The Last Secrets of Giza | Full Pyramid & Sphinx Documentary | Egypt | TUU

the whole world is looking at pharoh kufu Pyramid in Egypt yet right next to it on the Giza Plateau other architectural works of art have survived the test of time the Sphinx a lion with a human head and the pyramids of caffra and Manor unrivaled building Feats this Spinx is not a rock it's a living Rock caf's pyramid is currently the world's tallest pyramid located only a couple of meters away from the famous kufu the Pyramid of cafre looks like it's identical to its impressive neighbor about 140 M of masonry are piled on this Vault how could the Egyptians build such colossal structures without any Modern Machinery what does the Sphinx represent and why was it placed precisely here what secrets are yet to be uncovered by exploring The Monuments today we satellite but the ancient Egyptian found a very simple way to build the whole nowadays a new and promising technology is supposed to help uncover the best kept secrets of ancient Egypt photogrametry it consists in extremely accurate 3D models of the pyramids and the Sphinx created by scanning The Monuments from the air the results are spectacular and will provide egyptologists with powerful tools we are able to reproduce Landscapes of several Square kilomet in 3D it's like having Giza on the computer I think I haven't seen the Giza Pyramids like this three of the greatest egyptologists from the United States Egypt and France agreed to take on the mission of analyzing the Giza Plateau from the air and from inside like nothing ever done before what's striking is how aligned the pyramids are you can see through the photogrametry that the body of the Sphinx is longer than a normal Egyptians things so truly the pyramid's geometry is almost perfect more than 4,000 years after their construction these Stone monuments may be on the verge of giving away their Final Secrets welcome to archaeology [Music] 2.0 [Music] he [Music] lost somewhere between the desert and the giant City of Cairo a massive expanse of limestone of more than 300 hectares looks over the Nile Valley this is the Giza Plateau more than 4,000 years ago our ancestors made use of all this raw material to build what can only be called architectural Feats three pyramids standing next to each other one with the tomb of kufu his son's pyramid cafre and his grandson's Manor and we shouldn't forget the Sphinx at the entrance of the plateau the landscape looks like a postcard and is known the world over although kufu is the most famous One the pyramids of cafre and Manor are but 100 meters away and also offer unrivaled levels of perfection yet no major scientific campaign has ever been carried out on these two monuments ments despite the fact that many Mysteries concerning them are left unsolved when I came to g a plateau people said there is nothing can be discover I came in 1987 I made major major major discoveries I'm saying all my life to everyone that we discovered until now 30% of the Egyptian monents but today the mystery surrounding these fascinating tombs could perhaps be solved indeed a French team of Engineers was given special authorization to carry out a digital scanning operation with the help of drones and small cameras they intend to take pictures of the Giza Plateau from every possible angle and that technique is called photogrammetry after several days in the field hundreds of thousands of pictures are sent to Paris once put together they'll bring life to 3D models of the pyramids and the Sphinx photogrammetry isn't new per se but the latest evolutions of the technology now allow for an unprecedented level of accuracy these algorithms today let us analyze not just two or three images like they used to but 1,000 10,000 or even 100,000 images we are able to reproduce Landscapes of several Square kilom in 3D monuments sculptures and we do so with all the tiny details of the architecture you off these photometric data will perhaps help solve some of the secrets behind the building Tech tequ we can gather information on how they were built through the study of the blocks of their geometry how were they carved for instance or can we see some marks of the tools used it takes several weeks to compute such highly accurate models perhaps they'll help to shed some light on some of the Mysteries Behind These symbolic monuments especially the Sphinx one of Egypt's most famous and mysterious structures best DV a French egyptologist is leading us to this giant statue located below the pyramids which has been protecting the entrance to the plateau for Millennia when I stand in front of the Sphinx I wonder what can this be it must be something so important that it has never been copied although Egyptians made smaller Sphinx they never carved another one in a mountain like that there are many mountains around here small hills like that but why didn't they carve another thanks who is the guardian watching over the Giza Plateau 4,000 years later it's difficult to know what symbols are hidden behind this strange creature but one thing certain since it was built it has continuously fascinated people and egyptologists although for a very long time the statue was almost entirely covered by the Egyptian sand in the late period people like to come and touch it people like to be Buri