YT YouTube2Text

YouTube2Text → Transcripts → Atlantis Left Its Technology in Egypt

Atlantis Left Its Technology in Egypt — Transcript

by The Why Files · 6,063 words · 950 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

Open in transcriber Summarize with AI Download SRT/VTT

Full transcript

0:00This episode of the Y files is brought
0:02to you by PDS debt.
0:05In 1851, August Marriott crawled through
0:08a doorway buried under the Egyptian
0:10desert. He stood up, lit a candle, and
0:12scan the room. He was in an ancient
0:14tunnel. Then his candle reflected light
0:17off an object that looked completely out
0:19of place. It was a massive box as big as
0:23a carved [music] from solid granite. But
0:26the granite was smooth. Too smooth. The
0:29stone was so polished he could see his
0:31reflection. This was engineering beyond
0:34anything he thought possible.
0:36Marriott never expected to find an
0:38object built with advanced technology.
0:40He was even more surprised when he found
0:4323 more. [music]
0:50>> Had a tip that this was a fencing
0:52operation.
0:53>> Fencing?
0:54>> No.
0:54>> What? No.
0:56>> Gertie baby. Is the red light on? That's
0:59the smoke detector. IS THE CAMERA
1:01ROLLING?
1:03>> HELLO.
1:04>> And welcome back to Pornhub Hard
1:06Bargains. The only show where every deal
1:09goes all the way.
1:10>> Hello,
1:11>> HUMAN. PERFECT TIMING. You're on the
1:14air.
1:14>> I'm not on the air.
1:16>> Everybody's on the air. That's the
1:18beauty of Pornhub. Amateurs,
1:20professionals, couples, thrpples. You
1:22walk in with something you've been
1:23holding on to way too long and you walk
1:26out relieved. What are you talking
1:28about, Pawn Hub? Is that my leaf blower?
1:31>> Yeah, this was brought in by a customer.
1:33A middle-aged guy, kind of nerdy, wears
1:36a lot of black, talks to a fish.
1:38>> That's mine, and I'm not selling it.
1:40>> Best I can do is 11 bucks.
1:42>> I'm not
1:43>> It's too late. Gertie already got the
1:45money shot.
1:46>> Uh, that's not what this
1:47>> money shot. I hand over the cash. Gertie
1:50pushes in on the customer's face. And
1:52you see the exact moment they realize
1:54they got screwed. It's the climax of
1:56every episode. It's what people come
1:59for.
1:59>> Why are you selling all my stuff?
2:02>> Production costs. You think hard
2:04bargains just happens? Ring lights,
2:06street cameras, a fog machine, baby oil
2:09for Gertie's hump. She has to listen.
2:12>> So, you're pawning my stuff to
2:14>> to make the minimum payments on the
2:15cards I used to buy cameras I used to
2:17film me porning your stuff. It's a self-
2:20sustaining ecosystem. Hey, it's like a
2:23rainforest or a Ponzi scheme.
2:26>> How much do you owe?
2:27>> Yeah, it's a number with a comma in it,
2:29and it keeps getting bigger. Interest is
2:31the lizard people's greatest invention.
2:34Invisible everywhere, and it grows while
2:36you sleep.
2:37>> You don't need a pawn shop. You need PDS
2:39debt. They'll help you get out of debt
2:41faster.
2:42>> Did you just go all the way into today's
2:44sponsor?
2:45>> It's best I could do. If you're carrying
2:47any balance on your credit cards, it's
2:49costing you money every single day. And
2:51minimum payments aren't designed to get
2:53you out of debt. They're designed to
2:55keep you stuck. PDS debt is the way out.
2:57They can reduce up to half of what you
2:59owe and have customized options for
3:01anyone struggling with credit card
3:03bills, personal loans, collections, or
3:05medical bills. They use AI and data to
3:07go beyond the numbers and personalized
3:09savings solutions for you. So instead of
3:11juggling multiple payments, you get one
3:14lower monthly payment. There's no
3:15minimum credit score required. And PDS
3:17debt is the top rated company in the
3:19industry with thousands of five-star
3:21reviews and an A+ rating on the BBB.
3:24Checking your options is fast, free, and
3:26won't impact your credit. And why Files
3:29viewers are already doing something
3:30about it. On average, our viewers who
3:32complete the assessment save over
3:34$22,000.
3:36Get your free 30-second personalized
3:38assessment today at pdsdebt.com/files.
3:42Your savings start the day you complete
3:44it. ptsdebt.com/files.
3:48>> That's right.
3:49>> Perfect. Great. Oh, and human dirty
3:52soldier truck.
3:53>> GERTIE, PUSH IN. PUSH IN. There it is.
3:57That's the money shot.
