Join me for a live walkthrough of the incredible megalithic Osirion – located behind the temple of Seti I in Abydos, Upper Egypt. I get into some of the history of discovery and features of this mysterious site, and share some new observations and details that I’ve only just learned of recently.
Filmed, produced and edited while in Egypt, this is a little different to my regular content!
Hi Ben
I recently watched you latest video on you tube. And just thought the place you visited looks like a very secure place maybe where someone or something could be held. Especially with the island in the centre it was just a thought I’m sure you get lots of people contacting you.
Anyway I work in the superyacht industry . Designing interiors. 3d models etc. I see all the tube drills the cutting etc..
Keep up the great work
I have been to Egypt years ago and was overwhelmed. And in my opinion a civilization before us built those things maybe manipulated us. Then left..it would be crazy to think we are the only ones
And we are not that clever really.
Thanks for the content
Tony
I watched a number of your videos but never wrote any comment since to make a comment on YT, you are asked to ‘create a channel’. I never got it why should I have ‘video broadcasting channel when I don’t intend to make/post videos…
Anyway in some past videos you made on that unfinished 1100 tons obelisk I wished you would focus on those dents, scoopmarks because it seems like that is a point where some inroads into the ancient wonders (those vases, megalithic walls etc.) could be made.
Today I watched your one year old video on scoopmarks https://youtu.be/8tnrkahCLHw and at the end you talk about ways of contacting you and here I am hoping that this way of sending you a message won’t require me creating a channel…
My comment regarding those scoop marks is that if you ever drilled two holes next to each other, you would know the pitfalls of it. Drilling the second hole adjacent to the first one will inevitably result in the drill moving sideways into the first drilled hole. Even using table drill which can hold the drill in place more has problems, likely resulting in breaking the drill bit.
Now the same goes for all other techniques of making holes, be it by pounding or chain saw or belt like machine you show in the video.
Your hole making tool, whatever you might be using will always want to stray sideways into the already drilled hole – and those ridges between the scoop marks definitely show those holes did overlap.
You show that road ditching machine (such likes are also used in coal mining), which could leave such straight ridges in between parallel ditches but then you can’t have those horizontal striations marks in the holes you make (at right angles to the hole or ditch you make), only the longitudinal ones, along the hole axis.
Imagine a hard stone block , say foot square cross section and say five or ten feet long, suspended vertically and being dropped few inches in order to do the pounding – like that one suggested with those hand held dolerite balls but on a much more massive force scale when done with such a stone ram tool.
The ‘contraption’ over the hole you are making would periodically lift the block by few inches and dropping it to create a hole by a pounding technique. It would require use of some wheel with offset to keep lifting and dropping the block into the hole repeatedly (did the Egyptians of those early eras even know wheel?)
However, even such technique of hole making wouldn’t make straight hole if you tried to make a hole adjacent next to already existing hole. The block would inevitable diverge into that opening on the side…
Only solution to make adjacent holes and keep the ridges between them straight would be to make several adjacent holes together, simultaneously. This would require a machine contraption that would be able to lift and drop a whole series of such ramming stone blocks together in unison. Such arrangement of multiple parallel hole making might well be able to resist being pulled sideways into the already existing hole (on either side).
Perhaps close examination of those horizontal marks might show how many of those holes were made simultaneously in one operation.
All this said, it is just a stab at the mystery of the scooping marks, to give you some ideas. I myself see this comment of mine only as a conjecture, that is I don’t see it as a solution to the riddle, not by any means.
Another idea maybe worth mentioning is the appearance of those megalithic walls, how the wall blocks have a pillow like shape, or as if they were beveled toward edges where they connect… suppose those walls have been built some 100 000 years ago, or a million years ago (I know it is crazy but…), what the weathering on such stone walls would be like in effects after such a long time period. Would the weathering result in shaping the stone block in this way, given that originally those walls when built would not have such beveled, rounded edges where the blocks meet.
I know, it is a conjecture made out of desperation. After watching those videos where you show broken and scattered about granite blocks of such huge sizes… I mean even a destruction of this scale and magnitude is a mystery. It must have been due to some cataclysm in nature, not some enemy who came to destroy your ‘castle’. Such a destruction if done by humans would be no mean feat in itself and I can’t imagine anybody expanding effort on it. It is even hard to even guess what natural event might be responsible for what is left as evidence left for us to see today.
Keep up the work
Ben
I am planning a trip to Egypt in the very near future, my question is can a single individual contract Usef as a guide and if so how does one go about contacting and arranging for his services.
Yes, you can reach him through his website.