A must watch Secrets and Legacy of the Great Pyramid.

[00:00:00]respect because I was actually there last last week.

[00:00:02]Is this place >> Giza. Pyramids of Giza. The Great Pyramid of Giza.

[00:00:08]>> [snorts] >> Here we look at it.

[00:00:10]Attributed to the pharaoh Khufu.

[00:00:13]>> [snorts] >> Who was a pharaoh of the fourth dynasty.

[00:00:17]>> What is the mystery here? So again, pyramids are this big stack of like concrete blocks in Egypt. What is the Why is it so mysterious?

[00:00:25]>> Well, first of all, they're not concrete. They're they're hewn limestone um and granite. Uh first of all, it's mysterious for the sheer size of it. Look.

[00:00:36]So you've got roughly 750 ft along each side, okay?

[00:00:41]And they vary in length by only fractions of an inch. They've got it just about spot-on exact on the side length, and you want that in a pyramid because if you get it wrong, you're going to end up with a corkscrew rather than a pyramid.

[00:00:57]If you get it wrong at the bottom, those errors are going to magnify, and they're going to get worse and worse, and it's not going to be a pyramid at the end of the day.

[00:01:04]Secondly, weight calculated at about 6 million tons.

[00:01:09]>> This is going to be very interesting. So stay tuned and watch this.

[00:01:14]>> More than 2 million individual blocks of stone.

[00:01:17]I've climbed the pyramid five times.

[00:01:20]Once I climbed it when there was an event taking place on the Giza Plateau.

[00:01:24]Picnics, basically. And and a lot of Kyrene's just decided to climb the pyramid. As I said, I've climbed it four other times without other people there, but this time, there were hundreds of people on the pyramid.

[00:01:36]That's when I realized how difficult this thing is to make because the biggest danger was the other people.

[00:01:42]Once you're up two or three courses, you fall, you're dead. It's uh it's a 52° slope. There's no way you're going to stop. You're going to come down and still every year people die on the Great Pyramid. That's why they've made it illegal to climb it now.

[00:01:56]So there's that. Then there's the almost perfect alignment of the Great Pyramid to true north, not to compass north, which is about 10 or 11 degrees off true north, but to astronomical north, real north. The Great Pyramid is aligned within 3/60 of a single degree. A Great Pyramid is aligned to that level of precision, 3/60 of a single degree, to true north.

[00:02:19]And they've done that on a 6 million-ton monument, which is 481 ft high, if you take account of its original height, which has a 52-degree slope, which is filled with internal corridors and spaces, Grand Gallery, the ascending, the descending corridors.

[00:02:35]All of this is extremely difficult to do. It is It's not impossible to do because we see it there. Uh could our civilization do it? Yeah, I think we could. Uh but, would we do it? No, I don't think we would. Uh the motive wouldn't be there. People say, "What the Why I mean, why do you want to align it perfectly to true north? It's enough to ask me to build a 6-million-ton monument, but you want it aligned to true north as well? Come on. I mean, that's a really difficult specification.

[00:03:03]We'd find that hard.

[00:03:05]Um a kind of artistry was put to work on the Great Pyramid as well as skill. Let's get rid of any notion that slaves were involved. They were not. There there There wasn't slavery in the Old Kingdom anyway, but this is a work of love from the first to the last stone. It's a work done with great skill and care. It's a beautiful and extraordinary thing both inside and out. It sits almost exactly on latitude 30, which is 1/3 of the way between the North Pole and the Equator. And uh it incorporates the dimensions of the Earth on a scale of 1 to 43,200 in its own dimensions. So, if you take the height of the Great Pyramid and multiply it by 43,200, I'll explain why that number matters.

[00:03:53]Multiply it by that number, you get the polar radius of the Earth. Measure the base perimeter of the Great Pyramid, multiply it by the same factor, 43,200, you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth.

[00:04:05]>> So, slave wasn't involved in it. I'm surprised.

