Why Were Archaeologists So Puzzled By This Ancient Statue? | Egypt Detectives | Unearthed History

Join archaeologist Miriam Cooke and Egyptologist Dominic Montserrat as they delve into the mystery of a perfectly preserved statue of Pharaoh Khafre. Carved from an exotic iridescent stone not native to the area, it raises the question of how it arrived at Giza 4,000 years ago. Watch as Egypt detectives trace its origin from the Valley Temple to the distant quarries of Aswan, unveiling a captivating tale of ancient engineering and the lost secrets of Pharaoh Khafre's civilization
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[@kevinfoster1138]

I've never found myself disliking someone whom I've never met as much as I dislike Zahi Hawass!

[@jorgecruzseda7551]

Why????.

[@dondouglass7555]

Same

[@bjh7924]

Agreed. What a scumbag 😐

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

Ya why? do tell.

[@dondouglass7555]

@@matildamarmaduke1096 he's a thief also a liar.

[@bweaverla]

Lovely to have Charles Dance's wonderful voice narrating.

[@NancySwass-jv4kp]

Instead of AI.

[@NancySwass-jv4kp]

I agree

[@ryann6067]

Right?!?! He’s a great narrator!

[@cindysteffens8065]

More importantly, how did they carve it? The level of perfection is astonishing.

[@cowdaddy4595]

They used lasers.

[@ronmckay9037]

no they used copper tools and rocks and extreme patience and the most odd thing is there are no hieroglyphs let alone writings anywhere whatsoever how crap was carved cut etc@dy4595

[@sakkmatt]

No chisel was used. They worked with a brush dipped in sulfuric acid. Hawwas is already looking for lost sulfuric acid factory in the desert.

[@bweaverla]

They used copper chisels with wooden hammers for the larger removals of material then they ground dust from harder rock into the surfaces for finer work. There are many videos of this being done in Egypt by the actual inheritors of this process.

[@dougg1075]

Pounding stones and flip flops of course.

[@bweaverla]

The second video of Ahkenaten asked a very interesting question, one that I havent seen asked anywhere else. That is, did Akhenaten leave Thebes in a hurry out of fear of a mob. He had just closed the Amun temple, the largest employer in Thebes and largest distributor of food. People now had no food nor "currency" (not money but beer, meat, metals, etc.) to live on. And had taken away their god Amun after hundreds of years. Were the Thebans so angered that one or more assasination attempts had been attempted, were there riots in the streets, did they come for the royal family? Is that why Akhenaten began his "spiritual revolution" and moved away to Akhetaten? His "spiritual revolution" was anything but. There is evidence now after opening the graveyards of Amarna that he worked children, young people and adults to death to build his city perhaps even while they were suffering from the plague at the end of his reign. The man who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, the son of the wealthiest man in the world at the time who probably never met a common person perhaps built more of a police state than a utopia as some have had it.

[@SaphiraBlu]

His father (Amenheptop III) and mother were huge worshippers of the sun god. It is thought by some that it was his mother, Queen Tiye, encouraged him to do away with the others gods. It wasn't until his 5th year of reign that he declared the worship of only the sun god.

[@deeppurple883]

They were all tyrants. Up until the present day only to a lesser extent. ✊

[@marcometachternaam6150]

Seriously? A mystery how they moved a 3 ton stone?? C'mon, that's about the weight of a SUV.. Ancient Egypt moved stones of multiple hundreds of tons. Those are a true mystery, not a 3 ton stone..

[@maszkalman3676]

Exactly a drunk friend group could move that for a free beer :,D

[@MrGozer23]

It is not a mystery for its weight, but the distance between where it came from and where it ended up. Camels were about the only type of desert transport that worked well, they couldn't carry it. So the trip is the cool thing.

[@herbertvonsauerkrautunterh2513]

I'm more interested in Miriam and Dominick getting it on at a local hotel

[@johnvonundzu2170]

Like nowadays, they ordered it from Am+++on - only then it was delivered by real amazons.

[@harrybruijs2614]

​​@@MrGozer23end how they have made the statue. Gneiss is metamorphic granite. Metamorphic rock is always harder then the corresponding igneous and sedimentary rocks. However other sources day it is made of diorite, an ingneous rock harder then granite

[@j.l.emerson592]

The new city was called Akhetaten, not Amarna. Amarna is the name of a nearby modern city.

