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00:00I somehow have unrestricted access to all the Great Pyramids of Egypt!
00:05Whoa!
00:06No, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
00:08We'll be going into the tombs of ancient pharaohs.
00:11Places that are literally illegal to enter because they're incredibly dangerous.
00:16What if we fall?
00:17Oh yeah, you'll definitely die.
00:18We'll even be swimming to a secret underground tomb beneath the pyramid.
00:22Oh my god!
00:22We've only been granted 100 hours to explore.
00:25And we're gonna start right now!
00:28Follow me, boys!
00:29It's about to be fun.
00:30This is so beautiful.
00:32Someone 4,500 years ago put this rock right here.
00:35Correct.
00:36This pyramid dates back to about 4,500 years old.
00:39The passageway we're in leads to what Egyptologists say is King Khufu's tomb,
00:43the pharaoh who may have ordered the pyramids to be built.
00:46Whoa!
00:47Hey!
00:49This room is called the Grand Gallery.
00:52What percentage of this pyramid do you think we've seen so far?
00:54We might never know the answer to that question.
00:57That's the coolest way he could have answered that.
00:58This next room was the king's final resting spot.
01:01As far as we believe, yeah.
01:02Let's do it!
01:07Whoa!
01:08Holy crap, boys!
01:09What is this?
01:114,600 years ago, this chamber may have contained the king's mummified body.
01:18This is where the pharaoh was buried.
01:20This is what we believe is the final resting place.
01:23Believe?
01:24How do we not know?
01:25I think somewhere inside this pyramid there's another chamber that we have not found yet that might have the body of the king.
01:33You know what?
01:34In this video we're going to find it.
01:35Because we will literally be exploring from hundreds of feet below the pyramids up to the highest point in the largest ancient pyramid on earth.
01:43Woo!
01:44That was awesome!
01:45Before we go explore the other giant pyramids, I want to show you guys base camp.
01:49Yeah!
01:50This is nice.
01:51We've got a dinner table, some tents to sleep in, and...
01:54No!
01:55Wow!
01:56Okay!
01:57We even brought lights so you could see the pyramids from camp.
02:01That's got to be the most expensive night light that's ever existed.
02:04This is the pyramid we're going to explore tomorrow.
02:06I want to start at 5am, everyone get some sleep.
02:09These pyramids were so technologically advanced for their time that some credit them to a pre-Egyptian civilization,
02:16while some point to even crazier theories like aliens.
02:19But Egyptologists are sure that they were built by the first Egyptians as tombs for their kings.
02:24And by the end of this video, we're going to find out which of these theories is true.
02:27Alright boys, I hope you're ready to explore the next pyramid on our list, the Pyramid of Khafre.
02:32What is special about this monstrosity?
02:35Well, this pyramid is how we learn how the casings of each pyramid look like.
02:39This is how they all look like at some point.
02:41That was right after the aliens built them.
02:42No aliens search them.
02:44Rami led us nearly 100 feet below the earth's surface, deep into Khafre's pyramid.
02:49This is a place where hardly anyone in the modern world has ever been.
02:53So to be honest, we had no idea what to expect going down here.
02:58The ancient Egyptians had cardboard.
03:00We believed that this was the burial chamber for King Khafre for the longest time.
03:05And now they're using it to store stuff.
03:07Well, they're restoring the pyramid, Jimmy. They gotta use tools.
03:10So that means there's a real burial chamber.
03:12Yes, Rami actually took us to the real resting place, thought to have once held the body of King Khafre.
03:18I see a big ceiling.
03:20Whoa.
03:21Dude, we're deep in this pyramid.
03:22Here we are.
03:23The final burial chamber of King Khafre.
03:26No, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
03:28What the heck, bro?
03:30What is this?
03:31Wait.
03:32Look at the date.
03:33The graffiti right there is the guy who discovered this tomb.
03:36He claims he discovered this tomb, yes.
03:38This is where the Pharaoh was buried.
03:40This is the final resting place for King Khafre.
03:43Is it disrespectful to lay in there?
