Ancient Egyptian history

Doctor Erik Gonthier came

to Egypt with us for the first time in 2007

A geologist and ethno-mineralogist at the Musée de l'Homme of Paris

His mission is to identify the rocks used by ancient Egyptians.

That's where it all started for him.

Together, we visited some of the most beautiful archeological sites

in the world, where we discovered construction particularities

that the generally accepted hypotheses can't explain.

In March 2016, he agreed to accompany us again

when we filmed Builders of the Ancient Mysteries.

This time he requested more precise measuring equipment

exactly what was needed to quantify our observations.

If we think about history

concerning certain periods

and the hypotheses generally admitted

none of them explain the precision

we measured.

That's what

you will see in this documentary.

This is how and why we proceeded, aiming to verify

what our intuition suggested.

We are an

independent research team whose members come from varied backgrounds

scientists, engineers, technicians, architects, stonemason and passionate researchers.

If our approach confuses or bothers certain historians,

that's to be expected because our procedure is different.

We chose to somewhat distance ourselves from the models imposed by history

because we noticed that its memory is not always reliable

and worse, that it can influence our outlook.

Let's take the Great Pyramid as an example.

Our perception will be different based on what we think we see

instead of the things that are presented, like this

or something like this.

It's all a matter of perspective.

Let's start

with what history tells us about our species.

Based on recent discoveries,

the first Homo sapiens appeared 300,000 years ago.

They lived as hunters and gatherers in small, nomadic tribes for 290,000 years

before first settling down and taking up in Sumer ancient Iraq.

Approximately 6 to 7000 years ago, at the beginning of civilization.

In this chronology, Egyptians started building pyramids about 3500 years later,

and there was obviously no room left in these

dates for an ancient advanced civilization

that would have been the origin of ours.

Well, the first thing that becomes apparent to the unbiased observer

is that there was a huge contrast between certain gigantic monuments

and the method supposedly used to build them.

Since these sites date back to times when we only had primitive technology.

It is therefore possible to achieve them with primitive technology.

That's the general approach that archeology uses on this topic,

which seems normal when we consider the process

of technological advances that mark our history

from the invention of the wheel thousands of years ago to nanotechnologies.

But as the late Jean-Louis Boistel, an experienced stonemason, said

The Middle Ages are yesterday compared to ancient Egypt

This approach is problematic.

It influences our view and keeps us from thinking freely.

The builders left us no explanation of their methods.

We are not certain of the dating of the structures

and we still don't know how they were built.

The generally admitted hypothesis is that these monuments were achieved

by the use of primitive technologies and a very large workforce

over a very long timespan

influenced by this model of progress pushed by history.

Why immediately discard all other hypotheses by declaring them impossible

for example, the use of machine tools in ancient Egypt

is seen as absurd because everyone knows that Egyptians didn't have machine tools

to go further.

How do we know that?

Because history says so.

Based on what?

And the fact that we have not found machines, pieces, representations,

or even texts mentioning machines.

We could answer that there is no record

of the building of these ancient sites, but yet they still exist.

We could also ask what such tools would have had to be made of to

last thousands of years.

We could then observe that we have found objects and representations

of strange objects that were either misunderstood

or considered ritual or religious items because of their strangeness.

As for the texts, we think many are not studied the right way.

And that story, as a matter of fact, is told

in full detail in the Edfou building texts.

But all this does not prove anything.

However you look at it,

because the absence of proof is not the proof of absence.

Are we really sure that we've made a breakthrough in terms of how

we understand ancient ways of thinking?

Instead of

speculating, we've decided to look into what we have in front of us.

The monuments.

We have decided

to study them with the best instruments at our disposal to make them talk.

Because, in the beginning, on paper, it all seemed unlikely

Because our history orients our view, when it forbids

this type of associating different sites from different eras.

That argues for a common origin.

But any link between these two sites is deemed totally impossible

because of their historical, political and religious context,

which is precisely what some people criticize us for neglecting.

More precisely, we are criticized for not accepting what history says

about them.

History says the Temple of the Valley was built approximately 2500 years

before Christ, and Machu Picchu, approximately 1400 CE.

