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Doctor Erik Gonthier came

to Egypt with us for
the first time in 2007

A geologist and ethno-mineralogist
at the Musée de l'Homme of Paris

His mission is to identify the
rocks used by ancient Egyptians.

That's where it
all started for him.

Together, we visited some of the
most beautiful archeological sites

in the world, where we discovered
construction particularities

that the generally accepted
hypotheses can't explain.

In March 2016, he agreed
to accompany us again

when we filmed Builders
of the Ancient Mysteries.

This time he requested more
precise measuring equipment

exactly what was needed
to quantify our observations.

If we think about history

concerning certain periods

and the hypotheses
generally admitted

none of them
explain the precision

we measured.

That's what

you will see in
this documentary.

This is how and why we
proceeded, aiming to verify

what our intuition suggested.

We are an

independent research team whose
members come from varied backgrounds

scientists, engineers, technicians, architects,
stonemason and passionate researchers.

If our approach confuses
or bothers certain historians,

that's to be expected because
our procedure is different.

We chose to somewhat distance ourselves
from the models imposed by history

because we noticed that its
memory is not always reliable

and worse, that it can
influence our outlook.

Let's take the Great
Pyramid as an example.

Our perception will be different
based on what we think we see

instead of the things that
are presented, like this

or something like this.

It's all a matter
of perspective.

Let's start

with what history tells
us about our species.

Based on recent discoveries,

the first Homo sapiens
appeared 300,000 years ago.

They lived as hunters and gatherers in
small, nomadic tribes for 290,000 years

before first settling down and
taking up in Sumer ancient Iraq.

Approximately 6 to 7000 years
ago, at the beginning of civilization.

In this chronology, Egyptians started
building pyramids about 3500 years later,

and there was obviously
no room left in these

dates for an ancient
advanced civilization

that would have
been the origin of ours.

Well, the first thing that becomes
apparent to the unbiased observer

is that there was a huge contrast
between certain gigantic monuments

and the method supposedly
used to build them.

Since these sites date back to times
when we only had primitive technology.

It is therefore possible to achieve
them with primitive technology.

That's the general approach
that archeology uses on this topic,

which seems normal when
we consider the process

of technological advances
that mark our history

from the invention of the wheel
thousands of years ago to nanotechnologies.

But as the late Jean-Louis Boistel,
an experienced stonemason, said

The Middle Ages are yesterday
compared to ancient Egypt

This approach is problematic.

It influences our view and
keeps us from thinking freely.

The builders left us no
explanation of their methods.

We are not certain of
the dating of the structures

and we still don't know
how they were built.

The generally admitted hypothesis is
that these monuments were achieved

by the use of primitive technologies
and a very large workforce

over a very long timespan

influenced by this model of
progress pushed by history.

Why immediately discard all other
hypotheses by declaring them impossible

for example, the use of
machine tools in ancient Egypt

is seen as absurd because everyone knows
that Egyptians didn't have machine tools

to go further.

How do we know that?

Because history says so.

Based on what?

And the fact that we have not found
machines, pieces, representations,

or even texts
mentioning machines.

We could answer
that there is no record

of the building of these ancient
sites, but yet they still exist.

We could also ask what such tools
would have had to be made of to

last thousands of years.

We could then observe that we
have found objects and representations

of strange objects that
were either misunderstood

or considered ritual or religious
items because of their strangeness.

As for the texts, we think many
are not studied the right way.

And that story, as a
matter of fact, is told

in full detail in the
Edfou building texts.

But all this does
not prove anything.

However you look at it,

because the absence of proof
is not the proof of absence.

Are we really sure that we've
made a breakthrough in terms of how

we understand ancient
ways of thinking?

Instead of

speculating, we've decided to
look into what we have in front of us.

The monuments.

We have decided

to study them with the best instruments
at our disposal to make them talk.

Because, in the beginning,
on paper, it all seemed unlikely

Because our history orients
our view, when it forbids

this type of associating
different sites from different eras.

That argues for a common origin.

But any link between these two
sites is deemed totally impossible

because of their historical,
political and religious context,

which is precisely what some
people criticize us for neglecting.

More precisely, we are criticized
for not accepting what history says

about them.

History says the Temple of the Valley
was built approximately 2500 years

before Christ, and Machu
Picchu, approximately 1400 CE.

Of course, the 4000 years
separates these two sites.

