How Sand Built the Great Pyramid

The ‘Queen’s Chamber’ in the Great Pyramid of Giza is conspicuously unique in its design, location, and finish. In the passage leading to the chamber, drilling was conducted in 1986 which found anomalous quartz sand behind the stones. Despite the well-graded quartz sand being transported from a great distance, there has not been any follow-up investigations to reveal its purpose.

This video examines the physical properties of the quartz sand and uses it to tie many anomalies of the Queen’s Chamber together. The biggest question that remains, is how much of the Great Pyramid was built using this sand?

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Thanks to the Isida Project for photos: https://isida-project.ucoz.com/

Thanks to @AncientArchitects for a clip of the Queen’s Chamber


Graphics Sources:

"Aspects Techniques Et Physiques De L'Operation Kheops" Annales De L'Institut Technique Du Batiment Et Des Travaux Publics. No 454 - May 1987. Serie: Architecture Et Urbanism

Gilles Dormion & Jean-Patrice Goidin “Les Nouveaux Mystères de le Grande Pyramide” Albin Michel, Paris, 1987

Gilles Dormion “La chambre de Cheops” Librairie Artheme Fayard, 2004

John & Morton Edgar “The Great Pyramid Passages” Bone & Hulley 1910.

“Scanning the Pyramids” HIP Institute, 2017

Mark Lehner & Zahi Hawass “Giza and the Pyramids: The Definitive History” University of Chicago Press, 2017

Studies in Egyptian Culture No 6 “Non-Destructive Pyramid Investigation (1) By Electromagnetic Wave Method. Waseda University, Tokyo 1987

Studies in Egyptian Culture No 8 “Non-Destructive Pyramid Investigation (2) Waseda University, Tokyo 1987

Go Inside the Great Pyramid of Giza: https://giza.mused.com/en/guided/266/...


00:00 Introduction
1:52 Drilling the Pyramid
3:04 Anomalous Sand
4:25 Comparing Sands
5:30 Sand Construction Benefits
7:21 Queen’s Chamber Design
8:42 Construction Clues
10:35 Massive Ceiling Beams
12:18 Removing Stones & Sand
13:34 Discovering the Chamber
14:57 Aligned Joints