Of course, the 4000 years separates these two sites.

One single source of this technology seems strictly impossible.

So where do these dates come from?

The ones we are most interested in come from

elements found nearby or inscriptions.

Since it's almost impossible to date the carving of a stone,

we date bones or other organic matter or known objects found on the sites.

Humans have the unfortunate habit of always rebuilding on the same site.

This complicates research,

since it is impossible to dig deeper without damaging the sites.

What percentage of the actual total amount of existing objects

is represented by those we have found? We don't know.

So what is left?

Once again, what we have found

At Machu Picchu, we can clearly distinguish two styles

This one

and this one

a fact that some people explain this way.

Archeology says

that this site would have been active for only a century.

Very damaged in some areas.

It would have endured earthquakes

that would have destroyed or damaged blocks of the sacred structures

that were nevertheless not restored identically.

How can that be explained?

Let's dare to ask what if this part of Machu Picchu is much

older than the rest of the constructions dating back to the 15th century?

How can we know that?

Thanks to new technologies and nondestructive methods

that are increasingly powerful and reveal what is still buried under sites.

Because as we've shown in the previous films,

this same difference of styles is observed elsewhere on the planet

We can observe this same phenomenon of the use of different technologies

in numerous ancient sites.

Archeology explains it by

the fact that such differences are inherent in Homo sapiens.

Everywhere there have been people.

They did the same things.

That includes the use of stone blocks weighing several dozens of tons

and the strange handbags represented in Göbekli Tepe, Sumer and in Peru.

These populations would have started with the most complicated

and durable method assembling complexly shaped stone blocks

with no cement, held together by nothing but the precision

which with they were cut

Then this technology was slowly lost and people ended up

building in easier and less durable ways.

Egypt as a whole seems to go against the idea of linear progress.

Remember the words of the American engineer Chris Dunn

and then you follow the progress of that civilization over 3,000 years

and it ends up, they still using the same tools as they starting with

That doesn't make sense.

That paradox is hard to explain.

Good question.

Either humans at different times in history always end up losing their

knowledge or the same cause has produced the same effects everywhere.

But we can't see that because of the dating.

Another way of dating these sites is done

by the inscriptions found when they are available.

For example, the Serapeum of Saqqara

goes back to the 18th Egyptian dynasty, around 1500 BCE.

Its 22 granite tanks contain the mummies of sacred bulls

This tank is the only one with hieroglyphic carvings on the outside.

But when you look closer, the work is very imprecise

and poorly done.

It's hard to conceive that the same people who crafted these tanks

with such care could be satisfied with such flimsy engravings.

However, these engravings have determined

the dating and the function of these tanks.

Let's take a second example of dating by inscriptions.

the caves of Barabar and Nagarjuni in India, where even more than

in the Serapeum, the level of precision is astounding

Once again,

we know of no archive or text that describes how this was achieved.

It is on the basis of this simple unskillful inscription

that the grandson of King Ashoka is credited for carving these caves.

It is said that for political reasons, he gifted this place

to the members of a sect so that they could have shelter

from the monsoon rains.

This inscription alone defined the whole historical context

both political and religious.

For these mind boggling caves, it's why they've been classified as shelters

created with primitive tools

At this point, everyone knows it couldn't be any other way.

The context determines the tools and techniques, period.

That may be the reason these caves have not been really studied

and are mostly unknown in the Western world.

In this particular case, we can wonder about the validity

of dating based on inscriptions, since in one of the caves

there are inscriptions from a more recent period.

This one goes back to the fifth or sixth century after Christ

This, too, dates to the same approximate years

which shows that throughout time people have had no hesitation

about writing on the walls, which is probably the case

with the first inscription.

These caves are unique because as they were chiseled out of a rock

as hard as granite.

History tells us that these workers were capable of succeeding

on their first attempt.

These five rectangular chambers were cut with extreme precision.

They are totally symmetrical with walls as smooth as glass

And the day after this was achieved, no one was ever capable

of doing it again.

Everything produced in the following centuries, as spectacular as it may be,

never equaled the unique precision of these caves.

But we had to scan them in 3D to grasp this precision

that contradicts the vague idea we have of how they were made.

