NEW Study Reveals LOST BRANCH Of The NILE
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Күн бұрынA new palaeoecological study has revealed the lost Ahramat branch of the Nile River along with several of its tributaries and may finally explain why 31 Old and Middle Kingdom pyramids were constructed where they were. Based on archaeological finds, experts have long thought that the valley temples, connected to pyramids via causeways, were harbour buildings. However, palaeoecological evidence to support this hypothesis had been lacking. Now a team of researchers has found that the existing valley temples between Lisht and Giza sit alongside the Ahramat Branch and its inlets. Those pyramids where valley temples have not yet been found, also run close to these water sources. So, it's likely that these channels helped in the construction of the pyramid complexes and were also a part of the funerary rituals that took place in them.
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00:00 Introduction
01:02 The Khufu Branch
03:18 The Ahramat Branch
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Sheisha, H., et al. (2022). Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2202530119
Ghoneim, E., Ralph, T.J., Onstine, S., El-Behaedi, R., El-Qady, G., Fahil, A.S., Hafez, M., Atya, M., Ebrahim, M., Khozym, A. and Fathy, M.S. (2024). The Egyptian pyramid chain was built along the now abandoned Ahramat Nile Branch. Communications Earth & Environment, 5(1), p.233.
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All images and drawings related to the Khufu Branch research, credit: Sheisha, H., et al., in the paper referenced above
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All images and drawings related to the Ahramat Branch research, credit: Ghoneim, E., et a., in the paper referenced above
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Holocene water bodies and vegetation in the Sahara, credit: Larrasoaña, J. C., et al., in Dynamics of Green Sahara Periods and Their Role in Hominin Evolution
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Map of Giza plateau showing remains of pyramids, mortuary temples and valley temples, credit: MesserWoland
Giza Pyramids, credit: Morhaf Kamal Aljanee
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Reconstruction of possible harbour complex at Giza, credit: Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA)
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Maps of the Rudston Cursus monuments and the Dorset Cursus, credit: Chris Collyer at ww.stone-circles.org.uk
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Rudston Monolith, credit: Trish Steel
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@daviddb4858 2 ай бұрын
I see rivers near where I live change course slightly over the years. It makes sense that a river will do so over millennia. This discovery of a lost branch of the Nile only emphasizes the fact that our lives represent only a very brief chapter in a much, much longer epic story.
@barrywalser2384 2 ай бұрын
The lost waterways are interesting. The environment was very different when the pyramids were built. They seem so isolated in the desert now, but that wasn’t always the case. Always great info. Thanks Laura!
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
It makes so much sense. It's like how Pompeii used to sit on the waterfront but now is pretty far off it. Also, in Syracuse Sicily I visited an area that used to be a harbour that was further inland.
@barrywalser2384 2 ай бұрын
@@MegalithHunter Yes, it makes perfect sense. The water courses have changed a lot over thousands of years.
@vulpesvulpes5177 2 ай бұрын
Ya got it Barry!
@modero6370 2 ай бұрын
Well, I'm 66 years old and I recount having read that "news" when I was a kid growing up in Berlin. I don't remember the details, of course, but it was clearly about a former course of the Nile river along where the pyramids are, together with all the speculations about transporting heavy blocks for the buildings on that river or arm of the river. How come that this is news approximately, I would say more then 50 years later?
@benc2972 2 ай бұрын
I think you’re probably remembering correctly. I have this experience with politics and history a lot. Weird, isn’t it?
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
As I say in the video, the hypothesis isn't new. However, the palaeoecological evidence for this particular branch was found recently.
@AnTiThesis-HaT-HoT 2 ай бұрын
As time passes evidence accumulates, I remember when people thought there was a man in the Moon but no evidence came to light, did you miss the clue in the title?
@christianlingurar7085 Ай бұрын
@@MegalithHunter yeah, it certainly took some time until someone saw the port facilities, harbours and piers on google earth! to me anyhow a harbour facility in plain sight is paleoecological evidence enough - and has been since I first saw it some 40 years ago on PAPER maps, in BOOKS. no, the "new study" is a fake, it's nothing but tourist advertising for egypt.
@justdoingitjim7095 2 ай бұрын
The Trinity River runs close to where I live and in just my lifetime it's waterway has changed in several places. Farmers on either side of the river have periodically gained or lost several acres, as boundaries on property that borders the river are determined by the current river channel.
@floydriebe4755 2 ай бұрын
hiya, Laura! missed the chat, once again😬 oh well, such is life..... so, yes, there are other clues found more or less recently that show there must have been waterways that passed close to Giza....the papyrus log of Merer's boat, for one....he writes that they hauled stone blocks from a quarry south and east of Giza to the "Lake of Khufu" in front of Khufu's pyramid....there actually was a large body of water along a long section of the plateau, according to Merer's log...was probably still there when Khafre's pyramid was built and, perhaps, Menkaure's, too....this discovery of an old branch of the Nile just adds oomph to this tale👍 being so much closer than the main branch, it would have been relatively easy to excavate said "Lake of Khufu" very interesting info, my dear. was excited to see a new vid from you....too bad i missed the premiere😱😭 maybe the next one?!? see you then🤩
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
That papyrus was seen as a big clue of how they built the pyramids even though it doesn't say it 'exactly.' Perhaps water was also used in the engineering process. Might explain a lot.