4:14A year earlier, in October 1850,
4:1629-year-old Agugust Marriott walked out
4:18into the desert at Sakara and spotted a
4:21carved stone head sticking out of a sand
4:23dune. It was a sphinx, and Marriott knew
4:26right away what was buried underneath
4:28it. [music] Marriott remembered an
4:30ancient book by the Greek geographer
4:31Strabo who wrote about a lost temple out
4:34here called the Sarapium. Shrabbo said
4:36the desert winds buried a long avenue of
4:39sphinxes right up to their heads. It was
4:41the secret tomb where Egypt buried its
4:44living gods. The Louv had sent Marriott
4:46to Cairo with a bag of government money
4:48to buy old religious manuscripts from
4:51desert monasteries. Standing in front of
4:53that sphinx head in the sand, [music] he
4:55made a choice that could have landed him
4:56in prison.
4:58It was a revelation.
5:00At that moment, I forgot my mission. I
5:03forgot the patriarch, the convents, the
5:06Coptic and Syriak manuscripts, all of
5:09it. And on the 1st of November, 1850, at
5:13one of the most beautiful sunrises I
5:15ever saw in Egypt. 30 workmen were
5:18gathered under my orders. [music]
5:21He spent the L's manuscript budget on
5:23shovels. His crew dug out one limestone
5:26sphinx, [music] then a second, then a
5:28buried highway of them winding under the
5:30dunes. These weren't giants like the
5:32great sphinx of Giza. Each statue was
5:35about 6 ft long, lining both sides of a
5:37sunken road. But week after week, his
5:40men pulled out 370 sphinxes and more
5:43than a thousand small bronze statues of
5:45Egyptian gods. Then the Egyptian
5:48government came for them.
5:51When Egypt's ruler Abbas Pasha heard
5:54that France planned to ship those
5:55treasures to Paris, he demanded every
5:57single piece.
5:58>> No, Aba wanted all of it.
6:00>> Abbas, not Abba.
6:02>> Still, the winner takes it all.
6:04>> He sent three army officers to Sakara to
6:07watch the trenches and count every find.
6:09When the officers demanded an inventory,
6:12Marriott's foreman handed them a list of
6:14513 items. They didn't mention they hid
6:16over 500 more. [music]
6:18From that night on, Marott ran an
6:20underground smuggling ring.
6:22>> Literally underground. I respect a man
6:24who commits to it a bit.
6:26>> He moved his packing workshop to the
6:28bottom of a deep shaft where no officer
6:30could see it. Then he sank a second
6:32shaft. Stop it. He sank a second shaft
6:36into the sand and covered it with boards
6:38and dirt during the day. Marriott wrote
6:40that you could ride a horse right over
6:41that hidden shaft and never even know it
6:43was there. Every night after the guards
6:46went to sleep, his men pulled the boards
6:48back, climbed down with lanterns, and
6:50dug in secret. Meanwhile, one of his
6:52workmen carved fake stone tablets in
6:54camp. Marriott handed the forgeries to
6:56Posh's officers, but packed the real
6:58artifacts into crates for France. The
7:01Egyptians never knew they were fakes
7:02until Marott bragged about it in his
7:04memoirs years later.
7:09At dusk on November 12th, 1851, [music]
7:11the buried road of sphinxes ended at a
7:14stone doorway cut straight into the
7:16bedrock. Fallen blocks jammed the
7:18entrance, so Marriott's crew swung
7:20sledgehammers through the night. Before
7:22dawn, a narrow gap opened at the top of
7:24the door, [music] and Marott crawled
7:26inside with a candle in each hand. He
7:29stood up and slowly scanned the room. It
7:31was an ancient chamber carved into the
7:33rock. The walls were rough and the floor
7:35was covered with thousands of [music]
7:36years and sand and dust and it was
7:38nothing unexpected. Then Marott's light
7:41reflected off something in the room.
7:43Something that didn't [music] belong
7:44there at all.
7:55In the center of the room, Marriott
7:57found a box. An enormous box. It was 13
8:00ft long, more than 7 ft wide, and 11 ft
8:03tall with its lid. The lower box weighed
8:0670 tons. Just the lid weighed 30 tons.
8:09Marriott walked deeper down the
8:11corridor. He passed another side room
8:13with another giant box and then another.
8:16The main tunnel was more than 600 ft
8:18long with chambers cut into both sides
8:21of the bedrock. He counted 24 giant
8:24stone boxes in all. Marott had found the
8:27cerapum.
8:28Each box was cut from a single block of
8:31solid granite. And this wasn't local
8:33stone. It came from Oswan, almost 600
8:36miles up the Nile. Someone quarried
8:38those 100 ton blocks and floated them
8:41down the river. Then they dragged them
8:43across the desert dunes and slid them
8:45down a narrow ramp underground. It's a
8:48hard job getting those blocks to the
8:50tunnel. But inside the tunnel, the job
8:52got even harder. [music] The main
8:53corridor leaves only a couple of feet to
8:55spare on either side of a box. And each
8:58side room is barely wider than the stone
9:00itself. To set one in place, the workers
9:03had to haul 70 tons of granite down the
9:06narrow tunnel. Then they had to swing it
9:0890° into a tight room and lower it into
9:11a floor pit without cracking it. But the
9:13boxes weren't cracked. They were
9:15perfect.
