The Great Pyramid’s Niche of Secrets

Fantastic work. Great research as is always the case with your channel. Was great working with you on this. 👍

My favorite channel on KRplus, and the only one that I let bother my phone with notifications! Thanks for making these

After doing some digging around, it turns out that Vyse's unpublished papers are at the Ashmolean and his notes and some small finds are still stored (unchecked!) by the British Museum in their main archive.
Trying to get the Petrie Museum interested in going through his archive because some of the finds are listed as 'unidentified ceramics'.

When I look at the niche in the Queen's Chamber, specifically how it's asymmetrical with respect to the wall it's in, I get the feeling that this fact is a clue to something just out of reach. It's quite easy to see how those with an exploratory itch find this room so interesting.

It's human nature that one of the hardest things any of us can do is to not be blinded by a fond belief, even when there is contrary evidence. You want to find evidence of a sarcophagus in the queen's chamber and yet in all honesty you had to accept these accounts are not it. Many would not accept that.
Thank you for another excellent video.

Been waiting for a new video since watching the Ancient Architects collaboration. Loved both. Laughed when you stated ‘if you’re one of the few who haven’t watched that video”. You know your fans/subs well. I’m sure a majority of us had seen it. Looking forward to your next installment. 😊

Thanks for doing these videos, HFG. Always good to get fresh, well-researched takes on these monuments. Should be more of it!

I really like the theory that all three chambers in the pyramid were meant for the pharoah and represent different stages of the building project enabling him to have a burial chamber ready in case he died before the work was finished. So there should not have been sarcophagi in either the "Queen's" chamber or the subterranean one - as no-one was ever buried in them

Thanks to HFG and Matt at AA for continuing to bring new info and insight into the mysteries of ancient Egypt. The excitement and wonder of my trip there 30 years ago gets rekindled each time I see a new video on the subject.

my head-canon explaination for the sand is as follows. if you wanted to make a tomb as hard to break into as possible then you would want to surround and fill it with substances that are resistant to digging, while something like granite resists digging through it by being really strong and hard, sand is different. sand resists digging by being really loose and constantly flowing back down into the hole filling itself back in, if you don't sure up the sides then it's impossible to dig deep into sand. in short sand resists digging by being really annoying as opposed to being tough. for this reason i believe the sand was added and used to fill corridors as a mild form of defence to prevent digging. it would be really hard to remove requiring hundred or thousands of buckets being carried up through small corridors to do so but putting in in place would be easy as you could just pour it down the entrance and let the slope of the tunnels do the work. it could also explain the small chutes to nowhere inside the chambers.

I'm so glad people have started doing independent research into the pyramids with thorough observation skills, because waiting for mainstream media to ever present the truth is a lost cause. This channel is incredible. Thanks for all these brilliant vids. 🎯

Man, your videos are awesome. It is great that you and Matt have worked together. I would love to see more collaborations in the future. Greetings from Austria.

You and Matt did a really good job. Looking forward to the special video. Thank you!

I'm skeptical of this conclusion. It feels like more of a leap to me to say that someone could misconstrue the lack of a box for a box. I think it's pretty well understood, generally, what a sarcophagus is when that term is used. There's no reason to use that term otherwise. I'm not saying there was one and I'm not saying there wasn't, but to even lean toward "there wasn't" based on this explanation is a mistake imo. I don't buy the "knocking on the wall makes an echo in the tunnel" being the same as the sound created by knocking on a hollow box either-- two different acoustic experiences. An echo is not the same as a hollow thud.

I love ancient Architects and your Channel. As they are my two favorite channels to watch. You guys always put up awesome content keep up the great work!

It is already clear to me, that any further praise of your channel, and Matt's AA's channel, would be superfluous and redundant. However, both of you do deserve high praise for your intelligent analyses, respect for one another's work and recent collaboration. Bravo. This is to everyone's benefit. We "Happy Amateurs" are indebted to the both of you.

Another wonderfully researched, captivating and informative video. I always look forward to new material from you. Keep up the awesome work 👍

Your vids are top notch buddy. Well researched and your manner makes them easily digestible. I hope success finds you.Keep up the good work.

This channel is so good, it can only be of others not yet discovering this treasure trove of information. I was led here through "Ancient Architects" channel, another fantastic channel on its own.

