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00:00The Great Pyramids. They are among the seven wonders of the ancient world and are the only ones to exist even today.
00:08Did you know that the pyramids of Giza were not unique in their kind and that they were not even the first?
00:15There were first the average pyramids, but they did not work so well.
00:20Well, I stop saying nonsense.
00:22To go back to our history, in ancient Egypt, it was believed that kings were chosen by the gods to serve on earth as mediators.
00:30In the afterlife, they were supposed to become gods themselves.
00:33The pyramidal complex was therefore built so that the king had everything he could need in the afterlife.
00:39There was the pyramid, a palace and temples.
00:43The king's tomb in the pyramid was filled with everything necessary, furniture, food and gold objects.
00:52In fact, the first pyramid was built 80 years before the first pyramid of Giza.
00:58In total, there were about a hundred.
01:01Some were not completed because the construction took time and all the pharaohs did not live long enough to see the end of the work.
01:09Now let's talk about the construction itself.
01:12The largest of the pyramids of Giza is as high as a 40-story building.
01:18How the hell did they manage to build such a massive structure 5,000 years ago, well before the appearance of machines and other equipment?
01:25We will see that.
01:29The pharaoh Cheops ascended to the throne around 2575 BC.
01:34And his architect began the construction of the oldest and largest pyramid in Giza.
01:40He calculated that it would take more than 2 million blocks of limestone to build the pyramid, each weighing about 2.5 tons, which is about the weight of a rhinoceros.
01:50The architect wanted to finish the construction in 20 years.
01:53To achieve this, a stone had to be transported and placed every 4 minutes, 24 hours out of 24, 7 days out of 7 and 365 days a year.
02:02Except for the bisextile years.
02:05It is therefore obvious that it took a lot of workers to carry out this project.
02:09Many believe that it was slaves who worked on the construction site of the pyramid, but this is not true.
02:15Workers came from all over Egypt to contribute to the construction site, about 25,000 people.
02:22The Egyptians did all kinds of work.
02:25From manual labor to the manufacture of tools, as well as administrative labor.
02:29They all worked about 10 hours a day.
02:32The pyramids were housed and well fed, and led a more comfortable life than the one that an average Egyptian could afford at the time.
02:40It is assumed that they lived in a provisional city not far away, and that they formed an organized community led by a powerful leader.
02:47The pyramids seem to have been designed to align on the cardinal points, and their sides symbolize the rays of the sun.
02:55But at the time, there was no compass.
02:58The ancient Egyptians calculated the directions themselves, and with astonishing precision.
03:04To align the pyramids, they used two constellations.
03:08The site was located on the west bank of an island.
03:11This also had a symbolic meaning.
03:14The sun sets to the west, and life must necessarily do as much.
03:19The second pyramid of Giza was built for the son of Cheops, the pharaoh Khepren.
03:24She is a little smaller, but it is she who houses the famous sphinx statue without a nose.
03:29Of course, originally, he had a nose.
03:32I will tell you what happened to him, but it is still a mystery, no one really knows.
03:38The sphinxes are a body of lion and a head of man.
03:42They were considered as the guardians of important places.
03:45This famous sphinx bears the head of Pharaoh Khepren and guards his pyramid, facing the rising sun.
03:51The sphinx is one of the largest and oldest statues in the world.
03:55Originally, he did not only have a nose, he was also colored.
04:00Scientists have discovered traces of red color on his face.
04:05It is therefore very likely that the sphinx was painted in this color.
04:09There are also traces of yellow and blue on his body, a rather nice statue.
04:14Until around 1800, the sphinx was buried up to the shoulders.
04:18But an adventurer accompanied by a team of 160 men will dig it up.
04:22But let's go back to our site.
04:25The workers of course needed stone blocks.
04:28There were two main places where we could get it.
04:32One of them was near the site.
04:35But this yellow stone, covered with fossils, was only suitable for the inside of the pyramid.
04:40The limestone blocks intended for the outside were transported over 13 km,
04:45thanks to 2.5 m long sleds.
04:48Apparently, it was not too difficult to pull them.
04:51We mixed water with the right amount of sand, and it slid well.
04:5510 people were enough to pull a sled carrying a large stone.
04:59Surprisingly, cutting limestone blocks was not the most difficult.
05:03In the ground, the limestone is soft and can be melted quite easily.
05:08But after being exposed to the air, it hardens.
05:12The most difficult was to shape all these blocks.
05:15This step was crucial, because the slightest inaccuracy could lead to the collapse of the entire pyramid.
05:21Well, these limestone stones were extracted, transported on a sled, shaped.
05:27And then what? How to arrange them? It's still a mystery.
05:32Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a ramp system dating from the time of the construction of the pyramids.
05:39Historians therefore agree that the Egyptians probably designed a unique system to move and pull these huge blocks.
05:47The most widespread opinion is that there were several ramps around the pyramid.
05:52There was probably a central ramp with two stairs on each side, built directly on the stones of the pyramid.
05:59The ramp grew as the pyramid rose.
06:02It is thought that some workers climbed the stairs by pulling stones on wooden sleds.
06:07But this is just a hypothesis among others.
06:09Others claim that the ramps were around the pyramid.
06:12Others still that they were inside.
06:15Maybe we will never know, and the mystery will remain intact forever.
06:22The outer limestone of the pyramid was polished with sand and stone to make it shine.
06:27At the top, there was a gold and silver pyramid, which shone on Egypt like a second sun.
06:34This is how we occupied our time 5,000 years ago.
06:37Let's talk now about the interior.
06:40Curiously, there is not much inside the pyramid.
06:43For the most part, it is massive stone with very little open space.
06:49But let's take a quick look.
06:51From the entrance, there are two stairs.
06:54One goes down, the other goes up.
06:57They lead us to the chambers.
06:59There are three inside.
07:01Why?
07:03Apparently, a funeral chamber was always ready in case the pharaoh had given up before the end of the work.
07:10As the work progressed, other chambers were rebuilt.
07:15The last one was the main one, it was the king's chamber.
07:20The one where Cheops rests.
07:23It is the largest room in the heart of the pyramid, and a large passage leads there.
07:28It was probably used to mount the granite, used to decorate the interior.
07:33Granite was also used to make five layers of beams intended to support the structure.
07:39And apparently, it held up well since the pyramid stood for centuries.
07:44Unfortunately, none of these chambers have hieroglyphs.
07:48If you want to see them, you have to go see the decorated tombs located near the pyramids.
07:53These works are representations of the culture and everyday life of ancient Egypt.
07:57Their texts allow researchers to study language and grammar.
08:01The treasures that were once in the pyramids were taken by looters.
08:06There are also many tunnels and secret passages inside the pyramids.
08:11But even today, no one knows the full plan.
08:15For years, scientists have been sending robots equipped with cameras inside.
08:20But there is still a lot we do not know.
08:23Today, they use X-rays to scan the pyramids from the outside, without entering.
08:29So yes, the ancient Egyptians did create a mystery that no one managed to solve in 5,000 years.