Who Really Built The Pyramids And Other Mysteries Of Ancient Egypt | Lost Treasures | Timeline

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[@kyleharding1087]

Please put original publishing dates of the documentaries in the description!

[@BS-qg4ep]

They won't because you're not gonna watch something chopped up from 30 years ago lol

[@konradrafalski4580]

it's from 1999

[@ShimmeringIceCrystal626]

Yeah 99 was 25 years ago 😂 ​@@BS-qg4ep

[@djenner4117]

Producrtion dates need to be added to the descriptions. 24 years is a long time in the development of archeological research.

[@kyleharding1087]

Thank you! This is my biggest problem with this channel. I love old documentaries but it’s important to have original publishing dates.

[@awuma]

The film was made in 1999.

[@starcapture3040]

not really, old documentaries are far more fun all they needed is correct remaster

[@Scotto6977]

Man,it doesn’t get any better than Ancient Egypt…just fascinating

[@andrestein6022]

I mean ancient Greece is on equal footing I'd say lol. Egypt was definitely older though

[@joeythechin8870]

⁠@@andrestein6022 I do love ancient Egypt and the Greeks, but the Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids. Look at the Egyptian Art. I don’t care if ten thousand people from Egypt. 2.5 Million stones each weighing 2.6 TONS? 😂Sure skinny underfed Egyptian slaves did it! 😂😂😂

[@truthismycause2800]

​@@joeythechin8870No, skinny Egyptians didn't carry them up. Smart Egyptians found ways by means of hoists, ramps and sledges to pile up those huge boulders. Smart people invent solutions, dumb people believe in conspiracy theories.

[@Leeside999]

@@truthismycause2800 _"Smart people invent solutions, dumb people believe in conspiracy theories."_ Beautifully put. I may borrow that if you don't mind.

[@truthismycause2800]

@@Leeside999 Ofc you can. I don't own words. They're as much yours as they are mine.

[@wildbill6675]

I work construction for 33 years concrete and steel with the modern-day equipment we have now it would be a challenge to build a pyramid ancient builders fascinate me

[@truthismycause2800]

There's a fascinating documentary in KZbin titled "ancient aliens debunked" that shows some of the techniques used to raise those huge boulders. It's really interesting and I strongly recommend it.

[@kraigthorne3549]

Most people think that the pyramids are made of blocks of rock, but in reality, only the stress points and outer shell are made from hand carved rock, the rest is rubble and that is why ground penetrating radar shows what looks like many chambers inside the pyramids.

[@goshnodo]

​​@@truthismycause2800lol truth is not your cause my guy.

[@nalinux]

With modern day equpeent there would be no problem. What did you really do ? Push the wheelbarrow ?

[@truthismycause2800]

@@nalinux Counterweights, levers and hoists. You didn't have basic physics in school, apparently.

[@Cinderella227]

My vacation to Egypt was canceled during Covid. I really wanted to visit the pyramids. Now separated and not sure of things. Anyway, a few days ago, I went to King Tut’s museum exhibit. I highly recommend it. ✝️❤️

[@Last_Chance.]

That's awesome. I wish you all the love and happiness that life can bring and I hope you have a beautiful day sweetheart

[@captainshakesbeard2453]

just watch Karl Pilkington visiting the pyramids. it's all you need.

[@rogerjohnson2562]

Clickbait title; real title is 'River of Life'.

[@haleybrewer3003]

The irony about the Construction of the Pyramids is the fact that the Egyptians built them to show the world what they can do but Arcologists and geologist scratch their heads even today on how it was possibly built by people. So in the end while yeah Egyptians get credit but because we don't understand how they did it the Egyptians credit is watered down but people believing they had an unknown anomly to assist

[@MrSmokingMachine]

This video is clearly 3000 years old

[@Cry.For.Ukraine]

OK, the title is Who Really Built the Pyramids. So, they don't even talk about that. Click bait.

[@limeychefboy]

They were all Egyptians, no slaves, all were craftsman, and also the ones who tomb robbed after too:)

[@tsa3b]

​@@limeychefboyso when sumerians arrived the were just called egyptians? same as greeks,persians,hyksos 🙄 so who really were egyptians before the barbers and hyksos and so on 🤔

[@albertenriquecrowleybeastc217]

Oh they smoked me! It's ok I love watching these

[@tsriftsal3581]

​@@tsa3bit seems a better question is who were the Sumerians before they settled in the land we call Sumer or Iraq?

[@otherperson]

@@tsa3b the Sumerians never travelled en masse to Egypt. The Sumerians and Egyptians are unrelated. They probably traded occassionally, but they did not share a population.

