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Who were the ancient peoples of the world?

And what did they know?

Egyptology tells us that the pyramids

were built around 2500 BC.

Is there evidence that the pyramids

could be much, much older?

Has traditional science been able to explain

why the pyramids were built, or is it

a puzzle yet to be decoded?

At the geodesic center of the world,

at the mouth of the Nile delta, there

are pyramids built by an early civilization clustering

at six distinct sites.

One pyramid is up a mountain.

It can be seen from space.

Curiously, the inside is open to the air.

What was its function?

Most people are familiar with the Giza Plateau and the Sphinx

but are not aware of their connection to the other sites.

The sites run parallel to the fertile band along the Nile.

Some sites are unknown, isolated in the middle of the desert.

Other sites are known, but are only partially excavated.

The monumental nature of the sites

is hypnotic and stimulates our wonder and curiosity.

All the sites show evidence of sophisticated engineering,

advanced technology, and monumental architecture.

Could the ancients have had an understanding

of a superior science?

Is it conceivable that there's a correlation

between the sky and the ground?

Why do we understand so little about the Egyptians.

We are told their technology was primitive.

Yet the temple walls show the ancients

making precise calculations.

There is plenty of evidence that paints a fuller picture.

Let's go and see for ourselves.

So here we are on location at Abu Rowash,

which is a fascinating site in that it's up a mountain.

This is a pyramid like no other, open to the air.

This site really debunks the theory

of pulling stones with rope to get them up

on top of a pyramid, in that the stone would have to come up

a mountain before it went up a pyramid.

This site is largely isolated and abandoned,

and many people don't even know it's here.

There's no booth.

There's no guard.

There's nobody up here.

And I think it's meant to be largely forgotten

because it really comes head to head with the theory

about the way the pyramids were built.

When you look around the site, you

see evidence of small stones that are newer,

medium stones, and then the ancient large stones.

At Abu Rowash, we can see evidence of machine tool marks.

We know the granite came from distant quarries.

The polished, concave slabs of stone

could not possibly have been made with chisels.

This is not the only example of machine tooling.

We're now going to go inside the pyramid.

We're walking along this ledge.

And what we'll see is there's a passageway here

that goes down into the pyramid, even

though it's open and exposed.

So let's go down.

If you stand here, all the way through this area,

the stone seems to be blackened, and it's

evidence of high heat of some kind.

I tend to think this was going on during the ancient times,

but it's still very curious.

There's a pit here, and the stone's obviously broken.

And I think that they were heating something.

This is the northern point of the Band of Peace.

It's the top pyramid in a series of 22 pyramids that

go from north to south.

So we are now north of the Giza Plateau.

As you can see on this map of the Band of Peace,

all these sites trace the shape of the River Nile.

A new theory suggests that the Nile once flowed right

in front of the pyramids, and the causeways of all the sites

touched the river itself.

Considering that the Nile is the lifeblood of Egypt,

just as rivers all around the world

are vital to the cultures living by them,

it seems obvious that important, sacred structures

would be built directly on the river,

not eight miles away from it.

How long would it take this river to migrate eight miles?

Looking at geological time provides yet

another clue to finding out when these magnificent structures

may have been built.

This probably was a seabed, and that the mouth of the Nile

started here, and that moved along

in front of all these pyramids.

One of the features of each of the sites in this area

is that you can see the pyramids of next site from the original.

From here, the volume of the Great Pyramid

and the second pyramid look the same.

When we get to the next site, we see

the volumes are obviously different.

It's hard not to be amazed by the pyramids of the Giza

Plateau.

The Great Pyramid covers 13 acres.

It was constructed of 2.3 million stones

weighing up to 200 tons each.

They must have had a level of engineering science

that-- it was unbelievable-- compared to what we have now.

Indeed, they managed a have an order of which they based

on this so-called cosmic order, which lasted for 3,000 years.

No other civilization has done this.

Why is ancient Egypt still so mysterious to us?

Are we looking in the wrong place?

Or are we looking in the wrong way?

We look at everything through our sociocultural context,

and so it's very difficult for us to look through that

and see another possibility for how life could have been.

And we also have to be willing to depart

from our own traditional ways of looking at things.

