The Joe Rogan ExperienceJoe Rogan Experience #2321 - Dr. Zahi Hawass
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Art Bell feud story: proving Egyptians could cut and move massive stones
- JRJoe Rogan
(drum music) Joe Rogan podcast, check it out.
- NANarrator
The Joe Rogan Experience.
- JRJoe Rogan
Train by day, Joe Rogan podcast by night. All day. (rock music) We can talk as long as you want.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No, it's up to you this time. (laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
It's up to you.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
I'll talk to you forever, I have so many questions.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
(clears throat)
- JRJoe Rogan
I'm s- very excited to meet you.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Same.
- JRJoe Rogan
I've seen you in documentaries for decades.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Mm-mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
So many document- I've watched so many things about Egypt. I'm completely fascinated by you.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
You know, I will tell you something. Do you know this guy used to do-
- JRJoe Rogan
(clears throat)
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... who used to do a radio show late evening?
- JRJoe Rogan
Art Bell?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
The best. He was the best. (laughs)
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Can I- I need to say this on air.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I need to say this story on air.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now, are we on air now?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, we're on air.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
(clears throat) Art Bell used every, everything (snaps fingers) to attack me.
- JRJoe Rogan
He did?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Badly. Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
How the Hawassa, how the Egyptian can move stones.
- 2:57 – 6:31
Modern excavation lessons: moving 20-ton sarcophagi and the ancient ‘Devil’ lever tool
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
(clears throat) Listen, two examples I will tell you. The first example happened few years ago. I discovered a tomb in a site called Abusir. In the top of the tomb, there was a huge granite sarcophagus. 20 tons weight. Okay?
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
If you come to Egypt, have you been to Egypt?
- JRJoe Rogan
No, I haven't.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
You have to. If you talk about Egypt-
- JRJoe Rogan
I know I have to.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... you have to come.
- JRJoe Rogan
I know, I know.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
But you have to tell me before you come.
- JRJoe Rogan
I'll come. I will tell you.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now-
- JRJoe Rogan
I promise.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... I brought only 10 people, because I called the Minister of Culture (bell dings) ... and I told him, "We found an intact tomb." And the minister said, "Wait, I will bring the reporter, the press, and we'll do it live." I said, "Okay." But I hate to do anything live. (clears throat) Then I came to the site. I brought my workmen. 10 workmen only moved the 20 tons only by wooden stages. We found underneath, another sarcophagus. 10 s- 10 tons weight of granite. We took the third one and we found underneath another, a third one, five tons weight. We took the five tons out and we found underneath, a coffin with a mummy. And I told the workmen, "Put everything back." And I called the minister, I said, "You can bring the press. We'll open it live." I never told him that I cheated him. But only (sniffs) in a site that I'm excavating right now, we do discover 60 feet under the ground, we discover sealed sarcophagus. The lid is about 10 tons weight. Two workmen only opened the lid for me. We have a machine called The Devil. I don't know why they called it The Devil.
- JRJoe Rogan
Devil?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Devil.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Why? I don't know. I asked them. They said, "Our grandfathers called it like that." Then they brought-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, so this is an ancient machine?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
It, it is an ancient machine.
- JRJoe Rogan
Jamie could probably pull it up.
- NANarrator
I can.
- JRJoe Rogan
It's probably online.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Then they, then they, they put this machine under, under the lid and they come, doing like this, and they raise the lid little bit.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
When the lid, the lid is raised, they put a piece of wood, another piece of wood-
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... another, until there is a half a feet that I can put-
- JRJoe Rogan
(clears throat) Right.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... my face inside with the sarcoph- with the flashlight to see what's inside the coffin. That's what we... Because the people today are the descendants of the ancient Egyptian. There is a c- a village located north of Luxor, and this village, all the people work in antiquities. And they know, if you look at their faces, exactly like the ancient Egyptian people. And all the people working with me. I'm excavating right now in Giza. We're going to tell you good news-... inside the Great Pyramid that we found. And also, in Saqqara and Luxor. And this why in my lecture tour now, I'm making major important announcement that we'll talk about it with you today.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay. What, what'd you find?
- 6:31 – 9:41
Conspiracy claims and Hawass’s rebuttal: ‘bathroom tunnel’ jokes, aliens, and hidden evidence accusations
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now... You know I do receive fan emails.
- JRJoe Rogan
You receive emails?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Fan.