In order for the idea of scanning them to even occur to you,

you must first think that our history may

be different than what we believe, which is a step we take easily.

As the Serapeum and Barabar show us, History doesnât

just influence our judgment.

It also has a short memory.

But in its defense, that's normal.

Knowledge has such a strong power that it is a target of choice

for conquerors throughout history.

In that respect, as revealed by the authors Selbie and Steinmetz

the Persians burned Egyptian temples and writings in 527 BCE,

and 40 years later, in 490 BCE, they burned many Greek writings.

Wars lead to more wars and the need for revenge

In Persepolis, in what is now Iran

In 330 B.C., the Greeks, led by Alexander the Great, destroyed 12,000

written volumes produced by the Magi.

One century later, in 214 BCE

the emperor Qin Shi Huang, who had inherited one of China's seven

kingdoms, subdued the other six and ordered the destruction

of all their books, including some by Confucius.

In 146 BCE, the Romans

come on to the stage and destroyed 500,000 Phoenician parchments in Carthage.

Then, in 52 BCE, Julius Caesar ordered the destruction of all

the books of the Druid College

A little later, towards 250 CE

The Great Library of Pergamon is said

to have been destroyed by Christian fundamentalists.

But it should be known that Mark Antony is said to have already gifted to Cleopatra

in 41 BCE, 200,000 books from that library.

In 270 CE, the famous library of Alexandria, holding 400,000

to 700,000 books, depending on sources, was burned by the Romans.

And to wrap up this dark period for the memory of knowledge

in 391,Theophilus destroyed what was left of the Library of Alexandria,

said to have still contained 42,000 books at the time.

These events, covering only a short historical period,

allow us to understand why we have so little information on antiquity.

If the Antikythera mechanism

had not been miraculously discovered in an ancient shipwreck

in the early 20th century, no one would have ever known it existed.

It took many centuries before something similar was created again.

Not only had history forgotten its existence,

it categorized texts describing it by Greek authors as fiction.

And this was only 2000 years ago.

But if it reminds us that history is quick to forget,

it also shows us that objects don't last

Beyond its achievement.

It's the conceptualization

that precedes it that makes engineers like Mathias Buttet marvel

what makes the mechanism extraordinary and even more incomprehensible

is the fact that we could forget the existence of this object

As far as forgetting goes, it can get even worse.

History forgot the beginning of sedentary life

like parents forgetting the first steps of their own children

This crucial moment marks the beginning of our civilization,

when some of our hunter-gatherer ancestors

decided to settle down and become farmers, which for a while

our history situated 7 to 8000 years ago in Sumer,

The site of Gobekli Tepe, buried close to 12,000 years ago

teaches us a lesson because of its very existence

and a technological level that is totally anachronic

A discovery that could make us consider more seriously

this hypothesis of an ancient civilization that disappeared in the cataclysm

at the end of the Younger Dryas period approximately 13,000 years ago.

As seen in our previous films.

But since about 30 years ago, researchers have noticed

that something was not right.

Visiting all these major sites of our past we were shocked by the flowing lines,

the purity and precision of the achievements

that always give us the impression of an easily and well mastered craft,

making us believe these builders could achieve

whatever they wanted, no matter what the challenge.

this defies the logic that often claims

that ancient people were irrational based on their beliefs.

As soon as we don't understand something

we think it's because it's spiritual or religious, which keeps us from

properly understanding these constructions.

Over the years we have gotten used to recognizing

the strange details on the site.

It seemed perfectly normal to follow our intuition

and do something no one else had ever done before

To run the roughometer on the blocks of Puma Pumku

This moment we are about to unveil contains the essence of our approach.

The way we look at what our eyes give us to see.

We reached the plateau of Tiwanaku, in Bolivia

at an altitude of 4,000 meters

Érik always tries to explain the work with ancient stone cutting techniques

that are the simplest.

After observing on his first round.

That's the classic scraping

technique but this time we didn't just rely on visual observation.

Eric requested that we come with a roughometer.

This is necessary to quantify the precision

At this moment again, Érik like many archeologists

seems self-confident

That's when we reach the tipping point.

The machine reveals a very particular surface.