9:15>> Pivot. Pivot. Pivot. There is no room
9:19down there for a crowd of men pulling
9:21ropes. But whoever built this tunnel did
9:24it 24 times. Installing the boxes took
9:27masterful engineering. But the
9:29engineering used inside the boxes was
9:31more than masterful. It was impossible.
9:34Inside the boxes, the dark granite walls
9:37are polished so smooth they shine like a
9:40black mirror. [music] And there's
9:41nothing to suggest how they even did
9:43this. There are no chisel marks, no
9:45abrasions, no scratches, no
9:47imperfections of any kind.
9:49>> Who needs a mirror that big?
9:51>> Well, nobody knows.
9:52>> Probably lizard people. They got to
9:54check the human suits on straight.
9:56>> This is hard to do today with power
9:58tools. To polish granite and mirror
10:00smooth by hand defies logic or implies
10:03the use of technology we don't
10:04understand [music]
10:05or haven't discovered yet.
10:08Almost all the boxes lids were shoved
10:10aside and were empty. All except one.
10:13Marriott's workers tried to move it, but
10:15it wouldn't budge. Remember, just the
10:17lids weighed 30 tons. And the seam
10:19between the lid and the box was so tight
10:22they couldn't wedge anything into the
10:23gap. The blade of a pocketk knife
10:25couldn't get into the seam. That's how
10:27perfect it was. There was no way a metal
10:29pry bar would even fit. Finally, Marott
10:32blew the lid open with dynamite. And
10:34that one was empty, too.
10:35>> All that work, all that buildup,
10:38anything was empty. Ah, poor Heraldo.
10:43>> But there were supposed to be more than
10:4524 boxes. There was a 25th box just
10:49sitting [music] in the middle of the
10:50corridor. It was rough and unpolished.
10:52For some reason, they stopped in the
10:54middle of the job and never came back. A
10:57tremendous amount of resources went into
10:58this project. [music] For them to just
11:00give up doesn't make sense. They would
11:02have finished the job, but they didn't.
11:04>> Yeah, I've hired contractor. Is this how
11:06they work? They always need two more
11:08weeks and two more grand.
11:10>> Something made [music] them leave.
11:13Whether it was war or a natural
11:14disaster, by the time it was safe enough
11:16to come back, nobody did. They either
11:19didn't finish the job because they
11:20didn't know how, or so much time had
11:23passed that they never knew it was under
11:24their feet. Whatever scared the workers
11:26out of that tunnel is still a mystery.
11:30A week after Marriott broke in, Abas
11:32Pasha closed the dig down. While
11:34Marriott waited in camp, he read the
11:36stone tablets his crew had pulled from
11:38the sand. The tablets said the boxes
11:41were burial tombs, just not for people.
11:55For 3,000 years, Egypt kept a single
11:57black bull in a royal palace at Memphis
11:59called the Apis Bull and worshiped him
12:01as a living god. According to the
12:03[music] Greek historian Heroditus, the
12:05bull was born from a cow that was struck
12:07by a flash of lightning from heaven.
12:10>> I bet a cow that's hit by lightning
12:11smells delicious.
12:13>> Whenever an old bull died, priest
12:15searched all of Egypt for a replacement
12:16[music] calf. It had to carry 29 sacred
12:19marks from a white square on its
12:21forehead to a beetle mark under its
12:23tongue. Together, those markings matched
12:25the stars above Egypt. Any bull bearing
12:28those marks could predict the future.
12:30The bull served as Egypt's highest
12:32oracle. [music] Pharaohs, generals, and
12:35foreign conquerors like Alexander the
12:36Great came to his temple to ask whether
12:39they would win a war or when a king
12:40would die. If the bull ate from your
12:43hand, your future was blessed. If he
12:45turned his head away, you were marked
12:47for death. Foreign kings who mocked the
12:49bull or tried to butcher him died
12:52violent deaths.
12:54When the Persians conquered Egypt, their
12:56king Kmbis demanded to see the god of
12:58flesh and blood. Kimbisces drew his
13:00dagger, stabbed the bull in the thigh,
13:03and laughed at the Egyptians for
13:04worshiping cattle. The bull bled to
13:06[music] death in its stall. But soon
13:08after, as Kimises climbed onto his
13:11horse, his own sword slipped out of its
13:13sheath and stabbed [music] him in the
13:15thigh in the exact same spot where he
13:17slashed the bull, and he died of that
13:19wound. Sacred bulls could only serve as
13:22oracles for 25 years. On a bull's 25th
13:25birthday, [music] priests led him to a
13:27secret spring and drowned him. Last day,
13:30Taurus 15's year of the city 2274
13:34carousel begins.
