The Last Days of Giza and the Royal Tomb Inside the Sphinx | Ancient Architects

The Giza Plateau has an incredibly long and complicated history and regarding the Great Pyramid specifically, many people make the mistake in assuming it is just one structure, built at one time, for one purpose.

But the pyramid clearly wasn’t built according to one architectural plan, but in stages, through different eras of history by different architects. Historians and alternative researchers spend so much time arguing about whether or not the Great Pyramid was the tomb of the pharaoh Khufu, when the answer is yes, it probably was. But that doesn’t mean it was the Great Pyramid’s original and only function, just that this was one of its many uses through the long and turbulent history of Egypt.

As I showed in a recent video, a bull was found in the sarcophagus in the Khafre Pyramid. The pyramid was irrefutably the final resting place and tomb of a bull, but of course, nobody in their right mind believes this is the reason why the Ancient Egyptians built the second largest pyramid in Egypt. What this find shows is that the Khafre pyramid, at some point in its long history, was once used for this purpose - it was the tomb of a bull - but this was clearly its final purpose, not its original one.

And that brings me to the subject of this video – what state was the Giza Plateau in when chroniclers like Herodotus and Pliny started documenting the land of Egypt?

What I'm calling the 'Last Days of Giza' is know as the Saite Period or the 26th Dynasty, between 664–525 BC, and although the Persians, Romans, Greeks and Arabs all had a presence at Giza thereafter, the Saite Period is the last true Ancient Egyptian age of the pyramids when Egypt was still ruled by mighty Egyptian Pharaohs.

Why did they bury a bull inside the Khafre Pyramid? Why did they place gold tablets inside the Pyramid of Menkaure and who was the Pharaoh that was buried inside The Great Sphinx? Find out all this and more in this Ancient Architects special video.

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