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How Were The Pyramids Actually Built? Egyptologist Answers.

*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. WIRED…

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*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.

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00:00 – The truth about the pyramids
00:21 – The Giza quarry
01:54 – The ramp
04:49 – The Lost City
07:17 – The Diary of Merer
09:17 – The early pyramids

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  1. @CyberHorse95

    July 30, 2026 at 3:52 pm

    Honestly the Pyramids are an arcetectual marvel and to say it couldn’t have been built by people just because they didn’t heve the same tools we have now is a diservice and a complete mocery of human inginuity. Just cause this was 1000s of years ago doesn’t mean these people werwe any less intelligent and capable of understanding math and science on a fundemental enough level to build things like the Pyramids. That is to say history is awesome and we can thank ancient civilaations for a lot of things we today take for granted.

    • @tickledtoffee

      July 30, 2026 at 5:37 pm

      That’s so true and it’s why the “ancient aliens” rubbish annoys me so much. It dismisses the knowledge, skill, effort and perseverance of the people who built them.

    • @CyberHorse95

      July 30, 2026 at 6:00 pm

      @tickledtoffee very much agreed

    • @raymondqiu8202

      July 30, 2026 at 8:34 pm

      Yes you are right that they didn’t understand less maths and science on a fundamental level, key word fundamental. They definitely understand wayy wayyy less maths and science than today, but to build a pyramid it would have been enough. It’s not like building a pyramid is a massive feat of engineering, it’s just stacking stones on top of each other. I consider building a modern skyscraper or going to space and the moon in rockets as way more impressive feats and achievements of humanity, personally.

  2. @christinamcclain265

    July 30, 2026 at 3:54 pm

    Geez people are hateful. I think its a good video and with what information we have its a good guess! We likely will never know the full truth but looking at every possibility is the only way to discover more.

  3. @mackbawden

    July 30, 2026 at 3:54 pm

    How steep would the surrounding ramps have to be?

  4. @Anson120

    July 30, 2026 at 4:09 pm

    I wonder if they gave the workers some really potent stimulants to help them along. Maybe a little psychedelics on their breaks. yeah! 😄 She is more lively than the last video. She is dreamy cute.

  5. @-Benedict

    July 30, 2026 at 4:24 pm

    All the sad tinfoil hat wearers and misogynists running their mouth off here really ought to remember: She is an internationally respected expert, and is much, MUCH cleverer than you.

  6. @robertk1049

    July 30, 2026 at 4:35 pm

    Why is Egypt so dead set against allowing digging under the pyramids? We have these LIDAR scans showing columns and empty chambers going hundreds of feet down into the ground underneath, yet no one wants to look? What’s the harm? If there truly is nothing then just put the dirt and sand back, who cares. But flat out refusing to even look smells like a coverup.

  7. @janetf23

    July 30, 2026 at 4:36 pm

    Always fascinating going back to the times when there was indeed something new under the sun🌞

  8. @TheMightyTimmy

    July 30, 2026 at 4:54 pm

    She’s adorable!

  9. @pikkutaiteilija

    July 30, 2026 at 5:10 pm

    Send this video to that one man on the Internet who said women can’t talk deep anymore, specifically how the pyramids were built

  10. @George-jg9sy

    July 30, 2026 at 5:23 pm

    What do you mean they weren’t built by aliens??? 😦

  11. @FrankONeill-v3l

    July 30, 2026 at 5:41 pm

    One has to admire COMIC STUPIDITY wherever it is encountered. Thank you for then laughs!!!

    F.

  12. @alx_carro

    July 30, 2026 at 5:57 pm

    Rubbish. Let real scientists investigate how it was really built

  13. @dearthditch

    July 30, 2026 at 6:06 pm

    It was nice of the 10s of 1000s of known slaves to stand around and cheer on the true pyramid builders 😂😂😂

  14. @tomholroyd7519

    July 30, 2026 at 6:07 pm

    Sun Tzu’s Art of War explains Logistics and Tactics. In order to build a pyramid, you must fight a war against gravity. If you need 10,000 men, the logistics are the same. Your weapons are chisels, rope, and sledges, and everybody needs to eat and drink

  15. @kelvincannon3675

    July 30, 2026 at 6:13 pm

    4:45 “The workman’s village”, they deny slavery was, just as much as they deny that “modern-slavery” is…

