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Joe Rogan Experience #2321 - Dr. Zahi Hawass
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unidentified
I'll talk to you forever.
joe rogan
I have so many questions.
I'm very excited to meet you.
dr zahi hawass
Same.
joe rogan
I've seen you in documentaries for decades.
So many documentaries.
I've watched so many things about Egypt.
I'm completely fascinated by it.
dr zahi hawass
You know, I will tell you something.
Do you know this guy used to do a radio show late evening?
joe rogan
Art Bell?
The best.
He was the best.
dr zahi hawass
I need to say this on air.
I need to say this story on air.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Are we on air now?
joe rogan
Yeah, we're on air.
dr zahi hawass
Art Bell used every evening to attack me.
joe rogan
He attacked you?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
joe rogan
Oh.
dr zahi hawass
How the Egyptians can move stones.
That's not true.
The Egyptians cannot do that.
Then I was teaching at UCLA, and he called me for an interview.
I said, no, I'm not going to give you an interview until you come to visit me in Egypt.
And he said, okay.
He came with his wife.
I took him to a quarry that we are cutting stones to construct the Sphinx.
Then I brought a stone, eight tons weight.
And I brought a man on the age of 70. And I told this man, cut this stone.
The old man stood above the stone.
You know, stones have weak parts like us.
With a pencil, he drew a line from the beginning to the end.
In the middle, he put a piece of iron.
He cut it for twice.
Acid art, the Egyptian, doesn't use muscles.
They use their brain.
Because the pyramid was the national project of the whole nation.
If you go today, if I take you today with me, and you know, I always tell people this.
I give lectures maybe three, four times a week for American groups.
And I tell them the following.
If you stood in front of the Great Pyramid and you look at it, you will never believe that this pyramid built by human beings.
Why?
Because you don't know.
And number two, if you try to do it today, you will never be able to do it.
Are you going to hire today 10,000 workmen to work for 28 years for nothing?
That was the national project of the whole nation.
joe rogan
I think Art Bell's real...
Concern was how would someone possibly move those stones 4,500 years ago?
dr zahi hawass
Okay.
joe rogan
A lot of questions, right?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
But can I answer you now?
joe rogan
Yes, please.
dr zahi hawass
Listen.
Two examples I will tell you.
The first example happened a 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?
unidentified
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
If you come to Egypt...
Have you been to Egypt?
unidentified
No, I haven't.
dr zahi hawass
You have to.
If you talk about Egypt...
joe rogan
I know, I have to.
dr zahi hawass
You have to come.
unidentified
I know.
dr zahi hawass
But you have to tell me before you come.
joe rogan
I will tell you.
dr zahi hawass
Now...
joe rogan
I promise.
dr zahi hawass
I brought only 10 people.
Because I called the Minister of Culture.
And I told him...
We found an intact tube.
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.
Then I came to the site.
I brought my workmen.
Ten workmen only moved the 20 tons only by wooden sledges.
We found underneath another sarcophagus.
Ten 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 the mummy.
And I told the workman, put everything back.
And I called the minister.
I said, you can bring the press.
We'll open it life.
I never told him that they cheated him.
But only 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 of 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.
joe rogan
Devil?
dr zahi hawass
Devil.
Why?
I don't know.
I asked them.
They said our grandfathers called it like that.
joe rogan
This is an ancient machine?
dr zahi hawass
It is an ancient machine.
joe rogan
Jamie could probably pull it up.
It's probably online.
dr zahi hawass
Then they put this machine under the lid, and they come doing it like this, and they raise the lid a little bit.
When the lid is laced, they put a piece of wood, another piece of wood, until there is a half a feet that I can put my face inside with a flashlight to see what's inside the coffin.
That's what we...
Because the people today are the descendants of the ancient Egyptians.
There is 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 work with me.
I'm executing 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 is why in my lecture tour now, I'm making major important announcements that we'll talk about with you today.
joe rogan
Okay.
What did you find?
dr zahi hawass
Now, you know, can I call you Joe?
joe rogan
Please do.
dr zahi hawass
And you call me Zahi.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Now, you know, I do receive fan emails.
joe rogan
You've received emails?
dr zahi hawass
Fan.
joe rogan
Fan emails.
dr 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 cannot hide anything because people will see you.
And I will tell you a joke.
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 the Great Pyramid of Kufu.
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.
Really, it's what he said.
And you go from the tunnel, To the Great Pyramid.
unidentified
Oh.
dr 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.
This really happened.
He went to my bathroom.
joe rogan
Did he check all the panels?
dr zahi hawass
And he came back.
I said, have you seen any tunnels in my bathroom?
He said, no.
I said, what are you going to do now?
He said, I will publish your bathroom in the internet.
And therefore, if you want to see my bathroom, write W, W. Is that much of an issue?
joe rogan
That people really believe that you had to make a website for it?
dr zahi hawass
They do.
They do believe in this.
And some of them attack me badly.
joe rogan
Well, that's part of the problem, right?
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.
dr zahi hawass
I will tell you.
joe rogan
You will tell me how it was built?
dr zahi hawass
Of course.
Okay.
joe rogan
How do you know?
dr zahi hawass
How do you know?
I found all the evidence of building the pyramid.
We published a book, 1,000 pages.
This book is the Bible of the pyramids of Giza Plateau.
joe rogan
Okay.
Tell me how they did it.
dr zahi hawass
Now.
What we found out, the major problem that people think about pyramids, because most of the information that's written on pyramids are wrong.
joe rogan
Most of it?
dr zahi hawass
Most of it.
joe rogan
In archaeology books?
dr zahi hawass
In archaeology books.
joe rogan
Really?
dr zahi hawass
Except me and Mark Liener.
joe rogan
You guys are the only ones that have it right?
dr zahi hawass
Because I have been working in Gaza for the last 50, 70 years of my life.
I excavated every piece of sand.
joe rogan
Okay, what do the archaeologists have wrong in these archaeologists' books?
dr 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 hired the workmen to work in this pyramid.
This is wrong.
And I will tell you what's correct.
Number two, that the stones used in building the Great Pyramid, How many blocks are there?
Now, let us talk about number one, the workman.
joe rogan
The workman.
dr 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 no slaves.
joe rogan
Is that your phone?
dr zahi hawass
I have to.
I have to.
joe rogan
Yeah, kill that thing.
dr zahi hawass
Kill it.
You're right.
I always, because I do lots of interviews, I always close it.
joe rogan
Oh, I get it.
dr zahi hawass
Except for today.
joe rogan
No worries.
unidentified
Nobody knows how to shut these things off anymore.
dr zahi hawass
Then now, this discovery...
joe rogan
Okay, so explain.
So you found the pyramids?
Excuse me, you found the workers' pyramids' graves a mile away.
dr zahi hawass
Away, one mile south of the pyramids.
joe rogan
And by their names?
dr zahi hawass
Then I found names of the workmen.
I found the lower symmetry.
The lower symmetry were for the burial of the workmen who moved the stones.
And the upper cemetery was for the technicians.
joe rogan
Right.
And how do you know this?
dr zahi hawass
I will tell you.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Now, the tombs down there are very primitive tombs, built from mud brick, cost nothing.
Underneath is a skeleton.
And if the skeleton is for a man, he's holding a beer jar.
He won't drink beer in the afterlife.
If the skeleton is for a woman, she has perfume vessels.
So he wants to have perfume in the afterlife.
Inside the upper cemetery, I found 21 titles in hieroglyphic.
For example, the overseer in hieroglyphic of the side of the pyramid.
joe rogan
Oh, it says that?