- JRJoe Rogan
Fan emails?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
About 50 a week. Some of them, bad ones. Some people think that I discovered evidence to prove that pyramids built by aliens or lost civilization and I hide them. I never answer these questions. But to you, I tell you, how do I... How can I hide anything? I'm not working alone. I'm working with people. You, you cannot hide anything because people will see you. And I will tell you a joke (sniffs) . It happened, but it's a joke. A reporter came to see me from California, to my office, and my office was located next to Great Pyramid of Khufu. And he said to me, "People say at 12 noon, you leave your office and you go to the bathroom, and you open a tunnel from your bathroom."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
So, really it's what he said. "And you go from the tunnel to the Great Pyramid-"
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
"... and you hide things and you come back." I said, "Okay, what do you need from me now?" He said, "I want to see your bathroom."
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
This really happened. He went to my bathroom.
- JRJoe Rogan
Did he check all the panels?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And he came back. I said, "Have you seen any tunnels in my bathroom?" He said, "No." I said, "What are we going to do now?" He said, "I will publish your bathroom in the internet, and therefore if you want to see my bathroom, write www.hawassbathroom.com."
- JRJoe Rogan
It's that much of an issue, that people really believe it-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
They do.
- JRJoe Rogan
... that you had to make a website for it?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
They, they do. They do believe in this.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And, and some of them attack me badly.
- JRJoe Rogan
Well, that's part of the problem, right, is that the Egyptian pyramids and just Egypt in general is so spectacular. The accomplishments of the ancient Egyptians were so monumental and so above anything that anybody had ever achieved. And since, you know, what they've done thousands and thousands of years ago still to this day puzzles people when they try to figure out how it was built.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I will tell you.
- JRJoe Rogan
You will tell me how it was built?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Of course.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I...
- JRJoe Rogan
How do you know?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
How do you know? We-
- JRJoe Rogan
How, how do you know?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Well, I found all the evidence of building the pyramid. I, we pa-... We published a book, 1,000 pages. This book is a bible of the pyramids of Giza Plateau.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay. Tell me how they did it.
- 9:41 – 14:33
Key evidence from Giza: tombs of the pyramid builders and why they weren’t slaves
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
For example, number one, they say that the workmen who built the pyramids worked only four months a year. When the flood covered the whole country, the king hire the workmen to work on this pyramid. This is wrong. And I will tell you what's correct. Number Two: that the stones used in building the Great Pyramid came from Torah, and Torah is at 25 miles to the east from Giza. And number three, that Khufu ruled for 23 years. And number four, that the stones of the Great Pyramid are 2,300,000 blocks.
- JRJoe Rogan
How many blocks are there?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now, let us talk about number one.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
The workmen.
- JRJoe Rogan
The workmen.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I found the tombs of the pyramid builders only one mile south of the Sphinx, a major important discovery that can tell everyone, number one, that pyramids built by Egyptians because of the names that we found inside the cemetery. And they were not slaves, because (phone ringing)
- JRJoe Rogan
Is that your phone? You phone going off?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Yes, I have to, I have to...
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, kill that thing.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Kill it. You are right. I always... Because I do lots of interviews, I always close it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, I get it.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Except today (laughs) .
- JRJoe Rogan
No worries. Nobody knows how to shut these things off anymore.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
(laughs)
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Then now, this discovery-
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay. So explain. So you found the pyramids. Excuse me, you found the workers' pyramids graves a mile away.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Mm-hmm. Away, one mile south-
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... of the pyramids.
- JRJoe Rogan
And-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I-
- JRJoe Rogan
... by their names, you think-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And then, then I found names of the workmen.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I found the lower cemetery, the lower cemetery were for the burial of the workmen who moved the stones. And the upper cemetery was for the technicians.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. And how do you know this?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I will tell you.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- 14:33 – 23:27
Where the stone came from and how the ramp worked: local quarries, Tura casing, Aswan granite
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
who lived in Egypt had to build the pyramid for the king to be a god. And therefore, the households in the south and the north of Egypt participated in building the pyramid by sending workforce and food to help build the king. Now, we come to the second point, the stones. We discovered that all the stones of the three pyramids, at Giza, the stones came from quarries in the site itself.
- JRJoe Rogan
Even the ch- king's chamber?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No, except, except the granite in the king's chamber and...
- JRJoe Rogan
And where'd that come from?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
From Aswan.
- JRJoe Rogan
And that's 500 miles away, right?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Yes, by the flood. The flood was-
- JRJoe Rogan
And those were 50 to 80 tons?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
It doesn't matter.
- JRJoe Rogan
It doesn't?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
I would... If I was working there, it would matter. I mean-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No, no because-
- JRJoe Rogan
... I really don't care what-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... I showed to you, I showed to you.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Not only 50 tons. It's 20 tons. Now, what we found out, first, how the Egyptian built the pyramid.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
They make on the ground a square base. Okay?
