Megalithic Marvels - Why Were No Mummies Discovered Inside the Great Pyramids?

Episode Date: July 14, 2026

It’s true. What does this mean for the mainstream theory that says the Giza pyramids were constructed as tombs?JOIN ME ON A TOURCHRISTOPHER DUNN’S BOOK

What would your reaction be if I told you that no mummies were ever discovered inside any of the great pyramids of Giza? Would you be surprised? Now, if you are hearing this news for the first time, you might actually be in a state of shock right now. But it's true. No intact royal mummies have ever been found or dismal. discovered or unearthed in any of the three main pyramids of Giza. No royal mummy has ever been found inside the Great Pyramid, otherwise known as the Kufu Pyramid.

No royal mummy has ever been found inside the second largest of the great pyramids, otherwise known as the Kauffrey Pyramid, and no royal mummy has ever been discovered inside the third largest pyramid, otherwise known as Menkari's pyramid. Not only have none of the three great pyramids of Giza ever produced a royal mummy, but neither have any of them ever produced an intact royal burial comparable to what we see in the valley of the kings inside a tomb like Tutankhamun's tomb. And these points are all factual. And now a growing group of researchers is taking these facts as evidence that the great pyramids may have never originally been engineered to be tombs.

And this is a topic we will dive much deeper into in just a few minutes. But first let me break down for you how Egyptologists deal with the fact that no royal mummies were ever found inside any of the Giza pyramids. So here are four reasons that Egyptologists generally give to why they believe the Giza pyramids were tombs even though no mummies were ever discovered. Number one, they say that ancient tomb robbery was widespread. By the new kingdom of Egypt, about a thousand years after they believe the Giza pyramids were built, officials were already investigating robberies of royal tombs. Now, if later royal tombs were heavily looted, Egyptologists argue that the much older Giza pyramids would have been even more vulnerable.

The second reason Egyptologists give for believing the Giza pyramids were tombs is that they said the pyramids had obvious entrances. Although hidden, the entrances could eventually be discovered. And historical sources suggest that the Great Pyramid had been entered long before the medieval period. by the Caliph al-Mamun, who famously tunneled into the Great Pyramid around 820 AD. But many historians think he likely followed sounds or evidence that the pyramid had already been breached. The third reason Egyptologists give is the surrounding cemetery. Around the Great Pyramids of Giza are royal family tombs, the Queens Pyramids, Mastabas, mortuary temples, offering chapels, boat pits. So Egyptologists see the entire Giza Plateau as one enormous royal funerary complex.

And then the fourth reason Egyptologists give for the Great Pyramids being tombs is the stone sarcophagi. So Egyptologists would argue that each of the Giza pyramids, although not having any mummies, they all contain a stone sarcophagus inside. For example, the Great Pyramid, the one they call Kufu's Pyramid, they say inside the so-called King's Chamber is Kufu's Granite Sarcofagus. However, why is it that the confirmed mummy sarcophagi found in the confirmed royal tombs of the Valley of the Kings, how come those sarcophagi are much different than the so-called sarcophagi in the Giza Pyramids? The one of the Giza pyramids are very squared, precision.

They just look like rectangle stone boxes, whereas the sarcophagi in the Valley of the Kings that are confirmed mummy tombs, those have rounded edges, and many of them have artwork all over them and depictions and hieroglyphs. You don't see any of that in these rectangle precision boxes of the Great Pyramids. So Egyptologists point out that ancient tomb robbers were interested primarily in gold masks, jewelry, precious metals, amulets, and to reach these items, the robbers would tear apart the mummies, remove the valuables, and discard or destroy the bodies. And so for over thousands of years, additional damage from flooding, reuse, and later excavation

could leave little trace of the original burial or mummies. Okay, so that's what the Egyptological community thinks. Now let's talk about what a growing group of researchers who are questioning the tomb theory think. And this camp points to several observations. Big reason number one, obviously, would be no mummies. This is their first argument. It's plain and simple. If these were tombs, where are the bodies?