Absorbed by his measurements he doesn't immediately realize the implications.

If it is possible to achieve using abrasive techniques, it gets harder

on the internal sides of the block where they are

just as smooth as the external sides and with very precise angles.

While shooting in Puma Punku, someone on our team made another discovery

The H blocks are exactly one meter high

Two German archeologists noted the same fact back in 1892

But it went completely unnoticed

With the help of a rangefinder, using a laser to measure

Érik measured different parts of the blocks

We are going to measure another block that is in perfect condition

but somewhat inaccessible.

Érik is somewhat embarrassed, he cannot explain it

He hesitates, searches for words, then suddenly says

The problem is not only achieving such flat surfaces

even in the angles

but that the dimensions are identical from one block to another.

We have no hypothesis on how these blocks were made

only vague ideas resulting from visual observations

like Érik made on the first day

With the roughometer and the rangefinder

even while he admits that 'it's an enormous job', Érik mentions

copper tools and abrasive stones

But after measuring all the sizes and surfaces

his outlook is totally different

These measurements showed us something we hadn't noticed.

a standardized production of complex shapes, carved in andesite

a rock that is as hard as tempered steel

and with a surface as flat as modern concrete.

Given these results, these must have been done with something

more than the copper and abrasive tools

He hesitates to talk about it.

questioning the current standard hypothesis is a hard pill to swallow

We are going to talk about the metric system again

but before that

why are we the first to be so closely interested in the details of these blocks?

Probably because History makes this useless.

we don't know how these blocks were made

but we are certain it was with primitive tools

That's a constant that makes this situation almost grotesque.

How could we formulate a hypothesis on the way the rocks were cut

based on partial information?

These details are so important that once known, they are precisely

what makes Érik change his mind and not the other way around.

To measure is one thing,

but to be able to explain how this was achieved is another.

To better understand the difficulties of carving rocks,

you must know their level of hardness

A harder rock and scratch a softer one, but it doesn't work the other way around.

If you take granite or andesite, which are at hardness level 7

copper is at 3 and canât scratch or pierce them

The andesite of Puma Punku is between 6.5

and 7 on the hardness scale

almost the same level as the tempered steel that is necessary to carve it

Otherwise you must abrade it

and that is exactly the problem Érik is looking at, faced

with the repetition of the same dimensions from one block to another

contrary to what some people say

we never oppose the idea

that it is possible to cut hard rocks

with a copper blade and abrasive

The question is not whether or not cutting hard rock is possible

but rather whether or not it's possible to cut all sides of a several-ton block

with such precision

There is a big gap between observation and the rare

and the rare hypotheses that were never actually put to the test

But since History says so, it must have been done with

primitive tools, like these

Or more precisely

As Jean-Louis Boistel noted

To build, you need a blueprint

that is even more true with the Great Pyramid, given its size.

Even if Egyptology claimed for a long time that it was not

Here, like in Puma Punku

If your eyes are not trained to see the precision,

if you follow the reconstitution of workers at the times

the pyramids were built,

you can easily confirm the idea that with thousands of dedicated workers,

it could be achieved in 20 to 25 years

To just pile up the blocks on top of each other

with no guarantee they will hold in place

That doesn't work for the building of the Great Pyramid.

Remember, this article from a previous film

said that it would take 80 trucks a day

five days a week, over 12 years, just to fill up

a quarry with the volume of stone comparable to the Great Pyramid

For Egyptology, the Great Pyramid is either the tomb of King Khufu

or his cenotaph, built in 25 years during the fourth dynasty.

Although no one seems to agree on when his reign began or how long it lasted

Tomb or cenotaph, it's a little confusing

So let's specify that a tomb

contains a body where a cenotaph is a sort of monument to the dead without a body.

This hesitation comes from the fact that no actual body was ever found

in the Great Pyramid, nor in any pyramid of the first dynasties,

which some Egyptologists explain by looting.

Whereas for others these are only symbolic monuments.

Remember this old controversy

reported by Pliny the Elder, mentioned in the previous films

the 12 authors

who disagreed on the function of these pyramids

History only remembers the writings of the Greek Herodotus

once considered the âFather of Historyâ, who first said, 2,000 years

after the supposed date of its building

that the Great Pyramid was the tomb of Khufu

Today Egyptology is distancing itself from this theory

but unfortunately none of the other 11 writings remain.