    …7:10 there ain’t no “room” in between. Implying that there’s “room in between” the possibility that slaves we’re flatout utilized to build the Egyptian pyramids, or not…

    …is to imply that between the alleged abolishment of slavery in the 1800’s, & or the holocaust during the 1900’s, human’s evolution/natural selection just came to a halt/pause just for plausible deniability…

    …people are paid for everything, everyone does is to “secure” themselves via wearing clothes obsolescence, housing themselves, higher education, religion, etc… …(all be it via things that never “actually secure personal-space(s)”, & or yet, but here/thereof persist without initiatives including but limited too most prestigious institutions in the world, still lacking initiatives to evolve clothes obsolescence via access to “actually secured personal-space(s)” foreveryone individual’(s), who’d warrant a real-world “safe-space(s)”, type “SafetyPod(s)” first, & foremost of the time(s), @all times, & or for in the first place…

    …”modern-slavery’s” generation, after generations building-up these infrastructure’s that includes within its blueprints, accommodation to make viably accessible “actually secured personal-space(s)” foreveryone of the alleged “employees”…

    …as mandatory as fire hydrants, stop signs, & or stoplights inclusions within every infrastructure. Therein, anyone working for a compensation they’d never receive’s a “modern-slave”, hence not one’s ever receiving the “actually secured personal-space” that clothes obsolescence fails, & or flatout refuses to provide/evolve.

  16. @some______guy

    July 30, 2026 at 6:14 pm

    very high quality info. but the high energy made me have to switch off after 7 min. but i liked her etc. just let people breathe for a second.

  17. @loquatmuncher

    July 30, 2026 at 6:19 pm

    theyve been trying to shove this slaves built the pyramids bs for decades, when are they gonna give it a rest. There are over 2 million blocks, and it was supposedly built in 20 years. thats 1 block every 2 minutes for 20 yrs straight. gtfo

  18. @drifting-a-long

    July 30, 2026 at 6:41 pm

    The explanation of using wet logs to break each stone I find questionable, to sit and wait for them to expand and break for each of the thousands of stones seems like a bit of a stretch 🤔. The other finding are very interesting though.

  19. @waxsee6921

    July 30, 2026 at 6:43 pm

    So in summary, it is possible to organize people to set-up a block which weighs more or less like a modern SUV/ truck every 2.5 min, 24H a day, 7 days a week in two decades, (if they did not pause ) without error; in perfect mathematical consistency, near perfect north.

    If they only worked in day time(6am-6pm), thats gonna be like 2 blocks in every 2.5min😅

  20. @ericvanvlandren8987

    July 30, 2026 at 7:00 pm

    Actually the higher the pyramid becomes the LESS likely it is that a spiral ramp was used. Ramps, straight or spiral, are fairly problematic for a number of reasons. A semi internal ramp does have some advantages and evidence – other ramps frankly have very little evidence.
    Interestingly one thing for which we do have evidence is the possibility of a series of simple cranes. Of course that is not certain either, but the idea of ramps … has a lot of problems.

  21. @Mail-Ordered

    July 30, 2026 at 7:27 pm

    Thumbnail really gives “What holds your pants up while you’re preforming? ………. Belt.”

    “How did people 5 millennia ago get heavy rocks up to the top of a humongous pyramid? ………… Ramp.”

  22. @BlackTortoiseOfTheNorth

    July 30, 2026 at 7:31 pm

    No, your explanation does not add up! It makes a lot of assumptions. Stone does not crack on a straight line if you just wet 2 logs. I want to see you demonstrate this.

  23. @lilashelton535

    July 30, 2026 at 7:55 pm

    Interesting

  24. @dvvave

    July 30, 2026 at 8:39 pm

    She obviously doesn’t take her History for GRANITE

  25. @cyan2023

    July 30, 2026 at 8:56 pm

    The biggest problem with the spiral ramp hypothesis that many archaeologists favor is that it ignores the engineering reality that moving massive stones around the pyramid’s perimeter would be an inherently unstable and hazardous operation. That would have been just as true 3,000 years ago as it is today. A competent construction plan would almost certainly favor a straight internal ramp with pulleys, making the process far safer and more efficient.

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