That's what's really stopping us from understanding the ancients.

We may need to reconsider what we've been told

and what we think we've seen.

For example, instead of thinking that the Egyptians put

the causeway at an angle because the Sphinx was in the way,

we could consider another reason.

At summer solstice, the sun rises along the causeway

in front of the Great Pyramid and moves across the sky,

setting between the second and the Great Pyramid,

making it hotter in summer.

In the winter, the sun rises in line with the grand causeway

by the second pyramid, and sets between the second and third

pyramids, making a short trajectory,

resulting in cooler weather.

It appears that the causeways are deliberately

pointing towards the rising sun on the summer and winter

solstices.

Orthodox Egyptologists insist that the pyramid were tombs.

Of all of the wild theories floating around the pyramids,

the actual wildest is the one that's

accepted without question by all Egyptologists, which

is that the pyramids served as tombs.

All of those concepts about it being a tomb are nonsense.

Of all of the theories for which there is zero evidence,

that one has zero squared evidence.

In fact, I don't even think there's good evidence

that it ever was a tomb for any pharaoh whatsoever.

I mean, it's obvious.

We don't find mummies in the pyramids.

There's no question you can bring up that isn't debatable.

The Egyptians themselves, in at least one stone tablet

and one papyrus, tell the story that ancient Egypt

is much, much older than the Egyptologists think it is.

Where the Great Pyramid sits, I believe,

is on a much more ancient site.

Under the Great Pyramid to this day

is the descending passage in the subterranean chamber.

I think there's very good evidence

that that was carved out in what we

would call pre-dynastic times.

That goes back to a very ancient date.

Based on the hieroglyphics that we have,

the second pyramid was, in many ways,

regarded as the primary pyramid on the Giza Plateau.

Actually, from many angles on the Giza Plateau,

the second pyramid is dominant.

The structure underneath it, or the base of it,

was older than even the Great Pyramid.

There was a platform-type structure

where the second pyramid is now.

You can see from the platform that it's larger

than the pyramid, suggesting there was once

something else there.

Around the base is a ring of granite, red granite.

And, at least from what I've seen in Egypt,

this is something that was often used around the bases

or on structures when they were renewing them,

they were refurbishing them, they were taking older

structures, re-energizing them, rebuilding them.

It's demonstrable, in that the second pyramid

is very definitely built in at least two stages, the third,

built in two or more stages.

I mean, we really don't, at the moment, have anything to,

even provisionally, to date them with.

With the Sphinx, we do.

Looking at the weathering on the Sphinx and the Sphinx

enclosure, that weathering was clearly formed by runoff

from rain from precipitation.

We have the severe weathering, which

99% of the geologists of the world who've heard our evidence

concur that it is indeed water weathering and

precipitation-induced.

So it has to have been done by heavy rainfalls

in the distant past.

And the question then is how distant was that past.

That runoff is coming from up on the plateau.

Follow up the plateau northwest of the Sphinx,

you ultimately hit the Great Pyramid.

The natural topography is the water

would run down the back of the Sphinx enclosure.

And that's where you see the greatest

amount of water precipitation weathering.

To have that surface hydrology, you

need to have the plateau relatively intact.

Now, if you look currently, there's

a big quarry interrupting the water flow.

So we know that the water flow that

was causing that weathering had to occur before that quarry

existed.

That quarry is well-known Egyptologically by inscriptions

because that was a quarry that was

used when the Great Pyramid was built.

So that means that the Sphinx must have been carved earlier.

The water was still running off, running down

the back of the enclosure wall, and causing

that weathering before that quarry

was a quarry, which means that occurs before the Great

Pyramid was built.

Basically, we have right there disrupted

the traditional chronology.

Even Egyptologists agree that the Giza Plateau

has a unified ground plan.

How does the Great Pyramid display

evidence of this correlation?

I do think when it was what we would call partially built,

it was used as an astronomical observatory.

The grand gallery perfectly aligned north-south opening

to the southern sky would have made

a wonderful observational tube, essentially,

looking up into the sky.

We have shafts pointing to certain stars.

Orion's belt series.

We know the stars because they're mentioned in texts.