[@bigl2go]

You see how they tell fucking lies on the first ppl. but they dont think its a sin to be lying on the first ppl. and breaking there Holy Covenant. the Ancestors are truly the world parents ,and are the Lords of things made Manifest. . The World parents are the Lords of things made manifest and they are the ones who are responsible for giving every Nation there flags. . and you gonna see ppl. going back to hell for what they did to the World(parents) who are the World Ancestors. But the Europeans want everybody to be bastards because they choose to be one.

[@Andy_Babb]

Excellent! Thank you!!

[@sakkmatt]

I hear you laugh out loud.

[@tullyontherocks]

FYI: Gneiss is the spelling of the stone used (Nice). Captions say "nice," the correct pronunciation so I had to double check, it's Gneiss rock.

[@Andy_Babb]

I mean, I thought it was a “nice” rock! Lol

[@patricaputt343]

Captions merely 'capture' the spoken word, not the actual spelling. No one is typing these commentaries, hence any number of spelling errors.

[@beverlyrayfield4663]

Thank you for the spelling.

[@Andy_Babb]

@@patricaputt343 microscopic people don’t sit inside my phone or tv at typewriters with little visors and smoking habits?!

[@patricaputt343]

@@Andy_Babb I thought typewriters and visors went out of style years ago when modern technology arrived....but perhaps not in your world?

[@tedschuler6620]

This is experimental archeology at its best

[@user-ny7tn4qs9i]

Like that this shows us some art depiction

[@connorleeferguson]

Wow. Didn’t think you could cram so many adds in one video.

[@Headwind-1]

adblock . . . . go

[@ebayerr]

As soon as he said,"Giza, the final resting place of three of the greatest Pharaohs..." I was done with the video.

[@ABCkirja]

Would you happen to have any documentary recommendations that don't force this fictional story?

[@Stonecutter334]

Agreed. Did the same thing. Waste of time

[@Stonecutter334]

@@ABCkirjatry any unchartedx video or anything from Graham Hancock

[@Pete-yr9mt]

​@@Stonecutter334hahaha!!! Don't send anyone down that dark road of make believe.

[@robinpresleywoodward]

@@ABCkirjaplease explain

[@shermanatorosborn9688]

I doubt everything said in this video

[@sakkmatt]

What could they say when they don't know anything? The man with the stone ax was also smarter than today's archaeologists.

[@dougg1075]

It’s amazing, I mean what would happen if you made a mistake and cracked it? Took a lot of blood sweat and tears to bring the stone.

[@TheRdamterror]

you just pour another one if you stil have the mold that is

[@sakkmatt]

The statue had to glue his ears a hundred times because they were always broken when he was hammered with a stone ball.

[@snoogiebug]

For gods sake please have more ads

[@chrisrose_krii_lun_aus]

I swear the music on these mockumentaries kill me. It's so loud.

[@supertrucker99]

The foriegn material Probly a gift brought in... Trade was booming.

[@cowdaddy4595]

Zahi Hawass should have been deported from Egypt and exiled somewhere in Siberia years ago.

[@sakkmatt]

Zahi Hawass is not an archaeologist. He is responsible for the tourist.

[@michaelmack3812]

How about restraining him complete with gag, and having him listen quietly to Robert Bauvall, Graham Hancock, and Robert Schock presentations? Complete with the positive responses .

[@Grim_Azrael]

Funny how this guy is really widely disliked. Seems he has something making people go buck wild.​@michaelmack3812

[@drstevej2527]

For being an honest scholar??

[@jeffreystreeter5381]

And have his toilet paper witheld

[@paulacornelison243]

It always surprises me that viewers of history videos expect stone statues and pyramids to be created within months. In the Middle Ages, it took 50 years to create a castle or a church. I have never heard anyone complain about the time it took to build them. Stone had to be carved and dragged to the building site and then erected. Get a grip on reality.

[@sakkmatt]

They didn't build a pyramid because the doctor forbade the bare-footed workers from hot sand and watery swamps.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

They often took twice that.

[@erichaskell]

I would like to know a solution to the amazing symmetry of the statue and what tools were used.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

The same way a modern builder can throw up a perfectly straight wall while you would probably make a pig's breakfast of it - learning to be a good tradesman! These people were both supreme craftsmen as well as artists.

