I'd love it if it turned out that the upper chamber floor and the corridor to it were intentionally left that way by the builders to make it look like it had already been looted if any looting party came and attempted to loot it. Would be interesting to see if muon tomography reveals any hidden chambers in the future.

I get the impression that there was some sort of megalithic structure already there, and they considered it sacred - so they built the pyramid on top, preserving the old rocks underneath (hence such a sharp contrast) I actually visited that pyramid in May 2021. I was shocked that there was absolutely nobody there except 1 guard at the door. I went down there alone (my guide stayed out) and the tunnel had no lights. Climbing down there alone with only my phone flash was a horribly uncomfortable experience, and I couldn’t wait to get out of there. I think they have lights now.

These videos contain a rare depth of insight and common sense. Well done.

Nothing compares to Egypt in human history. I'd love to time travel there and see it in all it's glory. Great video/

I just want to say thank you for not being conspiracy focused. I really appreciate your alternative thinking, how you have a hypothesis and ideas worth exploring without turning it into power cables too great for just lighting and covert exploration with loud machines digging... like another YT channel.

Just finished up watching this video! I watched all of them starting with the oldest. I really appreciate how you follow the clues and come up with well reasoned theories and/or conclusions! Matt from Ancient Architects sent me here and now I look forward to your next video 👍👍

Can't get enough of this superb content! Thank you!

Your channel and ancient architects are my favorites

I found the modern "red" pyramid absolutely fascinating with the comparisons you drew with the two larger ones, and the other two supposedly by the same pharaoh. Thank you -- just brilliant analysis!

It would be nice to see a video of your take on the suspicious blocks in the kings chamber, and the ‘window’ part way up the queens chamber northern shaft, and what you think about the possibilities of these anomalies. ?

Another greatly interesting video, on an intriguing mystery. Please keep going!

Thank you. I cannot get enough information on egyptian history. I have been fascinated since i was a small child. Just from a school library book. I would like to visit the pyramids again, since they have excavated so much more. Altho we visited the valley of the kings many times, we still didnt get to see many tombs because they always seemed to open mostly the same ones.

Another amazing video. Always shows us something different than the rest. Thank you

History is often told in stone. I like your channel and the insights and conclusions you draw.

Awesome video mate. keep them up! I love your approach and your perspective ☺️

Thank you! I love your videos, as I am fascinated by ancient Egypt. Keep up the great work

I was lucky enough on my honeymoon in 2011 to go inside the red pyramid and even into the floating burial chamber. it was and awesome experience. we also wanted to do the bent pyramid but it was still closed at that time. plz do an episode on the black pyramid plz as that one always interested me and I know little about it. cheers

I subscribe to the idea that none were used as burial but as places of ceremony or ritual.

I was in this pyramid some years ago.The steep narrow ascent is an effort but what an experiance.

Outstanding as always my friend 👍

Great job as always! Very interesting and educational!

I love this channel!!!

Awesome video with some great insight on this. Really enjoy your content thanks

Love to see more on the other pyramids of Egypt. Lots of stuff about Giza, but not a lot about the other ones on you tube.

The Bent Pyramid is also the only pyramid with 2 entrances and 2 separate internal passages. The idea that this pyramid is bent as a means of reducing weight on the unstable bottom section is imo ridiculous. The fact that this supposedly defective pyramid was, first of all completed and secondly still standing, throws a large spanner into this theory. There is a duality to the Bent Pyramid’s interior that is also evident in the bend and second entrance that is not seen in any other Egyptian pyramid. And it was clearly never intended to be a tomb.

the question remains... if the looters dug out another course to remove the larger items, how did they get them in to begin with ?

Amazing Amazing Amazing! Thankyou History for Granite! My mind is blown everytime I see more videos like this!

I always learn something new with your videos.

My back really hated me after getting out of this one. :-) The corridor is really long. To me, this is the best pyramid I've been to. And I've been to Khufu as well.

Another great and interesting video. Thank you, good sir! ❤

Your quote - only the stones can reveal! Wow! So true! I have spent 50 years studying Stonehenge - the people who built Stonehenge knew as long as the stones remained - the information would be carried. It is Written in Stone!

Another great video. Thank you so much!