This is another reminder that history is based on sources,

and in this case, they're no longer in existence.

The result is a biased view based on the thinking of these ancient authors

an assumption that it was always thought that the Great Pyramid was a tomb.

But that is now questioned by various researchers

based on older compiled writings

the historian Abu Suleiman Alchemy reports that in the past

scientists posited four possible functions for the Pyramids of Giza

astronomical observatories

tombs, storage of goods and knowledge or disaster shelters.

He explains that Muslim scholars only consider two functions

astronomical observation and depositories of knowledge.

The scholar Al-Suyuti attributes them to a very remote past

arguing if they were built in our times

âThe knowledge necessary for its construction would still be known to manâ

For classic Muslim historians in general

The origins of Egyptian civilization go back much further in time

than what Western historians claim.

If we do not have Egyptian writings explaining the use of the pyramids

and Herodotusâs claims are wrong

On what basis can we conclude that the Great Pyramid was Khufu's tomb?

That hypothesis

is getting harder to maintain.

First, the name Khufu is written inside the Great Pyramid.

On the blocks inside a closed space above the Pharaoh's chamber.

The inscriptions are poorly inscribed with red ink,

and we have not yet been able to see them from close up.

There is a controversy around their authenticity.

The only way to resolve it would be to date the organic material inside the ink.

German archeologists from the University of Dresden

did that in 2013, but not in a legal way.

So the Egyptology community rejected the results.

Still in 2013, Pierre Talletâs team found the Merher Papyrus

the logbook of a foreman at the time of Khufu

describing the process of transporting the limestone from the quarry in Tourah to Giza

This very particular limestone

denser and finer than the brown limestone that is at the center

of the Great Pyramid, was used on its exterior cladding

and also on the medium pyramid as well as elsewhere on the site.

Objectively, even if Khufu's name is mentioned in the papyrus,

just like in the red inscriptions, nothing proves that this is a tomb

tomb or not

What is the importance of that question?

If it's a tomb, it must have been constructed

during the reign of Khufu in only 20 to 25 years.

And it keeps us from looking beyond the function of a tomb,

not considering any of its particularities,

because, as stated earlier, you don't look at a tomb and an object

that has an unknown function in the same way.

Historically speaking, the Great Pyramid is part of an ongoing bidding war

since the Djoser step pyramid, where each pharaoh would outdo the size

and complexity of their predecessors to demonstrate their power,

which curiously comes to a halt with Khufu.

Since the pyramid of Khafre is smaller than the Great Pyramid

in Cairo's pyramid is even smaller

If there is still an argument for Khafreâs Pyramid

built higher up on the plateau making it look taller

It gets harder to argue for the small one, but that's not the only contradiction.

The first Egyptian pyramid would be the Djoser step pyramid.

Then comes the flat sided ones.

The Pyramid of Meidum, the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid

Then comes the three from the site of Giza.

Then only smaller pyramids are built with bricks

Almost all collapsed

Again, we see a pattern where the older constructions

are the biggest and the most durable

Even though we have scientifically studied the Great Pyramid

for more than 200 years

we still don't know how it was built

The image of thousands of workers wearing loincloths under the blazing sun

maneuvering thousands of blocks with ropes and wooden sledges,

is deeply rooted in our minds.

For the megalomaniac Khufu presented as an enthusiastic pyramid builder.

All we have is a little statue seven centimeters high, almost as if

he were purposely erased from history.

Who can believe that such a construction site

could have been organized with no writings?

As far as construction sites go

Khufu is dwarfed by his father Sneferu

who built three huge pyramids

the Meidum, the Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid

For a long time, it was believed that the pyramid

of Meidum belonged to king Huni

who died before the end of its construction

and that his son Sneferu finished it before building

the Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid

but now it seems that Sneferu gets credit for all three

We don't know whether these were built simultaneously or successively,

but all combined, according to archeologists estimations

they total close to 3.5 million tons of stone blocks

for a 25 year reign that represents 390 blocks per day every day.

