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This is the Great Pyramid of QCL.
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For over 4,600 years, it has endured in
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the Egyptian desert. For most of human
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civilization, it was the tallest
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building in the world.
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It was built to last for eternity
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because it was meant to house a god. It
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has survived earthquakes, erosions, and
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wars. Countless plunderers, British
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explorers blasting their way in with
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dynamite. Even Mr. Beast. Someone 4,500
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years ago put this rock right here. The
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2.3 million stone blocks, some of a mass
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of up to 50 metric tons, make it one of
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the heaviest humanmade objects of all
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time. It's also built with incredible
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precision. Its base is roughly the size
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of seven New York City blocks and almost
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perfectly level, never deviating more
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than an inch. The four sides are aligned
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to the cardinal. Pause. I found a Hassan
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shadow that slipped in. You know the
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reason people are sympathetic is because
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the shooter did in return of the $10
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that died in Palestine. Blah blah.
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Brother, if you start simplifying
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everything like that, bro, you're going
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to you're going to you're going with
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this [ __ ] This is this is brain [ __ ]
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rot. You found you find some [ __ ]
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like bystandard like uninvolved civilian
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and use a civilian in a different
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country. Now think about this.
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You're a civilian in a different country
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and then you you you butcher [ __ ] r
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other civilians in that country because
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of something happening in another
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country. Like I I I got to be honest
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with you, brother. I I don't think you
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can rationalize that in your head. Like
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any sort of sympathy for that is [ __ ]
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stupid. It's rage bait. It's it's zero
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IQ [ __ ] Shabbat shaalam
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chatter directions with near perfect
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accuracy thousands of years before the
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compass was even invented. To this day,
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no one has found out how exactly it was
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built. To really understand the Great
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Pyramid, we modeled the whole thing and
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we will tackle three fascinating
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theories of its construction. This is
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the insane engineering of the pyramids.
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This is Kufu, a pharaoh of ancient
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Egypt. He's king of the wealthiest
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nation on the planet, and he's a god.
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He's going to live forever, and he needs
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somewhere to live out his immortality, a
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home that will last. It will need to be
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incredibly secure to house all of his
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riches, and it should also look amazing.
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His father, Snferu, also a god, is
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buried here. He's the pharaoh who taught
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Egypt how to build its pyramids, but the
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lines on his aren't quite perfect. I saw
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that the thing ended. Kufu can do
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better. He can bring even more glory to
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Egypt. The nation is still mourning
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Nefaru's death. Kufu wants to lift the
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people up by drawing them into the most
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incredible project humanity has ever
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attempted. And then surely they'll love
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him and later remember him more than his
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dad.
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a project as grand ambitious. Yeah. One
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of the theories from the from the
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Skittles guys is that you know on the
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walls that there's a guy that's like
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giving commands to like some workers or
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whatever. He he's not giving commands.
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He's actually speaking or using some
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ancient technology to speak or do
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something with his voice with vibrations
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at the correct frequency that moves the
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blocks and moves physical object in the
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world like sliding blocks around or some
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[ __ ] like that. Actually real. I'm not
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kidding. As the Great Pyramid can only
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be pulled off by a very wealthy and very
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organized nation, the nation of Egypt is
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just that. Thanks in large part to the
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Nile. Every year, the Nile overflows and
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fertilizes the land with rich top soil.
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This gives ancient Egypt
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access and to sustain a standing army.
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The army regularly goes out and
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terrorizes Egypt's neighbors, plundering
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their wealth to bring home for the
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Pharaoh. So see like see like right here
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and terrorizes Egypt's neighbors
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plundering their like imagine this is
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like some some ancient like like
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instrument like a trumpet and it's
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vibrating the the sounds of the ground
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and it moving
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something like that. This is like a a
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[ __ ] like a guitar like blow
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blowtorrch. It's lag.
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Oh, you will
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beat not today or tomorrow. So, Kufu has
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all the money he needs to build
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something very, very extra. But money
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isn't everything. Kufu also needs the
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smartest architect to design a building
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that will set him up for eternity.
