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00:00Who were the ancient peoples of the world?
00:07And what did they know?
00:14Egyptology tells us that the pyramids were built around 2500 BC.
00:20Is there evidence that the pyramids could be much, much older?
00:30Has traditional science been able to explain why the pyramids were built?
00:35Or is it a puzzle yet to be decoded?
01:00At the geodesic centre of the world, at the mouth of the Nile Delta,
01:19there are pyramids built by an early civilisation clustering at six distinct sites.
01:36One pyramid is up a mountain. It can be seen from space.
01:42Curiously, the inside is open to the air.
01:49What was its function?
01:54Most people are familiar with the Giza Plateau and the Sphinx,
02:01but are not aware of their connection to the other sites.
02:05The sites run parallel to the fertile band along the Nile.
02:12Some sites are unknown, isolated in the middle of the desert.
02:19Other sites are known, but are only partially excavated.
02:26The monumental nature of the sites is hypnotic and stimulates our wonder and curiosity.
02:51All the sites show evidence of sophisticated engineering, advanced technology, and monumental architecture.
03:00Could the ancients have had an understanding of a superior science?
03:10Is it conceivable that there is a correlation between the sky and the ground?
03:23Why do we understand so little about the Egyptians?
03:28We are told their technology was primitive,
03:31yet the temple walls show the ancients making precise calculations.
03:37There is plenty of evidence that paints a fuller picture.
03:41Let's go and see for ourselves.
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04:14So here we are on location at Abu Raush, which is a fascinating site in that it's up a mountain.
04:29This is a pyramid like no other, open to the air.
04:36This site really debunks the theory of pulling stones with rope to get them up on top of
04:43a pyramid in that the stone would have to come up a mountain before it went up a pyramid.
04:54This site is largely isolated and abandoned and many people don't even know it's here.
04:58There's no booth, there's no guard, there's nobody up here.
05:01And I think it's meant to be largely forgotten because it really comes head to head with the
05:07theory about the way the pyramids were built.
05:16When you look around the site you see evidence of small stones that are newer, medium stones
05:22and then the ancient large stones.
05:26At Abu Raush we can see evidence of machine tool marks.
05:36We know the granite came from distant quarries.
05:39The polished, concave slabs of stone could not possibly have been made with chisels.
05:47This is not the only example of machine tooling.
05:50We're now going to go inside the pyramid and walking along this ledge.
06:01And what we'll see is there's a passageway here that goes down into the pyramid even though
06:07it's open and exposed.
06:09So let's go down.
06:22If you stand here all the way through this area the stone seems to be blackened and it's
06:28evidence of high heat of some kind.
06:32I tend to think this was going on during the ancient times but it's still very curious.
06:36There's a pit here and the stone's obviously broken and I think that they were heating something.
06:58This is the northern point of the Band of Peace.
07:01It's the top pyramid in a series of 22 pyramids that go from north to south.
07:06So we are now north of the Giza Plateau.
07:14As you can see on this map of the Band of Peace, all these sites trace the shape of the river Nile.
07:21A new theory suggests that the Nile once flowed right in front of the pyramids and the causeways
07:28of all the sites touched the river itself.
07:34Considering that the Nile is the lifeblood of Egypt, just as rivers all around the world
07:39are vital to the cultures living by them, it seems obvious that important sacred structures
07:46would be built directly on the river, not 8 miles away from it.
07:56How long would it take this river to migrate 8 miles?
08:00Looking at geological time provides yet another clue to finding out when these magnificent structures
08:06may have been built.
08:20This probably was a seabed and that the mouth of the Nile started here and that moved along
08:26in front of all these pyramids.
08:32One of the features of each of the sites in this area is that you can see the pyramids
08:37of the next site from the original.
08:41From here, the volume of the Great Pyramid and the Second Pyramid look the same.
08:45When we get to the next site, we see the volumes are obviously different.
08:51Yeah.
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09:20Yeah, it seems to be and is good so much.
09:21It's hard not to be amazed by the pyramids of the Giza Plateau.