One single source of this
technology seems strictly impossible.

So where do these
dates come from?

The ones we are most
interested in come from

elements found
nearby or inscriptions.

Since it's almost impossible
to date the carving of a stone,

we date bones or other organic matter
or known objects found on the sites.

Humans have the unfortunate habit
of always rebuilding on the same site.

This complicates research,

since it is impossible to dig
deeper without damaging the sites.

What percentage of the actual
total amount of existing objects

is represented by those we
have found? We don't know.

So what is left?

Once again, what we have found

At Machu Picchu, we can
clearly distinguish two styles

This one

and this one

a fact that some
people explain this way.

Archeology says

that this site would have
been active for only a century.

Very damaged in some areas.

It would have
endured earthquakes

that would have destroyed or
damaged blocks of the sacred structures

that were nevertheless
not restored identically.

How can that be explained?

Let's dare to ask what if this
part of Machu Picchu is much

older than the rest of the constructions
dating back to the 15th century?

How can we know that?

Thanks to new technologies
and nondestructive methods

that are increasingly powerful and
reveal what is still buried under sites.

Because as we've shown
in the previous films,

this same difference of styles is
observed elsewhere on the planet

We can observe this same phenomenon
of the use of different technologies

in numerous ancient sites.

Archeology explains it by

the fact that such differences
are inherent in Homo sapiens.

Everywhere there
have been people.

They did the same things.

That includes the use of stone
blocks weighing several dozens of tons

and the strange handbags represented
in Göbekli Tepe, Sumer and in Peru.

These populations would have
started with the most complicated

and durable method assembling
complexly shaped stone blocks

with no cement, held together
by nothing but the precision

which with they were cut

Then this technology was
slowly lost and people ended up

building in easier
and less durable ways.

Egypt as a whole seems to go
against the idea of linear progress.

Remember the words of the
American engineer Chris Dunn

and then you follow the progress
of that civilization over 3,000 years

and it ends up, they still using
the same tools as they starting with

That doesn't make sense.

That paradox is hard to explain.

Good question.

Either humans at different times
in history always end up losing their

knowledge or the same cause has
produced the same effects everywhere.

But we can't see that
because of the dating.

Another way of dating
these sites is done

by the inscriptions found
when they are available.

For example, the
Serapeum of Saqqara

goes back to the 18th Egyptian
dynasty, around 1500 BCE.

Its 22 granite tanks contain
the mummies of sacred bulls

This tank is the only one with
hieroglyphic carvings on the outside.

But when you look closer,
the work is very imprecise

and poorly done.

It's hard to conceive that the
same people who crafted these tanks

with such care could be satisfied
with such flimsy engravings.

However, these
engravings have determined

the dating and the
function of these tanks.

Let's take a second example
of dating by inscriptions.

the caves of Barabar and Nagarjuni
in India, where even more than

in the Serapeum, the level
of precision is astounding

Once again,

we know of no archive or text that
describes how this was achieved.

It is on the basis of this
simple unskillful inscription

that the grandson of King Ashoka
is credited for carving these caves.

It is said that for political
reasons, he gifted this place

to the members of a sect so
that they could have shelter

from the monsoon rains.

This inscription alone defined
the whole historical context

both political and religious.

For these mind boggling caves, it's
why they've been classified as shelters

created with primitive tools

At this point, everyone knows
it couldn't be any other way.

The context determines the
tools and techniques, period.

That may be the reason these
caves have not been really studied

and are mostly unknown
in the Western world.

In this particular case, we
can wonder about the validity

of dating based on inscriptions,
since in one of the caves

there are inscriptions
from a more recent period.

This one goes back to the
fifth or sixth century after Christ

This, too, dates to the
same approximate years

which shows that throughout
time people have had no hesitation

about writing on the walls,
which is probably the case

with the first inscription.

These caves are unique because
as they were chiseled out of a rock

as hard as granite.

History tells us that these
workers were capable of succeeding

on their first attempt.

These five rectangular chambers
were cut with extreme precision.

They are totally symmetrical
with walls as smooth as glass

And the day after this was
achieved, no one was ever capable

of doing it again.

Everything produced in the following
centuries, as spectacular as it may be,

never equaled the unique
precision of these caves.

But we had to scan them
in 3D to grasp this precision

that contradicts the vague idea
we have of how they were made.

