How the Great Pyramid Was Really Built, According to a 4,500-Year-Old Diary

How did the Egyptians really build the Great Pyramid of Giza? Forget whips, slaves and aliens. In this video we follow the real evidence: the Diary of Merer, the oldest inscribed papyri ever found (Wadi al-Jarf, discovered in 2013), the workers' town of Heit el-Ghurab, workers' tombs, Nile transport, wet-sand sledges and the ramp debate, with a little humor along the way. 0:00 Not slaves, not aliens 0:30 The tallest thing on Earth 0:46 Aliens? Slaves? Let's check 1:57 The workers' town and tombs 4:04 Stone: quarries, Tura and Aswan 4:39 The Diary of Merer 5:56 Boats, sledges and wet sand 7:05 Ramps and precision 8:17 The real secret Sources and further reading: Pierre Tallet, "The Red Sea Scrolls" (Wadi al-Jarf); Mark Lehner, Giza Plateau Mapping Project / AERA; Hawass workers' cemeteries; Hatnub ramp (Gourdon & Enmarch, 2018); Fall et al. 2014, "Sliding friction on wet and dry sand," Physical Review Letters. Subscribe to Sands of Forgotten Kings, The Empires History Buried. Educational animation. Narration is synthetic (AI voice); script researched from published archaeology. Hidden Agenda de Kevin MacLeod é licenciada de acordo com a licença Atribuição 4.0 da Creative Commons. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... Fonte: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-... Artista: http://incompetech.com/