Les Cuves du Serapeum de Saqqarah : Taille, Poids, et Polissage

Hello everyone, welcome to the channel, welcome to this video It resonates a little bit, simply because I am in Sakara In this absolutely incredible underground complex which is the Serapeum Today I take the opportunity to be here to share with you a recapitulative video To really see what we know technically Because I had shared several videos on the channel over the years But today I thought I might make a synthesized version Which will be more digestible and nicer to watch So what are we going to see together? We will see how many tanks there are We will see what they look like on the inside Because in 2020 I had the chance to look at them in detail with the electronic microscope We will also see how, thanks to these electronic microscopes We can find small traces of clothing on the tanks that have been polished And we will also see what their weight is Because officially they are said to weigh between 70 and 100 tons But know that this is not the case at all In 2018, with my friend Tony from the Mysteria channel Who I greet of course We came here to measure the weight of 4 full tanks And we were able to determine that they do not weigh 100 tons For once, we are below the official weight And that we are rather around 50 tons And it will also be the occasion in this video To share with you the weight in detail of the 4 tanks that we could measure at the time So I'm absolutely sure it's a video that will delight you And before I join the group to continue the visit of Saqqara and Dahshur today I take this opportunity to also tell you that if you want to join the next trip here in Egypt You can find the link in the description To have all the information, date, itinerary, etc. But for now, the tanks of the Serapeum, let's go! Or this one will not please This video I think it will not please And it may not please the vast majority of you And maybe, it's a risk I take It may please the more academic people Why ? Because we are going to talk about polishing In the last video, we saw that the polishing had been completed by a coating But in this video, we will worry about polishing before the application of the coating To do this, we will go into a tank, perhaps the most famous, and for good reason In the Serapeum, you know that there are many tanks with, without trunks, etc. Trunks that have moved But there is a tank that was exploded with dynamite in the 1850s Shortly after its discovery by Auguste Mariette in 1852 51, 52, whatever Besides, we have already entered these tanks a few times with the groups I even shared photos and images on the channel or on the Facebook page But today, we are still going to enter this same tank That I present to you a little bit like that now With the flashlight so that you can see That you immerse yourself a little bit in the atmosphere of this underground complex But as I will show you on these images Well, you will see that what we usually think about the shaping of the Serapeum Whether it is molding or slightly developed technologies Or simply techniques that today remain unknown or misunderstood Well, we will see that in the end it was perhaps much more rustic than we thought In any case, it is only on this small part of the sarcophagus that we were able to analyze with the electronic microscope So inside this sarcophagus, it shines, it's really polished It's like a mirror, as you can see on this image But where we put the microscope, I confess to you my friends, I was absolutely stunned Because the traces, as you can see on the images that I now share with you The traces are all azimuth, in all directions There is no coherence, there is no direct line of any tool Whether it is manual, not manual, manual but helped by a system, a mechanism or other There we are really in all directions What makes you think, and this is the amazing thing, which will please you and which pleased me when I read it It reminds me of a hand polishing where we went in all directions With sand, with other techniques that are perhaps other than the ones we usually think of Well, it's still a little annoying Annoying simply because it makes you dream less But the line of intellectual honesty that I impose on myself on the channel Obliges me of course to share this with you because it is something essential But still, it is clear that we do not have a successful, recurring technique Not robotized, I don't want to say that, but let's say automated Whether it is the tool itself or the hand helped by a complement Like the transhumanism version, egyptological stone cutting But what I mean is that we have traces that leave little doubt about the manual rubbing Where we are really in all directions to be able to get this polish Are these movements that gave these traces that allowed to have the current polish Which is still at an absolutely incredible level I don't know, we can't say it But still, these traces are there And they constitute one more element that must be integrated To be able to articulate it with other elements that we see on the site Which, in the end, I hope, will allow to bring a not more complete answer But a beginning of an answer Or at least to provide a slightly more exhaustive vision of the Serapeum when we go there Because it is a major, essential site of our past, of the past of ancient Egypt But which, I don't know why, is very little analyzed And on which, finally, we find quite little reading, whether in the official or in the alternative Today is the beginning of the Serapeum project So the Serapeum project, what is it? We are going to measure all the tanks So all the tanks is the project But I'm going to show you a little bit of the docs that Tony prepared And that we are going to use to the full extent of this whole day In which we will try to move forward And, how would I say, towards the breakthrough? Can we say that? Towards the breakthrough