beside it and this is why the Sphinx became Aion to the ancient Egyptian during ancient Greece people thought it was standing up just like the Colossus of roads they thought it was a standing statue the Sphinx was excavated for the last time during the 20s and that's when we found out that it had a lion body so it wasn't a normal being it wasn't just another Pharaoh the sphin is 73 M long and 20 M High more than 25 times the size of a lion the analysis of the Stones it's made of LED archaeologists to date its construction to approximately 2,500 BC which matches the time the giz of pharaohs reigned therefore it was probably built by the same men who created the pyramids yet to understand its peculiar shape we have to focus on the building process and archaeologist Mark laner believes the answers can be found in the field you know what strikes many people who visit the Sphinx for the first time is that that it doesn't sit up on the plateau it sits down low and that's because it actually sits in a quarry the ancient Egyptians created the Sphinx not by bringing stones and building it they created the Sphinx by taking Stone away natural rock like Michael Angelo had a big block and he carved David during the 19th century the first archaeological excavations helped egyptologists to understand how the statue was built they discover that instead of bringing tons of stones Egyptians from Antiquity had the clever idea of carving the Sphinx directly in the Quarry of the Giza plateau and nothing went to waste the blocks that were removed to build the Sphinx were used to build a temple right in front of the statue most of the blocks have three geological layers there's a hard layer above and then there's a soft yellow layer yellow because it has more clay and then there's another hard layer we see these same three layers in the body of the Sphinx and in the sides of the Quarry around the Sphinx and we can actually Trace these blocks back to where they were um in the natural rock of the Sphinx the First photog gometric Data of the Sphinx are already available Basel duv will analyze them the photographs taken from the air offer a brand new Viewpoint that may lead to new information regarding the casing the Sphinx was built in we know the Sphinx was carved in the mountain but it's difficult to imagine because we're always located on the ground now though we have a view from above and we can guess what shape the mountain was photogrametry confirms that the Sphinx has indeed been built from a pile of rocks located on the plateau but there's something else that is clearly visible on the Digital model you can see through the photogrametry that the body of the Sphinx is longer than a normal Egyptian sphinx the classic Egyptian Sphinx they're three heads long and uh the Great Sphinx of giz is five head fog so it looks like somebody took the lion body and pulled it too long like a rubber band and the reason is there's a huge fissure or a crack in the natural rock that passes right through the waist of the Sphinx and they couldn't make the back of the rump there because it would just break so they basically pulled the Sphinx longer to fit it into the geology and you can see that in the photogrametry so that's kind of cool this curious crack was discovered when the statue was Unearthed because of it the builders had to extend the body of the Sphinx otherwise keeping the regular proportions of a lion would have made it impossible to complete the back of the rump fortunately the builders quickly came up with a solution then the architect filled that Gap with the stones and after that they did the covering stones that you see to support the deteriorated body and they made the modeling of the Loy body above the covering stones although we know much more today about the construction of the most famous Egyptian statue the Sphinx is still shrouded in mystery for years egyptologists have been debating about who it represents the famous Pharaoh kufu or his son Caffrey for a long time everyone thought it was caffray since the Sphinx is located right in front of his pyramid the Quarry in which the Sphinx sits is the embankment for cfr's Causeway the Sphinx HS to the left of the end of Coff's Causeway where it meets his Valley temple in front of the Sphinx there is a sphinx Temple obviously I think for the Sphinx so the Sphinx seems to be an integral part of what we could call cfr's Valley complex and I think it's probably represents cafre but other egyptologists such as vasel DV have other arguments when we come to have a look at the Sphinx we usually arrive from Cairo over there to the East and so we see the face of the Sphinx and behind cf's pyramid so we think that the Sphinx is cfre however if we put ourselves in the shoes of the Egyptians at that time they came from the south from Sakura 20 km from here and when we arrive from there we see the Sphinx from the side and who's behind kufu and so we should link the Sphinx to kufu pyramid Basel du believes the Sphinx is connected to kufu pyramid and not cfr's and to support his theory he uses photogrammetry photogrametry is very useful to understand exactly how the Sphinx is placed in regard to cf's pyramid and that's how we see that cf's access way goes around the Sphinx it's very clear here there can't be any doubts and so this image