What draws our attention is the obvious question.

if the pyramids are tombs

why did Snefru need several of them?

A rush to build the biggest tomb, several tombs for the same king.

These hypotheses are sometimes hard to defend without a big stretch,

especially given the strangeness of these buildings.

Wooden fragments in the Great Pyramid found

by the astronomer Piazzi Smith during the previous century, have been dated

to 3341 and 3094

BCE, which pushed back by more than 500 years.

the dating previously accepted by Egyptology

That shows how little we know.

We also wonder why three of these pyramids are slightly octagonal

the red pyramid, the Great Pyramid and the small pyramid.

But strangely not the median pyramid.

No one mentions this except in these terms

In reality, this is impossible because we would notice cracks everywhere.

This would also mean that the other pyramids are octagonal

for the same reasons.

This is not insignificant

it means they had to alter 90 centimeters at the base of the Great Pyramid,

which on 115 meters both ways, implies moving

each bock less than half a degree!

And repeating that on each side

and the higher up you go, the smaller the angle gets

as if it were not hard enough to pile up 203 layers of different heights

in a single pyramid

making it even harder, with the precise cardinal alignments

You should not confuse the two methods for pointing north,

which can be achieved at night by aligning a string to a star

or at the equinoxes by observing shadows

with this whole buildingâs orientation that requires

constant verifications to achieve only a tiny

minimal error of 0.05 degrees

For such a big building that is nothing.

To recap,

approximately 4500 years ago, people carved into the bedrock of a plateau,

an underground chamber, 30 meters deep on top of which was built at 230

meters height square with only a two centimeter variation,

where 140 meters of blocks were piled up by using 2 million blocks of limestone

of an average weight of 1.5 tons each in 203 layers of different heights,

forming an eight sided pyramid totally centered and aligned

with the four cardinal points with modern precision.

This subterranean chamber

is now connected to a narrow hall, approximately one meter in height

by one meter wide and 100 meters long, angled at precisely 26 degrees.

That connects to another just as narrow hall, leading to a 50 meter long

chamber, 8.5 meters high, the most spectacular chamber in this pyramid.

This chamber leads to an empty room on one side, with an empty statue niche

where nothing was ever found, roughly in the middle of the room,

but perfectly aligned with the central axis of the pyramid.

The top of this chamber leads to an antechamber

that has a security system that is totally useless,

with another narrow hall leading to a chamber made of granite blocks

that way between 12 and 70 tons on the ceiling

that were transported from 900 kilometers away to build a double square shaped room

that is precisely horizontal and vertical, pierced by two narrow tunnels

close to 40 long, where the only object present is a tank

where no mummy was ever found.

All this to satisfy the megalomania of a king done in 20 to 25 years

by 2000 workers

with the help of peasants 4 months a year!

Based on these observations, it seems rational and safer

to admit that history simply forgot how and why this pyramid was built.

Because nothing, absolutely nothing, proves that this pyramid is a tomb.

But if the Great Pyramid is not a tomb, what is it?

First, it's a geometrical object

with specific proportions Pi and the Golden Ratio

For example, this dimension divided by this one gives us Pi

the visible surface of the Great Pyramid,

the four sides divided by the invisible surface or base

gives us the Golden Ratio

The visible height divided by Pi is equal to the total height

multiplied by the squared Golden Ratio, etc.

But for Egyptology, since ancient Egyptians didnât know

about these numbers, their mere presence is an accident.

So, you can imagine that bringing up the meter in this context

is so surprising that it gets immediately rejected

with the justification that if you work on the numbers

you will always find whatever you want

This point brought up in the previous films might be the most problematic

because everybody knows the Egyptians knew nothing about metric measurements.

Are we really sure?

Of course.

First, because Egyptians measured in cubits

Second because the meter was invented in 1795

thousands of years after the Great Pyramid

If the meter was not already determined by our ancestors way

way before our time, then this is an extraordinary coincidence

Close to 2500 BCE using a measuring system called the Royal Cubit, supposed to be

the measurement from the elbow to, the tip of the fingers of a king.

The Egyptians built the highest ancient stone building 440 cubits wide at its base

and 280 cubits high.