[00:04:09]Let's keep watching, guys.

[00:04:11]>> Archaeologists know this.

[00:04:13]They say it's a coincidence, total coincidence, just by chance.

[00:04:16]However, I could agree with them, actually, if the scale was not 1 to 43,200.

[00:04:24]But, the fact that it's 1 to 43,200 changes everything, because that belongs to a sequence of numbers that is found in ancient mythology all around the world. And those numbers are all multiples of the number 72. And I mentioned at the beginning of our discussion the book by the great historian of science, Giorgio de Santillana, professor of the history of science at MIT. He was the first to identify that these numbers and the imagery that go with them derive from a phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes. I better explain that a little bit. The precession of the equinoxes Everybody's heard the song, "We live in the dawning of the age of Aquarius."

[00:05:06]I'm sure you've heard that.

[00:05:08]>> Uh no comment.

[00:05:09]>> [laughter] >> We live in the dawning of the age of Aquarius.

[00:05:13]That's astrology.

[00:05:15]At the moment, and for the last 2,000 years, on the spring equinox, the sun has risen against the background of the constellation of Pisces.

[00:05:25]That's the age of Pisces. We live in the age of Pisces. It's not an accident that the early Christians used the fish as their symbol.

[00:05:32]>> Mhm.

[00:05:34]>> The next constellation on the zodiac, when you go backwards around it, is Aquarius.

[00:05:40]And the precession is actually caused by a wobble on the axis of the Earth. I'm going to pretend that this is the Earth.

[00:05:45]>> Okay.

[00:05:46]>> And instead of just doing this, while it's doing that, it's also doing that. It's wobbling.

[00:05:52]>> Mhm.

[00:05:53]>> And that [clears throat] affects the rising time and season at which particular stars rise. It affects two things noticeably. One thing it affects is the polestar. At the moment, the polestar is Polaris. The polestar, this is a strong astronomical north.

[00:06:06]It's the star towards which the extended north pole pole of the earth points most directly.

[00:06:12]>> Okay.

[00:06:13]>> At present, it's Polaris. It hasn't always been Polaris. 4,000 years ago, it was Thuban in the constellation of Draco. That's because the earth axis is doing this. At the horizon, it does the same thing with the zodiacal constellations. We shift gradually through each constellation. Last about 2,000 years in each constellation. The great year where we come back to square one is just under 26,000 years, 25,920 years is the convention that's applied in ancient mythology. So, the fact that one of those numbers is the scale used to encode the dimensions of the earth in the Great Pyramid cannot be accidental in my view. It's a deliberate choice. If it was 1 to 57,000, I wouldn't pay attention to it. If it was 1 to 20 1,000, I wouldn't pay attention to it. But 1 to 43,200, that's the number of syllables in the Rigveda, for example. You find this all over the world, everywhere.

[00:07:05]>> So, what does that imply? What suggest?

[00:07:07]>> Uh what it suggests is that incorporated into the building of the Great Pyramid was knowledge that was not supposed to exist 4 and 1/2 thousand years ago. In fact, knowledge that was not supposed to existed until 2,000 years ago.

[00:07:21]Hipparchus of Alexandria is the Greek who was supposed to have discovered precession.

[00:07:25]Uh but the incorporation of precession in the structure of the Great Pyramid says to me that that knowledge is much older. It was already old then.

[00:07:35]>> I really want to make sure I'm clear on this precession thing cuz I'm not I'm not super clear. Um what does it what does it mean precession? It means that there's a certain star pattern that we see once every 20,000 years?

[00:07:45]>> It It It It precesses. It goes backwards.

[00:07:49]The direction through the through the zodiac is is forwards in the normal year, but in the long-term year, because of the wobble, the sunrise against the background of the spring equinox, the sun rises perfectly due east. It always does. It also rises perfectly due east on the autumn equinox. On the summer solstice, the sun rises in the northern hemisphere north of east. And southeast on the on the winter solstice. The key moment for the ancients was the equinox.

