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All right, ladies and gentlemen, finally, a little bit of feminine relief from the testosterone
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driven day. Yes, please. Thank you. Our very special guest, Antoine Gigaal, all the way from Egypt. I
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found out yesterday that Antoine was actually born in Africa, Central Africa in the Congo,
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so that makes it even more special to us down here in South Africa. Antoine Gigaal is a French
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writer and researcher and author of The Secret Chronicles of Giza. She's the correspondent in
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Egypt for the magazine Egypt and one of the founders of the organization Giza for Humanity.
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Antoine went to the Sorbonne University in Paris and to the National Institute of Oriental Languages
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and Civilizations where she graduated in Chinese and Japanese languages and civilizations. She
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also studied Sanskrit, Latin and ancient Greek and gained a reputation for translating ancient
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texts. She also speaks modern Egyptian, Spanish and Italian fluently. Antoine resides predominantly
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in Egypt where she's been exploring the most remote archaeological areas for over 20 years,
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and you will find out her level of knowledge on Egypt is virtually unsurpassable. So please
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put a warm round of applause for our first female speaker Antoine Gigaal. Thank you.
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This is my website, gigaalresearch.com, and my other website is gizaforhumanity.org,
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and also if you want to have news from Egypt every day, even during the event,
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you can go to my Facebook wall where you have news and pictures every day and true news from
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Egypt and from each archaeological site also. I want to dedicate this lecture to all our ancestors
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and to all the women of this planet. In this picture you can see me in the Western Desert of
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Egypt and what you see behind me is a whale skeleton because in the Western Desert of Egypt
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you have thousands of whale and dolphin skeletons, which is a part of my research also.
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I funded Giza for Humanity six years ago for more transparency in Egyptology,
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for more information to the public, for interdisciplinary, for the survey of ancient
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Egyptian legacy. In Egypt I am mainly working with geologists, with Egyptian geologists,
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so you can see this picture. The team from Eksma. Eksma are the most important geologists in Egypt.
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Of course because I speak perfect fluent Arabic also. This is another part of my research,
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this one with my team. I discovered a huge complex around the Pyramid of Mauritius.
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You will see the lecture tomorrow at five. I discovered also more than 23 pyramids in
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Sicily. You will see that also in my lecture of tomorrow. Something important is my research
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is based on forsythia, mainly on physical evidence on the terra on the sites. My own
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theories are also based on evidence I find in hieroglyphic texts, very ancient texts,
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because I am able to read and translate. And also because I can read classical Arabic texts that
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are full of interesting comments and memories of what was ancient Egypt legacy around 900 after
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Christ. And also I am searching documents in French, in Italian, about people visiting Egypt
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in the past time. So the lecture of today is the divine island of Kiza.
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This is a map of Egypt. So you can see the delta and the Nile. So we will have a walk now together
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inside Egypt. We will start, we will start
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at the first sun, which is Cairo, Cairo city. And we will go until the second sun,
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which is the place of Fayum. Fayum, as you will know now, is a depression.
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So we start in the Giza plateau. You see the three pyramids and we are facing the south.
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This is a recent picture of the Giza plateau. You can see the Sphinx. And what is important is to see
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the slope. You see that there is a slope. This is very important.
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The top of the plateau is not flat.
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This is a drawing, an ancient drawing, and you can see also there the slope.
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And behind you see the green. This part was flooded by the Nile every year during three months.
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So this picture is from one month ago. There you can see the elevation of the plateau very well.
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This is a cross section of the Giza plateau from west to east through the center of the pyramid of Khufu.
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What is important to see is that the Nile is sea level at zero degree and the plateau is going up until
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75 meters above the sea level. So you have on the plateau very different degrees and elevation.
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Now we will see the
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Now we will speak about the 150 scholars of Napoleon in Egypt in 1798.
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Because they did an incredible work and the main thing was the mapping of Egypt in that time.
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So I went to the main bank of Cairo, Egyptian National Bank, because I knew that the original
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of this book you see on the picture, which is the Description de l'Egypt,
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Description de l'Egypt was the outcome of the collaboration of more than 150 prominent scholars
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and scientists who wake up on Napoleon in 1798 and some 2,000 talented artists and technicians
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producing 20 volumes of texts and plates of unmatched accuracy and detail. Those volumes are tall like that.
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And this one is the original one. It is closed inside the bank behind a special glass
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and I was very happy to see. Why? I will tell you now. This is an example of the mappings they did
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with a lot of details.
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This is an example of the mappings they did
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with a lot of details, elevations on all the villages. The red point is Cairo city in that time.
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So in this book I found this plate, which is a map of Giza in 1799
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and you can see many different things.
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You can see this. You can see this other wall and you can see the geological features of Giza plateau in that time.
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If you put the water of the Nile you have this.
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This is a comparison.
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Then I found another map. This one bigger. You see with all these geological features.
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And all the way this and this.
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If I put the water it's like this. So it is showing that Giza was an island before.
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But it was not enough. I found another map from 1878 from Priest Daven and you have exactly the same thing.
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And what is important is that today Egyptian archaeologists are finding
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arbors near this part and also there.
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Another cart from Lipsius in 1850.
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The same.
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Another cart from Perring in 1837.
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And this is the drawing you see is exactly this.
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And this, they named that the wall of the crow. This is a very recent name.
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It is a place where they are discovering from many years now many tombs inside the wall and behind and under the sand.
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But this was not a place for tombs before because I found that the name, the true name of this was the bridge in southern Thai.
