s]

The pyrimad in India are so much older then these. I dunno why we always concentrate on Egypt. Kufu claimed he was the builder however with the water erosion it would be impossible. Some of us need to pick up a book and do the research ourselves.

[@liukang3545]

haha come on, cowshiteaters cant do sheet HAHA

[@ShaunakHub]

Books published in WhatsApp university ? LMAO. You guys just enjoy humiliating India while pretending to be patriots and nationalists and what not, don't you ? What is in it to humiliate the country you were born in ? I mean what is the price for being a traitor ?

[@scrivener68]

My main question is: How did they bring Kasey Kasem back to life to do the narration?

[@natparkes7924]

That’s a mystery only Casey himself can solve! Send for those meddling kids and let Shaggy and Scooby find the answer. Zoicks!

[@gabrielmichel2521]

I often thinks in and prosperous nation.

[@GeraldWood-ig9rw]

Our creators built pyramids 😊

[@che4568]

Why did the building technology deteriorate so rapidly? Oh also it wasn't thousands of blocked moved it was millions 👍

[@yourstruely9896]

Mummy.. Egypt needs mummies for the pyramids. Never found but you need to connect the mummy period to the other period.

[@leeclemson5026]

A relieving chamber 😅 codswollop

[@Angellus502]

they didnt let me take a leak in there either 😔

[@Julian-pb4lr]

Agreed. Why didn't the queen's chamber have relieving chambers when that chamber had even more weight above?

[@pgreensoup4]

They were power stations.

[@PedroCruz-m3f]

“I’m not saying it was the aliens but…”

[@ckoriablack]

But it can't be Africans 🤔

[@ShaunakHub]

@@ckoriablack He means non whites...

[@dduif2119]

No?? Arabs then by millions ( before Koran obviously ) 😂 after that mother was ever done

[@carlholdt1042]

Superb. Thank you!

[@zeetutuman1824]

Not builders. They are tasked with learning the secrets of the Pyramids, how they were build, what tools, what technologies. One day in the future, people will claim the Pyramids were built by our historians, archeologists, researchers and scientists. And as usual, they will not find any tools, machinery, technologies at those sites except maybe some discarded food or water containers, some lost handphones ... Pens? Maybe ... And the question of why and how the Pyramids was built will remain a mystery.

[@zeetutuman1824]

And behold, the future generations will marvel at plastics, found near the pyramids and across the world and called our era 'Plastic Age' and claim them to be Alien technology😂

[@DarrelLaBossiere]

You can read a book to learn how to make plastic. The how to build pyramids book is always out on loan at the library

[@5455jm]

I love you PBS, I really do. However, we all know these were not tombs and what justification with those two mouthpieces, seriously? Well, this is just not credible and those claims invalidate your presentation.

[@C.M.DRYSQUADLTD]

True that

[@LanghamW1]

The real reason for the G P being there, will not be discovered by _archaeologists,_ _Egyptologists,_ or any other kind of _'ists._ Because they simply don't have a clue about its real purpose. The answer has been hidden in plain sight for around 2,700 years, but very few know of it, as it is not even recognised by those who have read the relevant passage, probably many times, but have failed to understand it. Even Isaiah himself, may not have known why he was inspired to write what he did. But write it he did and his words have been preserved for all of us who are willing to apply his words to that enigmatic witness of stone, as it delivers its message at this predetermined moment in history. *Isaiah 19: 19-20*

[@seanoxborough5830]

Looks like the guy that drag races the farm truck

[@reb2322]

You're right! LLL He and his little sidekick buddy. That is one fast farm truck!

[@bijoylaha7245]

Focus be focus futher other galaxy plants human live

[@MrSomethingElse]

Mark and Zahi the Gilgamesh and Enkidu of Egyptology

[@peterkoutsis2780]

Great comment Great pyramid

[@nadger1337]

Everyones entitled to their guess.

[@jameswoodard2232]

@jameswoodard2232 0 seconds ago 'cking music. Please put music on one stereo channel, voice on the other. it could then be silenced by user. Pyramid is interesting enough. If I wanted loads of crashing symphonic music....

[@MariaOdJezusa]

Brilliant.

[@מוגוגוגו]

Magical machine my ass..

[@chronosschiron]

THEY ALSO UNCOVERED A WATERWAY FROM NILE UP TO PYRAMIDS

[@internetpolification]

Same old presenters , same old authoritative speculation

[@seanohelan8241]

Kufu built the great pyramid ?? This is not credible. The complexity of their construction needs much more in-depth and rigorously scientific explanation.

