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I'm inside what's called the Valley Temple on
the Giza Plateau.

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The Sphinx is right back this way.

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And I'm here by myself.

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No other tourists.

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It's absolutely ridiculous actually why
people are afraid to come to Egypt here at...

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of March 2014.

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These stones, basically all of them, are rose
granite from the Aswan Quarry, which is 500

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miles away.

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And just get a basic sense of the scale of
what you're looking at.

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The size of them.

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But not only that, the thing is that this
so-called temple is so incredibly ancient

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and pre-dynastic.

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It wasn't built by the dynastic Egyptians.

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This is much, much older.

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Thousands of years older.

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It's a Chamechen site.

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The Chamechen culture existed here long
before the dynastic Egyptians ever existed.

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The amount of erosion on these stones
indicates the antiquity.

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Not only that, look at the size of them.

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500 miles away is the quarry.

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How were these stones moved here?

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And how was the level of precision achieved?

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Such as this example in a more black granite.

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It's been measured by engineers.

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This surface, in some cases, is within two
tenths of one inch in being perfectly flat

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and possibly even finer than that.

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An astonishing achievement.

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And what we see in Egypt, again, is we see
the phenomenal work that the dynastic...

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or the pharaohs created.

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But they inherited a number of structures.

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And this so-called valley temple is one of
them.

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So much as in Peru, the question is, why were
these people working in such an incredible

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scale?

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Why would you bother working with
megalithic-sized blocks like this?

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And the answer isn't simply because they
could.

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Though the answer is simply because they
could.

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But it has to do with the reasoning that
contact between the stones was vital.

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It's a lot easier to build something with
mortar or concrete in between the building

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blocks or stones.

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Because that means you can build quite
quickly.

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But to have contact upon contact like this,
with huge stones like this, means more than

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simply the idea that they were trying to
earthquake-proof something.

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The contact probably had to do with
vibration.

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They chose pink as one granite because of its
very high quartz crystal content.

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And we know that quartz is used in modern
electronics because of its vibrational...

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quality.