Inside the Giza Pyramids: A 100-Hour Hunt for Who Built Them and Where the Pharaohs Lie
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MrBeast (Jimmy) and his friends Karl, Chandler and Nolan were given 100 hours of access to the Giza Plateau, including tombs and shafts that are normally closed to the public. The video follows two questions. The first is the one Jimmy states outright: were the pyramids built by the ancient Egyptians as tombs for their kings, as Egyptologists say, or by a lost pre-Egyptian civilization or even aliens, as some popular theories claim? The second is raised early on by their guide: the body of King Khufu may never have been found, and it could still be hidden somewhere inside the Great Pyramid. Over four days the group goes from hundreds of feet below the pyramids to the highest point inside the largest one. They are guided mainly by Ramy, by Ashraf, the director of the Giza Plateau, and by Dr. Zahi Hawass, whom Jimmy introduces as "the man who basically found everything here."
Day One: The Grand Gallery and a Chamber That May Not Be the Real One
The exploration starts inside the Great Pyramid. The guide confirms the structure is about 4,500 years old. The passageway leads to what Egyptologists say is the tomb of King Khufu, the pharaoh who may have ordered the pyramid built. The group passes through the Grand Gallery. When Jimmy asks what percentage of the pyramid they have seen so far, the guide answers that "we might never know the answer to that question," a reply Jimmy calls the coolest possible answer.
In the King's Chamber, the narration says that 4,600 years ago this room may have held the king's mummified body. The guide is careful with his wording. This is what "we believe" was the final resting place, he says. When Jimmy asks why it's only a belief, the guide explains that he thinks there is another, still-undiscovered chamber somewhere in the pyramid that might contain the king's body. Jimmy announces that the video will try to find it, exploring "from hundreds of feet below the pyramids up to the highest point in the largest ancient pyramid on Earth."
Base Camp and the Central Question
Back at a base camp with tents, a dinner table and lights aimed at the pyramids, Jimmy sets out the main question. The narration says the pyramids were so technologically advanced for their time that some people credit them to a pre-Egyptian civilization, and some point to aliens. Egyptologists, it says, are sure the first Egyptians built them as tombs for their kings. Jimmy promises to find out which theory is true by the end of the video.
Khafre's Pyramid: The Casing, a Storeroom, and the Real Burial Chamber
The second pyramid is Khafre's. Asked what makes it special, the guide explains that it is how researchers learned what the outer casing of each pyramid looked like, because all of them once looked this way. Someone jokes that this was "right after the aliens built them," and the guide answers flatly, "No aliens!"
Ramy leads them nearly 100 feet below the surface into the pyramid. Jimmy says almost no one in the modern world has been there and the team had no idea what to expect. The first chamber they reach is full of cardboard and equipment. The guide explains that for a long time it was believed to be Khafre's burial chamber, and it is now used to store tools for the ongoing restoration. Because that room wasn't the burial chamber, Ramy takes them to the place thought to have actually held Khafre's body. It has a large ceiling, and Jimmy calls it the coolest thing he has ever seen. On the wall is dated graffiti left by a man who, in the guide's careful phrasing, "claims he discovered this tomb." When someone asks whether it would be disrespectful to lie in the sarcophagus, the guide jokes that the curse is the bigger worry, and the group leaves "before we get cursed." The narration admits that the king's tomb "didn't really answer many of our questions."
The Tomb of Osiris: Water, Thin Air, and a Shaft to Nowhere
The next stop is presented as the place that might have everything they were looking for: the Tomb of Osiris, god of the underworld, deep beneath the plateau, where the guide says very few humans have ever been. Access is down a long ladder. When asked about falling, the reply is "Oh, yeah, you'll definitely die." On the way down they find what is described as a 3,000-year-old human skull. They are also told there is a real chance of passing out from lack of oxygen at that depth.
Chandler goes first into the flooded lower chamber and notes how thin the air is. In the center of the room is the sarcophagus of Osiris, which the guide calls "supposedly the gateway to the underworld." One of the group is dared to climb in and does. The narration repeats that the sarcophagus is "allegedly" the portal to the underworld and that virtually no humans have been there.
