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Egyptian Pyramids Were Built with Ramps, Not by Aliens
*It was the aliens!* Or was it? Egyptologist Professor Laurel Bestock rejoins WIRED to break down five discoveries that tell us exactly how the Egyptian pyramids were built; from the Giza quarry to The Diary of Merer, Laurel paints a vivid picture of just how the ancient pyramids were built from the ground up. #Egypt…
@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…
@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?
@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.