[@ArtFreeman]

In my opinion, the pyramids were not tombs. In addition, they are much older than 4,000 years

[@cowdaddy4595]

I agree.

[@keithharris1672]

I agree. Even more fascinating what are the Serapeum of Saqqara ? Those tonnage bboxes and their kids and who put them down there and how so precisely made and moved in the dark. What were they made to contain not mummified bulls.

[@SlayerNL1982]

Agree

[@sakkmatt]

The calculations are wrong. No one has lifted the pyramid yet. We don't know. It might be light in weight.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

In my opinion, aliens built them. So much for opinions.

[@MrGozer23]

It does seem odd that ahmenhotep left little evidence of why he did make the new religion. Being Pharoah he didn't really need a reason, but you'd think he would have left a diary note or at least a copy of his plan. Especially given the size of the change he ordered.

[@bweaverla]

Perhaps he did, perhaps one of his scribes left a papyrus scroll. But keep in mind that perishable things like papyrus scrolls didn't survive the 3,300 years since Akhenaten's time except in unusual circumstances. And if they did, they had to withstand the ravages of raiders from Europe (pre-archeologists) who had more than 100 years after Napoleon left Egypt to scavenge the whole of Egypt for anything that wasn't too heavy to cart off. Papyrus scrolls hadn't a chance after all of this. All we really have left as a record are inscriptions on the stone walls of temples and tombs. And most of these left behind by Akhenaten were systematically destroyed.

[@johnniebee]

Or maybe a stela could of been carved with his works, and his beliefs. Something that would last thousands of years.

[@bweaverla]

@@johnniebee Stela were official announcements. They did not contain someone's beliefs.

[@johnniebee]

@@bweaverla I wasn't sure, when I posted, I knew it had carvings, thanks for letting me know they were not used for personal info. I knew sometimes the reigning Pharaoh would edit or delete the former Pharaoh's history. You can see statues that have faces damaged and such. If only they had some sort of time capsule that could be buried for the future.

[@bweaverla]

@@johnniebee I haven't seen actual editing or deletions of former pharaohs' history. What I have seen is the carving out or recarving of another pharoah's cartouche in order to claim what has been carved onto a temple or memorial temple wall for themselves. The damaged faces, damnatio memoriae, say in the case of Hatshepsut or Akhenaten is to remove them from history and memory.

[@rungun6740]

The true mystery is the boats. The biggest boat they had couldnt hold up to the weight. Not to mention the dammage done in loading and unloading. Then the rope. Man that rope had to be stronger than supermans hair. So why does no one consider the rope.

[@sakkmatt]

Them didn't need a rope. They didn't pull it, rather pushed it.

[@terryhunt2659]

You don't put a large block on to one boat - you carry it submerged (thus negating some of the weight) slung on ropes between two (or four) boats, which can be temporarily linked by poles like a catamaran.

[@suzannefurman3957]

GEOPOLYMER LOL. All you need are some shovels and a cart

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

The "Solar Ship" (only 1 of many now known) found in 1 of the pits beside the Great Pyramid of Khufu at Giza measures about 140ft long by 20ft wide. It has now been reassembled and is on view to any sceptic who wants to see it. A second similar boat still exists in its pit in addition to several others in the neighbourhood. As mentioned by terryhunt, slinging even a 100ft obelisk between 2 such boats would have been quite feasible let alone a comparatively small statue like this. Also note that they probably didn't have to rely on wooden boats for most of their river transport - Egypt having very little native wood available and most having to be imported from places like Lebanon. Boats made of the reeds that grow locally have been used in the Middle East right up until the last century and I personally have stepped onto the floating island villages of the South American Indians in Lake Titicaca. The "Unfinished Obelisk" at Aswan shows what ancient Egyptians thought that they could transport and there are even bigger examples of stone blocks in a Roman Quarry in today's Lebanon. (Both left in place and transported to a nearby Temple construction and set in place.) . As to the rope strength, it should be noted that up until less than two hundred years ago, all the World's shipping worked with thick plant-based ropes for transport rigging. Fibre ropes retain their strength when wet.