@floydriebe4755 2 ай бұрын
@@MegalithHunter ah! the beginnings of another hypothesis? go for it, Laura!
@vulpesvulpes5177 2 ай бұрын
Floyd old buddy! Studying logs are you! Old sea lawyer you. Did you see that they found the log from Noah’s arc? Just a piece. “Day 39. Provisions depleted. Starvation looms. But roast unicorn is delicious!”. That explains a lot right there. 🍖🦊 Fox out.
@floydriebe4755 2 ай бұрын
@@vulpesvulpes5177 Mr Vulpes, you ole fox! yes, i once made my living studying logs....still try to keep my hand in....good for the ole brain🤯 and, thanks, ole chum, i got a big guffaw from your Noah news🤣 go figure.....by the way....was that a leg-o-unicorn you're nibbling on🍖 where's the 🍉? over....
@cliffordfreeman7829 2 ай бұрын
Great explanation on how things change over time.
@storkythepunk 2 ай бұрын
So, were the Pyramids built near the river because it was a great way of getting the stone/materials to them? or because they required the water to function? or was the water an ingredient in whatever their purpose was? Great video, as always.
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Exactly! More questions...
@aidanmacdougall9250 2 ай бұрын
Didn't they have to build a short canal from the river to the port (build for the pyramid construction) as shown on the map. As was said this is not a new discovery, just better clearer evidence
@mrliberty8468 2 ай бұрын
They found a papyrus in a quary with the record of his journey and delivery of stone to Kufus horizon..look it up I did.
@scottzema3103 2 ай бұрын
I hope that the water course in the vicinity of Khufu's pyramid will be better resolved. Because its excavation (and of course the necessary harbor) would offer important clues (perhaps even artifacts!) concerning the nature of the cargo offloaded in building the pyramid and even more clearly how it was built. I guess the same with all the pyramids. BTW nice photo of you and I love your new intro!
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching Scott! I will do a video on the evidence for the harbour.
@StereoSpace 2 ай бұрын
That is fascinating and makes a lot of sense. It explains so much that previously seemed inexplicable.
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Totally!
@l0I0I0I0 2 ай бұрын
Is it safe to conclude the Egyptians had no intentions of completely hiding their burial sites as putting a pyramid on it clearly screams I'm here?
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
😅😂
@bigrollinghome2091 2 ай бұрын
maybe the pyramid was supposed to generate an S.E.P. field? (see Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
@l0I0I0I0 2 ай бұрын
That must be it BRH. Just didn't want to say.
@scottzema3103 2 ай бұрын
Yeah, they finally realized that in the New Kingdom when they buried their pharaohs underground without even a marker in the Valley of the Kings, reverting to Pre-Dynastic burial practices! Go figure.
@l0I0I0I0 2 ай бұрын
THAT is interesting Scott! My grandmother insisted upon not having any valuables burried with her to prevent her grave from being desecrated in the future. Sadly she was a mason who on her level were keenly aware of ancient egyptian culture, even if on a superficial level.
@sixeses 2 ай бұрын
Thank you Laura.
@davidapatrickmoore 2 ай бұрын
Amazing insights. One can only imagine what the world looked like in the distant past. Thank you for this presentation.
@jimmumford4444 2 ай бұрын
Thanks, Laura. Your research and reporting is a big help to all your subscribers.
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot! 😃
@garyworokevich2524 2 ай бұрын
Late to the party again. I find this discovery fascinating. Water transport of materials,...... vital back then and today.
@chrisbricky7331 2 ай бұрын
Thank you again for sharing. Love your passion. Please keep doing what makes you happy. Chris
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot Chris!
@EduardoRiter Ай бұрын
Funny how I intuitively knew about that so called Ahramat branch of the Nile... The Ro-she khufiya port area was real. Also the habitated area around such branch was larger than thought when it was not considered. So we can search those areas now, as well as the eastern side. We here in Brazil are witnessing the aridfication of the Amazon river and climatic changes. The same must have happened in Africa some thousands of years ago, except not as fast as the agrobusiness here is setting the pace. Studies will come to confirm what we can find by mixing intuition with available circumstances and studies.
@stevedrane2364 2 ай бұрын
Fascinating. . Thank you for sharing this information. .
@DeepblueskyDeepbluesky Ай бұрын
In the ancient world, and right up until modern times, rivers were and still are the major highway for traffic. We might not realise that in history roads as we know them today were rare, and the landscape were often wild and utterly impenetrable.
@davidcreager1945 2 ай бұрын
Damn ! You mean Aliens didn't move all those big blocks of stone ! ? ! 😂😂😂
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
👽😃
@aidanmacdougall9250 2 ай бұрын
No, just advanced technology way ahead of its time! 😊
@aidanmacdougall9250 2 ай бұрын
Nice update on this.