[00:08:16]It was considered to define the character of the year. And what defined it was the constellation that housed the sun, that was the house of the sun.

[00:08:25]>> Okay, so the star pattern >> Yeah. The zodiacal constellation. These The constellations of the zodiac lie along what is called the ecliptic, the path of the sun.

[00:08:36]>> Okay.

[00:08:36]>> Okay? The The Earth, the Moon, we're all on the ecliptic within a few degrees above or below it. And And therefore, these are constellations that we can see the sun against the background of.

[00:08:48]>> Mhm.

[00:08:48]>> Constellation like Orion, you'll never see the sun against the background of it. You're only going to see it against the background of the zodiacal constellations that lie on the so-called path of the sun. And those are the 12 familiar constellations of the zodiac.

[00:09:02]And as I say, we're living in the age of Pisces right now. And according to ancient astrology, we're going to be making the transition into Aquarius within about the next 150 years. The sun will have left Pisces and will be rising in Aquarius. So actually, the song is true. We do live in the dawning of the age of Aquarius. The only question is whether that means anything or not. The ancients thought it did.

[00:09:25]We think it doesn't.

[00:09:27]I'm not sure who's right.

[00:09:28]>> So I'm going to repeat this back to you to check if I'm I've got it correctly, but I suspect I might not have. Within the design of the pyramids, there was a number, which you said was 43,200.

[00:09:39]>> It's a scale.

[00:09:40]>> It's a scale that's used for the height and the base perimeter of the Great Pyramid. Base perimeter measure four sides, add it together, height the actual height of the Great Pyramid. It's true original height. It lost about 30 ft in an earthquake in 1301, but you can calculate the true original height from the angle of the of the sides.

[00:10:00]>> Ah, yeah. Right.

[00:10:01]>> Um and when you take that height and multiply it by 43,200, you get the polar radius of the Earth.

[00:10:10]>> You get the radius of the Earth.

[00:10:11]>> The The That's from the center of the Earth to the edge of the Earth. It's not the diameter of the Earth. The diameter's twice the radius.

[00:10:18]>> Mhm.

[00:10:19]>> It's the po- it's the polar radius.

[00:10:21]>> Okay.

[00:10:21]>> A key dimension of the Earth.

[00:10:23]Measure the sides and you get on the same scale, 1 to 43,200, you get the equatorial circumference of the Earth. What the Earth measures at its equator, its largest its largest measure.

[00:10:36]Um and and that uh is either a coincidence or it's deliberate. And because of the number chosen and because that number is all over ancient mythology, I think it's deliberate.

[00:10:48]>> So, that means that they must have known the circumference of the Earth.

[00:10:51]>> Yeah. It means that they knew the circumference of the Earth and it means they chose a place to put the Great Pyramid, which also was relevant.

[00:10:59]Uh this isn't latitude 23 or latitude 37. This is just a fraction off latitude 30° north. So, therefore 1/3 of the way between the equator and the North Pole.

[00:11:12]It's a It's a rel- It's a significant relative. What it's telling us is this monument speaks to the Earth. This monument is locked into the true north of this planet.

[00:11:22]This monument gives you the dimensions of this planet. This monument is speaking to this planet.

[00:11:28]>> How could they possibly know the circumference of the Earth 4,500 years ago?

[00:11:31]>> Because they're a lost civilization.

[00:11:34]Because the map the knowledge comes down from a former time. I don't think the Egyptians knew it. I think it came down I think it was inherited knowledge from what I'm here to advocate for and to speak for the possibility of a major forgotten episode in the human story.

[00:11:50]>> I'm just more curious about what was the intention behind the pyramid.

[00:11:55]I'm just curious about that, but what was the intention behind it?

[00:11:59]There's a beautiful story about the Great Pyramid. If you know anything other than what this legend is saying, you should also let us know, and don't forget to comment your thoughts in the comment section. Thanks for watching, guys.