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There's only one man for the job. Kufu's
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half brother, Hemi Unu. He was born for
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the role, a once in a generation genius.
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The design for his pyramid won't just
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follow in his father's footsteps. It
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will surpass it in every way.
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He envisions a pyramid far grander, more
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complex, and more secure than anything
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built before. A true quantum leap in
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architectural
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mastery. But in the sand though, in this
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sense, so like Hemi Unu plans to build a
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pyramid primarily out of solid
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stone. Inside will be three burial
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chambers with a passageway leading to
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each. The first is built underground in
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case Kufu dies early into the pyramid's
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construction.
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The second will be hidden behind a false
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wall so nobody can plunder the riches
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inside. Leading up to the third and
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highest burial chamber is a majestic
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corridor with stunningly high corbelled
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ceilings, the Grand
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Gallery. The king's chamber will be
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breathtaking, a chance for Hemiu to
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flex. It'll be huge for ancient Egyptian
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standards. It will be built entirely
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from pink granite monoliths quaried far
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away from Oswan. Fitted together so
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precisely that you couldn't slip a razor
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blade in between them. Inside a granite
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sarcophagus, Kufu will finally be laid
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to
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rest. Once complete from the inside, the
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pyramid will be encased in perfectly
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smooth white limestone. It will dazzle
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in the sunlight and gleam in the
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moonlight. That's cool [ __ ] Finally, a
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golden capstone, the pyramidian will be
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placed on top. Once all was put in,
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chat, yeah, I get it, chat. Maybe some
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of it was uh unethical at the time or
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whatever, but guys, back in the days,
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they built some crazy [ __ ] These
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[ __ ] [ __ ] around the
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around the globe back in the days two
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years behind thousands of years they
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were building some crazy [ __ ]
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[ __ ] It's nuts, dude. Place Kufu will
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be ready for
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eternity. Building a pyramid might take
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an empire, but to build your dream
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business, you only need Shopify. Shopify
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perfect moment to start your own thing.
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This is it. Any idea can grow into or by
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scanning doesn't have time to waste. The
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pyramid should be built as quickly as
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possible so that at least one of the
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burial chambers is ready before Kufu's
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mortal self dies. Heu is aiming for a
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timeline of 20 years for the whole
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project. He calculates that the Great
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Pyramid will require up to 25,000
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builders, a significant portion of
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ancient Egypt's population of about 1
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million. So, a great recruitment drive
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begins. But how exactly did they do it?
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Well, I'm just confused, chat, guys.
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these guys like did they not think like
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but how exactly we're going to lose a
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lot of money if we have so many people
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working on this [ __ ] like it's a big
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chunk of income. No chat 2.5% of your
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population working on your on your pet
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project like
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bro guys you say slaves no way they were
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all slaves. 2.5% of your population is
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slaves no shot exactly did they do it?
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Well nobody knows. The debate's been
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raging for hundreds of years, and
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researchers are constantly uncovering
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new archeological evidence and bizarre
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engineering quirks that give birth to
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new theories. Sometimes with cutting
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edge tech, sometimes by sheer dumb luck.
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There are theories. Wait, wait, hold on.
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Covering new archeological evidence and
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bizarre engineering quirks that give
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birth to new theories. Sometimes with
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cuttingedge tech, sometimes by sheer
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dumb luck. There are theories supported
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by scientific research, which we will
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cover. And there's tons of dubious
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theories that rely on wild speculation,
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which we'll ignore. We've broken down
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three scientific theories. Really,
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you're going to ignore the most the most
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real ones like aliens about what the
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Egyptian secret could be in order of
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easy, medium, and
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hard. Imagine you and some co-workers
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have to hoist a block as heavy as a
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double-decker bus 130 m into the air.
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The only tools your boss gives you are
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some rope, some wood, and some rubble.