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And it is attested in this drawing by Andrews in 1842 but I discovered many other attestations in Arabic text.
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So this was a true dike.
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Now you have the Northen dike. There I put the water because of course every year the water was of the Nile was coming up to the delta.
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Three months by year.
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This is a map of Cairo in 1548. All what you see of course from Europeans coming in travel.
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All you see there house by house I found it in ancient Arabic map. It is exactly
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the monuments, the streets are perfectly accurate. And what do you see the other side of the Nile?
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You see little outcrop of rocks and the pyramids on the top of one.
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So like a theory of islands. Of course this depiction is naive but it is interesting to see that.
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The same map was redone in 1572. This time with color. So you can see the pyramid there and other pyramids on the plateau over there.
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Then you have this French painting by Tuchere in 1780.
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And this is very interesting because the angle of the pyramid of Khufu you see was taken from this place.
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And it shows that the water was over there also. So it shows also that it was an island.
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Then you had the discovery of different extensive erosion patterns found on different elevations in the Giza plateau with an existing ancient shoreline.
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This is a photo taken from a drawing by Mass Perot, a very well known French Egyptologist.
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And this is showing you
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the erosion pattern of a shoreline.
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This picture is from this year. The same.
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Of course not only sea but wind erosion. This is not rain erosion. This is sea erosion. Very different pattern.
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These blocks are extensively eroded showing intertidal notches that are due to wave mechanics and sea spray.
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You have also in my team an Egyptian researcher who found this equinoid. This is a shallow marine creature petrified in recent time.
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And it has been found by him. His name is Cherif el-Morsi.
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And it is embedded upright in the upper surface of a block adjoining the Menkaura pyramid.
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It is not a residue inside the limestone. It is a true sea urchin completely
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preserved. We are analyzing it and we are discovering incredible things. And we have others.
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So now we begin the work. We are starting from this point.
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So you are there and we are going south. This is Khafra. This is Khafra.
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You see the edge, the edge of the plateau there. Normal edge of the plateau.
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And this is higher. You have Khufu just behind. And in fact under this end you have docks.
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I will show you now. Okay we are facing the south. So you have the level of kerosity there.
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With the Nile. Second we have the eight of the normal plateau. And then you have the eight of
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the docks. And the docks are running south. One, two, three. In this picture you can very well see
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that these are ancient roads up on the dock running south.
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You have ancient layers of pavement. Petrified now. Well very petrified.
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You have angles, perfect angles everywhere.
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And this is an infrared tomography showing you see the red lines. I put a yellow on it.
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All that is showing immense walls. In fact docks under the sand.
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The other side of the docks, the inner side, you have sea sediments. You can see there very well.
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And you have also facing blocks and stone blocks.
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Ancient docks.
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So we started there and we are going this way.
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We are in Giza and we will go until Fayoum depression there. All along you have a lot of
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pyramids. Places as you know. Abusir, Saqqaha, Dashour, Lijst, Meidoum. Full of pyramids.
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So we will do that. And you see there a mouse, an entrance for the Nile to go inside the depression.
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Fayoum is a depression west of Nile, south of Cairo, 80 kilometers from Cairo.
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And the lake is the most beautiful lake in the world.
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So we are in the depression west of Nile, south of Cairo, 80 kilometers from Cairo. And the lake is 214 kilometers square.
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The lake is 45 meters under the sea level.
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And they said that the pharaohs of the 12th dynasty built immense waterworks. In fact for me
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it's only a restoration. So it's much older. And an example is that in 2300 B.C. a canal was deepened
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winding connecting the Nile with Fayoum lake. But what is interesting is that in the past you had
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two lakes. Now you only have one because all is very dry. But in the past you had two lakes and one
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was artificial and one natural. You still have the natural one. But you had one artificial.
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And I will tell you why it was so important.
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Amenem had first is the main pharaoh who did those immense waterworks. He did hydraulic locks, dams,
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network of diversion canals. And this is still working today.
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Amenem had the first. He died in 1962 B.C. But for me he did only restoration and added some canals and dams.
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So we go now to Fayoum. We enter there. And this entrance you have two pyramids.
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Why it is so important to know that you had also you see the natural lake there. It was much larger before.
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And here you had the artificial lake. Don't forget that this is a depression. So when the Nile was flooding
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the water rush into the artificial lake which was after a slope. And all the fish of the Nile were
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trapped into the artificial lake. And the pharaohs did that in order to give food all the year long
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to their population. So the population were never starved because the always have fish to eat.
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This is a mouth. So here you have a pyramid, Hawara pyramid. And there you have Illahun pyramid.
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And also, sorry, you have canals. The canals of the pharaoh are over there.
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This is one canal, Youssef canal, widened in 2300 B.C.
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And this canal diverged into eight main canals that send the water throughout the depression.
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It's an immense work. Much more stones were used to do all these networks and to build all the pyramids.
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We go to the Hawara pyramid.
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We go to the Hawara pyramid.
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Sorry.
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Hawara pyramid is there. And you see the canal Youssef, I just showed you, is there. Still working today.
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Hawara pyramid is covered by earth bricks.
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But of course, the core is huge limestone megaliths. So inside this pyramid of Hawara,
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they said that it was built by Amenemhat III. I think it was restored by Amenemhat III.
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Because the pharaohs used to put their stamp when they did the restoration.
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Inside this pyramid, you have only one chamber and three corridors.
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Let us go inside.
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Inside.