of the mysteries of the Serapeum First, we have the full plan of all the tanks So we go in here And then, in fact, we have a little catastrophe, as we say at home No, what do you say? A panoramic view A panoramic view in which we have the 24 tanks like this With dimensions cover I turn the camera Angle cover And then the same thing for the tanks So the dimensions of the tanks And the angles On the other hand, I warn you We calculated that it would take an average of 20 minutes per tank To be able to measure them all Given what to do to measure a tank I think it's absolutely impossible So already if we can measure half We will already be pretty good And what he does too I have no idea how and what I will be able to film During the day of measurement But I will still try to bring you a lot of images To immerse you in the heart of the Serapeum project There is also the GoPro that Tony has behind that I brought I'm going to put it on my forehead In total immersion when we go inside all the tanks to measure them There are some measurements that we are not sure to be able to obtain I will try to explain it But here we go The valiant heart It's already not bad Advienne only for one 165 So how much? 1665 To see the height A little zoom So first little problem Because here the edges are so deteriorated That we can not measure Unfortunately For what is the lid How are you Tony? We will still do the height Which is the G length For the middle edge it was 1.20m Pile 1.200 So this is the N edge on the diagram I don't know if it's 1m or not In addition you checked the measurement You measured it twice I double all the measurements each time So 1m 1.000m But where it gets complicated It's 9.20am We arrived at 8.15am on the first tank When we just finished And indeed it was a little complex to measure But it still means that we took an hour for a tank While we were counting all the tanks today So Tony you will come back It looks good The poly is quite amazing We see that it is not flat With the reflection But the reflection is quite crazy Slightly raised It will be raised What measure? You see me there? Wait The height of that Ah okay Oh shit How many we had on the other side? The very last measure Wait what is this? For the other tank? 0.508 For the other tank I think we had 0.508 And here we have 0.517 0.508 yes I think there is a centimeter more Because it is raised I think we fall to 0.507 We have to put the stopper Can you pass the stopper please? Yes I pass it I cut it, can you film it from above? Do you want me to put the stopper? No not at all, it's just to attest That we finished the measures of the second tank Jump Yes it works Well seen the wave I think we can not go to the bottom The lid takes all the ... Ah no maybe not In any case the stops are ... This is the one I do not know if you remember On the back side of the tank There is a kind of round recess in the middle Inside? No on the other side A kind of little pin Do you recognize the tank? Yes I know it well Yes that's what I was talking about Well let's go It's good I have it Let's see what it gives Well there is only the length of the lid And the width of the lid Side corridor And then we will have finished this third tank Come on fourth tank Ah that's good it will not be painful I put the mess and we attack the fourth tank Here is the first small interruption Of the measures I hope the last Indeed Because now we are told that we have to go see Mr. Sabri To fill papers to be able to continue the measures Besides we made a very nice Meeting in the Serapeum Of French living in Alexandria So if you are on the channel and you watch the video Well we greet you It was very nice to have exchanged with you for a few moments So apparently they decided unilaterally That we were going to go up with the French That we met in the Serapeum Because they will drop us off at 200 meters at the end of the road Well I do not know too much It's a bit the fair It's nonsense I go up behind you Sorry Hop It's very good I'm very ugly No one approaches At least 2 centimeters Hi Tony Where are you? I'm here Subscribe Ah we are So they each time Reposed a little bit the problem Because we from the beginning we had more or less understood But we asked the right questions And instead of giving us the right answers Each time they put in touch By saying no but we will talk to stuff He will give you permission and then Ah no we have to talk to stuff He will give you permission And so on and so on Except that it was just windmills There are people there It is an eternally persistent operation According to which the cubes of the Serapeum Weigh up to 100 tons Of course that they weigh 50 or 100 Does not remove anything from the heart of the problem Which is the logistics Allowing the size, the transport And the installation of these tanks At nearly 10 meters underground However we will see now Where this false belief comes from And I can guarantee you that it will surprise more than one Also a little later You will see exclusively at the end of the video The real weight of one of the largest cubes Contrasting weight With the official speech But you will see that it differs But not in the way you can imagine In this funerary complex Where 64 mummies of sacred bulls Have been placed in wooden sarcophagi During all the dynasties Having recovered the site The remains dating from a pre-dynastic era Excite many people For once these are not the alternatives Although I do not like the term alternative Because it is very reductive And relatively galvanized By the delusions of a handful of Fantastic egocentric So for once these are not the alternatives Which exaggerate or advance elements Like truths Which have never been verified This belief according to which These tanks weigh up to 100 tons Dates from the time of the rediscovery of the site By Auguste Mariette in the middle of the 19th century Indeed in his book The