Who Really Built the Great Pyramid? One of Them Kept a Diary

Who really built the Great Pyramid? One of them, Inspector Merer, left a diary: the oldest written papyrus ever found. His crew's logbook follows boatloads of white limestone from the Tura quarries to Giza, and points to a lost lake and harbour at the foot of the pyramid. Historical scenes are AI reconstructions; real objects and maps are shown as they are. Sources are listed below. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:05 Paperwork in the Wrong Place 03:00 Follow the Stone 05:22 The Lake That Vanished 07:01 The People Behind the Deliveries 08:37 Back to the Red Sea 09:45 What Survived Sources [1] Pierre Tallet and Gregory Marouard, 'The Harbor of Khufu on the Red Sea Coast at Wadi al-Jarf, Egypt', Near Eastern Archaeology 77(1) (2014), pp. 4-14 https://www.ancientportsantiques.com/... [2] Pierre Tallet, Les papyrus de la mer Rouge I: Le 'journal de Merer', MIFAO 136, IFAO (2017); English translation and summary in Annexe I, pp. 149-162 https://www.ifao.egnet.net/uploads/pu... [3] Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner, The Red Sea Scrolls: How Ancient Papyri Reveal the Secrets of the Pyramids, Thames & Hudson (2021) (further reading) https://www.thamesandhudson.com/produ... [4] Hader Sheisha et al., 'Nile waterscapes facilitated the construction of the Giza pyramids during the 3rd millennium BCE', PNAS 119(37) (2022) https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2202530119 [5] Owen Jarus, 'Ancient Logbook Documenting Great Pyramid's Construction Unveiled', Live Science (2016) https://www.livescience.com/55439-anc... [6] Daniel Weiss, 'Journeys of the Pyramid Builders', Archaeology magazine, July/August 2022 https://archaeology.org/issues/july-a... [7] PBS NOVA, 'Pyramids: The Inside Story', History of Giza https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/pyramid... [8] Wikipedia, 'Ankhhaf' (bust in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 27.442) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankhhaf [9] Wikipedia, 'Tura, Egypt' (the Tura limestone quarries) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tura,_E... [10] IFAO catalogue, Le 'journal de Dedi' et autres fragments de journaux de bord (Papyrus Jarf C, D, E, F, Aa), MIFAO 145 https://www.ifao.egnet.net/publicatio... [11] Wikipedia, 'Wadi al-Jarf' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wadi_al... Image credits Ankhhaf Bust.jpg by Implacable18, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Ankhhaf Bust.jpg by Implacable18, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped) Bust of Prince Ankhhaf Boston.jpg by Marcus Cyron, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Giza Pyramids Egypt Camels Desert Landscape Photo by Ludovic Delot Bravo.jpg by Ludovic Delot, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons Kheops-Pyramid.jpg by Nina, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons Pyramid of Khafre, south-west corner.jpg by Jerome Bon from Paris, France, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Pyramids of Giza, Giza, GG, EGY (46986577715).jpg by Warren LeMay from Chicago, IL, United States, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Sultan Hassan Mosque, Cairo, Egypt 05.jpg by Hassan Hamdy wahidy, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Tourah-lepsius.jpg by Karl Richard Lepsius, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Music and sound credits Music: "Hidden Past", "Temple of the Manes" and "Ancient Rite" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). "Desert Caravan" by Aaron Kenny (YouTube Audio Library) Sound effects (CC0, OpenGameArt.org): river waves by randommind, wood and tool hits by rubberduck, breaking rock by themightyglider, crowd ambience by starninjas Some scenes in this video are AI-generated reconstructions, not historical footage. Narration uses an AI voice.