It would be good to see "sibsons door" that little nook be explored with a snake robot.

The sand and the wall before I got an answer is the wash off the erosion from the high quality stones in the pyramid itself from rain from over 2 or 3,000 years

What an adventure! You must be stoked.

🎉 cool, cool, COOL! 🎉 Sounds like a great once-ina-lifetime trip. Additionally, made even more wonderful accompanied by Matt! Such an opportunity and experience.

Can’t wait 🙌

Someone with Hawass's ego thinks he will never die.

Snap I am also 53. 😀.

Maybe because he co-authored with Mark Lehner in 2017 a book called - Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History. Emphasis on Definitive.

Oh he'll explore it.. doesn't mean he's going to tell you about it

I don't know enough about any of the men to make a character judgement, but keep in mind that there are reasons why someone may be more concerned with the next discovery proving them wrong than curious about what it may hold. Assuming everyone is working from the same motivations can mislead from the truth just as much as assuming conspiratorial motivations (and that's not even getting into humans having internally conflicting motivations as we so often do). I can just hope that the nondestructive nature of future testing prospects helps break through whatever resistance (even if simple institutional inertia) is holding things up. We can do so much more than we used to be able to just a couple decades ago.

Try 2500 👌

@@JonnoPlays haha, touchè 🙂

"I've" been waiting. So your comment is dumb.

It's very similar to waiting for man to return to the moon. I just hope that both happen in my lifetime.

@@mepik15 what's dumb about his comment?

Ancient architects also

@@AndrasMihalyi Anyextee for that boots on the ground content!

|I never take channels for granite ! 😂

- any idea where the sand may be from ? Is it from a "special place" or is it because it has special structural properties ?

It's the leftovers from carving stones. Easy disposal.

@@panchopuskas1 the ancient architect channel has a video with quite a bit of information about the drilling and the type of sand that they found. I think it's his over an hour video about the great pyramid. It's a really informative and enjoyable video and well worth watching (if you haven't already done so).

@@ryannagy9244 You can't be serious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@@conservingcommonsense4980 But isn't the theory that they did all the carving and shaping of stones at the quarries? In that case they would have just thrown all the leftovers out at that location, instead of carrying it first all the way to and then up the pyramid. Also, what leftovers do you mean? Shavings from the stones? Limestone (the bulk material) is mostly calcite and aragonite, not quartz. And granite is only between 20% and 60% quartz (I don't know the exact composition of the Aswan granite they used). Material that has come off from the tools? Quartz indeed has a Mohs hardness of 7, comparable to granite (again, depending on the granite composition) So using quartz tools would make sense. But any tool splinters would be mixed with shavings from the masonry stones. And if they used actual hand tools for shaving the stones, we should find more broken tools than tool chippings. The only explanation that I would accept for why we would find only sand as polishing remains is that they polished the stones with sand. They might even have intentionally dragged the stones over large grained quartz sand to perform the transportation and polishing in a single step. But again, that would mix the dust that came off from the masonry stones with the polishing sand. But in this case, they would already have a reason to sieve out the shavings. (Or maybe the wind would have carried away the fine limestone shavings more easily than the coarse quartz sand. That would be another reason to specifically use large grained sand, or a reason why they only had the large grains left over to dump after the wind had done it's job.) Or maybe they even started out with the local sand mixture and only the hardest component (I assume quartz would be the hardest one) survived being crushed repeatedly by large stone blocks. And having the sand already on the ramp (and thus halfway up the pyramid) would reduce the effort to use it as acassional cheap filling material for gaps compared to sand from the ground level.

Absolutely!

They point to specific star constellations. You know, where they came from. Yahweh and the Priests of Amun.

​@@astra6712they aren't even straight..

@@limehawk4989 what we do know. The 3 pyramids of Gizeh are aligned with Orion’s Belt. The Nile river represents the Milky Way. The shafts of the Cheops / Khufu pyramid point toward specific star constellations, such as Sirius and Kochab. Question is, why?

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the thumbnail is indeed brilliantly hilarious 😆😆😆

Bio mimicry has been a point of study in various fields for many years now. After all nature has produced so many designs over time by process of evolution that reinventing the wheel by searching for purely man made solutions is folly at best.

@@mnomadvfx thinking that “Evolution” designed anything is the folly. I M H O

@@Mr05Chuck look up the peppered moth. Not saying everything can be explained away with evolution, but theres some type of natural selection that occurs and in this case it happened pretty quick.

​@Mr05chuck-Sobriety-Songs Thinking you know what evolution is and making such a silly comment, is folly. You apparently think the word 'design' implies conscious choice. But everything was 'selected' _indirectly_ with *those things that were the most adaptable, being the things that survived to breed.* I can't wait to hear your uneducated take on the word selected thinking that too was a conscious choice because you don't know anything about the entire study or the theory. Shame on you, spreading foolish misinformation! What was the last book you read on the subject? I know that has to be none ever, because otherwise you would know better to make such a statement About a simple self evident truth.. Evolution= the best version continues. That's all there is to it. A person should have to read nearly every book on this subject, before they're _allowed_ to comment as I have done.