makes me certain that when cafre built his pyramid and the access way the Sphinx was already there and he was forced to go around it from the south the Pyramid of cafre was built after kufus so if the access way goes around the Sphinx Bassel Dober concludes that the construction of the Sphinx took place before caff's Reign linking it logically to kufu but other egyptologists such as Mark laner refute this Theory but why would kufu make a sphinx way over there far away from his pyramid complex and its alignment his pyramid Temple and a Causeway that was almost 800 M long actually goes and turns to the end at a valley Temple some distance away from the sphin the Sphinx where it is doesn't make any sense in terms of kufu architecture it does make sense in terms of caf's architecture for now the Sphinx identity remains a mystery but Technologies 2.0 uncover every day more information yet scientists have already succeeded in unveiling some secrets of the Sphinx for years Z avas has looked for secret Chambers together with Mark laner they even dug a tunnel to explore what's under the statue today he agreed agrees to show us this secret passage maybe five people were able to enter inside this tunnel only five and see the a tunnel goes inside here goes up and down I want people who talks about the mystery of the SP and they have a speculated about the things to come and see me inside this tun to prove it's a solid truck thex it's a living gr 32 drilling operations have been carried out around the SX and none gave any results nothing is hidden underneath at all no aliens no people came from Atlantis or Lost Civilization although the drillings didn't lead to any secret Chambers under the statue they did reveal how fragile the work was indeed the pyramids nearby seem to stand the test of time without major problems but the Sphinx is much more vulnerable because the rocks it is made of are located much below the pyramids it's also closer to the water table the body of the Sphinx itself was once the bed of a seaflo and so the Sphinx too has all these salts within it so when groundwater moisture wicks up through the pores of the Limestone it dissolves the salts and it carries them to the surface when the water dries the salts recrystallize and they push the surface of the stone off with great pressure so that's why these softer layers are continuously flaking that's why the body of the Sphinx is so vulnerable because it's made out of these very same natural layers so the advantages to the pyramid Builders of this natural geology now become challenges for conserving The Monuments Renovations of the Sphinx started barely 1,2 years after its construction and have been going on ever since today keeping it in good condition remains a major challenge cracks happened here few months ago it proves that the Sphinx is the oldest sick person on Earth and we need to be near him all the time feel that the Sphinx is the icon not for the Egyptians but for the whole world it's very important that we have to save the things the most famous statue in the world is constantly monitored and thanks to photogrametry we can keep a digital copy of the monument forever no archaeological site is eternal and the image we have today is different from what we'll see tomorrow so this allows us to transfer the image of the monument to another platform a digital one and to hand it down to the Next Generation so they can see it as we [Music] [Music] do back in Paris the engineers have completed the calculations for the last photog gometric data with the models of the cafre and M pyam now complete the whole Giza Plateau has been reconstructed and the images are spectacular our experts discover them with excitement what's amazing with photogrametry is that it really feels like having a realistic image of the site and we can move around it's like having Giza on the computer to see the three pyramids in one line and the Perfection that the archtics did the lay out of the three pyramids are amazing I think I haven't seen the Giza Pyramids like this pretty soon they are able to come up with some conclusions especially regarding caffra the Second Great Pyramid of Giza what's striking is how aligned the pyramids are it's very obvious that cfre placed his pyramid in the diagonal axis of kfu they're aligned along the southeast angle and this axis goes to heliopoulos at the time heliopoulos was the religious capital of Egypt without our modern Technologies cfr's Builders still managed to align his pyramid with kufus in the axis of heliopoulos but when studying cafre even further thanks to photogrametry Frank monia confirms another key element kufu pyramid is known to be the tallest pyramid ever built but with this tool we can do some measurements and they show us that at the moment CAF is the highest it kept part of its casing around the top whereas the top of kufu pyramid has been deconstructed if we measure like this we realized that caf's pyramid is around 140 M High while kufu is about 138 M High which means that caf's pyramid is currently the world's tallest pyramid cafre was kufu Second Son initially his pyramid was 143 M high and kufu was 146 M high but because kufu pyramid lost its tip because of pillagers today the sun's pyramid is taller than his father's despite this feat though we don't know much