After watching footage from the recent lecture by Zahi Hawass, I had to try and understand why he believes there is something hidden below the Queen’s Chamber of the Great Pyramid.
This chamber has always been the most fascinating for me but I wanted to know why Dr. Hawass believes something unconventional – why he believes the King’s Chamber was not the burial chamber of King Khufu.
I believe Hawass must take seriously the work of Gilles Dormion, because inside his 2004 book, ‘La Chambre de Cheops’, Dormion details a hypothesis, combining logic, physical observations, geophysics and a deep knowledge of pyramids and the Old Kingdom, to pinpoint the true burial chamber of the famous Old Kingdom king.
The hypothesis is fascinating and believable and although I only present a snapshot of the evidence in this video, you can see how Dormion formulates a very credible argument.
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The one thing about your delivery that drives me nuts, is that you always leave the ends of your sentences dangling in the air like a question…
Making your statements sound incomplete.
You really ought to work on that so that you do not sound "stilted"
All this work for a tomb? I still very much doubt it.
Seems if there were hieroglyphics in the chambers , they would have been chiseled in the wall. Seems it would have been first class.
How do they know the cracks in the beams above the King's chamber were cracked during construction? Perhaps, if this is some kind of machine, then the cracks formed from excessive use.
i so hope Dr Zahi Hawass finds evidence of a khufu burial dont you
“Is Khufu still inside the pyramid?” Wow, that sunk…
The pyramids were not burial tombs.
Fantastic!
Wow, this would be absolutely amazing if it turned out to be true! Especially if the tomb was still intact! Absolute respect to Khufu's architects and engineers if they managed to pull this off! Well, absolute respect to them anyway. 😄
First there was a secret chamber here, then there, then here, then there… like bruh… who cares
Let’s figure this out and dig!
You lost me when you started refering to the chambers in the pyramid as burial chambers. You have to stop promoting the lie that the pyramid is a tomb. There is no evidence proving that it's a tomb but there is plenty of evidence that it was a type of power station.
I'm so happy to year 2004 knowledge since watch every thing lately.
Great video really revived my interests. Would you consider doing a video on Dr Zahi Hawass?
Hi Matt how are you there
What happened when we blow air at the joint of stons ? It passes through it or reflect?
If you look at the research done by History for Granite and your research is there an entrance to a tunnel beneath the queens chamber behind the 3 granite blocks in the descending passage which if you follow a straight horizontal line for the granite box goes straight through the well passage directly in line with the grotto in the well passage. Just an observation that my be worth further research.
Before anyone ever gets in those chambers, Hawass will be sure to clean them out like the corrupt criminal he is. it wouldn't be his first time.
The "niche" was also probably excavated out of the flat wall by the tomb robbers
This is the dumbest theory I’ve ever heard unbelievably lacking logic and reason what a joke
This is the dumbest story I’ve ever heard
Why does this guy talk in such an annoying way lol
Excellent work. Sounds like they lowered a false floor to hide the real chamber. So fascinating
The floors of both the Kings and Queens chambers always appeared to be filled holes to me because the weight the walls would have to support need to connect somehow with the bedrock directly or indirectly so the level of the floor has to be brought up with fill during construction. That makes the niche being a relieving structure kind of making sense. It's probably why a lot of entrances into such areas are kept as small as possible unlike chambers that are cut into the bedrock.
You would think though to make it less obvious they would have used massing lintel blocks. Perhaps that's why those that dug into it went so far, maybe that though it might have been a corbeled gallery like the grand gallery that had been filled up.
The megalithic pyramids along the Nile had a piezoelectric function and definitely served a pragmatic purpose, perhaps to actually house and preserve the souls of the pharaohs which is not too far fetch when you take into account all the details of the necropolis at the plateau
OMG! In Anton Parks' book "Awakening the Phoenix" written in 2010, but recently published in English, Figures 38, and 44 show a an odd slab in the floor of the Queen's chamber of the Great Pyramid. He references Gilles Dormion, (from Chamber of Cheops, 2004), and shows a drawing of the slab (in the floor) having "about ten notches" on parallel sides, suggesting it was lifted multiple times, to, in his conjecture, reveal a staircase leading to other rooms which exist below that chamber. It would be so wild if this ended up being the case!
Super interesting that I was reading this section of the book, and then saw your video, Matt!
Great video! The content here is well worth a high end production. On that note, my opinion on Zahi Hawass is that he plays his part perfectly; it only adds to the excitement to have a character being "the gatekeeper", possibly knowing something we don't. I mean, who else than him would play that role anyway, given he is the guy having access to all the information available. Seeing him being onto this theory is now super exciting!
Imagine if he's still down there 4500 years later…
Why the king"s chamber has so called stronger roof than queen's one? The lower the more pressure, right?
Words are not enough to express how great this video is – this goes deep into the emotions. Spectacular job!
Burial chamber? C'mon, there was no Burial in those pyramids, and you know it.
ancient Architects, what do you think the liklihood of this being the case under the 2nd pyramid.
Also, I imagine it would be difficult for muon sensors placed in sub-terrainian-chamber to find some of these voids under the queens chamber?
Amazing video as always!