[@Ubique2927]

Rubbish being spouted in the video. The wetter Egypt in those times has been known for years. That area was probably green and wet then. We know that they dug canals to move stones. we know that there were many many seasonal workers then etc etc.

[@Andy_Babb]

They did say that… did you just watch the first minute and say “screw it”? lol

[@tommybickford4236]

Proof of global warming long before the industrial age and Us who are blamed and guilted in giving up personal wealth to act as though we can actually change the movements and phases of the earth . Even the Egyptian's knew that the earth and sun and moon have more power than man. We've reached the pinnacle of our own hubris .

[@ryann6067]

@ubique2927 thanks for telling us you didnt watch this documentary, lol

[@Ubique2927]

@@ryann6067 I did watch it and there is nothing new in it.

[@ryann6067]

@@Ubique2927 lol!!!! So you are just gaslighting with your original comment? Okay. Do you realize the documentary was filmed around 20 years ago?

[@campcookhenry]

He must have been a happy king he’s smiling

[@JohnDoe-px4ko]

Far too many ads!

[@mrmelmba]

That there was water to pour in front of the sledge means that there was a source at the site. The water flowed through an underground gravel seam or ancient streambed from higher up in the mountains that you can see in the background and broke through a confining clay layer and rose to the surface.

[@sakkmatt]

They didn't build a pyramid because the doctor forbade the bare-footed workers from hot sand and watery swamps.

[@ryann6067]

They had things called clay-fired ceramic jugs which can be used to hold water. These can then be transported anywhere.

[@ryann6067]

And they also had things called ‘well’s which they dug too 😉. As shown in this documentary.

[@mrmelmba]

@@ryann6067 At one site that apparently was a factory several thousand stone vases were found that means they were turned on an extremely high speed lathe. The schist disk is a rotor of a motor that turns by phase displacement of earth energy similar in concept to a polyphase motor that runs on electricity.

[@ryann6067]

@@mrmelmba its highly probable they had and used some form of hand powered lathe. Given that they used various types pf mechanically assisted drills such as bow drills with a stone bit, and copper tube drills for boring large holes. We have alot of fascinating examples of their stone working tools. Also not i don’t known what you r last sentences means as they seam totally out of context. And don’t make any sense. Especially given the Ancient Egyptians didn’t have access to nor use electricity. And there is zero evidence for it there in the material culture record. Nothing, not even one example or piece of evidence of any kind. And also Given electricity wasn’t harnessed in a serious way until the late 19th century.

[@user-sz9li7od5v]

Thoes cracks she pointed out maybe fishers from heavy rain fall like Robert Schock pointed out in the inclousure of the Sphinx. The issue with this hypothesis is the kind of rain it would take too produce these kind of fishers it would take a really long periods of heavy rains and that didn't occur until thousands of years ago. I might add Robert Schock is a nationally known Geologist. Jest a thought 😮

[@dougg1075]

How did they cut that slab out? Saw? Look at the cut rock, it was sawed not banged on with stones.

[@AT-gu8by]

How was the pantheon built and all those Greek statues?

[@ryann6067]

Yes, they used saws combined with a liquid slurry cutting abrasive (water + sand or corundum) to cut stone blocks.

[@rungun6740]

To think that there was sand covering the land when it was built is insain. No fool would build on top of sand. Then the claim it was built in 20 years is nuts. Moving the stones is one thing but to move the sand as well.

[@Insectoid_]

That painting really has deteriorated. How that is not removed and taken to a museum is beyond me. It’s far too pre yous to use. It’s one of the few signs that show how things were moved.

[@rungun6740]

Yeah try setting a one tone on that raft then draggingit to water. Ballancing the weight. Did no one noticce they were carefull to spread the load.

[@user-sz9li7od5v]

Let's see. You're telling me the Egyptians we're technically smart enough to get this huge block of stone to where it was meticulously carved too a fine polished Statue. Yet they used pounding stone's to cut the block of stone to size. This hypothesis does make a lot sense to me. But what do I know😮

[@plakor6133]

Love those flip phones.

[@carriekelly4186]

They built canals toget to Nile.

[@43painter]

From what year would this docu be? I think its a rather old one.

[@judycook4314]

Dominic Montsserat died in 2004, so over 20 years old.