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You can't go inside. Why? Because it's full of water. And why is it full of water?
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A lot of archaeologists said, oh, this is only the water table level rising up.
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I said no.
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I said no. Why? Because when you see the Lepsius text, the ancient text of the archaeologists,
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you find a story on also the Arabic text saying that after Lepsius came inside this pyramid for the first time,
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people came to loot the chambers, the chamber, and to find gold. And at that moment, they move
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a stone inside the corridor and all the water came up. And from that time, the pyramid is full of water.
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They tried to dry it. Impossible. All the time, water is rising up again.
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They forgot something. It's that you have a lot of hieroglyphic inscription where you have
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the hieroglyph of pernature and the hieroglyph of Asgat water.
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Pernature is the house of the gods, the pyramids, and Asgat is water.
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So you always, not always, but often you have this. The association of pyramid with water.
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You are facing a water pump. This is the pyramid of Hawana.
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You have the famous labyrinth there, Rhynes, and you have the Canal Youssef going there.
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And I was speaking a lot with the archaeologists, etc. And they decided to make a hole there
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to see if they dug a hole and the water is coming up, then they are right. It is a water table.
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But if they don't find water, so it's me who is right. Because it's a system between the canal
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and the water, with an inside system going under the pyramid. When you want to enter
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under the pyramid, if you are not allowed, then the water is coming up to protect what is under.
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And all this area is full of subterranean networks going kilometers away, and also to the other
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pyramid I will show you now. So they dug the hole. You can see me there near the hole.
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But they never found water. It's dry, as you see. This is interesting because you can see an ancient pavement there.
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So it is definitively a system, like the first archaeologist in 1880 said. It's a sea hydraulic system.
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This is the second pyramid at the mouth of the entrance of the Nile. This is the Illahun pyramid, the same.
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It is mud brick covered. And you can see just behind the mastaba. Mastaba are true tombs.
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For that, pyramids were never tombs. They don't need to make tombs inside.
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So you see this pyramid, Illahun, and in 27 they discovered stairs. You can see me there, and the stairs, incredible stairs, modern stairs, quite modern, but in fact they are very old.
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The same place in 28, and you see the progress in the digs.
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And what are facing those stairs? A place where you had a lot of water. Because in fact the mouth I show you is over there.
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So the Nile was entering there, and all the water was there. Why? Because we found all that is ancient sediments, water sediments, Nile sediments.
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And you have immense docks every side. I will show you now.
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You have even salt, blocks of salt, marine salt, and you will understand why after.
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So water coming from the Nile there, you have to imagine.
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These are recent digs. They discovered docks and stairs, facilities for boats.
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Also sandstone moved by the water.
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And just behind this pyramid, you see the same pyramid over there. You see all this line, and you see the stones there.
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All that is the top of immense huge docks.
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You are on the top of a dock. There you had facilities for the boats.
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And on the top of the docks you have pavements.
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And when you dig the pavement you find this, layers of stones.
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You can see me there making measurements, and all this was full of water before.
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This is a pavement of the top of the dock.
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Of course it's all recovered by the sand.
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The progress of the digs.
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So you can see in the depression there, it's very hard to see.
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In the depression there it was water, and this is a sea wall, ancient sea wall place.
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So we come back the lake there.
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This is a lake of fire. As I told you, 214 square kilometers and 45 meters under the sea level.
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This is the vision you have of the sunset when you are on the lake, because it's the depression.
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It's like the Red Sea. It's an optical illusion.
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You had the impression that there is a gap, and the sun coming into the gap.
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And this is a hieroglyphic you have on the true door of the Great Pyramid.
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Just there.
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Ahet. And Ahet means a lot of things.
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They all speak about horizon.
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Horizon is only one translation of this hieroglyphic.
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The ancient Egyptian had many different translations for the same hieroglyphic.
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It depends on your level of consciousness and knowledge.
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And Ahet means also, and much more, inundation.
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So all is speaking about water and inundation.
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So you have the Fayyum Lake.
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And we will go now to the desert.
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Here you have the fortress of Dima el-Seba.
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It means the fortress of the lion.
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This is a satellite view.
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So you have the lake there.
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You have the fortress in ruins, of course.
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And you have this, the road.
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I put pink to see it.
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You can see the causeway.
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This causeway is very famous.
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I will show you now.
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And Dima el-Fortress is very important, because not only you had remains of recent times,
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it means Grecian times and Roman times, Ptolemaic times.
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And also you have remains of dynastic times.
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But you also have remains of nearly thick times.
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So about 5,500 before Christ.
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It was a very, very important trading place.
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So we are facing the lake now.
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The fortress and the causeway.
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This is the causeway today.
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You can imagine how new it looks.
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Incredible.
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And these are the fortresses in ruins.
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There you have the Fayyum Lake.
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It's pure beauty.
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What you see, the causeway is very strange.
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The causeway is not flat.
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You have a hate for the causeway.
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Very important.
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This is just to show you what is inside the fortress.
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You have many different ruins of different times.
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Different ruins of different time of temples.
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When you go outside the fortress on your right and your left,
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you have immense docks again.
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We went there.
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I checked the stones.
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The same docks on the other side of the lake.
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So what do we have?
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We have there the fortress.
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We have the causeway.
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And you have there the ancient marks of the water level.
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Of course, it's right from many years.
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And what is interesting is that Egyptologists never think that
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the
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are right in their text.
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Because in the text, ancient text, I can't translate.