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@antonyreyn 2 ай бұрын
Sounds like Pyramid Stream to me. Cheers from Mercia
@d.t.4523 2 ай бұрын
Thank you, keep working.
@Tony_TheAncientWorldReimagined 2 ай бұрын
Hello all
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Hello!
@uncleeric3317 Ай бұрын
So the previous location of the waterway can be used to date the pyramids?
@dadsonworldwide3238 2 ай бұрын
Gradualism posterity half a century ago would've made this very controversial to the point no one could do such work unless it was hand picked.
@mrliberty8468 2 ай бұрын
Somtimes pyramids point 👉 to temple's so interesting 😎
@uncleeric3317 Ай бұрын
Does the paper propose a date as to when they think the waterway dried up and/or moved east, based on the geological evidence? This evidence could be used to date the pyramids.
@flamencoprof 2 ай бұрын
I wonder if people stayed out of the Nile valley until 5000 BCE because it was then that the drop in river flow changed the swampy nature and reduced the likelihood of Malaria.
@bardmadsen6956 2 ай бұрын
They should excavate a channel following the bedrock from the plateau, there the answer to the mystery could be found, imagine the artifacts that fell in the water.
@CricketsBay 2 ай бұрын
I have wondered why the channel from the harbor to the river hasn't been excavated. I agree that it's an archeological treasure-trove waiting to be revealed.
@BenSHammonds 2 ай бұрын
is quite fascinating
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Very.
@michaelholt7994 Ай бұрын
It 2as the only rocky outcrop for the pyramids.and it's been known for a long time,the Nile in some places had diverged by about 8 miles.there must be very many undiscovered settlements undiscovered.
@petrapetrakoliou8979 Ай бұрын
The Egyptians wouldn't have constructed pyramids on ancient channels or floodplains in the first place. Their present location, on the first rock outcrop to the west of the Nile is the only place they could have built them, wether the ancient channel beside it was active or not.
@davidj8065 Ай бұрын
Excellent - also there are possible implications for the location of the garden of Eden as described in Genesis - long story. But is the "Garden of Eden" the "Garden of Atem"?
@vulpesvulpes5177 2 ай бұрын
Excellent choice of papers to review and a good job of summary. One trap archeology falls into is thinking things were ten as we see them today. Not just archeology come to think of it. We know rivers wander. The ox-bows of the Platte for example are classic. Now you mention sea level change and the climate shits of Africa 10,000 years ago. Archeology gets plate tectonics over 100 million years. But not channel shuts over 4000. We talk about “climate” today. The hot topic is our climate over the last 300 years. In reality that’s weather, not climate. NOW we are beginning to talk climate and the effects on Giza. To be fair Egypt is hard to visualize. Sat imagery let’s you down. With all the shifting sands you can’t see the tell-tales. But new technology as you describe does let you penetrate the “sands of time” as they like to say. If you can’t quite appreciate that look to the Sphinx. Photos from pre-1900 show barely the face exposed. Compare that to the excavated Sphinx today and you’ll see just how much sand can cover. So I think there is more to be found. Water transport and possibly even hydraulic cutting and lifting would explain a lot of the things we just can’t figure out about the pyramids. There should be more to come! Take care Laura. Fox out
@barrywalser2384 2 ай бұрын
Much more to be found. 👍🏼
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Exactly Fox! I think hydraulics could be key.
@MsArgentana Ай бұрын
Surely not to cut or transport the DJAD pink 80 tons granit! 👏👏👏
@henryknox4511 2 ай бұрын
I read that the nile had moved ~30 miles and the pyramids were originally closer in high school in the late 80s. Strange "new" study.
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
The hypothesis isn't new. However, supporting evidence for extinct branches and tributaries and for the migration of the river itself, is coming to light via these investigations all the time.
@hillwalker8741 2 ай бұрын
explains the water erosion around the sphinx is from the river not rain
@gustafduell4948 2 ай бұрын
Is not the Nile as a whole a lost branch? It barely reaches the Mediterranean as I understand it.
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
Not sure. There are a lot of papers on the Nile. I haven't read all of them. Interesting subject to get into though.
@user-ii1iy8fz1d 2 ай бұрын
So they shipped in their big lego, and stacked them , a block every few minutes. Do go on 😂
@Amenogoogle 2 ай бұрын
👍
@MsArgentana Ай бұрын
Pyramides for agricoltirs meaning?
@mrliberty8468 2 ай бұрын
This isn't really new..except they mapped the old branch of the Nile that ran by Giza.
@madderhat5852 2 ай бұрын
This would explain Pharaoh Warren IV making his fortune from a profitable beach '"Bucket'n'Spade" franchise. 🏖
@MegalithHunter 2 ай бұрын
HAHA!
@MsArgentana Ай бұрын
Felucas can only light liads
@christianlingurar7085 Ай бұрын
... aaand another wave of egypt tourist advertising with old facts
@fennynough6962 2 ай бұрын
Mike drop, again,🎤 yet same old B.S. --- Egyptian & Academia contradicting a Worldwide Megolithic Society existence before 460,000🌊 years ago? You know the actual Rainey🌧 Temperate Time!⛈️
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