The guide then points to a shaft in the upper right corner "that goes to nobody knows where." Karl squeezes into it while the others tell him it isn't smart. He describes a turn in the tunnel, the passage getting narrower, and being "actively kind of stuck" with about an inch of clearance. By then they have stayed longer than the safe limit for oxygen, and they get out as quickly as they can. Jimmy says he wants to live long enough to explore the never-before-seen shafts of the Great Pyramid, a place he says fewer people in modern times have visited than have gone to space.
Menkaure's Pyramid with the Director of the Giza Plateau
After a camel ride, which includes a guide confirming that being bitten by a camel hurts, Ashraf, the director of the entire Giza Plateau, joins them for the third pyramid, Menkaure's. He points out granite at the base that remains from 4,600 years ago and shows an illustration of what researchers think the pyramid originally looked like, compared with what is left almost 5,000 years later.
Jimmy gets permission for Nolan to climb part of the exterior, which he calls "something normally illegal." Partway up, the director shouts at Nolan to get down, then reveals it was a joke. Nolan says he thought he was going to be arrested.
Inside, a shaft goes more than 100 feet down to what the narration calls the first chamber in ancient Egyptian history with decorative carvings. The director identifies the carvings as a decoration of false doors and says, "We didn't have any decoration inside any pyramid from the First Dynasty, except this one," dating it to 4,600 years ago. A further shaft leads to Menkaure's antechamber. Jimmy asks about an upper passage, and the director says there is nothing there. When Jimmy asks how he knows without having been up there, he says he can see it from where he stands, and shows that it is just a tunnel. Jimmy's takeaway: "Always be skeptical."
The last descending shaft leads to the king's burial chamber. The director says it has a vaulted ceiling "to relieve the weight." Asked how builders knew to do that 5,000 years ago, he answers with a line he repeats several times in the video: "If you can build a pyramid, you can build anything." Outside, he explains that the three small pyramids next to Menkaure's were built for the king's three queens.
"Egyptians. We Are the Builders"
Before Ashraf leaves, Jimmy asks him directly about aliens. His response is exasperated and comic. Egypt has 124 pyramids, he says, and it can't be that each time someone called on aliens to "come build a pyramid for me." His answer is "Egyptians. We are the builders." When Tareq, another member of the group, brings up aliens again, the director tells him not to.
Inside the Sphinx with Zahi Hawass
At the Sphinx, Jimmy frames the visit as a test. He had read online that a temple filled with gold is buried beneath it, and he wants to know who is right, Dr. Zahi or the internet's conspiracy theories. Hawass shows him an entrance and Jimmy squeezes inside. He finds "an empty hole," and Hawass has him make an on-camera statement: "There is nothing inside the Sphinx."
Jimmy then leaves a message for the future, a letter buried there. Hawass says the paper could survive thousands of years. Jimmy also buries a gold collectible from his sponsor's toy line with the letter and jokes that the conspiracy theories are now technically right, because the Sphinx "definitely has gold in it now."
Meanwhile, the narration says, the other members had somehow convinced the Egyptian military and government to let them fly around the plateau in helicopters.
The Forbidden Tomb of Iymery
Before the climb to the top of the Great Pyramid, Ramy takes them to the tomb of Iymery, which he says is completely illegal for people to enter. He tells them firmly not to touch the walls and singles out Nolan, who gets nicknamed "Finger Food" and "wall toucher."
The tomb is full of color. Ramy explains it belonged to the high priest of the time, "like the Pope of the time," and that visitors are banned because the paintings, after surviving 4,600 years, cannot be risked. He says tombs like this are sometimes more important to researchers than the pyramids, because they show the daily life of Egyptians. One scene, he says, is how researchers figured out how ancient Egyptians made wine: people stomping grapes, then the process through to bottling. Jimmy compares it to a 5,000-year-old YouTube how-to video. Another wall shows ordinary Egyptians bringing the standard offerings, ta and henket (glossed in the captions as "brandy and beer"), to Iymery. Jimmy calls it the most beautiful room he has ever been in.