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It is written that this fortress was an island.
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And when you show that to them, they said, but now it's in the
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middle of the desert.
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Just use your eyes and go to Geologic Survey.
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And you will find that it is a true island.
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And you can see inside the canal, it was a canal, and the shoreline
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of the lake was there.
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You will understand now why it is so important.
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You will also have sandstone eroded by water.
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I found this map, very ancient map, showing the lake volume
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and the name of the lake.
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And what you see at Dime, the fortress I just showed you, you
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have a canal going to another lake which is near Alexandria.
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And you have there the Mediterranean Sea.
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So they were able to navigate from the south of Egypt and much
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more far away and going up the Nile and joining by the mouth
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you saw, by the canals, the lake of Faiyum, then taking this
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canal going to Mariotis and then to Alexandria and the
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Mediterranean Sea.
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It is an incredible work, stone work.
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This map I showed you is from Abraham d'Orteilio.
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It was published in 1570.
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And it is the first modern map of Egypt.
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And what do you see inside the Faiyum map, the Faiyum Lake map?
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The Faiyum Lake, you see the Faiyum Lake.
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You see two pyramids there.
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Many people wanted to make research and they found that the
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pyramids were flooded and were under the lake water.
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And also Egyptologists and archaeologists.
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But I said, you have a very short memory.
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Because in fact, Flanders Petri discovered those two kind of
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pyramids.
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But they were not able to know where they were.
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You have a text from Herodotus saying, I saw two pyramids with
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immense statues on the top.
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When he was in a boat in Faiyum Lake.
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So where are those kind of pyramids?
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This is a depiction of what it will look like.
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But in fact, I discovered, I rediscovered after Flanders
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Petri, it is this size in reality.
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And I will show you now what it is.
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It's important to understand that around 4000 BC, the
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climate changed and the Faiyum began to dry up.
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During the Old Kingdom, the lake was known as Tashi, the
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Southern Lake or Hunt, the discharge.
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This is an artificial lake.
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And we know that in pharaoh's time, the province was known
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Lachette.
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It's to say the lake land.
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This is a map done of Faiyum, done by the French engineer who
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built the Suez Canal.
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You have there the artificial lake and there the natural lake
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and with all the canals, there you have the mouth where you
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have it.
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And we go now to this place because it is in this place
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that I rediscovered where are these two pyramids.
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The place is Bihamu.
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It is important to understand that the hydraulic systems in
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all Faiyum was so hard, still so amazing.
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But in that time, for example, in 1672, the king of France,
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Louis XIV, sent a man, the father of Anslaib, to see the
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Faiyum hydraulic systems because they wanted to do the
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same in France.
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But when the man came back with all the information, they were
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not able to do the same because too much amount of work and
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stones.
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This is a drawing I found again and you can see the place of
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Bihamu and you see the two kind of ruins, the two kind of
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pyramids in ruins, small.
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So I wanted to rediscover where it is.
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It was very difficult because no road to go inside this
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countryside.
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And after many research, I discovered this.
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In fact, as Petri wrote in his text, it's not pyramids, but
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huge pedestals in form of pyramids.
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And near the pedestal in form of pyramids, I discovered all
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the docks.
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You are there.
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It was 20 meters at the origin with a huge statue of
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Amenemahad III on the top.
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You also have a raised causeway and this is a
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picture taken by Plin.
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You have the two because you have two pedestals.
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And the shoreline is the same as the one in the
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!
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And the
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shoreline of the flooding water from the Nile were
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coming until this.
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And you had the boats coming in front, the two statues of
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the pharaoh to welcome.
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This is a drawing made by my team so you can see how it
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looked before.
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This is a drawing made by Fisher in 1721.
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But he exaggerated the size and he put temples on the top
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which is not right.
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But it was depicted as an island.
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This is the engineer who did the construction of the
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canal.
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This is the engineer who did the Swiss canal.
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And he was so amazed by the hydraulic system of Faiyum that
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he lived in Faiyum.
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The canal is still working today.
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And you have these huge water wheels still working from 3000
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before Christ.
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And this is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the Faiyum canal.
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This is the work of the researcher.
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He offered me to put on my presentation today
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to show you about the water network in Giza.
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It was shown at the university in Cairo.
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He wrote a book, Lost Technologies of the Great Pyramids.
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Very interesting about waterways.
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And you see, this is Kafra pyramid.
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This is the so-called quarry.
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But in fact, it was a summit quarry.
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And it was much more easy
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to move the stones inside the water.
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And you have the same in Luxor.
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Then I will show you the Giza water elevators and siphons.
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This is the research of the Colonel Muni,
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the French Colonel,
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more than 20 years ago.
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Colonel Muni did the preface of my book,
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of my second book, Giza Chronicle.
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And he sang that there was a Turanian canal
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linking the elevator pit to the Campbell pit.
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I will show you what it is.
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You have the three-year-old
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Sphinx there.
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You have the so-called Campbell tomb,
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which is not a tomb.
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Everybody knows that it is not a tomb.
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And there you have the so-called elevator pit,
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a water elevator, I will show you.
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This is an elevator.
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So you had a sliding ramp
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This Colonel of the French Army was an expert
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in this kind of stuff.
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This is a platform.
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And then you had another platform
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descending and ascending with water level.
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And it is exactly like in the modern
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water level.
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And you have a platform.
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And you have a platform.
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And you have a platform.
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And it is exactly like in the modern boats
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of today,
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hydraulic elevators.
