Was the Well-Shaft of the Great Pyramid a backdoor?
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- 게시일 2024. 04. 19.
- The Great Pyramid of Giza is filled with unique features that add to the mystery of its design. A long, narrow passageway known as the ‘well-shaft’ connects the upper chambers and corridors to the bottom of a deep excavation beneath the pyramid.
The original purpose for the Well-Shaft is a topic of controversy, and many researchers use it as a ‘get-out-of-jail-free’ card for design theories that would otherwise not make sense.
One of the most popular explanations for the Well-Shaft is how the Great Pyramid was originally sealed by workers escaping through it, and also that it was a point of entry for early looters from Antiquity.
This video explores the design and functionality of the Well-Shaft, and puts the theory of a ‘sneaky back-door’ to the test.
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0:00 Intro
0:50 Well-Shaft excuses
1:39 Lacking photographs
2:11 Top of the well
3:36 Upper section
3:59 Grotto
4:55 Lower section
5:23 Bottom of the well
5:55 Potential functions
7:03 Climbing the well
8:38 Closing the well
11:13 Robber's tunnel
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He stays within the utterly debunked orthodox story of the pyramids so no he isn’t. He’s a historian with one eye closed. Which is why all his videos struggle to make sense of observable evidence . They do not fit the story he is forced to support
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Damn, this channel is great. For a couple of years I’ve been on and off obsessed with this subject and it’s so hard to avoid all the woo woo theories.
These are so well produced, evidence based theories, with no BS….I love it.
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its refreshing to get some good videos on pyramids that avoid all that nonsense. have been interested for a while and was put off videos on pyramids for that reason. happy to find this channel.
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When the ancient architects concur we can be safer in a consensus of opinion.
Matt having a geological education brings added gravitas to an already cogent explanation.
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65 years ago I saw a picture of the Pyramids for the first time on fine milled semi gloss pages of an encyclopedia that my older cousin had just received from her parents to help with school work.
It has been a fascination ever since . Up to the present time I have listened to, heard , and read about many theories from the over simplistic to the most outlandish relative to their intended purpose .What they could be , how they were breeched for the first time . You analysis is well structured , concise and imbued of the commonsense that too often is missing from the multitude of theories that litter about .
I retired in 2016 from a multi disciplined engineering career, and had planned to finally visit them in 2018 person but deferred to go in 2019, hoping to test my opinion and theory about them through on site observation such as non archeologists are allowed . My bad luck , the worldwide plague that is
COVID , hit humanity , resembling a more manageable version of the middle ages bubonic plague... perhaps I will get my wish as soon as this insanity is yesterday`s news .
I wanted my own set of encyclopedias very badly when I was a kid in the 80s. They sold them door to door and they were outrageous! I guess I got my wish with the internet. I hope you get to visit the pyramids, I'd love to do the same sometime.
Great video. I've always been fascinated by the well shaft, and surprised that it seems to get almost no attention at all. One of the things that I find interesting about it is that it seems to be simultaneously both very deliberately constructed and roughly constructed. So it's unlikely to be the work of some robber trying to break in. But it also lacks the smooth finish of the other passageways, including the recently explored "air shafts." So it's an outlier. I've also heard conflicting stories about whether the above-the-bedrock parts of it were carved after-the-fact out of the limestone blocks, or whether it was in the original original construction. I really wish someone would do a modern exploration of it, so that we can all get a good read on what it looks like.
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It’s so much more interesting watching videos explaining parts of the pyramids and their discovery in detail with actual reference material instead of just 20 drone shots and a voiceover saying trite things we all know “very old, very mysterious, built with x amount blocks yada yada”. Great work. This is a great digestion of actual material regarding that pyramids that can otherwise be a bit dry for the lay person. This is what asking questions actually looks like, not like the rhetorical questions asks by people like Hancock.
There are thousands of Pyramid videos on youtube - both conservative and woo-woo. Yours are by far the best of them all. Thank you!
The only other sensible one is Ancient Architects.
Another excellent, well-reasoned and presented video. Thank you for making these. They really are fascinating, informative and entertaining.
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🙂 Thank you for the amount of work you put into preparing your concise, picture assisted findings. You have certainly added to my being able to visualise your analysis of what was, and is. With deep thanks, Ray ! 🙂
Another fantastic video! As an aside, it never ceases to amaze me that persons visiting an ancient monument would leave so much trash and litter lying about, and that the authorities ’protecting’ these places seem to do little to ensure that it is promptly removed! That’s Egypt I guess.
In the Sumerian text they tell the story of Marduk being trapped down there by Enlil or a son of Enlil, and was rescued by his father Enki by opening this tunnel to bypass the blockage.
