WEBVTT - Selects: How the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Work, Part I 0:00:00.760 --> 0:00:03.600 Hi, everybody. Chuck here on Saturday. 0:00:04.600 --> 0:00:06.440 I am in charge of picking out the Saturday Select 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:08.240 this week, and this week we're doing a two parter, 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:11.360 so you're going to hear the first part today and 0:00:11.400 --> 0:00:14.320 then next week Josh we'll have his selection, and then 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:16.759 the following week you can listen to part two. Or 0:00:16.840 --> 0:00:20.079 you can just get creative and type with your little 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:22.520 fingies on the internet and get part two on your own. 0:00:22.360 --> 0:00:24.800 If you just can't wait two weeks. But here is 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:28.319 part one from December twenty six, twenty seventeen. All the 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:32.800 seven Wonders of the Ancient World work. Part one. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:45.559 Welcome to Stuff You Should Know, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:49.200 Hey, and welcome to the podcast. 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:52.360 I'm Josh Clark, and there's Charles W Chuck Bryant there. 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:54.360 Wait wait, I know you thought I was going. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.960 To say Jerry, but you're wrong because it's Nol today, 0:00:58.000 --> 0:01:01.480 guest producer Nol, and that makes this stuff you should know. 0:01:01.600 --> 0:01:02.120 That's right? 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:04.000 How you doing? 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:04.880 I'm good? Noel? 0:01:04.920 --> 0:01:08.200 Who is the uh the eighth Wonder of the ancient world? 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:11.440 He is and the modern world too. 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.440 He spans He spans space and time. 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:18.840 Yes, like the Colossus spanned the Harbor of Roads or 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:22.520 did it it didn't. We're gonna learn a lot, Chuck, 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:24.080 I'm so excited about this one. 0:01:24.120 --> 0:01:26.199 Oh yeah, these two? You mean these two? 0:01:26.280 --> 0:01:26.760 That's right? 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.399 Yeah, I hit upon it, and I'm like, this is a 0:01:29.480 --> 0:01:31.440 two parter right here, and I can't believe we haven't 0:01:31.480 --> 0:01:34.440 done this already. Like everybody knows about the Seven Wonders 0:01:34.440 --> 0:01:37.280 of the Ancient World, but nobody knows about the Seven 0:01:37.360 --> 0:01:38.520 Wonders of the Ancient World, you know. 0:01:38.520 --> 0:01:40.800 What I mean, Nobody knows about them at all. 0:01:41.000 --> 0:01:44.520 It's like a perfect, perfect stuff you should know episode 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:48.600 if you ask me times two, Well, the sequel, that's right. 0:01:49.440 --> 0:01:53.560 So to get started, we probably would Let's just give 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.200 a brief overview of the Seven Wonders. 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:57.920 Okay, let's do you. 0:01:57.840 --> 0:01:59.480 Just want to like name them? 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.200 Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna do them chronologically too, Okay. 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.400 Oh is that how they're listed for me? 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:06.320 Yeah? 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.920 Okay, Well, then first up we have the the the 0:02:10.960 --> 0:02:15.200 Great Pyramid, the Great Pyramid of Giza. 0:02:15.120 --> 0:02:17.919 Right, and then after that, again chronologically, there's the Hanging 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:21.880 Gardens of Babylon and apparently there used to be it 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.320 used to be the walls of Babylon in addition to 0:02:24.320 --> 0:02:28.080 the hanging Gardens of Babylon, but they were removed later, right, 0:02:28.960 --> 0:02:30.440 and then what's next, chuck. 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:33.720 The Temple of Artemies at. 0:02:35.080 --> 0:02:41.360 Here we go the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus Ephesus 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.679 either one Artemis at Ephesus, nice man. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.000 And then there's a statue of Zeus at Olympia, which 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.520 I have to admit I had not heard of before. 