Its so awesome to know that discussions between you and Ancient Architects exist and theres comradeship between you both especially on this cutthroat platform where everyone is fighting for views and channels that specialize in similar topics are more often competing than collaborating. If only all these young content creators knew that working together and building up others just increases the overall audience and will work in your favor too

I love how collaborative you and Ancient Architects are. You and Matt are so wonderful and insightful

A brilliant video mate ! Please do more often. Good work.

Great channel!!! So interesting, and the delivery of information with clarity and insight is really wonderful
Thank You

Love your videos, your work is wonderful. Been watching Matt awhile now such a wealth of knowledge. Thanks

Thank you for yet another wonderful video. Your knowledge is exceptional but more importantly giving people time to view the Ancient Architects video 1st tells me that you are also a very exceptional human. I look forward to future videos.

Love your videos, I feel like its hard to watch videos about stuff like this that are level headed like yours.

Love both ancient architects and your channel of granite. Both using the same shared information, you haven't copied each other's approach explaining to the public making both your videos refreshing

thank you so very much for sharing your knowledge in such a thorough, enlightening and entertaining manner.

What I'd like to see is a video on what the pyramid(s) is/are _not._
Sort of a mythbusting list. Like it's _not_ a grain storage silo (Ben Carson). It's _not_ an alien beacon. It's _not_ a giant sundial.
There's a lot of theories about what the pyramids were used for and I think debunking them is a good starting point for layfolk like me who don't know if it was a make-work project to keep a restless population employed, a vanity project for kings, a temple to the gods, a celestial calendar, a tomb, or something to impress visiting dignitaries.

At 8:20" Caviglia was always off digging in Mummy pits" . The Queen's sarcophagus was in the niche sitting on the granite or marble block and the treasure hunter brain of Caviglia figured the treasure she had was behind the sarcophagus so he destroyed it to find her treasure and left the ruble . Sometime around 1817.

To be fair to dormion i see hawass on discovery talking in red pyramid and he states that when he is alone there is a draft of air coming from a separate source than entrance, he states it needs to be investigated, that was a few years ago(around time he broke his foot in Osiris shaft) i only remember i went to his website 2 weeks after to see if he updated but nothing, he also champions that khufu is hidden somewhere in his pyramid.

Watched both your video and Ancient Architects, and both excellent. Thank you.

Discovered your channel on my own, but glad to see you know Matt.
You guys really give the feeling the WE (meaning you, Matt AND the fans of your channels) will get to the bottom of these long thought questions.
Kudos.

Thanks, you are a great detective, your precision is what is needed in further discoveries.

Another fascinating video. Thank you for continuing to make these.

For me the opening shots of the bus entering the site made the whole thing REAL. I won't ever visit - my mental illness will never let me - so I am ever grateful! It may sound very strange to most people but this is the difference between a huge disappointment in my life or me actually being able to imagine and most likely being able to dream of being there. Thankfully I DO have very rich dreams BUT I can't dream of things that are too much removed from my own experiences - I think the bus ought to do it 🙄🙂👍🙏

This is a great channel, keep up the good work, your opinions are really interesting

In the old photos, with all that rubble in it, the visible part of the square cavity inside the niche looks even more like a sacrophagus than it does today.

I love your content! Thank you for making more! :)

Another great analysis. Good work, can't wait for the next video.

I needed this today, feeling full of cold. Thanks very much!!!

What great videos. Just when I thought everything had been said on the subject of ancient Egypt and Giza.....along come your videos to make us think again.....

I love the not so subtle derisiveness with which you always say "The Definitive History" always puts a smile on my face haha. Another great video 👊

I love you and your work. You and Matt are amazing. This is like my 7th watch through on this but I saw something new at 15:39. Regardless of what happened behind it, those right angles are polished and finished. But also undamaged, as if they knew where to dig

I've been waiting with bated breath for this episode!

Ah !, I'd forgotten that older explorers would have been using oil lamps/candles etc, we're so used to led flood lamps illuminating everything perfectly. Great point.

marvelous to have 2 enthusiastic youtuber researchers with there own specialties to draw on. Always enjoy your precise presentations, so i dont want to take your personality for granite.

