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@uknoono7603
August 8, 2026 at 9:31 am
the person in the video has an extremely hostile and abrupt demeanor.
@John-Smith02
August 8, 2026 at 10:26 am
Extremely hostile? I don’t think I’d say that.
@uknoono7603
August 8, 2026 at 11:18 am
@John-Smith02 I would, and I have.
@NicolaescuCalin
Some very suspicious behaviors on YouTube, no doubt.
@36_SaneKicks
August 8, 2026 at 12:47 pm
I think that’s you projecting buddy. She seems very nice and knowledgeable. Literally not a drop of hostility nor abruptness…
@uknoono7603
August 8, 2026 at 2:11 pm
@36_SaneKicks not even in the robust pronunciation of the word basic?
we obviously have different metrics of sensitivity when it comes to precaution and alertness.
@elizabethdixon5536
August 8, 2026 at 6:51 pm
Editing makes her sound like this. They cut her pauses.
@morningsidedriverock
August 8, 2026 at 9:35 am
Don’t forget that pyramids has 8 sides.
@John-Smith02
August 8, 2026 at 10:28 am
How so?
@domdanbok
August 8, 2026 at 10:54 am
@John-Smith02
Google it . 🫥
@NicolaescuCalin
August 8, 2026 at 9:45 am
:)) wow, impressive. you nailed it !!!! I never thought the power of a short video could be so massive.
did you guys becamse so silly because of getting replaced by AI too or something ? :))
@John-Smith02
August 8, 2026 at 10:28 am
Are you a bot or something? That comment is pretty vague and can be used on a variety of videos.
@NicolaescuCalin
August 8, 2026 at 10:35 am
@John-Smith02 Do you even grasp the complexity of the subject Mr. “bot or something” ?
… was my 1 minute – effort – rant too much ?
@HarietDubman
August 8, 2026 at 11:25 am
@N@NicolaescuCalin I mean you said almost nothing substantive. Either you’re a bot or just a poor communicator.
@John-Smith02
August 8, 2026 at 12:28 pm
@HarietDubman 100%
@NicolaescuCalin
August 8, 2026 at 2:38 pm
@HarietDubmanthis video doesn’t even deserve to be watched so building an argument about how superficial it is seems pointless, so my intention was to make fun of it, not debate it. are you dumb too ?
@user-zp8pn4no8k
August 8, 2026 at 9:49 am
Why dont you show us how its done then if youre such an expert? 😂
@John-Smith02
August 8, 2026 at 10:27 am
Gee, maybe it would take probably hundreds of people to build the pyramids…😱
Crazy
@Sariyah-y7n
August 8, 2026 at 9:57 am
aliens: *exist*
physics: *exists*
ancient egyptians: hold my water bucket ……
@John-Smith02
August 8, 2026 at 10:25 am
Bot
@SuperNintendoChalmers1
August 8, 2026 at 10:01 am
So much cope in this video. Sorry lady, you just don’t know, no one does.
@Aidan1488
August 8, 2026 at 11:43 am
So much literary ignorance in your comment.
She’s not saying “this is how they did it”, she’s clearly saying “based on what evidence we have, this is the most likely explanation” which mean two completely different things.
Learn to understand what is being said to you before you go around accusing others of coping
@Cupofgo
August 8, 2026 at 10:16 am
Would it have been possible for them to use an animal-based lubricant of some like, like lard to grease the tracks?
@sfowler1017
August 8, 2026 at 10:37 am
1) That’s a lot of valuable, labor intensive to obtain animal fat.
2) The humans pulling would slip on it; they need all the traction they can get.
@keysersoze9592
August 8, 2026 at 10:37 am
Kinda tired of the implication slave workers were not used during the building of the pyramids. Every instance of mankind had free and cheap labor but during this period they just conveniently decided not to use it? I am not buying it
@domdanbok
August 8, 2026 at 10:56 am
The blocks were levitated . Duh
@Splay249
August 8, 2026 at 11:01 am
I heard they made a huge cube and just took off bricks and made more pyramids with the left overs until there was nothing left to build with
@Bjorn-Lucent
August 8, 2026 at 11:53 am
So the Coral museum was built with ramps by one guy. Where did Egyptians get all the wood for these ramps and rollers? They’re intentionally hiding the acoustic levatators. Either they’re taught to lie or taught to be ignorant.