In order for the idea of scanning
them to even occur to you,

you must first think
that our history may

be different than what we believe,
which is a step we take easily.

As the Serapeum and Barabar
show us, History doesnât

just influence our judgment.

It also has a short memory.

But in its defense,
that's normal.

Knowledge has such a strong
power that it is a target of choice

for conquerors
throughout history.

In that respect, as revealed by
the authors Selbie and Steinmetz

the Persians burned Egyptian
temples and writings in 527 BCE,

and 40 years later, in 490 BCE,
they burned many Greek writings.

Wars lead to more wars
and the need for revenge

In Persepolis, in
what is now Iran

In 330 B.C., the Greeks, led by
Alexander the Great, destroyed 12,000

written volumes
produced by the Magi.

One century later, in 214 BCE

the emperor Qin Shi Huang, who
had inherited one of China's seven

kingdoms, subdued the other
six and ordered the destruction

of all their books, including
some by Confucius.

In 146 BCE, the Romans

come on to the stage and destroyed
500,000 Phoenician parchments in Carthage.

Then, in 52 BCE, Julius Caesar
ordered the destruction of all

the books of the Druid College

A little later, towards 250 CE

The Great Library
of Pergamon is said

to have been destroyed
by Christian fundamentalists.

But it should be known that Mark Antony
is said to have already gifted to Cleopatra

in 41 BCE, 200,000
books from that library.

In 270 CE, the famous library
of Alexandria, holding 400,000

to 700,000 books, depending on
sources, was burned by the Romans.

And to wrap up this dark period
for the memory of knowledge

in 391,Theophilus destroyed what
was left of the Library of Alexandria,

said to have still contained
42,000 books at the time.

These events, covering
only a short historical period,

allow us to understand why we
have so little information on antiquity.

If the Antikythera mechanism

had not been miraculously
discovered in an ancient shipwreck

in the early 20th century, no one
would have ever known it existed.

It took many centuries before
something similar was created again.

Not only had history
forgotten its existence,

it categorized texts describing
it by Greek authors as fiction.

And this was only
2000 years ago.

But if it reminds us that
history is quick to forget,

it also shows us
that objects don't last

Beyond its achievement.

It's the conceptualization

that precedes it that makes
engineers like Mathias Buttet marvel

what makes the mechanism extraordinary
and even more incomprehensible

is the fact that we could forget
the existence of this object

As far as forgetting goes,
it can get even worse.

History forgot the
beginning of sedentary life

like parents forgetting the
first steps of their own children

This crucial moment marks
the beginning of our civilization,

when some of our
hunter-gatherer ancestors

decided to settle down and
become farmers, which for a while

our history situated 7 to
8000 years ago in Sumer,

The site of Gobekli Tepe,
buried close to 12,000 years ago

teaches us a lesson
because of its very existence

and a technological level
that is totally anachronic

A discovery that could make
us consider more seriously

this hypothesis of an ancient civilization
that disappeared in the cataclysm

at the end of the Younger Dryas
period approximately 13,000 years ago.

As seen in our previous films.

But since about 30 years
ago, researchers have noticed

that something was not right.

Visiting all these major sites of our
past we were shocked by the flowing lines,

the purity and precision
of the achievements

that always give us the impression
of an easily and well mastered craft,

making us believe these
builders could achieve

whatever they wanted, no
matter what the challenge.

this defies the logic
that often claims

that ancient people were
irrational based on their beliefs.

As soon as we don't
understand something

we think it's because it's spiritual
or religious, which keeps us from

properly understanding
these constructions.

Over the years we have
gotten used to recognizing

the strange details on the site.

It seemed perfectly
normal to follow our intuition

and do something no one
else had ever done before

To run the roughometer on
the blocks of Puma Pumku

This moment we are about to unveil
contains the essence of our approach.

The way we look at what
our eyes give us to see.

We reached the plateau
of Tiwanaku, in Bolivia

at an altitude of 4,000 meters

Érik always tries to explain the work
with ancient stone cutting techniques

that are the simplest.

After observing
on his first round.

That's the classic scraping

technique but this time we didn't
just rely on visual observation.

Eric requested that we
come with a roughometer.

This is necessary to
quantify the precision

At this moment again,
Érik like many archeologists

seems self-confident

That's when we
reach the tipping point.

The machine reveals a
very particular surface.

Absorbed by his measurements he doesn't
immediately realize the implications.

