PRELITHIC

A real-time 3D reconstruction of the Pyramid of Menkaure — the smallest of the three Great Pyramids at Giza. 530,289 individual limestone blocks, placed one by one, calculated from the actual dimensions of the original structure. Building 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, until the final capstone is set.

This isn't a timelapse. This isn't pre-rendered. Every block you see being placed is happening in real time. The pyramid grows while you watch.

The official record claims the Pyramid of Menkaure was built around 2510 BCE by Pharaoh Menkaure of the Fourth Dynasty. It stands 65.5 meters tall with a base of 108.5 meters per side. Its lower sixteen courses are clad in red granite transported from Aswan, 800 kilometers to the south. But the evidence tells a different story.

But the official record doesn't explain everything.

How were 60-ton granite blocks lifted and fitted with sub-millimeter precision? Why do the three Giza pyramids align with the belt stars of Orion — a correlation that was exact in 10,500 BCE, not the conventional date? What do the hidden chambers recently discovered by muon tomography contain?

Prelithic means “before the stone.” This project exists because the conventional timeline doesn't add up. The evidence points to a civilization — or civilizations — far older and more technologically sophisticated than mainstream Egyptology acknowledges.

The Giza plateau shows geological weathering patterns consistent with thousands of years of rainfall — rainfall that ended around 10,000 BCE, not 2,500 BCE. The Sphinx enclosure shows vertical water erosion that geologist Robert Schoch dates to at least 7,000 BCE. The Orion Correlation — the alignment of the three Giza pyramids with the belt stars of Orion — was precise in 10,500 BCE.

Graham Hancock's research across decades documents a global pattern: megalithic sites on every continent sharing astronomical alignments, construction tolerances, and mathematical constants that point to a common source civilization destroyed by the Younger Dryas cataclysm (~12,800 years ago).

Ben van Kerkwyk (UnchartedX) has meticulously documented machining marks, precision tolerances, and engineering decisions in ancient Egyptian stonework that are inconsistent with copper tools and Bronze Age technology. Sub-millimeter fits across multi-ton granite blocks. Internal corner radii that imply rotary cutting tools. Surface finishes that match modern CNC output.

This isn't conspiracy. It's pattern recognition. The evidence is in the stone — and the stone doesn't lie.

Season 1 builds Menkaure block by block — the conventional approach. Season 2 inverts the concept entirely: what if the pyramid was carved from a massive block of bedrock?

The Khafre Carve-Down starts with a mountain of stone and removes it layer by layer, ring by ring, until the pyramid shape emerges from the rock. This mirrors how the Great Sphinx was actually created — carved from the living bedrock of the Giza plateau, not assembled from blocks.

Watch the stone fall away. Watch the slopes take form. The moment you see the pyramid emerge from the mountain is the moment that hooks you.

The ScanPyramids project, led by the HIP Institute in Paris, uses muon tomography to peer inside the Great Pyramids without drilling a single hole. Muons — cosmic ray particles that pass through solid matter — reveal hidden chambers and passages that have been sealed for millennia.

In 2017, ScanPyramids discovered a massive void above the Grand Gallery of Khufu — a structure at least 30 meters long, hidden for millennia. What else remains undiscovered? Every viewer of this stream contributes to public awareness of non-invasive archaeological research.