09:41The Great Pyramid covers 13 acres.
09:46It was constructed of 2.3 million stones weighing up to 200 tons each.
09:51They must have had a level of engineering science that was unbelievable compared to what
10:00we have now.
10:01Indeed, they managed to have an order of which they based on this so-called cosmic order,
10:07which lasted for 3,000 years.
10:11No other civilization has done this.
10:16Why is ancient Egypt still so mysterious to us?
10:20Are we looking in the wrong place?
10:23Or are we looking in the wrong way?
10:27We look at everything through our socio-cultural context and so it's very difficult for us
10:35to look through that and see another possibility for how life could have been.
10:40And we also have to be willing to depart from our own traditional ways of looking at things.
10:48That's what's really stopping us from understanding the ancients.
10:51We may need to reconsider what we've been told and what we think we've seen.
11:02For example, instead of thinking that the Egyptians put the causeway at an angle because the Sphinx
11:17was in the way, we could consider another reason.
11:20At summer solstice, the sun rises along the causeway in front of the Great Pyramid and moves
11:27across the sky, setting between the Second and the Great Pyramid, making it hotter in summer.
11:35In the winter, the sun rises in line with the Grand Causeway by the Second Pyramid and sets
11:41between the Second and Third Pyramids, making a short trajectory resulting in cooler weather.
11:47It appears that the causeways are deliberately pointing towards the rising sun on the summer and winter solstices.
11:57Orthodox Egyptologists insist that the pyramids were tombs.
12:03Of all of the wild theories floating around the pyramids, the actual wildest is the one that's accepted
12:09without question by all Egyptologists, which is that the pyramids served as tombs.
12:14All of those concepts about it being a tomb are nonsense.
12:18Of all of the theories for which there's zero evidence, that one has zero squared evidence.
12:24In fact, I don't even think there's good evidence that it ever was a tomb for any pharaoh whatsoever.
12:30I mean, it's obvious we don't find mummies in the pyramids.
12:33There's no question you can bring up Egypt that isn't debatable.
12:37The Egyptians themselves, in at least one stone tablet and one papyrus, tell the story
12:44that ancient Egypt is much, much older than the Egyptologists think it is.
12:49Where the Great Pyramid sits, I believe, is on a much more ancient site.
12:55Under the Great Pyramid to this day is the descending passage in the subterranean chamber.
13:01I think there's very good evidence that that was carved out in what we would call pre-dynastic times.
13:07That goes back to a very ancient day.
13:09Based on the hieroglyphics that we have, the Second Pyramid was in many ways regarded as the primary pyramid on the Giza Plateau.
13:19Actually, from many angles on the Giza Plateau, the Second Pyramid is dominant.
13:26The structure underneath it, or the base of it, was older than even the Great Pyramid.
13:33There was a platform-type structure where the Second Pyramid is now.
13:38You can see from the platform that it's larger than the pyramid, suggesting there was once something else there.
13:45Around the base is a ring of granite, red granite.
13:51And at least from what I've seen in Egypt, this is something that was often used around the bases or on structures.
13:59When they were renewing them, they were refurbishing them, they were taking older structures, re-energizing them, rebuilding them.
14:07It's demonstrable in that the Second Pyramid is very definitely built in at least two stages.
14:14The Third built in two or more stages.
14:17I mean, we really don't at the moment have anything to even provisionally to date them with.
14:22With the Sphinx, we do.
14:24Looking at the weathering on the Sphinx and the Sphinx enclosure, that weathering was clearly formed by runoff from rain, from precipitation.
14:36We have the severe weathering, which 99% of the geologists of the world who've heard our evidence concur that it is indeed water weathering and precipitation induced.
14:48So it has to have been done by heavy rainfalls in the distant past.
14:51And the question then is, how distant was that past?
14:55That runoff is coming from up on the plateau, follow up the plateau northwest of the Sphinx, you ultimately hit the Great Pyramid.
15:05The natural topography of the water would run down the back of the Sphinx enclosure, and that's where you see the greatest amount of water precipitation weathering.