13:36Yeah, somebody out there gets it.
13:39>> This wasn't considered cruelty. It was a
13:41ceremony of the highest honor, freeing
13:43the god's spirit so he could be reborn.
13:46When a bull was drowned, the entire
13:48country shaved their heads and mourned.
13:50Then priests laid the bull on 16t tables
13:52of solid alabaster carved with roaring
13:55lions, and then they drained his blood.
13:58Afterward, they wrapped the body in gold
14:00and marched it down into the Sarapia.
14:03So, if the bulls were buried down there,
14:05why were all 24 granite boxes [music]
14:07empty? Tomb robbers break into vaults
14:10for gold and jewels. Nobody drags a 30
14:12ton granite lid off a box to steal a
14:14dead cow. Well, the robbers weren't
14:16after cows or treasure. They were
14:18looking for technology because the
14:20Egyptians didn't build the boxes. They
14:23found them. And when they discovered the
14:25cerapium 3,000 years ago, it was already
14:2810,000 years old.
14:39Only four of the 24 boxes have
14:41hieroglyphs on them, and the writing is
14:43terrible. The granite underneath is
14:45ground flat and polished like a mirror,
14:48but the hieroglyphs on top are shallow
14:50and sloppy. The writing isn't really
14:52carved. It's just scratched. Typically,
14:54when Egyptians build a royal monument,
14:57the pharaoh's name was the centerpiece,
14:59carved deep and proud inside an oval
15:01border called a cartou. Not here. On one
15:04box, someone scratched the outline of
15:06the oval of the cartou and left the
15:09space inside completely blank, like they
15:11just gave up. Nobody who can polish a
15:14100 ton block of granite like a mirror
15:16scratches his name on the side like
15:18that. And when you're carving the cart
15:20of a king, you finish it. You do not
15:22leave it blank. The Egyptians had copper
15:25saws and chisels. Now, copper works well
15:28for carving limestone and sandstone, but
15:30copper is softer than asan granite.
15:33Scratching was the best they could do.
15:35There was something else unusual about
15:36the granite. It was flat. Not somewhat
15:40flat, not extremely flat. Perfectly
15:43[music] flat. For more than a century
15:45after Marriott, nobody tested how flat
15:47those granite walls really were. Then
15:50Christopher Dunn climbed inside one.
15:52Dunn spent 40 years as an aerospace
15:54engineer making jet engine parts that
15:57had to be accurate to a thousandth of an
15:59inch. If you watch the after files for a
16:01while, you know his work. He's the
16:03engineer who says the Great Pyramid was
16:05a power plant. In 1995, Dunn checked two
16:08boxes in the Capium with a small pocket
16:11straight edge. and the stone was so flat
16:13it stunned him. He knew a 6-in blade was
16:15too short to judge a 13 ft box. So, he
16:18went back home and he got instruments
16:20for aerospace inspection. It took a few
16:23years, but Dunn finally got permission
16:25to go back into the Sarapia. He brought
16:27a 12-in steel straight edge accurate to
16:30110,000th of an inch. A human hair is
16:33about 30 times thicker than that. He
16:36also brought a toolmaker square
16:38calibrated to 50 millionth of an inch.
16:42Dun laid the straight edge against the
16:43polished wall and shined a light behind
16:45the steel. No light passed underneath.
16:48None. He slid the blade across the stone
16:51and checked again and the wall stayed
16:53dead flat all the way across its face.
16:57This is extremely difficult to do with
16:59today's technology. It should not have
17:01been possible [music] thousands of years
17:02ago.
17:04He checked one inside corner where the
17:06walls meet the roof and then another
17:08where two walls meet. The steel blade
17:10sat flush against both surfaces at once
17:14and zero light came through. Those
17:16corners weren't just close to 90°. They
17:20were perfect right angles. And the two
17:22inside walls, which were about 5 ft
17:24apart, [music] ran parallel from top to
17:27bottom. Again, perfectly [music]
17:30parallel. Done new from decades of
17:32machine shops. How hard this is to pull
17:34off. Cutting two parallel walls of
17:36granite 5 feet apart with [music]
17:38perfectly square inside corners takes
17:41heavy machinery. You cannot do this by
17:44hand.
17:44>> By handh must be nice. Once again, you
17:48have offended everyone in the fins,
17:50claws, and who's community.
17:52>> I was just describing an engineering
17:53problem.
17:54>> 10 fingers, two thumbs, and you people
17:56still open chip bags with your teeth.
17:58When Dunn got home, he called four
18:01precision granite companies in the US.
18:03Those companies make the ultra flat
18:05granite reference tables that aerospace
18:07and defense factories use to test
18:09whether their own machine parts are
18:11truly flat. Dunn gave them the
18:13dimensions of the Serapion boxes and
18:15asked if they could make one from a
18:17single block of stone.
