The Lost & Forgotten Pyramid of Egypt: The 'Layer Pyramid' of Zawyet el Aryan

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Merry Christmas, and thanks for all the work you to make these videos, it is appreciated.

[@ArmyJay]

What a shame, imagine what geophysics might discover around the adjacent areas around the pyramid. It’s dilapidated now but the underground tunnels alone were an astonishing achievement and i’d love to see more photos of the corridors and chambers. The graphics you provided are great, really easy to understand. Nice work mate. Thanks for teaching me something, about which i was previously unaware. Cheers & merry christmas Matt.

[@tafinzer]

Happy Christmas Matt. Thanks for all the great content! I really appreciate you and your thorough and well researched videos. 🙏🏼

[@johnathanadams6378]

Hudjefa means “it is missing” or “it is obscured”. Meaning Hudjefa is not the name of a pharaoh, but indicates the name has been erased, destroyed, or unreadable on a previous king list.

[@nomadscavenger]

Oooh, so glad you are covering that layer pyramid, and that other very mysterious structure (great photos/diagram), which has been completely filled in, covered up with buildings on the military complex. I think it's possible both are connected because in earlier photos of the latter show two tunnels leading off the so Western 'room" at the bottom of those awesome steps and opposite the "room" where that oval "vat'?, incinerator, um, "tomb" with its lid propped up is located. That structure was shown at first as having enormous slabs of limestone filling it in before Barsanti removed them. I think they were from a roof covering that entire 'temple" or "reservoir"? There's also a photo of the oval "tomb" being removed and I believe I saw it in the new Grand Egyptian Museum? Thanks so much for this latest video, so interesting as I haven't heard anything at all about this layered pyramid except explorers in the late 1800s had been looking for it, and by the way discovered that now destroyed (well, not actually, but totally hidden/camouflaged odd other work-intensive and obviously purposeful "t" shaped underground whatever! Happy Holidays to you and yours! (It would be nice if someone like Elon could spare a few $100 mill to relocate that military installation east to Sisi, and help fund the reopening/exploration of these two valuable sites to archeologists, scientists and AI, wouldn't it?)

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I love watching your videos. Definitely one of the most educating and open minded channels I have yet to find. Great work. Merry Xmas.

[@110girl1]

Many thanks for all the work you put into these videos! Thanks also for bringing to light so many of these lesser known sites, they are just as important as the famous sites that get all the attention. All the best!

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Another great video!

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[@MrSomethingElse]

Merry Christmas and a happy new year sir, thank you for nourishing my mind this year. I've been very unwell this year and folks like you keep me company a lot, especially when it hurts too much to sleep. When I get well I hope to take my grand kid to Egypt but until then I am grateful to just explore with you sir. Thanks and best wishes.

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A Christmas treat indeed, Happy Christmas my good man, thanks for all your good work this past year.

[@kwillow12]

ARE there any known remnants of Egyptian structures that are known _for a fact_ to have been abandoned mid project (we know about the obelisk)? That would make a very interesting episode. ;-)

[@gomahklawm4446]

There's literally hundreds of unfinished pyramids. Many died before their pyramids was finished.

[@kwillow12]

@@gomahklawm4446And they would make an interesting video. Like: why weren't the unfinished projects finished & used by others?

[@Hatin.ontonio]

There is one in salt lake utah of America they say its a dam but why build a dam into the side of a mountain into the shape of a pyramid

[@ellenmariemccurdy]

Great work. Thank you. 🎄

[@wacojones8062]

Good presentation. There must be some way to get the military interested in helping further studies of this pair of structures.

[@tagsoftware]

Merry christmas to you and yours, Matt.

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Merry Christmas and happy New Year and a happy boxing Day and thank you for all your hard work🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@barrywalser2384]

I would love to have a closer look at this. Thanks Matt! Merry Christmas! 🎄

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Another nice video Matt! I hope you have a Happy Christmas and a Happy New Year!!🎄🎅🎆🎊🎉🎈

[@WilliamHarbert69]

Fantastic presentation. Another mystery to investigate.