[@LBGirl1988]

I saw a traveling exhibit of King Tut’s treasures in the mid 70s in New Orleans. It was so beautiful! I was in kindergarten and still remember it well.

[@pauline-RB]

I also saw them at the Tut-ankh-amun exhibition in London. Also in the 70's, it was a school trip I went on. The memory is burned in deep, amazing stuff! That mask of pure gold and lapis lazuli. Awesomely beautiful! 😮

[@Philip-gn8wx]

Thumbnails like the one that is present for this one, inspired me to read the comments before viewing.... Thanks for the heads up 🤓....

[@gunsandpoker7432]

Flip Wilson

[@teriwood9657]

Lol

[@NYN_000]

Starting: River : Nile, Egypt Song : Indian

[@khaledtaha4814]

do you know the song name? or the singer?

[@Tony-dp1rl]

TL;DR ... the Egyptians

[@macmensch]

If Noah can build a giant boat and get all the animals from all the continents he for sure can also build the pyramids by himself.

[@yohan7782]

😂😂😂 he built planes too

[@MacAdam-itsme]

amazing

[@katherinecollins4685]

Well presented

[@cosmicmonkey1024]

What is wrong with these people, everyone knows they were built by Terry and Keith of Keith and Terry building contractors Est 2nd millennium BC but not to be confused with Terry and Keith building contractors Est 2nd millennium BC, completely different company.

[@austinmiller1427]

😂

[@gamecolor4519]

I wish i knew but i have no idea

[@Last_Chance.]

Naturally

[@shaynecraig]

And suggested 'they added stuff' to the Sphinx after he told you it was carved out of bedrock lol

[@alexyliu9768]

Tutenstein is so known bc they made a cartoon out of him 😂.grew up with tuti😂

[@evilqtip7098]

Incredible people of Their time❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤ They left a legasy....

[@Paul-xv4qh]

Giants worked on the stone quarries that built the pyramids. I think all notable pyramids were made before the genesis flood.

[@darthpaul490]

Power stations!!

[@truthismycause2800]

No. Toilet rooms.

[@tevariousrothborne3961]

Very beautiful land

[@marilynmitchell2712]

Amon-Re

[@nikosatsaves3141]

Answer this first:does the Sphinx predates the pyramids and why?

[@MCML50]

The people in Egypt call him Tut an chamun.

[@waynewallace8761]

Michael caine was great in this never knew this was his hobby

[@mykillerfever]

Dang not even 8 whole minutes in and they just completely disregarded the whole title 🙄😏...

[@TheMoneypresident]

Just a heads up but the content creator and channel owner have no connection.

[@danh.2834]

I tuned out when they credit to the Egyptians...

[@Uchube77]

Planet jumper’s ma boi. Hey y’all reckon the moon is closer then before 😮 Very close

[@lordbloodraven9347]

That was beautiful song

[@SoFly9669]

Im an advocate that the Pyramids of Giza and the Sphynx were used as flood bunkers

[@umelaila1036]

Its a desert

[@SoFly9669]

It wasnt always a desert. And even when it was lush with greenery, that is not what Im referring to. There was a great flood during the younger dryas period, and it wasn’t the first. It had to do with the sudden recession of the last glacial maximum. Also its been proven that the erosion marks from the sphinx are from heavy water flow, not wind and sand as previously believed. I highly urge you to do your research on climatology, pre-history, and archeology before you come debate me because “its a desert” just aint gonna cut it fam 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@amlarar]

Wow❤

[@carl5563]

Change the title, which is completely deceptive. making this documentary a waste of my time

[@houssamtaouqi1529]

The title is just a way to attract new viewers but overall the video contains a lot of information about the ancient egypt civilization

[@ivanzzz7610]

name of the song from the begining of this documentary???

[@tugcekaraca]

I don't think we can prove either one of these theories. At least not yet. It is fascinating how the earlier pyramids were built to perfection and the later ones seem like bad copies.

[@nalinux]

They are absolutely not perfect. In fact many collapsed.

[@houssamtaouqi1529]

@@nalinuxit’s totally normal for the pyramids to collapse regarding the fact that they were built hundred years ago

[@nalinux]

@@houssamtaouqi1529 Thousands :)

[@oneshothunter9877]

@@houssamtaouqi1529 *Thousands

[@user-zl9cs4ou7p]

Yeah who really built them !? We certainly ain't gonna know it here. Trying to know the unknowable is foolhardy.

[@corvavw6447]

Ben zelf in de piramide van gize geweest, En in nog wel meer imposante bouwwerken. Des te meer maakt bij mij niet aannemelijk, dat de mens niet veel ontwikkelder was dan aangenomen. Zo'n beetje alle grote bouwwerken verdeeld over de wereld gezien. Verbaasd en steeds afvragend?