We therefore can use precession to place the stars back

in alignment with these monuments,

in this case, the pyramids, for example.

The Great Pyramid stands exactly

at the center of the largest land mass on the planet.

Yet we had no idea of the position of continents

until 600 years ago.

How could they have known?

I've shown that Giza, if interpreted

as being Orion's belt counterpart, then

the layout of the three pyramids,

as they are at the ground meridian,

would fit a celestial meridian of these stars at 10,500 BC,

that they reached the very lowest point in their

up and down move.

Looking east, you had the Sphinx looking

at the constellation of Leo.

So you have two major monuments, on the same site,

looking at constellations that are representative

of these features on the ground in this sky.

We have evidence that they did it.

And the alignments were there.

Now, could the pyramid builders have been aware

of these alignments?

Well, why not?

With this evidence, it would seem

that it's time to rethink what we've been told.

Here we are at Abu Garab.

You can see that there's no road, no ticket

booth, no nothing.

This is a very isolated area.

And we're going to walk through a mango grove.

If you were to get on a camel and ride

south from Giza Plateau, you'd come up over this sand dune

and see these other pyramids.

So as we approach up here, you see a pile of rubble.

But really what it is is the base

of the largest obelisk that ever was in Egypt.

Well, here we come up to the platform of the Crystal Altar.

You can see that it's made of quartz,

if you look up close here.

These little bits of crystal are coming right off it.

And then, we have a laser-cut six-foot circle in the middle,

and then these points, these huge slabs each pointing

to the four cardinal directions, made out

of single, solid pieces of quartz.

So here we have some stone basins

that were found by Sir Walter Emery years and years ago.

And the Department of Antiquities

lined all these up with the idea of maybe bringing them

to the museum.

And they really didn't know what to call them or what they were.

So they just decided to leave them here,

and they've been here ever since.

But if you look at the features on these,

they're actually made out of quartz crystal.

We'll look up close at some of the places,

but when there's little fragments that break off,

it's actually a hunk of quartz.

And there are these little holes inside,

and they say that they were for animal sacrifices,

and the blood would drop through.

I don't know.

I really don't think that's what happened.

No one has ever come up with a theory that satisfies me

about what they're for.

Is there anyone who knows more about this area?

Hakim Awyan is an indigenous wisdom-keeper

who was born in the village of Abusir.

He trained in Europe as an archaeologist.

Hakim lived his whole life in the area

known as the Band of Peace.

The Giza Plateau was his front yard.

1936, '37, the Sphinx then was covered with sand

up to the neck.

And there was my playing yard.

There are tunnels.

I used to walk in these tunnels.

In water, I used to crawl sometimes, because it's narrow.

At Abu Garab, we have a crystal altar, a round disk

in the middle of four, a symbol of hotep.

And the word hotep means peace and food.

This round disk, it's a lid on a shaft

about 180 feet deep, to the level of the ocean.

And that is still running water in there,

and you can feel it while you're in the area.

These instruments were not found in a line like you see today,

the nine of them.

But they're found around the area,

and there are still some more to be found.

And then we have oldest obelisk located in Egypt.

Next to the altar, what's left of the what

you call hieroglyph writing, that's Sufi writing,

at the obelisk, and the disk of the sun,

and words saying the heart of the sun.

Arriving at Abusir, we can imagine the ancient priests

and priestesses who trained as high-level initiates here.

Just as we have monks, nuns, and priests nowadays,

the ancients trained initiates in ritual practices

that served the highest good of mankind.

Here we are at Abusir.

And it's very obvious you can see the old river bed.

And you can see the pyramids of Saqqara

and the pyramids of Giza from here.

But more importantly, you can see the old causeway,

and you can imagine that boats used to come along the river.

And then the high-level initiates

would just step off the boat and walk up the grand causeway

and through the pillars into the temple, which

is in front of the main pyramid.

Spiritual connections would nourish the initiates,

instilling a sense of peace and purpose.

These elegant columns are carved from solid granite.

There's something about these black floors that you just

imagine them being polished, and the beauty in here.

Similarly, you can see a beautiful black floor

in the temple to the east of the Great Pyramid.

The rituals of ancient Egyptians were dictated by the stars.

