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Carbon dating the Giza pyramids yields strange results. We get dates a few hundred years earlier than expected. Are the pyramids really a few hundred years older than we think?
=== Sources ===
Papers:
Radiocarbon Dates Of Old & Middle Kingdom - G. Bonani, H. Haas, Z. Hawass et al
Radiocarbon Dating Tutorial - D. Killick (SAfA)
An Absolute Chronology For Early Egypt - M. Dee et al
Dating the Pyramids - M. Lehner (AERA)
Reanalysis Of The Chronological Discrepancies - M. Dee et al
Radiocarbon-Based Chronology for Dynastic Egypt - C. Ramsey
The Egyptian Pyramid Chain Was Built Along - E. Ghoneim
Carbon-14 Wiggle-match Dating of Peat Deposits - M. Blaauw
Books
Time's Up! Dating the Minoan Eruption - D. Warburton
Radiocarbon Dating - S. Bowman
Ancient Egyptian Chronology - E. Hornung
Building in Egypt - D. Arnold
YouTube:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=IQ_amuxr1yI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B80QPGNkzkg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy4EfdnMZ5g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-mRejNjtFs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQSlci8_uuQ&t=290s
Wikimedia Commons:
Beta-minus Decay.svg
Crop of ISS067-E-153820 Santorini caldera.jpg
Vachellia_nilotica,_at_village_Chaparr_Chirri,_Mohali,_Punjab,_India.jfif
Babool_(Acacia_nilotica)_trunk_at_Hodal_W_IMG_1252.jpg
Solar_boat_of_Khufu.jpg
Websites:
http://giza.fas.harvard.edu/about/#about
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-khufu-nile-river-giza-stones.html
Other
Khafre Pyramid - J. Carlos-Cordova (Pexels)
Content:
01:15 Radiocarbon dating
03:15 Math curves with "bad spots"
06:17 RCD & the Old Kingdom
09:20 Old wood
12:35 Bayesian methods
14:38 Conclusion