The overseer of the side of the pyramid?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
In hieroglyphic.
The overseer of the west side of the pyramid.
Craftsman.
Craftsman.
The one who stand in front of the harbor.
All these titles had to do with building the pyramid.
Inside the tombs, we found the tools that the Egyptians used to cut the stones.
joe rogan
What tools?
dr zahi hawass
Diorite and flint tools.
Because in the Old Kingdom, there was no iron.
joe rogan
Are these photos of these tools available online?
Can we look at them?
dr zahi hawass
Yeah, I can send it to you.
joe rogan
Can we see them online?
dr zahi hawass
No, in my book.
Giza and the pyramids.
I don't know if it's online.
joe rogan
I'm sure it's online.
Jamie will find it.
So these tools were flint and durite?
dr zahi hawass
What is durite?
D-I-O-R-I-T-E.
Durite is more sharp stone than iron.
And it came from a quarry south of Aswan.
joe rogan
So you feel like they used this very hard stone to cut into the ground.
dr zahi hawass
To this cutting the stones.
But let me continue about the workmen.
To the east of the tombs, we found an area for sorting salted fish.
We found an area for the bakery making bread.
We found the workmen barracks for the workmen who want the stones to live.
We found a whole city for the technicians, for the artisans.
And we discovered thousands of animal bones because people always say, That the workmen who built the pyramid, they ate only garlic and bread and drink beer.
And I thought if they do that, they will die.
But now we discovered that they slaughter 11 cows and 33 goats every day.
And this can feed 10,000 workmen a day.
Then we believe now, and I published, that the workmen who built the pyramids were 10,000 workmen.
And they worked every day, and they took one day off every ten days.
Joe, I want to tell you, the pyramid was a national project.
The three millions 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 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.
joe rogan
Even the king's chamber?
dr zahi hawass
No, except the granite in the king's chamber.
joe rogan
And where'd that come from?
dr zahi hawass
From Aswan.
joe rogan
And that's 500 miles away, right?
dr zahi hawass
Yes, by the flood.
joe rogan
And those were 50 to 80 tons?
dr zahi hawass
It doesn't matter.
joe rogan
It doesn't?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
joe rogan
If I was working there, it wouldn't matter.
dr zahi hawass
No, no, because I showed you.
I showed you not only 50 tons.
It's 20 tons.
Now, what we found out, first, how the Egyptians built the pyramid.
They make on the ground a square base.
Okay?
joe rogan
Okay.
dr 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.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
If you tell me, The pyramids built by giants.
Okay?
I'm saying, okay, come to the excavation.
All the skeleton that you discover are five to six feet high.
Nothing about giants.
joe rogan
Who's saying they were built by giants?
dr zahi hawass
Some people say that.
joe rogan
Oh, okay.
dr zahi hawass
The second.
joe rogan
I've heard aliens.
dr zahi hawass
Okay, the second aliens.
If aliens build the pyramids, do they leave any?
Do they shit sometimes?
Aren't they going to shit?
joe rogan
Maybe aliens don't shit.
dr zahi hawass
If they don't shit, are they going to leave something on the ground?
On the contrary, I give you the evidence, every evidence that I will tell you today of actual workers and what's happening.
Now, we come about building the pyramid.
All the stones I told you came from Giza Plateau.
We found out what happened first.
They cut in the sword rock.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
And they made the base.
Of the pyramid to be 28 feet on the solid rock.
No stones.
Do you get this?
joe rogan
Yes.
dr zahi hawass
We have in Egypt 120 pyramids.
We don't have only Kofu pyramids that everyone is talking about.
You have 120 pyramids.
This is one of them.
But the reason...
That this pyramid is so accurate and strong because Giza Plateau is the only site in Egypt of the pyramids.
It's a part of the Mokattam formation.
It has three levels.
Level 1 and 2 are very bad stones.
But level 3 is the top quality of the stones.
The Egyptians used this stone to build the pyramid.
Then after they make the base of the pyramid to be 20 feet of stone, we found out 1,000 feet.
Away, we found out the quarry location.
joe rogan
So they only had to bring the stones 1,000 feet?
dr zahi hawass
Only.
Only the stones that came from outside are the casing stones.
And I will talk about this later.
That came from Torah.
And the granite came from Aswan.
joe rogan
And the casing stones were the outside smooth surface.
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
Came from Torah.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Then now, when we discovered the quarry location, And the base of the pyramid, we thought how they established the ramp.
You know the ramp?
unidentified
Right.
joe rogan
To move?
dr zahi hawass
To move the stones.
joe rogan
Right.
dr zahi hawass
We found out if the Egyptians would make the ramp from the quarry to the base, it will never happen.
Because when you raise the base, you need to extend the ramp.
We found out, listen to this carefully, that the only way to have a pyramid ramp is to come to the south.
West corner of the main pyramid.
They built the ramp like this.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
And I excavated.
And these are photos in my book, Giza and the Pyramids.
I excavated from here to here.
When the Egyptians construct a ramp, when they finish building the pyramid, they demolish the ramp.
They cannot demolish all of it.
They have to leave something in the ground.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Do you get this?
joe rogan
Yes.
dr zahi hawass
I excavated from here to here.
I found in situ remains of the ram.
joe rogan
Are there photos of this?
dr zahi hawass
Of course.
In my book.
joe rogan
Okay, let's find the photos of the equipment first.
Can't find anything?
dr zahi hawass
It's in my book.
joe rogan
What did you find?
jamie vernon
Well, nothing.
joe rogan
Nothing?
How is that not online?
That doesn't even make any sense.
dr zahi hawass
It's in my book, Giza and the pyramids.
unidentified
Maybe look up from his book.
dr zahi hawass
Joe, these are the tombs of the pyramid builders.
joe rogan
Right there.
dr zahi hawass
This is the excavation.
joe rogan
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dr zahi hawass
And this is all what I discovered.
This is my discovery of everything.
Every piece of sand here tells us about the builder of the pyramid.
But let me continue this.
I will come to you now.
Let us, if you go to my book, you will find out that I found here that you write under flint tools.
Listen.
Then now, I will come.
The stones for building the pyramid came from the plateau.
The casing came from Torah.
Now we come to how many years Kuf ruled.
So there is one big discovery happened a few years ago.
joe rogan
Are these the tools?
dr zahi hawass
No, no.
This is tools for artists.
The tools in our book, which is big, do you write tools?
And big flint tools.
Big ones.
joe rogan
Why is this not online?
dr zahi hawass
We'll never put it online.
It's in my book.
joe rogan
Right, but I mean, wouldn't that be everywhere?
I mean, that's such a huge archaeological discovery.
dr zahi hawass
It's not.
It's because it's everywhere.
It's not only in the workmen only.
It's in every site.
You have these tools in many sites.
joe rogan
Right, but why aren't these tools online?
That's all I'm asking.
dr zahi hawass
I ask the people online, but they are in, remains in my book.
joe rogan
Are they in a museum somewhere?
dr zahi hawass
There is some in the Cairo Museum, yes.
joe rogan
So there should be a photograph of them in the museum.
dr zahi hawass
Okay.
joe rogan
What would Jamie look for?
But I don't know, I'm just like asking him.
dr zahi hawass
Now I want to come to...
joe rogan
What museum would have them?
dr zahi hawass
Cairo Museum.
joe rogan
Cairo Museum would have those tools?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Now, a 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.
joe rogan
When did this happen?
dr zahi hawass
Three years ago.
unidentified
Really?
dr zahi hawass
It's called the Wadi al-Jarf papyri.
joe rogan
Oh.
dr zahi hawass
Do you want to know what's in this papyri?
joe rogan
I do.
dr zahi hawass
This papyri was found in Sinai, in a port that belongs to Khufu.