about caff's personality cafre must have had big Ambitions because he built a big pyramid there was a mountain standing there so he used materials from there which makes him a practical man one thing certain Caffrey intends to build a pyramid that is as big as his father's and to get there practical as he seemed to be he uses a very smart trick when zooming in on the northwest corner of the pyramid near its base we clearly see that the stone was carved and that the Egyptians began working with an existing Rock bed to save on transporting the building materials it means that but here they cut off big chunks that were moved somewhere else where the stone was missing where they didn't have this rock bed in the field Basel Dov will show us this unique aspect of the Pyramid of cafr the mountain is here we can see it clearly it was carved to be able to support the blocks we can pile up blocks on top of [Music] it thanks to this rock bed the pyramid is slightly higher but this isn't the only trick used by caffra to make his pyramid look [Music] taller since he wanted to build something as high as his father he cheated a bit and used a slightly steeper slope than his father did the sides of caffra have a 53° angle compared to 51° for kufu it may seem like a small difference but steeper slopes like these give caffra a more gracious aspect compared to kufu and this isn't the only feat the base of the pyramid 2 is a true Masterpiece of geometry with perfect proportions photogrametry gives us a clear view from above if we Trace lines following the pyramid's edges we notice that they cross each other perfectly at the top and they follow the edges closely so truly the pyramid's geometry is almost perfect a couple of mouse clicks are enough to confirm thanks to photogrametry that the the base of the Pyramid of cafr is a perfect square but how could such accuracy be possible scientists believe the answer May lie in the mysterious holes that can be seen in some places of the Giza Plateau everywhere Giza we found that this holes are 40 cm in diameter the reason for the constructure of this holes is to make an accurate a square base for the pyramid the hypothesis goes like this Egyptians installed wooden poles in the holes thanks to these they were able to draw semicircles then by drawing a line between the connecting points of the circles they could draw perpendicular line and therefore the pyramid's right angle today we use satellite we use technology to do it but the ancient Egyptian found a very simple way to do it the holes this simple but clever technique let Builders reach an incredible level of accuracy each side measures 215 M with an average variation of 8 cm which is unbelievable the right angles are almost perfect too as perfect as [Music] kuo's taking a tour around the pyramid thanks to photogrammetry Frank Monier discovers another distinctive characteristic in the construction near the base we notice the presence of huge blocks megaliths they're 5 m long the blocks in the Pyramid of kuu don't weigh more than 7 tons but in the Pyramid of cafre blocks of 20 30 and even 50 tons are quite common so there's a clear evolution of the masonry of the technique used photogrametry also lets us study how the blocks are laid on the upper part part of the pyramid which is very difficult to reach in the [Music] field it looks like the masonry is random we have small blocks big blocks without any logic it's almost like Rubble in places until you get to the top and the courses look fairly stepped underneath the intact casing are they two different phases was there an interruption in the work we don't understand the internal structure of cfr's pyramid but by and large he not doing masonry as big and as well joined as we see in kufu vassel doev believes this to be yet another of caff's tricks to save time I love cafrey because he was a very smart and practical person when looking at kufu everything is clean straight the blocks are more or less the same height but here we can see three layers of big stones in order to support the building of course but after that there are smaller Stones Bigger Stones not really straight or even and they discovered that it's much faster and no one would ever know since the beautiful casing would hide it all it's a bit like as if kufu was real leather and cafre was leatherette it's done quickly and efficiently and looks the same caff's practical mind seems Limitless even the very location of his pyramid is a strategic choice if we look at the northwest corner the aerial view clearly shows the traces of a quarry that must have been used during cf's rain this Quarry was known but here we clearly see how the blocks were placed we can see the furrows carved to detach the Stone from the ground by taking their supplies right next to the pyramid the builders kill two birds with one stone they decreased the time needed to transport material while doing the excavation work required all around the pyramid vasad Dov will show us this Quarry located a mere 20 M from the side of the pyramid here we're at the heart of the mountain cafre used to build his pyramid and here we see the part that hasn't been used but everything else was taken and placed on the monument we often wonder how long it took to build this but the stone is right here and we could even