The Workmen's Tombs: Skeletons as Evidence
On the fourth day, with 22 hours left, the group rides ATVs across the plateau to the workmen's tombs, where an active excavation is underway. Hawass explains that these are the tombs of the pyramid builders. Unlike other tombs, they have no beautiful paintings, because "these people are poor." He reads the name of one man from an inscription (rendered in the captions as Nefertheith).
Jimmy anticipates the skeptical objection himself. Writing on a wall saying the builders are buried here doesn't prove that they are, he says, and he thought the same until he saw a skull in the ground. Expecting viewers to question it, he asks Hawass directly whether he placed the skull there. Hawass says no: this is the exact location of the skeleton from 4,600 years ago, and it has not been moved. Jimmy is allowed to help excavate it and uncovers what appears to be a spine.
Hawass then gives the key finding: all the skeletons there, of men and women, show stress on their backs. Jimmy guesses it was from moving two-ton blocks, and Hawass confirms it. Jimmy concludes that this is why Hawass keeps saying aliens didn't build the pyramids, "because the worker's bodies are literally here." He calls it possibly the coolest thing he has ever done.
The Lowest Point: A 300-Foot Tunnel to a Decoy Chamber
For the finale, the guide suggests that before going to the highest point in the Great Pyramid, they visit the very lowest point, hundreds of feet below it. The way down is a roughly 300-foot tunnel. When someone asks why the pharaohs didn't just build a nice staircase, the answer is that they wanted to protect their mummies and treasure, "the whole point of a pyramid." The tunnel is low and narrow. One of the taller members complains about being six-foot-five, and others complain about their knees and feeling buried alive. After almost an hour they reach the bottom, where they can finally stand up, and someone feels lightheaded.
The chamber at the bottom is huge. The guide says it was empty when first discovered, because it was "another decoy." Asked whether the builders really went to all that effort for a decoy, he says yes, and adds that this raises a question: is the King's Chamber they saw on day one the real one, or another decoy? If it is a decoy, the narration says, Khufu's body could still be somewhere in the pyramid, which it presents as further support for the idea that the pyramids were built as royal tombs. Jimmy also stands at what he calls the deepest point of the pyramid.
The Highest Point: The Chambers Above the King's Chamber
The group meets Hawass to begin the ascent. He says only five people can go up. They play rock-paper-scissors, and Nolan is the one left behind. They return to the corridor they used on day one to reach the King's Chamber, but this time they go to the hidden chambers above it. Hawass says fewer than 50 people that we know of have been up there in the last 5,000 years. One member admits a fear of heights at the worst possible moment.
The route is a tall ladder followed by another tiny passage. Hawass explains that there are two chambers below them, and that rooms three, four and five are the most important. They climb through chamber four to the top. Asked how he arranged access to this, Hawass says, "I have no idea." At the highest point inside the pyramid, the group is surrounded by bats with only minutes of the challenge left.
There Hawass shows them builders' graffiti. He reads it out: aper means "team," simsu means "friends," and the cartouche spells Khufu, so the inscription names "the group of friends," or gang, of Khufu. It is one of the names of the work gangs who built the pyramid. He confirms it was written 4,600 years ago.
The Verdict
The closing narration brings the evidence together. Jimmy says the Egyptologists showed them the best evidence they could find: the workmen's tombs, the nearby skeletons marked by manual labor, the empty space beneath the Sphinx, and finally the graffiti of Khufu's work gang, which the narration says researchers regard as "the nail in the coffin" for anyone who doubts that ancient Egyptians built the pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs. The other question raised at the start, where Khufu's body actually lies, stays open. The guides suggested the known King's Chamber might itself be a decoy, and the video does not find the hidden chamber Jimmy said they would look for. Jimmy ends by saying he has no idea why Egypt let them do everything they did, and that he is grateful to the country.