15:15To have that surface hydrology, you need to have the plateau relatively intact.
15:21Now, if you look, currently there's a big quarry interrupting the water flow.
15:27So we know that the water flow that was causing that weathering had to occur before that quarry existed.
15:36That quarry is well known Egyptologically by inscriptions, etc.
15:42That was a quarry that was used when the Great Pyramid was built.
15:46So that means that the Sphinx must have been carved earlier, the water was still running off, running down the back of the enclosure wall,
15:55and causing that weathering before that quarry was a quarry.
16:00Which means that occurs before the Great Pyramid was built.
16:05Basically, we have right there disrupted the traditional chronology.
16:10Even Egyptologists agree that the Giza Plateau has a unified ground plan.
16:17How does the Great Pyramid display evidence of this correlation?
16:23I do think when it was what we would call partially built, it was used as an astronomical observatory.
16:32The Grand Gallery, perfectly aligned north-south, opening to the southern sky, would have made a wonderful observational tube, essentially, looking up into the sky.
16:42We have shafts pointing to certain stars.
16:48We know the stars because they're mentioned in the text.
16:51We, therefore, can use precession astronomy to place the stars back in alignment with these monuments, in this case the pyramids, for example.
17:01The Great Pyramid stands exactly at the center of the largest land mass on the planet.
17:08Yet, we had no idea of the position of continents until 600 years ago.
17:14How could they have known?
17:16I've shown that Giza, if interpreted as being Orion's belt counterpart, then the layout of the three pyramids, as they are to the ground meridian, would fit a celestial meridian of these stars at 10,500 BC.
17:36They reached the very lowest point in their up and down moon.
17:43Looking east, you had the Sphinx looking at the constellation of Leo.
17:48So you have two major monuments on the same side, looking at constellations that are representative of these features on the ground in the sky.
17:59We have evidence that they did it.
18:02If the pyramids were built, and the alignments were there, now, could the pyramid builders have been aware of these alignments?
18:11Or why not?
18:18With this evidence, it would seem that it's time to rethink what we've been told.
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18:25So it's a follow-up.
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18:49Here we are at Abu Ghurab. You can see that there's no road, no ticket booth, no nothing.
19:04This is a very isolated area. And we're going to walk through a mango grove.
19:12If you were to get on a camel and ride south from Giza Plateau, you'd come up over the sand dune
19:18and see these other pyramids.
19:23So as we approach up here, you see a pile of rubble.
19:26But really what it is, is the base of the largest obelisk that ever was in Egypt.
19:37Well here we come up to the platform of the crystal altar.
19:42You can see that it's made of quartz, if you look up close here.
19:46These little bits of crystal are coming right off it.
19:51And then, we have a laser cut six foot circle in the middle.
19:57And then these points, these huge slabs, these pointing to the four cardinal directions.
20:04Made out of single solid pieces of quartz.
20:08So here we have some stone basins that were found by Sir Walter Emery years and years ago.
20:18And the Department of Antiquities lined all these up with the idea of maybe bringing them to the museum.
20:24And they really didn't know what to call them or what they were.
20:28So they just decided to leave them here and they've been here ever since.
20:35But if you look at the features on these, they're actually made out of quartz crystal.
20:42We'll look up close at some of the places, but when there's little fragments that break off,
20:46it's actually a hunk of quartz.
20:48And there are these little holes inside and they say that they were for animal sacrifices
20:52and the blood would drip through.
20:54I don't know.
20:55I really don't think that's what happened.
20:58No one has ever come up with a theory that satisfies me about what they're for.
21:06Is there anyone who knows more about this area?
21:09Hakim Awian is an indigenous wisdom keeper who was born in the village of Abu Sir.
21:20He trained in Europe as an archaeologist.
21:25Hakim lived his whole life in the area known as the Band of Peace.
21:30The Giza Plateau was his front yard.
21:391936-37, the Sphinx then was covered with sand up to the neck.
21:44And there was my playing yard.
21:49There are tunnels.