03:45I wouldn't worry about the disrespect so much as much as the curse.
03:50What does the curse do to you?
03:52Do you want to try?
03:54No.
03:55Alright, let's get out of here before we get cursed.
03:57Oh my gosh.
03:58That pyramid is insane.
04:00The king's tomb didn't really answer many of our questions.
04:03However, the portal to the underworld deep beneath the pyramids could have everything we were looking for.
04:08This is the tomb of God Osiris where very few humans have ever been.
04:13What are we doing?
04:14As you can imagine, the God of the underworld's tomb is pretty deep underground.
04:18Oh, heck no.
04:20It really just goes all the way down there.
04:23After you, Carl.
04:24Oh my gosh.
04:25Oh my gosh.
04:27Why is he walking down so nonchalant?
04:30This is the entrance, Carl.
04:32Yeah.
04:33To the God of the underworld!
04:36This is a tall ladder.
04:39It's actually really deep.
04:40Like if you fall...
04:41Oh yeah, you'll definitely die.
04:42Yeah.
04:44This is getting pretty scary.
04:46I don't like this anymore.
04:47And if we weren't already scared enough, we then came across this.
04:513,000 year old human.
04:54Oh my God.
04:55Why am I still holding this?
04:56Dude, is this a part of the skull?
04:57This is the skull, yeah.
04:58Oh my God.
04:59When we go down there, we will be so far underground that there's a chance we pass out due to a lack of oxygen.
05:05Correct.
05:06Chandler is heading to Osiris' resting place.
05:09All right.
05:10Here we go.
05:11Oh, I'm in the water.
05:13Whoa.
05:14You can tell, the air's pretty thin down here.
05:21Wait, what is this?
05:22Oh, this is a rocker here.
05:23Is this a rocker lid?
05:24Right in the center of the room is the sarcophagus of God, Osiris.
05:29Right here is supposedly the gateway to the underworld.
05:32Yeah.
05:33So, try to get in.
05:35To the underworld?
05:36Well, yeah.
05:37Screw it, screw it, screw it, screw it.
05:39Oh my God.
05:40This sarcophagus is allegedly the portal to the underworld.
05:43And virtually no humans have ever been here before.
05:46Oh my God.
05:47Why am I here?
05:48Why am I here human?
05:49What do you mean?
05:50Look all the way to that right corner of there.
05:53That's a shaft that goes to nobody knows where.
05:55Carl, get up in there.
05:56I can go up there?
05:57Jimmy, don't let him.
05:58I'm so scared, bro.
05:59Carl, that's not smart.
06:01Dude, I'm literally in a tunnel in ancient Egypt that nobody's ever been.
06:05No one is crazy enough.
06:06Can you explain to us what's happening?
06:09I'm in a turn in the cave and it's getting thinner.
06:13Dude, I'm literally, like, actually, like, actively kind of stuck in this thing.
06:17Oh my.
06:18Carl, you're making history.
06:20I got like one inch of clearance, bro.
06:24It's been longer than the safe limit for oxygen.
06:28I'm ready.
06:30So before we literally all die and see the underworld for ourselves.
06:34There's no gracefully doing this, is there?
06:36We got out of there as quick as we could.
06:37Because I wanted to live long enough to explore the never-before-seen shafts of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
06:42Where literally less people in modern times have been than have gone to space.
06:50Who wants to ride a camel with me?
06:51Let's do it!
06:52Pet him.
06:53Pet him.
06:54He doesn't want it.
06:55Have you ever been bit by a camel?
06:56Yes.
06:57What?
06:58Yeah.
06:59Does it hurt?
07:00Oh.
07:01I told you.
07:02Another big day of exploring ahead.
07:03This is unbelievable.
07:04Taylor, are you good?
07:05Oh.
07:06Help.
07:07Pull it.
07:08Pull it.
07:09I can't.
07:10Get me off this thing, bro.
07:12Dude, it looks so good.
07:14This is probably one of the coolest shots ever.
07:16Me just riding a camel by one of the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
07:18Bro, this is absolutely insane.