I somehow have unrestricted access to all of the Great Pyramids of Egypt!
No, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen.
We'll be going into the tombs of ancient pharaohs, places that are literally illegal to enter because they're incredibly dangerous.
What if we fall? Oh, yeah, you'll definitely die.
We’ll even be swimming to a secret underground tomb beneath the pyramids. Oh, my God!
We've only been granted 100 hours to explore, and we're gonna start right now!
Follow me, boys! It's about to be fun. This is so beautiful.
Someone 4,500 years ago put this rock right here. Correct, this pyramid dates back to about 4,500 years old.
The passageway we're in leads to what Egyptologists say is King Khufu's tomb: the pharaoh who may have ordered the pyramids to be built.
This room is called the Grand Gallery. What percentage of this pyramid do you think we've seen so far? We might never know the answer to that question. That's the coolest way he could have answered that.
This next room was the king's final resting spot. As far as we believe, yeah. Let's do it.
Holy crap! Boys! What is this?
4,600 years ago, this chamber may have contained the king's mummified body.
This is where the pharaoh was buried. This is what we believe is the final resting place. Believe? How do we not know?
I think somewhere inside this pyramid, there's another chamber that we have not found yet that might have the body of the king.
You know what? In this video, we're gonna find it because we will literally be exploring from hundreds of feet below the pyramids up to the highest point in the largest ancient pyramid on Earth.
That was awesome! Before we go explore the other giant pyramids, I wanna show you guys base camp.
Yeah! This is nice. We got a dinner table, some tents to sleep in, and... Okay.
We even brought lights so you can see the pyramids from camp. That's gotta be the most expensive nightlight that's ever existed.
This is the pyramid we're gonna explore tomorrow. I wanna start at 5 a.m. Everyone get some sleep.
These pyramids were so technologically advanced for their time that some credit them to a pre-Egyptian civilization, while some point to even crazier theories like aliens. But Egyptologists are sure that they were built by the first Egyptians as tombs for their kings. And by the end of this video, we're gonna find out which of these theories is true.
All right, boys, I hope you're ready to explore the next pyramid on our list, the Pyramid of Khafre. What is special about this monstrosity?
Well, this pyramid is how we learned how the casing of each pyramid looked like. This is how they all looked like at some point. That was right after the aliens built them. No aliens!
Ramy led us nearly 100 feet below the Earth's surface, deep into Khafre’s pyramid. This is a place where hardly anyone in the modern world has ever been. So to be honest, we had no idea what to expect going down here.
The ancient Egyptians had cardboard.
We believed that this was the burial chamber for King Khafre for the longest time. And now they're using it to store stuff. Well, they're restoring the pyramid, Jimmy. They gotta use tools! So that means there's a real burial chamber. Yes.
Ramy actually took us to the real resting place thought to have once held the body of King Khafre.
I see a big ceiling. Dude, we’re deep in this pyramid. Here we are... the final burial chamber of King Khafre.
No, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. What the heck, bro?! What is this? Wait. Look at the date.
The graffiti right there is the guy who discovered this tomb. He claims he discovered this tomb, yes.
This is where the pharaoh was buried. This is the final resting place for King Khafre.
Is it disrespectful to lay in there? I wouldn't worry about the disrespect so much as the curse. What does the curse do to you? Do you wanna try? No. All right, let's get out of here before we get cursed.
Oh my gosh, that pyramid is insane.
The king's tomb didn't really answer many of our questions. However, the portal to the underworld deep beneath the pyramids could have everything we were looking for.
This is the tomb of god Osiris, where very few... Oh my gosh. ...humans have ever been. What are we doing?
As you can imagine, the god of the underworld's tomb is pretty deep underground.
Oh, heck no. It really just goes all the way down there. After you, Karl. Oh, my gosh. Oh, my gosh. Why is he walking down so nonchalant?
This is the entrance, Karl. Yeah, to the god of the underworld!
This is a tall ladder. It's actually really deep. Like, if you fall— Oh, yeah, you'll definitely die. Yeah.
