Who were the first people inside the Great Pyramid? How did they get in? | Lines in Sand

Great channel 👏 subbed! Do I detect a Cardiff accent?

The blocking stone that fell down the passageway is in the pit in the subterranean chamber

What's your email addy so I can send you a couple photos

Great video! I watch pyramid videos every day and this one is now at the top of my list!

I've been a Khufu freak for years now. Enjoyed your video, and I have a few things for you.

It's believed due to anecdotal evidence, probably collected via early guides for tourists that the pyramid had been looted in antiquity. I think you're correct that the original entrance was the one used first. I believe the entrance was designed to be somewhat concealed but was well known and used. My personal belief is that the original door broke from overuse as It would not be designed to be opened and closed hundreds on hundreds of times.

I also think the entire confusion here is an artifact of the massive earthquake that tore most of the casing stones from the great pyramid. Perhaps someone carved the robbers tunnel because the earthquake blocked the original for a time? The earthquake, clearing of stones and repurposing of them is somewhat of a grey fog for us. Imagine if we had even one photograph from it's aftermath. The notch in my opinion, is a turning station for stones that, due to some miscalculation, drifted too close to the corner and then was dressed with casing stones only, as there wasn't enough room to enclose it with core stones as were done in the others.

This building is beautiful in how it captures our imaginations. My obsession began when I started realizing how long ago 4500 years really is.
I have my own completely fleshed out theory as to the construction and will look forward to conversing on your future videos.

Nice new Channel. Good luck for growing…

A terrific video to start your channel. I loved it and look forward to enjoying more of your work in the future. I'm sure there are plenty more secrets the Great Pyramid has yet to give up, and it will be interesting to hear your thoughts on what some of those might be. In the meantime, I would like to congratulate the Caliph Al-Ma'mun for balancing a gigantic pumpkin on his head as evidenced by one of the images in your video 🙂

Love it bro

I liked this.
However, one thing that needs to be pointed out here is, with lots of things Egyptian, you do get the " conspiracy theory" brigade as well as the more ludicrous "Ancient Aliens Regiment". People never seem to be satisfied with the actual work of qualified Egyptologists even though there's been a wealth of findings to do with "Akhet Khufu" in recent times including the oldest known papyrus recently found that tells of the transportation of stone to the pyramid site from a port on the Red Sea (" The Red Sea Scrolls,", well worth checking out. Work done by Pierre Tallet and Mark Lehner.). Back to the point though. There is always going to be speculation on things to do with Egyptian Pyramids and a lot of that speculation will be ridiculous with no sound academic foundation. The reason is actually very simple…. It is hideously difficult to do exploratory work on The Pyramids ( other than mapping or surveying) which would involve physically moving stone or drilling holes or to do anything that might possibly compromise the structure. If everyone and their dog were given permissions to do such destructive work you'd end up with no recognisable pyramid at all. It took years for permissions to be granted for The Scan Pyramids Project. All sorts of guarantees and undertakings had to be agreed to just to get work started. And THAT was completely non destructive. The Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt are extremely protective of their heritage. No wonder when you consider the plundering and destruction caused by Europeans in the 18th, 19th, and early 20th century in the name of ( what they called) "Science" ( lol). Of course, there were exceptions like Petrie etc but, there were many more who were little better than "Treasure Hunters".
So, as long as we can keep these studies on a reasonably modern scientific and educational basis I think this channel could be well worth taking note of.
Mentioning the extremely good work by Keith Hamilton is certainly a big plus.
I look forward to some serious academic studies . Hopefully without Aliens from Alpha Centauri.

Robbers Tunnel is obviously an outlet, not an inlet. The chances of randomly selecting a location to enter that happens to be so near the crux of the ascending and descending channels is essentially zero.

Just wanted to say I really enjoyed your video and looking forward to seeing more.
Al-Ma_muons.
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obviously just speculation, but i feel strongly that all the pyramids were robbed in the first intermediary period by people with intimate knowledge of the pyramids' construction. As to why ancient accounts don't explore the upper chambers – I don't know. But given what we know, for instance how actively the pyramids were quarried in ancient times, it doesn't make sense to me that no one would have tried to get up into the upper chambers. It does seem likely that the tunnel was dug from the inside or ar least with the knowledge of the inner layout, however what could they have wanted to remove from the pyramid? You postulate the sarcophagus' lid, which is likely to have happened, but was that reason enough to dig the tunnel?

Oh, ya he stole it. It’s in the print!