For example, the ancients tracked the movement

of the most prominent star in the night sky, Sirius.

Through watching night after night, season after season,

they realized that this star would drop below the horizon

and remain out of sight for 70 days each year.

Its return was awaited with anticipation

because it coincided with the flooding of the Nile.

Now what happens during the 70 days?

Well, if you observe the sky, you

will notice that the sun reaches a certain point

in its apparent cycle along the zodiac.

It's somewhere above Orion at the beginning of the 70 days.

And it drifts approximately a degree every day

towards the constellation of Leo.

So the 70 days are bracketed by Leo and a point

somewhere above Orion.

That point is where the Pleiades are.

In the sky, it's very clear.

I mean, we know what happens in those 70 days.

Now, assuming on the ground that the three stars are represented

by the three pyramids of Giza and that the temple

of Heliopolis represents the constellation of Leo,

then you have another feature.

You have the Nile that separates them both.

Similarly in the sky, the sun at the beginning of the 70 days

is about to cross the Milky Way and head towards Leo.

So if you take the three stars of Orion's belt

as being the three pyramids, then you have a scale.

You know the distance, and therefore you

know the static scale that you're talking about.

And if you use that scale, you work on the same scale,

then the position of Abusir fits the Pleiades.

And surprisingly, there are five, six pyramids there,

and there are six or seven stars there,

and they seem to be in a cluster.

And indeed, the sun's path is just below the Pleiades.

It's not through them.

Just below them.

And odd enough, we find the sun temples just

below the Abusir pyramids.

So you've got sun temple to sun temple.

I now call it sun stations.

It looks like these were the stations that on the ground,

the Sol king performed these 70 days' rituals,

a bit like the stations of the cross.

So you can see them in a much archaic and grandiose way.

The king went along to these stations,

if you like, to perform his rituals, his passion.

Here we are at Saqqara.

This is the famous step pyramid of Djoser.

Djoser is a title to the king of the Third Dynasty,

2900 BC, roughly, say the books.

The step pyramid is located in a big courtyard much, much older

than the pyramid itself.

And you can compare yourself.

With the same eye, you look at the pyramid

and you look at the wall, you can see the difference.

These chunks of stone in front of Hakim

are quartz crystal characteristic of the area.

If we go back to the ceiling here,

then it reflects the crystal tile on the ground.

This is what's left of it.

This has been quarried by the natives

in the area in the 17th century,

We see the remains of a quartz floor at Giza in the temple

to the east of the second pyramid.

Now I'm pointing the Djed Pillar,

which is symbolizing one of the ancient gods, Osiris.

And djed is the word we still use

to address the older people.

My grandmother and grandfather, djed.

It goes back to the story of Osiris

and his brother Seth, the bad guy,

who put Osiris in a coffin, threw him in the ocean.

The ocean took him place, Phoenicia, Lebanon today.

And there as the cedar tree grows,

and the roots of the cedar tree captured his coffin.

Osiris has been found by his beloved sister, Isis.

She cry.

As she touched his body, and they lived together again

for a short while, short enough to make

a baby with the name of Horus.

The story of Isis, Osiris, and Horus

is fundamental to Egyptian cosmology.

Isis is connected to the star Sirius,

and Osiris is connected to the constellation of Orion.

Horus is their prodigal son.

I'm going to take you now to see

that hospital, the healing with sound.

Stories about ancient healing techniques

were passed down from generation to generation by the elders.

Hakim explains how sound played a part

in diagnosing and healing patients.

That line of construction you see like three chambers,

it's what's left of the House of the Spirit,

and it's a healing system with sound.

It's a medical investigation table.

And the patient have the right to use

either side of the stairs, one on the right, one on the left.

So he'd have to follow, or she'd have

to follow her own antenna to climb up there and choose

the point where she stand, because each point is

connected to a check chamber.

We have 22 of them, 11 on each side.

No ceiling.

And when you go inside, you can see a niche

where the physician put his head in the niche

to see what's the matter with his patient laying

on this table.

And that works with the sound.

And the sound, the source, is the running water

in a tunnel underneath here.

There is a big map of tunnels underneath here.

Let's consider that the pyramid sites

along the Band of Peace are sophisticated, harmonic

structures not only mirroring positions of the stars,

but designed to replicate harmonic

cavities of the human body.