This is gettin' pretty scary. I don't like this anymore.
And if we weren't already scared enough, we then came across this.
3,000-year-old human. Oh my God. Why am I still holding this? Dude, is this a part of a skull? This is a skull. Yeah. Oh, my God.
When we go down there, we will be so far underground that there's a chance we pass out due to a lack of oxygen. Correct.
Chandler is heading to Osiris’s resting place. All right. Here we go. Oh, I'm in the water.
The air’s pretty thin down here. Wait, what is this? Oh, there’s a rock right here. Is this a rock or lid?
Right in the center of the room is the sarcophagus of god Osiris. Right here is supposedly the gateway to the underworld.
Yeah. So try to get in. To the underworld? Well, yeah. Screw it, screw it, screw it. Screw it. Oh my God.
This sarcophagus is allegedly the portal to the underworld, and virtually no humans have ever been here before.
How deep was it? Oh, my God! Why am I here? Why— I’m a YouTuber. What are we—
Look all the way to that right corner up there. That's a shaft that goes to nobody knows where. Karl, get up in there. I can go up there? Jimmy, don't let him. I'm so scared, bro. Karl, that's not smart.
Dude, I'm literally in a tunnel in ancient Egypt that nobody's ever been before. No one is crazy enough. Can you explain to us what's happening? I'm in a turn in the cave. And it's gettin’ thinner.
And it's getting thinner. Dude, I'm actually actively kind of stuck in this thing.
Karl, you're making history. I got one inch of clearance, bro. It's been longer than the safe limit for oxygen.
Can we get out? I'm ready. So before we literally all die and see the underworld for ourselves. There's no gracefully doing this, is there?
We got out of there as quick as we could, because I want to live long enough to explore the never-before-seen shafts of the Great Pyramid of Giza, where literally less people in modern times have been than have gone to space.
Who wants to ride a camel with me? Let's do it. Pet 'em. Pet 'em. He doesn't want it!
Have you ever been bit by a camel? Yes. What? Yeah. Does it hurt? Yes. I told you!
Another big day of exploring ahead. This is unbelievable. Chandler, you good? No! Pull it. Pull it. I can't. Get me off this thing, bro.
Dude, it looks so good. This is probably one of the coolest shots ever. Me just riding a camel by one of the Great Pyramids of Egypt. Bro, this is absolutely insane.
And now the director of the entire Giza Plateau is joining us for the third pyramid on our list, the Pyramid of Menkaure. If you look at the bottom, you'll still see some of the granite from 4,600 years ago remaining. Here's an illustration of what they think it used to look like. But now this is all that remains almost 5,000 years later.
This is my friend Nolan. Can we send him to go scout up there? Yes. I got permission to do something normally illegal.
Nolan, be careful! Can you just start yelling at Nolan? He'll freak out. You don't really get many opportunities to climb a pyramid. I'm gonna take it, bro.
Get down! Get down, now! Get down. Down? Yes, down. All right. Nolan, not a bit. You gotta come down. Come on! Yeah, I'm going down. Get down, now! Yallah! Yallah!
All right. Hey. He's kidding. Keep going. He's kidding. Bro! That was a joke. Oh my God. You had me freaking out. Oh my God, I thought I was gonna get arrested or something.
Lead the way, sir. Let's do it! Wait, wait. Point the camera down there. Why is it so dark? We have switched the light off. Oh. Okay. That would explain it. All right, lead the way.
The initial descent of the pyramid took us down a shaft over a hundred feet below the ground to the very first chamber in ancient Egyptian history to have decorative carvings.
What is this? A decoration of false doors. We didn't have any decoration inside any pyramid from the First Dynasty, except this one. So this was done four, five thousand years ago? Four thousand six hundred years.
Furthering our journey deeper into the pyramid, the next shaft brought us to Menkaure's antechamber!
There's so much history in here. What's in that room? I can tell you, nothing there. Have you been up there? No. Then how do you know nothing's up there? Because I can see from here. Oh, yeah. You see? Just a tunnel. Nothing there. Okay. Yeah, you can see the... Yes. Always be skeptical.