[@takster050974]

Mensen hebben nu teveel onzin te doen. Waar vindt je mensen die willen helpen bouwen. Men is alleen bezig met hun eigen huisje. Toen waren er hele volken die direct voor hun koning werkte.

[@marilynmitchell2712]

Giants

[@jeffclark7888]

Seriously?

[@hatchi3031]

​@@jeffclark7888something stronger than us builded it. Either annunaki or interdimensional being

[@nalinux]

@@hatchi3031stupid ...

[@khaledtaha4814]

@@hatchi3031 lol

[@hatchi3031]

​@@khaledtaha4814​Where did they gathered the stones in a f*ckn desert ? Sand everywhere

[@SohoJoe202]

My ancestors were the Ramesside kings. Salaam from D.C.

[@TwoGlockAMG]

How did you trace it back that far??

[@objetivista686]

😂😂😂😂

[@SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath]

I highly doubt that bro. It’s literally impossible to trace your lineage back that far. You’re probably just some embarrassing Hotep African-American who doesn’t even know what country your ancestors were forcibly brought here from.

[@faresfs7434]

I'm sorry?

[@dogbone1065]

Who taught the Egyptians how to dance ?

[@jesus2639]

"There no way those blacks could stack rocks in the desert. It had to be aliens"

[@alucard1067]

Anything but the blacks right?

[@Orion2525]

It's a shame some find it easier to believe Aliens from light years away rather than the black people right there In the neighborhood.

[@takethepowerback83]

Europeans built the pyramids

[@tevariousrothborne3961]

Bruh it was not Aliens

[@nob.s.top5comparablesb370]

Research geopolymer brick casting or stone laying. Our ancestors had those technologies mapped out from thousands of years of information gathering. Remember the blueprint of modern civilizations was all taking from Nubia (Sudans) and Kemet( Egypt)

[@user-lt2ze3bs7u]

Old Egypt of 9 gods New egypt of 9 supreme court justices

[@jayspik6498]

Aliens 👽

[@tonyjohnson8752]

That's so racist

[@Last_Chance.]

​@tonyjohnson8752 lol

[@hatchi3031]

Annunaki

[@markkorste6478]

​@@hatchi3031Ancient Kemit ( Egypt) is pre historic which cannot be dated by those European archeologists who doubts the pyramids were built by black Africans from East Africa who still bear names like Khufu and Akhenaten. Ancient Kemit civilization was from the interior of black East Africa following the Nile southwards.

[@khaledtaha4814]

@@markkorste6478 🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 i wish you knew how dimwitted afrocentrism sounds to us native Egyyptians

[@Schwarzkald]

It wasn't called Egypt in Ancient times it was called Khem!

[@emilantipay6877]

Ancient people built the pyramid. Knowledge in architecture and engineering is not monopoly by the so-called modern civilization or human. Man and civilization already exist million of years, those structures prove it all!

[@CrackleCat]

Farmers built the pyramids on their days off from work under the threat of having noses removed.

[@nalinux]

No.

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

Aliens of course 👽

[@independence4576]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@SarrahCreatorofHeavenandEarth]

Aliens 👽👾 antihuman demonic carnivorous creatures from below 👹🦇😈🙄😒 REPENT!

[@taun856]

(Alien) "Hello Human. We have crossed many thousands of Light years to come to your rather insignificant little planet to teach you many things." (Ancient Egyptian) "Cool! Like what are you gonna teach us?" (Alien) "How to stack rocks" (Ancient Egyptian) "Uh, is that it?" (Alien) "Yep, pretty much!" (How it probably happened)

[@cheaplaughkennedy2318]

@@taun856 😂

[@Last_Chance.]

​@@taun856well, now we know.

[@faresfs7434]

Why I'm seeing some Kangs in the comments talking about my country?!

[@yvonnehouston4893]

Very interesting

[@amlarar]

How did you know😮

[@alpierre2373]

I'm quicker to believe that giants helped build the pyramids then the Egyptian humans.

[@YusufKhan-mp5vs]

Why is a Sanskrit( Hindu Religion ) hymn in the very beginning???

[@user-yo9je5kl5m]

One thing is for sure. No one under a hundred feet built them😂

[@peteywheatstraws4909]

The architects and the masons.

[@sol2soul77]

lts in Afrika so therefore Afrikans built it... along with many other magnificent ancient cities, but because the current narrative benefits the economic structures that are setup to exploit Afrika, this true narrative despite even well documented by Greeks who went on to later capture Egypt acknowledged themselves.