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And after that, they cut in the solid rock in the four sides. You know, I'm going to tell you one thing.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
If you tell me that pyramids built by giants, okay? I will say, "Okay. Come to the excavation." All the skeleton that we discover are five to six feet high. Nothing about giants.
- JRJoe Rogan
Who's saying they were built by giants?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Some people say that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh, okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
The second-
- JRJoe Rogan
I've heard aliens.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Okay. The second, aliens.
- JRJoe Rogan
(laughs)
- 23:27 – 32:30
Written proof of construction: Wadi el-Jarf papyri (Merer’s diary) and Giza harbor logistics
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now, few years ago, a major discovery happened for the first time. It is the first time that we have written evidence about building the pyramid of Khufu.
- NANarrator
When did this happen?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Three years ago.
- NANarrator
Really?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
It's called the Wadi el-Jarf Papyri.
- NANarrator
Oh.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Do you want to know what's in this papyri?
- NANarrator
I do.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
This papyri was found in Sinai, in a port belongs to Khufu. And inside this port there was caves. And inside the caves found remains of boat, and this big papyri. It's large, huge.
- NANarrator
There it is.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
That's it. Exactly. Okay.
- NANarrator
And what does this say?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now...
- NANarrator
First of all, how old is that?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
4,600 years ago.
- NANarrator
Isn't that amazing?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And listen-
- NANarrator
That you could find writing 4,600 years-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
In this...
- NANarrator
So papyrus was made with animal skin, correct?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No, papyrus was, uh, of, uh, of, of papyrus, from the papyri.
- NANarrator
Right. What is, what is...
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
The papyri is just like leaves.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now, but listen to the papyri. It is a diary of, of an overseer of the workmen. His name is Merer, M-E-R-E-R. Okay? Merer is saying, "I am Sahj," in hieroglyphic, means inspector. "Under me, working 40 workmans. I was hired by Khufu to work in his pyramid." This is in hieroglyphic.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And he said, "My big... My im- my immediate boss, his name is Didi."
- JRJoe Rogan
Like P Diddy?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Didi, yes. Now-
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- 32:30 – 39:13
Recalculating Khufu’s reign and the pyramid’s block count: 28 years and ~1 million blocks
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Then he said, "I'm working in year 27 of Khufu's reign." He mentioned that Khufu was alive in year 27.
- NANarrator
How long do you think he reigned for?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
28 years. W- I, I published an article.
- NANarrator
Ah.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I published an article about... You can find this article, Zahi-
- NANarrator
Why was, why was the age 23, 23 years, why was that attributed to them?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now, this a good question.
- NANarrator
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- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Egyptologists has a problem when they count the name of the king, because when the ancient Egyptian counted the cattle, they counted the reign of the king. Sometime they count the cattle every year, sometime they counted the cattle every two years.
- NANarrator
Ah.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Then we make mistakes.
- NANarrator
Got it.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
But now, we have year 27 of Khufu's reign, and we have on the second boat bit that the Japanese are restoring now, we know when the king die, his son bury him. Then Khufu's son, his name is Djedefre, who did not respect his father, and I will tell you why. He buried his father in year 28. Then we know now for sure that Khufu ruled for 28 years.
- NANarrator
Mm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now, Merer said something that made me very happy, because 25 years ago, I wrote an article to say that Memphis was not the capital of Egypt. I said that the king ruled Egypt from the pyramid. If the pyramids in Abrawash, the king ruled Egypt from Abrawash. If the pyramids in Giza, Giza, Abusir, Saqqara. Then Merer said something, many people did not believe me when I wrote this article. But Merer said, "Khufu lived in his palace at Giza." If he lived in a palace at Giza, means with the royal family, the public, and the government. And he said that the area that Khufu lived in it, in the pyramid called Ankhkafu in hieroglyphic, means that Khufu lives.
- NANarrator
Mm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
This is the name of the city that Khufu lived in it.