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If you've got something heavy, you've
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got to move somewhere high. The
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simplest, most straightforward way is to
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just drag it up a ramp. You tie it with
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some rope, get help from as many people
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as can fit on the ramp, and heave it up
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together. Brother, as that ramp would be
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[ __ ] chat, that would be the biggest
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ramp in the history of mankind. No.
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Pyramid grows, the ramp would be raised
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and extended to accommodate the
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increasing height. Easy. No crazy
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advanced machinery necessary. Most
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Egyptologists have That's actually
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wrong. It's actually This is actually
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correct. This graphic doesn't really
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show it, but you can't make it narrow
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like that. The the higher you go, the
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wider it gets. This would at the top,
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this would be as wide as a pyramid.
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Easy. No crazy advanced machinery
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necessary. Most Egyptologists have
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traditionally supported the external
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ramp theory. It continues to be the
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go-to explanation for how the builders
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pulled it off. And there's loads of
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archeological evidence that confirms
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ancient Egyptians use big ramps for
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construction all the time. But there's
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no consensus on the size, shape, and
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incline of such a ramp. That's because
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after a certain height, the external
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ramp theory starts to fall apart. To
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move a two-ton block up a slope, you
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need a team of about 12 workers. And as
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the pyramid starts to grow, your ramp
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either needs to become steeper or longer
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to reach the top. You're going to want
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that incline to be as gentle as
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possible. Otherwise, the job is too
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intense and workers will start dropping
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like flies. The remains of the worker
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suggest most were in decent, but not
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spectacular health. These were people,
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not super. What if they had a [ __ ]
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pulley at the top of the [ __ ]
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that leads all the way to the to the
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river and where the boats are going
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down? The boats are going down and it's
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pulling the blocks from way back
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out. Wise the job is too intense and
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workers will start dropping like flies.
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The remains of the workers suggest most
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were in decent but not spectacular
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health. These were everyday people, not
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super elite athletes. Many died before
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40 due to the incredibly hard work.
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Engineers calculated 8% is the steepest
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incline for average workers to complete
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their task. In consequence, the ramp has
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to become longer to build a ramp to the
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full 147 m height of the pyramid at a
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gentle enough incline. This ramp would
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need to be very very long, like way more
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than a kilometer. See, it would require
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a few million tons of material, up to
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three times as much volume as the entire
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pyramid. Remains of such an enormous
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ramp haven't said the camel to and it
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would take thousands of workers decades
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just to build it. Decades Kufu doesn't
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have to spare.
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There is a way to keep the ramp shorter.
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You could build a corkcrew ramp that
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spirals around the sides like a road
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winding up a mountain. Yeah. Every time
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the pyramid grows, the ramp grows with
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it and eventually just becomes part of
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the pyramid itself. That's a lot of That
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would be a pretty ingenious way to save
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up on space and material. And that would
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leave an everlasting mark on the
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structure and you would know for a fact
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this is there's no such would explain
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why we haven't found any remains of a
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ramp. But it comes with a whole new set
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of problems. The pyramid's triangular
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faces need to be accurately maintained
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at precisely 51.9° from the bottom to
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the top. Surveyors need to measure the
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edges constantly to ensure there's no
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deviation. If you're off by even a few
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centimeters at the bottom, the top could
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be off by several
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meters. Since the spiral ramp blocks
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your sight, it's almost impossible to
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ensure that all the lines of the pyramid
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are actually straight, which would leave
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you with a crooked pyramid at the end.
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And as we know, the Great Pyramid is in
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fact not crooked.
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This brings us to theory number two.
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They did the math on that. Oh, no shot.
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Absolutely not. A French engineer, Enri
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Odon, is watching a documentary about
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the pyramids. It explains the pyramid
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construction with the external ramp
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theory, but Enri is skeptical. To his
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engineering mind, it just doesn't make
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sense. He calls up his architect's son,
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Jean-Pierre Odon, and asks his opinion.
