How Were the Pyramids REALLY Built? | Ancient Aliens: Origins (Season 1)

In today's largest
construction sites and quarries

huge megamachines are used to dig,
cut and lift stone.

These man-made creatures dwarf their creators

and perform the work of thousands of men,

using modern hydraulic technologies.

Without such equipment

builders could never construct
modern skyscrapers

Yet thousands of years ago

ancient civilizations were accomplishing
the same work

while constructing their monuments and temples

using massive stones.

These enormous blocks,

many weighing in excess of 100 tons

would be a challenge even
for today's engineers.

Yet, thousands of years ago,

people cut them out of solid rock,

transported them for miles

and then lifted them precisely into place.

But how?

Did they cut this massive stone blocks
with hammers, chisels and copper wire,

as mainstream archeologists suggest?

Could they have lifted
and transported them

without a pulley system,

or the wheel?

Or did ancient civilizations possess
advanced technologies

that have since been lost to science?

At Giza, you just don't have the pyramids.

Linked to the pyramids are
what Egyptologists call Valley Temples.

It doesn't take a rocket engineer

that when you go there

there is something not quite right here.

Whereas the pyramids are built with blocks

of two to three tons

these temples which are minúte
compared to the pyramids,

are built with blocks of 100 tons
and some of them 200 tons

Let me tell you what a 100 ton block is,

If you take a 100 family cars and you
squeeze them together,

you get one of these blocks.

First of all,
Let alone how they moved these blocks?

Is why would they want to use
100 ton blocks?

It simply doesn't make sense.

There is no reason for them to
wanna build out of granite blocks

the size of a semitruck.

It's like, Okay,

Let's do something but lets do it
as difficult as we could possibly do it.

The reason why I am convinced that
sophisticated technology was utilized

in these ancient rocks is because

if we go to a stone guarry today
and look at the scope of machinery

required to accomplish similar things.

Those machines are huge!

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(Narrator) Subscribers to anchient alien theory

do not believe extra terrestrials built
these amazing monuments.

But instead provided some type of
technological know-how or tools

to our ancestors.

Engineering expert, Chris Dunn,

has spend several decades researching
the construction tools used

by the ancient Egyptians.

We're normally taught by Egyptologists

that the ancient Egyptians had
simple tools.

They went to work every day

using stone balls, copper chisels or
copper tube and sand to grind holes in,

in diorite and granite,
extremely hard rock.

From what I have actually
gathered over the years,

is information that seems to actually
argue against that notion,

that they had simple tools.

(Narrator) In Egypt,

Dunn was able to examine
ancient sights firsthand.

What he found has proved to be both
revolutionary and contraversial,

(Dunn) If you look at the Giza Plateau and
all the stones that they actually placed

in the Great Pyramid and
Khafre's Pyramid, Menkaure's Pyramid,

two and a half million blocks of stone
in the Great Piramide alone.

They had to have some efficient means

of cutting them to size

and putting them into place.

They had to have had somebody on site

Who's saying, "Okay, I need a block this size."

And then getting a block to them that size,

Stat, like immediately.

(Narrator) While searching several miles
north of Giza, at Abu Rawash,

Dunn stumbled upon a clue

when he spotted a granite block
containing a deep cut.

(Dunn) When I first saw it,
I just didn't know what to make of it.

And it was only after puzzling over it for days,

and sometimes
waking up at 3 o'clock in the morning

scratching my head, I'm thinking:
"Well, how did they make this cut?"

And finally, to realize that

the only way that
they could have actually cut that thing

was with a saw that was 35 feet in diameter.

(Narrator) The idea that ancient Egyptians

used giant saws

provoked much resistance from
mainstream archeologists.

Dunn, however, was convinced.

(Dunn) As a ex-machinist,
I look for tool marks.

I look for them everywhere I go.

And I could be accused of,

"Well, you know,
if you're gonna to look for something,

you're probably gonna find it

because you're looking at it
through a certain filter."

Accepted, I agree.

But the question is:

Why is it there?

Clearly, to me, that is a machine mark

but there were no machines back then.

So what, what do I do?

I just go looking for more machine marks

and they're all over the place.

You find them on statues,

you'll find them, particularly,
in the Luxor Museum.

There seems to be an impression

on the side of Amon's buttock where
it meets the bench

where there is an undercut,

it was a slip of a tool

and therefore, it must have been a tool
that was quite efficient.

(Narrator) Dunn also believes

that the large depressions
in the ground at Giza

is not boat pits,

as claimed by mainstream archeologists

but were actually used to hold
the 35 foot saws.

I speculate that they
were actually saw pits,

the saws were mounted in these pits

and then they ran the blocks through
the saws

before they put them in the Great Pyramid.

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