The Pyramid of Menkaure, known for its complex passageways, had one final descending shaft that led to the burial chamber.
So this is the king chamber, and it has a vaulted ceiling to relieve the weight. And how did they know that 5,000 years ago? If you can build a pyramid, you can build anything. You can do anything! You can do anything.
On our way out, I got to thinking, why is there three more pyramids outside next to this one? What are these three mini pyramids? Menkaure, he got three small pyramids for the queens. The wives. So Menkaure had three wives. And these are their tombs? Yes.
Nolan! Come over here. Nolan. Oh God. If he can have three partners, you can at least find one. It's a work in progress.
I did discover a mummy. She's not asking for money. She's always listening to you. Never talk too much. It's a good choice for you. Did you just offer me a mummy? Yes... The things we do to find you love.
Our time with Ashraf was coming to an end, and before he left, I wanted to hear his take on this.
So aliens didn't build the pyramids. Aliens?! Come on, don't break my heart! We have 124 pyramids all over of Egypt! So each time I am calling aliens, "Come build a pyramid for me." Cannot be like this. Egyptians. Yeah. We are the builders.
Tareq! What? Don't bring up aliens again. You did! Egyptians built it. If you can build a pyramid, you can do anything! Yeah! Let's go!
And by anything, I guess that also meant a massive half-human, half-lion mountain of a sculpture, which I'm sure is crawling with secrets.
And now we're at the Sphinx with Dr. Zahi, the man who basically found everything here. I read online that there's a temple buried beneath the Sphinx filled with gold. And I'm on a mission to find out... who is right? Dr. Zahi, or all the conspiracy theories on the internet?
Okay, hear me. Yes, sir. Help me! Is that an entrance? Yes. I cannot believe I'm entering the Sphinx. I want to see if that temple's real.
I'm not sure I'm gonna fit. You will. Whoa! This is cool. All right, let's see if there's any hidden gold. Zahi, I just see an empty hole.
Then I need you to give a statement right now. I need a statement! All right. Zahi, there is nothing inside the Sphinx. Jimmy, you are going to make history.
And what better way to make history than by leaving a message for the future? How long do you think this paper will survive down here? Thousands of years. Really? We will dig it now.
With the letter, can I bury this gold Swarm? Perfect! This is worth $10,000. Really? This is for the future. Yo.
And I guess the internet conspiracy theories are right, because the Sphinx definitely has gold in it now, thanks to the rarest Swarm in the entire world. Guys, I'm trusting you not to steal this gold.
At this point, I was starting to wonder what the other boys were doing until I heard this sound above me. Zahi, do you hear some helicopters?
I can't believe we're doing this! Somehow, the boys convinced the Egyptian military and government to let them fly around in helicopters.
to let them fly around in helicopters while Zahi and I were exploring the Sphinx. This is an awesome day.
But the coolest part of this entire experience is yet to be seen.
When you take us to the top of the Great Pyramid, you're gonna show stuff on camera that you've never shown before. Amazing things. No spoilers! Bro, this video is gonna keep getting better as we go on.
And before we climb to the top of the pyramid, we thought, what better way to look for more hidden secrets than in a place that almost no one gets to go?
Ramy, where are we? We are at the tomb of Iymery, one of the places that is completely illegal for people to go in. That's why you're gonna unlock it.
Before we go in, it's extremely, extremely important... Yeah. ...not to touch these walls. Do you hear me, Nolan? Loud and clear.
You should stay out here. Just maybe. Hey, Finger Food. I will not touch the wall. Finger Food? What does that mean? You're a wall toucher. Wall toucher? Hey, Butterfingers. Ready? Yeah.
I thought I had seen it all, but nothing could have prepared me for what I was about to see in this tomb.
Guys, come in here! Oh, my gosh. Oh, this is beautiful.
This was the tomb of the high priest at the time, which is like the Pope of the time. No one is allowed in here because these colors cannot be hurt after surviving 4,600 years.