18:19None of them could.
18:28>> [music]
18:29>> If the boxes weren't coffins for cows,
18:32and modern stone companies can't cut one
18:34today, then those 24 granite giants were
18:37built for something else. They were
18:39machines. Start with the stone. As one
18:42granite contains an unusually high
18:44percentage of quartz crystal. When you
18:46squeeze quartz under pressure, it
18:48generates electricity. This is called
18:50pio electricity. We see the same
18:52technique used in the gallery leading up
18:54to the king's chamber in the Great
18:56Pyramid. It seemed like whoever built
18:58the pyramids also built the Sarapium.
19:00Here are 24 hollow boxes of quartzrich
19:03stone that generate electricity. They're
19:06lined up inside limestone bedrock, which
19:08is an excellent insulator. This doesn't
19:10sound like a temple. It sounds like an
19:12energy array. and the boxes hum.
19:15Acoustic researchers recorded the inside
19:17of the chambers and found that each box
19:19holds a deep resonant tone between 60
19:22and 120 hertz. Sound in that range
19:26changes activity in the human brain. If
19:28the amplitude is high enough, exposure
19:30can even trigger visions. Some visitors
19:33have dizzy spells near the boxes. Some
19:35have even had out-of body experiences.
19:38Even 2,000 years ago, Greek writers
19:40reported that giant bronze doors at
19:42Memphis, called the gates of oblivion,
19:45roared whenever the vaults opened. Then,
19:47in March 2018, an independent researcher
19:50carried a Geiger counter down into the
19:52tunnel. Out in the main walkway, the
19:54counter clicked at about 14 times a
19:56minute. When he climbed inside one of
19:58the granite boxes, the radiation count
20:00nearly tripled to 38 clicks a minute.
20:03>> 38 clicks a minute? Ah, my only fins
20:06would kill for those numbers.
20:10>> This suggests those 24 granite vaults
20:12once held radioactive material. Look at
20:15how the boxes are built. Foot thick
20:17solid granite walls. 30 ton airtight
20:20lids and [music] deep pits cut into
20:22solid limestone bedrock. Together, those
20:24parts create an underground machine. The
20:27radiation provided the heat. The quartz
20:29granite turned that pressure into
20:31electricity. And the stone chambers
20:33focused the sound. If these chambers
20:35were already 10,000 years old when the
20:37Egyptians found them, there's only one
20:39ancient civilization who could have
20:41built them. Atlantis. And remember who
20:44the Atlanteanss worshiped as god? They
20:46worshiped bulls.
20:54The story of Atlantis comes from Plato,
20:55but he didn't invent it. Around 600 BC,
20:58the Greek statesman Solon visited Egypt
21:01and the priest there told him that the
21:02Egyptian temple records went back
21:04thousands of years before Greece
21:06existed. Those Egyptian records
21:08described a powerful empire destroyed in
21:11a single day and night of floods and
21:12earthquakes. And it happened around 9600
21:15BC, right at the end of the last ice
21:17age. That sudden cataclysm explains the
21:2025th granite box still sitting rough and
21:23unfinished in the Serapium hallway. The
21:25original crew was hauling that 100 ton
21:27block down the narrow bedrock passage
21:29when disaster struck on the surface
21:31above. The bedrock shook. Water roared
21:34across the plateau and the workers
21:36dropped their tools in the middle of the
21:37shift and never came back. And Plato's
21:39account of Atlantis solved the strangest
21:42riddle of the cerapum. It showed why the
21:44Egyptians connected those granite boxes
21:46to a sacred bull. When Plato wrote about
21:48Atlantis in his dialogue, Critius, he
21:51described the empire's central ceremony
21:53inside a sacred temple enclosure
21:55belonging to Poseidon, black bulls
21:57roamed free. Before the kings of
21:59Atlantis could pass judgment or make
22:01laws, they had to capture one of those
22:03bulls without weapons. Then they
22:05sacrificed it over a sacred stone column
22:07and drained its blood. I covered this
22:09ritual in detail in our episode about
22:10the Basks if you want to learn more
22:12about it. At Memphis, right above the
22:14Capium, Egyptian priests kept a sacred
22:17black bull in a royal courtyard as their
22:19highest judge in oracle. When that bull
22:21died, they laid it on 16 foot tables of
22:23solid alabaster and drained its blood,
22:26just like they did in Atlantis. So, did
22:29survivors from Atlantis bring their
22:30sacred bull ritual to Egypt after the
22:32flood, or did they build the Sarapam
22:34themselves before the cataclysm [music]
22:36hit? Either way, when the later
22:38Egyptians dug into the plateau at
22:40Sakara, they found 24 impossible stone
22:43machines from the world before the
22:45flood. They couldn't build them, and
22:47they didn't know how to turn them on.