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Jeanierre is intrigued. Without knowing
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much about ancient Egypt at all or even
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visiting the pyramid, he starts puzzling
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over other ways the blocks could have
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been lifted. He labors over it
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obsessively for years until he's finally
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ready to share it with
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Egyptologists. Most of them ignore him.
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He's an outsider and it's a field
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notorious for gatekeeping. A French guy
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who knows nothing because there's no
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evidence. But his theory has since
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gained traction because Odon has put
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himself into the shoes of Emmy Ununu.
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Thinking through every last detail, his
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theory could even explain how the
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heaviest granite beams might have been
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moved without needing to be hauled by
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600 workers. Huh. Here's a concise
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version. Emunu does use an external ramp
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for the first part of the pyramid up to
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around 60 m. But he doesn't just build a
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basic the internal
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infinite camel trail theory. There's a
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big circle in the middle with ropes
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around camels and they feed them in
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circular motion and as they wind up the
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the rope it actually it winds the rope
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up and it gets a block up. Dude, hold
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on. Made of rubber. Hold on. No, his
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ramp is made of limestone. The limestone
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blocks that will later compose the upper
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layers of the pyramid. That would
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explain why we haven't found any remains
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of a ramp around the pyramid. They're
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right there in front of us. The short
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external ramp is used to build the
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widest lower levels of the pyramid. It's
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also used to haul the heavy granite
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beams that compose the king's chamber.
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Oh, but hundreds of workers hauling a
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50-ton block in a small space is
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logistically challenging. So, Adam
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believes Emmy Unu used the long 46 m
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corridor, the Grand Gallery, as an
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ingenious counterweight system.
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It would have been built opposite the
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external ramp, and its size and slope
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would be leveraged with counterweights
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that would assist workers in getting the
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granite up to the king's chamber. The
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Grand Gallery is a weird space in the
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Great Pyramid. It has details that
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puzzled archaeologists for a long time,
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like why it's so tall, so narrow, and
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why it has stone benches running along
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the inside. Odon believes the Grand
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Gallery helps move impossibly heavy
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stones by functioning like a railroad
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track. The stone benches are actually
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the rails for carts on wooden rollers.
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Remember, no wheels. Essentially, a huge
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granite block at the bottom of the
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external ramp would be attached with a
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rope to a trolley car loaded up with
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heavy blocks at the top of the Grand
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Gallery. When the trolley cars rolled
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down the Grand Gallery, the heavy
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granite block would be pulled up the
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ramp. There's even evidence of scuffing
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from the repeated impact of something
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heavy in the Grand Gallery. That's what
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I said. The everlasting marks. Look.
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Yeah, you can see the indentation.
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So, it's a possible explanation of what
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this unique corridor was used for.
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Once the heavy granite beams are in
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place, the external ramp has served its
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purpose. Now the pyramid is too tall for
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it to be practical. So the builders
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switch things
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up. They dismantle the external ramp and
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use its blocks to start building the
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rest of the pyramid from the inside out
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with an internal ramp. Kind of like the
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driveway spiraling up inside a parking
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garage. What about the corners though?
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This second ramp would have been built
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from the bottom up with an incline of
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about 7%. It would go straight up until
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it hits one of the pyramid sides where
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it would make a sharp left, continue up
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another side at the same. Nope. Nope.
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No. You can't just say make a sharp
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left. How though? Explain it. Making a
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sharp left with a [ __ ] longass
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rectangular load. The ramp continues
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zigzagging up the pyramid with the
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flights of the ramp getting shorter as
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the pyramid narrows. From the bottom to
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the top, the internal ramp is over a
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kilometer long. Moving heavy blocks up
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an incline is manageable, especially if
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you're using a sled over smooth
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limestone. But each time the ramp turns
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a corner, the workers have the
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enormously difficult task of pivoting
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the heavy stones. Hodong calculates the
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ramp had to be less than 3 m wide, and
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the workers would have needed somewhere
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to stand to turn the block. So he
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proposes that at the end of each flight
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of the ramp, there must have been a big
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space left open for the workers to turn
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the block, possibly with the help of
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wooden levers or cranes. The empty
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spaces would also be a nice place for
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the workers to catch their breath.