If it is possible to achieve using
abrasive techniques, it gets harder

on the internal sides of
the block where they are

just as smooth as the external
sides and with very precise angles.

While shooting in Puma Punku, someone
on our team made another discovery

The H blocks are
exactly one meter high

Two German archeologists
noted the same fact back in 1892

But it went completely unnoticed

With the help of a rangefinder,
using a laser to measure

Érik measured different
parts of the blocks

We are going to measure another
block that is in perfect condition

but somewhat inaccessible.

Érik is somewhat
embarrassed, he cannot explain it

He hesitates, searches for
words, then suddenly says

The problem is not only
achieving such flat surfaces

even in the angles

but that the dimensions are
identical from one block to another.

We have no hypothesis on
how these blocks were made

only vague ideas resulting
from visual observations

like Érik made on the first day

With the roughometer
and the rangefinder

even while he admits that 'it's
an enormous job', Érik mentions

copper tools and abrasive stones

But after measuring all
the sizes and surfaces

his outlook is totally different

These measurements showed
us something we hadn't noticed.

a standardized production of
complex shapes, carved in andesite

a rock that is as hard
as tempered steel

and with a surface as
flat as modern concrete.

Given these results, these must
have been done with something

more than the copper
and abrasive tools

He hesitates to talk about it.

questioning the current standard
hypothesis is a hard pill to swallow

We are going to talk about
the metric system again

but before that

why are we the first to be so closely
interested in the details of these blocks?

Probably because
History makes this useless.

we don't know how
these blocks were made

but we are certain it
was with primitive tools

That's a constant that makes
this situation almost grotesque.

How could we formulate a hypothesis
on the way the rocks were cut

based on partial information?

These details are so important
that once known, they are precisely

what makes Érik change his
mind and not the other way around.

To measure is one thing,

but to be able to explain how
this was achieved is another.

To better understand the
difficulties of carving rocks,

you must know their
level of hardness

A harder rock and scratch a softer one,
but it doesn't work the other way around.

If you take granite or andesite,
which are at hardness level 7

copper is at 3 and canât
scratch or pierce them

The andesite of Puma
Punku is between 6.5

and 7 on the hardness scale

almost the same level as the tempered
steel that is necessary to carve it

Otherwise you must abrade it

and that is exactly the
problem Érik is looking at, faced

with the repetition of the same
dimensions from one block to another

contrary to what some people say

we never oppose the idea

that it is possible
to cut hard rocks

with a copper blade and abrasive

The question is not whether or
not cutting hard rock is possible

but rather whether or not it's possible
to cut all sides of a several-ton block

with such precision

There is a big gap between
observation and the rare

and the rare hypotheses that
were never actually put to the test

But since History says so,
it must have been done with

primitive tools, like these

Or more precisely

As Jean-Louis Boistel noted

To build, you need a blueprint

that is even more true with
the Great Pyramid, given its size.

Even if Egyptology claimed
for a long time that it was not

Here, like in Puma Punku

If your eyes are not
trained to see the precision,

if you follow the reconstitution
of workers at the times

the pyramids were built,

you can easily confirm the idea that
with thousands of dedicated workers,

it could be achieved
in 20 to 25 years

To just pile up the
blocks on top of each other

with no guarantee
they will hold in place

That doesn't work for the
building of the Great Pyramid.

Remember, this article
from a previous film

said that it would
take 80 trucks a day

five days a week, over
12 years, just to fill up

a quarry with the volume of stone
comparable to the Great Pyramid

For Egyptology, the Great Pyramid
is either the tomb of King Khufu

or his cenotaph, built in 25
years during the fourth dynasty.

Although no one seems to agree on
when his reign began or how long it lasted

Tomb or cenotaph,
it's a little confusing

So let's specify that a tomb

contains a body where a cenotaph is a sort
of monument to the dead without a body.

This hesitation comes from the fact
that no actual body was ever found

in the Great Pyramid, nor in
any pyramid of the first dynasties,

which some Egyptologists
explain by looting.

Whereas for others these
are only symbolic monuments.

Remember this old controversy

reported by Pliny the Elder,
mentioned in the previous films

the 12 authors

who disagreed on the
function of these pyramids

History only remembers the
writings of the Greek Herodotus

once considered the âFather of
Historyâ, who first said, 2,000 years

after the supposed
date of its building

that the Great Pyramid
was the tomb of Khufu

Today Egyptology is
distancing itself from this theory

but unfortunately none of
the other 11 writings remain.