[@faragraf9380]

isn’t it ridiculous think, ancient egypt is aged 5tsd. ?

[@PositiveEnergy241]

Where are they going to put me at in history or im to damn known for that Lol

[@motivatedt9926]

I don't think the Egyptians built anything. The Pyramids and Sphinx were built long before they settled there.

[@HessahAlHendi]

What is your proof?

[@motivatedt9926]

@@HessahAlHendi where's your proof they did build it?

[@nalinux]

stupid

[@princessoffire1107]

I will say this, and it came directly out of Dr. Hawass's lips during a lecture.... During the time we think of as ancient Egypt, there lived known ancient Egyptian archeologists. ... let that sink in . 2.5k years ago, people were searching for and discovering things that were 2k or so years old already.

[@motivatedt9926]

@@princessoffire1107 Your first mistake is saying Dr. Hawas. He's the main culprit in all of this. He's actually been caught lying several times on film

[@johngoh2007]

They just refused to acknowledge it is by the people of that continent

[@nalinux]

North Africans are from Africa.

[@benmckillop5652]

Graham Hancock

[@whatthefunction9140]

Is a sensation seeking hack

[@tonyjohnson8752]

Miniminuteman

[@tonyjohnson8752]

​@@whatthefunction9140miniminuteman

[@TheMoneypresident]

Professional conman

[@Last_Chance.]

Absolute genius

[@CryionelPessi69]

Jim'll fix it

[@noahallvall8562]

Jimmy savile

[@RobertMiller-sr9iq]

What about the emerald tablet where the information is written?!?!?!!

[@PositiveEnergy241]

Im so funny i can watch this & make something funny 😆😂😆

[@Loriannlk]

Old warped history.

[@amlarar]

Yes corect

[@tonyjohnson8752]

If the pyramids were tombs,why have no pharaohs ever been found in one? They are always found in the valley of the Kings.

[@sunsky4549]

Grave robbers. Initially, kings and queens and their families were buried in elaborate tombs to give them a happy send off into the afterlife. But they were raided and precious items belonging to the royal families were stolen. So, to preserve the mummies and whatever items they had left, they were moved to the Valley of the Kings for safe keeping. 😊

[@christophershiels786]

Because of tomb raiders they were took secretly to the valley of kings and hidden

[@tonyjohnson8752]

@@christophershiels786 and where is your evidence of this claim?

[@lastofmygeneration]

Pharoah Djedkare Isesi's mummy was found intact in their Pyramid. There's a scientific paper that actually a documents all the corporeal remains found in all the pyramids thus far. You need only to google it.

[@lastofmygeneration]

​@@christophershiels786 You can look it up. I learned it when I was taking art history. That's pretty common knowledge.

[@foxmacnamara8809]

They were power plants

[@andriesvanderlinde6733]

The old Egyptians did not have steel tools.

[@Balisingh-dn9hd]

The Egyptian pyramids are reminders to modern science that there were humans in the past who were more intelligent architects.

[@-GrimEngineer-1337]

Posting 20+ year old videos with outdated information? Why? The old 4:3 aspect ratio drives me nuts too...

[@S0L12D3]

Did it really bother you that much that the video ratio wasn’t perfect?! I’m young and it doesn’t even bother me….

[@kaudsiz]

@@S0L12D3Some people will complain ‘bout everything🙄

[@houssamtaouqi1529]

To be honest this aspect ratio gives it a great look 😂 because it’s matching the video’s vibe

[@daviddonnelly2700]

Was that a cuneiform tablet? During reference to a primary Egyptian Dynasty? Hmmm......???

[@otherperson]

The video editor probably heard the historian say "letters" and found an image of an amarna letter tablet, which were egyptian documents in cuneiform, without thinking much of it.

[@GalacticEnchantress777]

Why are they playing Indian 🇮🇳classical music if they’re talking about Egypt? No connection what’s so ever

[@lacinabakayoko4634]

Kemet not Egypt

[@faresfs7434]

@@lacinabakayoko4634 Not your business kang

[@owachgiualexjavuru213]

They should play atleast african music

[@fifiaddis]

Ethiopians built the pyramid, however, Egyptians don't tell you who did or they don't even know. Those people who built the pyramid live in North Ethiopia they called the Afar.

[@warrenbooth2103]

The pyramids were obvious targets for tomb robbers they had plenty of time.

[@MattSmith-xv1kw]

i still believe the smallest pyramid is the oldest . by nature a son will try to out due his father , grandfather and so on . also when did they change who the great pyramids belonged to ?

