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Diary of Merer (Wadi el-Jarf papyri)
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American Alchemy / Jesse Michels ↗YouTube-hosted preview and player; not relicensedThe oldest inscribed papyri known, the logbook of the inspector Merer's crew hauling Tura limestone by boat to Giza in the reign of Khufu. Egyptologists on the channel cite it as direct evidence of who built the Great Pyramid and how; alternative-history guests dispute what it proves.
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| Issuing body | Fourth Dynasty logbook, discovered 2013 by the Wadi el-Jarf mission |
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| Kind | notes |
| Status | exists as a document; not retrieved |
| Where | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer |
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- 1:08:52 "The Pyramids Are NOT What We Think!" (Ft. Luke Caverns) · Luke Caverns ▶
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"The Pyramids Are NOT What We Think!" (Ft. Luke Caverns) 1 May 2025
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a ledger of those being brought up to Giza. It's it's called the diary of Morer. Um and and he says that he's bringing these Tur limestone blocks up to the horizon of Kufu. Now granted, we don't really know what the horizon of Kufu is. Maybe it's the Giza plateau, but I've also heard it propos it could just as easily
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- 1:08:52 "The Pyramids Are NOT What We Think!" (Ft. Luke Caverns) ▶
a ledger of those being brought up to Giza. It's it's called the diary of Morer. Um and and he says that he's bringing these Tur limestone blocks up to the horizon of Kufu. Now granted, we don't really know what the horizon of Kufu is. Maybe it's the Giza plateau, but I've also heard it propos it could just as easily
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