[@CarlosAres-sf9hf]

Feliz Navidad y gracias por el audio simultáneo.

[@AncientArchitects]

Thank you! I worked hard checking and uploading the script so the auto translate can be the best possible

[@paulroberts7429]

Quote by Alessandro Barsanti "It is an awe inspiring shock and nowhere is the power and mastery of the old Egyptian architects so suddenly and strongly obvious as here" Merry Christmas to all at Ancient Architects,

[@eric1752]

Great video.

[@nikos6220]

Thx for the great video, had never heard about this one. Fascinating to think that the last Pharao of the 3rd dynasty commissioned that architectural piece of crap and the dynasty right after was able to build the great pyramid. What a jump in capability in not even a hundred years

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[@andydonnelly8677]

😁🎅AA, really interesting post, yet again, I wonder how stuff is still hidden in the military area?

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Merry Christmas from Temple, Texas, USA!

[@WallacesMysteriesofAntiquity]

I hope we get to see inside this one at some point. I wanted to do a video on it too, but was turned off by the lack of any footage. I think it was probably finished because of the trench next to it. I feel like Djedefre wouldn’t have started his pyramid right next to an incomplete one. I’d think they’d consider it an eyesore.

[@TheImmortalArt]

Awesome video, yet again!

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And to you! 🎄

[@Merlo_parlante]

I can’t believe that the Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities is leaving sites like this literally crumbling.

[@andrewvoros4037]

for those of us, fascinated by these topics, but not conversant with Egyptology vernacular, I think it would be great if you gave a parenthetical date to terms like “Old Kingdom” to put it in temporal perspective.

[@debbralehrman5957]

Is it possible that the cover stones were taken for another purpose? You said it was in a restricted area? It's close to so many othe rare sites that people visit. I wonder what the reason? I know it's a redundant question.🤷🏼‍♀️ Thanks for the video.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Merry Christmas to you too. 🌟🤰🐑👼👑🐪🐪🐪🎁📯🎆💕

[@mospeada1152]

Just curious, if it were in fact completed, what would be the estimated amount of time for the structure to fall into its current state of disrepair?

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Merry Christmas!

[@mospeada1152]

3:12 - So the pyramid was attributed to Khaba because of a serekh on eight marble bowls? Does that mean if I etch my name on Stonehenge, I built it? Also, if they could manufacture a bowl from marble, wouldn't the pyramid have been better built?

[@simonstergaard]

Could there be some translation and conversion errors between imperial and metric measurements to explain the different lengths ? did you get the lengths in the authors original language ?

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Glad to see another upload from the guy who spoke to 5 of the 6 geologists on earth.

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[@BinkyTheElf1]

Plus, don’t forget the lost smaller pyramids of Giza (2-3?), plus the ones down on the Nile Lake.

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RESPECT

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Cheers

[@penneyburgess5431]

It’s interesting that although similar in shape and design those older pyramids are fragile compared to later versions made of stone. Thank you Matthew and Merry Christmas.🎄🎁

[@philoso377]

I see inclines slabs architecture here believe it is superior to structure stability against wind and seismic activities, is however safe with dry climate with little to no rain. As the inward inclination structure made it superior to focus surface water at the structure core, causing a unique flooding condition. If trapped water ph is 6 or less limestone can be disintegrated or erode fast. Eventually disintegrated.

[@landofstan246]

One group of people build it and another group of people tear it down.

[@DamienRamirez]

2:51 Could use a episode that explains this. But the very simple explanation (By very simple I mean VERY SIMPLE!: nebty (tl:Dr Upper & Lower egpyt name) , horus (more of a title, featuring Horus) , golden horus/Horus of Gold (More of a title, features Horus by gold &) , praenomen/prenomen (Throne name), nomen (Personal name).