This is another reminder that
history is based on sources,

and in this case, they're
no longer in existence.

The result is a biased view based on
the thinking of these ancient authors

an assumption that it was always
thought that the Great Pyramid was a tomb.

But that is now questioned
by various researchers

based on older compiled writings

the historian Abu Suleiman
Alchemy reports that in the past

scientists posited four possible
functions for the Pyramids of Giza

astronomical observatories

tombs, storage of goods and
knowledge or disaster shelters.

He explains that Muslim scholars
only consider two functions

astronomical observation
and depositories of knowledge.

The scholar Al-Suyuti attributes
them to a very remote past

arguing if they were
built in our times

âThe knowledge necessary for its
construction would still be known to manâ

For classic Muslim
historians in general

The origins of Egyptian civilization
go back much further in time

than what Western
historians claim.

If we do not have Egyptian writings
explaining the use of the pyramids

and Herodotusâs claims are wrong

On what basis can we conclude that
the Great Pyramid was Khufu's tomb?

That hypothesis

is getting harder to maintain.

First, the name Khufu is
written inside the Great Pyramid.

On the blocks inside a closed
space above the Pharaoh's chamber.

The inscriptions are
poorly inscribed with red ink,

and we have not yet been
able to see them from close up.

There is a controversy
around their authenticity.

The only way to resolve it would be to
date the organic material inside the ink.

German archeologists from
the University of Dresden

did that in 2013, but
not in a legal way.

So the Egyptology
community rejected the results.

Still in 2013, Pierre Talletâs
team found the Merher Papyrus

the logbook of a foreman
at the time of Khufu

describing the process of transporting the
limestone from the quarry in Tourah to Giza

This very particular limestone

denser and finer than the brown
limestone that is at the center

of the Great Pyramid, was
used on its exterior cladding

and also on the medium pyramid
as well as elsewhere on the site.

Objectively, even if Khufu's
name is mentioned in the papyrus,

just like in the red inscriptions,
nothing proves that this is a tomb

tomb or not

What is the importance
of that question?

If it's a tomb, it must
have been constructed

during the reign of Khufu
in only 20 to 25 years.

And it keeps us from looking
beyond the function of a tomb,

not considering any
of its particularities,

because, as stated earlier, you
don't look at a tomb and an object

that has an unknown
function in the same way.

Historically speaking, the Great
Pyramid is part of an ongoing bidding war

since the Djoser step pyramid, where
each pharaoh would outdo the size

and complexity of their predecessors
to demonstrate their power,

which curiously comes
to a halt with Khufu.

Since the pyramid of Khafre is
smaller than the Great Pyramid

in Cairo's pyramid
is even smaller

If there is still an argument
for Khafreâs Pyramid

built higher up on the
plateau making it look taller

It gets harder to argue for the small
one, but that's not the only contradiction.

The first Egyptian pyramid
would be the Djoser step pyramid.

Then comes the flat sided ones.

The Pyramid of Meidum, the
Bent Pyramid and the Red Pyramid

Then comes the three
from the site of Giza.

Then only smaller
pyramids are built with bricks

Almost all collapsed

Again, we see a pattern
where the older constructions

are the biggest and
the most durable

Even though we have scientifically
studied the Great Pyramid

for more than 200 years

we still don't know
how it was built

The image of thousands of workers
wearing loincloths under the blazing sun

maneuvering thousands of blocks
with ropes and wooden sledges,

is deeply rooted in our minds.

For the megalomaniac Khufu presented
as an enthusiastic pyramid builder.

All we have is a little statue
seven centimeters high, almost as if

he were purposely
erased from history.

Who can believe that
such a construction site

could have been
organized with no writings?

As far as construction sites go

Khufu is dwarfed
by his father Sneferu

who built three huge pyramids

the Meidum, the Bent
Pyramid and the Red Pyramid

For a long time, it was
believed that the pyramid

of Meidum belonged to king Huni

who died before the
end of its construction

and that his son Sneferu
finished it before building

the Bent Pyramid and Red Pyramid

but now it seems that
Sneferu gets credit for all three

We don't know whether these were
built simultaneously or successively,

but all combined, according
to archeologists estimations

they total close to 3.5
million tons of stone blocks

for a 25 year reign that represents
390 blocks per day every day.