07:20And now, the director of the entire Giza Plateau is joining us for the third pyramid on our list, the Pyramid of Menkaure.
07:27If you look at the bottom, you'll still see some of the granite from 4,600 years ago remaining.
07:32Here's an illustration of what they think it used to look like.
07:35Wow.
07:36But now this is all that remains almost 5,000 years later.
07:40This is my friend Nolan.
07:41Can we send him to go scout up there?
07:44Yes.
07:45I got permission to do something normally illegal.
07:48Nolan, be careful.
07:50Can you just like start yelling at Nolan?
07:51He'll freak out.
07:52You don't really get many opportunities to climb a pyramid.
07:55I want to take it, bro.
07:56Engine.
07:57Engine.
07:58Engine.
07:59Engine.
08:00Engine.
08:01Down?
08:02Yes, down.
08:03Nolan, not a bit.
08:04You got to come down.
08:05Come on.
08:06Yeah, I'm going down.
08:07Engine.
08:08Yella!
08:09Yella!
08:10Hey, he's kidding.
08:11Keep going.
08:12That was a joke.
08:13Oh, my God.
08:14He had me freaking out.
08:15Oh, my God.
08:16I thought I was going to get arrested or something.
08:17Lead the way, sir.
08:18Let's do it.
08:19Whoa.
08:20Wait, wait.
08:21Point the camera down there?
08:22Why is it so dark?
08:23We would switch the light off.
08:25Oh, okay.
08:26That would explain it.
08:27All right.
08:28Lead the way.
08:29The initial descent of the pyramid took us down a shaft over a hundred feet below the ground
08:33to the very first chamber in ancient Egyptian history to have decorative carvings.
08:37What is this?
08:38Yes.
08:39At the creation of false doors.
08:40We didn't have any decoration inside any pyramid from the fourth dynasty except this one.
08:46So this was done four or five thousand years ago?
08:484,600 years.
08:49Furthering our journey deeper into the pyramid, the next shaft brought us to Menkaurei's...
08:54Anti-chamber.
08:55Whoa.
08:56There's so much history in here.
08:58What's in that room?
08:59I can tell you nothing there.
09:00Have you been up there?
09:01No.
09:02How do you know nothing's up there?
09:03Because I can see from here.
09:05Oh, yeah.
09:06You see?
09:07It's just a tunnel, nothing there.
09:08Okay, yeah, you can see this.
09:09Yes.
09:10Always be skeptical.
09:11The pyramid of Menkaurei, known for its complex passageways, had one final descending shaft
09:16that led to the burial chamber.
09:18So this is the king chamber, and it has a vaulted ceiling to relieve the weight.
09:23How did they know that 5,000 years ago?
09:25If you can build a pyramid?
09:26You can build anything.
09:27You can do anything.
09:28You can do anything.
09:29On our way out, I got to thinking, why is there three more pyramids outside next to
09:34this one?
09:35What are these three mini pyramids?
09:36Menkaurei, he got three small pyramids for the queens, the wives.
09:40So Menkaurei had three wives, and these are their tombs.
09:43Yes.
09:44Nolan, come over here.
09:45Oh, God.
09:46If he can have three partners, you can at least find one.
09:49It's a work in progress.
09:50I did discover a mummy.
09:51She's not asking for money, she's always listening to you, never took too much.
09:55It's a good choice for you.
09:56Did you just offer me a mummy?
09:57Yes.
09:58The things we do to find you love.
10:00Our time with Ashraf was coming to an end.
10:02And before he left, I wanted to hear his take on this.
10:04So aliens didn't build the pyramids?
10:06Aliens, come on.
10:07Don't break my heart.
10:08We have 124 pyramids all over Egypt.
10:11So each time I'm calling aliens, come build a pyramid for me.
10:14It can not be like this.
10:15Egyptians, we're the elders.
10:17Tariq.
10:18What?
10:19Don't bring up aliens again.
10:20You didn't.
10:21Egyptians built it.
10:22If you can build a pyramid, you can do anything.