[@Angellus502]

im not sayign it was aliens.. but it was Aliens

[@MediaLieDetector]

The sphinx was carved during the last age of Leo. 12000 years ago.

[@michaelmayhem350]

You forgot to say it was carved by aliens

[@MediaLieDetector]

@@michaelmayhem350Grow up.

[@skyhigh1154]

They didnt know, they dont know and they will never know how its build. Archeologists will come and go, spend lotz of money and still dont know.

[@gorbalsboy]

They do know, it was snow hites seven dwarfs,she whipped the poor wee souls 😢

[@BrunoHeggli-zp3nl]

Bullshit

[@massimosquecco8956]

With Lehner we always get Bla Bla Bla! thumbs down here, where I respect only Ms.Ikram, but the Pyramids are not her expertise!

[@ollieread9]

Khufu is not responsible for the construction of the great pyramid and does not claim to be! The Pharaohs told us they inherited them from a civilisation before them

[@vincentlussier8264]

No matter how they explain that skilled men who were well looked after built these pyramids I still don't believe it! If they did they got help from somewhere else . Two million limestone slabs weighing two tonnes each were all stacked up so perfectly ? And those slabs of granite at the inner core weigh up to 70 tonnes ? Lifting it how? The whole thing doesn't make sense in our physical world!

[@osvaldoelias1943]

Or...... The Annunaki 🤔

[@jeffsmith50001]

how long did it take to sail across the Red Sea when the wind was right ? with a multi-ton block on a boat stitched together by a bloke who saw a good contract. Piece of piss compared to the Aswan Granite job 500 miles away.

[@sasamitrovic9474]

You keep mixing religion with faith and knowledge.

[@GeraldWood-ig9rw]

The Gods built them

[@Bruce-b7p]

It dates to five thousand years ago yet that's when the Egyptians stole the casing off the top .

[@yourstruely9896]

The blocks do not divert weight they add weight. The great pyramid was first smaller and then extended thats why the queens chamber exists with ventilation shafts wich do not reach the out side. The cracks and lack of water indicate why they got abandoned. 12.000 year water cycle shara tells why.

[@bijoylaha7245]

50 %brain my nation for 50 % brain use world world for

[@weeroger7048]

Interesting to using the flood level to get the materials Imagine that like the whole pyrimad was underwater Putting the pyrimadian on top by boat Drains through the gg doen the well shaft into the sub chamber down out the well

[@yourstruely9896]

Everything is based on assumptions. Tomb.... ahum no writings were ever found. Who says it was after the step pyramid and not before they tried to replicate but never succeded.

[@haziqkaka3414]

yeah ! everything about history is 50/50 true because its just scientis prediction . unless its tell by GOD in books through prophet . because only ALLAH knows everything

[@Julian-pb4lr]

If I were the king and the richest man in the then known world I'd be pretty hacked off having such a plain tomb for my interment. Besides, to join the underworld the ancients had to be buried UNDERGROUND (i.e mustabas, valley of the kings) not hundreds of feet up in the air. The clue is in the name. Whatever the pyramids were built for they were not intended as tombs.

[@happywarrior7126]

So in other words we know nothing, we can only speculate

[@sjoerdwouda]

its more like 20000 years old

[@Blackunitsound-system]

There are three son make Be not who care you booming something that spirit make

[@dillon4813]

Yes they were already old lmfao. During last era of pharohs the pyramids were already built for like 3000 or 4000 years. Were closer in time to last era of pharohs then they were to the pyramids.

[@deividasvisockas]

Build by Egyptians? If you have been in Egypt you would never claim they build Pyramids. In 2024 they still using donkeys to cary sugarcanes…

[@DavidWhite-x6r]

They still chew sugarcanes

[@deividasvisockas]

@@DavidWhite-x6r cheapest food…

[@kaddouriboualem5267]

So who do you think built them mr. Einstein?

[@judithlungen6958]

What a ridiculous and insulting comment - unworthy of an amazing documentary film and those who created it.

[@tolgamatouk7206]

​@@kaddouriboualem5267 Israel

[@ViktorK-ul8mu]

nonsense. such a shallow research. there are way better documentaries

[@ChadLuciano]

recycled 5 year video....waste of bandwidth

[@peterhermit1830]

The great Pyramid was built ages before the Egyptian Pharaohs. They just attempted to copy them using slavery

[@Eyes_Open]

Your claim will do great in the fiction section of a library.