I really believe that we are in a golden age of discovery. Whether it's about the Giza pyramids, or Egypt in general, or esoterica, or alchemy, or history in general, or whatever, I feel that we are breaking through centuries of stasis and are now advancing more than we have for an age. It's truly an exciting time to be alive.
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Your videos make clear why it is important to receive information from teachers who have properly evaluated the evidence before drawing conclusions. Thank you for you line of inquiry!
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9:44 You could totally slide a block down from above to block it off. The bottom of the block does not need to be square like that since it is obscured by the rest of the floor. It only needs to be flat against whatever it's sitting on. It could have had rounded or chamfered off bottom edges and they could have pulled on the top of the stone and wedged it into the slot holding it upright with ropes. Maybe the chamfered bottom edge was actually visible or damaged after they set it and that's why robbers were able to identify that it was covering something up?
I love your videos, glad I found them, too often these types of videos leave me rolling my eyes, this is a huge W. I think you should do a video on tooling and quarrying methods
The Well Shaft was the original entrance to the Subterranean Chamber before any structure was erected over it. It was a cleft in the rock, and navigating through it was a part of receiving shamanic initiation in the womb of the Earth.
Initiations went on for thousands of years, the site becoming more developed, building over existing structures so that the Queen's Chamber's shafts no longer reach the outside of the once-smaller pyramid's exterior.
Interesting.
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Another excellent video! Thanks for all your hard work and research on one of my favourite subjects!
Again a good video.
We do know in the new kingdom that the priests themselves organised some tomb robberies as they have found written evidence to this effect.
It also strikes me that ‘the Kings chamber was designed to be re entered as it is closed off by a portcullis system.This is a system designed to be raised as well as lowered.
It would have been far easier to use a massive blocking plug if you wanted a one off seal..
yea a mechanism long disappeared. imagine moving walls in a temple - so much "easier" -
Can't wait to hear/see the next chapter!
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Well thought out and articulated. Common sense and an open mind are powerful tools in deciphering what has taken place here. Nice work.
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It's good to see the actual forensics of stone fracturing included in an analysis of the pyramids.
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Excellent content...Great interest in the coming explanation concerning the robber's tunnel.
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I hope you and your workers have no claustrophobia as I could not do this! Amazing!
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TY for clearing this up. For a long time i thought the well shaft was part of the original construction of the pyramid, but with these pictures you showed us it seems obvious it was an improvised yet very well calculated descending gallery made by intrepid tomb robbers.
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Other thoughts: perhaps the Grotto was a repository for ritual objects or items used for mummification. We saw this in the latest discovery in the Valley of the Kings. A ritual object storage chamber.
Also, plausibly the lower granite plugged corridor in the pyramid was an extension of whatever mechanical system was used in the Grand Gallery to hoist people and materials upwards into the pyramid, such as a counterweight chamber for a heavy wooden flat ascending and descending platform, like a warehouse elevator, moving up and down the Grand Gallery and carrying cargo and people from the now plugged entry tunnel at the north end of the Grand Gallery up to the King's Chamber platform, and then from that upper platform back down again to the base of the Grand Gallery.
The lower counter diagonal corridor leading to the sloping corridor below has the same slope as the Grand Gallery and exists perhaps because it was part of the whole elevating system, and incidentally this corridor is of a similar length as the Gallery sloping above. I admit I haven't worked out completely how this mechanism worked, but it was surely not as Mr. Houdin has described, who must be credited in any case for highlighting the basic idea. In the meantime, where did these blocks and others come from in the first place, if not in the pyramid front door above? So perhaps Al-Ma'mun's workers broke into the elevator counterweight system when they tunneled past the granite blocks (and by the way discovered a long-time empty pyramid inside).
Another thought I can't help thinking. Egyptologists say the Old Kingdom possessed no knowledge of the wheel. But the reconstruction of the mechanism used to lower the portcullises at the King's Chamber shows rolling cylinders as part of the mechanism. I am probably never going to argue the point exhaustively on such a broad issue, but even despite the ancient depictions of statuary being moved by sled and the presence of a sled in the Cairo museum, did it never occurred to any of these very bright people to use a wheel or rolling logs over the course of centuries to move objects? Scott Zema BA MA Architecture and Art History
Well, you pointed to some interessting points here
But if the main corridore was already sealed, how did they have light to work?
Torches or other burning would have left soot on the ceilings, but there is no soot.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex would they have known a way to reflect light internally ?