10:24Yeah!
10:25Let's go!
10:26And by anything, I guess that also meant a massive, half-human, half-lion mountain of a sculpture, which I'm sure is crawling with secrets.
10:35And now we're at the speaks!
10:36With Dr. Zahe, the man who basically found everything here.
10:39I read online that there's a temple buried beneath the speaks, filled with gold, and I'm on a mission to find out.
10:45Who is right, Dr. Zahe or all the conspiracy theories on the internet?
10:48Okay, Jimmy.
10:49Yes, sir.
10:50Hit me.
10:51Whoa!
10:52Is that an entrance?
10:53Yes!
10:54I cannot believe I'm entering the Sphinx.
10:56I want to see if that temple's room.
10:58I'm not sure I'm gonna fit.
10:59You will.
11:00Whoa!
11:01This is cool.
11:02Alright, let's see if there's any hidden gold.
11:04Zahe, I just see an empty hole.
11:06Then I need you to give a statement right now.
11:09I...
11:10I need a statement!
11:11Alright, Zahe, there's nothing inside the speaks.
11:13Jimmy, we are going to make history.
11:15And what better way to make history than by leaving a message for the future?
11:19How long do you think this paper will survive down here?
11:21Thousands of years.
11:23Really?
11:24We'll dig it now.
11:25With the letter, can I bury this gold swarm?
11:27Perfect!
11:28This is worth $10,000.
11:29Really?
11:30This is for the future.
11:31Yo!
11:32And I guess the internet conspiracy theories are right,
11:34because the speaks definitely has gold in it now.
11:37Thanks to the rarest swarm in the entire world.
11:39Guys, I'm trusting you not to steal this gold.
11:42At this point, I was starting to wonder what the other boys were doing
11:45until I heard this sound above me.
11:47Zahe, do you hear some helicopters?
11:52I can't believe we're doing this!
11:54Somehow, the boys convinced the Egyptian military and government
11:57to let them fly around in helicopters
11:59while Zahe and I were exploring the speaks.
12:01This is an awful day.
12:02Zahe!
12:04Woo!
12:05But the coolest part of this entire experience is yet to be seen.
12:08When you take us to the top of the Great Pyramid,
12:10you're gonna show stuff on camera that you've never shown before.
12:13Amazing things!
12:14No spoilers!
12:15Bro, this video's gonna keep getting better as we go on.
12:17And before we climb to the top of the pyramid,
12:19we thought, what better way to look for more hidden secrets
12:22than in a place that almost no one gets to go?
12:25Robbie, where are we?
12:26We are at the Tomb of Emery.
12:28One of the places that is completely illegal for people to go in.
12:33That's why you're gonna unlock it.
12:35Before we go in, it's extremely, extremely important not to touch these walls.
12:41Do you hear me, Nolan?
12:42Loud and clear.
12:43You should stay out here.
12:44Just maybe...
12:45Hey, finger food!
12:46I will not touch the walls.
12:47Finger food?
12:48Wall toucher!
12:49Wall toucher?
12:50Hey, Butterfingers.
12:51Ready?
12:52Yeah.
12:53I thought I had seen it all, but nothing could have prepared me
12:55for what I was about to see in this tomb.
12:57Whoa!
12:58Guys, come in here.
13:00Oh my gosh.
13:01Oh, this is beautiful.
13:02This was the tomb of the High Priest at the time,
13:05which is like the Pope of the time.
13:07No one is allowed in here because these colors cannot be hurt
13:10after surviving 4,600 years.
13:13This drawing is 4,600 years old?
13:15Exactly, 4,600 years old.
13:17It's everywhere!
13:18Whoa!
13:19Things like this were sometimes more important than pyramids for us.
13:22They explain the daily life of Egyptians.
13:24This is the one we figured out how ancient Egyptians made wine.
13:29Really?
13:30They're stomping on grapes up here and going through the process to bottling the wine.
13:35So this is like a YouTube video, but 5,000 years ago.
13:37This is a how-to video.
13:39Dude, this is the most beautiful room I've ever been in.