What draws our attention
is the obvious question.

if the pyramids are tombs

why did Snefru
need several of them?

A rush to build the biggest tomb,
several tombs for the same king.

These hypotheses are sometimes
hard to defend without a big stretch,

especially given the
strangeness of these buildings.

Wooden fragments in
the Great Pyramid found

by the astronomer Piazzi Smith during
the previous century, have been dated

to 3341 and 3094

BCE, which pushed back
by more than 500 years.

the dating previously
accepted by Egyptology

That shows how little we know.

We also wonder why three of
these pyramids are slightly octagonal

the red pyramid, the Great
Pyramid and the small pyramid.

But strangely not
the median pyramid.

No one mentions this
except in these terms

In reality, this is impossible because
we would notice cracks everywhere.

This would also mean that the
other pyramids are octagonal

for the same reasons.

This is not insignificant

it means they had to alter 90 centimeters
at the base of the Great Pyramid,

which on 115 meters
both ways, implies moving

each bock less
than half a degree!

And repeating that on each side

and the higher up you go,
the smaller the angle gets

as if it were not hard enough to
pile up 203 layers of different heights

in a single pyramid

making it even harder, with
the precise cardinal alignments

You should not confuse the
two methods for pointing north,

which can be achieved at
night by aligning a string to a star

or at the equinoxes
by observing shadows

with this whole buildingâs
orientation that requires

constant verifications
to achieve only a tiny

minimal error of 0.05 degrees

For such a big
building that is nothing.

To recap,

approximately 4500 years ago, people
carved into the bedrock of a plateau,

an underground chamber, 30 meters
deep on top of which was built at 230

meters height square with
only a two centimeter variation,

where 140 meters of blocks were piled
up by using 2 million blocks of limestone

of an average weight of 1.5 tons
each in 203 layers of different heights,

forming an eight sided pyramid
totally centered and aligned

with the four cardinal
points with modern precision.

This subterranean chamber

is now connected to a narrow hall,
approximately one meter in height

by one meter wide and 100 meters
long, angled at precisely 26 degrees.

That connects to another just as
narrow hall, leading to a 50 meter long

chamber, 8.5 meters high, the most
spectacular chamber in this pyramid.

This chamber leads to an empty room
on one side, with an empty statue niche

where nothing was ever found,
roughly in the middle of the room,

but perfectly aligned with
the central axis of the pyramid.

The top of this chamber
leads to an antechamber

that has a security system
that is totally useless,

with another narrow hall leading
to a chamber made of granite blocks

that way between 12
and 70 tons on the ceiling

that were transported from 900 kilometers
away to build a double square shaped room

that is precisely horizontal and
vertical, pierced by two narrow tunnels

close to 40 long, where the
only object present is a tank

where no mummy was ever found.

All this to satisfy the megalomania
of a king done in 20 to 25 years

by 2000 workers

with the help of
peasants 4 months a year!

Based on these observations,
it seems rational and safer

to admit that history simply forgot
how and why this pyramid was built.

Because nothing, absolutely nothing,
proves that this pyramid is a tomb.

But if the Great Pyramid
is not a tomb, what is it?

First, it's a geometrical object

with specific proportions
Pi and the Golden Ratio

For example, this dimension
divided by this one gives us Pi

the visible surface
of the Great Pyramid,

the four sides divided by
the invisible surface or base

gives us the Golden Ratio

The visible height divided by
Pi is equal to the total height

multiplied by the
squared Golden Ratio, etc.

But for Egyptology, since
ancient Egyptians didnât know

about these numbers, their
mere presence is an accident.

So, you can imagine that
bringing up the meter in this context

is so surprising that it
gets immediately rejected

with the justification that
if you work on the numbers

you will always find
whatever you want

This point brought up in the previous
films might be the most problematic

because everybody knows the Egyptians
knew nothing about metric measurements.

Are we really sure?

Of course.

First, because Egyptians
measured in cubits

Second because the
meter was invented in 1795

thousands of years
after the Great Pyramid

If the meter was not already
determined by our ancestors way

way before our time, then this
is an extraordinary coincidence

Close to 2500 BCE using a measuring system
called the Royal Cubit, supposed to be

the measurement from the elbow
to, the tip of the fingers of a king.

The Egyptians built the highest ancient
stone building 440 cubits wide at its base

and 280 cubits high.