And inside this port, there was caves.
And inside the caves found remains of boat and this big papayri.
Large, huge.
joe rogan
There it is.
dr zahi hawass
That's it, exactly.
Okay?
joe rogan
And what does this say?
dr zahi hawass
Now.
joe rogan
First of all, how old is that?
dr zahi hawass
4,600 years ago.
joe rogan
Isn't that amazing?
dr zahi hawass
And listen.
joe rogan
You can find writing.
4,600.
So papyrus was made with animal skin, correct?
dr zahi hawass
No.
Papyrus was of papyrus from the papyri.
joe rogan
Right.
What is it?
dr zahi hawass
The papyri is just like leaves.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Now, but listen to the papyri.
It is a diary of an overseer of the workman.
His name is Merrer.
M-E-R-E-R.
Okay?
Merrer is saying, I am sahaj and hieroglyphic.
Means inspector.
Under me, working 40 workmans.
I was hired by Khufu to work in his pyramid.
This is in hieroglyphic.
And he said, my immediate boss, his name is Diddy.
joe rogan
Like P. Diddy?
dr zahi hawass
Diddy, yes.
Now, 20 years ago, in my excavation, West of the Great Pyramid of Khufu, I discovered 20 tombs.
joe rogan
Are these the tools?
dr zahi hawass
No, no.
No, these are not the tools.
No, no.
The tools are really sharp type of big tools.
We found some of them.
joe rogan
What is that, Jamie, is looking at?
What are these...
dr zahi hawass
This could be...
The tombs in the left is like them.
In the left here.
joe rogan
That those tools?
dr zahi hawass
No, no, no, no.
More.
No doubt.
No.
joe rogan
Where?
dr zahi hawass
You know, here, there is two.
There is more.
To the left.
To the left.
No.
Again.
joe rogan
What?
dr zahi hawass
These two tools.
joe rogan
You mean up?
dr zahi hawass
Down.
joe rogan
What are you talking about?
dr zahi hawass
The second one.
After this one.
That's it.
Up.
That's it.
And this one.
joe rogan
Oh, those.
dr zahi hawass
Those.
joe rogan
Yeah.
But don't those look exactly like the other photograph we just had?
Those up there.
That looks like the heads of these things.
dr zahi hawass
But this was the smalls.
I'm talking about big ones.
joe rogan
So that's...
dr zahi hawass
These are tools for making statues and things like that, but not cutting the stones.
joe rogan
Oh, I see.
So these are the same kind of tools, though, with the same kind of materials.
dr zahi hawass
But let me talk about the papyri again.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Because many people don't know about this.
unidentified
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
The mayor said...
My boss's name is Didi.
20 years ago, I excavated west of the Great Pyramid of Khufu.
I found 20 tombs, beautiful ones.
I published all of them, except one small tomb I said is not important.
Three years ago, I found this is the tomb of Didi, the person that he was the boss of Merer.
And I published this tomb.
You can find this tomb online now.
It's called Didi's Tomb.
By Zahi Hawass, west of the Great Pyramid of Kufu.
Now, listen, Joe.
What Miller said, I took my workman.
This is hieroglyphic.
We went to Torah to cut the white, fine limestone.
This sentence means that the pyramid was finished.
And Miller went to bring the stones for the casing.
And he said, I'm not alone.
There is many other gangs are cutting the stones.
And Torah is in north and south.
And he said, I divided my gangs to three gangs.
One gang to cut the stones.
And one gang is smoothing the stones.
And smoothing the stones with the right tools to face the stones for the casing.
And after that he said, Group moving the stones in wooden sledges.
joe rogan
This is all in the papyri.
dr zahi hawass
In the papyri.
To a cargo boat.
What happened in the Old Kingdom?
We have evidence that the river Nile, the Egyptian cut to the west of this river Nile, another Nile to be near the pyramid.
From this Nile, they cut a canal.
At the end of the canal, there is a harbor in front of every pyramid.
I discovered in my excavation, in front of Khufu pyramid, there is a village called Naslit Samman.
In this village, the people were building houses.
Underneath the houses, we found basalt walls.
I stopped.
The construction of the houses.
And I excavated the whole area.
I found this is the harbor of Kufu.
And I published this in an article.
And I excavated in front of the Sphinx Temple.
And I found the harbor of Kufrin.
And it's published.
Now, the reason for the canal and the harbor?
To bring non-local stones.
Granite from Aswan.
Alabaster from Middle Egypt.
Diorite from Nubia.
Basalt from Fayyum.
The Egyptians had everything.
joe rogan
So they essentially cut a second canal.
They cut a canal just so they could move the stones to where they wanted them.
dr zahi hawass
And they discovered all of this.
And this is published.
joe rogan
And so this is all the casing stones.
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
joe rogan
Right.
Is it possible that the casing stones were put on later?
dr zahi hawass
No, after you finish building the pyramid.
unidentified
Right.
dr zahi hawass
There is two important things when they finish building the pyramid.
I discovered in a site called Abusir, I discovered two scenes.
One scene where it came in dragging a capstone.
Above the capstone is a hieroglyphic word called jaim.
joe rogan
So where is this?
What is this, sir?
This is in hieroglyphs?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Dragging the capstone?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
Can we see this?
Find out.
I don't know if it's internet or not.
joe rogan
What would Jamie look for?
dr zahi hawass
Look for Zahi Hawa's discovery in Abu Sir.
joe rogan
How much do you think was lost during the burning of the Library of Alexandria?
dr zahi hawass
A lot, of course.
joe rogan
Everything, right?
dr zahi hawass
Everything.
And this is why what I'm telling you, I have been excavating in Giza, Zhou, for the last 57 years.
I know every piece of sand in the site.
And I want to tell you one thing also.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
I am the only Egyptologist who have an open mind.
Really?
You're the only one?
Yes.
I always look at what the public say.
And I will tell you about this later.
I will tell you what I found in the pyramid.
But let me finish this story, and after that I will come back to tell you how I look at what people say, and I try to investigate this.
Now, Miller said, I put the stones on a cargo boat, and we came in the boat to Giza Plateau.
The workman took the stones up to the pyramid.
We slept overnight in Giza.
I got up early in the morning with my workman, went to Torah.
He made many times talking about that.
Then he said, I went to Sinai to bring copper and turquoise.
But he said in Sinai, our big boss, his name is Ankaf.
We know from text that the architect who designed the Great Pyramid, he was Khufu's cousin.
His name was Hem Iono.
Then actually, it seems now that Hem Iyuno died, and Ankaf completed the Great Pyramid and built the second pyramid of his son, Kephren.
Then he said, I'm working in year 27 of Khufu's reign.
He mentioned that Khufu was alive in year 27. How long do you think he reigned for?
28 years.
I published an article.
I published an article about...
You can find this article.
joe rogan
Why was the age 23, 23 years, why was that attributed to them?
dr zahi hawass
No.
This is a good question.
joe rogan
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dr zahi hawass
A shiptolicist has a problem when they count the name of the king.
Because when the ancient Egyptians counted the cattle, they counted the reign of the king.
Sometimes they count the cattle every year.
Sometimes they counted the cattle every two years.
Then we make mistakes.
But now we have year 27 of Kofu's reign.
And we have on the second boat pit that the Japanese are restoring now, we know when the king die, his son bury him.
Then Kofu's son...
His name is Jerry Frey, 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.