Perfect video, as always! Keep up the good work👍🏻

*CONGRATULATION* on hitting 100k subs. I’m rewatching your older videos and just noticed your sub count. Please keep posting these excellent videos and know I will never take you (or them) for *granite* . All of your hard work is appreciated & I would like to offer the most heartfelt & sincere THANK YOU for creating such interesting, well done videos. Bravo sir, *BRAVO* 👏👏👏

Awesome video. I have already watched this video multiple times :)

Thank you for such great videos!

id love to hear your explanation/teachings of how mastava were protected by various means of security. very intriguing

Bravo! Fine Analysis! And, PS: I really learned something about Pyramid construction. Thank you.

I love your videos, been waiting for a new one, hope you're all good and in production :)

Really enjoying your series

14:10 "Unless the looting party who made this excavation was the dumbest of all time" I have seen it with my own eyes. A crew of 5 man dig 4 deep meters hole in the middle of the wood - because they were having a feeling, and because the place is having stories of holding a treasure. You really underestimate people on the hunt of treasures. It's actually more likely whoever enlarge the upper corridor have nothing to do with whoever dig that hole. Two different groups.

So my only question is why would they not use the pyramid after putting so much effort into building it? If it was not used for burial, then what would it have been used for? Absolutely love your videos, I am learning SO much! Thank you for all the effort you put into these videos, they are absolutely excellent!

Another very insightful vid. You da man. Always looking forward to your new posts. Keep up the awesome work 👍👍👍

Thank you for your videos. I learn a little more on every one.

I completely agree with your skepticism about Sneferu's intent to use all of these as a burial place and growing dissatisfied with each. It would appear that it took most of the Kingdom's surplus resources to build one pyramid; and I think three by one Pharaoh for the same purpose doesn't make sense. There has to be a better explanation.

The excavation of the floor is the result of the age-old looters prank: Robber 1"accidentally" drops his prying stick and exclaims surprised "You hear that? The floor is hollow!" Robber 2, conspirator, shouts "He is RIGHT, the floor DOES sound hollow. Others, hearing nothing special, but frustrated of not finding a spec of gold, start to think "Well if THEY hear it..." Not much later robber 1&2 disappear into the night with the camels and personal possessions of their fellow-looters..

Another excellent video. Thanks!

Bravo great work as always

When you consider that all three pyramids are attributed to one reign and that they are all different, you could almost imagine they were models, or the results of a competition.

12:32 what a good point, as well as the "the looters would have made a small hole to research". As a former urban explorer (urbex), I know of several separate occasions where the "small hole" approach was used for infiltration, there's no real need to make a grandiose entrance if your primary objective is to get from underground room A to underground room B.

History for granite is the most satisfying and detailed pyramid series ever. The best carbon dating only pushes the time line back a few centuries. The building capabilities are still unexplainable. Cutting, placing and hoisting the corbelling stones are perfect. What was the light source for tunnel workers, where's the soot from torches, air depletion from torches. Frustrating!

Excellent video. Thank you.

I speculate just because pyramids might have been used as tombs, it doesn't necessarily mean they were built for that purpose. Pharaohs might have inherited pyramids built for another purpose, and being impressed by them, converted them into tombs for their own use. Also, if pyramids were originally built for another purpose, they might have utilized internal furnishings made from valuable materials which were then looted. One of many possibilities

When I was in Egypt on tour with Ben last year (Uncharted X) I was checking the east west alignment of the Red and the Bent pyramid with a compass app on my phone, the Red pyramid is 6 degrees off, and the Bent pyramid is true east west. To me, it indicates they were built at vastly different times, the Red being older and true north was different then. Even now we see the magnetic north pole on the move, and it's affecting travel that depends on its location. It appears the Bent pyramid was a later copy, and internally, it is very crude, made with a lesser talented labor pool. Granted a cell phone app perhaps isn't the best tool for the job, but that's the results I got.

Great video loved hearing this 👌

All your videos are great 👍

How it really went down in Dashur... One pyramid says to the other "You received maximum plugging." The other pyramid turns red from embarrassment and says "No I didn't. Get bent."

The pulley holes are not contemporary with the structure

Excellent analysis!

Great job again.