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Or also submarine elevators.
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Submarine is going down
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and then enters the canal
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under the ground.
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So this Colonel,
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before he died,
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gave me his research
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in order I continue his work.
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Again.
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And what is very interesting
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and what I discovered,
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you see this black
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stuff there.
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You find this
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all inside around
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the stones.
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In fact, it is
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tar.
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And it was the best waterproof.
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Seeing to put
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to protect from the water.
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This is a so-called
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Campbell Toms.
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They call that
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Campbell Toms because
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Campbell the English discovered
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this in 80,
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I don't remember, 80, 80,
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something like this. He discovered
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inside a sarcophagus.
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But this sarcophagus
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was not,
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was very recent, in fact,
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and was just put
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inside.
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So in fact, you can see
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water erosion
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lines inside
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and outside.
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It was an immense siphon.
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You see the line of erosion.
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This picture
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I took now,
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nobody can take because it's completely
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covered.
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Now I want to
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bring you to Abu Hawash.
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Abu Hawash is at the north
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of the Great Pyramid.
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Where you have this
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you don't have
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any roof for the
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inside chambers because the pyramid
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was destroyed by people searching
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the stones for their homes
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after the earthquake
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in Egypt a long
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time ago.
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So it's very interesting because
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when you go inside you can see
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directly the inside
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chamber.
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But I don't want to
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show you that exactly.
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I want to show you this.
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This is very near
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this pyramid you just see.
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And what you see there
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you see
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two classic entrance
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of tombs.
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All the tombs in Egypt
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are entrances are like this.
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And what you see
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you see this
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stairs.
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Very bizarre.
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You see what you see
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these stairs.
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Incredible.
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How they did that.
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Can you imagine the amount
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of work?
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You see the stairs
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over there going inside?
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Of course I go
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I went inside.
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And I see
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the stairs
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going inside.
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And I see
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the stairs going inside.
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This is
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very narrow.
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You just have the place for two
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persons.
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You see the
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man inside there?
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It is my driver.
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From 20 years.
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You see
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how deep it is.
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They call that
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the Roman pit.
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I'm sorry but
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I saw many Roman pits.
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It's not a Roman pit.
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You also have a true
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Roman pit very near.
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This is much more interesting.
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When I put the
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camera like this I see that.
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And you can see on the top
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of the...
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You see these stones.
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Huge megalithic stones.
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How they did
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that. You are in the
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middle of the desert.
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So of course you will ask me what
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you find inside.
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You find water.
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And
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it depends on the level of dryness
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of the air. But it
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continues
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very deeply.
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I saw
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37 meters deep
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dry.
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And it continues.
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So what is
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this? It was obviously
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full of
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water.
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You know what?
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I suppose
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it's very
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interesting.
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When this is full of
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water
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you can see very well
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the elevation of the stars
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by night.
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It is needing
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the water
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on the top.
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But this is a research
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I'm continuing.
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Then, very important
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thing is the Giza boat pits
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and novel technology.
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At the feet of the pyramids you have
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boat pits.
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Why?
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See the boat pit?
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You have two kinds of boat pits.
59:00.600 --> 59:02.600
You have non-covered boat pits
59:02.600 --> 59:04.600
like this one,
59:04.600 --> 59:06.600
like this one,
59:06.600 --> 59:08.600
like this one.
59:08.600 --> 59:10.600
And this is
59:10.600 --> 59:12.600
a schema of
59:12.600 --> 59:14.600
the covered boat pits.
59:14.600 --> 59:16.600
You have two
59:16.600 --> 59:18.600
covered boat pits at the feet of the
59:18.600 --> 59:20.600
Great Pyramid. And the south side
59:20.600 --> 59:22.600
and east side
59:22.600 --> 59:24.600
they found
59:24.600 --> 59:26.600
two boats
59:26.600 --> 59:28.600
in pieces.
59:28.600 --> 59:30.600
This is
59:30.600 --> 59:32.600
a covered boat pit
59:32.600 --> 59:34.600
because they built a museum
59:34.600 --> 59:36.600
up this boat pit, covered
59:36.600 --> 59:38.600
with stones.
59:38.600 --> 59:40.600
This is a discovery of Kamel and Malek
59:40.600 --> 59:42.600
in
59:42.600 --> 59:44.600
1954.
59:44.600 --> 59:46.600
And
59:46.600 --> 59:48.600
the covered boat pit in the south
59:48.600 --> 59:50.600
side of the Great Pyramid.
59:50.600 --> 59:52.600
What is amazing
59:52.600 --> 59:54.600
is, for example,
59:54.600 --> 59:56.600
the boat
59:56.600 --> 59:58.600
inside the museum,
59:58.600 --> 01:00:04.600
1224 pieces.
01:00:04.600 --> 01:00:06.600
And all
01:00:06.600 --> 01:00:08.600
pieces with marks,
01:00:08.600 --> 01:00:10.600
like a puzzle,
01:00:10.600 --> 01:00:12.600
in order you can be
01:00:12.600 --> 01:00:14.600
able to rebuild it
01:00:14.600 --> 01:00:16.600
quickly.
01:00:16.600 --> 01:00:18.600
It's a boat pit,
01:00:18.600 --> 01:00:20.600
it's boat kit.
01:00:22.600 --> 01:00:24.600
So you see the drawing
01:00:24.600 --> 01:00:26.600
when they discovered the boat pit
01:00:26.600 --> 01:00:28.600
in pieces,
01:00:28.600 --> 01:00:30.600
the boat in pieces.
