Thank you! I suspect I will never leave Egypt without feeling that I have to go back! Hope you get there again soon 😀

You're very kind, thanks! So glad you enjoyed it :)

@@ChristopherNaunton i’m gonna frame your comment and hang on the wall of my office 😁 hope you accept my LinkedIn connection request too one day!

Thanks for watching the livestream and making your way over to this channel!

Never too late :) Glad you enjoyed it!

Thank you!

Thank you! 🙏

Thanks Lesley, glad you enjoyed the talk! Already here in Egypt and having a great time, thanks!

Thanks again Barbara! I hope you'll excuse the plug, but in addition to the talk that are freely available here there are a few others I can also make available for small fee, should that be of interest - see chrisnaunton.com/recorded-talks-online/

Thank you very much for your kind words, Ricardo! There will certainly be more - I have a few talks recorded which I'm yet to upload and will be continuing to give talks online this autumn. Hope there will be something more there for you to enjoy!

Thanks for watching! I recently gave a talk on the decipherment of the Egyptian language (instagram.com/p/CrpzRxBKkcX/?) - if I get a chance I'll give it again online - watch my website (chrisnaunton.com/lectures/) and social media for an announcement!

Great to hear, thanks Angela! There will indeed be more to follow. To vote on what should be next see here: twitter.com/chrisnaunton/status/1296392663219003392?s=20

Thank you! I hope you get to see it!

Those pesky priests that even littered the tomb with plastic bags 😂

My pleasure Susan! Glad to see you have already discovered some of the 'hidden' talks too!

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it!

Oh, good to know, thanks!

You would think the King & Royal family members would wait for the stone to be lowered into place. I'm skeptical about the inside-job theory. I'm more inclined to think the the tomb was robbed later, somehow.

I'm very sorry but I wasn't involved in this aspect of the production and I don't have any of the details about the music - sorry!

Thank you for watching! The final report on the discovery of the pyramid is still in preparation. Links to more or less all the info I have are here: chrisnaunton.com/egypts-lost-pyramid/ ...including a link to the Ministry of Antiquities newsletter which, as far as I know, is the best published source of information on the contents of the burial chamber. I could only tell you anecdotally, that any cracks or other openings that were present prior to the removal of the blocking stones with the crane were *tiny* and it's very difficult even to imagine that the plastic bag could have got in but it did. There were no other points of entry and the whole point of the design is that it would be impossible to get back in once the chamber was sealed without either smashing through the floor, walls or ceiling blocks (blocking stones) - there was no sign of anything like that - or removing one of the ceiling blocks - and it took the Ministry of Antiquities crane and around 25 men to move one of the stones a few inches, and that took the best part of two days! I still think the best explanation is that the robbery took place *before* the chamber was ever sealed, but even that isn't entirely satisfactory. So we still have a puzzle!

@@ChristopherNaunton Wow! Thank you very much for the detailed reply. Very very interesting and indeed quite a puzzle. Thanks for the link and you've got a great website. One final question, do you know if there was ever a final report of the tomb findings? The linked MofA newsletter from May 2017 just gave a brief overview, and I couldn't find how to search all the newer newsletters....Basically, were any of the artifacts were ever carbon dated? I would love to know what the box, bones, AND plastic bag dated to....

@@woobenten4830 No, as per my previous message, s far as I'm aware there has been non further publication of the site or the material found in the burial chamber so the newsletter is there best source of info there is up to now. Watch this space!

Many thanks again for your kind comments, delighted you enjoyed the talk! And thanks for your suggestions. I did eventually include some discussion of chronology in my talk on 'The Third Intermediate Period Untangled' although I haven't yet made that one freely accessible - see here: chrisnaunton.com/the-third-intermediate-period/ And I would LOVE to do a book on Hay but a biography has already been published (albeit a long time ago and it's now out-of-print, and was unillustrated in any case...) and there is currently a PhD student working on the archive - she'll probably be a better author of any new book than me!

