Something Inside the Great Pyramid Doesn't Make Sense Anymore
Discovery District
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In March 2023, an endoscope six millimeters wide slipped through a joint in the north face of the Great Pyramid and filmed a corridor nobody had seen in 4,500 years. Nine meters long. Completely empty. And sealed at the far end by two limestone blocks that have never been moved.
It is only the latest space found inside Khufu's pyramid that nobody can fully explain. This is the evidence so far: the Big Void above the Grand Gallery, the sealed doors at the end of the Queen's Chamber shafts, a sarcophagus that has been empty for as long as anyone has recorded, and the logbook of a man who helped build it and says nothing about what is inside.
Chapters
0:00 A camera, a hole, a hidden corridor
1:13 How cosmic rays found it
2:37 What we think we know
3:32 ScanPyramids and the Big Void
5:33 Inside the 2023 corridor
6:16 Merer's logbook: the oldest papyri in Egypt
8:34 The King's Chamber
10:06 The problem with the robbery story
11:19 A second possibility
12:14 The Queen's Chamber and its sealed doors
13:50 How was it built?
17:18 Menkaure: two new voids
18:52 The 30-meter claim
20:03 The king we barely know
21:25 Back to the corridor
22:49 What comes next
#GreatPyramid #AncientEgypt #Archaeology
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Something Inside the Great Pyramid Doesn't Make Sense Anymore
Discovery District
12,903 views
In March 2023, an endoscope six millimeters wide slipped through a joint in the north face of the Great Pyramid and filmed a corridor nobody had seen in 4,500 years. Nine meters long. Completely empty. And sealed at the far end by two limestone blocks that have never been moved.
It is only the latest space found inside Khufu's pyramid that nobody can fully explain. This is the evidence so far: the Big Void above the Grand Gallery, the sealed doors at the end of the Queen's Chamber shafts, a sarcophagus that has been empty for as long as anyone has recorded, and the logbook of a man who helped build it and says nothing about what is inside.
Chapters
0:00 A camera, a hole, a hidden corridor
1:13 How cosmic rays found it
2:37 What we think we know
3:32 ScanPyramids and the Big Void
5:33 Inside the 2023 corridor
6:16 Merer's logbook: the oldest papyri in Egypt
8:34 The King's Chamber
10:06 The problem with the robbery story
11:19 A second possibility
12:14 The Queen's Chamber and its sealed doors
13:50 How was it built?
17:18 Menkaure: two new voids
18:52 The 30-meter claim
20:03 The king we barely know
21:25 Back to the corridor
22:49 What comes next
#GreatPyramid #AncientEgypt #Archaeology