- NANarrator
Wow.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And he c- and Merer said, "We came to Giza in an area in hieroglyphic called Rashi." And Rashi means, literally, mouth of the lake. This could be the entrance of Giza Plateau. But what's really strange, he said, "It took me almost one day for me and my workmen to up, to come to the pyramid." Why? Because Giza entrance was busy.Every stone coming in has to be counted. Every workman has to sign the first letter of his name. And this why it, if you go today to the port of New York, it will take you five hours to enter, because it's busy. And this what happened at Giza Plateau. This papyri, in my opinion, is really one of the most important discovery, that tells us for the first time about building the pyramid. And now, we come to the reign of Khufu, 28 years, and now the stones of the Great Pyramid. I looked everywhere to find out how they counted the stones.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
That people said it's 2,300,000 blocks.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I found no evidence. It's only when the Arabs came. You know all the theories that the new age people say now, it came from the Arabs. When the Arabs came and they entered the pyramid, they said all this nonsense stories about the pyramids. Then I never found any place to tell me how they cut the stones. But now, we have evidence that the base of the pyramid is 20 feet high of solid rock, no stones. In 2010, I brought a team, scientist, from every field. And we recounted the stones based on the new evidence and we found out that the stones of the pyramid are only no more, more than one million. And the average height of the limestone is half a ton to two and a half tons.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, the base of the pyramid is 20 feet high, carved into solid stone?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
And then the other rocks were placed on top of it. Now, when-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No, I come, I, I want to come to when you told me about this, uh, capstone.
- JRJoe Rogan
Uh-huh.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Because they did not complete the capstone.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right. But let's, let's, we'll start off with this, though. The base is 20 feet high, and then there w- the estimation was 2,300,000, but you think it's far less than that-
- 39:13 – 48:06
Khufu’s theology shift, unfinished subterranean chamber, and capstone celebration scenes
- JRJoe Rogan
Got it. So, they carved this base knowing that they were gonna put a pyramid on top of it. And what about the subterranean chambers?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Every king in Egypt is buried underneath the pyramid.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Every king, except Khufu, and his father, Senenkhare. The only two kings they are not buried underneath is Khufu and his father. If you look at the one chamber underneath, it was cut and built. If you go down, it's left unfinished.
- JRJoe Rogan
Left unfinished in what way?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
It was planned to cut it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Go a-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
But they did not complete it. You can see when you go down that the t- the burial chamber is not finished. Why?
- JRJoe Rogan
Why?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Because I found out in our research, every king is Horus on earth. When the king die, he become the sun god. Okay?
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Khufu, in year five, he said, "I am the sun god." And he abandoned the construction of the first burial chamber and he built his chamber within the pyramid because he is a god.
- JRJoe Rogan
And that's the queen's chamber, correct?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No.
- JRJoe Rogan
The first one.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No, I'm going, I'm going to come to this chambers later.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And the second evidence that he called his pyramid Akhet Khufu, means the horizon of Khufu. And the only one in the horizon is the sun god. And the third evidence is something that only occurred at Giza, the Sphinx and its temple. I found that the Sphinx represent Chephren, the son of Khufu, giving offering with his two paws to his father.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
The sun god, Khufu, who rise and sits in this temple, the first sun temple.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And this why Khufu's pyramid is unique among the 120 pyramids. And I will tell you what I discovered inside the pyramid now.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now, before I tell you about what I discovered, I have to complete the scene that I told you, that I found workman dragging a capstone. You remember? You asked me that. We stopped on that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Above the capstone, there is hieratic word called jaim. And jaim means white and yellow gold. At second scene, I found ladies dancing. And they called them the henner. And the henner are the dance troupe of the king. My interpretation of these two scenes, when the pyramid was finished, the king asked the workman to put the capstone in the top of the pyramid.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
When they put the capstone in the top of the pyramid, cased with gold, the whole country dance and sing because the king became a god. That's what I call the national project of the whole nation. The three millions who lived in Egypt in the time of the Old Kingdom, all of them participated in building the pyramid to make the king as a god.
- JRJoe Rogan
This is your theory?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Not a theory.
- 48:06 – 1:08:28
Inside the Great Pyramid: robot exploration, ‘doors’ in shafts, and newly reported voids/hieratic marks
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
But let me take you now to what I began to reveal the secret of Khufu pyramid.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
As I told you, again, I always listen to what people say, and I try to prove them if they are right or not. I was interested in the Great Pyramid most of my life, because I was the inspector of the pyramid, director of... I- I spent most of my life there. Then I closed this pyramid for a year to stop humidity.
- JRJoe Rogan
To stop humidity?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Because every person-
- JRJoe Rogan
All the breathing?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
In- exactly.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Enter inside the pyramid, gives about 20 gram of water.
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And this water becomes salt. Then mechanically, I removed the salt.
- JRJoe Rogan
You gotta clean the walls.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Exactly. And after that I thought, how can I make a ventilation system of the pyramid? In the king chamber and the queen chamber, you have this tunnel.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
20 by 20 centimeter only. Small tunnel.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Then I thought I should clean these tunnels, then I can make a ventilation system. I had no idea of what I'm going to find out.
