1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:17,359 So this is the shaft coming down from the Queen's chamber. 2 00:00:17,359 --> 00:00:28,039 Then there's a bit of a jog and then we go down the shaft into the subterranean chamber. 3 00:00:28,039 --> 00:00:40,039 So with Yusef Awian we're here next to the Great Pyramid and this is where we find... 4 00:00:40,039 --> 00:00:48,039 Because here if you look really carefully you see these vertical lines going down along ... 5 00:00:48,039 --> 00:01:00,039 Now there's scratches too but there seems to be quite a pattern to it. 6 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:04,039 As if could this be actually a saw. 7 00:01:04,039 --> 00:01:10,039 Now this material is basalt which is very hard. It's not from the local area. 8 00:01:10,040 --> 00:01:24,040 So a culture with bronze chisels couldn't or bronze saws even with some kind of silica... 9 00:01:24,040 --> 00:01:32,040 I'll show you other examples here in this little area by itself of examples of... 10 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:42,040 Not modern machines, not dynastic Egyptian machines but older machining technology by... 11 00:01:42,040 --> 00:01:52,040 Now that for example you can see that's the end of where there was a saw cut of some... 12 00:01:52,040 --> 00:02:04,040 This piece broke off. The diameter of that saw blade seems to be about 1 eighth of an... 13 00:02:04,040 --> 00:02:12,040 We'll show that in other videos. What it is, it's a curved cut. So that could be eviden... 14 00:02:12,040 --> 00:02:18,040 And here these are the cuts themselves. 15 00:02:18,039 --> 00:02:32,039 And somewhere between an eighth and a quarter of an inch in diameter going straight thro... 16 00:02:32,039 --> 00:02:36,039 So the unfinished pieces are special. 17 00:02:48,039 --> 00:03:15,039 And another puzzling thing as Yousef Awian who's there pointed out is the amount of... 18 00:03:15,039 --> 00:03:22,039 The extent of erosion is quite astonishing. 19 00:03:22,039 --> 00:03:28,039 So how long would it have taken for that erosion to have taken place? 20 00:03:28,039 --> 00:03:35,039 You need a geologist such as Dr. Robert Schock to discuss that. 21 00:03:35,039 --> 00:03:40,039 But would it have taken a thousand years, five thousand years? 22 00:03:40,039 --> 00:03:44,039 Certainly not in hundreds of years because this is desert. 23 00:03:44,039 --> 00:03:53,039 It's unlikely that it was sand being blown by the wind to erode it to this extent. 24 00:03:53,039 --> 00:04:02,039 The Sphinx is known to have been eroded by water possibly up to eight thousand or ten... 25 00:04:02,039 --> 00:04:14,039 So could that mean that this pyramid, the Great Pyramid, and possibly this one, the... 26 00:04:14,039 --> 00:04:21,039 That they pre-existed the dynastic, pharaonic cultures of Egypt? 27 00:04:21,039 --> 00:04:23,039 That's what we're trying to find out. 28 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:36,040 What most people also don't realize is the fact that on the Giza Plateau you have the... 29 00:04:36,040 --> 00:04:45,040 But off on this side, which is the east side, you have all of these little baby ones lik... 30 00:04:45,040 --> 00:04:50,040 And here you can see the casing stone is still on the exterior. 31 00:04:50,040 --> 00:04:53,040 There are about 30 of these. 32 00:04:53,040 --> 00:04:58,040 The casing stone is original and also there are these shafts that go down. 33 00:04:58,040 --> 00:05:00,040 I can see the bottom. 34 00:05:00,040 --> 00:05:03,040 It's at least 30 or 40 feet filled with sand. 35 00:05:03,040 --> 00:05:12,040 And then there's a chamber going off to the left. 36 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:13,040 And this one as well. 37 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:21,040 It's deeper with chambers going off at what is now the bottom. 38 00:05:21,040 --> 00:05:27,040 So really you don't build shafts for burying people. 39 00:05:27,040 --> 00:05:31,040 If the shafts are there you could use them for burying people. 40 00:05:31,040 --> 00:05:36,040 Here's the shaft in the center of one of these baby ones. 41 00:05:36,040 --> 00:05:52,040 But it makes more sense that the shaft system, the tunnel system, was part of a... 42 00:05:52,040 --> 00:06:02,040 They in fact have massive pumps right near the front entrance of the Giza Plateau. 43 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:08,040 And they're constantly pumping water out of it to this very day. 44 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:10,040 That's another shaft. 45 00:06:10,040 --> 00:06:21,040 So it makes this whole area far more mysterious and interesting than the... 46 00:06:21,040 --> 00:06:39,040 Ah, and we've just been told we can go into Mereys Ank, the third tomb, which is a... 47 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:44,040 Okay, so it's a tomb now, but the question is was it constructed as a tomb? 48 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:48,040 Or was it constructed as part of the water system? 49 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:56,040 And then later when this Giza system no longer functioned, that then it was turned... 50 00:07:18,040 --> 00:07:37,040 Okay.