As we previously mentioned, we note the presence of these two numbers

that the Egyptians were not supposed to know

3500 years later in France, the Cathedral Church

and Castle Builders use the Quine as a five unit measuring system.

Five different units that are organized around the Golden Ratio

whose sizes may vary from one region to another.

French Royalty eventually imposed a single measurement, the Medieval Royal Quine

It just happens that

the Royal Medieval Cubit, which is a part of the quine, has exactly the same length

as the Royal Cubit used for the Great Pyramid 3500 years earlier.

Let's follow this lead.

Towards the end of the 17th century, the great Isaac Newton

who demonstrated the existence of gravity

sensed a link between the dimensions of the Great Pyramid

and the Earth

1781: in a book dedicated to the King of France

the mathematician Alexis Jean-Pierre Paucton also brings up

a link between the dimensions of the Great Pyramid and the Earth

which was yet to be measured precisely

1795: the meter is invented

Its value is established at one full rotation of the Earth

divided by 40 million

To achieve that, the distance between Dunkirk and Barcelona

was precisely measured, which gave us the value of the meter as we know it.

Such a specific value that it will still take close

to two more centuries to realize that by chance

the meter shines in uncertain, enigmatic constructions on our planet,

built centuries and sometimes millenniums prior

although they govern the mathematical relations between the dimensions

of the Great Pyramid, these two numbers were supposedly unknown to their builders.

Then, thousands of years later, French royalty

established the use of the same cubit as used in the Great Pyramid.

The coincidence doesn't stop there.

The first coincidence takes place in France, where the royal span

linked to the medieval cubit is precisely 20 centimeters.

Five spans is precisely equal to one meter, which seems meaningless.

But apparently, miraculously, this connects these two measuring systems.

And brings us to a second coincidence.

The Medieval Cubit is 0,5236 meters

one sixth of pi.

The third coincidence occurs in Egypt, just as the Royal Medieval Cubit

is the same length as the cubit used in the Great Pyramid, which is one

sixth of pi in meters with the value attributed to one meter

Certain dimensional ratios of the Great Pyramid

give us Pi and the Golden Ratio, directly readable in meters

thousands of years before the meter was defined.

The fourth coincidence occurs this time in Bolivia, with again the value

attributed to a meter: H-shaped blocks on the pre-Inka site of Puma Punku

are exactly one meter long and one meter high with other measurements

that are a whole number ratio of a meter

The fifth coincidence is an Easter island related to the Giza plateau

and many other enigmatic sites from the past on the great circle,

where once again, because of the value given to a meter, the distance

between Easter Island and Giza is 10,000 times

the Golden Ratio in kilometers

100 x Pi in meters, 10 x Pi in meters

10 000 x the Golden Ratio in kilometers

If the size of the Earth were divided by any other number than 40 million,

none of this would have ever existed.

So what? Some people may still ask

to determine the meter, you have to have measured Earth.

Who was capable of doing that so long ago?

Put all these coincidences together

and you get the most enigmatic tomb ever built on the planet.

If some people stick to the hypothesis of workers armed with wooden tools, ropes

and miraculous coincidences, we have chosen to not believe anything

Convinced that science will recognize science

We decided to use the latest technology to verify our intuition,

especially when far, very far from Egypt.

The choice of the meter produces a sixth coincidence

this time in India.

In the cave of Sudama on the site of Barabar

its dome is six meters in diameter with a segment of a sphere

three meters in radius with its center at one meter above ground.

All this because in 1795

we decided to invent the meter and gave it a specific value

that thousands of years later shine a new light on ancient

masterpieces of engineering, for which we have no documentation

and no memory

since the Royal Cubit was transmitted.

Why not the meter?

Maybe miracles do exist, but when they come together in rocks

that are so hard with such precision

it isnât magic anymore.

It is science.

In the previous film,

we presented the results of the 3D scans that revealed high precision symmetry.

But at that point, we hadn't yet measured this precision.

In late February 2020, we filmed the complete debriefing

of the analyses of the scans by an engineer from the AGP company

and then went back to Barabar in March to verify what we had missed

Here again,

everything started with an intuition when we first visited these caves.