13:42Wait, Carl, there's more over here.
13:43Whoa!
13:44What is all this?
13:45These are normal ancient Egyptians giving you the normal offerings.
13:48We're going to bring the bread and beer to the High Priest Emery.
13:52Our fourth day in Egypt was just getting started.
13:54We're kicking things off by going to the workman's tomb and joining an active excavation.
13:58Today's going to be a great day.
13:59Let's have some fun.
14:00Woo!
14:01And so with only 22 hours left, I thought we'd upgrade from camels to something a little faster.
14:06Are you ready?
14:07Go for it.
14:08Oh boy!
14:09This is insane!
14:10Yeah!
14:11This is so sick!
14:12Yeah!
14:13Woo!
14:14This is way too much fun!
14:15Let's go!
14:16We're 18 being by the pyramids right now.
14:18Why'd we ever ride camels?
14:19Yay!
14:20I feel like I'm an Indian of Jones!
14:23We are now at the workman's tomb.
14:25Let's see if we can find one.
14:26And who better to show us around the workman's tomb?
14:29Once again, Dr. Zahi.
14:31These are the tombs of the pyramid builders.
14:34According to Zahi, this is literally where the people who built the pyramids were buried,
14:38over 4,600 years ago.
14:41In many other tombs, Jimmy, you see beautiful painting, but those people are poor.
14:47This is so beautiful.
14:49This man, his name is Nefer Fis.
14:51Wow.
14:52And I know what you're thinking.
14:53Just because the writing on the wall says the people who built the pyramids are buried
14:57here, it doesn't actually prove that they were.
14:59And I thought the same thing until I saw this.
15:02Wait, wait, wait.
15:03Is that what I think it is?
15:04Is that a skull?
15:05Zahi, I need to ask you something because they're going to question this.
15:08You did not put the skull here.
15:10No, no, no.
15:11This is the exact location of the skeleton.
15:13From 4,600 years ago.
15:14We're not moving at all.
15:15And you're letting me excavate it.
15:17Is that a spine?
15:18Whoa.
15:19Yeah.
15:20I know that all the skeleton here of men and women had a stress on their back.
15:24Okay.
15:25Why?
15:26Because they're moving two-ton blocks.
15:27Exactly.
15:28Yeah.
15:29Very smart guy.
15:30Those, nothing.
15:31Yeah.
15:32You're not saying anything.
15:33And this is why you keep saying that aliens didn't build the pyramids, because the workers'
15:37bodies are literally here.
15:38This might be the coolest thing I've ever done.
15:39Thank you for having me do this, Zahi.
15:41And tonight, we still have an insane adventure left.
15:43We will reveal many secrets for the first time to the world.
15:47This might be the best day ever.
15:48Perfect.
15:49This is the part of the pyramid we're going to be climbing to.
15:52Wish us luck.
15:53And to make sure we explored this entire pyramid, our guide suggested that before we go to the
15:57highest point, we make a stop at the very lowest point, hundreds of feet deep below the pyramid.
16:02Why are we going down this 300-foot tunnel?
16:05Well, you ask for things that no one else does.
16:08Why didn't the pharaohs just build a nice staircase to the top?
16:10Because they wanted to protect their mummies and treasure.
16:12That's the whole point of a pyramid.
16:14Pyramids make me regret being six foot five.
16:16Yeah, dude.
16:17That was a stupid choice.
16:18Bro, look how deep that tunnel goes.
16:20I hate being tall.
16:22Please stand where we're halfway there.
16:23Oh, nowhere close.
16:24And he wasn't lying.
16:25This tunnel kept going for hundreds of feet.
16:28But after almost an hour struggling through these narrow passageways, my knees out.
16:33Jimmy, this feels like we're buried alive.
16:35We finally made it to the bottom.
16:37Whoa.
16:38I can stand.
16:39Rami, is it normal to be lightheaded?
16:41We just crawled down over 300 feet.
16:45I have bad knees.
16:46Does that hurt?
16:47Whoa, this is pretty huge.
