New Discovery: The Secret Chamber of the Red Pyramid | Ancient Architects

The Giza pyramids are without doubt the most famous ancient megalithic monuments in the world, but there is one other pyramid in Egypt that is worthy of the Giza plateau, which is seemingly built with the same precision and immaculate finish, and this is known as the Red Pyramid. After conducting my own study into this pyramid, I believe I have discovered the entrance to a secret unopened chamber, and one that could rewrite the history of the Red Pyramid. Before I discuss the secret chamber, we need to understand the structure, the history presented by Egyptologists, the alternative claims, the science and the discussion points. The Red Pyramid stands 343 feet above the desert sand, with sides measuring 722 feet in length. The Red Pyramid gets its name due to the rust colour on its limestone blocks. It's the largest of the three major pyramids located on the Dasur Necropolis, and the third largest in all Egypt. Mainstream Egyptologists say that the Red Pyramid is Egypt's first successful attempt at constructing a true smooth-sided pyramid, and, like the Great Pyramid and that of Khafre, it too was once cased in brilliant white Chura limestone. The pyramid is attributed to King Sneferu, as his cartouches are found inscribed on numerous limestone casing blocks, most of which have now gone and used in more recent building projects. As well as the cartouche of the king, these casing stones also had date marks, indicating when the stones were laid. From these dates, Egyptologists estimate that the pyramid took just over 10 years to construct. Although I don't dispute the authenticity of these date marks, could Sneferu really have achieved this construction feat in just 10 years? The Red Pyramid is a huge pyramid, with care in its construction. Its huge base area is second only to the Great Pyramid, and by volume, it is about two-thirds that of the Great Pyramid, and three-quarters the volume of Khafre's pyramid. But according to John Romer, who has analysed and mapped the marks on the stones in great detail, it tells us that the Red Pyramid was completed in just 10 years and 7 months to be exact. To refute this official interpretation, we need evidence, because the numerous inscriptions seem quite definitive, but it was the late great John Antony West that first said that the Red Pyramid did indeed have a far more ancient history. In one of my previous videos, I discussed how at least two of the three Giza pyramids are likely built over early pre-dynastic structures, and how the subterranean chambers of the Great Pyramid could certainly predate the majestic monument above it. So could the Red Pyramid also be built over a far earlier structure? John Antony West certainly thought so, when he described the masonry in the third chamber in the Red Pyramid. He wrote, Unarguably pre-weathered, large, roughly quarried limestone blocks comprised the so-called plundered burial chamber of the Red Pyramid. This chamber has to have been there first, exposed to the elements for the blocks to weather. Weathering could not have taken place once it was enclosed within the pyramid. The chamber looks distinctly megalithic. This of course is a very bold claim, so what do we know? Well, there is a missing pavement in the third chamber which exposes the rough and broken coarse stone, but some say that this is simply the result of tomb robbers excavations, rather than ancient weathering. John Antony West's so-called weathering is similar in appearance to the damaged caused by the Caliph al-Mamun when he tunnelled his way into the Great Pyramid, damage that explorer Howard Weiss said was caused by fire and vinegar. To add further credence to this idea, the walls and ceilings of the third chamber of the Red Pyramid have been blackened by soot from fires and torches. Soot is something rarely seen in pyramid chambers, and this hypothesis is certainly more likely than having ancient chambers exposed to the elements. So the core of the pyramid may not be as ancient as West suspected, and then we have the countless inscriptions, cartouches and dates inscribed on not one, but many casing stones. It is hard to claim that Sneferu didn't lay these stones. It would have been one enormous elaborate hoax for modern Egyptologists to inscribe a huge number of casing stones with cartouches and differing date marks that span ten years. These marks are certainly legitimate, but Egyptologists still have one huge problem in claiming the Red Pyramid was built by Sneferu. Could he really have built the third largest pyramid in all Egypt in just ten years? The volume of stone in the pyramid is 1,694,000 cubic meters. It means that the ancient Egyptians would have had to perfectly place nearly 500 cubic meters of quarried stone into position every single day for ten years. But it's actually more sensational than that. The dates on the casing stones that Egyptologists quote indicate that half of the pyramid was finished in just three years, but the second half was completed in the following seven. To get the first half of the pyramid finished in just three years, John Romer says that the workforce would have comprised around a tenth of the entire adult male population of ancient Egypt at this time, a figure of more than 40,000 people. This is just too unbelievable to be true. To me, it is clear that Egyptologists have painted themselves into a corner with regards to Egyptian history, and specifically Sneferu's reign and achievements. They claim he was responsible for building three large pyramids, and they have had to shoehorn the time to plan and build these three huge construction projects into his 27-year reign. They have accepted the workers' graffiti as evidence that