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There's actually evidence of one of
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these spaces. There's a previously
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unexplained notch that corresponds to
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Odon's predictions for what the spaces
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would look like about 83 m up the
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pyramid. Odon's theories about the
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ground gallery and the internal ramp
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offer viable solutions to two of the
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pyramids. Yeah, but yeah. But yeah,
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but is there any sort of Oh, yeah. There
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is something in there. There is. Look,
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there's a frame there.
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Odon's theories about the Grand Gallery
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and the internal ramp offer viable
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solutions to two of the pyramid's
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biggest mysteries. How two blocks were
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lifted so high and how 50 ton beams were
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moved without the space for the hundreds
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of workers needed to haul them. I have a
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problem with this. How come people don't
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talk? Like if if 30,000 people worked on
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this [ __ ] they don't go, "Yo, they go
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home. Yo lady, I worked on the pyramid
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today. We did this." Then they get
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chilling. Yo, your dad did this, he did
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that. Boom. And there's a little bit of
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a of a trade in knowledge. How come it's
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all gone?
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What? It's not NDAs. There's none of
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that [ __ ] Are you
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stupid? How many years has it
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been, brother? things die out within the
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hundreds of years, listless
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thousands. They But dude, like like why
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chat, why wouldn't they spend some time
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to write down how they did it in the in
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the in the [ __ ]
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building? Like people that take great
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time to build a big work, they want to
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flex it, but they should because it's a
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big great thing. They did.
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But if he's right, the ramp's design
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would have been highly complex. Its path
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would have to be designed with great
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care to avoid intersecting with any
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passageways or chambers within the
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pyramid. Critics of his theory are
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either unconvinced that its construction
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is supported by archeological evidence
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or wave off the internal ramp as over
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complicated. Many suggest the external
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ramp theory is likelier because it's
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simpler. But ancient Egyptian
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workmanship exhibits extraordinarily
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high levels of precision in so many
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aspects. Why not also apply this ability
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to a highly sophisticated ramp design?
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But wouldn't the weight of that ramp and
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whatnot and and and um it being there
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for that long do cause something to the
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rock or to the to the to the stone on
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the parent? I think there would be some
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sort of impact or whatnot or like
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weights kind
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of impacting or whatnot. No.
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And also why not entertain an even more
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sophisticated theory for how they built
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the pyramids?
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[Music]
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In 2024, a flurry of newspaper articles
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announced that the mystery of the
00:19:08
pyramids was finally solved, thanks to
00:19:10
brand new archeological evidence. As it
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turns out, the Nile might just be the
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key to the mystery of how the pyramids
00:19:16
were built. Nowadays, the Giza Plateau
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lies in an arid strip of the Sahara
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Desert, kilome away from the lush banks
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of the Nile. But during the time that
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the pyramids were built, the landscape
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may have looked very different. A 2024
00:19:29
study combined radar satellite imagery
00:19:31
with deep soil cing techniques. This way
00:19:34
it identified what appears to be a long-
00:19:35
lost branch of the Nile flowing
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alongside the majority of the
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pyramids. The pyramid builders probably
00:19:42
used this. Now I'm even more mad. So
00:19:44
nobody went home and said, "Yo, dude, we
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there used to be a river there. Yo, and
00:19:49
for years they t nobody said there's a
00:19:53
river there. It just it escaped history
00:19:56
all over heavy stones straight to the
00:19:58
pyramid base instead of dragging them
00:20:00
all the way from distant quaries. More
00:20:02
than plausible that the builders used
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the Niles to transport the blocks
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horizontally. But what about vertically?
00:20:08
Yo, they were painting [ __ ] zebra
00:20:09
legs and [ __ ] and [ __ ] like whatever
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the [ __ ] like cats and whatnot and they
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would paint the river that caused them
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to build one of the greatest things ever
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created by a
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humankind. Bruh. Bro,
00:20:26
another peer-reviewed study from 2024
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offers a fascinating theory. It proposes
00:20:30
a radical and controversial idea. The
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ancient Egyptians might have used
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hydraulic power to raise heavy stones.