[@jusdafax1]

Sorry but as soon as Zahi Hawass shows up putting his 2 cents worth in, I know that the rest of the video is going to be so much BS. That man takes credit for every discovery ever made in Egypt, even if it was made a century before he was born.

[@TheRdamterror]

pouring it like cement easy....

[@haroldmorris5901]

Nesi (Pharaoh) Neter-Nub-Sekhem Asar-Ab Ra-Khaf (Khafre). KHAFRE WITH A "NOSE JOB" - NOSE ALTERED (EPOXY STONE COMPOSITE - ZOOM IN 150-200%) - 'Glowing' statue of Nesi (Pharaoh) Asar-ib Asar-em Ra-Khaf (Userib Userem Khafre), is the best-known Anorthosite Gneiss sculpture. The stone came from a distant Kushite quarry, it is hard to work and only moderately attractive. However, it has a rare optical property-it glows in the sunlight. Its deep blue glow is caused by the presence of the iridescent mineral Bytownite. 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom. The 'new nose' does not glow in the sunlight.

[@generalpardon7350]

The workman camp near Giza has already been found. There was enough work force to drag the stone to Giza. Sized in situ or not…

[@jrsands]

In these documentaries we keep hearing the word “impossible”. The fact is is that we just don’t understand the ancient’s technology.

[@user-oj6tp1oc2g]

I find it curious what the catalyst was that inspired Akhenaten to revise religion and culture so drastically and quickly from multi theistic to monotheistic. Of course he installed himself as the only one who could intervene to Aton, the God. Was it ego? Hunger for more power? I suppose we'll never know.

[@ryann6067]

Thats the question that fascinates so many of us.

[@rbuttigi]

Anyone know how true to life these old kingdom statues were? Like if I showed just the face to someone who knew Khafre, would they recognize it as him, or were they idealized portraits that looked nothing like the guy?

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

Most are "idealised" but there are some that show personal characteristics that allow you to easily identify the sitter. The little wooden head of Akhenaten's mother, Tiyi, in the Berlin Museum is 1. Also I have a poster of a pudgy middle aged scribe from the Old Kingdom period on my wall.

[@rbuttigi]

@@theoztreecrasher2647 I just checked out that bust of Tiyi. Those eyes are something else.

[@theoztreecrasher2647]

@@rbuttigi Yep. Stunning piece that for all its small size! Just thank your lucky stars that she isn't your Mother-in-law! 😉😊

[@Nasauniverse001]

I get irritated when I'm told the 3 pyramids were tombs. Not tombs, or at least not started out as tombs!

[@blaster-zy7xx]

They were tombs.

[@generalpardon7350]

In Greek perspective they were tombs. In ancient Egyptian perspective they were places of ascension or literally ‘me’ means ‘from rising’ so in English ‘rising from’. ‘Tomb’ doesn’t even explain half of its significance to Egyptian culture. Check out the pyramid of man website for interesting embedding of the structure within Egyptian culture.

[@generalpardon7350]

*me=MR (typo)

[@ryann6067]

@nasauniverse001 I get irritated when no-nothings comment that the Pyramids of Egypt were not purposely built as monumental tombs for their god-king pharaohs. When they absolutely are in-fact just that. Especially given that there is a tremendous amount of material culture evidence clearly indicating that basic fact.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

@@ryann6067 Yes, considering that there is a sarcophagus in the great pyramid.

[@reneeubry9065]

This looks like the same stone that is in Venice Italy in St Marks’s square and that one has no damage.

[@skydivingcomrade1648]

It's the same scientific technique used by nature in Death Valley, CALIFORNIA in winter seasons

[@NancySwass-jv4kp]

Obviously, floated downriver

[@dougg1075]

No way they created the perfection of that statue with pounding stones, flip flops and copper.

[@suzannefurman3957]

Probably Geopolymer

[@kevinfoster1138]

As far as the workers camp he's spot on the stone mason's worked the stone cut it out maybe even loaded the stones onto the sled however a workforce would then show up and pull the stone to wherever it's headed.

[@davidchurch3472]

On no! it could be a sign they had wheeled boats!!! (before they were allowed to have wheels)

[@sakkmatt]

I saw a truck. It transported an 80-ton stone. It had 36 rubber wheels.

[@davedoogan6650]

So there is no Khufu slab, "we're just making that bit up and going with it" 7:07

[@danielabdalla8488]

I just saw that. Were just going to assume this stone was here?