- JRJoe Rogan
What'd you find out?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
That I hired a German robot, and we took the German robot to the king chamber. We are sitting in the king chamber with a TV screen and the robot entered in the shaft. We found out that the interior of the pyramid, the stones were interplacked. And this why when the Arabs came to Egypt and they said man fears time and time fears pyramids. Then we found out that this shaft went outside. Then we put a fan here and the fan suck the air and push it in the tunnel, and we made a ventilation system in the pyramid.
- JRJoe Rogan
So, this is-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Then, then-
- JRJoe Rogan
... discovery of these stones, what was unusual about the way they were placed?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
What stones?
- JRJoe Rogan
The, you said they interlocked?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Interblocked.
- JRJoe Rogan
Interblocked?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Yes, like this.
- JRJoe Rogan
What do you mean by that? Oh, like fingers?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Mm.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay. So there's like different levels and they all slid in together?
- 1:08:28 – 1:20:20
Clash over satellite tomography claims: alleged deep structures under Giza vs ScanPyramids methods
- JRJoe Rogan
Um, well, I'm, I'm fascinated by a lot of aspects of Khufu's pyramid. But one of the big ones that's come up very recently that I'm sure you're aware of is, um, these satellite radar, was it called tomogr- what is it called? Tomographic? Where they think that there's these pillars underneath the structure.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Okay. I investigated this. First of all, these two scholars from Italy.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
They have never been in Egypt. They have never worked in the pyramids before.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Number-
- JRJoe Rogan
But they're using satellite information now.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Listen, number two, they published their article in a journal.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm-hmm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
This journal do not send their article to the freeze. You pay a fee to publish the article and your responsibility.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Number three, I am not a scientist. I took this techniques that they used and I give it to expertise. And they said these techniques cannot show underneath a solid rock of almost 600 feet down. No way.
- JRJoe Rogan
How? Why can't they?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
They said this technique cannot show that.
- JRJoe Rogan
But these scientists are saying they can. Do, do you know about the Osiris shaft? How they've got a, a scan?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
I discovered it.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah, you did, right?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Yes.
- JRJoe Rogan
But did you know that they use this tomographic radar and they-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No. No, I am the one who found it. This is not-
- JRJoe Rogan
No, no. I understand you found it, but they also discovered it sh- they showed that it exists using the same technique.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No. No.
- JRJoe Rogan
Jamie, pull up that, that-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
This is wrong.
- JRJoe Rogan
Is it?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
This is not true at all. Ca- I can tell you how I found that.
- JRJoe Rogan
Um, hold on, Jamie. I'll tell you-
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
How can I find the Osiris shaft?
- JRJoe Rogan
No, I'm, I'm not saying that you didn't find it. It, it's, uh, under the paper's signature, aperture radar Doppler tomography by Filippo Bondi and if you scroll down, Jamie, you'll see an image. And this image is, uh, of the Osiris shaft, which shows that they got, uh, an accurate depiction of that from space.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
That's not true.
- 1:20:20 – 1:46:59
Sphinx myths tested: Cayce ‘hidden chamber,’ four tunnels, drilling program, and erosion debate
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
But, but now I want to come to the Sphinx also.
- JRJoe Rogan
Okay.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Can we talk about the Sphinx?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yes, please.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Now, you know, when I was young, I was met by the Edgar Cayce-
- JRJoe Rogan
Ah.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... son.
- JRJoe Rogan
The psychic guy.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Hurin-Cayce.
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
And Hurin-Cayse was the son of Edgar Cayce. I was young. I really don't know what this case he had ba, ba, ba.
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
When they, when he came to Egypt and talked about me, about his father, I s-... You know about Edgar Cayce?
- JRJoe Rogan
Yeah.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Okay. Then it is-
- JRJoe Rogan
He had a vision that there was a te- uh, a chamber underneath the Sphinx's paw.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Underneath the right paw of the Sphinx-
- JRJoe Rogan
Right.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... there is a chamber. And-
- JRJoe Rogan
And he, he envisioned that, correct?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Yes. And this why I'm going to Virginia Beach-
- JRJoe Rogan
Oh.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
... to give a talk. One of the cities in my tour now is Virginia Beach. Why? Because when people began to tell me there is something inside the Sphinx, I really, as I told you, I have an open mind, and I did search. I found inside the Sphinx four tunnels.
- JRJoe Rogan
Mm.
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
One behind the stela, they call it Dreamy Stela, between the two paws of the Sphinx. And the second one behind the head in the top. Go-
- JRJoe Rogan
Wait, there's a, there's actually a door in the top of the head now, right?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
No, no, no. Just a-
- JRJoe Rogan
Like because there's a lid, right?
- ZHDr. Zahi Hawass
Just a tunnel.
- JRJoe Rogan
A tunnel.
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