Seems to me, after watching a lot of material, that at least the rough picture is something like this:
1. The pyramid is a burial site, constructed during several decades. Because of this, several backup plans existed, covering premature death (underground burial), structural failure, deception,…
2. The logical picture seems to be that the burial proceeded through the now obstructed main entrance upwards to the king's chamber. There is ample evidence of this passage, from outside stones indicating entrance, through voids discovered by muon scanning to the inside removable block behind the sarcophagus.
3. After the official burial (or even during itself), the second, secret transfer took place. They took the body secretly out of the sarchopagus, then passed it out of the king's chamber through the opening that is now the main entrance to this chamber, down the grand gallery all the way to the queen's chamber, where the real tomb was.
4. All the passages to the queen's chamber were blocked off, thus sealing that chamber completely inside the pyramid. The king's chamber was still accesible via the main entrance, but the currently open hole was blocked via portcullis system and the final granite block.
5. Thinking from this (reverse) perspective, the portcullis, the heavy granite blocks in the ascending passage and the subtle masking of horizontal passage to the queen's chamber make much more sense.
6. Thus in the ancient times, two rooms were accesible: the underground chamber via a straight descending passage and the king's chamber via the now "lost" ascending passage. Queen's chamber would have been completely hidden (including the "ventilation" channels) whereas the decoy king's chamber would look like the real, but possibly plundered, burial place. The ventilation shafts in the king's chamber left open, since it was not necessary to hide them. Being conduits for the soul, they could be safely sealed off in the queen's chamber.
But since the Pyramid was forcefully entered by blasting with dynamite, we now enjoy the "reverse" perspective of it as compared to the ancient times. I think the main problem was created when ancient entrance became obstructed (perhaps as a consequence of a cave-in because of an erthquake?) and then people started looking for alternate routes. Before that i suspect the deception worked as intended.
Perhaps studying interiors of hindu temples would be helpful,since they have many common features to other
Pyre – amids ( fire in the centre)
This is one of the most interesting posts I've ever seen so thanks.
Pyramids were not built to be tombs.
I think its pretty obvious that Hawass has no intention of making any discoveries public as he wont even clear garbage from many popular sites or the pit under the pyramid.
His intention for holding back progress is becoming just as big a mystery as the the pyramids themselves.
Evidence the Great Pyramid of Giza served as a dynastic Egyptian tomb is not only completely absent but counter indicated.
The PEECH hypothesis of the Great Pyramid of Giza is strongly supported by evidence, physics and chemistry
Burial chambers, again?
Nope! "Convoluted" is a great adjective to describe this theory.
Them marks are on top of the actual pyramid top outside them depressions are the same ie capstone is missing an now we know for fact that there was some type of cover cap inside the queens chamber I’ll look for the pictures an send them
What makes you think it's a burial chamber?
The idea of the passages we see and use today being access tunnels for the mechanics of the real passageways and chambers makes more sense than anything I have ever heard before.
One story I have heard of long ago was that the Kings chamber had a functioning door at the small end of the sarcophagus near the wall, and when you look at the wall, there is a stone in the wall that is about the same size as the sarcophagus. Where it went and all was never mentioned, other than another room.
But if I were a god/king, you could bet your last dollar, I would not be crawling on my hands and knees to see my eternal resting place! The passages I would be carried down would be full of murals and texts, statuary and carvings, not bare walls and featureless rooms!
I suspect the real rooms and tunnels would be lavish and well made for my tomb, while the work passages to hide the mechanisms would be plain and unadorned.
Which is why I think the secrets of the pyramids is still a secret, and the tunnels and rooms we see are just the 'behind the scenes' areas where the magic was performed. The only way we will ever reveal the real use of the pyramids will be when we disassemble them stone by stone, down to the bedrock!
How did so much salt get into the queens chamber?!
There are still to many questions yet to be answered. I think they need to keep looking.
Looks like we're getting somewhere, especially coming from Hawass of all people, hope he's right
Salt encrustation on the walls requires moisture. One possible source is the bat infestation reported by early travelers, but unlikely given that Petrie reported seeing the process start on a spot on the niche wall, if my memory serves. The nearest source of moisture is the "underground river" that you have mentioned in other videos, so the detection noted may simply be the selfsame "underground river" .
This itself may be an artificial channel, given that the archaeologist Lepre measured the large stone in the grotto and found that it was too large to have been transported by the tunnels up into the pyramid or down into the underground chamber. It's also interesting to note that Caviglia reported finding four large stones, demolishing three and leaving one as a sample. As to the purpose of deliberately introducing moisture to the Queen's Chamber, one of the arguments against the pyramid chambers being other than burial chambers is that carbon dioxide from human respiration would render them uninhabitable due to lack of ventilation. Moisture should counteract this by reacting with the carbon dioxide and limestone, removing the carbon dioxide from the air. This will induce wear in the limestone surface, perhaps explaining the state of the limestone floor in the Queen's Chamber. The flaw in this theory is that the carbon dioxide is removed, but no provision is made for replenishment of the oxygen used up by human respiration. Another possible purpose of an underground source of water is based on my recollection that many ancient buildings are built over underground rivers, but is highly speculative and therefore I will not go into it here. Keep up the informative videos, much appreciated…
incredible! I'm spellbound by this.