21:50I used to walk in these tunnels.
21:52In water, I used to crawl sometime because it's narrow.
21:57At Abu Jarab, we have a crystal altar,
22:03a round disc in the middle of four,
22:05a symbol of hotep.
22:07And the word hotep means peace and food.
22:11This round disc, it's a lid on a shaft about 180 feet deep
22:20to the level of the ocean.
22:23And that is still running water in there,
22:25and you can feel it while you're in the area.
22:30These instruments were not found in a line like you see today,
22:34the nine of them,
22:35but they found around the area.
22:37And there is still somewhere to be found.
22:40And then we have the oldest obelisk located in Egypt.
22:47Next to that altar,
22:48what's left of the what you call hieroglyph writing,
22:53the Sufi writing.
22:54It has the obelisk,
22:56and the disc of the sun,
22:58and the word saying,
23:00the heart of the sun.
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23:40Arriving at Abusir, we can imagine the ancient priests and priestesses who trained as high-level initiates here.
23:49Just as we have monks, nuns, and priests nowadays, the ancients trained initiates in ritual practices that served the highest good of mankind.
24:00Here we are at Abusir, and it's very obvious you can see the old riverbed.
24:10You can see the pyramids of Saqqara and the pyramids of Giza from here.
24:14But more importantly, you can see the old causeway, and you can imagine that boats used to come along the river,
24:20and then the high-level initiates would just step off the boat and walk up the grand causeway
24:26and through the pillars into the temple, which is in front of the main pyramid.
24:31Spiritual connections would nourish the initiates, instilling a sense of peace and purpose.
24:40These elegant columns are carved from solid granite.
24:44There's something about these black floors that you just imagine them being polished and the beauty in here.
24:58Similarly, you can see a beautiful black floor in the temple to the east of the Great Pyramid.
25:03The rituals of ancient Egyptians were dictated by the stars.
25:13For example, the ancients tracked the movement of the most prominent star in the night sky, Sirius.
25:21Through watching night after night, season after season,
25:25they realized that this star would drop below the horizon
25:29and remain out of sight for 70 days each year.
25:34Its return was awaited with anticipation
25:37because it coincided with the flooding of the Nile.
25:42Now, what happens during those 70 days?
25:45If you observe the sky,
25:48you will notice that the sun reaches a certain point
25:51in its apparent cycle along the zodiac.
25:56It's somewhere above Orion
25:58at the beginning of the 70 days.
26:01And it drifts
26:03approximately a degree every day
26:06towards the constellation of Leo.
26:09So the 70 days are bracketed
26:11by Leo at a point
26:15somewhere above Orion.
26:17That point
26:19is where the Pleiades are.
26:22In the sky, it's very clear.
26:24I mean, we know what happens during the 70 days.
26:26Now, assuming on the ground
26:28that the three stars
26:29are represented by the three pyramids of Giza
26:32and that the temple of Heliopolis represents
26:35the constellation of Leo,
26:40then
26:41you have another feature.
26:42You have the Nile that separates them both.
26:48Similarly in the sky,
26:49the sun
26:52at the beginning of the 70 days
26:54is about to cross the Milky Way
26:56and head towards Leo.
26:59So if you take the three stars
27:01of Orion's belt
27:03as being the three pyramids,
27:04then you have a scale.
27:06You know the distance
27:07and therefore,
27:08you know the stellar scale
27:09that you're talking about.
27:10And if you use that scale
27:11and you work on the same scale,
27:14then the position of Abu Sir
27:20fits the Pleiades.
27:23And surprisingly, there are
27:25five, six pyramids there
27:27and there are six or seven stars there
27:29and they seem to be in a cluster.
27:31And indeed, the sun's path
27:34is just below the Pleiades.
27:36It's not through them.
27:37It's just below them.
27:38And odd enough,
27:40we find the sun temples
27:42just below the Abu Sir pyramids.
27:45So we've got sun temple
27:46to sun temple.
27:47I now call it sun stations.
27:50It looks like
27:51these were the stations
27:53that on the ground,
27:55the solar king performed
27:56these 70 days rituals.
