How were the pyramids of egypt really built - Part 1

hello my name's Chris Massie I'll spent my whole life in the building the street I'm in a small construction firm in Asheville and Derbyshire and a recent trip to Egypt I was amazed at the size of the structures built by the ancient Egyptians at Giza and at Karnak I asked my guides Harley my serger at these motor toolbox hundreds of feet up in the air I was constantly met with stock answer brute force ignorance ropes and ramps a fan is hard to leave surely a nation and civilization what was built upon and around the mighty Nile whose every child with moment already spent playing their Nile was everyday working they would rely on our fishing in floating on or irrigating with water the Nile whose only knowledge alive would be based around water so if you is going to build a massive structure using the workforce available you would build it using the knowledge of the day which was water we've made a series of videos to try to explain a theory and have written a book which comes out in August - please enjoy the video read the book and believe the fairy thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] ad journey starts at the harbour positioned close to the Great Pyramid quarry each block is prepared for its voyage to the summit of the Giza pyramid construction site by attaching floats these floats made of inflated animal skins and stomachs are held securely in place using ropes and reed matting flood season arrives and the water rises to fill the harbor and canal system the blocks all prepared with floats are surrounded by water as the height of the Nile begins to reach above them the blocks begin to rise from here in threes and fours the blocks are guided down the canal to the Causeway Harbor using cattle oxen [Music] the next stage is where the benefits of Chris's unique system for raising blocks to a higher level comes into play the course way that leads from the canal to the pyramid precinct is essentially a massive pipe or culvert that seals in hundreds of gallons of water holding the water in place or two logs one located at the harbor and the second at the halfway point where the causeway changes direction the blocks are guided into the open lock a few at a time until it is fully loaded and then the first gate is closed behind them the second gate is opened and the floating blocks gently glide up the sealed and water filled causeway the second law produces the load on the lower gates from the many tons of water the blocks arrived at the top of the causeway straight into the pyramid precinct each set in turn would then be delivered to the different shafts on each side of the pyramid by workers using read boats on each side of the pyramid water filled shafts extend up to the work area as with the causeway it starts with a steel block where the blocks are guided in the second gate is opened the blocks gently rise out of the lock and float steadily upwards letting physics and nature do all of the heavy work this simple process puts out thousands of man-hours of building gigantic ramps and dragging massive and extremely heavy lumps of rock around with ropes and brute force alone at the top of the shaft the gate is open and the blocks float into the upper channel which is also flooded with water a series watertight gates are positioned around the opera to allow sections to be drained as needed the smooth facing blocks floated across the Nile from the quarry at Tura of a first to be guided into their approximate positions [Music] the outer gate is raised slightly letting the small section of water drain away and the blocks sink onto the ground along with it then the facing blocks are manually barred into their final resting place using mud as a lubricant when a section of facing blocks has been completed the channel wall is extended on top of them and is once again flooded ready for the interior blocks to be floated into place another huge problem that the flotation theory solves is that of turning corners in water they can be easily guided even in tight spaces and they're guided into place using the water filled channel maintained at the top of the pyramid construction site [Music] you reusable floats are removed gradually the sinking block is guided gracefully into his desired position this process being repeated around the pyramid and at each level using this technique the ancient Egyptians could have built Khufu and many of its massive structures without the need for vast workforces but more importantly with relative ease using something they had in abundance water you now read the book to give you a detailed understanding of the idea and the concepts behind it you you you

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Published: Thu Jun 14 2012

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[u/BetaKeyTakeaway]

Why this doesn't make any sense:

~94% of the stones used building the Great Pyramid come from the Giza Plateau itself, the quarries lie about 200-300 meters away from the pyramid in a semi circle. Hauling most of the stones to the causeway (or the canal they want us to believe) would have been about as much work as transporting them to the pyramid directly.

The rest of the stones come from Tura (~5% of the stones, fine white limestone) about 10 km away and Aswan (~1%, red granite) more than 600 km away.

Building this canal for just 6% of the stones and just the last 200 m is unthinkable because in order to fill only the pyramid courtyard 1 meter high (like it is shown in the video) would require 9,600,000 liters of water and 2,000 more liters would have to be added each hour to counter the evaporation. Much more work than just dragging the stones up.

[u/vertebrate]

I am having great difficulty accepting that a static water column of over 100m could be built and maintained. The pressure inside would be tremendous.

That said, it's a fascinating and clever hypothesis.

[u/lingben]

watch part 2 to see explanation of how water pressure allows flotation upwards against gravity