@@Mr05Chuckface palm moment, advantageous traits being passed on is the basis to perfection or ultimately advantage. It is the definition of the word.

So true 😮😮

Cue Zahi Hawass: "We can't trust snakes"

​@@Xandros999 he is 75 and doesn't look in great health. He will not always be there to block exploration and new knowledge of old things.

@@maryblushes7189 There will always be a Zahi Hawass. Such types are most likely to get promoted to almost any prominent office, and especially in countries like Egypt.

This channel and the Ancient Architect channel are my joint first favorite. They are both awesome at what they do. The Ancient Architect has been around longer so has more content etc. But i must say I've really enjoyed every video that History for Granite has put out and often double check to see if the next video is out yet. I even checked earlier, so i was happy when this one went up a few hours later.

@@Lookoutmedia353 Ancient Architects is an awesome channel as well! Both channels are a must for those that need a good dose of independent research and ideas out of the box.

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I like to imagine they filled a large space with sand and then built something important on top of it. Let the sand out through a hole from below, and the whole structure above collapses, along with several thousand tons of pyramid. Use coarse sand that won't pack as tightly so once it starts flowing, it won't stop.

I think they simply used sand as filling, easier then fitting stone blocks, reducing the construction time of the whole pyramid

@@AndrasMihalyi ...easier to move a big block than a loads of sand. Sand never makes a good "filler".

If it was just for sound deadening, I would assume it would be local sand. I don't think we can answer what it was for until we know where it is from and what else is in that space, though, so I don't really have a better idea to propose as a counter-proposal, though.

@@dynamicworlds1 ..good point. It may have been used in many ways. But if it is specific sand in large quantities, maybe it was used for cutting/shaping or polishing stone. I wonder if this is a harder, or better sand for cutting than the local sand? It's a clue for sure.

They should hire some kid, give him an endoscope, and have him go around sticking it in every crack he can find. You never know.

It's Khufu's indoor swimming pool for the after life. Either that or his walk in wardrobe.

I'm always hoping to be surprised.

The man somehow has the same puzzle pieces we all have and manages to slot them together whilst mainstream Egyptology is out there bashing them with dolerite hammers.

There's nothing under the Sphinx. Excepted the water table.

Доброго времени, интересно , как вы думаете кто построил великие пирамиды ? вопрос именно про великие пирамиды, а не про пирамиды из обычного глиняного кирпича.

@@user-nb5uf3zn1t no entiendo. Si chacun écrit dans sa langue, ca ne va pas être facile.

@@nalinux Désolé, je pensais que tout le monde avait déjà un navigateur avec une fonction de traduction. Ensuite, je traduirai ma question pour vous-Bon temps , je me demande comment pensez-vous qui a construit les grandes pyramides ?la question concerne les grandes pyramides, et non les pyramides de briques d'argile ordinaires.

If anything they're concealing just how dull the pyramids actually are, and actively try to keep the 'mysterious' side of the story alive for tourism profits...

The entire civilisation was just made up out of nothing. The first real human writings were Cuneiform on Cyrus’ cylinder. Not anything like hieroglyphs and no other culture around the world has used hieroglyphs. The closest to the hieroglyphs was found on the Roswell craft in 1947. They’re definitely not the same related civilisations but most certainly it would contribute more ideas to the conversation.

@@astra6712 Well, that's a plot twist. Until all artifacts previously discovered are unveiled we really only have perhaps half the story at best. I maintain that the Great Pyramid is much more than a simple construct. The how, why, and who built it I believe is already suspected, and protected, by those same gatekeepers who resist new theories and/or discoveries.

@@ritchkelly2829 the pyramids and burial are used to emphasise the exact opposite of what we are as beings ourselves. The Priests of Amun ran EVERYTHING in Egypt. We know the last pole shift occurred around 11,600 BCE And is evident on the base of the Sphinx. So the great flood myth is verifiable. Then there’s Nikola Teslas free energy tower based off of the internal structure of the Gizeh pyramid. Then there’s the dimensions of Noah’s ark which archaeologists want to believe it’s a boat. Then there’s the Baghdad battery and the Antikathera analogue computer found in the Mediterranean. Then there’s the Priests of Amun recollection of the lost landmass of Atlantis. Plato was confused on his story where he described the Minoan civilisation on Santorini when Mount Thera exploded. Let’s say humans build a Martian civilisation and the earths poles shift in around 7000 years from now. That would disrupt the earths civilisation. Would a human Martian colony be revered as gods as the earth humans would forget the Martian civilisation exists by the 2nd generation after the pole shift. These past stories tell us the truth of where we came from. It all aligns back to the Big Dipper constellation. That’s where the shafts of the Gizeh pyramid point to, our original planets.

