1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:24,039 We're now at the Red Pyramid, which is next to the Bent Pyramid. 2 00:00:24,039 --> 00:00:32,039 We're very fortunate because this one we get to go into. 3 00:00:32,039 --> 00:00:39,039 So what will be intriguing for me is to see how big the passageway is to get into the ... 4 00:00:39,039 --> 00:00:42,039 Like how wide is it? How tall is it? 5 00:00:42,039 --> 00:00:50,039 And of course, this pyramid, like most, are believed by Egyptologists to have been tombs. 6 00:00:50,039 --> 00:00:56,039 Another more intriguing theory, which is far more complicated and I think far more... 7 00:00:56,039 --> 00:00:59,039 is that these were power plants, electrical generators. 8 00:00:59,039 --> 00:01:07,039 So therefore, it'll be interesting to see, is this a passageway inside to where the tomb... 9 00:01:07,039 --> 00:01:16,039 Or is it a passageway, a servant's, not servant's, sorry, service entrance to the... 10 00:01:16,040 --> 00:01:26,040 of a very, very ancient machine that predates history as we know it, as in older than 6,... 11 00:01:26,040 --> 00:01:30,040 older than the pharaohs, older than the dynastic Egyptians. 12 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:37,040 Okay, we're up on the Red Pyramid and Saqqara is in the background. 13 00:01:37,040 --> 00:01:41,040 Over to that side is Giza. 14 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:47,040 The pyramids are lined up but not in a straight line. It's actually a fiber-nachy... 15 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:52,040 And next, we're going to go inside the Red Pyramid. 16 00:01:56,040 --> 00:01:58,040 Thank you. 17 00:01:58,040 --> 00:02:11,040 At this point, I'm going to have to turn on a light because this is a maintenance shaft,... 18 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:20,040 It's a whole lot deeper than I thought it would be. 19 00:02:20,040 --> 00:02:25,040 Again, going into something which covers several acres. 20 00:02:25,039 --> 00:02:30,039 This isn't the greatest of the Great Pyramids, but this is a damn big pyramid,... 21 00:02:30,039 --> 00:02:36,039 Okay, this is at the bottom of the shaft, entrance into the Red Pyramid. 22 00:02:36,039 --> 00:02:40,039 Hundreds of feet that we came down at an angle. 23 00:02:40,039 --> 00:02:46,039 Again, you see, three feet by three feet is the basic dimension. 24 00:02:46,039 --> 00:02:55,039 Now we turn and enter a core of the Red Pyramid in Egypt. 25 00:02:55,039 --> 00:03:22,039 The mark has a torch, so this is how you can see almost the baffling that's in the... 26 00:03:25,039 --> 00:03:30,039 Definitely for resonance or acoustics, wouldn't you say, Mark? 27 00:03:30,039 --> 00:03:32,039 Absolutely. 28 00:03:34,039 --> 00:03:40,039 Not as a tomb, because these have a pragmatic function, clearly. 29 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:57,039 Okay, the opening's about six feet high, so it's a relief compared to the three-foot m... 30 00:03:57,039 --> 00:04:02,039 Same thing, you have these baffle-like projections going up. 31 00:04:02,039 --> 00:04:09,039 This room's oriented 90 degrees compared to the other one. 32 00:04:09,039 --> 00:04:16,039 So it's the sonic effect in here, reverberation, etc., which is amazing. 33 00:04:16,039 --> 00:04:13,560 If you hit that, it's like a 34 00:04:13,560 --> 00:04:14,560 ! 35 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:15,560 It's like a sound. 36 00:04:15,560 --> 00:04:16,560 It's like a sound. 37 00:04:16,560 --> 00:04:17,560 It's like a sound. 38 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:18,560 It's like a sound. 39 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:19,560 It's like a sound. 40 00:04:19,560 --> 00:04:20,560 It's like a sound. 41 00:04:20,560 --> 00:04:21,560 It's like a sound. 42 00:04:21,560 --> 00:04:22,560 It's like a sound. 43 00:04:22,560 --> 00:04:23,560 It's like a sound. 44 00:04:23,560 --> 00:04:24,560 It's like a sound. 45 00:04:24,560 --> 00:04:25,560 It's like a sound. 46 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:26,560 It's like a sound. 47 00:04:26,560 --> 00:04:27,560 It's like a sound. 48 00:04:27,560 --> 00:04:28,560 It's like a sound. 49 00:04:28,560 --> 00:04:29,560 It's like a sound. 50 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:30,560 It's like a sound. 51 00:04:30,560 --> 00:04:31,560 It's like a sound. 52 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:32,560 It's like a sound. 53 00:04:32,560 --> 00:04:33,560 It's like a sound. 54 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:34,560 It's like a sound. 55 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:35,560 It's like a sound. 56 00:04:35,560 --> 00:04:36,560 It's like a sound. 57 00:04:36,560 --> 00:04:37,560 It's like a sound. 