SECRETS OF THE GREAT PYRAMID: History Tour | Egypt Travel

[@HistoryforGRANITE]

Thank you for capturing these images and for the refreshingly accurate commentary.

[@PapyrusPundit]

Thanks HFG! You're the best! Can't wait for your next discovery!

[@jjyoshtv]

great work capturing this

[@LarryLMelton]

I have wanted to visit the King’s chamber for many years. I fancy myself quite the explorer, having poked my curious nose into many a cranny in my youth. Unfortunately, I am reduced to exploring vicariously. At 75 years old and with nine surgeries, including my lower spine, my days of climbing to heights are gone. The Great Pyramid lacks anything remotely resembling living. The pharaoh Khufu’s spirit has long departed if it was ever here, to begin with. It is possible that the tomb robbers made an effort to dig into the tomb for no reason. It is also possible that a hidden chamber containing Khufu’s remains and grave goods. As you and others have stated, working inside the King’s chamber is difficult and deprived of oxygen. Heavy work, such as tunneling into the walls, would be difficult when the original robber’s passageway was cut. Then, the question about whether the Great Pyramid is Khufu's final resting place has to take into account the expense and efforts required to build this structure, and not burying Khufu here seems very strange to me. Larry from Texas

[@PapyrusPundit]

Sorry to hear you won’t be visiting the pyramid. I agree Khufu was most likely buried there, though I think not for longer than a few centuries at most. On my next episode I will be visiting the forbidden pyramids of Abu Sir among other amazing places. If there’s a site you want me to cover let me know. Best, Papyrus from Massachusetts

[@ADenziello]

First of, I love the jacket at the end.

[@PapyrusPundit]

Yes, that's my made in Mexico shirt, combined with a $4 Egyptian cotton scarf, now available in my merch store, to be launched soon.

[@ADenziello]

I have so many many thoughts! So so so interesting. Well done! Thanks for the info.

[@stephenwissman]

This is so cool! I need to go and check it out for myself.

[@JohnSmith-eb6wh]

Very interesting! Great video! Appreciate the efforts! 👍 Thx!

[@PapyrusPundit]

Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ADenziello]

How much did you spend on bribes?

[@PapyrusPundit]

Enough to shill have my shirt on while I was leaving the country

[@steezyshreder]

😏😏😏 Me when I get into the kings chamber and find a “totally fit” pundit 😏😎😏😎

[@Mowgli1894]

I'm sure you're familiar with ben from unchartedX and Jeff from land of Chem. If not, definitely go check them out... the pyramids were not tombs.

[@PapyrusPundit]

Thank you for your recommendation @mowgli1984 I didn't state in the video that the pyramid is exclusively a tomb, nor did I make a definitive statement about its original purpose. I do refer to the pyramid as that of Khufu, the pharaoh to whom the pyramid has traditionally been attributed for at least 2,500 years. Hard to shake a name. I do appreciate your recommendation. Yes, I have watched some UnchartedX videos, will check out Land of chem as well. On the subject of the pyramid being a tomb: I think the better question is not whether it was ever used as a tomb but what other purpose it had in addition to being a tomb. I find the word tomb in English doesn't really align with the spiritual reality of the ancients, and the monumental purpose of such a structure. As if all this were simply built for one man's transcendence to the afterlife. It simply feels to me like there is a higher, more interconnected purpose for so many people to work on this structure for so many years. It's a bit outside the modern mindset of people like us today who live in the modern rat race.

[@steezyshreder]

Then what were they used for?

[@DurpVonFronz]

@@steezyshreder Chemical plants. Most of these guys are still milking the magical myth that these things were build for pharaohs and such. Total nonsense and they will keep it going, much like that history for granite flake. Just pretends like he understands and knows what up but in reality has zero clue whats going on with em.

[@KayInMaine]

When I look at the floor of the chambers inside, there appears to be areas on the floor where something once was.

[@PapyrusPundit]

I agree. The chambers were used and reused many times, and many things taken

[@21Million]

They could easily build a tempory staircase so people could go up the pyramid safely and without damage.

[@PapyrusPundit]

Yes, in fact, it's quite terrible that any surfaces within the pyramid are exposed or uncovered. A hard job to protect the whole place but the fact that anyone can just go in there and damage the place is so bad. In a hundred years there will be so much more damage, not to mention 'unknown damage' that is damage that isn't understood at our current level of scientific/archeological progress, but which will be considered damage by future generations.

[@jjyoshtv]

your sweating in there

[@PapyrusPundit]

Yeah it's quite uncomfortable, feels like you did a 8 mile run when you exit the pyramid

[@21Million]

The bottom of that lower passage sucks. You have to crawl on hands and knees for 30 feet in 2 inches of dust. They would have let you into the Queens chamber and lower level if you went with a different group.