22:48So, they wrapped the old Atlantean bull
22:50ritual around the granite boxes,
22:52scratched their pharaoh's names onto the
22:53sides, [music] and worshiped the ruins
22:55as the tomb of a god. And if you think
22:57modern officials want to test that
22:59theory, look at what happened after Dunn
23:01published his measurements. Right after
23:03Dunn's second visit in 2001, Egypt
23:06closed the tunnel to the public and kept
23:08it shut for more than a decade. Later,
23:11Egyptian engineer Ahmed Adley checked
23:13the boxes inside the cerapium with
23:15precision gauges and confirmed Dun's
23:18findings. The sides are flat and the
23:20corners make exact [music] right angles.
23:24Applying the instruments, I was
23:25astonished to find that the internal
23:27measurements are so precise with unique
23:30characteristics of parallelism and right
23:33angled corners of 90.0°,
23:36not 90.1 and not 89.9, [music] 90.
23:42In 2024, Adley joined an independent
23:45research team bringing portable 3D laser
23:48scanners to Egypt to map ancient
23:50stonework down to the thousandth of an
23:51inch. Less than 50 miles south of
23:53Sakara, there's another red granite box.
23:56Over a century ago, Flender's Petri, the
23:59father of modern archaeology, called it
24:01one of the greatest triumphs of accurate
24:03stonework ever [music] done in history.
24:05When the team put a laser on Petri's box
24:07in 2024, they published the full 3D map
24:10online and proved the stone was flat to
24:13within a thousandth of an inch. Next,
24:16the team went to scan the 24 boxes
24:18inside the Capium. They put up a project
24:20page for the CRPM on their website and
24:22left it completely blank. [music] There
24:24are no 3D models, no laser data, and no
24:27explanation. Either Egyptian officials
24:30block the lasers at the gate [music] or
24:32the team scanned those 24 boxes and is
24:34not allowed to show what they found. In
24:36an older tunnel beside the main hall,
24:39part of the gallery is still buried
24:41behind a massive rock slide that
24:42nobody's passed since 1852.
24:45In 2020, archaeologists from Louv began
24:48clearing the rubble. They pulled new
24:50stone tablets out of the debris in front
24:52of that block tunnel. And right after,
24:54officials quietly shut the mission down.
24:57Neither the Louv nor the Egyptian
24:58government has explained why. 175 years
25:02after August Marriott crawled in with a
25:04candle, 24 empty granite boxes still sit
25:07under the desert sand. Some say the
25:09pharaohs cut them with copper tools,
25:11even though four modern granite
25:13companies say they couldn't build one
25:14today. Others say they are the surviving
25:16machines of a lost civilization from the
25:18age of Atlantis. Still humming in the
25:20bedrock, [music]
25:21still radioactive. The truth is sitting
25:24behind a collapsed wall and inside 24
25:27stone vaults whose scans nobody is
25:30allowed to see.
25:37[music]
25:39A Frenchman follows a Sphinx head in the
25:41sand and breaks into a buried tunnel
25:43packed with 2400 ton granite boxes. The
25:46stone is polished like a black mirror,
25:48[music] flat to 10,000th of an inch, and
25:50every box is empty. Maybe there were
25:52power generators or radiation vaults
25:54built before the flood by survivors of
25:56Atlantis.
25:58It's a good story, but how much of it is
26:00true? Well, August Marriott's desert
26:02heist is completely true. He really did
26:04spend the Louv's manuscript money on
26:06shovels. He dug through a hidden shaft
26:08at night and fooled the Egyptian guards
26:10with fake stone tablets. Remember how
26:12Marriott bragged about those fakes as
26:14memoirs years later? [music] You'd think
26:15the Egyptian government was furious when
26:17they found out. Instead, Egypt's new
26:20ruler hired [music] their best thief in
26:22the desert to stop other Europeans from
26:24looting the country. In 1858, Egypt put
26:27Marriott in charge of its antiquities.
26:29And then he founded the Cairo Museum.
26:31The 24 granite boxes are real, too. and
26:34not a single bull was ever found inside
26:36them. Still, Marriott did find untouched
26:38bull burials in an older tunnel right
26:40next door. In 1852, he broke into a
26:43sealed chamber from the reign of Ramsy's
26:45the Great and found bull bones buried
26:48inside wooden coffins with gold jewelry.
26:50>> A cow dies, he gets buried with gold. A
26:53goldfish dies, you get flushed down a
26:55toilet and a half moment of silence.
26:58Because of that find, historians say the
27:0024 granite boxes were empty only because
27:03ancient tomb robbers pried the lids back
27:05to steal the gold. And as Egypt grew
27:07richer over the centuries, priests
27:09upgraded the bull coffins from wood to
27:11limestone and finally to hwan granite.
27:14One part of Marriott's legend is false.