Now, Miller 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 pyramid is in Abrawash, the king ruled Egypt from Abrawash.
If the pyramid is in Giza, Giza, Abu Sir, 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 Ankh Khufu, in hieroglyphic, means the Khufu lives.
This is the name of the city, that Khufu lived in it.
And Miller said, we came to Giza in an area.
In a hieroglyphic called Rasheh.
And Rasheh 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 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 is why if you go today to the port of New York, it will take you five hours to enter because it's busy.
And this is what happened at Giza Plateau.
This papyri, in my opinion, is really one of the most important discoveries 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 that people said it's 2 million and 300 Saza blocks.
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 these 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, scientists.
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 than one million.
And the average height of the limestone is half a ton to two and a half tons.
joe rogan
So the base of the pyramid is 20 feet high carved into solid stone.
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
joe rogan
And then the other rocks were placed on top of it.
dr zahi hawass
No, I want to come to when you told me about this capstone, because we did not complete the capstone.
joe rogan
Right, but let's start off with this, though.
The base is 20 feet high, and then the estimation was 2,300,000, but you think it's far less than that?
dr zahi hawass
Because of the new discovery that we found that the base is made of the solid rock.
joe rogan
So before they thought the base was individual stones.
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
joe rogan
Okay.
So now that you know that the base is solid rock, that removes 1,300,000 stones that were necessary.
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
joe rogan
Got it.
So they carved this base knowing they were going to put a pyramid on top of it.
And what about the subterranean chambers?
dr zahi hawass
Every king in Egypt is buried underneath the pyramid.
Every king, except Khufu.
And his father, Senefro.
The only two kings that 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.
joe rogan
Left unfinished in what way?
dr zahi hawass
It was planned to cut it, but they did not complete it.
You can see when you go down that the barrier chamber is not finished.
Why?
joe rogan
Why?
dr 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?
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Khufu, in year five, he said, I am the sun god.
And he abandoned the construction of the first barrier chamber, and he built his chamber within the pyramid because he's a god.
joe rogan
And that's the Queen's Chamber, correct?
dr zahi hawass
No.
joe rogan
The first one.
dr zahi hawass
I'm going to come to these chambers later.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr 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 Sangat.
And the third evidence is something that only occurred at Giza.
The Sphinx.
And its temple.
I found that the Sphinx represent Kephrin, the son of Kufu, giving offering with his two paws to his father, the sun god, Kufu, who rise and sits in this temple, the first sun temple.
And this is why Kufu's pyramid is unique among the 120 pyramids.
And I will tell you what I discovered inside the pyramid now.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr 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.
You stopped doing that.
Above the capstone, there is a hieroglyphic word called Jaim.
And Jaim means white and yellow gold.
A second scene I found, Ladies dancing.
And they call them the khener.
And the khener are the dance troupe of the king.
My interpretation of these two scenes.
When the pyramid was finished, the king asked the workmen to put the capstone in the top of the pyramid.
When they put the capstone in the top of the pyramid, caged with gold, the whole country danced.
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.
joe rogan
This is your theory.
dr zahi hawass
Not a theory.
joe rogan
No?
dr zahi hawass
It's fact.
It is a fact.
The pyramid.
What's the national project?
joe rogan
No, that's not what I mean.
I mean, it's your theory that the capstone was put on and...
dr zahi hawass
It's not a theory.
It's based on evidence.
I found the scenes.
joe rogan
The papyri?
dr zahi hawass
No, the papyri is something else.
joe rogan
What are the scenes?
It's blocks.
dr zahi hawass
Limestone blocks.
One scene working and dragging a capstone with the word jime.
joe rogan
Is this written in limestone blocks?
Is that what you're saying?
dr zahi hawass
No, it shows the working and dragging a stone.
joe rogan
Shows it where?
dr zahi hawass
In the stone that I discovered.
joe rogan
So it's carved into the stone.
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
And the word Jaim in hieroglyphic above that.
joe rogan
Where is that at?
dr zahi hawass
It's in Abu Sir.
I found it.
joe rogan
But are there photographs online?
dr zahi hawass
Yes, in my book.
I don't go online.
Why do I have to go online?
I go to my book.
joe rogan
No, I understand.
But for everybody else that doesn't have immediate access to your book.
dr zahi hawass
Did you find them online?
It's called the Abu Sir blocks.
Abu Sir.
joe rogan
How do you think they got the stones from the King's Chamber 500 miles away and put them 120 feet up in the ceiling?
dr zahi hawass
I told you, if you come today and see how the workmen move 20 tons of granite, you'll understand.
joe rogan
Workers today?
dr zahi hawass
Yes, today like yesterday.
The same workman.
Okay.
joe rogan
Right, but...
dr zahi hawass
Now, Joe, listen, listen, listen, listen.
unidentified
If they're doing it today, they have access to modern machinery, right?
If you don't...
No!
joe rogan
They don't?
dr zahi hawass
No!
It's everything based on the idea of the national project.
They want to make this for the king.
joe rogan
I understand the national project, but what I don't understand is the physics involved in moving 80-ton blocks 500 miles through the mountains.
dr zahi hawass
If you don't believe...
On this.
joe rogan
It's not that I don't believe.
I just want to know.
dr zahi hawass
Hold on.
joe rogan
It's not that I don't believe.
I want you to explain to me how you think they did it.
dr zahi hawass
I explained to you.
joe rogan
From 500 miles away, 50 to 80 ton blocks.
dr zahi hawass
This comes through the Nile.
You can bring all the stones.
joe rogan
Right, but the quarries are in the mountains, right?
dr zahi hawass
No, the quarries, the granite quarries in Aswan, and we have cutting of the obelisks, and cutting of the stones, and cutting of everything in the site.
And they brought, when the flood comes in July, they bring boats through the flood, they bring all the stones.
joe rogan
So they plan things for the floods, and then they would figure out some sort of a raft system to get them on, and then move them that way.
dr zahi hawass
We now do not believe that this cannot be moved by a human being, okay?
But on the other side, what I can tell you, inside, above these blocks, written the names of the gangs who built the pyramid, above the king's chamber.
One of the names, Friendless of Khufu, I did a 3D few months ago.
And we recorded in the five chambers that has these huge blocks.
We found two more names of the gangs.
One name called those who are connected with the goodness wadjet.
And written year 13 of Kofu's reign on the third chamber.
I took Mr. Beast with me two months ago.
I took him and I showed him how these blocks, they were written.
By the workmen before they move these stones.
And in the fourth room, we have the good God.
Another name was year 13 of Kofuzray.
This is when they move the stones.
joe rogan
So I understand what you're saying.
So you're saying that they took these stones, they waited for the flood season, they got these stones on rafts, they moved them down the river, they got them to the site.
How did they get them 120 feet in the air?
dr zahi hawass
You know...
Again, this is the most important thing.
This is the national project.
joe rogan
Oh, I understand.
It was very valuable to them.
I just wondered what technology was used.
dr zahi hawass
No technology.
joe rogan
Well, technology is tools.
Technology is levers.
Whatever they had at the time was their current technology.
dr zahi hawass
The huge wooden slidges.
joe rogan
Huge wooden sledges.
dr zahi hawass
This is the only way that today we move huge stones.
This is how my workmen moved 20 tons of sarcophagus in a tomb.
joe rogan
How far did they move it?
dr zahi hawass
They moved it just a few feet away.
But we have scenes of how workmen move 60 tons of statue.
How they move with their sledges.
joe rogan
Right.
dr zahi hawass
And they draw it.
joe rogan
Yeah, I've seen those scenes.
unidentified
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
Then we have all this type of scene that the Egyptians show that.