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Wait, that's what I said. In other
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words, a water powered elevator. The
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idea of such an elevator is not new, but
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for a long time, credentialed
00:20:44
Egyptologists considered such theories
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fringe and unscientific, just
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speculations cooked up by pyramids.
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They might sound cool, but there was
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zero evidence to actually support them.
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Yes. Until perhaps now. The researchers,
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including hydraologists, mechanical
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engineers, and geographers, found
00:21:01
evidence that the earliest Egyptian
00:21:03
pyramid could have been built using a
00:21:04
floating wooden elevator capable of
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raising heavy stones with far less human
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labor. The water elevator would have
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worked something like this. Rainfall and
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flood water would be collected into a
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nearby structure that functions as a
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dam. A system of underground conduits
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guides that water into a shaft running
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from underneath the pyramid. Okay, dude.
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Dude, that's [ __ ] nuts, dude.
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Building this [ __ ] 5,000 years ago, bro.
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Forget about it. No
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shot. Up through its central axis, kind
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of like a volcano. This internal shaft
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is where all the upward movement is
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generated. Within the shaft, floating on
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the water surface, is a heavy wooden
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platform, which workers would load up
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with heavy stones from the ground level.
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Then they'd open and close valves near
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the bottom of the shaft, which would
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feed in or drain out the water.
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Manipulating the water levels in this
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way would raise and lower the wooden
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platform like an elevator. They could
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raise the platform to heights of at
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least 17 m. Then workers would unload
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the stones and construct the pyramid
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from the inside out. The study's lead
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author claims his theories could also
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help explain why later ones aren't as
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large as the Great Pyramid. As the
00:22:09
climate dried out of the region over
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time, builders couldn't have captured
00:22:12
enough water for a hydraulic lift
00:22:14
system. They'd have to rely on human
00:22:16
strength to lift heavy stones. So, does
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this theory hold water? Experts are
00:22:21
mostly
00:22:22
skeptical. Zahihawas, a leading figure
00:22:25
in Egyptology, says the theory is
00:22:27
completely wrong. The pyramid in the
00:22:29
study is not only smaller than Kufu's
00:22:31
Great Pyramid, but differs structurally.
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I feel like people when people are are
00:22:34
an expert for too long, they actually
00:22:36
become an anti-expert. I know this to
00:22:39
this guy. I only know this guy. I'm not
00:22:41
saying he's like that, but I think in a
00:22:42
lot of fields when somebody's become as
00:22:44
an expert for a long time, they become
00:22:46
very rigid and cemented into into what
00:22:48
they think is and they're they're it's
00:22:51
hardened into new ideas. They're so
00:22:53
defensive and they go against new ideas
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and it becomes a problem. It was built
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of far lighter stones. So, if Kufu's
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pyramid were built with some kind of
00:23:02
water elevator, it would have to be
00:23:03
bigger and perhaps more complex. So far,
00:23:06
no comparable shaft is known to exist in
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the Great Pyramid. Ramps, however, are
00:23:11
found all over archeological excavations
00:23:13
in ancient Egypt. So, the most common
00:23:15
theories continue to put forward some
00:23:17
sort of ramp as the dominant
00:23:18
construction model. There are other
00:23:20
potentially viable scientific theories
00:23:22
that try to solve pieces of this puzzle.
00:23:24
One expert we spoke with suggest
00:23:25
multiple smaller ramps from all sides to
00:23:27
cut down on construction time, but to
00:23:30
this day, there's still no generally
00:23:31
accepted theory for how they did it. In
00:23:33
any case, it's good to be wary of all
00:23:35
the claims coming out about finally
00:23:37
solving the mystery.