@@Rusty_Gold85 Mirrors were my first thought but they were quite valued by those people so they would have taken good care of them and preserved them but we haven't found any in the sizes or quantities required to get light clear into the deepest grottos and chambers.
You would think that people who worshipped a sun god would have wanted actual sun rays so mirrors would be logical yet there are no artifacts or records of something like this that had deep religious significance.
A lot of egyptologists (professional, not amateur) are stuck in their thinking so badly, they can never see any other possibility for something, as what was thought to them. Or they have a finacial stake in keeping it this way. Most of them I dont listen to, so it would be very possible they had some kind of wheel.
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I hope that when you create your next video on the Robbers' Tunnel, you explore the possibility that the only "treasure" they left with was the lid of the "King's Chamber" sarcophagus, which explains why the "turn" in the tunnel was so much wider than needed for individuals.
You might also want to investigate the mysterious looting that took place in a single night during the Arab Spring in 2010, when a well-financed group, supported with armed mercenaries in black and using heavy equipment, located a rectangular item not far from the Great Pyramid onto a flat bed truck, and disappeared from site.
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One of the most obvious things to me since I was much younger looking at prints of the interior of the pyramid is how the discovered interior spaces are almost certainly auxiliary ones.
At this point, I think the biggest obstacle to further discovery is propaganda and/or state obfuscation due to reliance on tourism & merchandise.
They went to a lot of trouble to fake going to the moon and still try to hold on to those lies, nothing is out of the question and answers are still wanting.
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Looking at the sheer angles of descent and length of the well shaft, it strikes me that this shaft was not dug from the bottom up. To wield hammers and chisels UPWARDS for that whole length of shaft would entail absolutely unimaginable hard work and a very, very long time to accomplish. Even assuming that the fittest strongest men around dug it, how long would they swing a heavy hammer upwards into the stone, only achieving tiny amounts before they were tired beyond endurance? The very task would destroy the heart of any worker almost immediately.
Even working in continuous rotation upwards would entail a crowd of workers all being down there at once, constantly stopping to change- and one worker coming down a ladder and one going up it, to do his tiny little part until he is knackered, and so on. For literally years. I would love to see anyone try and replicate a group of workers digging a shaft upwards through the stone work. Even the fittest of people wouldn’t get much done at all before they were too fatigued to carry on. The difference between digging a shaft from the top down, and digging one from the bottom up, must be immense.
Not to mention the digger getting hit by every chunk of rock he managed to dislodge if digging above the head. And remember that the 'unfinished' chamber and likely most (if not all) of the digging in the bedrock was finished before they built the pyramid above it.
@@recoilrob324 yeah imagine the stuff going into a persons eyes? I worked with a builder and I was chiselling concrete and I got a bit lodged into my cornea. A few hours later it was absolute agony. Any kind of light was agony. The doctor put a numbing solution into my eye but couldn’t dig it out with a needle. I had to go into a hospital in Edinburgh and have an operation to remove the tiny piece of concrete. Doctor said if it’s went through into my eye I would’ve lost my eye. He said he gets people in with metal filings in the eye from angle grinders, they use a strong magnet to pull those out, but concrete? Completely different. That tunnel would’ve blinded thousands of men. Unless they worked with a cloth over their eyes blind! In which case it would take double the time to hack it out. It has to have been done from the top down surely.
Even digging down with simple hand tools would be a monumental task, it would need a work crew on constant rotation with all waste being removed from the tunnel ,how long would it have taken? Maybe a year ? And how does ventilation work when they had to use lamps to see what they are doing.
Also if this is a robbers tunnel how did they gain access to the pyramid in order to excavate this tunnel? I thought the pyramid was sealed until the entrance was blown up with dynamite ?
let us all not forget . how did they do all this work in the darkness? torches ?
@@johnnycash3117 yeah that too. There couldn’t have been ANY air to breathe deep inside there digging upwards with a hammer and chisel breathing in oil lamp smoke the whole time! Blindfolded against stone chips! Would take a team of men so long that they’d still be building it today and we could just ask them what it’s for!
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Great share sir! A backdoor hmmm... 🤔. Thanks!🙏
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It annoys the shit out of me that those monuments are not scanned for everyone to virtually explore.
I would take not a day for a single person to scan the internel space of a pyramid... (without the well, that would be probably a bit harder)
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Can't wait to see your analysis on looters entrance.
The well shaft was likely part of original construction. The subterranean chambers were usually dug first, so the descending passage and well shaft existed before blocks were made. As they laid courses of blocks they were able to extend the well shaft to the bottom of the grand gallery. It likely served as a secondary entrance for workers digging the subterranean chamber or a design change was made once they started digging and the descending passage was the finished route.