Again, this is the national project.
joe rogan
Do you think they wet the ground?
Do you think that they did something like that to make the ground more slick so they can pull it?
Yes.
They do.
And then are they using sleds?
dr zahi hawass
Sledges.
Wooden sleds.
joe rogan
And then you just slowly but surely pulled it into position.
dr zahi hawass
We have this in the tombs, this wooden slidges.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
But let me take you now to what I began to reveal, the secret of Gufu pyramid.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr 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 an inspector of the pyramid, director of...
I spent most of my life there.
Then I closed this pyramid for a year to stop humidity.
joe rogan
To stop humidity?
dr zahi hawass
Because every person...
joe rogan
All the breathing?
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
Enter and set the pyramid, gives about 20 grams of water.
And this water becomes salt.
Then mechanically, I removed the salt.
joe rogan
You got to clean the walls.
dr 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.
20 per 20 centimeter only.
Small tunnel.
joe rogan
Right.
dr 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.
joe rogan
What'd you find out?
dr zahi hawass
Then 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 interplugged.
And this is 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 sucked the air and pushed it in the tunnel, and we made a ventilation system in the pyramids.
joe rogan
Discovery of these stones, what was unusual about the way they were placed?
dr zahi hawass
What stones?
joe rogan
You said they interlocked?
dr zahi hawass
Interblocked.
joe rogan
Interblocked?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
What do you mean by that?
joe rogan
Oh.
Like fingers.
Okay.
So there's like different levels and they all slid in together?
dr zahi hawass
How they put the stones with each other.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
But now the most important, that I took the robot to the secondary chamber.
Now we know.
That the tunnel in the first chamber are open outside.
joe rogan
Open outside.
dr zahi hawass
I said, why?
We have these tunnels in the second chamber.
They call it wrong in the queen chamber.
unidentified
Right.
dr zahi hawass
Then we took the robot to the northern tunnel of the queen chamber.
After 60 feet, the robot stopped because the tunnel was bending to the left and the German robot could not bend.
Then we took the robot to the south tunnel.
The robot went for 200 feet, stopped in front of a door with two cover handles.
That was the first discovery.
Now, I began to think, how can I find out what's behind this door?
In 2002, I was chosen By the National Geographic as explorer in residence.
We're nine explorers.
With them, with us, was Bill Billard, who found Titanic.
Each explorer had a dream.
I told them, I need you to design a robot for me.
I want to find out what's behind this door.
And they did make a robot, and they called it Pyramid Rover.
We took the Pyramid Rover, and the robot went in the south tunnel, and the robot had a drilling on his hand.
The robot opened one hole, one centimeter and one millimeter, and sent an optic camera through this hole.
We found, after 21 centimeters of this door, a second one.
And the second one, Has an iggy shaped like that.
As if it's hiding something.
Then after that, we went to the northern tunnel that was bending.
We found out it's bending north and south for 24 feet.
And the reason for the bending was to avoid the Grand Gallery.
At 200 feet, the robot stopped in front of a third door.
With two cover handles in the same distance of this one.
joe rogan
And these doors are very small, right?
dr zahi hawass
Very small, 20 by 20 centimeters.
Now, I spent most of my life from 2002 until 2024, last year.
I found a team from England.
And we worked it last year for three seasons.
Number one, I found out above the King of Chamber, a big void.
I'm sorry, above the Grand Gallery.
This void, the size of two trucks.
Now, the second void.
Behind the northern tunnel, another small void.
Inside this void, we can see hieroglyphic inscriptions.
unidentified
Really?
joe rogan
So those are the only hieroglyphics on the Great Pyramid, right?
dr zahi hawass
And I can show you the footage.
joe rogan
Do you have the footage here?
dr zahi hawass
If you can come to my lecture.
joe rogan
Oh, come on, man.
dr zahi hawass
In Houston.
joe rogan
What about right here, right now?
dr zahi hawass
I can send it to you.
joe rogan
Where do you have it?
Do you have it on you?
dr zahi hawass
In my computer.
joe rogan
Where's your computer?
dr zahi hawass
In Las Vegas.
joe rogan
Oh, well, fuck.
dr zahi hawass
But I can send it to you.
joe rogan
Yeah, but I want to show it on the show.
dr zahi hawass
Show it in the show.
I can send it tomorrow.
joe rogan
Okay, you can send it tomorrow?
unidentified
Yes.
joe rogan
Okay, we'll splice it in, folks.
dr zahi hawass
Then tomorrow I will send it to you.
joe rogan
Please do.
Okay, I'll give you my email.
I'll give you Jamie's email.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah, give me...
But you should come and...
Can you come and introduce me here in Houston?
joe rogan
Excuse me?
Can I introduce you in Houston?
No, I cannot.
dr zahi hawass
Why?
joe rogan
Because I'm very busy.
dr zahi hawass
Okay, fine.
joe rogan
If I had known in advance, I could have.
Oh, fine, fine, fine.
Unfortunately, I don't have any free time, Zahi.
dr zahi hawass
Zahi.
Not Zahi.
joe rogan
Zahi.
dr zahi hawass
Then now...
joe rogan
Mr. Hawass.
dr zahi hawass
Then now, what we are going to do?
joe rogan
So this is the only pyramid, can I ask you, though?
This...
Hieroglyphics inside this chamber that you've discovered, these are the only hieroglyphics in the Great Pyramid, is that correct?
dr zahi hawass
No, there is in the five chambers, I told you.
joe rogan
Oh, in the other chambers?
dr zahi hawass
I told you, in the five chambers, now we have five names of the Genghis who built the pyramids.
joe rogan
These are all recent discoveries?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
joe rogan
Within how long?
How recent?
dr zahi hawass
This void as last year, 2024.
The hieroglyphic discovery or three months ago.
joe rogan
So all this is very...
Isn't that fascinating that you've been studying the pyramids for so long and you're still finding things?
dr zahi hawass
But listen to me what I'm going to do.
joe rogan
What are you going to do?
dr zahi hawass
There's a friend of mine.
His name is Leslie Greif.
Leslie is from Hollywood.
He did with me many live TV shows and he did with me Chasing Mummies.
And Leslie now is working to find a network.
To come, we need to do this program live.
I want to show the whole world what I discovered inside the pyramid.
That we are not hiding anything.
I want to show them the hieroglyphic.
joe rogan
Why do you always feel like you're in battle with people?
Because they attack me.
dr zahi hawass
I'm not in a battle with people.
They are in a battle with me.
joe rogan
I understand that.
But I'm giving you an opportunity to just lay things out.
You don't have to argue with people that aren't here.
dr zahi hawass
I'm not arguing.
joe rogan
Fuck those people.
dr zahi hawass
I'm not arguing.
joe rogan
You know what I'm saying?
I'm just fascinated by the discovery itself.
So what does it look like, these hieroglyphs?
I know you can read hieroglyphs, right?
dr zahi hawass
Is that science?
joe rogan
You can read that stuff.
dr zahi hawass
Yes, but the signs are not clear.
joe rogan
It's not clear?
dr zahi hawass
No.
We need to do more investigation in September.
joe rogan
Is it a difficulty in seeing inside there?
dr zahi hawass
You know, because when the Egyptians write inside...
The Five Chambers, for example, they don't write hieroglyphic.
They write a cursive hieroglyphic.
It's called hieratic.
And this hieratic, Joe, it's very difficult to read from outside.
joe rogan
What does that look like?
dr zahi hawass
It's a cursive of the hieroglyphic.
joe rogan
Let me see what that looks like, Jim.