27:59A bit like the stations of the cross.
28:02So you can see them
28:03in a much more archaic
28:06and grandiose way.
28:07The king went along
28:10to these stations,
28:11if you like,
28:13to perform his rituals,
28:15his passion.
28:17And I'll see you next time.
28:19I'll see you next time.
28:20Bye.
28:20Bye.
29:17Here we are at Saqqara.
29:27This is the famous Step Pyramid of Josa.
29:31Josa is a title to the King of the Third Dynasty, 2900 BC, roughly said the books.
29:42The Step Pyramid is located in a big courtyard, much, much older than the pyramid itself.
29:50And you can compare yourself with the same eye.
29:52You look at the pyramid and you look at the wall, you can see the difference.
29:59These chunks of stone in front of Hakim are quartz crystal characteristic of the area.
30:05If we go back to the ceiling here, then it reflects the crystal tile on the ground.
30:12This is what's left of it.
30:13This has been quarried by the natives in the area in the 17th century.
30:22We see the remains of a quartz floor at Giza, in the temple to the east of the Second Pyramid.
30:31Now I'm pointing the Jid pillar, which is symbolizing one of the ancient gods, Osiris.
30:40And Jid is a word we still use to address the older people, like grandmother and grandfather, Jid.
30:49It goes back to the story of Osiris and his brother Seth, the bad guy, who put Osiris in a coffin,
30:57throw him in the ocean.
30:59The ocean taken place, Phoenicia, Lebanon today.
31:06And there is the cedar tree growth.
31:08And the roots of the cedar tree capture this coffin.
31:12Till it has been found by his beloved sister, Isis.
31:19She cry.
31:20Our tears touch his body.
31:24And they live together again for a short while, short enough to make a baby with the name of Horus.
31:33The story of Isis, Osiris, and Horus is fundamental to Egyptian cosmology.
31:42Isis is connected to the star Sirius, and Osiris is connected to the constellation of Orion.
31:50Horus is their prodigal son.
31:53I'm going to take you now to see that hospital, the healing with the sound.
32:01Stories about ancient healing techniques were passed down from generation to generation
32:07by the elders.
32:09Hakim explains how sound played a part in diagnosing and healing patients.
32:16That line of construction you see, like three chambers, it's what's left of the house of
32:22the spirit.
32:24And it's a healing system with a sound.
32:29It's a medical investigation table.
32:33And the patient have the right to use either side of the stairs.
32:38One on the right, one on the left.
32:40So he has to follow or she has to follow her own antenna to climb up there and choose the
32:45point to where she stands.
32:47Because each point is connected to a chick chamber.
32:51We have 22 of them, 11 on each side, no ceiling.
32:56And when you go inside, you can see a niche where the physician put his head in the niche
33:01to see what's the matter with his patient laying on this table.
33:07And that works with the sound.
33:09And the sound, the source is running water in a tunnel underneath here.
33:15So it's a big map of tunnels underneath here.
33:21Let's consider that the pyramid sites along the Band of Peace are sophisticated, harmonic
33:27structures, not only mirroring positions of the stars, but designed to replicate harmonic cavities
33:36of the human body.
33:39It seems that the chambers in the pyramids are harmonically tuned to a specific frequency
33:45or musical tone.
33:49Sound healing techniques were used to restore the patient's body to the correct harmonic within.
33:55Very cool.
33:58This is the view of Abu Seer to the north of Saqqara and here is the view of Dashua to the south.
34:25Here we are on location at the Bent Pyramid.
34:55What you'll notice here is that the construction has two angles.
35:01Traditional Egyptologists will tell you that the Egyptians were practicing building pyramids.
35:08And they started building at one angle, then changed their minds partway through.
35:14This is the kind of thinking that paints the ancient Egyptians as infantile and misguided.
35:19But is there another way of looking at it?
35:21We call these constructions at that area in Dashur related to a king called Sneferu.
35:32At Dashur, there are three pyramids with three burial chambers in each, nine in total.