Excellent, unbiased view as always. High quality :)

You should do a video about the proposed hidden chambers behind the wall of the kings chamber in the great pyramid. You probably know the theory that there may be two antechambers, similar to the red pyramids, behind a stone which seemingly doesnt support any weight in the kings chamber.

Good stuff, man!

Great channel!! Excellent!!

At 12:17 when you see the person in the video showing the size of the blocks excavated and massiviness of the burial chamber I could better understand the scale of this room. Another great video. Thanks for sharing.

Great video! Thank you! A couple of questions and thoughts come to mind: The so called "pulley holes"; what evidence is there that they were an original detail? Could they not have been created by the tomb raiders to help the removal of whatever they were removing? Why would they remove the lower section of the inner entrance tunnel? To just remove the blocks from the floor of the "burial" chamber? What would be the point of that? Could they not have spent the time just breaking up the floor blocks in the chamber and then removing them if they needed the space? Could it be that there was a sarcophagus built into the floor and they needed to dig up the floor to remove it? I think I've seen examples where there is a locking mechanism for the sarcophagus built into the walls/floor, even sarcophagus built into the floor a little bit. Could that be what the grooves in the east/west walls are for? I noticed that the groove on (I think) the east wall looked like it had been chiselled out, perhaps to aid in the unlocking? Could that be the reason for the enlarging of the entrance tunnel, to remove the large sarcophagus and lower it to the floor of the lower chamber (using the freshly created pulley system) to then break it up to take up the entrance tunnel. Hmm, but if that was the case, why not just break it up in the burial chamber. I guess it's the same issue as enlarging the tunnel to remove the floor blocks. Anyway, fantastic series of videos and I can't wait for the next one! :) Thank you again!

another interesting video, keep up the good work.

Great video and great channel.

Interesting! If looters dug into the floor looking for a burial chamber, that implies they thought it was a tomb, so if it wasn’t, then that knowledge was lost before the looting, so it would have to have been a long time between construction and the first looting. I’m not sure what the timeline is thought to be.

If I'm understanding your comment correctly ,they made the passage larger in order to push the excavated material (large blocks) through it and into the lower hallway where it will hopefully smash onto the floor. This doesn't seem right to me ,excavating that tunnel alone took a lot of work wouldn't it be easier to leave the tunnel alone and break up the stones in the chamber before removal? Why do they need to drop them onto the floor when the enlarged tunnel shows they have the skill to break through rock. Also I'm not sure that the stones would be broken up from the fall,if you are lucky one might break in half. Not that I have any better theory's,as usual nothing makes sense with the pyramids.

I just found your channel, I’m really enjoying your POV.

So interesting! I hope you are going to do one one the Bent Pyramid-my favorite of all the Pyramids.

Interesting video, but why would the robbers dig deep into floor of the upper chamber to look for a potential burial chamber as opposed to all the other places they could have dug though? I don't see why not finding a burial would make the robbers choose this single place to attack over other possible locations of a hidden burial chamber. Maybe there was something about the floor that seemed suspicious to the robbers, but if that was the case then they would probably dig up the floor even if they did find a burial in the upper chamber. I will say I am open to the possibility that Sneferu was not buried in the red pyramid. I think it's possible that he had always planned to build both the bent and red pyramid, and could have chosen the bent pyramid for his burial. I don't think we can rule out a red pyramid burial based on the hole in the upper chamber though.

Thank you, so could it be that these pyramids are isolation chambers where a high priest or pharaoh goes to meditate or some such. Sheltered from the prying gaze of the heavens. Isolated from the moon and sun and stars they are released to consider the subterranean gods / underworld and to bask in their influence. Did purpose commence with the esoteric and progress to burial (if at all) as the millennia progressed?

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I loved exploring this pyramid wen I was in Egypt,it's beautifully made, the burial chamber is a fake, they is a different colour blocking stone that looks like it's leads to another chamber,

Love this stuff. I'm still waiting for someone to explain how they move such large stones to such a height.

Thank you and Kudos for your professionalism - History for Granite is probably the best and most informative YT channel I have come across concerning ancient Egyptian pyramids. When it comes to presenting sensible and credible hypothesis, I think mainstream Egyptologists could definitely learn a thing or two from you!