the Red Pyramid is a homogenous structure throughout, and took just ten years and seven months to build. The whole thing just doesn't make any sense. So what is the answer to all this? Well, there can be only one. There must have been more than one phase of construction of the Red Pyramid, and that Sneferu simply reclad it, which is probably all that Khufu did with regards to the Great Pyramid. The ten years worth of dated stone is referring only to the casing stone, which means that the bulk of the pyramid must be older. I don't think it is thousands of years older, but it must certainly predate the life of Sneferu. To suggest that this pharaoh built the Medan Pyramid, then the Bent Pyramid, and then the Red Pyramid successively in his lifetime is ridiculous, especially when you look at the huge difference in craftsmanship and quality between the Medan Pyramid and the Red Pyramid. The evolution and learning, not to mention the speed of building, is just too quick to be correct. The latter pyramid is like those at Giza, another eight-sided construction with concave faces, with three corbelled internal chambers, which rival the feat of engineering in the Great Pyramid's Grand Gallery. The three Sneferu Pyramids may be successive structures, but I would argue that they are built by three different people, probably over three different lifetimes and certainly way before Sneferu lived. This gives credence to John Anthony West's idea that the pyramid is actually far more ancient, and although I disagree with his evidence and the idea that the internal chambers were exposed to the elements for a number of years, the Egyptological interpretation is wrong, and the pyramid's association with Sneferu is just second-hand. He inherited the Red Pyramid, re-clad it, and wrote his name all over it. To the best of my knowledge, geological analysis of the so-called weathered internal blocks of the third chamber has not been conducted, but I would be very interested to hear Robert Schock's view on all this. I'm certain that the third chamber once had a flaw. Chamber 2 was littered with debris on its discovery that could only have come from the I do think that later people caused the damage, whether grave robbers or explorers, but something in that chamber must have encouraged them to dig down. It is interesting to note that when the Caliph al-Mamun entered the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, he also dug down in one of the corners, the reason why we will sadly never know. Inside the Red Pyramid, the first two chambers are in a fantastic state of preservation, with the corbelled ceilings being undamaged when compared to the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid. The floors are boarded over today, but by all accounts, the stone floor is intact underneath. In the third chamber, the floor has been taken up to a depth of 14 feet. The first two chambers have a north-south orientation, and the third is east-west. It is likely that the third chamber enclosed a sunken sarcophagus, like we see in the Khafre Pyramid, or a sunken tub-like feature as seen at Zayat al-Aryan, and I think this is why the floor was taken up, an assumption that there was more to be found underneath. There are not many pictures available of the third chamber of the Red Pyramid, and when you view them, your eyes are always drawn to the state of the floor, when you should be looking up, because there is a very curious feature right in front of you. On the third course of stone up from the floor level, on the western wall, one block of stone is distinctly darker than the rest, and above it, there seems to be one giant lintel, which means that this dark block is not load-bearing. This means that the dark block was removable. Furthermore, the top of the block that is directly beneath the bottom left-hand corner of this dark block looks to be chipped. In fact, the two blocks that are beneath this dark block both seem to have an irregular chipped appearance, but only at the junction with this block. This is surely not a coincidence. The ancient explorers went to an incredible effort to find a fourth chamber, but it appears that they were looking in the wrong place. Instead of digging down, they should have dug west. From the pictures and video footage available, it is my belief that there is a fourth chamber inside the Red Pyramid, hidden behind the western wall, and entered by removing this dark coloured block. Metal tools used to insert the block could have caused the chipped edge of the blocks beneath, and the dark colour could be because this block is more exposed than any other in the room, or maybe because it is a later edition and a slightly different rock type. If you look at the chamber as a whole, this block stands out in an instant, and I suggest that this is the entrance to a secret, undiscovered chamber inside the Pyramid. In a video I made a while ago, I discussed Jean-Pierre Houdin's evidence of a removable block inside the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid, and now I believe there is also a secret chamber inside the Red Pyramid. It's something that would be easily tested with geophysical surveys, similar to what was recently done inside the tomb of King Tutankhamen. Interestingly, the Red Pyramid is scheduled to be scanned by the Scanned Pyramids Project, who recently discovered the secret chamber above the Grand Gallery of the Great Pyramid, thanks to the science of cosmic muons. When this work is carried out, I am hopeful that this fourth chamber will be clear for us all to see. But what could it be? Well, I still don't believe that these perfect ancient Egyptian pyramids are tombs. And although I am unclear on the exact source, I do believe that this is a rather interesting