0:02:53.280 --> 0:02:55.960 I had heard of that one. I think, I think 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:56.800 a couple of these. 0:02:57.680 --> 0:02:59.720 I felt bad because maybe I had disregarded some of 0:02:59.720 --> 0:03:01.520 this and wonders of the ancient world because a couple 0:03:01.600 --> 0:03:02.840 of these were news to me. 0:03:04.440 --> 0:03:06.800 Oh yeah, okay, so that one was for me. The 0:03:06.840 --> 0:03:10.200 Mausoleum at Halli Carnassis was also new for me too. 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.360 Yeah. Colossus of Rhodes old hat. 0:03:12.639 --> 0:03:13.919 Sure everybody knows that one. 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:17.320 Come on, yeah, Like, I've got Colossus of Roads underwear 0:03:17.360 --> 0:03:18.000 on right now. 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:21.880 I know you wear you got that whole style where 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:24.720 you wear the sage and you show your underwear too, 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:25.280 That's right. 0:03:25.720 --> 0:03:28.960 And then finally the Lighthouse of Alexandria m h which 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:31.440 is I think I had heard of that one. But 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:35.160 when you put these all together, it is not. It 0:03:35.240 --> 0:03:36.160 is no small list. 0:03:36.880 --> 0:03:40.520 No, And so this list, like you may wonder who 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:44.880 put this list together, you know, maybe Jacques Cousteau, maybe 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:50.640 Bertrand Russell, who knows. It's actually way way way older 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:54.640 than that. This list goes back to the time of 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:58.120 ancient Greece, actually, and they're not entirely certain who wrote 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:00.960 the first one, but there were several people who kind 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:05.120 of took the list and added to it or subtracted 0:04:05.120 --> 0:04:08.200 to it. And there's a bunch of candidates for who 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:10.840 had written the list, But the one I saw that's 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:14.840 pretty roundly considered probably the first one to have written 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:21.240 a list is Deodorus Sicilis, or Diodorus of Sicily. And 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:23.440 the reason that these lists were made was because at 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:26.680 the time Greece had done a pretty good job of 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:32.600 subjugating a lot of the areas around it, like Turkey, Persia, Babylon, 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:37.719 and these places were now safe for Greeks to go visit. 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:40.159 And because the Greeks, who were wealthy and had a 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:42.800 lot of leisure time, they actually became some of the 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:47.159 world's first tourists, international tourists, And that was basically the 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:50.120 point of the list of the Seven Wonders of the 0:04:50.160 --> 0:04:53.239 ancient world was hey, you should go visit these things, 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:55.160 go to these places and see these things, and so 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:57.720 some people would go do I think it was probably 0:04:57.800 --> 0:04:59.760 a point of pride to be able to say I've 0:04:59.760 --> 0:05:03.279 seen all seven what they called theamatta. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.120 Yeah, theamata translates as things to be seen, or if 0:05:07.160 --> 0:05:09.440 you want to get even more modern, it's literally like 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.839 here are your mussies if you're going on vacation. 0:05:13.200 --> 0:05:13.440 Right. 0:05:13.800 --> 0:05:16.720 It was kind of like the first travel website. 0:05:16.800 --> 0:05:18.240 Kind of, but it was just a list. 0:05:18.800 --> 0:05:21.200 Yeah, I mean it wasn't on the web yet. That 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:22.919 would take a couple hundred years. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:25.600 Sure, at least a couple hundred because these guys they 0:05:25.600 --> 0:05:30.599 did live in like the third, fourth, fifth centuries BCE, right, Yeah, 0:05:30.880 --> 0:05:32.960 so over time this list, like I said it was, 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.880 it started out I think with the Great Pyramid has 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.680 always been on there, sure, hanging gardens have always been 0:05:40.720 --> 0:05:46.719 on there, Temple of Artemis, stato Zeus, the Mausoleum, the 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:48.720 classes of roads, and then I think the lighthouse at 0:05:48.720 --> 0:05:51.440 Alexandria may not have been on and it was the 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:54.400 wall of the Walls of Babylon, and they said we've 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.279 already got Babylon covered, you guys. This lighthouse is to 0:05:57.320 --> 0:06:00.599 be seen, so it was eventually compiled and that list. 0:06:00.680 --> 0:06:03.599 So the list itself is pretty ancient too. 0:06:04.160 --> 0:06:04.400 Yeah. 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:07.680 In Babylon, if they had one motto, it was come 0:06:07.720 --> 0:06:09.440 for the gardens, stay for the wall. 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:10.479 For sure, you know. 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:12.839 Yeah. 0:06:13.279 --> 0:06:17.880 So out of all of those, the the only ones 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:21.760 that are still around actually is the Great Pyramid. 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:22.839 Yeah. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.039 I mean there are bits of some of these in 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:28.960 various museums, most notably the British Museum. 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.000 Yeah. And there are some ruins on the site still. 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:37.000 Yeah, here and there, some ruins underwater here and there. 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:40.520 I used to have you been to a lot of ruins? 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.760 I've been to Pompeii? You me and I went. It 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.479 was kind of the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.520 Yeah. Yeah, have you been to Pompeii? Yeah? 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:52.159 No, what ruins have you been to? 0:06:52.760 --> 0:06:57.440 Just your your your garden variety ruins like in Rome, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:06:58.640 that kind of thing. 0:06:58.760 --> 0:07:01.440 Oh yeah, man, the call to see them, yeah, that 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:02.560 was something to be seen. 0:07:02.720 --> 0:07:03.200 Huh. 0:07:03.440 --> 0:07:05.440 Yeah, I mean it's part of me. Like when I 0:07:05.440 --> 0:07:10.040 go to see ruins, it's it's really cool because I 0:07:10.080 --> 0:07:12.560 try and take myself back to that time. But then 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.760 when I stand back and look at it and it's 0:07:14.840 --> 0:07:17.720 current surroundings, sometimes it get a little. 0:07:17.600 --> 0:07:20.640 Sad because there's a lot of people like chewing gum 0:07:20.680 --> 0:07:21.960 and on their phone and stuff. 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:25.320 Yeah, yeah, you know, yeah man, and. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:28.920 Especially well we'll talk about the pyramids, but you know 0:07:29.120 --> 0:07:31.600 you have you seen the famous pizza hut pictures? 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:34.160 No, what are you talking about? 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:35.800 Well, you know that the pyramids. 0:07:36.240 --> 0:07:40.240 Oh is that a photoshopped No, it's not photoshopped. The 0:07:40.280 --> 0:07:43.960 Pyramids back right up or I guess front, right up 0:07:44.080 --> 0:07:48.560 to Cairo, So you always see the image looking at 0:07:48.560 --> 0:07:51.520 the Pyramids from Cairo. If you see the image looking 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.920 the other way, there's like a city right button up against. 0:07:55.600 --> 0:07:59.360 It, right, and an ancient Egyptian in the foreground turns 0:07:59.360 --> 0:08:02.000 of the camera, the single tear coming down in his eye, 0:08:02.360 --> 0:08:03.200 his cheek, but. 0:08:03.200 --> 0:08:08.040 He was really Italian. Right, No, there's there there's a 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:10.320 literally a pizza hut KFC. 0:08:11.440 --> 0:08:15.440 Which you could do worse facing it could be facing 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.440 the Great Pyramids of Egypt and the Sphinx, and and 0:08:19.560 --> 0:08:21.120 one of the windows. 0:08:20.600 --> 0:08:22.720 Of the pizza hut there's the Pizza Hut logo. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.680 And if you stand inside that pizza hut you can 0:08:25.720 --> 0:08:30.200 take a photograph of that Pizza Hut cap and logo 0:08:30.360 --> 0:08:33.960 kind of sitting on top of the pyramid, and so 0:08:34.520 --> 0:08:37.440 you know, there are all kinds of photos now of 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:41.840 Pizza Hut, and it's just it's sort of you know, 0:08:42.400 --> 0:08:45.760 it's not it speaks of the times, you know, sure, 0:08:45.840 --> 0:08:47.680 which is what I talked about being a little sad. 0:08:48.679 --> 0:08:51.960 There's a pizza hut, there's a friggin Kentucky Fried Chicken 0:08:54.320 --> 0:08:56.200 yards from the Great Pyramids. 0:08:57.600 --> 0:08:59.600 Yeah, I know how I feel about that. 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:01.480 I guess, well, I think it's pretty clear how you 0:09:01.520 --> 0:09:02.199 feel about it. 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:04.320 You don't like it, I don't know, But I mean 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.280 you can't say, like, no, what are you going to 0:09:06.360 --> 0:09:08.439 have a restaurant here? You can't do anything. It's just 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:09.520 it is what it is, you know. 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:11.720 Yeah, I mean it's not like you're gonna live without 0:09:11.760 --> 0:09:12.920 KFC for a second. 0:09:14.720 --> 0:09:17.199 That's true. I would challenge some KFC if I was 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:18.439 over there too. 0:09:19.240 --> 0:09:21.160 The very famous one by the Pyramids. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.199 I know what you mean. Though, Sure, you know it 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:24.160 was kind of a little weird. 0:09:24.880 --> 0:09:26.680 But at the same time, you're like, wow, you know 0:09:26.840 --> 0:09:30.240 this thing was built by slaves who died working, So 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.040 maybe the KFC is actually preferable in some ways, you know. 0:09:33.240 --> 0:09:35.320 Yeah, And maybe that's what I should feel sad about. 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.559 Sure, just feel sad about both. 0:09:37.880 --> 0:09:45.120 Okay, So let's go to the Great Pyramids of Giza, 0:09:48.720 --> 0:09:51.920 and there's actually if you go, oh, we're gonna really 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:53.200 wear out the way Back machine. 0:09:53.280 --> 0:09:55.240 Huh. Yeah, this gassed it up. 0:09:55.240 --> 0:09:57.640 It's ready, and I got a new air fresher, and 0:09:57.679 --> 0:09:58.120 you like it. 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:00.640 I'm not big on the Pineapple, but it's all right, 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.520 hill the old Pineapple. 0:10:02.600 --> 0:10:05.360 We can swap it out for the second part. Okay, Okay, 0:10:05.760 --> 0:10:08.080 So we're gonna get in the way Back machine and 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.120 if you go, we're actually just going to go back 0:10:10.160 --> 0:10:12.200 a couple of days because we're going in modern times. 0:10:12.840 --> 0:10:16.679 But if we're gonna look at the Great Pyramid at Giza, 0:10:16.920 --> 0:10:19.959 there's actually just one of them that's on the list 0:10:20.040 --> 0:10:23.120 of the seven Wonders of the Ancient World. It's one 0:10:23.160 --> 0:10:27.600 particular one, the Pyramid of Kufu or Chaops is what 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:31.040 the Greeks call them, and his is the biggest pyramid 0:10:31.400 --> 0:10:32.000 of them all. 0:10:32.559 --> 0:10:36.000 Yeah, I mean there are more than more than or 0:10:36.080 --> 0:10:42.000 exactly eighty pyramids scattered across Egypt, various sizes, and they're 0:10:42.040 --> 0:10:44.360 imagine they're all pretty great to go look at. But 0:10:44.480 --> 0:10:46.120 the big daddy of them all, like you said, is 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:51.400 Cufu k h U f U, and it is It 0:10:51.480 --> 0:10:53.200 is the one you know that you can get with 0:10:53.400 --> 0:10:54.760 a pizza hut cap on top. 0:10:55.920 --> 0:10:56.040 Right. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.800 It's the main dude there with the three pyramids, with 0:10:59.840 --> 0:11:05.160 the sphinx standing by watching over Kentucky Fried Chicken to 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:06.760 make sure nobody robs it. 0:11:07.960 --> 0:11:10.480 Well, it actually would work really well for that pizza 0:11:10.559 --> 0:11:14.200 hut cap because it's the one of the three. You 0:11:14.200 --> 0:11:17.200 always see the three together. The other two are the 0:11:17.200 --> 0:11:20.319 Pyramid of men Kuar and the other one is Pyramid 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:24.640 of Coffrey, and they're smaller, but if you'll notice those 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:28.040 two have points. Yeah, the biggest one, the Pyramid of Cufu, 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:30.880 has a flat top. Like it just knew that that 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.400 pizza hut was coming in four thousand years, right. But 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.840 so we know so little about this pyramid that they're 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:40.960 not entirely certain if this is true or not. But 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:46.280 there's a pretty widespread theory that that pyramid was actually unfinished. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.040 Oh really, mm hmm. They couldn't bring those final stones. Huh. 0:11:50.760 --> 0:11:53.199 Maybe everybody involved died or there was a change in 0:11:53.280 --> 0:11:56.040 dynasty or something. But they think and there's other evidence 0:11:56.120 --> 0:11:57.880 we'll talk about, but it seems like it might have 0:11:57.920 --> 0:11:58.839 been unfinished. 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:01.280 Didn't Napoleon shoot off the nose of the sphinx? Or 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.640 is that a Is that an old wives tale? No? 0:12:03.760 --> 0:12:04.640 That was isis? 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:05.600 Oh? 0:12:05.760 --> 0:12:08.800 Okay, probably so, Chuck. 0:12:08.920 --> 0:12:10.840 One of the things that's so great about this pyramid 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:14.440 is just how massive it is, right, Yes, it's it's tall. 0:12:14.480 --> 0:12:15.280 It's very tall. 0:12:15.320 --> 0:12:20.000 It's like four hundred and eighty feet tall, which that's 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:22.040 that's a substantial height if you ask me. 0:12:22.880 --> 0:12:24.360 Yeah, I mean for a long time it was one 0:12:24.400 --> 0:12:26.440 of the tallest or the tallest building in the world, 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:27.240 which is amazing. 0:12:27.440 --> 0:12:31.160 Yeah, until the fourteenth century when Lincoln Cathedral in England 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.960 finally topped it. So for almost for about thirty four 0:12:36.080 --> 0:12:39.360 hundred years it stood as the tallest structure, the man made, 0:12:39.440 --> 0:12:41.040 human made structure in the world. 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:42.160 It's hard to believe. 0:12:42.320 --> 0:12:43.240 Yeah, it's pretty cool. 0:12:43.320 --> 0:12:46.840 And then its side, each side at the base is 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:50.760 about seven hundred and fifty five feet long. They're just massive, 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:52.439 massive structures. 0:12:53.040 --> 0:12:53.280 Yeah. 0:12:53.280 --> 0:12:54.960 And you know how I was talking about the fact 0:12:55.000 --> 0:12:57.760 that it's uh, it just butted right, up against Cairo 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:02.800 at least is not surrounding, like the city is not 0:13:02.920 --> 0:13:05.080 just on all sides. So if you do look at 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:08.480 it from the city, it's on the Giza Plateau and 0:13:08.600 --> 0:13:10.960 that is still you know, I'm not sure how far 0:13:11.200 --> 0:13:14.480 it goes back, but you know, a nice wide aerial shots. 0:13:14.880 --> 0:13:17.760 Looks like most of that plateau is pretty preserved, right 0:13:17.920 --> 0:13:18.960 at least, So. 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:20.480 This the whole thing. 0:13:20.559 --> 0:13:25.680 The pyramid was built sometime during the reign of King Kufu, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:32.559 appropriately enough, and the king reign from I think twenty 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.839 five eighty nine to twenty five sixty six, So it's 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:39.920 pretty old pyramid, and it's it's you know, and it's 0:13:39.960 --> 0:13:43.439 made of just a ton of blocks cut blocks, right. 0:13:43.679 --> 0:13:45.680 One of the things like if you go on some sites, 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:49.040 you'll find people who just kind of poopoo the pyramids, 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:52.520 like it's just pile piles of stone. Oh, clearly, But 0:13:52.600 --> 0:13:56.920 it's actually pretty clever engineering, especially considering how long ago 0:13:57.640 --> 0:13:59.640 it was built. It's not just a pilot stone. There's 0:13:59.640 --> 0:14:02.880 a lot of corridors and shafts and rooms, and the 0:14:02.920 --> 0:14:06.040 engineers had to take into account where to place these 0:14:06.040 --> 0:14:09.960 things so that the structure didn't collapse in on itself 0:14:10.000 --> 0:14:14.600 as it aged. So it is a pretty big feed 0:14:14.679 --> 0:14:17.760 of engineering just in addition to its size, you know. 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.880 Yeah, I mean there are more than two million pile 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:22.240 of stones. Who says that. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:24.000 Some people online? 0:14:24.800 --> 0:14:28.520 Yeah, more than two million limestone and granite blocks, the 0:14:28.560 --> 0:14:30.480 weight of about six and a half million tons. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:32.640 And these things are. 0:14:32.960 --> 0:14:36.280 Engineered such that they it's about a fifty one degree 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:42.040 slope on each side, and each side faces exactly to 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.560 the four cardinal directions. 0:14:43.600 --> 0:14:44.840 So it's pretty impressive. 0:14:45.000 --> 0:14:48.360 Yeah, that's no accident. It's not like it just happened 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.160 to land that way. It was all done very much 0:14:50.200 --> 0:14:54.320 on purpose. These rocks fit together, the blocks really really tightly, 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.360 less than a fiftieth of an inch separating them. So 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.480 that right there is why these things are still standing, 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:02.240 you know, right. 0:15:02.320 --> 0:15:04.600 And so when you look at the pyramid, it's actually 0:15:04.880 --> 0:15:06.720 so I think I said four hundred and eighty feet. 0:15:06.760 --> 0:15:09.120 I think it's four hundred and fifty five feet at 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:12.000 its height. Originally it was four hundred and eighty feet 0:15:12.360 --> 0:15:14.880 and it was also encased in limestone. 0:15:16.240 --> 0:15:17.800 Well did it originally have the point then? 0:15:18.880 --> 0:15:21.920 I don't think so, because I think they would. I 0:15:21.960 --> 0:15:24.800 think there's some other stuff that suggests that it was 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:28.240 unfinished too. I don't know if it ever had the point. 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:30.000 I don't know if anybody knows for certain, but it 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.160 seems like it hadn't been put on yet. 0:15:32.080 --> 0:15:34.680 Like an inscription at the top that's just not quite done. 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:36.000 Well, that's one of the things. 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:37.880 That's one of the reasons why they think that it 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:41.000 wasn't done, because it's lacking inscriptions that other pyramids have, 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:45.480 like in ass Oh, it doesn't have any no more 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:48.240 like we dedicate this to the Sun god raw and 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.200 the name of King Kufu. 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:53.000 And blah blah blah, right, yeah, the usual. 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.720 So it's lacking any kind of inscriptions. The king's burial chamber, 0:15:58.240 --> 0:16:01.880 the actual sarcophagus, which is just this huge, massive stone 0:16:02.280 --> 0:16:06.320 that they actually built the chamber around. It's not like 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.840 they built the room and then imported this thing. It's 0:16:08.920 --> 0:16:12.000 bigger than any entrance to the room. But it's it's 0:16:12.080 --> 0:16:15.600 kind of rough, it's got some cut marks still showing, 0:16:15.640 --> 0:16:18.240 and it was obviously not finished. And then the other 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.680 reason why they think that it wasn't ever finished, Chuck, 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.800 was that there's no evidence that anyone ever found any 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:32.120 treasure loot bodies anything. Yeah, it's like it's this dead, 0:16:32.240 --> 0:16:36.520 empty place that has never been used. Ironically too and 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:40.840 tomb dead people into it was just never finished either. 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.200 So that's one theory that it was finished and never used. 0:16:44.560 --> 0:16:46.720 Another one is that it actually was looted, and it 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:51.400 was looted so thoroughly that there's just not even evidence 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:52.280 of it being looted. 0:16:52.640 --> 0:16:52.880 Whoa. 0:16:53.640 --> 0:16:55.360 And then that yeah, it's kind of impressive. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:17:01.240 And then the last one is that it is finished 0:17:01.720 --> 0:17:04.840 and that all of these shafts and like walkways and 0:17:04.880 --> 0:17:07.840 crawl spaces that we found are actually meant to distract 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:12.359 you from the real places where the tombs are that 0:17:12.440 --> 0:17:13.760 we've just not found yet. 