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Everyone wants to be the one to
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definitively figure it out. If there's
00:23:43
not a definitive answer, it's probably
00:23:46
just aliens. I'm Hey, you can get out
00:23:49
all you want. It's no Yeah, I get it's
00:23:50
not scientific. I'm dumb. It's whatever.
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But if there's not even a modicum of
00:23:56
it's definitely probably that aliens
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aliens or ancient technology with
00:24:01
vibration is the last of the seven
00:24:03
wonders of the world we have left.
00:24:05
It's so old even Cleopatra considered it
00:24:08
ancient. But even though they've been
00:24:10
around thousands of years, it's actually
00:24:11
very strange. We haven't found any
00:24:13
blueprints for the pyramids. The ancient
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Egyptians were obsessive documenters. We
00:24:18
have a lot of people say that it maybe
00:24:19
it burned in the burning Alexandria
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thing, but I heard something that says
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that um the a lot of the the books were
00:24:28
elsewhere or like already copied or
00:24:30
whatnot or some [ __ ] like that. No, I
00:24:33
thought a lot of the books the loss the
00:24:36
actual loss of knowledge wasn't as big
00:24:39
as people uh portray it to be. But maybe
00:24:41
I'm
00:24:47
wrong. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Of
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their tax records, their love poems,
00:24:53
their receipts for donkey feed purchases
00:24:55
from 4,000 years ago. But papyrie with
00:24:57
plans for the pyramids have never been
00:24:59
found. Whether the plans were lost,
00:25:01
hidden, or intentionally destroyed, we
00:25:03
don't know. But what we do know, and
00:25:05
what science might be at the brink of
00:25:07
confirming is already very incredible.
00:25:09
In 2017, scientists discovered a
00:25:11
mysterious void in the Great Pyramid
00:25:13
using cuttingedge particle physics.
00:25:16
Researchers have yet to access these
00:25:17
spaces. Some archaeologists believe the
00:25:20
big void. Yo, then go in. Guys, there's
00:25:22
a lot of pyramids, right? In the name of
00:25:24
science, why don't they just bulldoze
00:25:26
one? I'm not guys. This is just this
00:25:29
just an idea. Don't get mad at me for
00:25:31
even saying it. What if one of them they
00:25:33
just bulldoze it and look under and look
00:25:36
at everything. Sacrifice one for
00:25:39
possible knowledge that will feed
00:25:42
hundreds of thousands of years to come.
00:25:44
Void isn't so mysterious that it's
00:25:47
probably just structural built as a
00:25:48
stressful leaving spaces so the inner
00:25:50
chambers wouldn't collapse. Some believe
00:25:52
it helped refine Udan's theory of the
00:25:54
Grand Gallery counterweight system.
00:25:56
Others, including Egypt's top
00:25:57
archaeologist, Zahihawas, suggest the
00:25:59
void might be Kufu's real burial
00:26:01
chamber, because that's the other great
00:26:03
unsolved mystery of the pyramids. Kufu's
00:26:06
mummy and all his treasures have never
00:26:07
been found. Whatever it's for, the big
00:26:10
void reveals there's a lot more
00:26:12
investigation needed to fully understand
00:26:14
the Great Pyramid.
00:26:16
[Music]
00:26:25
Well, my chat unironic by the way chat
00:26:28
because I have theories on on how they
00:26:30
actually did it. A fantasy, you know,
00:26:32
like fantasy theory, chat, like like
00:26:33
aliens or whatever. I actually have a
00:26:34
good one. I have I have a good one for
00:26:36
that. This Why is it so reflective? Why
00:26:38
is it so shiny? Why is it built like
00:26:40
that? Yo, what if aliens landed here,
00:26:44
right? and they couldn't find a a signal
00:26:47
back to the boys to go get them. They
00:26:50
built antennas that like reflect
00:26:53
signals.
00:26:54
Boom. Bang. And intensify the signal
00:26:58
like a like a like some sort of like
00:27:01
antenna to the for the the boys can come
00:27:04
and rescue them and then delete
00:27:10
evidence like a waypoint beacon. It was
00:27:12
it last time.