[@ryann6067]

It was found, documented and removed for safe-keeping.

[@danielabdalla8488]

​@@ryann6067 where is it now

[@ryann6067]

@@danielabdalla8488 probably in the collections of the Egyptian Antiquities Authority, likely in the Egyptian Museum. Though at very quick 5min internet search I haven’t been able to confirm. It could have been looted too, which happens all too often there.

[@user-id3xl4qw6e]

If the Egyptians could build the pyramids, they understood leverage.

[@stardust7936]

I hope your helpers got tons of delicous meals and lots of ice cream😊

[@lindathomas5500]

Having two men, one who looked older than him, drag that guy up a hill made me both laugh and cringe at it! 🤣😂

[@michaelhaney752]

U just said what I thought since the day I herd him ,,..imagine his house full of ancient trinkits

[@johncarter1150]

All talk and no rock. Not a lot of archeology here.

[@sakkmatt]

They are not archaeologists or physicists. Unknown actors.

[@ttestates1]

I think moving these stones would've been a lot easier if they just used a puckup truck

[@simritnam612]

Dang, Indiana Jones and Lauea Croft in the same show!

[@terryhunt2659]

A large team of hauliers needn't have lived permanently at the quarry. They would be sent there from the Nile only when a block was ready to be moved, and would immediately (though rather more slowly) return with it.

[@generalpardon7350]

We’re the sledges not aided by oil to smoothen the path instead of water?

[@liteflexin8129]

If that’s how they moved them why haven’t they found any random blocks along the route of the original Nile took. Pretty sure some had to since during transit

[@sourcetext]

Fed Ex ground ,maybe the Falcon can fly ?and air ....Fed Ex Air !

[@stevenbigland6193]

A problem in sentence 1: no pharaohs are in those pyramids. Possibly never were

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

It was 35 miles away from water - so how did they move it? Well, they moved the stones for Stonehenge from S. Wales, many miles overland, then across the Severn, then many more miles overland.

[@ryann6067]

Did you watch the whole documentary?

[@DownhillAllTheWay]

@@ryann6067 Did you watch the whole documentary? If so, you would realise that my opening question wasn't mine, but came directly out of the documentary. I was just commenting that many other huge stones (such as those used in Stonehenge) were also moved over great distances - including where they needed to be taken over an unavoidable stretch of water. I don't know how the ancients did it - but the fact is that they did. I don't think they were less intelligent than we are now, so when they were faced with a problem, they solved it with whatever materials and methods they had to hand. Many of the artifacts surrounding the pyramids defy explanation - but clearly, they figured out how to do a lot of things with quite primitive tools. Until the Antikythera mechanism was found, we thought that mechanisms using cogwheels were first used for clocks, which were invented in the 12th century - but the Antikythera mechanism dates from more than 2000 years ago - and is MUCH more sophisticated than a clock. There are simply a lot of things about the ancient world that we don't know.

[@DPSLee]

I'm wondering in the context of the modern world if Akhenaton was in the grips of bipolar mania? Which would make monotheism the result of a bipolar fever dream😢

[@atarirastafari2160]

How did the ancients move such weight? They had whips. Long and sturdy whips.

[@matildamarmaduke1096]

No geopolymers they poured the blocks as far as statues I've heard tell they possibly could have been real bodies ever wonder why if so many people died where are their bones ? Why were they so obsessed with fertility why did the Egyptians wear wigs and were hairless and they had what is said incest deformations everything I've read or seen and experienced says radiation poisoning tower of babble why was it to get to the AI that was controlling, inprisoning them by way of genetic manipulation thru frequencies where did all the orphans come from? Why were the major cities pictured unoccupied in the 1860s and why so many insane asylums and orphanages why do some mountains look like melted structures why do cliffs and some land masses look like tree stumps? Did the flood cover the land and never reseedand what we live on the remains of the magnificent silica trees and the veins of gold silver precious and semi precious gems the roots of different species of trees . I believe they mines the hell outta the lands that had no bodies of water nor did it rain so when said flood came it filled the huge mines quarries we call lakes seas and oceans cathode= cathedrals Castle's weren't for humàn occupation they were water/ frequency driven farms they were pàrt of a energy system that was taken offline by who and why if I had to guess I'd say it had to do with the firmament the tower and a nuclear explosion climate change is real and is a earth cycle but not like they say its not the citizens its the mining drilling and fracking earthquakes are man made low frequency energy put off by power stations also and methane comes from improperly or not even sealing off old drill sites and 3x that comes from active drill sites it's not cow farts it's not farming it's the land fills peat bogs and the insane greed of these deceivers frauds who say they have a claim by birth but the only thing they have are the lies of of old that have been proven to be and the fear of what will be. Why are we in? the age of Aquarius and maps say we were in the age of Capricorn and cancer where is the age of Pisces