27:16He never blew open a sealed granite box
27:18with dynamite. Dynamite wasn't even
27:20invented until 16 years after he entered
27:22the tunnel.
27:23>> [music]
27:23>> He used gunpowder to clear fallen
27:25ceiling rocks in the older gallery, not
27:27to blast open a granite lid. Now, what
27:29about Atlantis and the underground
27:30machine? Well, Plato really did write
27:32about the kings of Atlantis hunting
27:34sacred bowls and draining their blood.
27:36And that parallel to Memphis is
27:38striking. Still, there's no physical
27:40evidence connecting the Capium to
27:41Atlantis or the Ice Age. Over 800 dated
27:45tablets from the tunnel walls record
27:47Egyptian crews carving those galleries
27:49between 650 BC and about the time of
27:51Cleopatra. The radiation and the deep
27:54hum inside the boxes have natural
27:55explanations, too. Granite [snorts]
27:57contains trace uranium that releases
27:59radon gas inside closed stone spaces.
28:02And any polished stone chamber of that
28:04size hums around 100 hertz. As for the
28:07crooked hieroglyphs and the blank name
28:09oval, historians say priests rushed the
28:12carving during a political crisis.
28:14>> We'll take their word for it.
28:17>> So, what's still up for debate? Well,
28:19how the inside of those boxes was made.
28:22Christopher Dunn and Ahmed Adley both
28:24tested the inside walls with hand gauges
28:26and found them dead flat and dead
28:28square. Skeptics say ancient masons
28:31ground the stone flat using pounding
28:33rocks, copper saws, and [music] wet
28:35quartz sand. But nobody has ever
28:38published a full 3D laser scan of the 24
28:40boxes to settle the argument. And it
28:42would be so easy to do. Now, I'm not
28:44saying the Egyptians didn't build the
28:46cerapium, but the more I learn, the more
28:48I lean toward the uncomfortable theory
28:50[music] that an advanced civilization
28:52existed before the flood. And that's why
28:55I always come back to the 25th box
28:57sitting rough [music] and unfinished in
28:58the hallway. Whoever those builders
29:00were, they didn't have smartphones or
29:02satellites, [music] but they could cut
29:04100 ton granite better than we can
29:06today. And right in the middle of a
29:08normal workday, they dropped their tools
29:10and never came back. Mainstream
29:12historians wave off advanced engineering
29:14as pseudocience. That's a mistake.
29:16[music]
29:17We should study so-called pseudocience
29:19to see if there's a real science in
29:21there. Refusing to look isn't just
29:23arrogant. It's dangerous. Asteroids,
29:26solar storms, pole shifts, super
29:28volcanoes. They've wiped the slate clean
29:31before and they will do it again.
29:33Instead of locking the gates and leaving
29:35the rubble in place, we should be
29:37digging for every clue those builders
29:39left behind. Because if we don't figure
29:40out what happened to them and how they
29:42survived, [music] we're going to end up
29:44being just another layer in the
29:46sediment.
29:53Thank you so much for hanging out today.
29:54My name is AJ. There's hecklefish.
29:56>> Bury me like a bull, human. Granite box,
29:59gold jewelry, anything but the toilet.
30:02>> This has been the Y files. If you had
30:04fun or learned something, I'd appreciate
30:05if you could like, subscribe, comment,
30:07share. That stuff really helps the
30:08channel. And like most topics we cover
30:10here, today's is recommended by you. So
30:12if there's a story you'd like to see or
30:13learn more about, go to the
30:14yfiles.com/tips
30:16or catch us on Discord [music] or the
30:18chat, email.
30:21Did I say the website? You know how to
30:24find us. If you enjoy the stories I tell
30:26in the live files, check out my other
30:27show called The Basement. It's a
30:29conversation show where I chat with the
30:30interesting people behind the episodes.
30:32Some of them you know, some you don't,
30:34but they're all [music] fascinating.
30:35Like if you like this ancient history
30:37stuff, check out the episode I did with
30:40um with Alex Pekus a couple of weeks
30:42ago. He's fantastic. [music]
30:44Um well, we cover time travel,
30:47moonlanding hoaxes, JFK conspiracies,
30:52Hitler escape theories, DMT laser code,
30:54all kinds of random stuff. If you're
30:56looking for books mentioned in the
30:57episodes or by a guest, we keep them all
30:59in a website called the gallery. Link is
31:01below maybe or go to the wifiles.com.
31:03The link [music] is up there somewhere.
31:05Remember, the Y Files is also a podcast.
31:07You can take us on the road and listen
31:0824/7. I upload at least twice a week,
31:11[music] episodes, campfire stories,
31:13interviews. It's called the Y Files
31:15Operation [music] Podcast, and it's
31:17available everywhere you get your
31:18podcast. Oh, and quick thank you to
31:20everyone who voted at the Signal Awards,
31:24which was new to me. I hadn't heard
31:26about it [music] before this year. Um, I
31:29won listeners choice for best video
31:34podcast host and the W [music] files won
31:37for best video podcast listeners [music]
31:41choice and we received more votes than
31:44all the other nominees combined.