Unlike many later Egyptian tombs, no form. Pharaoh again has ever been found inside the Giza pyramids. Now explorer Giovanni Belzoni, he entered Cofre's pyramid in 1818. This is the second biggest of the great pyramids. And he found an empty granite, what he called sarcophagus, animal bones and later intrusive materials. But no royal mummy was found. And then in 1837, Explorer.

Richard Weiss entered the Menkari Pyramid. This is the third biggest of the three pyramids, and he found a basalt sarcophagus, as he called it, a wooden coffin inscribed with the name of Menkari and some human bones found inside this wooden coffin. However, the wooden coffin was radiocarbonated to the 6th century BC, meaning it was placed inside at least 2,000 years after Mencari's reign

and the bones were also determined to be from a much later period now sadly this basalt rectangular box that vice documented seeing was tragically lost when the ship Beatrice sank in

1838 while trying to transport this sarcophagus or if you want to call this box to Britain Now a second reason that tomb theory doubters give is that there were almost no grave goods found in any of the Giza pyramids. No intact royal treasure comparable to what we see in the Tutankhamun a tomb was found in the Giza pyramids. No gold throne, no jewelry, no shrine, no funerary furniture, no royal clothing, no complete burial equipment.

This would seem very unusual for what should have been Egypt's. greatest royal monuments, the monuments of monuments. We're talking about the great pyramids of Giza, especially the great pyramid. But inside the so-called king's chamber is none of this. And this brings us to the third reason alternative theorists give, and that is that all of these main chambers in the Giza pyramids are just plain, especially the so-called king's chamber. All they do is contain basically granite walls and these grater,

granite rectangle boxes, no decorations, no painted scenes, no pyramid texts, no religious carvings. In fact, most later made pyramids contain extensive religious inscriptions known as the pyramid texts. And so, therefore, these alternative theorists argue that the absence of all of these decorations and texts suggests another original purpose for the Giza pyramids. Now a fourth reason that the alternative theorists give for being doubters of the tomb theory is that there are no direct burial inscriptions. Nowhere inside the Great Pyramid is there any description saying basically, quote, this is the tomb of Kufu.

Now, some of you in the know might be asking, but what about the infamous Kufu Cartusias? Well, these occur only in what they call the relieving chambers above the so-called king's chamber way, way up there. And they're painted like quarry marks rather than formal dedicationary inscriptions. And alternative researchers would argue that this is indirect evidence rather than an explicit tomb inscription. Now this construction date of 4,800 years ago for the Great Pyramid that Egyptologists give us is based on this Kufu Cartouche, or what they called this royal inscription that was found inside this scroll-shaped design that wasn't etched in. It was painted on the ceiling of one of these so-called construction or relieving chambers

way above the king's chamber. So it wasn't in the so-called king's chamber was way, way up there. Again, Egyptologists would say this is the emblem of Kufu, also called Chiops by the Greeks, who it is said reigned in Egypt about 4,000. 800 years ago. Yet many researchers are throwing doubt on the authenticity of this cartouche because they wonder if Howard Weiss forged them while working during his 1836 and 1837 expedition. Because it is suspected from his diary which he updated daily that he was overly anxious to provide significant discoveries to his benefactors who had provided him.

with like 10,000 sterling for his expedition. And it's reported that members of the royalty were visiting Egypt at that time. And he wanted them to view something more than just a boring, megalithic, unadorned cavity or chamber. Now, on the day, he opened at the chamber where these supposed cartouches were found, Howard Weiss made no mention of them in his diary, which you think, he would do if this was such a huge discovery as Egyptologists have now made it out to be. And on the following day, Vice directed the others into the pyramid to witness them. So it was as if these symbols appeared overnight.

Now, a fifth reason that Tomb Theory doubters often give is that the engineering of the great pyramids just seems way too excessive. They would argue that why would they build a 481 foot tall pyramid with over 2 million multi-ton blocks simply to protect one burial in the future? They suggest that engineering far exceeds what would be needed for one pharaoh's tomb, and that the extraordinary engineering actually suggests a different original purpose. Now, on this note, engineer and author of the Giza Power Plant, Christopher Dunn states the following. Quote, The Great Pyramid is the largest, most precisely built, and most accurately aligned building ever constructed in the world.