[@sakkmatt]

Cost to build a pyramid: One ton of gold Talentum. Where did all the money go?

[@KungFuHonky]

If there were rain 4,500 years ago, that would reshape the conventional wisdom of the Nile Valley not having rain for the last 9,000 years. Has this thinking changed with most archaeologists/geologists recently?

[@pandakicker1]

Who said there hasnt been any rain? of course there has been rain. It just has not been a significant amount.

[@ryann6067]

There is no “conventional thinking” that the Nile Valley hasn’t had rainfall. No one who seriously works on this subject-matter thinks that.

[@martinphilippe246]

2.3millii stones?

[@sakkmatt]

You only had to take one stone and multiply it by 2.5 million. But unfortunately they didn't know multiplication yet.

[@Blessings.429]

Now I once heard the Nile has moved many times. So why not the Statue? Just a thought. The wood of experimentation is very heavy and thick. Almost sounds like the beginning of Christianity, the Sun …the son. Ramos’s… Moses. Aton…Amen and Psalms shows us similar Songs . My opinion

[@sakkmatt]

How many workers were eaten by crocodiles and hippos?

[@Headwind-1]

@@sakkmatthow many croc and hip were eated by many workers.. . . .

[@danielabdalla8488]

Those 4 rocks certainly didnt weight 750 kg....

[@fabianmckenna8197]

Too many advertisements........ Only 15 minutes into this documentary and I've given up already!

[@alinlou9236]

To much music padding it out

[@harrybruijs2614]

He has always those young women with him. I ask myself what he promises them.

[@sakkmatt]

They are not archaeologists or physicists. Unknown actors.

[@al2207]

the stone is granodiorite , Egyptians did had tools and transportation means

[@sakkmatt]

Chinese guest workers built the pyramid. They already knew the truck.

[@pm8465]

I lasted a whole 2 minutes. Only because I gave up trying to focus on the inages flashing up every few seconds. Whomever thought this was brilliant, exciting editing needs to find a new job.

[@christophertucker6254]

The stone is very common not rare

[@toadflax636]

So, this author/speaker says they used blocking stones to profuce this smooth statue. What horseshit !

[@yolisurich4025]

Was this statue craved from basalt.?

[@KevDaly]

This would be much better without the silly staged conversations (especially on-camera phone conversations). We're not stupid. Mostly.

[@jerirotramel9306]

USA desert Sailing Stones

[@atoningunifex6067]

sorry as soon as i saw Zahi couldnt watch anymore

[@j.l.emerson592]

Why are you using the Greek name of an Egyptian pharoah? His name is Khafre. Repeat after me: Khafre.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

How do we know how ANY Egyptian pharaoh name is pronounced?

[@ryann6067]

@@blaster-zy7xxthrough exhaustive study by linguists and Egyptologists who specialize in ancient Egyptian writings and language, of the extensive examples we have of their writings. We even have preserved grammar and writing work done by student scribes.

[@blaster-zy7xx]

@@ryann6067 yeah, or maybe we just make up modern names to represent a best guess to how these symbols were pronounced. I would bet a good sum of money that our best guess of how these names are pronounced would not be recognized by the original scribes or the namesakes. We just don't have an accurate way of tracing back pronunciation 4,000 years

[@ryann6067]

@@blaster-zy7xx no. And I’d take you up on that bet, you’d lose. There are still living speakers of Coptic which is a direct extension of spoken ancient Egyptian. And again we have linguistic specialists that have been working on it directly from thousands of examples of Egyptian writing. Also ever hear of the extensive work done on the Rosetta stone? The study of Ancient Egyptian linguistics and literature is fascinating. Have you taken serious time to study it?