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:15.040 Couldn't they find those by now? 0:17:15.040 --> 0:17:19.359 Though not necessarily. They're still finding like secret rooms and 0:17:19.440 --> 0:17:22.399 passages that are hidden from view. They're just starting to 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:26.360 now apply the technology to seeing through stone. 0:17:26.440 --> 0:17:30.399 Literally, just get up the X ray camera right and 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:33.920 just stand at pizza hut, zoom in right and just 0:17:33.960 --> 0:17:34.800 see what's in that thing. 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:36.680 You don't even need that you can send off for 0:17:36.760 --> 0:17:40.280 some of those X ray specs from a comic book exactly. 0:17:40.480 --> 0:17:42.320 I don't know why no one else has thought of 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:42.760 this yet. 0:17:43.400 --> 0:17:45.960 So I have a question. Then they said it's originally 0:17:45.960 --> 0:17:49.000 covered in limestone in that casing. Does that mean that 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.639 originally it was not in a step pattern and it 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:55.280 was just smooth on the outside. Yes, Well, how in 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.479 the world did they get up there? Would they just 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:58.320 slide back down? 0:17:58.880 --> 0:18:01.560 Well, the answer that is obvious. It was aliens that 0:18:01.640 --> 0:18:06.719 helped them. That's right, That's that's it. That's the answer. 0:18:06.800 --> 0:18:07.200 All right. 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:10.760 I have no idea, Chuck, that's a really good question 0:18:10.920 --> 0:18:13.119 to tell you the truth. Maybe they maybe there's a 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:14.840 passageway inside. 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:17.200 Right that they come out the top, you know, come out. 0:18:17.080 --> 0:18:20.280 The top, pull the limestone up into place, and then 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:22.960 slide down it and start the process over again. 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:23.639 Interesting. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.159 But if you want to see kind of probably what 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:27.879 it looked like, just go look at the Iron Maiden 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:29.800 Power Slave album cover. 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.119 Yeah, it's kind of like smoothly covered. 0:18:32.160 --> 0:18:35.280 It's not stepped, really, I mean, there's steps, but they're 0:18:35.280 --> 0:18:36.639 they're meant to be like a staircase. 0:18:36.680 --> 0:18:38.200 It's not steps on the outside. 0:18:38.320 --> 0:18:41.879 Oh yeah, that makes sense. So yeah, So in the 0:18:41.880 --> 0:18:44.119 fourteenth century, there was an earthquake, and as you'll see, 0:18:44.440 --> 0:18:46.320 that becomes a pattern here with a lot of these 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.720 ancient wonders that would become ruins because of earthquakes. 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:54.160 You know, most of these in the Middle East. It's 0:18:54.160 --> 0:19:02.040 a volatile area tectonically speaking, so you know, over the 0:19:02.080 --> 0:19:06.240 course of thousands of years, things are gonna tumble over time, 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:06.480 you know. 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:08.720 Yeah, and it is what happened in this case. 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.600 It's basically earthquakes, earthquake, earthquake, earthquake, over and over again. 0:19:12.640 --> 0:19:14.760 It's the great leveler of monuments, right. 0:19:14.960 --> 0:19:15.200 Yeah. 0:19:15.240 --> 0:19:18.840 But the Kufu Pyramids stood. It was stood that earthquake 0:19:19.840 --> 0:19:22.480 because it's just more than a pile of rocks. It 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:25.639 is so big and so grand and so heavy, I guess, 0:19:25.640 --> 0:19:27.720 and probably a little luck came involved as well. 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:30.600 Yeah, but it was also really good engineering too, for sure. 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:31.359 Yeah. 0:19:31.400 --> 0:19:34.800 But the earthquake did get it in that it did 0:19:34.960 --> 0:19:37.280 level Cairo, and they went out to the pyramid and 0:19:37.320 --> 0:19:39.800 took the limestone off of it and used it to 0:19:39.880 --> 0:19:40.679 rebuild Cairo. 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:43.680