@teppens71
August 8, 2026 at 12:07 pm
Wouldn’t surprise me if they made a ramp going around it then filled the ramp in as they came back down essentially turning it into the outside layer of the pyramid
@GamingWithUncleJ
August 8, 2026 at 4:11 pm
I think theyve done scans revealing this very fact
@teppens71
August 8, 2026 at 5:34 pm
@GamingWithUncleJit just made the most sense to me but if you think about it building a ramp that can withstand the weight of the blocks is impressive in and of itself
@brandonselby9738
August 8, 2026 at 12:33 pm
The way the pyramids were built is so interesting because almost no Egyptian bothered to write down how it was done. Everyone just knew. Until everyone with that knowledge died…
@mi5anthrope
August 8, 2026 at 9:41 pm
I mean she just explained it, people have built pyramids all around the world. It’s just a big pile of rocks lol. That’s all you really did before cellphones and the internet – stack rocks, carve rocks, do war with rocks, that’s it Everything was rocks until about 1945
@pumasoccer90
August 9, 2026 at 5:14 pm
@mi5anthrope the magnitude of those pyramid rocks makes you sound dumb af
@elkfeld
August 8, 2026 at 12:36 pm
I’ve been to Giza and Masada. There’s no sign of massive ramps at Giza for any of the pyramids there which each built over millennia. At Masada you can still see remnants of the massive ramp the Romans built to haul their siege machines up.
@36_SaneKicks
August 8, 2026 at 12:44 pm
Right… They took them down at Giza when they were done… Giza was the ultimate project of the time in Egypt and no expense was spared to do it as well as possible and to take their time to complete it. There’s evidence of ramps at many other Egyptian sites because those were projects that were often left incomplete. That’s how we know that they used ramps for large projects like this.
@elkfeld
August 8, 2026 at 2:33 pm
@36_SaneKicks
As the video says there’s no evidence of ramps at Giza. The Great Pyramid is gargantuan. There’d still be evidence of soil disruption.
@owlsaboveproductions
August 8, 2026 at 12:47 pm
LIES ALL LIES. WHITE LIES
@Dark_AbsoI
August 8, 2026 at 12:54 pm
That one AI video of the giants building the pyramids was living in our heads rent free for like a good month a couple of years ago
@ivanaschell9842
August 8, 2026 at 12:56 pm
Why did they made the bricks so big and difficult to move if they knew what they were using them for?
@lawrencefrost9063
August 9, 2026 at 3:34 pm
Why make big rock big? Is that what you are asking? Why not a trillion pebble sized rocks instead?
@Billybobble1
August 8, 2026 at 1:01 pm
Yeah I don’t buy that guys just dragged it up a ramp, they were way cleverer than that, and we are still too stupid to realise how they did it. I do remember one guy displaying an impressive system to shift the blocks with minimal human effort, but it didn’t really help understanding how they got them to the top. Just admit it historians, we DON’T KNOW! It’s okay, it’s much worse to say something with confidence when the story is so full of holes.
@jebdunkins6796
August 8, 2026 at 3:35 pm
No wonder they drank so much beer.
I’d want a drink after all that too
@GamingWithUncleJ
August 8, 2026 at 4:10 pm
“Itd take a lot of men…”
Good thing they only had like 1.5 million peoplr around to help
@HMBRX-f7g
August 8, 2026 at 4:27 pm
Who said the ramp had to be shallow
@sheLovesG
August 8, 2026 at 4:41 pm
LOL! Umm, no
@rnjesus9950
August 8, 2026 at 5:05 pm
Can’t use wooden rollers and just move the ones in back to the front as it moved?