Mat from ancient architects recommends you, so... 🖐 hello. Good stuff. I've liked what I've seen so far and expect to view more quality content as time moves forward. Thanks mate

Another great doc; thank you. In respect to the "sarcophagus", we, today imagine a stone box, either decorated or plain and made with some considerable care and skill befitting its profound significance. However, the word is derived from the Greek sarkophagos, "flesh-eater," referring to a stone coffin that devoured its occupant. The notion of a container that would devour the body inside it would have horrified the ancient Egyptians who used the name, "lord of life," because it was meant to protect and preserve the body in perpetuity. I think it is highly probable that the niche was indeed the "sarcophagus", and that the interpretation of this term has changed over millenia.

"The sand could have been used to aid the moving of slabs -the slab sits on top of the sand -The sand is moved away and the slab lowers into place -apparently this was used under the Sphinx for the temples found there "

Another great vid bro!!

Excellent and so informative.

Very nice video, thanks! Sarcophagus, from the Greek, means “flesh eating”, according to the American Heritage Dictionary. And when used in the context of a stone burial box, it means a type of stone that will hasten the decomposition of corpses. Roman historian Pliny the Elder says that the best sarcophagus stone in use in his day could “consume” a corpse in as little as 40 days. My guess is that reducing graveyard smell was the main motivation. Therefore, it does not necessarily refer to a box shaped stone object, but to any stone enclosure you’d put a dead body into. Egyptians, being obsessed with preserving the mortal remains, would naturally be repulsed by we moderns referring to their stone burial boxes as sarcophagi. So, and in line with your theory, your early 1800s dudes, being closer to the origins of the word “sarcophagus”, could have easily thought of both the box in the King’s chamber and the Queen’s chamber niche as sarcophagi. On the other hand, there may be some rich dude, even as I write this, smiling and gently patting the Queen’s chamber box-like sarcophagus in his secret lair. A Queen’s sarcophagus would naturally be smaller, because it’s for a female and would be of a size that could fit inside of the short original tunnel at the back of the niche and would not be elaborated upon too greatly by its discoverer since they, or parties soon after them, hauled it up and out in the dead of night to be sold on the black market.

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Excellent work, exciting to follow!

The BEST Footage of the Pyramids I ever saw, Also VERY Interesting info Mate
Your Brother from Downunder
Peter

I think you might be right with the sarcophagus theory. When looking at the niche with the tunnel visible, well, it look more like a tunnel than a sarcophagus. But on the old photos, half filled with sand and stones, it looks much more like a ( not fully excavated) sarcophagus than I expected. Since both reports you mentioned, were written during Vyse's excavation work in front of the niche, it is likely, that some debris would have been deposited inside the tunnel and after the backfill, left there.

The objective analysis of this channel is stunningly good.

Much appreciated. Another excellent video.

Cheers bro, nice work!

Sure would like to hear your thoughts on The Queens Chamber, sand and other anomalies/finds your saving for a future presentation. Perhaps you may leave add that to the heading of your future disclosures (?).
Thanks man

eagerly waiting for this.
to watch repeatedly.

Excellent. Keep up the good work. Bought one of your sweatshirts.

Excellent analysis, as usual! Thank you for the time and efforts you put into these videos, in order that we don't take our history of granite lightly!! :)
@12:26 there is a picture of the niche (left side) and an adjacent wall, (right of niche), at the cornering wall. It has a chunk of rock etched out of it. Were there "facing" stones lining the walls of the chamber, and one was removed, or is it a section of stone block randomly burrowed into, to a depth of 4-5 inches?? Have not seen any description, or discussion of this interesting anomaly in that area. Perhaps it is nothing..??

Fascinating information 🙂

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Again an excellent analysis! Thank you for the effort you put into it. :)) There might be an additional explanation as to why the early explorers saw a sarcophagus in the structures. How boring is an empty queens chamber? So this structure has to be a sarcophagus for readers to be excited. We see the same principle in the media today. ;)

interesting analysis. Thanks for sharing

Pretty convinced Hawas is a real life cinematic villain; secreting away and gate keeping a great deal of Egypt’s history!!

