1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,060 you 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:47,000 we're descending into the bedrock itself this was discovered in the 19th century 3 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:54,120 local people told Marriott the archaeologist that there was an underground tunnel and s... 4 00:00:54,119 --> 00:00:59,439 an excavation and they found the famous Serapium 5 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:26,120 come this way 6 00:01:26,120 --> 00:01:28,120 come this way 7 00:01:28,120 --> 00:01:30,120 come this way 8 00:01:30,120 --> 00:01:32,120 come this way 9 00:01:32,120 --> 00:01:34,120 come on 10 00:01:34,120 --> 00:01:36,120 that's what I can tell you 11 00:01:36,120 --> 00:01:38,120 what we see here is not a construction 12 00:01:38,120 --> 00:01:44,120 and we can slightly count the hole leading to another section 13 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:48,120 so it's like a huge tree shaped under the tahrir 14 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:50,120 3 15 00:01:50,120 --> 00:01:52,120 4 16 00:01:52,120 --> 00:01:54,120 5 17 00:01:54,120 --> 00:01:56,120 6 18 00:01:56,120 --> 00:01:58,120 7 19 00:01:58,120 --> 00:02:00,120 8 20 00:02:00,120 --> 00:02:02,120 10 21 00:02:18,120 --> 00:02:20,120 100 22 00:02:20,120 --> 00:02:22,120 100 23 00:02:22,120 --> 00:02:24,120 100 24 00:02:24,120 --> 00:02:26,120 100 25 00:02:26,120 --> 00:02:28,120 100 26 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,120 100 27 00:02:30,120 --> 00:02:32,120 100 28 00:02:32,120 --> 00:02:34,120 100 29 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:36,120 100 30 00:02:36,120 --> 00:02:38,120 100 31 00:02:38,120 --> 00:02:40,120 100 32 00:02:40,120 --> 00:02:42,120 100 33 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,120 100 34 00:02:44,120 --> 00:02:46,120 100 35 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:48,120 100 36 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:50,120 100 37 00:02:50,120 --> 00:02:52,120 100 38 00:02:52,120 --> 00:02:54,120 100 39 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,120 100 40 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:58,120 100 41 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:00,120 100 42 00:03:00,120 --> 00:03:02,120 100 43 00:03:02,120 --> 00:03:04,120 100 44 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:06,120 100 45 00:03:06,120 --> 00:03:08,120 100 46 00:03:08,120 --> 00:03:12,120 so some of these boxes in the Serapium 47 00:03:12,120 --> 00:03:15,120 the box itself weighs 70 tons 48 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,120 the lid weighs 30 tons 49 00:03:17,120 --> 00:03:19,120 or a total of 100 tons 50 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,120 we're going to find out from our geologist 51 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:27,120 where the stone itself likely came from 52 00:03:33,120 --> 00:03:37,120 outside today it's about 110 to 115 degrees Fahrenheit 53 00:03:37,120 --> 00:03:39,120 inside 54 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,120 feels like it's about 70 55 00:03:41,120 --> 00:03:43,120 beautiful climate control 56 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,120 okay 57 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,120 okay 58 00:03:49,120 --> 00:03:51,120 we're in the Serapium 59 00:03:51,120 --> 00:03:53,120 it's a car 60 00:03:53,120 --> 00:03:55,120 one of the most famous sites in the world 61 00:03:55,120 --> 00:03:57,120 just opened since September 2012 62 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,120 and this contains 27 boxes 63 00:03:59,120 --> 00:04:01,120 33 niches 64 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:03,120 this is the most magnificent stone box we find here 65 00:04:03,120 --> 00:04:05,120 it's the material I believe 66 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:07,120 we'll check with our geologist 67 00:04:07,120 --> 00:04:09,120 and we'll see if it's the most magnificent 68 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,120 and we'll see if it's the most magnificent 69 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:13,120 and we'll see if it's the most magnificent 70 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:15,120 so this is the material I believe 71 00:04:15,120 --> 00:04:17,120 we'll check with our resident geologist Susan Moore 72 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:19,120 porphyria granovirite 73 00:04:19,120 --> 00:04:21,120 the box being 70 tons 74 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,120 the box being 70 tons 75 00:04:23,120 --> 00:04:25,120 the lid being 30 tons 14 feet high 76 00:04:25,120 --> 00:04:27,120 and the interesting thing is there are inscriptions on this box 77 00:04:27,120 --> 00:04:29,120 so we can check them out 78 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:31,120 but what do we see? 79 00:04:31,120 --> 00:04:33,120 the inscriptions are incredibly crude 80 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:35,120 cannot possibly be the same technology 81 00:04:35,120 --> 00:04:37,120 from the people who built the box 82 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:39,120 in fact it looks like it was a metal chisel 83 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:41,120 an iron chisel just tap tap tap 84 00:04:41,120 --> 00:04:43,120 if one follows it along like you're doing Brian 85 00:04:43,120 --> 00:04:45,120 you can see the man could not even