This drawing is 4,600 years old? Exactly. 4,600 years old. It's everywhere!
In tombs like this one, it's sometimes more important than the pyramids for us. They explain the daily life of Egyptians. This is the one we figured out how ancient Egyptians made wine.
Really? They're stomping on grapes up here. And going through the process to bottling the wine. So this is like a YouTube video, but 5,000 years ago. This is a how-to video.
Dude, this is the most beautiful room I've ever been in. Wait, Karl. There's more over here. Whoa! What is all this?
These are normal ancient Egyptians giving all the normal offerings, ta and henket, brandy and beer, to the high priest, Iymery.
How do you think the high priest would have reacted if they offered season two MrBeast Lab Swarms that are available now? I think Iymery would very much appreciate it.
Much like the buzz around MrBeast Lab Swarms season two, our fourth day in Egypt was just getting started. We're kicking things off by going to the workman's tomb and joining an active excavation. Today's gonna be a great day. Let's have some fun.
The only thing that can make this moment better is some Feastables chocolate. Ooh, wait. For all of us, maybe? Yeah, you can look at the pyramids. Man, that would hit with Feastables, though, probably.
And so, with only 22 hours left, I thought we'd upgrade from camels to something a little faster.
Alright, Jimmy, you ready? Yeah. Floor it! This is insane! So sick! Yeah! This is way too much fun. Let's go! Crazy being by the pyramids right now. Why'd we ever ride camels? I feel like I'm in Indiana Jones.
We are now at the workman's tomb. Let's see if we can find one. And who better to show us around the workman's tomb? Once again, Doctor Zahi.
These are the tombs of the pyramid builders. According to Zahi, this is literally where the people who built the pyramids were buried over 4,600 years ago.
In many other tombs, Jimmy, you see beautiful paintings. But these people are poor. This is so beautiful. This man, his name is Nefertheith.
And I know what you're thinking. Just because the writing on the wall says the people who built the pyramids are buried here, it doesn't actually prove that they were; and I thought the same thing until I saw this.
Wait, wait, wait. Is that what I think it is? Is that a skull? Zahi, I need to ask you something because they're gonna question this. You did not put this skull here?
No, no, no. This is the exact location of the skeleton. From 4,600 years ago? Yes. Yes. We have not moved it at all. And you're letting me excavate it? Is that a spine?
Yeah. We found out that all the skeleton here of men and women had a stress on their back. Okay. Why? Because they were moving two-ton blocks? Exactly! Very smart guy. Those? Nothing. Yeah? You're not say anything!
And this is why you keep saying that aliens didn't build the pyramids, because the workers' bodies are literally here. This might be the coolest thing I've ever done. Thank you for having me do this, Zahi.
And tonight, we still have an insane adventure left. We will reveal many secrets for the first time to the world. He's not joking. We will literally be ascending to the highest point inside the Great Pyramid, where less than 50 people in modern history have been. This might be the best day ever. Perfect!
But before we ascend to the top of the Great Pyramid, we need to recharge our energy back at base camp.
Do you know why I gathered all of you here? Ancient Egypt? More important.
The season one of Swarms is almost over. Right here is every single Swarm currently in existence. And this is the last time you'll ever see them. Are these not the coolest things on the planet?
Ramy, do you have kids? Yes. Do you think they'll like some of these? I think they will obsess over them for the rest of time.
Grab whichever ones you're missing from your collection, because once they're gone, they're gone forever. Oh, this is cool.
You can find Swarms at Walmart, Target and Amazon in the US and around the world in top toy retailers. The last batch of season one Swarms are flying off the shelves, so make sure you get them before they're gone forever.
Do any of you have a hyperchrome? We only made a thousand of 'em. Wait, what is this? Okay. Karl took it.
And now what you've all been waiting for... We're finally going to ascend to the top of the Great Pyramid. This is the part of the pyramid we're going to be climbing to. Wish us luck.
And to make sure we explored this entire pyramid, our guide suggested that before we go to the highest point, we make a stop at the very lowest point, hundreds of feet deep below the pyramid.