01:00:30.600 --> 01:00:32.600
13 layers of material,
01:00:32.600 --> 01:00:34.600
58 small masts
01:00:34.600 --> 01:00:36.600
and poles, 40 years
01:00:36.600 --> 01:00:38.600
to be built again
01:00:38.600 --> 01:00:40.600
because in modern time
01:00:40.600 --> 01:00:42.600
we are very stupid.
01:00:48.600 --> 01:00:50.600
This is the boat pit rebuilt,
01:00:50.600 --> 01:00:52.600
the boat, sorry,
01:00:52.600 --> 01:00:54.600
the boat rebuilt.
01:00:54.600 --> 01:00:56.600
This is
01:00:56.600 --> 01:00:58.600
in the museum,
01:00:58.600 --> 01:01:00.600
imagine,
01:01:00.600 --> 01:01:02.600
fantastic boat pit, boat.
01:01:04.600 --> 01:01:06.600
And you had
01:01:06.600 --> 01:01:08.600
experts, because
01:01:08.600 --> 01:01:10.600
archaeologists who are not
01:01:10.600 --> 01:01:12.600
good in expertise for
01:01:12.600 --> 01:01:14.600
marine ancient boats,
01:01:14.600 --> 01:01:16.600
but well, they said,
01:01:16.600 --> 01:01:18.600
oh, this is the boat for the
01:01:18.600 --> 01:01:20.600
soul of the pharaoh,
01:01:20.600 --> 01:01:22.600
and this is a boat not able
01:01:22.600 --> 01:01:24.600
only to go on the river.
01:01:24.600 --> 01:01:26.600
But experts
01:01:26.600 --> 01:01:28.600
from Norway
01:01:28.600 --> 01:01:30.600
of the Drakar said,
01:01:30.600 --> 01:01:32.600
no, this is a true
01:01:32.600 --> 01:01:34.600
high sea
01:01:34.600 --> 01:01:36.600
boat.
01:01:36.600 --> 01:01:38.600
You see, it's
01:01:38.600 --> 01:01:40.600
similar.
01:01:40.600 --> 01:01:42.600
And they use
01:01:42.600 --> 01:01:44.600
ropes in flat
01:01:44.600 --> 01:01:46.600
ink in water.
01:01:46.600 --> 01:01:48.600
Like in Estonia,
01:01:48.600 --> 01:01:50.600
like in
01:01:50.600 --> 01:01:52.600
Neolithic boats.
01:01:52.600 --> 01:01:54.600
Completely natural.
01:01:56.600 --> 01:01:58.600
This is an example in the
01:01:58.600 --> 01:02:00.600
Viking museum.
01:02:00.600 --> 01:02:02.600
So you see the ropes
01:02:02.600 --> 01:02:04.600
there,
01:02:04.600 --> 01:02:06.600
they inflate when the water,
01:02:06.600 --> 01:02:08.600
when the boat is in the water,
01:02:08.600 --> 01:02:10.600
so the water don't enter
01:02:10.600 --> 01:02:12.600
the boat. Completely natural.
01:02:16.600 --> 01:02:18.600
And
01:02:20.600 --> 01:02:22.600
so they said
01:02:22.600 --> 01:02:24.600
these boats are for the soul of
01:02:24.600 --> 01:02:26.600
the pharaoh, of
01:02:26.600 --> 01:02:28.600
Khufu, of
01:02:28.600 --> 01:02:30.600
yes,
01:02:30.600 --> 01:02:32.600
and why
01:02:32.600 --> 01:02:34.600
do you have two boats?
01:02:34.600 --> 01:02:36.600
Did he have two souls?
01:02:38.600 --> 01:02:40.600
And also the boats
01:02:40.600 --> 01:02:42.600
the pharaoh had
01:02:42.600 --> 01:02:44.600
were completely different.
01:02:44.600 --> 01:02:46.600
They were fantastic with
01:02:46.600 --> 01:02:48.600
paintings, very rich
01:02:48.600 --> 01:02:50.600
depiction, etc. This one is
01:02:50.600 --> 01:02:52.600
without anything
01:02:52.600 --> 01:02:54.600
written, any decorations.
01:02:54.600 --> 01:02:56.600
Very simple.
01:03:00.600 --> 01:03:02.600
This is the techniques
01:03:02.600 --> 01:03:04.600
they used to build
01:03:04.600 --> 01:03:06.600
the boats.
01:03:06.600 --> 01:03:08.600
In
01:03:08.600 --> 01:03:10.600
a report
01:03:10.600 --> 01:03:12.600
Pyramid
01:03:12.600 --> 01:03:14.600
Caravan dating project
01:03:14.600 --> 01:03:16.600
of this boat,
01:03:16.600 --> 01:03:18.600
the dating of
01:03:18.600 --> 01:03:20.600
a plank of this boat,
01:03:20.600 --> 01:03:22.600
they discovered that
01:03:22.600 --> 01:03:24.600
the plank was from
01:03:24.600 --> 01:03:26.600
3,400
01:03:26.600 --> 01:03:28.600
before Christ,
01:03:28.600 --> 01:03:30.600
more ancient than
01:03:30.600 --> 01:03:32.600
Khufu rang.
01:03:32.600 --> 01:03:34.600
So this is not the boat of
01:03:34.600 --> 01:03:36.600
Khufu.