@@ChristopherNaunton I meant every word of it, you're a very good presenter of what can often or otherwise be rather dry material, no pun intended... and, as mentioned, it is very generous of you to share your lectures and presentations here. The chronology series looks fascinating, very interested to see how Rohl's hypothesis stands up to serious academic scrutiny. I'm not sure how familiar you are with YT, and I would hate for you think I was patronising/mansplaining you, but if you intend to release any more recordings that you've already made you can use the Premiere feature to, in effect, LiveStream it rather than just Upload it. So it would appear like any other LiveStream with the accompanying LiveChat that you are then free to participate in. Also, without sullying the conversation too much with the sordid topic of coin, anyone else in the LiveChat would have the Donate function available to them. From other English speaking channels with an historical bent that I subscribe to I've noticed that 16:00 and 20:00 are popular LiveStream/Premiere times. If you wanted to test some times out you for yourself you could always just re-upload your current uploads but do them as Premieres. I've already written more than I could reasonably expect you to have the time to read but on Robert Hay, I know his drawings of Cairo from searching the British Library for 'Glasgow' where it was returning results for the great Glaswegian publishing houses rather than Hay... but I only know about his remarkable work in recording the remains of ancient Egypt from your Notebooks book and talks. As a Scottish person it saddens me that I knew nothing about that and I really appreciate you playing your part in bringing it to greater light. Also appreciate you noting when someone was Scottish, so often in presentations and documentaries it is stated when someone us English and everyone else is just British. So it's nice to feel seen and included :)

@@LarsOfMars. Thank you again, lots of very useful advice here! Im crazy busy for the next few months but hoping to get back to more virtual activities including lectures and KZfaq this summer - will be referring back to your suggestions then! Thanks again!

@@ChristopherNaunton Busy is good! Be well, and have fun 🧐

Thanks for watching, and subscribing! And sorry that these points didn't come across clearly. The pyramid probably belonged to a princess named Hatshepsut(?), daughter of pharaoh Ameny Qemau of the 13th Dynasty, The reading of the name is based on the inscriptions on the canopic box which was among the items found in the burial chamber. The first part of the name 'Hat___' is legible but the rest is difficult to read. Very little of the original contents of the burial chamber survived, the most impressive being the canopic box and the lid of a coffin belonging to a woman. More info here: chrisnaunton.com/egypts-lost-pyramid/

@@ChristopherNaunton Cheers. I also noticed the name "Ameny Qemau", but you were pronouncing it "Kemall". Where does the "l" sound come from? {:o:O:}

@@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095 I'm sorry if it sounded like that - we don't know how Egyptian names were pronounced of course but the best we can manage sounds something like 'kem-aa-oo' - there's no 'L' sound present.

@@ChristopherNaunton Well, it certainly _sounded_ like there was an "l" at the end! Maybe I should clean the potatoes out of my ears! 🥔 I didn't even know the female form of names had a "t" at the end until I started watching your videos! Thanks for the reply! {:o:O:}

Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, there were pieces of plastic inside the burial chamber. They're a bit difficult to explain but there were tiny gaps in between the stones that form the burial chamber and they had been exposed for a short time prior to the chamber being opened. The most obvious explanation is that these items - including a plastic carrier bag of the kind one sees floating around all the time - simply blew in through the gaps during that time. Even this is difficult to believe as the gaps are so small but it's the best explanation we have. It doesn't seem very likely that the quarrymen would have had the equipment to lift the stones, the equipment used in the film came from the Grand Egyptian Museum conservation team and involved one item that was specifically made for the task, and the whole operation was very expensive! Furthermore, as far as I know, the burial chamber wasn't revealed until after the archaeologists had arrived. The stones overlying the burial chamber were three in number, two of granite, and one of red quartzite. They seem to have been cut to fit precisely the space in which they were - which corresponds to what we know from elsewhere of this method of sealing the burial chamber - i.e. very large pieces of stone too hard to be easily cut through, fit very snugly together so as to leave no points of weakness or entry that could be exploited by robbers. The tomb *could* have been raided at any point, but the big mystery is how given that moving any of the blocks would have been extremely difficult - impossible in fact - and there is otherwise no way in or out. It is very possible that the tomb was never finished, but it does seem clear that the burial chamber did receive the burial as intended, even if the rest of the structure - pyramid etc - was never finished. Thanks for your thoughts!

@@ChristopherNaunton Hi Chris thanks for the reply. It appears that the tomb has been pillaged at some stage and looking at the inside of the burial chamber every side is well sealed except the cap stone that was lifted by you guys.The colour of the better sealed granite stone next to the one lifted is lighter than the one lifted. Which could mean that it is not the original stone used to seal the chamber. plus the fact of its odd shape considering its purpose. There was pieces of broken stone in the chamber which would possibly be part of the original cap stone. There was also a piece of hardwood in their underneath that wooden box. Would be interesting to know how old that piece is. It could give the date of the break in. A front end wheel loader normally used in a quarry would be able to lift 35 tons. As to being impossible to lift this stone out, you said yourself in the documentary that watching the present day lifting of the stone would not be unlike how they would have done it 4 thousand years ago. Be interesting to see the report.