see the marks left by the tools of the workers how they carved how they took blocks of different sizes caf's exterior seems as complex as kufu but what about its interior the Great Pyramid of Giza has a complex funeral system of three chambers has cafre the little sister a similar [Music] installation in order to find this out we received a special authorization to go inside the pyramid pyramid the pyramid is usually closed to the public but we got a special authorization we're really lucky for the very first time our team will be able to digitalize caff's interior even though it's all dark inside we have tools that give us usable data and allow us to create very good quality 3D models caf's main entrance is located at ground level it leads to a corridor that goes down called the descending passage and then to a 60 M long Corridor at the end of this passage lies the first burial chamber we're in the chamber it's gorgeous and again you see it's carved directly into the mountain and covered by beautiful [Music] Stones caff's burial chamber is 32 square met it's much bigger than the king's burial chamber inside kufu it's located under the pyramid and was allegedly carved directly in the mountain in the open thanks to photogrametry Frank manier is able to study its peculiar architecture from a distance The chambers's Vault looks like a reversed V also known as a Chevron Vault the chamber is in the ground but it's protected from the weight of the pyramid thanks to this Chevron Vault we can see it here this vault is the most heavily loaded vault in the world it's inside a masonry of grouted no less than 140 M of masonry are piled up on top of this Vault it's a lot this is probably a record in the world history of construction 140 M of masonry hundreds of tons of stones held by this incredible Vault kufu Architects were the first to use Chevrons inside a pyramid thanks to these experiments caf's engineer mastered the technique here the Vault Bears the entire weight of the pyramid the ceiling is made of Big Blocks placed like Chevrons this placement means that the weight is carried where there's support not where it's empty this technique is so effective that every kind afterwards will use it the loads are spread on the sides they're moved away from the center towards the side walls ceiling instead the loads would bear down on it it would break and collapse The Vault of caff's burial chamber is a true construction feat indeed it still looks almost as new 4,500 years later we can see small cracks so although the vault is in an excellent shape indeed it has still been worn out by an incredible load hundreds of thousands of tons rest on it it had impact so although it's in a very good shape it's still cracked this is something very difficult to see with the naked eye but obvious on the photogrametry there's another curious element among cfr's funeral complex his sarcophagus brings up many questions the sarcophagus actually was made of red granite and red granite came from Aswan and you have to know that there's two things here that we have to think either the ancient Egyptian architect ordered the Workman to do it in the grite Quarry in Aswan then they can make the lid separate and they can make the sarcophagus separate or they brought the pieces to make it here was cafre sarcophagus made on the spot or brought from Aswan I really think that they made it in Aswan because if they bring the pieces here and any mistake can happen then it will be useless look at the size of this it's exactly can fit with the size of the interance the fact Caffrey strives to such Perfection for his tomb is due to it having only a single chamber unlike his father who had created a complex funeral system with several Chambers some egyptologists believe such Simplicity to be the result of the pharaoh's practical mind this is the main idea here let's do what's absolutely necessary to be able to bury the king if he dies so he can be resurrected was caffra simply playing it safe or did he want to differentiate himself from his father no technology or any other clue can currently answer this question but the obvious Simplicity of the construction is a source of questions for scientists we often looked for other burial Chambers inside cafr because we thought it was much too simplistic one day perhaps new technologies will allow us to go even further and to uncover caff's Final [Music] Secrets but in order to discover the last treasure of Giza we have to go around caffra indeed the last pyramid that of his son m is much smaller than the others on the plateau it's only 63 M high it's about 2 and a half times shorter than the Pyramid of kufu why did we go from extreme gigantism to a human scale more could be they're running out of space on the Giza Plateau cuz the pyramids are built on on this diagonal and manar's pyramid is very close to the southern edge of the plateau it's not a steep drop but there's a w there and there's not a lot of room for a gigantic pyramid but such change could also be explained by politics if you look at the statues of mink look at his face kufu and Kim strong kingship strong Kings but began for the first time to see a kind man a man who's a nice guy and he's now accompanying goodness and goodnesses and touching their hand then he's different so I get the feeling with