NEW | Giza Before the Pyramids: PROOF of More Ancient Origins

If you’ve followed the Ancient Architects channel over the years, you’ll have seen that I’ve produced a number of videos regarding a lost chapter in the history of the Giza Plateau – the time before the pyramids.

Watch them here:
https://youtu.be/t9trV74awl8?si=C6PQcUfbLPfyEkXE
https://youtu.be/ZZnf1gA28O4?si=-j3fJDmKZ1qpeyS9
https://youtu.be/pxVqVGVVB_I?si=_qc71JYZXAK7a2nn
https://youtu.be/oUISB9V7lwo?si=Yd5aZRl0njWO6THv
https://youtu.be/ZZnf1gA28O4?si=EVpgb5YutYG_8FWH
https://youtu.be/vrpbxQ3oCaY?si=_Z7qw8dvWg22NRcu

It’s a history that often goes unmentioned, and the artefacts and discoveries that show there was life at Giza before the pyramids often go unseen. It’s like a chapter of history that seems like it’s been purposefully forgotten. It’s like a forbidden history.

It seems as though some seem to want to firmly anchor the origins of Giza in the 4th dynasty and there really does look to be an aversion to anything not aligned with that opinion, and I have to say it’s starting to really grate on me.

If the evidence is there, why don’t people want Giza to have a longer, more interesting and more diverse history, if there is good evidence to back it up? Surely it just paints a more colourful picture of the past, adding new levels to an already iconic ancient site on earth.

The evidence is mounting and the truth is finally coming out: people were living at Giza before the pyramids, and for a long time. And this is not some pseudo-archaeological opinion.

In this video, I’ll briefly review the evidence for Pre-4th Dynasty activity at Giza, and then, towards the end of this video, I’ll show you something that most of you will never have seen before, that pretty much proves that Giza had a long history before King Khufu ever set foot on the Giza Plateau.

All images are wither my own, taken from the below sources, or are from Google Images or Google Maps, and are used for educational purposes only.

Contents:
0:00 Introduction
2:52 Pre-Dynastic Finds at Giza
4:20 Evidence for an Early Dynastic Settlement
7:02 The Sphinx Enclosure is Older
8:22 The Kromer Dump Enigma
16:00 Proof of Early Dynastic Origins
23:42 Concluding Remarks

Sources:
Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 2001-3352, 3594-3613, 18794-18815 (1913): https://archive.org/details/BissingTongefaesse/page/n70/mode/1up?q=3352
AERAGram, Fall 2017: https://aeraweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/aeragram18_2.pdf
AERAGram, Spring 2018: https://www.aeraweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/AG19_1.pdf
AERA Kromer Dump Conclusions: https://aeraweb.org/projects/kromer/
Maira Torcia Regillo Work: https://independent.academia.edu/MairaTorcia
Emery, WB - Excavations at Saqqara The tomb of Hemaka (1938): https://archive.org/details/Emery1938/page/n70/mode/1up
Kromer, 1972: https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/images/MFA-images/Giza/GizaImage/full/library/kromer_vorbericht.pdf
Butzer, 1982: https://gizamedia.rc.fas.harvard.edu/images/MFA-images/Giza/GizaImage/full/library/butzer_jnes_41-2_1982.pdf
University of Vienna Kromer Collection: https://uhasammlung.univie.ac.at/kataloge/kataloge-mit-freiem-zugang/sammlung-kromer-projekt-nr-37-41-und-42/sammlung-kromer-gizeh-1971-1975-projekt-nr-37/
Peter Kaplony, 1981: Die Rollsiegel des Alten Reiches Part 2b

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