@zweisteinya
August 8, 2026 at 5:08 pm
Typical college-educated-moron; pieces of embedded timbers radio-carbon dated to 14000 BCE . Before the Great Flood before the BLIEble “great flood” of the MANY ‘NOAHS’
@OldWalkingCrow
August 8, 2026 at 5:42 pm
Counterweight is easier then brute force pulling. A sled of sandbags pulls down one side, while a sled with a block or rubble is lifted up the other. Think bucket brigade but with sand bags. Multiples of lift systems could operate at the same time.
@jonny87kz
August 8, 2026 at 9:38 pm
It was aliens…
@aaronadkins8234
August 9, 2026 at 4:56 am
In order to complete the pyramid in the timeframe the Egyptologists have given, one of these blocks weight 2 tons or more, would need to be laid every 4.5 minutes, 24hrs a day. She says this would have been “difficult”. Lady, that’s the most impressive thing humans have ever done, ever. They would have to lay a block in less time than it takes to smoke a cigarette. Every 4 and half minutes for 22 years. No room for a single mistake.
@wyzrd777
August 9, 2026 at 11:06 am
Counter weights probably helped.
@F3RG
August 9, 2026 at 11:52 am
Crazy to think aliens invented ramps just to build the pyramids
@mikebro674
August 9, 2026 at 12:50 pm
do you really believe this? 😐
@codymoe4986
August 10, 2026 at 4:52 am
As opposed to believing an alien civilization flew to Earth in their spaceship and helped early humans build a rockpile???
@baseball1257
August 9, 2026 at 12:52 pm
Give it up lady. Everybody knows by now that the Martians built the pyramids
@argentummolonlabe
August 9, 2026 at 3:19 pm
the foundation blocks are unknown in size or how they moved those.
@jeffl0385
August 9, 2026 at 3:36 pm
Nah, definitely aliens
@NOTREALQC
August 9, 2026 at 7:12 pm
They’d be going through a lot of wooden sledges, in a place where wood’s a hot commodity.
@SysterYster
August 10, 2026 at 1:35 pm
The rich always get what they want, no matter the cost.
@NOTREALQC
August 10, 2026 at 1:38 pm
@SysterYster you cant have a thing and want it too
@SysterYster
August 11, 2026 at 1:14 pm
@NOTREALQC I can. I want tea, and I have tea. But I think you meant: You can’t eat the cake and have it. But the rich have more than they need, always have.
@NOTREALQC
August 11, 2026 at 1:22 pm
@SysterYster you either don’t know what want means, what have means or what both mean.
@JAireal2002
August 9, 2026 at 9:23 pm
Ramps
Crane
Levitation
All three seem impossible for different reasons
@RoseOfMadina
August 9, 2026 at 9:26 pm
Djinns made it.
@BobMarley-dx4vi
August 9, 2026 at 10:31 pm
At the end of the day no one knows how they were built because no one was there. Goodnight god bless
@yvettemarshallONE
August 10, 2026 at 1:30 am
I don’t believe it. 🦃
@joannedelapie3072
August 10, 2026 at 2:30 am
Uh… I thought it has been proven that they made the stones themselves into big wheels by putting crescent-shaped pieces of wood onto the flat surfaces and rolled the stones up.
@Malusdarkblades11
August 10, 2026 at 5:47 am
Why did they not use rollers? Like put small trees infront of the slege?
@3zar20
August 10, 2026 at 8:20 am
I don’t think the ramp and wood sledge possible, with the astronomical weight, even with water to make it easier to slide, it will sunk and stuck in the ramp. To build the ramp that possible to carry that astronomical weight, it would be more massive feats than build the pyramids.
@vivian3371
August 10, 2026 at 8:35 am
THEY WERE DATA CENTERS THAT IS WHY IS ALL ARROUND THEM LAND BECOME A DESERT. IN WHOLE WORLD ONCE UPON TIME THERE WERE WATER….
@StrawB0ss
August 10, 2026 at 9:02 am
I’m on team straight ramp for the bottom third and cranes or counterweights for the top 2/3rds.