01:03:36.600 --> 01:03:38.600
You have plenty
01:03:38.600 --> 01:03:40.600
of boats in
01:03:40.600 --> 01:03:42.600
other places of Egypt, but
01:03:42.600 --> 01:03:44.600
always at the feet of pyramids
01:03:44.600 --> 01:03:46.600
of very high,
01:03:46.600 --> 01:03:48.600
very
01:03:48.600 --> 01:03:50.600
big fortress.
01:03:52.600 --> 01:03:54.600
I go fast. Neolithic
01:03:54.600 --> 01:03:56.600
boats in the Petri Museum.
01:03:56.600 --> 01:03:58.600
Same boats
01:03:58.600 --> 01:04:00.600
depicted.
01:04:00.600 --> 01:04:02.600
You
01:04:02.600 --> 01:04:04.600
have the same in
01:04:04.600 --> 01:04:06.600
Denmark, you have the same
01:04:06.600 --> 01:04:08.600
in a lot of countries. So we are
01:04:08.600 --> 01:04:10.600
facing a civilization where the management
01:04:10.600 --> 01:04:12.600
of the water network by canals,
01:04:12.600 --> 01:04:14.600
hydraulic systems, and with
01:04:14.600 --> 01:04:16.600
the Nile and seafaring life
01:04:16.600 --> 01:04:18.600
were of the first magnitude
01:04:18.600 --> 01:04:20.600
for humanity's sake.
01:04:20.600 --> 01:04:22.600
Why?
01:04:22.600 --> 01:04:24.600
There are hundreds of serious
01:04:24.600 --> 01:04:26.600
texts in ancient Arabic, as for example
01:04:26.600 --> 01:04:28.600
from the great historian and geographer
01:04:28.600 --> 01:04:30.600
Al Biruni, born in
01:04:30.600 --> 01:04:32.600
973
01:04:32.600 --> 01:04:34.600
A.D.
01:04:34.600 --> 01:04:36.600
and from Imna Abdel al-Hakim
01:04:36.600 --> 01:04:38.600
in the
01:04:38.600 --> 01:04:40.600
you have the manuscript in Oxford
01:04:40.600 --> 01:04:42.600
attesting of the
01:04:42.600 --> 01:04:44.600
real existence of a pharaoh
01:04:44.600 --> 01:04:46.600
so read, living
01:04:46.600 --> 01:04:48.600
in a pre-dynastic time.
01:04:48.600 --> 01:04:50.600
The pharaoh learned by his
01:04:50.600 --> 01:04:52.600
great priests and astronomers
01:04:52.600 --> 01:04:54.600
that a big catastrophe
01:04:54.600 --> 01:04:56.600
will submerge his country
01:04:56.600 --> 01:04:58.600
300 years later.
01:04:58.600 --> 01:05:00.600
So he built
01:05:00.600 --> 01:05:02.600
a pyramid to protect the knowledge
01:05:02.600 --> 01:05:04.600
and the population
01:05:04.600 --> 01:05:06.600
under it.
01:05:06.600 --> 01:05:08.600
There are also a lot of
01:05:08.600 --> 01:05:10.600
hieroglyphic texts attesting that.
01:05:10.600 --> 01:05:12.600
Very important document, the Papyrus
01:05:12.600 --> 01:05:14.600
of Abu Hormais,
01:05:14.600 --> 01:05:16.600
found recently, written in
01:05:16.600 --> 01:05:18.600
Coptic, then translated into Arabic
01:05:18.600 --> 01:05:20.600
in 822.
01:05:20.600 --> 01:05:22.600
This document, which is a copy of older
01:05:22.600 --> 01:05:24.600
documents, explains
01:05:24.600 --> 01:05:26.600
that before a great flood
01:05:26.600 --> 01:05:28.600
the king Saurid built a great
01:05:28.600 --> 01:05:30.600
pyramid in order to save the population
01:05:30.600 --> 01:05:32.600
under it.
01:05:32.600 --> 01:05:34.600
In the ancient Egyptian
01:05:34.600 --> 01:05:36.600
book, the book of the celestial cow
01:05:36.600 --> 01:05:38.600
you have a version of the
01:05:38.600 --> 01:05:40.600
big flood, a chapter titled
01:05:40.600 --> 01:05:42.600
is history of the destruction
01:05:42.600 --> 01:05:44.600
of humanity.
01:05:44.600 --> 01:05:46.600
In the book of the ritual
01:05:46.600 --> 01:05:48.600
called also the book of the
01:05:48.600 --> 01:05:50.600
revelation, you get
01:05:50.600 --> 01:05:52.600
the story of a boat, an ark
01:05:52.600 --> 01:05:54.600
saving souls.
01:05:54.600 --> 01:05:56.600
It was the ark boat of the god Nuh,
01:05:56.600 --> 01:05:58.600
which is very similar to Nuh.
01:05:58.600 --> 01:06:00.600
And Nuh-Nuh
01:06:00.600 --> 01:06:02.600
is called the lord of the flood
01:06:02.600 --> 01:06:04.600
in a Thutmose's third inscription
01:06:04.600 --> 01:06:06.600
in Luxor.
01:06:06.600 --> 01:06:08.600
And now
01:06:08.600 --> 01:06:10.600
you have the chapter 64
01:06:10.600 --> 01:06:12.600
of the so-called book
01:06:12.600 --> 01:06:14.600
of the dead, which is a mistranslation
01:06:14.600 --> 01:06:16.600
for the book to come
01:06:16.600 --> 01:06:18.600
to the light of the day.
