Did aliens or advanced civilizations really build the pyramids?
You can see why some people believe this, as it is easy to look at pictures of pyramids,
these huge and fantastic buildings, and think “wow, that's awesome!
Where did it come from?
Where are all the pyramids that were built before this?
This has come out of nowhere, so it must have been influenced by people with advanced knowledge
or by aliens!”
Well, let me tell you a story.
One that started over 11,000 years ago, and one which took thousands of years to write.
So grab yourself a cup of tea, and welcome to Crecganford.
Starting around 11,600 years ago, Earth's climate was recovering from the Younger Dryas
period.
An event, which occurred 12,900 years ago, and cooled much of the world, although it
merely accelerated an already cooling planet.
This change had a significant impact on plants and animals, who had difficulty adapting to
such a swift climate change.
The average global temperature dropped by 3.5° Celsius (6° Fahrenheit), and people
often present graphs that appear much worse, showing an 8° Celsius (13° Fahrenheit) drop,
but this actually relates to the temperature in Greenland, which is often chosen as use
of ice cores from its snow are often good indicators of climate, but aren’t necessarily
indicators of the whole world.
And while the change was significant, it was not as catastrophic as some journalists might
lead you to believe.
But with plants and animals affected, this would have an impact on humans who were hunting
and gathering their food during this time, which probably helped influence one of the
biggest changes in human cultural development: the adoption of farming.
And it was just after the end of the Younger Dryas period that we observe farming having
started around where Southeast Turkey and Northern Syria today, humans shifted away
from their hunter-gatherer lifestyle and started to cultivate crops.
And I will delve further into the reasons for this decision in a future video, but nevertheless,
the result of this decision was that larger, more stable communities of people could live
together, share tasks more equally, and have a reliable source of food.
This eventually resulted in the construction of towns and cities.
And this led to a lot of human resources also being available in one place for the first
time.
But to farm effectively, new technology needed to be adopted, so we eventually saw the development
of irrigation, which allowed for larger crops to be grown further away from rivers.
And to develop irrigation, we had to dig the ground and whatever was in it.
We found stones, and to dig channels in the ground, we had to work the stones.
And we can see evidence of this in Egypt 8,000 years ago, where irrigation channels were
being made and stone working was being carried out to achieve this.
But we also see that at least 500 years before this, small stone buildings were being made.
The Egyptians were becoming competent stone workers 8,500 years ago, and this is how things
went for thousands of years, buildings became bigger, stone working made irrigation better,
and it would enable better control of water, something people consider was a key tool in
the building of the pyramids.
And by 3,100BCE, 3,000 years after the first buildings and irrigation, the Egyptians were
building Mastabas, which were funeral buildings with burial chambers below them.
These were simple designs, around 30 feet or 10 meters high, but pushing building capabilities
to their limits for the time.
But for those who understand pyramids, this might look quite familiar as to being very
similar to the base of the more recognised pyramids.
It took another 500 years before the Pharaoh at the time, Pharaoh Djoser says “Can you
build these Mastabas on top of each other?”
And so, in 2650BCE, we see the result, the Djoser Pyramid, because, well, it looks like
a pyramid.
This structure stood at just over 200 feet or 60 meters tall, and was covered in white
limestone when built, much like how the more well-known pyramids were when they were built.
And then around 2,600BCE, Phaoroh Sneferu says can you build that again, but make it
smoother on the sides.
The result of this is that we end up with the 90-meter or 300-foot tall Meidum pyramid.
But the sides were very steep, and it was still stepped, but fewer steps, as the picture
shows.
And so two more pyramids were built, one collapsed, but the other looked as though the angle of
the sides was changed halfway through construction so as to prevent collapse, from a 54 ̊ angle
to a 43 ̊ angle.
And it is known today as the “Bent pyramid”, and stands today at 104 meters or 344 feet
tall, and had burial chambers underground.
And this is the eureka moment when the architects realise how they could build a more pyramid
looking pyramid.
And so in 2590BCE, 3,000 years after irrigation, and 600 years after the first Mastaba, Snerfu
builds the Red Pyramid, at 307 feet tall, and it is the 3rd tallest pyramid in Egypt’s
history, and was the tallest building in the world at the time.
But then the story continues with Snerfu’s son, Khufu, who basically says “thanks Dad,
I’ll use your hard work and make it better” and so he builds the biggest pyramid in Egyptian
history, the Pyramid of Giza in 2,490BCE at 481 feet or 146 meters tall.
Pyramids are some of the simplest building structures in the world, which is why many
cultures built them, there was no need to worry about engineering large, flat roofs,
and the structure getting smaller and smaller towards the top helps with build process.
And if you give your civilisation 3,000 years and have tens of thousands of workers, who
now who live near each other, helping build it, and we have evidence that these worker
numbers existed, and we see this evidenced in inscriptions and papyrus, so you can go
from working stone to building one very large pyramid in that time.
However, iIt could be that aliens or advanced civilizations existed and passed on technology
as recently as 5,000 years ago, having spent 7,000 years hiding it, and when the pyramids
were built, they then wiped all evidence of their existence off the planet.
And it’ll certain make sense if you’re a journalist who wants to sensationalise people’s
wonder.
And I’ll talk more about this when I discuss Atlantis in my next video.
And I want to shout out to my Patreons who continue to support this channel and make
these videos possible.
And until then, please stay safe, and stay well.
And this was Crecganford.