[@JohnRNewAccountNumber3]

Throne names are like monikers pharaohs would take on when they became pharaohs. Like the Japanese emperors do. Also not sure if you're asking the actual names of Upper and Lower Egypt, but Upper just means further up the Nile river (or down in this case). Its name was ta shemaw, meaning land of the reeds. Lower Egypt was mhw which literally just means North.

[@Michael-dl2cf]

it looks like on Google maps that this is just outside the military area ??

[@sergiorodriguezballestero714]

Es increíble cómo las autoridades egipcias no han hecho nada al respecto. Qué negligencia

[@tinkerstrade3553]

It's a shame something can't be worked out where it could be excavated and recorded for future generations.

[@patalbor3507]

Nope, they have to do it in secret and hide it so they can then lie to you so you don't ask logical questions that would lead you to the truth about the old kingdom. 😅

[@anulfadventures]

So once again we have another pyramid supposedly a burial monument with an empty "tomb". I'm starting to think that we've missed the point of these pyramids. It seems like a lot of work and time to build an "I was here" sign and then bury the King in the cemetery down the road. What are these pyramids really for I wonder?

[@supabass4003]

send geoffrey out there

[@Joe-Przybranowski]

Its probably safer being off limits for the time being.

[@joshua3171]

interesting

[@TheGreatPyramid]

You should have asked me for photos…

[@Hatin.ontonio]

Do you think maybe khaba was murdered by huni and took his place so the original people wished not to build it for him and he relocated and built his own ?

[@nomadscavenger]

(Note: I think it's called the New Administration Capital, not Sisi.)

[@oupahens9219]

So, over thousands of years somebody build pyramids along the Nile. This shoddy one was maybe built after the Great and Bend. Looks more like they tried to build one, but had no tools anymore.

[@deffhaus]

Hey! Was that a pre-dynastic high technology bowl???

[@merlinwizard1000]

10th, 24 December 2024

[@thepolyhobbyist]

😮

[@joseluiscahisfuentes6418]

Las piramides no son tumbas!!!

[@Balthazare69]

Maybe they will build a new one above 😂😂😂

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Thankyou dude

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Cheers

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[@joseluiscahisfuentes6418]

Lasiramides no son tumbas!!!

[@eleanorburns8686]

That is truly sad. I suppose it's a double-edged sword, as maintaining this wealth of ancient monuments is a constant economic strain to weight against the fluctuating tourist dollar so the more famous ones get all the priority, but for those of us who prefer a calmer experience (not that it's advisable for me as a trans person to go to Egypt at all, but if I ever did I'd probably choose a less famous area to focus than Giza) one would dare hope some love would be spared for more than the "big three".

[@donaldgminski8621]

If you're covered in the way they'd expect of any woman, is it not safe? At least "tourist safe".

[@eleanorburns8686]

@@donaldgminski8621 Probably in organised tour groups, but not alone. Maybe one day I'll meet with enough local enthusiasts to make such a tour possible.

[@iggyzorro2406]

a fascinating puzzle. the outside appearance is just not impressive enough to garner professional interest - too bad.

[@jussikankinen9409]

So it was ice house

[@Clyne-sv4hd]

Can't say i enjoyed the video it was too depressing for that... what's happened here is criminal but thanks for the info anyway good work👍

[@giovanniguarino9152]

How can an artist able to make exceptionally precise marble bowls, put the name of their owner so little and with a so simple (and unprecise) technique? How can archeologists have no doubt that the two actions (exceptionally precise marble bowls and the signature of the name of the pharaoh) have been made by the same "hand", when the history of ancient Egypt is full of stolen pieces and statues, made in ancient times but taken and "signed" by pharaos of the medium and new kindom? Always the simpler solution, please, even against logic and common sense.

[@testboga5991]

Maybe it's better if it's being protected by the military

[@Merlo_parlante]

It is not protected, and the Unfinished Pyramid of Zawyet El Aryan is literally used as a dumpster by the soldiers.

[@armisteadab]

Land of the Pharoahs is a personal favorite, however inaccurate.

