From: officialflagrant
The Great Pyramid of Giza is described as a “totally utterly unique, extraordinary and special” monument 01:52:54. It stands on the Giza plateau alongside two other massive pyramids and several satellite pyramids 01:47:04.
Construction and Design
The Great Pyramid was originally 481 feet tall, but its current height is about 450-455 feet, having lost its summit around 1301 CE, possibly due to an earthquake 10:04:47. The exterior was once covered with magnificent facing stones, which also came off during the earthquake and were subsequently used as a quarry by locals 10:57:38. The pyramid’s base is built around a natural hill, with the first 30 feet of its interior being a natural mound 20:01:21.
The construction of the Great Pyramid, involving 6 million tons of stone and 2.5 million individual blocks, would have been extremely difficult 20:51:23. The varying sizes of the courses (layers of blocks), some chest-high, made climbing it a challenge, and managing such a task with a huge workforce and blocks is hard to imagine 09:23:09.
Alignment and Dimensions
The Great Pyramid is almost perfectly aligned to True North, within 3/60ths of a single degree 01:17:20. This precision indicates that its builders were performing “very accurate work” and intended to connect the monument to the Earth’s cardinal directions 01:39:41. Located at approximately latitude 30 degrees North, one-third of the way between the Equator and the North Pole, the pyramid also symbolically “speaks to the Earth” 02:29:43.
Its dimensions encode global measurements:
- Original height (481 feet) multiplied by 43,200 gives the polar radius of the Earth 01:00:38.
- Base perimeter multiplied by 43,200 gives the equatorial circumference of the Earth 01:03:00. The number 43,200 is derived from the Earth’s precession, specifically 600 times 72, where precession occurs at a rate of one degree every 72 years 01:03:07. The mathematical constant Pi, used to calculate the diameter and circumference of a circle, is also built into the Great Pyramid, which is largely accepted by Egyptologists as a coincidence 01:02:44.
Internal Features
The Great Pyramid contains several internal chambers and passageways. The actual entrance system of the Great Pyramid was not found until around 900 CE by the Khalif Al Mamon, who, knowing other pyramids had north-facing entrances, hacked his way into the North Face 01:04:12. His team heard a falling block, which led them to the original passages. This hacked entrance is now known as M Moon’s Hole 01:05:05.
Inside, the so-called “King’s Chamber” (where no burial was found, but a sarcophagus remains) has four narrow shafts pointing North and South that exit the pyramid 01:15:58. The “Queen’s Chamber” also has two shafts, discovered in 1872 by Freemason John Wayman Dixon, who knocked on the smooth inner wall 01:16:47. These shafts initially go horizontally then point upwards, but do not exit the pyramid 01:17:23.
Beneath the pyramid, a subterranean chamber is cut out of solid bedrock, about 100 feet vertically below the base and 600 feet below the apex 02:08:49. This chamber has curious acoustic effects, including a resonance that allowed an opera singer’s voice from the King’s Chamber to be heard below 02:11:57. This subterranean chamber, along with the natural mound above it, is theorized to be the original sacred site on the Giza Plateau 02:07:08.
Theories and Controversies
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Chronology
The angles of the shafts in the Great Pyramid point to significant stars during the period when Egyptologists believe the pyramid was built (around 4,500 years ago) 01:17:31. For example, one shaft points to the lowest of Orion’s Belt stars, a constellation identified with the god Osiris 01:17:45.
However, the ground pattern of the three Giza pyramids, which mirrors the three stars of Orion’s Belt, aligns perfectly to the sky “only perfect 12,500 years ago” 01:54:54. This astronomical alignment, combined with the positions of the Nile River and the Milky Way, suggests an older date for the site’s design 01:54:54. The difference in dating (4,500 years ago for shafts vs. 12,500 years ago for ground plan) leads to the theory that while the ancient Egyptians built most of the pyramids, they did so on a “prehistoric foundation” that had been sacred for much longer 02:17:59.
The Great Sphinx
The Great Sphinx, also on the Giza plateau, is proposed to be a multi-phase monument 02:44:00. Geological evidence, particularly “precipitation-induced weathering” on its trench walls, suggests it was exposed to a long period of heavy rainfall, which occurred 12,000+ years ago, not during the traditional Dynastic Egyptian period (4,500 years ago) 02:51:50.
The theory suggests the Sphinx’s core body dates back 12,000+ years, originally in the form of a lion with a massive leonine head 02:58:33. Around 4,500 years ago, when the head was damaged, the Dynastic Egyptians re-carved it into a human head with a pharaoh’s headdress, which explains its disproportionate size to the body 02:58:33. The Sphinx’s gaze, perfectly aligned due East to the sunrise on the Spring Equinox, further supports an older origin as this alignment corresponds to the “Age of Leo” (12,000 years ago), where the constellation Leo would rise behind the sun 04:10:04.
”Secret Knowledge” and Egyptian Authorities
Graham Hancock’s work suggests that a body of knowledge was passed down within ancient Egyptian culture, leading to the construction of the Great Pyramids to honor and memorialize a site of “enormous significance” from a time they called “Zep Tepi” (the First Time) 02:24:43. He argues that the superior workmanship of the Giza pyramids compared to later Egyptian pyramids like the Pyramid of Unas indicates a potential “slump” in building capabilities, or a re-manifestation of earlier knowledge 02:56:55.
Hancock believes his questioning of the mainstream archaeological narrative about Egyptian history led to Egyptian authorities banning him from filming in Egypt 01:21:11. This opposition is partly due to the “rigid fixed view” among Egyptologists and a perceived threat to their cultural identity tied to the pyramids’ creation 01:11:11. A public debate in 2015 with leading Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, where Hawass reportedly lost his temper and stormed out, exacerbated the negative relationship 01:15:15.
Hancock states that his theories, which are often labeled as “racism, white supremacy, misogyny, and anti-Semitism” by critics, are based on reporting indigenous myths about “white-skinned bearded strangers” who brought knowledge after a cataclysm 03:20:47. He clarifies that his interest is in the ideas and cultural aspects, not ethnicity or genes, and points to the universality of certain myths like those of the “seven sages” appearing after a flood to restore knowledge 03:40:40.
Personal Experiences with the Pyramids
Graham Hancock has a “long relationship with the Great Pyramid” 01:58:00. He climbed it illegally several times, first in 1994 or 1996 02:37:37. The first illegal climb involved a 4 AM start and a lot of bribery to guards, eventually costing more due to additional demands from guards 02:28:44. He advises climbing the southwest corner as it’s more intact and less visible 03:11:00. He also participated in a mass climb during an Eid celebration with hundreds of locals, which highlighted the immense difficulty of the pyramid’s original construction 05:10:00. He has also had three legal climbs for filming projects 04:48:00. Climbing the pyramid is now totally illegal and dangerous, with at least one person dying annually 08:46:00.
During one climb, he found his grandfather’s (Philip Hancock) name and the date April 5th, 1916, inscribed on a block on the southeast side 06:01:00. His grandfather, a British forces chaplain in Egypt during WWI, documented this climb in his diaries 07:16:00. In 1916, climbing the Great Pyramid was “totally free range” and legal, with no objections from authorities 07:44:00.