[@peterhermit1830]

@@Eyes_Open Egyptians don’t like to hear this unfortunately, as they want people to believe that they did it😂

[@Eyes_Open]

@@peterhermit1830 Fiction= not real.

[@jibraani10]

Free Palestine ❤️🇵🇸

[@yourstruely9896]

The only thing what khufu kufu could have done is try to repair it to gain its former believed powers. lets carbon date everything officially and not in egypt and with potassium 40 / thorium led etc.

[@Angellus502]

they have, there is morter between the blocks.. it is 3500 years old. dont belive the LAHT lies

[@Blackunitsound-system]

Maybe it's not a good idea how his hands do

[@Guebre-t8m]

It's here to stay .

[@Hhhhuvgfs]

First of all how they bring that much heavy stones in wood ship never even today with hight technology you could not do that then stop false stories..

[@damon2692]

So much misleading information in this "documentary"....

[@TutTravelsVlogs]

I don't like that you didn't include Egyptian scientists, who you can find all over Egypt's universities. They would speak from an authentic point of view, not just about their findings but also about traditions and culture that are still practiced today. Even the language now shares many words with ancient Egypt.

[@razor6888]

No Kings or Queens have been found in any. Why and how, remains a mystery but get your facts straight. No mummies there... a different idea perhaps ?!!?

[@potheadtoker11]

What upper garbage. All estimates and narrative,with no explanation for the evidence. This watches like a fairytale.

[@BarbarianBody1]

So many of us know this was not a tomb, nor was it built by Kufu based on the facts available. This clung-to assumption by architects is outdated and needs to be moved on from. So much evidence points to it being way more than a tomb, and that it was likely there in the time before the Egyptians. Misinformation to the maxxxx PBS.

[@sealobo]

This "documentary" is nonsense. Full of baseless claims and arbitrary assumptions.

[@deevog]

Wrong title, they can't decode their math and purpose

[@seanoxborough5830]

And all built by copper tools cutting marble 😂😂😂😂😂 ok

[@carveraugustus3840]

There’s no marble in the pyramid it’s limestone and even granite. This stuff is basic archaeology you dig a town. Harbors and port to the Red Sea its archaeology people.

[@Angellus502]

Sand ( quartz/carundum) does the cutting just like sand paper. The sand is embeded in the copper just like it is glued to sand paper or a diamond tipped modern cutting tool. check out how they built water wheel powered saws to cut stone, crazy impresive for 3500 year old tech

[@BrunoHeggli-zp3nl]

Its 98% limestone and only 2% Granit!limestone is soft!

[@selfMOTIVATEtv]

Great imaginations. Precision cut of some of the hardest stones, marble.... with chisels. Yeah right. 😂

[@AymanToema]

😝

[@bociankot2198]

Bs simple.

[@Morph3as]

Nope.....!

[@BaleedAli-s4d]

OK no. Find a new one

[@Smee86]

I believe they are Volcanoes and the inscription on the top is "please don't not 🚫 erupt." 🫡🫶🏼🤑😁

[@sullivancalgary]

They're still slinging this crap?

[@johnhappy2340]

God bless black people 🇳🇬

[@harreits]

What has this with the pyramids?😂😂😂😂

[@chriskief7156]

they didnt decode shit all

[@srenaskjr3710]

I have no doubt, the Giza pyramids, and the sphinx is at least 30.000 years old... So the builders are very ancient "Egyptians". probably the Atlantean people. No pyramide was ever used as a tomb... Pyramide means "Fire in the middle" ... Pyramids were powerplants and a lot of other things...

[@seanoxborough5830]

Believe this you're believing anything

[@Insectoid_]

You'll

[@jeffsmith50001]

sounds a bit like made up bollocks.

[@emmanueljohnson5934]

This doc is bias

[@derek4490]

What a load of shite

[@RammSec]

This video is 🐮💩

[@duluxdog71]

No chance they built this..thr incline snd size of rocks....didnt have the technology to do that.....a more intellignet being for me did this

[@vincentlussier8264]

I would have to agree because I just don't believe people could possibly have done this. We can't even do it today!

[@christianheidt5733]

​@@vincentlussier8264exactly 💯

[@BrunoHeggli-zp3nl]

Its easy doable with simple Handtools!You need around 15000 good skilled people for 20 years