[@golgumbazguide...4113]

Explore Golgumbaz Deccan india 🇮🇳

[@heenanyou]

From 1999.

[@karuakarsir3371]

WHO BUILT PIRAMIDS

[@nokuthuladlamini5288]

I believe pyramids were built by giants, the reason for my beliefs is that, those pyramids are too mega to have been built by humans, considering that, they didn't have the resources we have nowadays

[@nalinux]

They had enough ressouces, it's all that matters.

[@JC-sd3vh]

I didnt think the pyramids were "tombs".

[@Casanova102986]

all humans come from native born , Black Africans . including the ancient Africans who built and ruled ancient egypt . truth lives matter .

[@Psychodelix]

The sanskrit sloks in staring 😅 can u hear it too 🙏

[@shaynecraig]

You just asked if John Anthony West used radar. Hahaha! Yep, in the 1920s. Research!

[@rajeshreddy2805]

Started with a sanskrit mantra.❤

[@qui-gonjay2944]

Judging by the title I was hoping this wouldn’t be another standard model shill. Oh well.

[@scottdiamond74]

Ancient Alien Astronauts. 😂

[@Last_Chance.]

Lol

[@roberttelarket4934]

@scottdiamond74: Thar's an old stupid joke that began in the 1960's when I was a teen.

[@scottdiamond74]

@@roberttelarket4934 Keep it going! 🥸

[@ashwinvishnu3998]

right at the begining they place Indian music. that was fricking weird

[@ReinhardAusDieNiederlande]

The question is from who did the ancient Egyptians inherit the pyramids, temples, obelisks etc. Referring the pyramids as being tombs makes this documentary a work of fiction and stopped the video.

[@MsBeaBea]

It was not called Egypt, back then... Terrible documentary to not say, at least one time, the name which the civilization called itself...

[@nalinux]

Who cares ? All countries had a different name centuries or thousands of years ago.

[@MsBeaBea]

@@nalinux I care. It's false teachings. Documentaries refer to other civilizations/ people like Babylon, Aztec, Mayans, Han, Mycenaean, Minoans, Phoenician, Persia, Assyria, Hittites, Sumerians, etc., by their ancient names... Even you don't seem to know that Egypt's boundaries were established as a "country" in 1899, yet the civilization once extended from present day Syria to Napata, Sudan...

[@GIjoe614]

​@@nalinuxwat a unsmart commit I thot the same thing..if your informing people about a geographic topic & history the actual name at that time in history shud b part of the lesson

[@YT-User1013]

No one knows why the pyramids were created. They were not burial tombs. We found remains in burial tombs and they were not pyramids. Just like the Aztecs and Mayans found great pyramids from previous people and did not know who or why theirs were built, so too the pyramids of Egypt were inherited they just won’t tell us that (like the Aztec and Maya did).

[@shaynecraig]

Two points for her: 1. Did you not notice every time he raised the volume of his voice so that you would not interrupt him? 2. Did you not notice his 'hmmms, hmms' to your inane, ill informed comments in between? Please do more research on your guests. Haha. You just said 'that makes sense'. Please.

[@klausjambor1897]

They are the ancestors of the vampires.

[@SPDATA1]

THE GIANTS built them....

[@forest9696]

Aliens

[@malekandmourad]

I know how the pyramids were built. I am sure about that and I'll announce about that soon. I am very sure by calculating and the theory's of the design and all secrets

[@nalinux]

Sure :)

[@twonumber22]

I can tell you right now that it was mechanical advantage.

[@malekandmourad]

@@nalinux yes i am sure about i say and all people on world will know how they built

[@nalinux]

@@malekandmouradThe whole world wait for you. Your mum will be proud.

[@malekandmourad]

@@nalinux thanks

[@thegolfcartshop]

dey wasnt kangz dey was ball washers 🏀🇺🇸

[@roberttelarket4934]

You deceived us! So who are you proposing built the pyramids? Chinese or Martians?

[@truthismycause2800]

Innuit eskimos

[@roberttelarket4934]

@@truthismycause2800: Ha ha! Very very very clever! After all they wanted to get away from freezing cold! Damn I should have thought of that!

[@truthismycause2800]

@@roberttelarket4934 😁

[@tevariousrothborne3961]

Y'all crazy 😧 Eskimos get out of here

[@truthismycause2800]

@@tevariousrothborne3961 Eskimo lives matter!

[@Paul-xv4qh]

Preflood

[@CalledTurnAGundam]

Babylonian Space Aliens from Pyramitopia. With help from the Hyksos. Boom. Accuracy.

[@_Pauper_]

& Jimmy Hoffa knew !!!