I think they're doing preliminary muon-scanning of ALL the big pyramids, but concentrating on the Great Pyramid. I would love to see more scanning done on Khafre's pyramid. It was the very first pyramid to be scanned by this technique, way back in the 1960's I think, but with less sensitive equipment. Khafre's pyramid is almost a twin of the Great Pyramid in size, and the next pyramid to be built. It's tempting to think there might be similar internal passages.

@@scotth6814 Thanks for that info.

All of the Snefru pyramids, as well as Khafre need a full scanning. The Bent Pyramid was used as a control test for ScanPyramds but the sample size was small.

I wonder what other sites outside egypt it could be used on as well?

No chance of that, this guy is legit. {:o:O:}

If the government allows it

sounds pretty legit!

They told the Greeks that they used levers, but that explanation was provided 2000 years after their construction and cant really be verified, which is why how they built them is a controversy. They never left any information as to how they were built, there is nothing. There's only ever been theories of how they did it, no hard proofs. It would be a very logical explanation though.

If a large gallery is just a "lever", then what is the purpose of making it so perfect from a technical point of view? There is a proverb, you heard a ringing but you don’t know where it came from.

The ONLY explanation for the grand gallery is that its is clearly designed for bringing large stones up to the level of the kings chamber. It has all the indices of a functional structure designed for elevating stones, and is large enough for every stone thus far found in the structure. As the pyramid was being built, it could also have been the primary ramp for bringing up 75% of the stones in the pyramid. It makes sense that all the stone for the king’s chamber roof and ceilings was brought up to this level, and then as the pyramid rose around the Kings chamber, those stones moved over to be pulled up a second grand gallery to get them to their ultimate elevations. The top of the ascending layers of the pyramid would have been a staging area for the large stones that had to go further up. So I would say the greatest likelihood is that the void is indeed a second grand gallery used to elevate not just the ceilings and gables, but also a significant amount of the overall mass of the pyramid up to that level. If you continued the newly discovered 2 meter wide vault it intercepts the base of the grand gallery. Given that the pyramid appears to have been re-designed for the higher chamber after construction began, I think the the original entrance was a level continuation of a smaller external ramp that only lifted stones as far as the entrance. Then becoming a roofed over passage to the base of the grand gallery where there was a winch and sled set up to raise 40 tons of stone at a time to the working level of the pyramid. A properly designed winch would have saved tens of thousands of manhours in lifting stones when you consider that the 40 ton capacity necessary for the gables, would have meant each lift bringing 20 plus regular stones up at a time. Unless real evidence emerges of there being an internal spiral ramp just behind the exterior stones, stacked grand galleries could easily have been used to lift most of the mass of the pyramid.

@@randoedits6906They also told them it was built by slaves; but it wasn’t, and that Khufu was a tyrant, which he probably wasn’t.

Tame your wild ways, that's far too awesome for Zahi (or whoever decides) to consider. Seriously though, good idea!

It was internal tunnel used in building pyramid

@@SoulDelSol If this is a known fact then why would someone need to dig into that space. It has served its purpose millenia ago. Waste of time.

sorry, but not only that.... I honestly just do not see ANY other reason for those huge chevron blocks on the north side if it wasn't the funeral procession entrance..... i don't buy that they were just "testing a weight relieving technology"...psh....

You would think the scan results would have shown this. With my engineering hat on, I would expect it to be a counterpart to the Grand Gallery. Did the scan project reliably detect all the spaces within the pyramid that we do know about?

@@polbecca I suspect that the results were too noisy for a clear answer, but I'd rather see the actual data. All the diagrams I have seen have been similar to the illustrations here.

@@polbecca the orientation/slope of the north face corridor was also in question before being filmed, so it seems like the method used to discover the voids only gives us a rough idea. It’s my understanding that the Scan Pyramids team had to aim their tools directly towards the area of a suspected void, so I don’t think they could scan the whole pyramid in one go.

There are many video's on that. Just weed out from the science denying, evangelical of the foil haters who can't fathom how millions of pre-technology humans could accomplish anything while working at it their entire lives. There is considerable ignorance as well as prejudice in the LAHT crowd.

Utube has an old internal ramp video, an animated simulation of how it was made, with ramp tunnels to get up and thru the pyramid as it was being built up. The mysterious void above grand gallery is part of the access tunnel sys as well as the passage behind the chevrons over the entrance.

There's been rumors about tunnels for more than 1 century. Absolutely no one has been able to prove it.

The explorers in the 1800's would've documented them.

Lol! Yes, great observation. Zewahe has had decades taking his brand of "Giza gate keeping" from obviously pathetic to a veritable art form. He's been carefully planning his retiring legacy from behind the scenes. Hence, when the big discovery day arrives, it will be "chiselled in granite" Zewahe Found Kufu!" Lol! 😂😅😂