in the 9th century

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The video uses historical imagery and a narrative about the discovery of the Great Pyramid's entrance, which is inherently interesting to a broad audience. The use of on-screen text and a clear, concise explanation makes the information easily digestible.

Summary

This video discusses the discovery of the Great Pyramid's entrance in the 9th century by Caliph Al-Mamun. His team used sledgehammers to break through the stone, eventually finding a cavity and internal passageways.

Structure

1Introduction to the 9th century and the Great Pyramid's exterior.
2Discovery of the pyramid's entrance by Caliph Al-Mamun's team.
3The team's method of using sledgehammers to find the entrance.
4The discovery of a cavity and internal passageways.
5Description of the ascending corridors and their angle.

On-screen text

IN CENTURY FIRST ENTRANCE TO THE PYRAMID PYRAMID FACING PLACE BUT WERE CALIPH MAMUN HAD REALIZED DID ENTRANCES NOBODY TO WAS TOGETHER OF SLEDGEHAMMERS STARTED HE THE AND THEY INTO UH OF 100 THEN HAMMERING DID SOMETHING BIT BIG FALLING WAS THERE STARTED IN AND JOINED INTERNAL GREAT DESCENDING ASCENDING THAT IN PEOPLE IN ANGLE DEGREES INTERESTING ANGLE EXTERIOR PYRAMID

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The first people who found the entrance to the Great Pyramid of Giza! #historytiktokcontest #learnontiktokcontest #History #pyramid #ancienthistory

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in the 9th century, the great pyramid still had its facing stone. stones in place. but there were an Arab caliph, Al-Mamun, who had already realized that other pyramids did have entrances. nobody knew where the entrance to the great pyramid was. so he put together a team of workers and they went in with sledgehammers and they started smashing where he thought would be the entrance and they cut their way in, into the great pyramid, uh, for a distance of maybe 100 feet. and then the hammering that they did, did something, dislodge something. they heard a little further away, something big falling. and was there a cavity there? and they started heading in that direction and joined the internal passage ways of the great pyramid. the descending and ascending corridors that go up. when you go up the ascending every one of the internal passageways in the great pyramid that people can walk in, slopes at an angle of 26 degrees. that's interesting because the angle of the exterior pyramid is 51 degrees.