draw a straight line 86 00:04:45,120 --> 00:04:47,120 and 87 00:04:47,120 --> 00:04:49,120 the key is it cannot be identified 88 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:51,120 with any king or anybody 89 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:53,120 because the cartouche is empty 90 00:04:53,120 --> 00:04:55,120 meaning the priest was setting himself for somebody 91 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:57,120 to pay the money to perhaps be buried in here 92 00:04:57,120 --> 00:04:59,120 and never was 93 00:04:59,120 --> 00:05:01,120 so it cannot be dated by the writing 94 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:03,120 perfect square corners 95 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,120 this is where Chris Dunn went in 96 00:05:05,120 --> 00:05:07,120 with a level beveled to 97 00:05:07,120 --> 00:05:09,120 2 ten thousandths of an inch 98 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,120 no light came through 99 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:13,120 so we say estimated at least 100 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:15,120 2 ten thousandths of an inch 101 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:17,120 which is not called for today 102 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,120 and can you compare the surface 103 00:05:19,120 --> 00:05:21,120 on this side 104 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,120 we'd like to point this out too though 105 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:25,120 because people notice that there's gouges 106 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,120 there's gouges, yet it is polished 107 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:29,120 so this was original 108 00:05:29,120 --> 00:05:31,120 this is original and originally polished 109 00:05:31,120 --> 00:05:33,120 so not polished with a machine 110 00:05:33,120 --> 00:05:35,120 we now have it polished with an abrasive 111 00:05:35,120 --> 00:05:37,120 liquid abrasive like acids 112 00:05:37,120 --> 00:05:39,120 and we have some residue on the side 113 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,120 so they realize that this wasn't affecting the residents 114 00:05:41,120 --> 00:05:43,120 so it stayed polished 115 00:05:43,120 --> 00:05:45,120 and perfect square corners 116 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:47,120 perfect square corners 117 00:05:47,120 --> 00:05:49,120 in a 70 ton box 118 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:53,120 writing very crude 119 00:05:53,120 --> 00:05:55,120 and much much late 30th 120 00:05:57,120 --> 00:05:59,120 got everything? 121 00:05:59,120 --> 00:06:01,120 good boy 122 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:03,120 good boy, that's okay 123 00:06:03,120 --> 00:06:05,120 daddy's in there? 124 00:06:05,120 --> 00:06:07,120 great 125 00:06:07,120 --> 00:06:09,120 how is it in there daddy? 126 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,120 are you tapping daddy? 127 00:06:19,120 --> 00:06:21,120 different residents 128 00:06:21,120 --> 00:06:23,120 keep going hands 129 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:31,120 so as Stephen was pointing out 130 00:06:31,120 --> 00:06:33,120 the hieroglyphics are incredibly crude 131 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,120 and yet the surface is astonishingly flat 132 00:06:37,120 --> 00:06:39,120 and polished 133 00:06:39,120 --> 00:06:41,120 so it's clearly obvious 134 00:06:41,120 --> 00:06:43,120 that whoever did the inscriptions 135 00:06:43,120 --> 00:06:45,120 was technically inferior 136 00:06:45,120 --> 00:06:47,120 to whoever it was 137 00:06:47,120 --> 00:06:49,120 that made the box itself 138 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:51,120 again we're going to ask our geologist 139 00:06:51,120 --> 00:06:53,120 where she thinks the stone 140 00:06:53,120 --> 00:06:55,120 actually came from 141 00:06:55,120 --> 00:06:57,120 to make these 20 plus boxes 142 00:06:57,120 --> 00:06:59,120 but we have to 143 00:06:59,120 --> 00:07:01,120 it's definitely not local 144 00:07:01,120 --> 00:07:03,120 this is an area of limestone 145 00:07:03,120 --> 00:07:05,120 this is like a cyanite or granite 146 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:07,120 or granodilite 147 00:07:07,120 --> 00:07:09,120 and this is the reason 148 00:07:09,120 --> 00:07:11,120 because the pieces of boxes 149 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:13,120 are very small 150 00:07:19,120 --> 00:07:21,120 so let's say 151 00:07:21,120 --> 00:07:23,120 this is not 70 pounds 152 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:25,120 let's say this is 50 pounds 153 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:27,120 and we are now 154 00:07:27,120 --> 00:07:29,120 let's say one pound of the granite 155 00:07:29,120 --> 00:07:31,120 and we are now at 50 pounds 156 00:07:33,120 --> 00:07:35,120 so 10 people 157 00:07:35,120 --> 00:07:37,120 or 5 people 158 00:07:37,120 --> 00:07:39,120 5 pounds that means 50 people 159 00:07:41,120 --> 00:07:43,120 50 pounds that means 160 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:45,120 500 161 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:47,120 what is the difference? 162 00:07:47,120 --> 00:07:49,120 I don't know 163 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:51,120 but let's say 50 pounds 164 00:07:51,120 --> 00:07:53,120 at least we need 500 people 165 00:07:55,120 --> 00:07:57,120 again as we pointed out 166 00:07:57,120 --> 00:07:59,120 how did we finish the secret? 