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I find I'm a little sceptical of the architectural emphasis placed on defending from looters... that seems to undermine the status of the Pharaohs, to me, suggesting that they felt their timeless legacy was threatened by every bod with a pickaxe. I find it hard to believe that the sites were not, firstly, guarded and, secondly, it would surely be considered a traitorous act to even consider looting them. The Pharaohs hiding like otherwise defenceless victims from robbers... it just doesn't seem "kingly" to me. So, I would personally see the portcullis' and plugging blockages as rather more ceremonial acts i.e. creating a silent place where the Pharaohs rested undisturbed through time from the trivialities of the living world... rather than expressions of fear of looters etc. Obviously, pure conjecture, but the other, to my eye, seems to entirely contradict the Pharaoh's dominion and Godlike status.

great video (as usual^^) if he built 3 pyramids, i would be interested to know how much (unlimited) money/gold Sneferu must have had 😉

Nice work!

Fascinating ❤

Another great video! Amazing work! How do you find such details? I am curious about your approach, you probably have some background in engineering/architecture. For example, I would never see the ceiling stone details of the tunnel towards the chamber (I am taking it for granite haha). I like how you give respect to mainstream egyptology too while still keeping reasonable critical thinking, unlike other channels that dwell very deep into conspiracies. I actually find this kind of research very interesting.

I think this is the Pyramid that Flinders Petrie entered in the 19th century, and was met by a pack of hyenas coming up the shaft. Imagine how scary that would have been, when he only had an oil lamp!

Once again, a suberb video. 👌👍

Please sir, can we ahve some more?

If supposed looters dug out a corridor to remove items, how did the funeral directors get those items into the chamber in the first place? 🤔

They must have believed something was under that floor. amazing video that's again 👍👍

Egyptology's explanations come up short every time, they are more of a hindrance than an asset.

I feel like these videos would benefit from a bit of a stronger and more explanatory conclusion. By the end of this one, I was confused about what exactly you were implying and I feel like whatever conclusion was obvious to you totally went over my head since your channel is my first exposure to Egyptology outside of high school level "history" books. This stuff is really interesting, but I just don't really get what this all means unless you directly tell me. I'm sure other Egyptology nerds appreciate the evidence you put here to support your hypotheses, but to me they're just cool rocks right now, so some additional layman's explanation of what your hypothesis is and how you arrived there at the end of the video would leave me less confused lol. I love the videos, but sometimes they're just a little too opaque to me. Thanks.

Very good and informative, as always. But to me it just highlights how there is scant evidence that any of the Egyptian pyramids were royal tombs. The objections raised here would seem applicable to the others as well. Why use the same layout on all of them? Why explicitly advertise the entrances? Why not fill all of the corridors with granite blocks? We have to presume that the pyramid-builders were behaving rationally, so why would they make these rather obvious mistakes? To me it seems that a more realistic interpretation of the physical evidence is that the builders wanted to allow access to the various chambers, but also wanted to make such access difficult, and wanted to protect against unauthorized access. Or perhaps wanted to allow access to something stored within them, but not its removal. A rather straightforward analogy would be a bank vault: strong defenses, but no attempt to disguise it, or prevent orderly access.

Keep em coming

The amount of incredibly precise stone work in Egypt tells us, that the story about using copper chisels to make them is simply preposterous. Also the astonishing precision tells us that there was some purpose to it. Artistic decorations of tombs does not require such precision. We have to remember that to achieve such precision requires not only skill, but also precise equipment to calibrate and measure all dimensions of the worked stones. It is simply impossible to achieve this kind of precision with primitive tools that were used by ancient Egyptians.

Those three pyramids are very strange. It doesn’t seem possible that they were all built during Sneferu’s reign, but I wouldn’t be too surprised if it were so.

Have you looked into The Land of Chem’s theory about the pyramids being plants to make basic chemicals, like the red pyramid being used to make aqueous ammonia as a basis for fertilitzer for crops?

GREAT VIDEO!

Fascinating! I wonder what the hell was under that floor for them to dig so deep and with such conviction tp go straight down and not even a tiny bit sideways

I realize that you must keep some semblance of contemporary egyptology in your videos in order to maintain access to material and keep your website up but all of these pyramids have obvious industrial internal architecture incorperated in them. Thank you for the great video and still pictures of the internals. Keep up the great work!