As we previously mentioned, we
note the presence of these two numbers

that the Egyptians were
not supposed to know

3500 years later in France,
the Cathedral Church

and Castle Builders use the Quine
as a five unit measuring system.

Five different units that are
organized around the Golden Ratio

whose sizes may vary
from one region to another.

French Royalty eventually imposed a single
measurement, the Medieval Royal Quine

It just happens that

the Royal Medieval Cubit, which is a part
of the quine, has exactly the same length

as the Royal Cubit used for the
Great Pyramid 3500 years earlier.

Let's follow this lead.

Towards the end of the 17th
century, the great Isaac Newton

who demonstrated
the existence of gravity

sensed a link between the
dimensions of the Great Pyramid

and the Earth

1781: in a book dedicated
to the King of France

the mathematician Alexis
Jean-Pierre Paucton also brings up

a link between the dimensions of
the Great Pyramid and the Earth

which was yet to be
measured precisely

1795: the meter is invented

Its value is established at
one full rotation of the Earth

divided by 40 million

To achieve that, the distance
between Dunkirk and Barcelona

was precisely measured, which gave
us the value of the meter as we know it.

Such a specific value
that it will still take close

to two more centuries
to realize that by chance

the meter shines in uncertain,
enigmatic constructions on our planet,

built centuries and
sometimes millenniums prior

although they govern the mathematical
relations between the dimensions

of the Great Pyramid, these two numbers
were supposedly unknown to their builders.

Then, thousands of
years later, French royalty

established the use of the same
cubit as used in the Great Pyramid.

The coincidence
doesn't stop there.

The first coincidence takes place
in France, where the royal span

linked to the medieval cubit
is precisely 20 centimeters.

Five spans is precisely equal to
one meter, which seems meaningless.

But apparently, miraculously, this
connects these two measuring systems.

And brings us to a
second coincidence.

The Medieval Cubit
is 0,5236 meters

one sixth of pi.

The third coincidence occurs in
Egypt, just as the Royal Medieval Cubit

is the same length as the cubit used
in the Great Pyramid, which is one

sixth of pi in meters with the
value attributed to one meter

Certain dimensional
ratios of the Great Pyramid

give us Pi and the Golden
Ratio, directly readable in meters

thousands of years before
the meter was defined.

The fourth coincidence occurs this
time in Bolivia, with again the value

attributed to a meter: H-shaped blocks
on the pre-Inka site of Puma Punku

are exactly one meter long and one
meter high with other measurements

that are a whole
number ratio of a meter

The fifth coincidence is an Easter
island related to the Giza plateau

and many other enigmatic sites
from the past on the great circle,

where once again, because of the
value given to a meter, the distance

between Easter Island
and Giza is 10,000 times

the Golden Ratio in kilometers

100 x Pi in meters,
10 x Pi in meters

10 000 x the Golden
Ratio in kilometers

If the size of the Earth were divided
by any other number than 40 million,

none of this would
have ever existed.

So what? Some
people may still ask

to determine the meter, you
have to have measured Earth.

Who was capable of
doing that so long ago?

Put all these
coincidences together

and you get the most enigmatic
tomb ever built on the planet.

If some people stick to the hypothesis of
workers armed with wooden tools, ropes

and miraculous coincidences, we
have chosen to not believe anything

Convinced that science
will recognize science

We decided to use the latest
technology to verify our intuition,

especially when far,
very far from Egypt.

The choice of the meter
produces a sixth coincidence

this time in India.

In the cave of Sudama
on the site of Barabar

its dome is six meters in
diameter with a segment of a sphere

three meters in radius with its
center at one meter above ground.

All this because in 1795

we decided to invent the
meter and gave it a specific value

that thousands of years later
shine a new light on ancient

masterpieces of engineering, for
which we have no documentation

and no memory

since the Royal
Cubit was transmitted.

Why not the meter?

Maybe miracles do exist, but
when they come together in rocks

that are so hard
with such precision

it isnât magic anymore.

It is science.

In the previous film,

we presented the results of the 3D scans
that revealed high precision symmetry.

But at that point, we hadn't
yet measured this precision.

In late February 2020, we
filmed the complete debriefing

of the analyses of the scans by
an engineer from the AGP company

and then went back to Barabar in
March to verify what we had missed

Here again,

everything started with an intuition
when we first visited these caves.