@Akuryoutaisan21
August 10, 2026 at 9:08 am
I think it’s more likely they had some kind of crane/pulley system that was dismantled after use. Would be a lot easier than building and demolishing a ramp
@gilvis4052
August 11, 2026 at 9:45 pm
A ramp would be way, way easier than a crane system. First off, sliding objects is much more energy efficient than picking them straight up. Even in the modern day, we would barely have the capacity to pick them straight up. Sliding is a necessity here. Then, unless the crane system was as large as the pyramid itself, they would need to constantly remove and re-anchor it in order to reach the spots intended for new blocks. A ramp system would just be set up as they go along and then be removed all at once after they finish.
@StudioComposer
August 10, 2026 at 9:32 am
Why use long spiralling ramps when you could just winch & tackle at each corner, lifting the blocks up through the middle as you go?
@A.C-o3h
August 10, 2026 at 11:03 am
What’s her name?
@shoji...
August 10, 2026 at 4:35 pm
Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock
@A.C-o3h
August 10, 2026 at 4:47 pm
@shoji… Thanks, I’ll love to know more about Egyptian buildings and religion
@TimmyME
August 10, 2026 at 12:44 pm
sounds all made up
@SysterYster
August 10, 2026 at 1:30 pm
They used boats to get the stones close to the pyramid, then sleds across the sand/mud, and ramps up the pyramid. People who scream aliens are just silly and and have way too much wishful thinking clouding their thinking.
@Showmetheevidence-
August 10, 2026 at 3:48 pm
This still doesn’t explain a lot of the wild geometry & accuracy of the pyramids though
@luism.5999
August 10, 2026 at 7:55 pm
😂😂😂😂😂 women…
@TerezaTaylor-l8f
August 11, 2026 at 1:56 am
This is ridiculous. Every historian claiming you can pull several tons of granite up any slope is an idiot. Try to push somebody in a wheelchair up a ramp to a shop, you will know how hard it is. When you scale it up, it’s not practical at all. Egyptologists should talk to engineers before they spew out this bs.
@twink276
August 11, 2026 at 9:01 am
You ignore the power of slavery
@srujanbali1005
August 11, 2026 at 2:31 am
The Spiralling Ramp was literally showed in an episode of Oggy and the Cockroaches. And it’s a french cartoon. They knew it in a kid’s show while people were arguing about Aliens and stuff.
@trm4life
August 11, 2026 at 4:20 am
Honestly, sand is also a kind of lubricant. They had tons of it. I’m willing to bet, sand on the ramps made it much easier to pull. Water would have just made mud.
@Darkuscities
August 11, 2026 at 10:05 am
It’s been trying to find the best
@blazgermek
August 11, 2026 at 2:13 pm
,🤮
@RoboCop-zn8bt
August 11, 2026 at 6:13 pm
She has no clue. She’s only saying what she has read.
@smiddyman
August 12, 2026 at 7:45 am
She cute.
@zarith87
August 12, 2026 at 9:16 am
Naaahhh… its Alien😊
@thewanderroom
August 13, 2026 at 1:49 am
Oh! Come off it! When anyone explains it like this, do they know how desperate they sound! Absolutely ridiculous.
@mcbizzle1906
August 13, 2026 at 2:47 am
OK but what about underneath
@jedidiahkromah7948
August 13, 2026 at 5:14 pm
The pyramid was build by Thoth using Vibration and Geometry. Thoth was a Human that became an Advance Being through Knowledge, the pyramid was build by an Atlantian, not Egyptian.
The time will come this truth will be known in mainstream, although it is already known in specific circles, but the science is very powerful for a premature Species
@mikefay-qc2yw
August 13, 2026 at 10:40 pm
Oh my god no no no lol so mis led
@zachpaul6950
August 14, 2026 at 10:09 am
Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids. They found them. We also had way more technology in the days of Egypt that also wasnt written down.
@mamon88
August 14, 2026 at 1:19 pm
Sure. For how long more the eastern scientist will keep trying again and again to credit these sites? Is ridiculous to still keep trying to convince folks… basic minds….