That's fascinating.
dr zahi hawass
No, this is hieroglyphic.
joe rogan
This is hieroglyphic.
That's hieratic.
dr zahi hawass
We need to talk about hieratic.
joe rogan
On the right, on the right-hand side, it says hieratic.
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
Look at the one on the right, this hieratic.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Then it's very difficult.
joe rogan
God, that's so beautiful.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah.
joe rogan
What a beautiful language.
Like, the way it's written, it looks like art.
dr zahi hawass
Then, Joe, what we're going to do before the end of this year, we are going to show what's inside this void's life.
joe rogan
Can you keep that up, Jamie?
These symbols that look like...
Make that larger, please.
These symbols to the far left that were right below Jamie's cursor.
Right there.
Like, what are those supposed to be?
dr zahi hawass
They are signs.
joe rogan
But what does it mean?
dr zahi hawass
Look, this...
joe rogan
It looks like a device or something.
dr zahi hawass
The one down means sish for a determinant of a scribe.
joe rogan
What is the one that his cursive...
It looks like a stop sign.
dr zahi hawass
It's for a scribe.
joe rogan
A scribe.
unidentified
Yeah.
joe rogan
What does it mean?
dr zahi hawass
Scribe.
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Sish.
joe rogan
It means a scribe.
dr zahi hawass
Sish.
joe rogan
Okay.
I understand.
So, and then the other one on the hieratic, that's the cursive version of that.
dr zahi hawass
I'm not that expert in hieratic.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Because hieratic is very cursive.
joe rogan
I understand, but I think this is showing that, right?
dr zahi hawass
I know.
But we, if you look at the signs in the five chambers that I will send it to you tomorrow, it's very difficult to read.
But you can see they are hieratic, cursive signs.
joe rogan
Got it.
dr zahi hawass
But the most important that we are going to show this life.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
Okay, so people don't even know, and you're going to show all this stuff live.
dr zahi hawass
We will do it live.
But the other thing, we have another team called ScanPyramids team.
They are scientists from Japan, France, and Egypt.
I am the scientific director who really, if they discover something, they come to me.
I have to discuss it with them.
And they found.
You know, The pyramid.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
You have the entrance that the people use now is the entrance that the Arabs opened.
joe rogan
That's in the north face, correct?
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
Above that is the main chamber.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
The team are using very sophisticated techniques like ultrasound, infrared.
With these techniques, you do not need any more to drill.
You can really see what's behind the door.
And this is really what I'm using right now.
Then they came to me and they said, behind the main entrance of the pyramid, there is a corridor.
And they showed to me this corridor clear in the five techniques that they're using.
But they told me why I have to see it.
Let's go up there.
We went up there.
And they sent an optic camera through the stones.
And they found, I could look at the corridor, 30 feet long, 8 feet wide, topped with chevron shape.
I think you can see that in the internet, the corridor behind the main entrance of the pyramid.
Can you get it?
It's in the internet, I'm sure.
joe rogan
This void above the Grand Gallery?
dr zahi hawass
The size of two trucks.
joe rogan
What do you think that is?
dr zahi hawass
I have no idea.
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Fascinating.
dr zahi hawass
I'm just telling you what I found.
This was the Great Pyramid.
I did more work on the Third Pyramid with the same techniques and the Second Pyramid.
This is the void.
Can you see it?
joe rogan
Wow, that's incredible.
dr zahi hawass
And bring the other big void above the Grand Gallery.
I think you'll see it also.
joe rogan
So find the void above the Grand Gallery, Jamie.
So it's two trucks?
dr zahi hawass
The size of two trucks.
joe rogan
The size of two semi-trucks.
And do you have any idea, like, what the inside...
dr zahi hawass
I will tell you about my theory.
joe rogan
Please do.
dr zahi hawass
I think it's here.
joe rogan
So that's the void.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah.
joe rogan
And it's in that direction, so it's at a slope?
dr zahi hawass
It's above the Grand Gallery.
That's it.
joe rogan
That's it.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah.
The Scan Pyramid Project.
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Now, I tell you my theory.
joe rogan
Please do.
dr zahi hawass
We have a story written in hieroglyphic, but not at the time of Khufu.
It's after Khufu.
The story, it's written in a papyri.
It's called Khufu and the Magician.
It said that Khufu was staying in his palace, and he was very upset.
He was not happy.
And his son came to him.
Your Majesty, why are you unhappy?
He said, I'm searching for the secret of the God of wisdom.
Then I can design my barrier chamber in the pyramid.
Then his son told him, I know a magician.
His name is Jedi.
He knows how to cut the head of a man off and put it back.
And he knows the secret of the gattoth, the god of wisdom.
joe rogan
He knows how to cut the head of a man off and put it back, but is the guy still alive?
Is that what he's saying?
dr zahi hawass
No, this is what the son is telling his father.
joe rogan
I understand that.
dr zahi hawass
That Jedi can do that.
joe rogan
A lot of people can cut a guy's head off and put it back.
dr zahi hawass
But listen to the story.
This is the story.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
The king told his son, bring this to me.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
They describe him as 100 years old, and he drink 1,000 beers, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Jedi came in front of the king.
And Kung Fu told him, I heard that you can cut the head of a man off.
He said, yes, your majesty.
He said, do it.
He said, Jedi said, I cannot do it with a human being.
He said, okay, I will bring you a prisoner.
Jedi said, a prisoner is a human being.
Then he brought him a goose.
He took the head of the goose up in front of everyone.
And the head came back, and the goose was running in front of everyone.
That's written in the story.
Do you believe that?
I come back to what's believed that now.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
And the king told him, I want to know the secret of the Gantoth to design my burial chamber.
He told him that.
This secret will not be in your hand.
It will be in the hand of another people who will rule Egypt.
Khufu was very upset.
joe rogan
So he wouldn't give him the secret because that secret won't just be in your hands.
It'll get into other people's hands and it's dangerous.
dr zahi hawass
The king was unhappy.
He told them, don't worry, your majesty, because you will rule and your sons and your grandson.
Now.
About magic.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
Do you believe in religion or not?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
Okay.
Do you know about Judaism?
joe rogan
Sure, a little bit.
dr zahi hawass
When God told Moses, when Moses met God and God told him to go to Egypt to meet the Pharaoh, and God told him, remember, the Pharaohs are highly in magic.
joe rogan
Right.
dr zahi hawass
They will beat you.
Then God taught Moses how to be more in magic than the Pharaoh.
And you remember, when he heard the stick, and the stick became a snake, I think.
And Moses brought more snakes to swallow what the Pharaoh did.
Then we know from books, from Judaism from the beginning, that the ancient Egyptians were really highly in magic.
Then we can believe...
joe rogan
Do you think that that magic might have had something to do with how they constructed the pyramids?
No?
dr zahi hawass
No.
joe rogan
But if you believe that they had enough magic to take a goose's head and put it back on and still alive, that's magic.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah.
joe rogan
Wouldn't they use that magic for other things?
dr zahi hawass
But we have.
joe rogan
But if you believe in magic.
dr zahi hawass
I do, of course.
joe rogan
You do believe in magic.
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Yeah.
joe rogan
So you believe that someone could take someone's head off, put it back on.
dr zahi hawass
It's written.
joe rogan
Okay, then it must be true.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah.
joe rogan
All right.
Yeah.
What is this?
Someone's going to kill a dove?
jamie vernon
It's a magic trick.
It can decapitate birds and stuff.