58 00:04:38,079 --> 00:04:39,079 And then there's the echo, which is amazing. 59 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:44,079 If you hit the right tone, then the whole room vibrates. 60 00:04:44,079 --> 00:04:53,560 And again, that lends credence to the idea that this was not the tomb of a dead king, 61 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:56,560 but that this had a very pragmatic function. 62 00:04:56,560 --> 00:05:00,560 And that was a vibrational function. 63 00:05:07,560 --> 00:05:08,560 It's like a sound. 64 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:09,560 It's like a sound. 65 00:05:09,560 --> 00:05:10,560 It's like a sound. 66 00:05:10,560 --> 00:05:11,560 It's like a sound. 67 00:05:11,560 --> 00:05:12,560 It's like a sound. 68 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:13,560 It's like a sound. 69 00:05:13,560 --> 00:05:14,560 It's like a sound. 70 00:05:14,560 --> 00:05:15,560 It's like a sound. 71 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:16,560 It's like a sound. 72 00:05:16,560 --> 00:05:17,560 It's like a sound. 73 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:18,560 It's like a sound. 74 00:05:18,560 --> 00:05:19,560 It's like a sound. 75 00:05:19,560 --> 00:05:20,560 It's like a sound. 76 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:21,560 It's like a sound. 77 00:05:21,560 --> 00:05:22,560 It's like a sound. 78 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:23,560 It's like a sound. 79 00:05:23,560 --> 00:05:24,560 It's like a sound. 80 00:05:24,560 --> 00:05:25,560 It's like a sound. 81 00:05:25,560 --> 00:05:26,560 It's like a sound. 82 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:27,560 It's like a sound. 83 00:05:27,560 --> 00:05:28,560 It's like a sound. 84 00:05:28,560 --> 00:05:29,560 It's like a sound. 85 00:05:29,560 --> 00:05:30,560 It's like a sound. 86 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:31,560 It's like a sound. 87 00:05:31,560 --> 00:05:32,560 It's like a sound. 88 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:33,560 It's like a sound. 89 00:05:33,560 --> 00:05:34,560 It's like a sound. 90 00:05:34,560 --> 00:05:49,120 One thing that Yusef Awian just pointed out, who is our oral tradition expert and guide, 91 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:50,680 is that this is the origin... 92 00:05:50,680 --> 00:05:55,240 The color is going to be crap in this video, but it's the best I can do. 93 00:05:55,240 --> 00:05:56,240 See the white? 94 00:05:56,240 --> 00:05:58,480 That's the original limestone color. 95 00:05:58,480 --> 00:06:06,080 And then the exterior surface now is a yellowish, reddish, brownish color. 96 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:10,200 Sustaining from something, but the question is stained from what? 97 00:06:10,200 --> 00:06:12,480 Not simply time. 98 00:06:12,480 --> 00:06:22,240 It's as if there was some kind of liquid or chemical that was inside of this pyramid 99 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:26,680 that stained the stone. 100 00:06:26,680 --> 00:06:30,319 Was it airborne or was it part of the function? 101 00:06:30,319 --> 00:06:33,879 This will give you a much better idea here because there's an actual light. 102 00:06:33,879 --> 00:06:40,800 But the color here, you can see where it looks like it's been... 103 00:06:40,800 --> 00:06:44,199 Well, you can see where it's been dripping down. 104 00:06:44,199 --> 00:06:56,879 But again, the acoustics are just phenomenal in the red pyramid in Egypt. 105 00:06:56,879 --> 00:07:03,599 So people are toning away in here because this thing has astonishing resonance... 106 00:07:03,599 --> 00:07:11,959 Again, adding credence to the idea that it was a pragmatic building when it was... 107 00:07:11,959 --> 00:07:13,800 and not a tomb. 108 00:07:13,800 --> 00:07:18,040 And the precision, you can see here. 109 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:28,960 This groove, you see, isn't really a good example of the precision of the fit of the 110 00:07:28,960 --> 00:07:33,240 work because it's channeled in left and right like that. 111 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,759 So you've got this V-shape going in. 112 00:07:35,759 --> 00:07:37,720 So that's not a good example. 113 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:44,320 So as we come down to where the stone's been broken, here, look at that. 114 00:07:44,320 --> 00:07:49,520 I don't even know if you can see that, but that is a join between two stones. 115 00:07:49,520 --> 00:07:54,840 And it's so close together. 116 00:07:54,840 --> 00:07:56,360 You can't fit anything in there. 117 00:07:56,360 --> 00:08:00,440 I don't even know if water could seep into that. 118 00:08:00,440 --> 00:08:01,440 That is really... 119 00:08:01,439 --> 00:08:02,439 It's out of this world.