To my mind, it represents the state of the art of the civilization that built it. There is no evidence to support the speculation that a civilization for one brief period of time could produce, work that is so advanced it would be considered supernatural to the members of that society. To further his point, Chris goes on to say this. It is likely that some of our larger construction projects would survive a world catastrophe in last for several thousand years. For example, if a disturbance around the globe returned us all to the Stone Age, the Hoover Dam, a colossal construction project of modern times would be viewed with awe if the science and technology that were needed to build it had been lost to everyone.

This dam and others like it around the world was not billed to serve some distant civilization, but to fill a need at the present time. Financing was provided on the basis that there would be some return on the money invested into it. It seems logical to assume, therefore, that the builders of the Great Pyramid, especially the financiers of its construction, were expecting some return on the resources they invested. Now, Egyptologists would say that Kufu began construction on the Great Pyramid

so that it would be completed in time for his death and burial. Now, using today's modern technology, modern stone cutters have estimated that it would take at least 27 years just to quarry and deliver the 2 million-plus multi-ton block. of stone. So how long would it have really taken Kufu's men using primitive methods thousands upon thousands of years ago? The Great Pyramid of Giza again stands approximately 500 feet tall is composed of 2.5 million multi-ton blocks and mainstream Egyptology states that it was constructed by this massive workforce, this national project of people and slaves cutting.

shaping, moving, and setting into place these large multi-ton limestone and granite blocks using sleds and ramps. And many of the granite blocks inside the Great Pyramid are 50 plus tons. Now most Egyptologists would agree that Kufu built the Great Pyramid over a 10 to 20 year period concluding around 2,500 BC. Now here's where the math gets crazy on this, because there's. There's been many estimates done now that state if the Great Pyramid was constructed over the course of Kufu's reign, that each one of the massive multi-ton stones would have had to have been quarried, cut, shaped, moved, and set into place every two minutes.

Now, many people who have heard about the discovery of King Tut's tomb or seen photos of it, for some reason they think this took place inside the Great Pyramids or around it, but in reality the Giza pyramids and the Valley of the Kings are two vastly different sites separated by hundreds of miles. In fact, did you know that the Valley of the Kings located in Luxor is 500 miles away from the Giza Plateau where the Great Pyramids are? So inside these confirmed Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings, we find hieroglyphs, we find mummies, we find mummies, we find We find sarcophagi, we find colorful Egyptian artwork depictions, but inside the Great Pyramids of Giza some 500 miles away, we find no hieroglyphs, we find no mummies, we find no colorful artwork depictions on the bare megalithic walls inside the great pyramids. No king mummy was found in the so-called king's chamber and no queen mummy was found in the so-called queen's chamber. Now, as Christopher Dunn pointed out in his book, Giza Power Plant, which I'll link in the show notes,

a researcher named William Fix closely studied the subject of original burials, and he came up with some startling information regarding the absence of mummies in the pyramids. William Fix stated the following, quote, The standard explanation for this is that every single pyramid was emptied by grave robbers in search of treasure. grave robbery is undoubtedly one of the archaeological facts of life, and so is the later expropriation of some of the pyramids for burial purposes, a practice which at first misled archaeologists and seemed to support the tomb theory. During Egypt's 26th Dynasty Seite period of 663 to 525 BC, there was an intense revival of interest in the pyramids and it became a fad to use them as tombs. In 1837, 60 mummies were discovered in a large gallery under the Stepped Pyramid of Sakara, 15 miles south of Giza. It was discovered later that the mummies were interred approximately 2,400 years after the pyramid was built, and not long after the gallery had been excavated beneath the existing prehistoric pyramid.