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Oh.
dr zahi hawass
Okay.
jamie vernon
Put it back together.
I was just reading it.
Apparently on the trick, he did it.
He put the head on the other side of the room and made him come back together.
He did it to a calf and a different animal also.
dr zahi hawass
Now, what really I want to tell you now.
joe rogan
Well, that person's magic too.
dr zahi hawass
Maybe that person can make us a pyramid.
Now, what I want to show you, that I'm not a person.
joe rogan
What do you think magic is?
dr zahi hawass
Magic is magic.
What do you mean?
What do you think magic is?
joe rogan
Well, how does it work?
dr zahi hawass
I have no idea.
What do you mean by how it works?
joe rogan
Well, I mean, how does someone do something like that?
dr zahi hawass
I have no idea.
We have to go back.
joe rogan
Physically and biologically impossible.
dr zahi hawass
We have to go back to 4,600 years ago.
joe rogan
And do you think a lot of this information is what was lost in the burning of the Library of Alexandria?
dr zahi hawass
Of course.
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Because they kept unbelievably detailed records, right?
dr zahi hawass
But still also, you know, because I will tell you, Hawaii would not have any evidence about Khufu.
Timbles and things like that.
Because what happened?
The ancient Egyptians believed that a pharaoh should be a male.
A pharaoh cannot be a female.
Anyone who changed the religious belief, they hate him.
When she became a pharaoh, they hated her.
And they destroyed her monuments.
When he changed his cult to be a sun god, In the first intermediate period, they destroyed his monuments, the temples, the statues.
The only statue of that king was found in Upper Egypt, not at Giza.
Even in the temple of his sons, there were 23 statues.
They smashed the statues.
Smashing was a sign of revenge.
Now, do you have any question about...
Kofu pyramid before I switch to the Sphinx?
joe rogan
Well, I'm fascinated by a lot of aspects of Kofu's pyramid.
Well, one of the big ones that's come up very recently that I'm sure you're aware of is these satellite radar.
Was it called tomographic?
What is it called?
Tomographic?
Where they think that there's these pillars underneath the structure.
dr zahi hawass
Okay.
I investigated this.
First of all, these two scholars from Italy, they have never been in Egypt.
They have never worked in the pyramids before.
joe rogan
Right.
They're using satellite information.
dr zahi hawass
Number two, they published their article in a journal.
This journal does not send their article to the freeze.
You pay a fee to publish the article.
In your responsibility.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
Number three, I am not a scientist.
I took these techniques that they used and I gave it to expertise.
And they said, these techniques cannot show underneath a solid rock of almost 600 feet down.
No way!
joe rogan
Why can't they?
dr zahi hawass
They said this technique cannot show that.
joe rogan
But these scientists are saying they can.
Do you know about the OSIRIS shaft?
How they've got a...
I just covered it.
Yeah, you did, right?
But do you know that they use this tomographic radar?
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No!
dr zahi hawass
No, I am the one who found it.
joe rogan
No, I understand you found it.
But they also discovered it.
They showed that it exists using the same technique?
dr zahi hawass
No!
joe rogan
No!
dr zahi hawass
This is wrong.
This is not true at all.
I can tell you how I found it.
How can I find it?
joe rogan
I'm not saying that you didn't find it.
It's under the paper, signature, aperture, radar, Doppler tomography.
By Filippo Bondi.
And if you scroll down, Jamie, you'll see an image.
And this image is of the Osiris shaft, which shows that they got an accurate depiction of that from space.
dr zahi hawass
That's not true.
joe rogan
It's not true.
So what are you saying?
That they're lying?
They're lying.
dr zahi hawass
They're completely lying.
joe rogan
But if they're showing, using these techniques, things that we know that you discovered that absolutely exist.
dr zahi hawass
Now, these techniques, as I told you, Scientists said that these techniques cannot show 600 feet under the pyramid.
The Ozeri shaft that they found was only 50 feet under the ground.
joe rogan
Right, but it's showing at least for 50 feet that this is accurate.
What makes you believe those scientists rather than these guys from Italy?
dr zahi hawass
Because the scientists are scientists.
joe rogan
Well, these are scientists as well.
dr zahi hawass
They are not showing their techniques carefully.
They have not.
joe rogan
What do you mean they're not showing their techniques carefully?
dr zahi hawass
Take the techniques that they said and show it to any scientist.
No one, no one can tell you this is accurate.
I ask every person who knows about radar, ultrasound, all the people who work with me, the ScanPyramid project, they say this is bullshit.
It cannot happen.
At all.
Now, tell me.
joe rogan
So you're telling me that these scientists that are proclaiming the capabilities of these satellite tomography devices that are saying that they can...
See kilometers into the ground with this stuff.
dr zahi hawass
That's not true.
I did.
joe rogan
Are you sure?
dr zahi hawass
I did.
joe rogan
Do you understand the technology?
dr zahi hawass
No, not me.
joe rogan
So you're just listening to other people.
dr zahi hawass
But I asked scientists who are in this field.
joe rogan
Have you talked to these scientists that are saying that they have these discoveries?
dr zahi hawass
I sent, I made a press release.
joe rogan
But did you talk to them?
dr zahi hawass
I did not.
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Why not?
dr zahi hawass
Because they did not talk to me.
How can I find them?
joe rogan
Would you be willing to talk to them if I can connect you to them?
dr zahi hawass
Yes, do.
joe rogan
Okay, I'll connect you to them.
I'm just interested, if new technology becomes available and they figure out a way to look into the ground and you discover things, especially if they discover the Osiris shaft and it turns to actually be accurate.
dr zahi hawass
They don't discover the Osiris shaft again.
joe rogan
Okay, you discovered it, but they use their technology to show an accurate depiction of the interior of the Osiris shaft.
dr zahi hawass
Joe, the Osiris shaft is true?
No.
joe rogan
It's not.
dr zahi hawass
The Osiris shaft is known to everyone.
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Right.
dr zahi hawass
It can be seen by everyone.
joe rogan
But when they turn their equipment on the Osiris shaft, it shows the actual interior.
dr zahi hawass
Maybe.
I don't know.
But this is 50 feet.
joe rogan
Let's look at it again.
dr zahi hawass
But it took about 600 feet.
joe rogan
I understand.
But if it can go 50 feet, why can't it go 600 feet?
dr zahi hawass
Now, again, I'm not a scientist.
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Right.
joe rogan
So why are you dismissing it, though?
dr zahi hawass
I gave.
What they published to a scientist and they said that's not true.
joe rogan
But scientists are wrong all the time, particularly ones that are biased, correct?
dr zahi hawass
Then what I did, I made a brief release explaining my point.
And I said, my work of the second pyramid, that the base of the pyramid is 28 feet of solid rock.
And there is no way.
That anything can be happened in the solid rock.
And I explained...
joe rogan
I think what they're saying is it's underneath the solid rock, correct?
dr zahi hawass
Let me finish.
And I said, your techniques that you published in this magazine is not referred by scientists.
You just published it.
And number three, the team that working in Giza with all these new techniques, they said, this is wrong.
And they know...
joe rogan
The team that's working in Giza with all these techniques, what do you mean?
dr zahi hawass
We have the scan pyramid team.
joe rogan
Right.
dr zahi hawass
They're working...
joe rogan
But you understand this is different technology.
dr zahi hawass
I understand, but they know about this technology.
joe rogan
But have they used this technology?
dr zahi hawass
They said this technology cannot work, cannot show 600 feet under the pyramid at all.
This is what they said.
And this is why if the Italians...
We're confident they could contact me.
