How the Great Pyramid Was Really Built, From the Builder’s Own Diary

In 2013, archaeologists opened a sealed cave on Egypt’s Red Sea coast and found the work diary of a man who hauled limestone for the Great Pyramid. His name was Merer. This is what his logbook, and the evidence found since, tells us about how the pyramid was actually built and who built it. Chapters 0:00 A diary in a sealed cave 0:36 The oldest paperwork on earth 1:47 The river that isn’t there 2:56 The staircase with holes in it 3:53 4,000 pounds of meat a day 4:58 Bones set with splints 6:05 The gang named after the king 7:03 Where the slave myth came from 8:20 The tools came across a sea 9:24 What survived Sources • Tallet, P. (2017). Les papyrus de la mer Rouge I: Le « journal de Merer » (Papyrus Jarf A et B). IFAO. • Ghoneim, E. et al. (2024). The Egyptian pyramid chain was built along the now abandoned Ahramat Nile Branch. Communications Earth & Environment 5, 233. • Gourdon, Y. & Enmarch, R. – IFAO / University of Liverpool mission at the Hatnub quarry (ramp announced 2018). • Lehner, M. – Ancient Egypt Research Associates (AERA), excavations at Heit el-Ghurab, Giza. • Hawass, Z. – The tombs of the pyramid builders at Giza. • Herodotus, Histories, Book 2, chapters 124–125. The visuals in this video are AI-generated reconstructions, not footage or photographs of the real sites or artefacts. Narration is synthetic. #AncientEgypt #GreatPyramid #Archaeology