[@blaster-zy7xx]

@@ryann6067 I know exactly what the Rosetta stone is. But it gives the translated MEANING of the hieroglyphic symbols, NOT the pronunciation. That is the part you are conflating, the MEANING vs the PRONUNCIATION. "Coptic which is a direct extension of spoken ancient Egyptian" ALL languages morph over time. 4,000 years is a VERY long time for any language to morph. Again, I still contend that the pronunciation of the original writing is unknown.

[@generalpardon7350]

“Last resting place of three pharaoh’s”? Well where are these three pharaohs? If the ancient Egyptians called the pyramids ‘places of ascension’ and the Great Pyramid’s interior chambers were found empty upon discovery? Not one pharaoh was found inside either of the three pyramids. They are not resting there anymore if they were. It’s important to stick to the facts. Tell the facts completely. Else you’re the one creating the mystery.

[@ryann6067]

You may want to understand the facts before making erroneous claims. Sources indicate otherwise…

[@fillippostajano2038]

Hahahhahahahhahahahha

[@arliegage1380]

Good talk, hated stupid music

[@maejeannerez]

The blocks were made of concrete so we're the statues. Granite can be made into concrete. They used molds same for the statues

[@al2207]

you do not know what you are talking about

[@erikamassey3582]

If you look closely at the red granite statue of amenhotep in the British museum, there is an area where a piece has fractured off and you can see the core of the statue where the granite has marked intact pink and grey lumps and bumps in it. Had it been softened by lasers as some believe and turned into a pouring consistency it would be uniform, non lumpy, all the same colour, no defined markings . I love the concrete theory but having seen these closely I can’t believe it!

[@sakkmatt]

The statue is made of mud and coated with granite paint.

[@AT-gu8by]

Concrete was invented in 1890, the first con feat house is in East Dulwich London.

[@al2207]

@@sakkmatt ??? nope

[@michaelahern6821]

Adds infestation..no add blocker.. don't bother..

[@lindaarnold5683]

Th people who made “cute” comments mudt be 7th graders, right??😮

[@Joseph-fw6xx]

Zahi Hawass is not the nice guy he portrays himself as on video in fact he's nasty guy from all that I've read

[@poperacketstouchedme]

Imagine being so excited building a "scale" model raft. While trying to figure out how people actually did it. Oh yeah and those people built the pyramids...lol they make so many assumptions but don't think about the sand not being there. Somehow people achieved incredible success. Yet have equal or less ingenuity then them. Listening to people with no imagination or creativity to solve a problem but are considered experts is funny.

[@danielabdalla8488]

They 'loaded' it with 4 rocks being lifted by hand. No more than 50 or 60 kg each

[@theothersidenumber9307]

Look at the buautiful stone work of the pyramids and statues and look at the jumbled trash of modern Cairo. And these bums are controlling and ruining the ancient ruins. 😂

[@NEHIstudios]

i work barges and tugs, whats required to load and unload a weight that large was not done on barges… they may have moved smaller stones, but the massive blocks were moved by some other techniques… There has NEVER been boats aubstantial enoigh in egypt to carry such a load the best build craft were papyrus and the wooden boats are loosely/poorly built and very light

[@rhildestad]

Khufu solar boat displaced 75 tons but weighed only 30 tons. I’m making a very conservative statement. Khufu’s solar boat had the same hull shape and dimensions as a 1930’s America’s Cup J-boat. Those displaced 150 tons. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khufu_ship

[@bjh7924]

If this vid proves anything it demonstrates that Egyptologists should stick to Egyptology & never attempt acting again either in this life or the next 😉

[@stardust7936]

It sounds like he was, inconsiderate, spoiled brat and short a few marbles.

[@philip2010]

Hawas is arrogant and thinks his opinion is the only one that counts

[@martinphilippe246]

Clearly not

[@dr.a.995]

This vid has not held up well over time. A silly experiment made worse with the presence of a youngish Zahi Hawass.

[@keithmac7596]

UTTER DRIBBLE

[@christopherjameslee3341]

Surely you mean utter drivel?!!!!! Oh, and I'm looking forward to reading your research.

[@ryann6067]

Your comment? Yes.

[@jasonlox27]

REMOVE HAWASS BIGGEST DANGER IN EGYPT