Lovely to know, thanks Patricia! I have a few talks that are not yet publicly accessible here available for a fee - see this page: chrisnaunton.com/recorded-talks-online/ If you have any questions about how this works please feel free to drop me a line via this page: chrisnaunton.com/contact/

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Hi, I don't know the work of Christopher Dunn but I'm yet to see good *evidence* that the narratives of establishment Egyptology should be changed dramatically. In my time in the field (since the mid-90s) there have been many alternative interpretations of the evidence for e.g. the age of the sphinx / pyramids, or other aspects of history / chronology etc, some of them very high profile (e.g. Schoch, Hancock, Bauval, Rohl). In all cases they have failed to gain acceptance not because because of any conspiracy among established Egyptologists (if there is one I don't know anything about it!) but because the conventional interpretations are still the best fit with the evidence. Incidentally, the 'voids' in the great pyramid detected by moun tomography recently were well known previously, we still don't know what they are, and at present we have no way of finding out what they are. They may contain something sensational that will change our entire view of the history of mankind, but they probably don't (see also the chambers underneath the sphinx, underneath the Giza plateau etc). Thanks for the question!

@@ChristopherNaunton Have you seen the video uncharted X created on the timeline for the building of the pyramids? I'd have to disagree that for example this alternative view has "failed to gain acceptance" on the contrary it's overwhelming evident by the number of people who support it. The only ones not are those invested in the old narrative. Honestly if you are an egyptologist you really should have a look. Hope this helps.

@@MonkeyKing3333 Hi, I've just had a quick look and sorry but, there are several dubious assertions made in the first few minutes, many of which have been made frequently elsewhere in the past e.g. there is no evidence that pyramids were tombs. (there is plenty of good evidence that that's what they were, and very little to suggest they were anything else). It may well be that many people prefer to believe this alternative interpretation of the evidence, but I prefer the establishment view myself, not because I'm invested in it - changes to interpretations are brought about e.g. when new evidence comes to light and that's great - but because it represents the most plausible interpretation of the evidence. Incidentally, rather than there being 'no evidence' for the current timeline, it is supported by plenty of evidence of various kinds including the kinglists mentioned by UnchartedX , but also ceramics, seriation of various kinds, synchronisms with other cultures, and, as of a few years, C-14 (radiocarbon) data (See c14.arch.ox.ac.uk/egypt.html). I read Fingerprints of the Gods in the 90s and would be just as pleased as the next man to discover that history should be dramatically rewritten but it just doesn't fit with the evidence we have at present.

@@ChristopherNaunton Please don't apologize for your opinion it's quite common amongst people in your field. The lack of a body could defer from your assumption it's a tomb whereas the valley of the gates of the king's most certainly could be assumed as tombs as they contained what tombs usually hold, bodies. So just to be clear you agree the timeline for the building pyramids is accurate, when it would take almost as long to just cut and quarry the stone today from the largest supplier of sandstone in the world. I would suggest you are invested in the narrative because that is what you were taught at (I presume) University and now (as you stated) can only deviate from that narrative. Christopher Dunn for example (a manufacturing engineer with 50 years experience) does not need to hold such a narrative as a baseline which is why his insights are so valuable and in fact greatly contrast egyptologist who I dare say have little to no experience in engineering. I'm not sure why you keep bringing up Graham Hancock and his work however it's cool you wish his work was true, I'm not so familiar with it I'm afraid.

@@ChristopherNaunton Weak, predictable and firmly embedded within your discipline. "They may contain something sensational that will change our entire view of the history of mankind, but they probably don't." The promise of science. curtesy of television. Disposable.

Love the presentations … very nice indeed 👌👍

I just can't. Six lip smacks and I'm out.

Less comment making more learning 😊

Hi, thanks for your thoughts! The model was made by one of the production team - a television professional, with no formal training in engineering - with very limited funds and materials purchased from a local DIY store. This was never intended to do anything more than to demonstrate for viewers of the film how the sand hydraulics system works. In that regard it succeeded in so far as the final edit was approved for broadcast by Channel 4 (UK) and The Smithsonian Channel (USA) who funded the entire project. And I think it did serve to show what we wanted it to show, even if looked a bit amateurish! I'm sorry that you obviously feel we didn't succeed in what we trying to achieve but I don't think it compromised the film. And in any case we would all (broadcasters, production team, myself) have felt that the work on site in Egypt was most important - and I'm confident we showed that we had all the right expertise and funding in place in that situation.

But woke up again and had the time and energy to write this comment :)

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