35:40Traditional Egyptology tells us that the entire site was built by Sneferu.
35:47If the established story that the pyramids are tombs is correct, why would Sneferu have needed so many?
35:55Sneferu would have had nine different possibilities and options for where he would have been buried, which again is illogical.
36:05So this comes back to the fact that understanding the Egyptians in terms of traditional Egyptology means that they were misguided and illogical.
36:13So, I don't think this was the case.
36:18Now, when you come to the word Sneferu, sin means double.
36:23Sneferu is harmony, so it's double harmony.
36:25It's not a name of a person, but it's the energy we get from this construction.
36:33Let's consider that the pyramid sites along the Band of Peace are sophisticated harmonic structures.
36:40It seems that the chambers in the pyramids were harmonically tuned to different frequencies or musical tones.
37:01The band pyramid, it has two chambers for two different sounds.
37:10Each chamber, in each pyramid then, could be exemplifying sound technology with distinct tones, creating huge fields of harmonic resonance.
37:34At Dashua, we have the Red Pyramid and the Black Pyramid.
37:40The Bent Pyramid is covered in white Tura limestone.
37:45So we have red, white and black.
37:49Maybe this is a clue to the Giza pyramids also having distinct colours in the past.
37:54It would seem that the Great Pyramid would have been shimmering white with its casing stones.
38:01The second pyramid still glimmers red.
38:05And the third pyramid has the remnants of black stones.
38:09This is the old riverbed where the Nile flowed in times past.
38:19Here is the Black Pyramid.
38:22Egyptologists say the pyramid builders were experimenting and they miscalculated.
38:26So the pyramid broke apart.
38:29Could there be a different explanation?
38:30Another pyramid with similar construction, a hundred kilometres south of the Band of Peace, is known as the Maidum Pyramid.
38:40Today when you walk around the Maidum Pyramid, you will find out that on the ground is a coat of black colour flint.
38:50And the evidence is this.
38:54When you pick up one of these flints, you see it's black at the top and the bottom is a different colour.
39:03And there is a catastrophe happening over there.
39:06I want you to look at the ground.
39:08You can see a coat of smoke affect the flints on the ground.
39:13Maidum is not the only place that looks as though there was an explosion.
39:18Look at this giant crack in the solid stone of the Red Pyramid.
39:26It would have taken a huge force to crack the solid rock.
39:32There is a crack in the subterranean chamber in the Great Pyramid.
39:38And there is another one in the Grand Gallery.
39:44There are weird chemical burns in the Red Pyramid.
39:47What could have caused these?
39:51Old photos of the King's Chamber in the Great Pyramid show the stone as black.
39:56The room was cleaned and restored.
39:59And now we can see the walls of pink granite.
40:02The granite sarcophagus has a broken corner.
40:05And the wall next to it has a giant crack.
40:08What kind of force could have caused this?
40:16Is the Department of Antiquities erasing evidence under the guise of restoration?
40:21Where did we get the history of Egypt?
40:31Herodotus was a Greek historian in the 5th century BC.
40:35He wrote from his perspective, with help from local people, and we have been repeating it ever since.
40:41It's a fake story.
40:45I want you to know yourself, to wake up, to wake the senses and look carefully what you are looking at.
40:53What have you seen of the pyramids today?
40:58That's what's left of it.
41:00Being abused.
41:01People quarry stones from there.
41:03Anybody can go and pick up stones and build a church, mosque, house, palace.
41:10It's not taken good care of by our Minister of Culture and the Antiquities Department.
41:17I have to say this.
41:22The story leaves many questions unanswered.
41:34Maybe it is time we use the evidence to reconsider what we've been told.
41:47We need to look with fresh eyes and use a different time frame to reconstruct the story of ancient Egypt.
42:00The story leaves many questions unanswered.
42:30The story leaves many questions unanswered.
42:37Maybe it is time we ask for the story of ancient Egypt.
42:39We are, too.
42:42We are, too.
42:43We are, too.
42:46We are, too.
42:52We are, too.