Serapeum of Memphis dating from 1857 Auguste Mariette details The finds made in the Serapeum Finds among which A whole bunch of statuettes And burials of bulls Obviously there is also the mention Of the fantastic tanks which question us And which are still full of mystery But on the 114 pages of his book Surprisingly there is only a tiny mention Of these tanks And it is this mention precisely From which the extrapolation of the tanks At 100 tons started Because unless it is A confidential source No one really Went to this big tank measuring company To publish results You will see it in a moment The results we found are very far from reality Advanced by Mariette himself So first let's recall the terms The precise terms used by Mariette Which since then have been accepted By all Quote As for the sarcophagus Of the finest granite In front of the greatness of which We are truly astonished They are 12 to 14 feet high 15 to 16 feet long And the smallest of them Does not weigh less than 65,000 kg In short, this part of the tomb Is by far the most beautiful, the most ornate The one that bears the most of the favor Which Apis enjoyed, etc, etc So this is what Mariette tells us Which already tells us only about granite While we find other tanks made of basalt And now let's go into detail In what you have probably been waiting for Since the beginning of the video That is to say, the measurements of one of the tanks One of the largest tanks of the Serapeum I say one of the largest tanks because Indeed in its text Mariette gives 65 tons For one of the smallest One of the smallest I will show you a picture of it right away And you will see that it is really rich Compared to the vast majority of other tanks Which are gigantic Compared to this one This is the picture of this tank The tank number 14 The tank number 14 is located at the end of the Serapeum corridor Near the one that is The best known of all Surrounded almost entirely By hieroglyphs So without further ado Here are these measurements in detail We see that we are very very far From the measurements given by Auguste Mariette But of course this does not take away Nothing from the myth of the Serapeum From the mystery that surrounds the Serapeum The beauty of the Serapeum Which is perhaps one of the sites of Egypt The most mysterious And which is very close to the Great Pyramid of Cheops Which occupies The highest point of the Serapeum The Serapeum Of course Today in the video We are going to talk about polishing Polishing With an ink It is true that on other tanks We can also see this kind of polish Of brilliance But we can't get close And around this tank We see the first thing on the tank was done in a very rustic way compared to the level of elaboration of the tank itself. But beyond that, we also see that these hieroglyphs are carved on the poly, that is to say that where there is no hieroglyph, there is the poly. If the poly had been put after the hieroglyphs, we would see it a little bit in the sizes and where the stone is apparent following the size. So of course, the question that everyone is asking is what is this poly, this kind of epoxy, in short, we don't really know what it is. So I'll tell you right away, we didn't analyze this poly, simply because on the one hand it is forbidden to make wild samples like that, and on the other hand, for there to be any legitimacy to the results, the sampling protocol must also be inspected and validated. So without an official person to work on it, it was almost useless to analyze the poly. But on the other hand, what we were able to do is to approach it, to touch it with the eyes in detail, really with an electronic microscope. And on the lid of the sarcophagus or this box, this huge box, we have this poly. And as we look below, we see, as when we pour a glass of water on a table, the water will flow on the slice, then it will drip below and then it will fall to the ground. When we walk under the lid of the box, there are a few places where we can really see it. We see it with the naked eye, it is quite obvious as you can see on these images, on the images that we were able to bring back. But the most interesting thing was really to see it up close. It does not advance the schmilbli that I would say in terms of composition of the plaster, a plaster that has now held for thousands and thousands of years, at least 3,500 years. But what is interesting is to see that this idea of ​​plaster is not a delirium that came out of nowhere. So I show it to you in pictures as you can see. So we have this plaster. Moreover, there are images where we can clearly see that at the same time we have the end of the plaster and the black which is at the bottom which simply represents the space around the room because it is at the edge of the lid. So when we walk like that a little bit below, when we inspect, we can see very clearly, it is indisputable that this plaster, I don't know if it has flowed, I don't know if it has been applied in a slightly random way to just say, well, we do the whole slice and we put a little bit below, but still, here it is for you in exclusivity, this plaster that we had never seen to my knowledge so close. And of course, we will thank Thierry and Claude who contributed to this beautiful adventure to be able to bring back these images taken with the electronic microscope. And we can see very clearly on the images that there is half a tank inside which has this plaster and the other which remained raw. There too, on the other hand, I cannot tell you, we cannot commit, of course, regarding the fact that the two plasters are the same. Are they contemporary? We don't know, because in this case, it would simply be necessary to test them both and compare and confront the two compositions. We cannot do it, but in any case, it is something very interesting and which, I think, once again, is not shown in a general way concerning the Serapeum.