What, wait, at 1:36 people carried tables and chairs up there!
I would have trouble carrying myself up to the top. But what a picnic that would of been, lucky ducks
I have never been there and all I have to compare the great Pyramid to is The Sydney Harbour bridge which I have been to the top of its mighty arch many times(for a while the biggest steel arch bridge in the world) and that is an engineering marvel to see from the top and I am mighty proud my fellow countryman built and about the same height as the great Pyramid and that huge stack of stone was built 45 centuries ago, so they tell us.
Amazing, stupendous just WOW
BTW, I have watched a lot of this stuff and this this perhaps the best presentation of all. You ask questions without answers and that is beauty of it.
Another thing. you mentioned around 2:42 that they are, in my words keeping things close to their chest.
Can you really blame them when over the centuries their heritage was plundered. The British Museum would be the last plunders.
Now I wait to be told that the Egyptians plundered from surrounding countries like Syria all those years ago.

Absolutely Utterly Fascinating

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Fantastic thanks man very interesting 👍

Thanks for sharing your research! I look forward to your videos and am impressed with your work. I can’t remember what you thought the pyramids were built for and why the great pyramid has so many mathematical and scientific formulas built in? How old do you think Giza is? I love listening and learning what serious researchers think they are, when, and who built them. Looking forward to your next video! ⚡️🌎⚡️🐄🌔🌎⚡️

Imho it looks as if the second sarcophagus was turned upside down and put in the excavation hole ( this would account for the discrepancy in depth ) in order that if anyone say the prince came along and re opened the excavation the bottom of the sarcophagus would appear to be a soild block therfore making it look like he was telling the truth this would also explain the large amount of rubble left over in the picture reportedly taken shortly after !

Extremely interesting, thank you.

Thank you for sharing some great information and research. Do you know if there has been any translations of the hieroglyphs that are inscribed on the top face of the exposed blocks that are visible at the top of the Great Pyramid ? I saw a short video of someone hang gliding over the top of the pyramid and the camera clearly captures those hieroglyphs, I tried searching for any further information but I have had no luck so far. Thank you again 🙏

Excellent discussion 👍

Such refreshing intellect on pyramid info, love it.

Great video. Well done Sir

Hello there again. I am going to take a "wild card" from the "Monopoly" board and give it my best guess. I may end up in "jail" but, ...here's my take on this highly intriguing subject.
After watching this wonderful video over and over several times, I have a "hypothesis". It's in two parts.
1.) There was a Sarcophagus, BUT, (someone) messed up and broke it during their excavations. Our friends Al Adrizi, Weiss, Caviglia and Petri were not the first to enter the Great Pyramid as we know. (Not to mention the Circus Performer, Barzoni or Barboni, I can't recall, who was notorious for not being the most "gentle" or methodical of treasure hunters.)
Over the millennia, who can say how many attempts were made to plunder the monument? Anyway, I believe the Sarcophagus was damaged and ended up as rubble. Who wants to come home to the British Museum with a pile of scrap and claim "It really is a Sarcophagus, if they just glue it together again?" Embarrassing, what?
2.) From the photographic evidence, one can estimate the the space in the Niche to be approximately large enough for a "modern" person to lay down horizontally. Approximately 5.5 Ft. from the photos. If this was truly a "Queen's" chamber / Sarcophagus / Niche, then I submit that it may have been a small Sarcophagus, as the average height of Ancient Peoples was less than that of the modern person. It therefore may have fit into the Niche horizontally more like an alter with the god peering from behind over the box, protecting it. So, to get deeper into the Niche, where they perhaps suspected to find "Booty", they may have attempted to move it and broke it in the process. All the rubble in the Niche, which we see in the photos, may actually be in part, the Sarcophagus itself?
Do I go to "Jail" now? I can't wait to read your take on this and your upcoming special video. Thanks.

So fascinating. 👌

When I look at it, I can almost see where a statue was. I can't prove a statue was there but I can easily imagine what it looked like if it was there. I just see how thin the space is top down. So doub crown, head, shoulders, sitting on throne, legs and a square base that prob had all his names and info. I def wish I could go back in time and take a look. I have a good feeling that the outside of the pyramid especially towards the bottom prob had a bunch of hieroglyphics on the casing stones explaining so many answers to questions we ask now. The Great Pyramid is my favorite thing on Earth.

I've recently found your channel and I am binge watching. I have no prior knowledge other than the basics I were taught in school so all this is new to me. I didn't know there were discussions about coffins and such the only thing I've been hearing about now and then is about ramps. My only question about your conclusion is that he wrote that the coffin was open and empty. If he had seen a closed coffin it would fit your conclusion but could he really misstake that niche stone for an open and empty coffin?