Having noticed a
huge gap between

what has been published on these
caves and our own observations.

We decided to go back
and scan them in 3D.

it's the same as in Puma Punku

with no measurements, without
a trained eye used to precision

and knowledgeable
about how granite is carved

You could totally
miss what we found.

To verify an intuition
is quite expensive

especially when speaking
of 3D scans far from home.

But it was worth it.

The results were far
beyond our expectations.

Here is the 3D scan
of the Gopika cave

on the Nagarjuni site in India

This was not
created by software.

It's the actual cave recomposed
by millions of points projected

by using rotating
lasers to scan the walls.

As we showed in the previous
film, the lateral walls of this cave

are not vertical but very slightly
inclined at less than three degrees.

Thanks to this study, we now
know that the angle of inclination

changes by 3/10 of a degree
along a span of 8.1 meters.

What we had missed before
is that they are slightly curved.

The curving is 7.5
centimeters deep.

This cave is actually
only composed of curves.

That fact was not recorded in
any archeological documents.

We were not capable of seeing
them with the naked eye, and that's

why we came back to
verify it in March 2020

to measure the level of symmetry
announced at the end of the last film.

the AGP company cut this scan
lengthwise, and then superimposed

the right segment on
the left and vice versa.

The result is astounding

62% of the 44 million
points that compose this scan

are almost at the same place

A remarkable feature.

Let's not beat around the bush.

To cut such a large and complex volume
into granite with such precise symmetry

seems impossible.

This degree of
precision was part

of the technical specifications decided
upon before even starting the work

Are symmetrically-polished
mirror-like walls

necessary to shelter
from monsoons?

The idea is problematic.

We find the same degree of
precision in every one of these caves.

We'll go into this in
more detail in the next film

We needed a 3D scan to
discover what we couldn't see

with our simple
measurements and naked eyes

That makes us wonder

what did the builders
use to obtain and verify

this degree of precision?

We find the same precision all
over the planet where normally

we shouldn't.

So how do we wrap this up?

Decorative element? Tomb?

Monsoon shelter?

That's what History
tells us today

History has marked our minds with
the idea that touching it is sacrilegious

and can cause extreme
reactions from certain historians.

But if you needed to build a pyramid
or a massive wall, would you call

a technician or a historian?

For us,

it all started with an intuition
that our present civilization

is not the first time out for
300,000 years-old Homo Sapiens

The intuition that all the common
factors of these archeological sites

could be explained by something
other than mere coincidence

or a false assumption that keeps
us from questioning anything.

Why not consider this explanation:
a transmission of knowledge

to our ancestors, who
were still hunter-gatherers

by the survivors of
an ancient civilization

who could have been
perceived as gods?

Wouldn't an evolved science be
perceived as magic in the eyes of those

who know nothing about it?

How does an actual
hunter gatherer

react when he sees what modern
technology allows us to achieve?

The same intuition,
that our History is wrong

in assuming that civilization
is only 10,000 years old

This implies viewing History
through the prism of war

as if humanity were essentially
evil and war inevitable.

I believe the evidence supports
the view that we have lost

a whole civilization
from our historical record.

We are a species with amnesia.

But where do we go from there?

In today's Western modern,
complicated reality, some people

wonder what positive value
could all this bring to our lives

other than satisfying curiosity by
filling in the blanks of our history?

The answer is that our history

interrogates our future and the world
we're going to leave for our children.

We are constantly innovating
society that thinks that

everything was always
less advanced in the past.

After all our research, we find
ourselves imagining a past far

more developed than previously
thought reduced to the tales of centuries

and millennia passed by a
humanity that has become amnesic

Our elders have
a lot to teach us.

They were capable of building
monumental features that have survived

through the ages as a
badge of honor for our species.

Yes, humanity was once capable
of all that, for the beauty of it,

but maybe even more.

We are now going to carefully follow
other leads like the production of energy

to achieve these sites, energy
was needed and in large quantities,

way beyond that provided by
human or animal muscular strength.

The lead on conducting
research using sound frequencies

also seems promising

we are currently working on
all the data compiled at Barabar

We still have to precisely quantify
what we have just mentioned briefly.

Thanks to our collaborative
research team that constantly broadens

its technical skills,
our work goes on.

We will be back soon to share all
this with you for a better comprehension

of the achievements of
these ancient forgotten builders