167 00:07:59,120 --> 00:08:01,120 we made the stone outside 168 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:03,120 from the inside 169 00:08:03,120 --> 00:08:05,120 and then we brought it in the door 170 00:08:05,120 --> 00:08:07,120 finished it in the door 171 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:09,120 and then we put it in the door 172 00:08:09,120 --> 00:08:11,120 oh no 173 00:08:11,120 --> 00:08:13,120 cyanite corporate 174 00:08:13,120 --> 00:08:15,120 great 175 00:08:15,120 --> 00:08:17,120 I made the matches 176 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:19,120 I made the doctor 177 00:08:19,120 --> 00:08:21,120 the father 178 00:08:21,120 --> 00:08:23,120 the mother 179 00:08:23,120 --> 00:08:25,120 the manager 180 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:27,120 that's how we make the fire 181 00:08:27,120 --> 00:08:29,120 don't open your mouth 182 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,120 give them 183 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:37,120 listen 184 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:39,120 shhh 185 00:08:45,120 --> 00:08:47,120 it's bright 186 00:08:55,120 --> 00:08:57,120 mmmmm 187 00:09:07,120 --> 00:09:09,120 oh thanks man 188 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,120 so as you noticed 189 00:09:13,120 --> 00:09:15,120 the resonance inside that box 190 00:09:15,120 --> 00:09:17,120 was absolutely astonishing 191 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:19,120 when I was able to hit 192 00:09:19,120 --> 00:09:21,120 the resonance tone 193 00:09:21,120 --> 00:09:23,120 that the box liked 194 00:09:23,120 --> 00:09:25,120 so curiously 195 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:27,120 there are more than 20 of these 196 00:09:27,120 --> 00:09:29,120 100 ton boxes inside this chamber 197 00:09:29,120 --> 00:09:31,120 all of them except one 198 00:09:31,120 --> 00:09:33,120 were found with the lid 199 00:09:33,120 --> 00:09:35,120 slid as if open 200 00:09:35,120 --> 00:09:37,120 the one that was still 201 00:09:37,120 --> 00:09:39,120 supposedly sealed off 202 00:09:39,120 --> 00:09:41,120 they used gun powder 203 00:09:41,120 --> 00:09:43,120 in the 19th century 204 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,120 to blow a hole in it to see what was inside 205 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:47,120 and they found nothing 206 00:09:47,120 --> 00:09:49,120 now the standard story 207 00:09:49,120 --> 00:09:51,120 of the academics is that these were used 208 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:53,120 to bury 209 00:09:53,120 --> 00:09:55,120 sacrificial special 210 00:09:55,120 --> 00:09:57,120 apples bulls 211 00:09:57,120 --> 00:09:59,120 however there's no way the dynastic 212 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:01,120 Egyptians had the technology to be able to 213 00:10:01,120 --> 00:10:03,120 quarry the stone 214 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:05,120 move the stone, shape the stone 215 00:10:05,120 --> 00:10:07,120 and put it into this 216 00:10:07,120 --> 00:10:09,120 underground system 217 00:10:09,120 --> 00:10:11,120 step row please 218 00:10:13,120 --> 00:10:15,120 watch your step 219 00:10:15,120 --> 00:10:17,120 watch your step 220 00:10:17,120 --> 00:10:19,120 watch your step 221 00:10:19,120 --> 00:10:21,120 step 222 00:10:21,120 --> 00:10:23,120 empty niches 223 00:10:23,120 --> 00:10:25,120 watch your step 224 00:10:27,120 --> 00:10:29,120 all broken in pieces in here 225 00:10:29,120 --> 00:10:31,120 if we look over here 226 00:10:31,120 --> 00:10:33,120 here is a fox door 227 00:10:33,120 --> 00:10:35,120 from there to the stone 228 00:10:35,120 --> 00:10:37,120 oh yeah there's a ring 229 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:39,120 yep 230 00:10:39,120 --> 00:10:41,120 and 231 00:10:41,120 --> 00:10:43,120 the other is not supposed to be 232 00:10:43,120 --> 00:10:45,120 usually from the other side 233 00:10:45,120 --> 00:10:47,120 there's a wall 234 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:49,120 but they existed in the wall of the house 235 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:51,120 so if we look out of the boxes 236 00:10:51,120 --> 00:10:53,120 there's no way there's two spaces 237 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:55,120 on the sides of the box 238 00:10:55,120 --> 00:10:57,120 the hole or something like this 239 00:10:57,120 --> 00:10:59,120 probably has 240 00:10:59,120 --> 00:11:01,120 here's a box 241 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:03,120 we found that box 242 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:09,120 that's weird 243 00:11:09,120 --> 00:11:11,120 it's the largest one 244 00:11:11,120 --> 00:11:13,120 okay it's a bathtub 245 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:15,120 okay it's a bathtub 246 00:11:15,120 --> 00:11:17,120 let's go down on it 247 00:11:21,120 --> 00:11:23,120 careful careful 248 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:25,120 this one is small 249 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:27,120 not small sorry but not deep 250 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,120 this one is 251 00:11:29,120 --> 00:11:31,120 shorter 252 00:11:31,120 --> 00:11:33,120 shorter this way 253 00:11:33,120 --> 00:11:35,120 that way? 254 00:11:45,120 --> 00:11:47,120 you 255 00:12:15,120 --> 00:12:17,120 you