This is great. I am just a novice or hobbyist, but I reall appreciate your chanel.

Is there any way to use ground-penetrating radar or satellite imagery to hint at what lays below the ground for the entire site around the Great Pyramid?

Fantastic. Thank you.

Yay! More Pyramid! I promise not to beg for more for at least a couplel weeks.

Random question here - Are there any conclusions that can be drawn from the necessary lighting needs to see and measure the interior. For everything so precisely assembled, I doubt it could happen by torch light... Some things we truly don't understand their precision until using very modern means of measurements.

Great work!

Amazing info enjoy it ❤

I read the page with Viscino's description that you show at 11:00 and as a native german speaker I think that it is very unlikely that what Viscino describes there is what we see today. Let me explain why.
1.) Viscino writes that the sarcophagus is "standing (!) on (!) the eastern wall, largely (!) in the same". If he was refering to the square cavity, this choice of words would be very crude and make little sense. The square cavity is not "on" but "in" the eastern wall and not "largely" but completly and the cavity is not "standing" at all. If he meant the cavity, you would expect a description along the line of "a sarcophagus was carved into the wall".
2.) Why would he assume that the cavity is a sarcophagus? The sarcophagus in the King's chamber is very clearly a sarcophagus, but while the square cavity could potentially be closed and used to store a corpse, it is far from obvious that this was the case and he would indulge in speculation there which does not seem to be in line with the rest of his purely descriptive text.
3.) His description of the sarcophagus as "standing somewhat smaller [...] open, empty, simple" refers back to the sarcophagus that he had seen in the King's Chamber before. Note that in this case the words "standing open, empty, simple" make perfect sense and are a very clear description of what we see in the King's chamber today. So when we take this context into account, the most likely interpretation of his words is that the sarcophagus in the Queen's Chamber is just like the one in the King's chamber except that it is "somewhat smaller" and standing largely inside a niche. But if he was refering to the square cavity assuming that this cavity was used as a sarcophagus, then comparing this sarcophagus to the one in King's chamber without mentioning the huge differences between these two completly different kinds of sarcophagi seems very strange and unlikely.
4.) The last paragraph of the page begins with "Above (!) the sarcophagus a shaft leads into the eastern wall." If he saw the square cavity as the sarcophagus, this description would make no sense. What he would have written in this case would be something like "behind the sarcophagus" or "at the other end of the sarcophagus".
5.) If he saw not the the square cavity itself as the sarcophagus, but the floor of the cavity as the lid of a sarcophagus, he could not have written that the sarcophagus was empty.
To sum up, for your interpretation to make sense, you have to assume that Viscino's account is very crude, unprecise and speculative, and that assumption does not seem to be in line with the rest of his text.
Edit: 6.) The kind of tomb that you think Viscino saw is called "Backofengrab" ("oven grave") in German and would never be called a sarcophagus, especially not by a priest. A sarcophagus is always a
(at least potentially) free standing stone box.

Man, when you mentioned the sarcophagus lost at sea I remembered a scene of that from a movie I couldn't remember... it was "The Old Guard" with Charlize Theron, they slap someone in an iron maiden and toss her overboard to drown over and over again, yikes!!!!

You could also conclude that European catacombs might have influenced an explorer's idea of what a sarcophagus was. Grave niches underground would not have been an unusual practice in their minds and the niche tunnel in the Queen's Chamber could have been seen as a similar style to other examples in Europe.

Keep up the work.

great video, thanks

Just completed my 10th - 7 yr. circuit around the sun this month.
Bought the ''Secrets Of The Great Pyramid'' by Peter Thompkins @ age 22 back in 1973, & have studied & referred to it's logic & mathematics many times over ever since.
The most Integral explorer in my opinion, was Flinders Petrie.

Love this channel

Given that the Kings Chamber has a reliving chamber on top of it. It could be that a similar such an structure exists below both chambers to support them? Indeed most internal diagrams of the pyramid do not show any internal structure other than a possible profile of the original bed rock. My thought with the sand is that perhaps the internal structure are also large granite slabs with similar voids, but the voids were filled with sand.

Niche better rhyme with quiche when it's pronounced 😁. Kidding aside, looking forward to watching this. Your videos are top notch.