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Great video! To me it seems plausible that the well shaft was already there when the pyramid was built. Many buildings have been built over old wells or old storage rooms, which have therefore been concealed. There could be hundreds if not thousands of years between the construction of the different parts of the pyramids. Even the well shaft itself could have been extended in the process of building the pyramid. Are there any more clues to what could be the case?
The fact that the upper entrance stones have ben crudely broken open may be evidence that the entire shaft was made by tomb raiders. Then again the perfecty vertical shaft that leads to the "cavern" chamber could have been part of the original design. Hard to know unless we can get some new HD pics of the entire shaft. However i think that the part below the "grotto" looks very rough in schematics so it is probably made by robbers trying to access the secret underground chambers that they had learned from in legends.
Because of multiple great floods, pyramids were cluttered with debris and sand in the lower levels, but there were in antiquity, as we have today, ancient texts that spoke of the lower tunnels and chambers.
I think that the robbers found one of these stories and made a monumental effort to get to the underground chamber. Imagine how many tonnes of earth they had to dig out and lift to the surface in a 50m vertical shaft, just to reach an underground chamber that was also empty. XD
Poor bastards. Still i would love to see that movie.
These pyramids were ancient industrial structures, so they never had anything of value to rob until the pharaos repurposed them and started using them as burial "mounds". But in reality, most of the megalithic pyramids never had anything in them. They once held some machines which eroded away many thousands of years before even the first pharaos started to excavate them.
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Great analysis!
If you believe in the royal circuit theory, the mouth of the well shaft at the base of the grand gallery could be a secondary access point to the royal circuit, running parallel to the existing corridor to the queen's chamber.
The eastern wall of the queen's chamber has non-load-bearing stones just north of the known entrance, which may open the lower arm of the royal circuit.
I have a different theory for the chamber non-load-bearing stones that will be presented later!
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Really love this channel, am always waiting for the next video. Well presented clear concise explanations. One question I have is, I have read that the the chamber in the well shaft is a natural spring and is always damp. Do you think there was a construction around this spring before the pyramid was even built and they built on top of it and incorporated it into it? Really strange layout and construction so many bends and linings etc. maybe it was drainage of the spring water which was more active when they were built.
Surely there would be a puddle or a pool in the subterranean chamber or somewhere else if there was a spring. It seems bone dry in the pyramid and it's underground structures.
@@ThunderboltWisdom apparently it’s not bone dry, can’t remember where I read or seen it but the walls and floor are damp to the touch and never fully dry out as though it’s a spring probably not as active now but in the past it might of been 🤷♂️
Well, that's one of the Great Pyramid's mysteries. Was the Grotto a natural spring? Supposedly it was very wet in there when the early explorers got to it. Some people have made the case that it ties into the ancient Egyptians' creation myth of a mound rising from the waters for the sun god Re to rest on (the pyramid being a representation of the primeval mound).
I know that Matt from AA has proposed this. It's an interesting idea, but I feel that the pyramid being so large that the quality/size of the foundation was the real determining factor. Any moisture that is now inside is certainly from visitor perspiration getting trapped.
As for the walls being damp, that is something I've never heard, but I have heard that they have a layer of salt and minerals on them and that is supposedly something to do with moisture being wicked up from below at some time in the ancient past. So I suppose there may have been a spring at some point in the past as springs do change over time due to underground geological changes. I was of the understanding that the moisture may have come from the Nile, picking up the minerals on the way and depositing them on the inside of the structure. But, again, that is part of the mystery of the Giza plateau. The fact that the Nile has dropped so much away from the site may have stopped all this at some point though.
Like first, watch video second. 😀Thank you for one more video to nourish our hunger for knowledge about the great pyramid.
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I’m looking forward to your next video - I’ve always wondered if “the robbers tunnel” was as a way in the pyramid or was it actually intended as a way out…?
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Dam I was hoping he would be discussing that theory in this video! Can’t wait till next one, maybe 2 videos in one weekend ?
Maybe a feature-length video someday, but for now I've got to keep them in shorter bits for my own sanity, and to try and grow the channel!
one question is why they did a perfect turn left, probably to get something big out and to have less granit in the way to dig?
most digging in the pyramid was focused on by following the so called airshafts out of granit, probably more likely watershafts all lined with granit...
People, it was just an air shaft for the workers to get fresh air. Period. Every mine has an a ventillation shaft. It is simple. No need to overthink...
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Building an enclosed fire at the bottom of the shaft would draw air from the main shaft and supply fresh air for the workers. It has been done many times elsewhere.