01:06:18.600 --> 01:06:20.600
The chapter 64
01:06:20.600 --> 01:06:22.600
is the more ancient of this
01:06:22.600 --> 01:06:24.600
book, which is a compilation of very
01:06:24.600 --> 01:06:26.600
different texts and spells unified
01:06:26.600 --> 01:06:28.600
only during the 18th dynasty.
01:06:28.600 --> 01:06:30.600
You find it also inside
01:06:30.600 --> 01:06:32.600
the pyramid text dating from the 5th
01:06:32.600 --> 01:06:34.600
dynasty, but you have texts
01:06:34.600 --> 01:06:36.600
from 1st dynasty saying
01:06:36.600 --> 01:06:38.600
that the chapter 64
01:06:38.600 --> 01:06:40.600
was already old during the
01:06:40.600 --> 01:06:42.600
1st dynasty.
01:06:42.600 --> 01:06:44.600
Sir Wallace Burch,
01:06:44.600 --> 01:06:46.600
the great English archaeologist, also
01:06:46.600 --> 01:06:48.600
said that the right title
01:06:48.600 --> 01:06:50.600
is Coming Falls by Day
01:06:50.600 --> 01:06:52.600
from the Subterranean
01:06:52.600 --> 01:06:54.600
World.
01:06:54.600 --> 01:06:56.600
And what we found in the description
01:06:56.600 --> 01:06:58.600
of a catastrophe by a huge
01:06:58.600 --> 01:07:00.600
flood, we found that
01:07:00.600 --> 01:07:02.600
inside this text.
01:07:02.600 --> 01:07:04.600
It is said in that chapter also
01:07:04.600 --> 01:07:06.600
that when Osiris
01:07:06.600 --> 01:07:08.600
saw the water coming, he asked
01:07:08.600 --> 01:07:10.600
help from the lord of the flood.
01:07:10.600 --> 01:07:14.600
And to finish, you have in Italy, in Florence,
01:07:14.600 --> 01:07:16.600
the gate, the so-called
01:07:16.600 --> 01:07:18.600
Gate of Paradise.
01:07:18.600 --> 01:07:20.600
These proto-renaissance
01:07:20.600 --> 01:07:22.600
doors consist of 28
01:07:22.600 --> 01:07:24.600
quarter-fold panels
01:07:24.600 --> 01:07:26.600
with the 20 top panels
01:07:26.600 --> 01:07:28.600
depicting scenes of the life
01:07:28.600 --> 01:07:30.600
of St. John the Baptist
01:07:30.600 --> 01:07:32.600
designed in
01:07:32.600 --> 01:07:34.600
1630.
01:07:34.600 --> 01:07:36.600
The doors are
01:07:36.600 --> 01:07:38.600
very small, but they are
01:07:38.600 --> 01:07:40.600
designed in 1329
01:07:40.600 --> 01:07:42.600
by Andrea Pisano.
01:07:42.600 --> 01:07:44.600
This is
01:07:44.600 --> 01:07:46.600
the church
01:07:46.600 --> 01:07:48.600
where the Baptists, the people,
01:07:48.600 --> 01:07:50.600
and this is the door,
01:07:50.600 --> 01:07:52.600
the so-called Gate of the
01:07:52.600 --> 01:07:54.600
Paradise.
01:07:54.600 --> 01:07:56.600
And what you see,
01:07:56.600 --> 01:07:58.600
you see
01:07:58.600 --> 01:08:00.600
in the
01:08:00.600 --> 01:08:02.600
Noah panel,
01:08:02.600 --> 01:08:04.600
the great pyramid
01:08:04.600 --> 01:08:06.600
depicted
01:08:06.600 --> 01:08:08.600
with the animals
01:08:08.600 --> 01:08:10.600
leaving the ark.
01:08:10.600 --> 01:08:12.600
It is written that
01:08:12.600 --> 01:08:14.600
in the text, you see
01:08:14.600 --> 01:08:16.600
the animals, lions, et cetera,
01:08:16.600 --> 01:08:18.600
leaving the ark.
01:08:18.600 --> 01:08:20.600
This is very interesting because
01:08:20.600 --> 01:08:22.600
it is attesting all
01:08:22.600 --> 01:08:24.600
the ancient hieroglyphic texts and
01:08:24.600 --> 01:08:26.600
Arabic texts.
01:08:26.600 --> 01:08:28.600
So,
01:08:28.600 --> 01:08:30.600
it's now finished. I just
01:08:30.600 --> 01:08:32.600
wanted to add that my
01:08:32.600 --> 01:08:34.600
next tour in Egypt is
01:08:34.600 --> 01:08:36.600
from the 15th of October
01:08:36.600 --> 01:08:38.600
until the 23rd of October.
01:08:38.600 --> 01:08:40.600
And
01:08:40.600 --> 01:08:42.600
you will see all what I show
01:08:42.600 --> 01:08:44.600
you during this travel on
01:08:44.600 --> 01:08:46.600
many, many other
01:08:46.600 --> 01:08:48.600
sites, none
01:08:48.600 --> 01:08:50.600
open to the public.
01:08:50.600 --> 01:08:52.600
You can go to my
01:08:52.600 --> 01:08:54.600
Facebook page
01:08:54.600 --> 01:08:56.600
or to
01:08:56.600 --> 01:08:58.600
my website.
01:08:58.600 --> 01:09:00.600
Thank you.
01:10:28.600 --> 01:10:30.600
.