main Kare that they're running out of steam things are slowing down you just get the impression that nobody's really supervising funds are running out and yeah that the whole whole process is just losing Steam and they're getting tired whatever the reasons explaining mcor's small size vassel doov believes that what matters is that the last Pyramid of Giza is a mixture of techniques even though it was built almost a century after CFR we sometimes hear that moror built a small pyramid because they didn't know how to build anymore the techniques had been lost but right here inside his funeral Temple there's the biggest carved Stone on Giza here some blocks weigh about 200 tons it means the techniques were still known but this idea was different and here again the extreme accuracy of photogrametry will perhaps help us to better understand how menor's pyramid was built when zooming in on Manor the first thing that catches my eye is the Quarry located near the northwest corner the Quarry has been mentioned very seldom and never described but photogrametry will allow us to create a very detailed plan of the blocks they carved here we can still see the furrows used to detach the construction Stones we can see that the blocks were rather big something like 3 m by 3 they could weigh more than 10 tons each 20 even perhaps here too the builders from Antiquity use materials available nearby so they wouldn't have to carry them over long distances but this strategy doesn't work for every stone in the pyramid indeed manori made some aesthetic choices that are in sharp contrast to his ancestors one of the characteristics of moror is that he encased his pyramid in Granite it's much harder than Limestone and protects better we know that everything that holds in a pyramid is made of granite so here the whole casing is in Granite but did he ever reach the top not sure fortunately he didn't have time to finish the poor man didn't rain as long as kufu or cafre and so he couldn't complete the outer casing of his pyramid every King want a new trend for himself they maybe M thought that I have to make something different than casing my pyramid with Limestone every Dynasty has a trend something new the first 16 layers of manori are made of granite this is the only Pharaoh on the Giza Plateau who used so much of this rock egyptologists think that the rest of the pyramid was limestone Granite is much more difficult to carve and takes much more time manori took the risk with this decision that his tomb wouldn't be ready by the time he died one of the last tasks that remained undone was to smooth the bottom of the pyramid in Granite so the workers walked away from the job leaving the outer faces of each casing Block in Granite with this big belly of extra Stone all of that was meant to be cut away actually hammered away with heavy Hammer stones and work just stopped but it left us a kind of Frozen moment in one of the processes of building [Music] pyramids Frank Monier is in Paris and he continues to analyze the photometric data of the last per Pyramid of Giza he notices something unusual about how the sides of manori were built they seem slightly curved inwards when we do a horizontal cross-section we notice that all four sides seem concave now if I move the cross-section from bottom to top we see that this is not even at the very bottom we don't notice any Bend but as we go upwards the bend becomes more and more obvious the accuracy of the images lets us see something very difficult to perceive with the naked eye namely that the sides of the pyramids are slightly bent inwards but our expert believes that it has nothing to do with the construction there's a theory saying that there was a deliberate intent by the builders to create a pyramid like this meaning a pyramid with eight sides instead of four it's a theory now during the Middle Ages pory workers used blocks from the casings of the Giza Pyramids they removed them and let them slide down the sides of the building so they could be used in building Cairo so the process of detaching the blocks and letting them slide down may have also damaged the pyramid this series of blocks being detached from the top may have ended up causing furrows on the sides of the pyramids also during the Middle Ages the sultan Osman Bay ordered the digging of the famous split on the North side hoping to discover the entrance to the pyramid but it's not before the 19th century that the real entrance will be discovered by an English Explorer it's located much below less than 4 m above the ground it leads to a narrow Corridor that goes down to a first chamber it's decorated with false door motifs the door doesn't really open and this is the first time you have decoration inside and under the pyramid since the time of joser just beyond this you have a port culla slab that boom is lowered down in a slot and that would have closed the pyramid um that would have been the second line of defense the first line of defense presumably would have been the outer casing and the plugging of the uh passageway manori copied the security system used by kufu for his burial chamber a pullus brought down by pulley Beyond this system lies another horizontal Corridor leading to another room much bigger this [Music] time so we come at the end of a horizontal passage to this