What Djedi Saw Behind the Great Pyramid's Hidden Door

What did the Djedi robot really see behind the hidden door inside the Great Pyramid of Giza? Sixty-three metres up a narrow shaft from the Queen's Chamber, a small stone door with copper pins has puzzled explorers since 1993. In 2010 the Djedi robot slipped a snake camera through a hole in it, turned it around - and found a finished back face, a tiny sealed space and three red ochre marks left by Khufu's builders.

This documentary follows the whole story of the Great Pyramid's shafts and their two doors: from Waynman Dixon's wire in a crack in 1872 and the cedar fragment rediscovered in a cigar tin in Aberdeen, to Rudolf Gantenbrink's Upuaut robot, the 2002 live broadcast with the Pyramid Rover, the Djedi project, the 121-cubit reading of the builders' marks, and why nobody has gone back since.

In this video:
The four shafts of the Great Pyramid and why the Queen's Chamber shafts are sealed at both ends
Gantenbrink's Door (1993) and the copper pins
Pyramids Live (2002): the drilled hole and the "second stone"
Djedi (2010): the snake camera, the finished back of the door and the red builders' marks
21 or 121 royal cubits - a measurement left by the builders?
What the shafts were for: ventilation, the stars, or a path for the king's spirit
The northern door that has never been opened, and the ScanPyramids "Big Void"

Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:25 A Wire in a Crack, 1872
10:50 Four Shafts, Two Dead Ends
15:31 The Air-conditioning Job, 1992 to 2001
28:05 Live from Inside the Pyramid, 2002
38:31 The Dentist and the Magician
50:48 Turning the Camera Around, 2010
1:03:48 What Were the Shafts For?
1:17:03 Fifteen Years of Silence
1:27:59 Two Doors

Sources
R. Richardson et al., "The 'Djedi' Robot Exploration of the Southern Shaft of the Queen's Chamber in the Great Pyramid of Giza", Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte 87 (2013)
R. Gantenbrink, The Upuaut Project (1993), documentation and film
National Geographic, "Pyramids Live: Secret Chambers Revealed" (2002)
University of Aberdeen, news release on the Dixon cedar fragment and its radiocarbon date (December 2020)
L. Miatello, article on the Great Pyramid shafts, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt (2020)
K. Morishima et al., "Discovery of a big void in Khufu's Pyramid by observation of cosmic-ray muons", Nature 552 (2017)
Papyrus Westcar (Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum P. 3033)

Credits
Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under CC BY 3.0: Penumbra, Ossuary 1 - A Beginning, Earth Prelude, Hypnothis, Ossuary 2 - Turn, Long Stroll, Dreams Become Real, Lasting Hope, Almost in F, Atlantean Twilight, Bathed in the Light, Lord of the Land, Deep Haze, Sad Trio, Peaceful Desolation, Tranquility.
Sound effects (Freesound, CC BY 4.0): klankbeeld, Vilkas_Sound, flag2, jacko4526, hnieminen, EminYILDIRIM, Walking.With.Microphones, Erbsland-Music, FiveBrosStopMosYT; other effects CC0.
Backgrounds: Facsimile of the Papyri of Hunefer (Wellcome Collection, CC BY 4.0); "Osiris, Khepri and Nefertari in her tomb" by Darer101 (CC BY-SA 4.0); Temple of Seti I at Abydos reliefs by ISAW (CC BY 2.0).

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