31:47Unbelievable. So, thank you for that.
31:49Where was I? Take us on the road 24/7.
31:51[music]
31:52Speaking of 24/7, make sure you check
31:54out our 247 stream and the Wi-Fi
31:56backstage. Over there, we run episodes
31:58back toback with some fun content in
32:00between and the live chat is a lot of
32:03fun. It's a great community and it's
32:04more entertaining [music] than the
32:05videos. Special thanks to our patrons
32:07who make the channel possible. Every
32:09episode of the W Files is dedicated to
32:11my Patreon members. I couldn't do any of
32:13this without your support, [music] so
32:15thank you. And if you'd like to support
32:17the channel, keep us going, join our
32:19wacky community, consider becoming a
32:21member on Patreon. For as little as
32:22three bucks a month, you get access to
32:24perks like seeing videos early with no
32:25commercials, exclusive merch, plus two
32:28private live streams [music] every week
32:30just for you. And the whole W files team
32:32is on the stream. And you can also turn
32:33on your camera, hop up on stage, ask a
32:36question, if you want to learn more
32:38about a topic, tell a joke, talk about
32:40anything you like. It's a great way to
32:42get to know us as people. [music]
32:43Another great way to support the channel
32:45is grab something from the W house tour.
32:47>> Grab a hug t-shirt or one of these
32:48visible coffee mugs that you can stick a
32:50fist in or push stick a mummy in there
32:52or a bullsh whatever you want to put in
32:54there. Grab a hoodie my face or get one
32:57of these adorable squeezy doll toy
32:59fishes. But if you go to my merch, make
33:01sure you [music] become a member on
33:03YouTube. YouTube members get 10% off
33:05everything in the Wild File store
33:06forever. I know another membership it's
33:09a pain, [music] but it's only three
33:11bucks. And if you're going to spend $40
33:13on the store,
33:15use the code, save the money, and
33:17[music] just cancel. That's totally fine
33:18with me. I don't touch any of that money
33:20anyway. That goes [music] to the team.
33:22So, by becoming a member, you're saving
33:25money on merch, and you're supporting
33:26the great team behind it.
33:28>> Yeah, keep that secret close to your uh
33:30granite box. [music]
33:32>> Those are the plugs. Yes, those are the
33:35plugs. And that's going to do it. Until
33:37next time, be safe, be kind, [music] and
33:39know that you are appreciated.
33:45[music]
33:46[bell]
33:53Oh
33:55yeah, [music]
33:57I play in 51. A secret code [music]
34:02inside the Bible [singing] said I would.
34:07I love my UFOs and paranal [music]
34:10fun as well as music singing like I
34:14should.
34:16[music] But then another conspiracy
34:18theory becomes the truth my friends
34:22and it [music] never ends.
34:24No, it never ends.
34:29>> [music]
34:35>> I feel [music] the crab cat. I got stuck
34:37inside Mel's hole with MK out of being
34:41only true.
34:44Did Stanley Cubrick [music] fake the
34:46moon landing alone on a film set or
34:50would the shadow be [singing] there?
34:54The Roswell aliens just fought [music]
34:56the smiling man. [singing]
34:58I'm told and his name was cold and I
35:02can't believe I'm dancing with the fish
35:06and your fish on [music] Thursday night,
35:08Wednesday,
35:11All through the night.
35:16All I ever wanted was to [music] hear
35:18the truth. So the world falls on your
35:20feet all through the night.
35:29[music]
35:35[music]
35:41>> [music]
35:41>> The math man sidings and the solar storm
35:44still come to a gather the secret city
35:47underground.
35:49[music]
35:50Mysterious number stations planet to
35:54project star gave and where the dark
35:56watchers found
35:59[music]
36:00in a simulation. Don't you worry though.
36:04The black nights had a light over to me.
36:07So I can't believe I'm dancing with the
36:11fish
36:13[music] on Thursday nights when they
36:15chase you and laughing me all through
36:18the night.
36:22All I ever wanted was to hear the truth.
36:25So me all through the [music] night.
36:32on Thursday. [music] That's when they
36:33change you. And what happened all
36:36through the night?
36:40All I ever wanted was to hear the truth.
36:44The world [music]
36:46to love
36:50dance
37:01loves to dance.
37:04Gy loves to dance [music]
37:06on the dance floor because she is a
37:09camel. Camels love to dance when the
37:12feeling is right on ways in time.
37:20[music]
37:28>> [bell]

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of Atlantis Left Its Technology in Egypt by The Why Files, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 6,063 words across 950 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to choose a caption track available on the video.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, caption language selection, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.