16:49When we first discovered this, we came into here.
16:51This massive chamber and nothing was found.
16:54Why was it empty?
16:55That's another decoy.
16:56They went through all this effort just to create a decoy chamber.
16:59Correct, which makes you wonder.
17:00Is the chamber we found the real chamber?
17:02Is it also a decoy?
17:03Which would imply that Khufu's body could still be in here.
17:06Somewhere in the pyramid.
17:07Proving that the pyramids were built as tombs for the kings of Egypt.
17:11But this decoy chamber also included the deepest point in all of the pyramids.
17:15Guys, I'm gonna be the person that's gone the deepest.
17:19I'm at the lowest point of the pyramid!
17:21And now that we've been to the lowest point of the pyramid, let's go to the top.
17:25From here at the bottom-most point, the same long passage took us to where we can meet Dr. Zahi, and begin our ascent to the top of the pyramid.
17:33Now, I need you to choose the five people that will go with us.
17:38Only five?
17:39Five.
17:40Who's standing behind?
17:41Alright.
17:42Rock, paper, scissors, shoot.
17:44No!
17:45Hey Nolan, it was nice knowing you.
17:46Hey, Farron Square.
17:47And so from there, we somehow ended up back in the corridor we went through on day one to get to the king's chamber.
17:53We started the video off going down this tunnel, but to end the video, we're going to the hidden chambers up above.
17:59In the last 5,000 years, less than 50 people that we know of have been up here.
18:02Is this a bad time to say I'm afraid of heights?
18:04I couldn't think of a worse time for you to tell me that.
18:06And let me tell you, it was not easy getting up here.
18:09The top of this ladder led to another tiny passageway.
18:12The final hour of the challenge, and we're making a journey to the top of the pyramid.
18:16This is hard.
18:17Good Jimmy, good boy.
18:20Not gonna lie, I thought this would be much easier.
18:22What is this over here?
18:23We are in the third chamber now.
18:25We have two under us, but the most important one are room number three, four, and five.
18:31Now, room number four.
18:33All right, let's keep her going.
18:34Okay, let's go.
18:35Chamber number four.
18:36Whoa!
18:37Carl, look at this!
18:38Yo!
18:39We're about to head to the tippy top of the pyramid.
18:44This is now my favorite video ever.
18:46Isn't it awesome that Nolan's out here?
18:48Yeah, that's my favorite part of this entire thing.
18:51But anyways, let's head to the top.
18:53Let's do it.
18:54Oh my gosh.
18:55Zahe!
18:56Yes?
18:57How did you do this?
18:58I have no idea.
18:59And just like that, we are now at the highest point inside the pyramid.
19:03We made it, Chandler.
19:05Oh my gosh.
19:06There's so many bats in here.
19:07What is this?
19:08Jimmy!
19:09This is not how I wanted the video to be in.
19:12We got like two minutes left.
19:13It would be a good time for-
19:14Ah!
19:15Stop!
19:16Hold on!
19:17Ah!
19:18Jimmy, come here.
19:19This is one of the names of the gangs who built the pyramids.
19:22Hyper means team.
19:25Sim-su means friends.
19:27Cartouche.
19:28Ho-fu.
19:29Ho-fu.
19:30This means the group, friends slash gang of Ho-fu.
19:33And that was written 4,600 years ago.
19:35Exactly.
19:36Throughout this video, we have learned as much as we could about the origins of the pyramids.
19:41And the Egyptologists have shown us the best evidence they could find.
19:44Egyptians?
19:45Yeah.
19:46We're the builders.
19:47From the pyramids' tomb, to the skeletons buried nearby, which had all been affected by manual labor,
19:52to looking under the sphinx for secret rooms and treasures.
19:54There's not aliens down there.
19:55To researchers, this graffiti is the nail in the coffin.
19:58For anyone who doubts that ancient Egyptians built these pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs.
20:03This is the end of our adventure.
20:05I have no idea why Egypt let us do all the things we did, but I'm eternally grateful.
20:09Shout out to this country.
20:10You guys rock.
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