rather spacious rectangular room cut completely out of the natural Rock and many think this is the first burial chamber of Mare and you know it's compelling that that's the case now there's a second burial chamber at the bottom of a second sloping passage but people think this is the original burial chamber because there's a socket at the Western end of the chamber in a kind of Niche just right for a sarcophagus this is menor's distinctive characteristic the funeral NE system has nothing in common with the classic Model of cafr quite the opposite actually it's very Advanced to better understand how it all fits together images from photogrametry prove very useful when we're inside we have no idea of the dimensions or how everything is organized but here a quick glance is enough to understand here's the descending passage the first Chambers and the various rooms leading to the Vault these images will help us study how the various rooms are organized because they're quite far away from each other The Ensemble of burial Chambers and passageways do get simpler through time but here they're still experimenting they're changing their mind still they seem to have decided on a second burial chamber in Granite um and uh yeah the photogrametry captures that complexity yet what's most disturbing for egyptologists in menor's funeral system is that noch cagus has been found in the first major burial chamber despite the fact everything seemed to have been prepared for it it's very compelling that this is a socket for a sarcophagus it's just the right size and here the corner is cut away and this is a lever socket so that they probably with a big wooden lever kept the sarcophagus a little bit up so they could adjust it and then only when they had it in its perfect position could they let the lever down and boom lower the sarcophagus into this socket yes it looks like they did all the preparations for the sarcophagus and yet they changed their mind somebody changed their mind maybe the king because they prepared yet another chamber further to the west and so the Builders of the pyramid prepared a space for a sarcophagus before giving it up but vasil DV doesn't believe in a change of plan rather he thinks this is a trick Menor is trying to deceive he created some kind of chamber in the beginning which is supposed to be the burial chamber and it's locked just like a real burial chamber during menor's time pyramids have been desecrated already and we found items that should have been in kufu burial chamber inside menor's chamber there was kufu name on them so we clearly see how meori is trying to trick thieves into believing that this is the burial chamber while the real deal lies Beyond did it work that remains to be seen the real burial chamber of Mori the one that should have sheltered the embalmed body of the Pharaoh should therefore be located at the end of the long Corridor going down from the first chamber Mark laner is leading us there so the final burial chamber where mare was probably laid to rest is this beautifully polished at one time polished Granite chamber at the end of the passage system in order to build the 17 squ met chamber in Granite the builders probably carved the stones directly on the spot it's clear that they finished the room after they put the blocks in place they put the blocks in place with the outer faces rough and UNS smooth and then they literally sculpted the room out of the rough Granite that's why you get about 1 cm of this Stone turning the corner or 1 cm of this Stone turning the corner but Against All Odds there's currently no tomb in this chamber however when explorers first came in during the 19th century there was indeed a sarcophagus what's important is that a sarcophagus was discovered during the 19th century and taken away by the Explorers they decided discreetly to take it out of the pyramid and bring it to England unfortunately the boat carrying them back to England sank and the sarcophagus disappeared in the Mediterranean Sea before losing it explorers had been able to look inside the sarcophagus it was empty but a closer analysis could perhaps have shed some light on the mysteries of the pyramids today despite tremendous progress due to promising Technologies such as photogrametry many secrets are left unsolved on the Giza Plateau one of Egypt's most studied sites the coming years will reveal many more discoveries because the Giza Plateau hasn't told us everything yet there are many Mysteries left things to discover and so we hope that the current research and the research of the future will bring us new elements to help us understand how the great pyramids were built although others believe that the Mysteries surrounding the pyramids are precisely what has been Fascinating People for more than 4,000 500 years when I take group of people in front of the Spinx I could see in their eyes how they looked at it with best they don't like even to know the truth they like the mystery to continue some egyptologists believe that hundreds of years will be necessary to uncover all of Egypt's Treasures digital methods could perhaps speed up an investigation that has been going on for centuries

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Length: 47min 53sec (2873 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 28 2023