[@citguero1]

Those early Pyramids are closer to a Ziggurat. Even that Cheops Pyramid might be earlier than all the rest, due to facts like the radiocarbon of the wood on the Dixson relics or those 2 shafts from the Queens chamber not reaching the external wall(Shafts were feeders of water and something like K or Na to create resonance). That Cheops pyramid was most likely a Truncated pyramid with a huge platform on top long before Menes or the First Dynasty.

[@AlbertaGeek]

_"Shafts were feeders of water and something like K or Na to create resonance"_ Pseudoscientific garbage.

[@johnclarke1319]

It is NOT forgotten, or you would not be talking about it, neither is it lost. I wish KZbin ads would be more honest!

[@WarAndFame]

Sshhh

[@BenReddick-q2k]

egyptalogists are only interested in the tourist dollars not the significance of the site

[@splinewalker214]

It seems like the 1800s is when humanity popped out of the dark ages and started finding archeological places and the engineering to the fast lane till now. What the hell was goin on from the time of the pyramids till the 1800s because it doesn’t seem like a whole lot.

[@JohnRNewAccountNumber3]

We're forgetting pyramids left and right it seems. But the ones we're finding in the Americas balances it out I guess. Merry Christmas!

[@haroldmorris5901]

Zawyet al Aryan means "Aryan Mountain." That definitely WAS NOT the name of this "Per Neteru" (Pyramid). By the way, Aryans DID NOT build pyramids.

[@haroldmorris5901]

Zawyet al Aryan means "Aryan Mountain." That definitely WAS NOT the name of this "Per Neteru" (Pyramid). Aryans DID NOT build pyramids.

[@I_am_Diogenes]

This looks like the most worn pyramid and with the name of Zaqyet el ARYAN that must prove that ancient Egypt was white not black . Thats more prove than whatever grandma has to say .

[@sonicsonar]

It is always "a burial chamber". And you know this how?

[@Gumdaar1]

I suppose it's because they have to be?

[@AndrasMihalyi]

the evolution from mastabas (clearly tombs) to stepped mastabas (tombs) to stepped pyramids and to pyramids are clear. So tomb - tomb - most likely tombs too ... If you have better evidence for another purpose than tomb, please present it.

[@Gumdaar1]

@@AndrasMihalyi You might be right? I bulk at the logic and baseless claim they 'have' to be tombs. So, all these mastabas where burial goods and plastered walls can still be found today, are the basic foundational proof for Pyramids being tombs? That those pyramids lost to time - once discovered in modernity (19th century onwards) never produce any grave goods? Where are the common niches for statues or slaughtered staff, common in older burials - like can be seen in mastabas? Where are the store rooms for the Pharaoh's after life as found in the valley of the kings? Out of hundreds dug out, with 1 maybe 2 exceptions and that being organs and moderate bones scattered about the hallways? Ancient robbers didn't strip mastabas of plaster walls showing the life and times of the peoples - yet pyramid robbers stiped each and every square inch of a pyramid of ANY evidence of human existence, let alone anything suggesting who lived at the time it was built? We find crude graffiti in a couple hard to get places and claim this is proof that a guy was buried here...its a stretch.

[@AndrasMihalyi]

@@Gumdaar1 lack of grave goods: looted shortly after they were built and the next pharao, ruler came to power. So not in modern times but thousands of years ago. Store rooms are beneath some pyramids, Djoser's pyramid for example. Organs, remains: see above. You could buy mummies as late as the 19th century in Cairo. They were used for medicine and such... Lack of plastered walls, writings... Nobody said that robbers removed them... It's a mistery, I give you that. Those graffities prove who built them, not that they were tombs... But we don't have a better evidence, pointing away from tombs. They could be masoleums, opened time to time to the public, to visit their passed leaders... Who knows, we have to study them further. Problem is: they were built so long ago, that gathering evidence is really hard. Herodotus, the first westerner who wrote about them, lived 2000 years after they were built.

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Second, but close! Merry Christmas!

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[@Joekonda11]

Again a very fine piece of vessel with a very crude hieroglyph looking like it has been carved yesterday eith a knife??

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