It seems that the chambers in the pyramids

are harmonically tuned to a specific frequency

or musical tone.

Sound healing techniques were used

to restore the patient's body to the correct harmonic within.

This is the view of Abusir to the north of Saqqara.

And here is the view of Dashour to the south.

Here we are on location at the Bent Pyramid.

What you'll notice here is that the construction

has two angles.

Traditional Egyptologists will tell you

that the Egyptians were practicing building pyramids.

And they started building at one angle,

then changed their minds partway through.

This is the kind of thinking that paints

the ancient Egyptians as infantile and misguided.

But is there another way of looking at it?

We call these constructions at that area

in Dashour related to king called Sneferu.

At Dashour, there are three pyramids

with three burial chambers in each, nine in total.

Traditional Egyptology tells us that the entire site

was built by Sneferu.

If the established story that the pyramids are tombs

is correct, why would Sneferu have needed so many?

Sneferu would have had nine different possibilities

and options for where he would have been buried,

which again is illogical.

So this comes back to the fact that understanding

the Egyptians in terms of traditional Egyptology

means that they were misguided and illogical.

I don't think this was the case.

Now, when you come to the word Sneferu, Sn means double,

nefer is harmony.

So it's double harmony.

It's not a name of a person, but it's

the energy we get from this construction.

Let's consider that the pyramid sites

along the Band of Peace are sophisticated, harmonic

structures.

[humming]

It seems that the chambers in the pyramids

were harmonically tuned to different frequencies

or musical tones.

The Bent Pyramid, it has two chambers

for two different sounds.

Each chamber in each pyramid, then,

could be exemplifying sound technology

with distinct tones creating huge fields

of harmonic resonance.

At Dashour, we have the Red Pyramid and the Black Pyramid.

The Bent Pyramid is covered in white Tura limestone.

So we have red, white, and black.

Maybe this is a clue to the Giza pyramids also

having distinct colors in the past.

It would seem that the Great Pyramid would

have been shimmering white with its casing stones.

The second pyramid still glimmers red.

And the third pyramid has the remnants of black stones.

This is the old river bed where the Nile flowed in times past.

Here is the black pyramid.

Egyptologists say the pyramid builders were experimenting,

and they miscalculated, so the pyramid broke apart.

Could there be a different explanation?

Another pyramid with similar construction

100 kilometers south of the Band of Peace

is known as the Meidum Pyramid.

Today when you walk around Meidum Pyramid,

you will find out that on the ground

is a coat of black-colored flint.

And the evidence is this.

When you pick up one of these flints,

you see it's black at the top and the bottom

is a different color.

And there is a catastrophe happened over there.

I want you to look at the ground.

You can see a coat of smoke affects

the flints on the ground.

Meidum is not the only place that

looks as though there was an explosion.

Look at this giant crack in the solid stone of the Red Pyramid.

It would have taken a huge force to crack the solid rock.

There is a crack in the subterranean chamber

in the Great Pyramid.

And there is another one in the Grand Gallery.

There are weird chemical burns in the Red Pyramid.

What could have caused these?

Old photos of the king's chamber in the Great Pyramid

show the stone as black.

The room was cleaned and restored,

and now we can see the walls are pink granite.

The granite sarcophagus has a broken corner,

and the wall next to it has a giant crack.

What kind of force could have caused this?

Is the Department of Antiquities erasing evidence

under the guise of restoration?

Where did we get the history of Egypt?

Herodotus was a Greek historian in the 5th century BC.

He wrote from his perspective with help from local people,

and we have been repeating it ever since.

I said fake stories.

I want you to know yourself, to wake up, to wake the senses

and look carefully what you are looking at.

What have you seen of the pyramids.

That's what's left of it.

Being abused.

People quarry stones from there.

Anybody can go and pick up stones

to build a church, mosque, house, palace.

It's not taken good care of by our minister of culture

and antiquities department.

I have to say this.

The story leaves many questions unanswered.

Maybe it is time we used the evidence

to reconsider what we've been told.

We need to look with fresh eyes and use a different time

frame to reconstruct the story of ancient Egypt.