Having noticed a huge gap between

what has been published on these caves and our own observations.

We decided to go back and scan them in 3D.

it's the same as in Puma Punku

with no measurements, without a trained eye used to precision

and knowledgeable about how granite is carved

You could totally miss what we found.

To verify an intuition is quite expensive

especially when speaking of 3D scans far from home.

But it was worth it.

The results were far beyond our expectations.

Here is the 3D scan of the Gopika cave

on the Nagarjuni site in India

This was not created by software.

It's the actual cave recomposed by millions of points projected

by using rotating lasers to scan the walls.

As we showed in the previous film, the lateral walls of this cave

are not vertical but very slightly inclined at less than three degrees.

Thanks to this study, we now know that the angle of inclination

changes by 3/10 of a degree along a span of 8.1 meters.

What we had missed before is that they are slightly curved.

The curving is 7.5 centimeters deep.

This cave is actually only composed of curves.

That fact was not recorded in any archeological documents.

We were not capable of seeing them with the naked eye, and that's

why we came back to verify it in March 2020

to measure the level of symmetry announced at the end of the last film.

the AGP company cut this scan lengthwise, and then superimposed

the right segment on the left and vice versa.

The result is astounding

62% of the 44 million points that compose this scan

are almost at the same place

A remarkable feature.

Let's not beat around the bush.

To cut such a large and complex volume into granite with such precise symmetry

seems impossible.

This degree of precision was part

of the technical specifications decided upon before even starting the work

Are symmetrically-polished mirror-like walls

necessary to shelter from monsoons?

The idea is problematic.

We find the same degree of precision in every one of these caves.

We'll go into this in more detail in the next film

We needed a 3D scan to discover what we couldn't see

with our simple measurements and naked eyes

That makes us wonder

what did the builders use to obtain and verify

this degree of precision?

We find the same precision all over the planet where normally

we shouldn't.

So how do we wrap this up?

Decorative element? Tomb?

Monsoon shelter?

That's what History tells us today

History has marked our minds with the idea that touching it is sacrilegious

and can cause extreme reactions from certain historians.

But if you needed to build a pyramid or a massive wall, would you call

a technician or a historian?

For us,

it all started with an intuition that our present civilization

is not the first time out for 300,000 years-old Homo Sapiens

The intuition that all the common factors of these archeological sites

could be explained by something other than mere coincidence

or a false assumption that keeps us from questioning anything.

Why not consider this explanation: a transmission of knowledge

to our ancestors, who were still hunter-gatherers

by the survivors of an ancient civilization

who could have been perceived as gods?

Wouldn't an evolved science be perceived as magic in the eyes of those

who know nothing about it?

How does an actual hunter gatherer

react when he sees what modern technology allows us to achieve?

The same intuition, that our History is wrong

in assuming that civilization is only 10,000 years old

This implies viewing History through the prism of war

as if humanity were essentially evil and war inevitable.

I believe the evidence supports the view that we have lost

a whole civilization from our historical record.

We are a species with amnesia.

But where do we go from there?

In today's Western modern, complicated reality, some people

wonder what positive value could all this bring to our lives

other than satisfying curiosity by filling in the blanks of our history?

The answer is that our history

interrogates our future and the world we're going to leave for our children.

We are constantly innovating society that thinks that

everything was always less advanced in the past.

After all our research, we find ourselves imagining a past far

more developed than previously thought reduced to the tales of centuries

and millennia passed by a humanity that has become amnesic

Our elders have a lot to teach us.

They were capable of building monumental features that have survived

through the ages as a badge of honor for our species.

Yes, humanity was once capable of all that, for the beauty of it,

but maybe even more.

We are now going to carefully follow other leads like the production of energy

to achieve these sites, energy was needed and in large quantities,

way beyond that provided by human or animal muscular strength.

The lead on conducting research using sound frequencies

also seems promising

we are currently working on all the data compiled at Barabar

We still have to precisely quantify what we have just mentioned briefly.

Thanks to our collaborative research team that constantly broadens

its technical skills, our work goes on.

We will be back soon to share all this with you for a better comprehension

of the achievements of these ancient forgotten builders