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Pyramid robbers created tunnel to remove something large

I have mentioned the subject of this video a number of times over the past couple of years, but I thought it was worth dedicated a whole video to the so-called forced entrance tunnel created by the Caliph Al-Ma’mun, located on the northern face of the Great Pyramid.

Today, Egyptologists still run with the idea that this is how the Caliph entered the pyramid, but why would he need to do this when the entrance into the Great Pyramid was known about since at least the Roman times and even recorded by Strabo? 


Was the entrance forgotten by the time of the 9th century? Was it hidden from view? If so how, when and why? Far from being a crude entrance into the Great Pyramid, I believe that what we see today was in fact the work of the first robbers of the Great Pyramid. It wasn’t an entrance; it was an exit - to take something out of the pyramid.


Watch this video to learn about this tunnel and see why it was created to remove something from the pyramid and also why it certainly wasn't a way in.

Matt Sibson
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