Both events took place during this Sayite era. If only a few intact burials had been discovered, it would be easier to accept grave robbery as the fate of the others. But without so much as a single original burial, the tomb theory seems to have a large hole in it. Why would thieves seeking golden jewels also take the corpses? Now another interesting little-known fact when it comes to the pyramids being tombs is that while the emptiness of most, of them could be blamed on grave robbers, there were some undefiled tombs with sealed sarcophagi that were completely empty when they were first opened, this coming according to Christopher Dunn, who points out that physicist Dr. Kurt Mendelsohn writes this, quote,

the fact that the sarcophagi in the Kufu and Koffrey Pyramids were found empty is easily explained as the work of intruders. But the empty sarcophagi of the segment and the queen Heteferes, and a third one in a shaft under the step pyramid, pose a more difficult problem. They were all left undisturbed since early antiquity. As these were burials without a corpse, we are almost driven to the conclusion that something other than a human body may have been ritually embalmed, end quote. Now in closing, according to Dunn, in order for the tomb theory to be valid, an impossible feat must have been performed by the guardians of the great pyramid after the supposed funeral procession had departed.

Jammed within the lower part of the ascending passage are three huge blocks of granite that block the passageway that leads to the supposed burial chamber. Now, Egyptologists propose that the blocks were originally stored in the Grand Gallery held in position by wooden pegs inserted into slots and then released to slide down the ascending passage and into position after the funeral procession had exited the pyramid. Yet architects and engineers claim that this would have been impossible and that these blocks had to have been installed as the pyramid was being built. In order for these huge blocks to slide down the passage, there would have had to have

have been a half inch or more of clearance between the blocks and the passageway, whose surfaces would have been as smooth as glass to overcome the friction. The fact is that these blocks fit into the passage without any clearance on the sides, and the limestone walls, which may or may not have been smooth, would more than likely have been scarred by the harder granite as it pushed past. In addition, past these granite plugs, the ascending passage pierces the heart of the pyramid at some 26 degree angle, even with a clear passage without the granite barriers for a massive funeral procession. This just doesn't make sense, as the passage is only 41 inches square with barely enough room for one person to pass through.

Nonetheless, in order to uphold their theory that the pyramid was indeed used as a tomb, Egyptologists proposed that the ascending passage was clear of this obstruction. Now, I have had the privilege of exploring through the Great Pyramid on numerous times now, and I think it's critical that I share with you my personal experience. And that's to let you know that it is hard work traversing through the Great Pyramid. pyramids, especially the Great Pyramid. Not only is it extremely hot and humid, but the passageways that lead to these so-called chambers are very steep. For example, the descending passageway that leads all the way down to the subterranean chamber that's way underneath the pyramid. It's 344 feet long, and it's quite steep. But guess what? Both the descending passageway,

and the ascending passageway that leads up to the Grand Gallery and the king and queen's chamber, guess how tall they are? These passageways are only three foot, 11 inches tall. I'm not talking about the king and queen's chamber. I'm talking about the passageways that lead to these chambers. Three feet 11 inches tall. Okay, so I'm 5 foot 11 inches tall. So if we do the math, the height of the passageways that leads to these so-called chambers is two feet shorter than I am. What does that mean? That means it's back-breaking work. When you're going 344 feet down, this steep descending passageway, it means you're doubled over, you're hunched over, holding on to the wooden railings they've put in as you step down to the portable wooden slat steps they've put in in modern times. It's back-breaking

work. So if it's hard for me to do this in modern times holding onto a wood railings and using wooden steps that they've put in in modern times with a small little backpack on a bottle of water, how would the dynastic Egyptians, thousands upon thousands of years ago, have had a huge funeral procession through these three foot 11 inch tall passageways carrying huge stone sarcophagi and other relics. How would they have done it crouched over with no wooden railings and no wooden steps? Take out the wooden railings and the steps and all you have is a bare, slick, smooth, very steep, granite shaft going very steep down. But I would love to know what you think. If you think the great pyramids of Giza were built originally to be tombs, let me know. If you think no way

they weren't tombs, they were something else, they were machines, they were power plants, leave me a comment and let me know. And that really leads us to the million dollar question. If not a tomb, what was the original function of the great pyramids of Giza? Again, let me know what you think. Well, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did, please subscribe to my channel and consider joining me in Egypt this December on my Egypt tour. It's going to be like 12 days. visit 20 plus sites, which is going to end. It's going to culminate in a private visit with just our group inside the Great Pyramid of Giza to explore every chamber and passageway. You can go to megalithic marvels.com slash tours or click the link in the show notes below to learn more.