[@PapyrusPundit]

Yes I will have to go back and do a night tour, which i hear are quite possible if you know the right people

[@random22026]

1:39 👌🏻 1:46 to 1:50 cc 5:29 to 5:58 No descent into the subterranean chambers ('takes too long', and no one is interested anyway...) 9:52 to 9:56 and 9:59 to 10:03 'Just a waste of time' ⌛ 10:10 I 10:31 to 10:47 cc water damage 11:07 to 11:39 cc sealed 12:42 to sight-obscuring diagrams; dusty water bottle 🤣; PORTCULLIS🙄; 13:36 I sure, that looks like a pharaonic skirting board 14:41 BACKGROUND!; 14:18 Where there's smoke... 17:01 cc 😏 20:36 cc 😁 20:56 cc QUICK! Get that quick contradiction on-screen! 🤣 22:22 cc 🤔👀 22:26 cc 🚨That's not what this chamber is...🚨 22:35 'holy' 🚩🚩🏴🏴 22:59 to 23:07 I 24:17 💷💷DEAD ZONE MORAL OUTRO🤑🤑

[@judas_saves]

Great video! It's a shame that people like Hawass are holding back progress... The 2016. scans are 100% there, yet Hawass was arguing with Graham Hancock and calling him a liar, that there is nothing there and that Graham's "technology" is wrong, etc.. We want The Truth!

[@PapyrusPundit]

After visiting Egypt and talking with many Egyptians about Hawass, the sentiment there is that he's basically just awful, typical corrupt phony archeologist who can never admit when he's wrong. Some even say that he's involved in the illegal antiquities trade, though I have no evidence for that. The reality is that he basically does oversee the guarding of more treasure than any other person on the planet, and Egypt is even now experiencing massive levels of tomb robbery. Hawass was also in charge in 2010-2014 when Egypt experienced it's highest level of tomb robbery in decades.

[@judas_saves]

@@PapyrusPundit I heard too, that he was selling on the black market, but he was found not guilty because.... some papers "disappeared" xD

[@PapyrusPundit]

Found this on Reddit: "After Mubarak was ousted, he (Hawass) resigned, but he was then appointed again by the Prime Minister. How he weathered the Mubarak ousting is a mystery deeper than any surrounding the pyramids." Idk how much you know about the Arab Spring but basically, the entire government was overturned and replaced, except for Hawass, who only became more powerful. But he's old, in a few years he'll be gone, and then maybe, just maybe, there can be change.

[@judas_saves]

@@PapyrusPundit Yes, he is old now, new generations need to come and further the status quo.

[@Rin-ii2iv]

is this in south america?

[@stephenwissman]

Are you joking.

[@Rin-ii2iv]

@@stephenwissmanno?

[@ADenziello]

Seriously? You have just confirmed you were educated in a barn. Your mom must be so proud.

[@frankilee4195]

Get a load of this guy 🙄🙄

[@Rin-ii2iv]

@@ADenziello wait is it not? i don’t understand the aggression i thought there was a great pyramid of south america.

[@M.E.Denzel]

What amount of gold would be needed to make such a large object such that they would need to build out and cut out a such a large passageway in the robber's tunnel? Is that proven? Where can I find more information on this topic?

[@weeroger7048]

If the objects were to big to get out how they get them I doubt they would have put the treasures in during construction

[@dcallan812]

Its a shame that one person has been allowed to build himself into the keeper of EVERYTHING to do with the pyramid site and surrounding areas, including the Cairo museum. We can just hope once he leaves his position things change and access for detailed exploration can restart..

[@PapyrusPundit]

Agreed. Only in Egypt is such an obscene scientific tragedy possible.

[@joesamaniego587]

WTF!!!! 🤬

[@Rin-ii2iv]

is it cold in there?

[@PapyrusPundit]

No it’s hell

[@weeroger7048]

Lethal video man

[@PapyrusPundit]

Thanks man means a lot new channel here just getting started

[@PapyrusPundit]

And if you have an idea for an episode I would love to hear it

[@ketchupcommander]

Al Maamoun's CLAIM IS FALSE.

[@PapyrusPundit]

Correct. Al Ma'Mun merely rediscovered a pre-existing passage that was built more than 3,000 years earlier. He then falsely claimed the credit for himself or it was falsely accredited to him.

[@vimalandrew2008]

@@PapyrusPundit Also I am doubtful whether the pyramid is actually is of Khufu. It is said that British explorer Vyse exploded the upper chambers and on the last day he inscribed khufu's name on the upper chambers. It is said that pyramid originally has no inscriptions inside. Also Greek historian Herodotus's history- many of them are false or he recorded based on others's stories. this prompts me to think of that great pyramid is 10000s of years old and during that time the area was prosperous and not a dessert. note that in Mayan areas in Mexico, Peru, no organic substances were recovered. So the same happened with the great pyramid also?.