Why are we going down this 300-foot tunnel? Well, you asked for things that no one else does.
Well, you asked for things that no one else does.
Why didn’t the pharaohs just build a nice staircase to the top? Because they wanted to protect their mummies and treasure. That's the whole point of a pyramid!
Pyramids make me regret being six-foot-five. Yeah, dude. That was a stupid choice. Bro, look how deep that tunnel goes! I hate being tall!
Please tell me we’re halfway there. Please. No, nowhere close.
And he wasn't lying. This tunnel kept going for hundreds of feet. But after almost an hour struggling through these narrow passageways...
My knees. Jimmy, this feels like we're buried alive.
We finally made it to the bottom.
Whoa, I can stand! Ramy, is it normal to be lightheaded? Well, you just crawled down over 300 feet. I have bad knees that hurt.
Whoa. This is pretty huge.
When we first discovered this, we came into here, this massive chamber, and nothing was found.
Why was it empty? It’s another decoy. They went through all this effort just to create a decoy chamber? Correct. Which makes you wonder. Is the chamber we found the real chamber? Is it also a decoy?
Which would imply that Khufu's body could still be in here somewhere in the pyramid. Proving that the pyramids were built as tombs for the kings of Egypt.
But this decoy chamber also included the deepest point in all of the pyramid.
Guys, I'm gonna be the person that's gone the deepest. I'm at the lowest point of the pyramid! And now that we've been to the lowest point of the pyramid, let's go to the top.
From here at the bottom-most point, the same long passage took us to where we can meet Doctor Zahi and begin our ascent to the top of the pyramid.
Now, I need you to choose the five people that they will go with us. Only five? Five. Who’s staying behind?
All right. Rock, paper, scissors. Shoot! No! Hey Nolan, it was nice knowing you. Hey. Fair and square.
And so from there, we somehow ended up back in the corridor we went through on day one to get to the King's Chamber.
We started the video off going down this tunnel; but to end the video, we're going to the hidden chambers up above. In the last 5,000 years, less than 50 people that we know of have been up here.
Is this a bad time to say I'm afraid of heights? I couldn't think of a worse time for you to tell me that.
And let me tell you, it was not easy getting up here. The top of this ladder led to another tiny passageway.
The final hour of the challenge, and we're making a journey to the top of the pyramid.
This is hard. Good, Jimmy. Good boy. I’m not gonna lie, I thought this would be much easier.
What is this over here? We are in the third chamber now. We have two under us, but the most important one are room number three, four and five. Now room number four.
All right, let's keep her going. Okay. Let's go. Chamber number four. Karl, look at this.
We're about to head to the tippy-top of the pyramid. This is now my favorite video ever.
Isn't it awesome that Nolan’s not here? Yeah, that's my favorite part of this entire thing. But anyways, let's head to the top. Let's do it.
Oh my gosh. Zahi! Yes? How did you do this? I have no idea.
And just like that, we are now at the highest point inside the pyramid. We made it, Chandler.
Oh, my gosh, there's so many bats in here. This is not how I wanted the video to end! We got two minutes left, and we’re being attacked.
Jimmy, come here! This is one of the names of the gangs who built the pyramids. Aper means "team". Simsu means "friends". Cartouche, Khufu. Khu fu.
This means “the group friends/gang of Khufu,” and that was written 4,600 years ago. Exactly.
Throughout this video, we have learned as much as we could about the origins of the pyramids. And the Egyptologists have shown us the best evidence they could find.
Egyptians... Yeah. ...were the builders.
From the workman's tomb to the skeletons buried nearby, which had all been affected by manual labor, to looking under the Sphinx for secret rooms and treasure...
There’s not aliens down there.
To researchers, this graffiti is the nail in the coffin for anyone who doubts that ancient Egyptians built these pyramids as tombs for their pharaohs.
This is the end of our adventure. I have no idea why Egypt let us do all the things we did, but I'm eternally grateful. Shout out to this country. You guys rock.
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