I'm the pyramid expert that anyone should...
joe rogan
Well, we'll make sure that happens.
But listen, if the stone is 20 feet thick, the solid stone at the base, that's correct, right?
And you said Osiris shaft is 50 feet.
That means it can see past 20 feet.
Right?
dr zahi hawass
But how can I...
joe rogan
So I can see through the stone and see what they're showing repeated over and over again.
dr zahi hawass
The Osiris shaft is open.
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Right.
dr zahi hawass
It's not covered to see.
joe rogan
I understand.
dr zahi hawass
You can go and you see the Osiris shaft down.
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Right.
dr zahi hawass
Everyone can see it.
joe rogan
But the interior is not open.
And the interior is visible.
dr zahi hawass
But you can see the interior.
joe rogan
But you can't see it to the exact dimensions the way these tomographic images showed, right?
If they're using this technology to go 50 feet under the ground...
dr zahi hawass
I'm telling you, I am not a scientist.
joe rogan
I understand so, but this is my question.
Why would you dismiss it if you haven't looked under there?
dr zahi hawass
Because I told you, it is not me who can dismiss this.
joe rogan
What does it say, Jeremy?
jamie vernon
This is the link to the original article, I believe.
There's their names.
The very first sentence says that...
Due to the more penetrating action of electromagnetic waves inside solid bodies, the capability to observe these distributed targets is precluded.
And then they had to come up with an experimental...
It says experimental results are estimated by processing the SAR images into something else.
So I think that's the disconnect I'm hearing.
joe rogan
Yeah, I don't understand the technology, but my question is...
We know how spectacular the pyramids are.
We know how spectacular just the base of it, the fact that it's carved into solid rock.
Why would you not think that maybe other spectacular things exist even below it?
dr zahi hawass
I told you I am not this type knows about the science.
I consulted the team, the top in the world from Japan.
France and Egypt.
joe rogan
Who are these people?
dr zahi hawass
They are the ScanPyramid team.
joe rogan
Okay.
The ScanPyramid.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah.
joe rogan
The ones that found the...
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
joe rogan
...the chamber above.
dr zahi hawass
And they are working with me.
And we found many other things in the second pyramid and the third pyramid.
And we published this.
We just published an article last week.
joe rogan
Using different techniques, right?
dr zahi hawass
Then what I am saying, if these techniques, that these two Italians are correct, the only people who really can tell you...
It's correct or not, are the scan pyramid people, not me.
joe rogan
But the scan pyramid people, aren't they using different technology?
dr zahi hawass
But they know about technology.
They are the top scientists in the world.
I have to believe them, not the two Italians.
And if the Italians are really correct, they could come to talk to us.
Not me.
To talk to me and others.
joe rogan
I will definitely try to connect you with those people because I know that Graham Hancock and Brian Mirorescu have been in contact with those people.
And they're open-minded about it.
They don't know what's going on down there, but these images are repeated over and over and over again.
dr zahi hawass
Fine.
But they...
joe rogan
Fascinating.
Either way.
Okay.
The whole...
One of the fascinating things about...
Egypt to me is the fact that it's not just so much more advanced in terms of construction than anywhere else in the world, but that it's still to this day, like nothing even close has ever been even attempted to this day.
What do you think?
What was going on back then as far as their capabilities and their understanding that led them to do something so spectacular that other people 4,500 years ago...
dr zahi hawass
Again, the belief of the afterlife built Egypt.
joe rogan
Right.
But they also had to have the understanding of engineering and construction and design.
dr zahi hawass
To do this belief of the afterlife, to build the pyramid, as I told you.
This was a national project of the whole nation.
joe rogan
No, I understand it's a national project, but they have to acknowledge, right?
dr zahi hawass
You can talk about this pyramid if it exists alone.
When you come to Egypt and you go through time, you will see that everything gradually.
There is no gap that you can...
joe rogan
What do you mean by that?
dr zahi hawass
There is no gap for anyone to think something different.
joe rogan
Well, I don't think anybody's saying that.
Well, maybe some people are.
Some people do.
But, I mean, it's all the Egyptians, obviously.
It was in Egypt.
I mean, it's the Egyptians that made it.
It's pretty obvious.
That just seems obvious.
dr zahi hawass
Then, if you believe in that, I'm happy to hear this from you.
joe rogan
Well, I just think whenever people say it's aliens, they're like, where's the proof of that?
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
joe rogan
Also, they built a lot of spectacular things.
Like, no ifs, ands, or buts.
Just the statues, just the faces of the pharaohs with incredible symmetry.
dr zahi hawass
Since you are interested in Egypt, we would like to invite you to come to Egypt.
joe rogan
I want to come.
dr zahi hawass
We are willing to invite you.
joe rogan
I'm willing to go.
dr zahi hawass
Okay, tell me when, and I will arrange everything for you.
joe rogan
Okay, we'll hook it up.
dr zahi hawass
But now, I want to come to the Sphinx also.
Can we talk about the Sphinx?
joe rogan
Yes, please.
dr zahi hawass
Now, you know, when I was young, I was met by the Edgar Cayce son.
joe rogan
The psychic guy.
dr zahi hawass
Julian Cayce.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
And Julian Cayce was the son of Edgar Cayce.
I was young.
I really don't know what this Cayce had.
When he came to Egypt and talked about me, about his father, you know about Edgar Cayce.
Yeah.
joe rogan
He had a vision that there was a chamber underneath the Sphinx's paw.
dr zahi hawass
Underneath the right paw of the Sphinx, there is a chamber.
joe rogan
And he envisioned that, correct?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
And this is why I'm going to Virginia Beach 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 these things, I really, as I told you, I have an open mind.
And I did search.
I found inside the Sphinx four tunnels.
One behind the stela.
They call it dream stela between the two balls of the Sphinx.
And the second one behind the head in the top.
joe rogan
There's actually a door in the top of the head.
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No, no, no.
dr zahi hawass
Just a tunnel.
joe rogan
A tunnel.
dr zahi hawass
25 feet.
joe rogan
Isn't it closed off, though?
dr zahi hawass
No, yeah, it's closed.
joe rogan
Yeah, there's like a door on the top of it, right?
dr zahi hawass
It's not a door, no.
joe rogan
A lid?
dr zahi hawass
It's just a tunnel.
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Okay, but it's closed off.
dr zahi hawass
You cannot go up to the Sphinx.
That's why we have to cover it, because it will take rubbish and garbage.
joe rogan
Well, that's the top.
That's what I'm talking about.
Isn't that the top of it?
dr zahi hawass
Is this the Sphinx?
Yes, that's it.
joe rogan
Okay, that's a lid, right?
dr zahi hawass
Yeah, we covered it.
joe rogan
Okay.
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
But we covered it.
joe rogan
Got it.
dr zahi hawass
To protect it from the sand.
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I understand.
dr zahi hawass
But it's not a door.
joe rogan
Okay.
It's a lid.
dr zahi hawass
The third tunnel that I found in the back.
joe rogan
Now, Edgar Cayce, he had this vision that there was some hall of information.
dr zahi hawass
I know, but I'm going to come to this now.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
But I'm talking to you about the tunnels now.
And the third one is in the tail.
The fourth one was opened in 1927.
By a French, his name is Monsieur Berets, and I do have photos of workmen inside the Sphinx.
We found these four tunnels are published.
An article, a scientific article, I found in situ, in all the four tunnels of pottery, in situ, to prove that these tunnels were opened.
On Dynasty 25, 500 BC, as in the late period, when the Egyptians saw the Sphinx, they thought there is something hidden underneath, and they dug, and they found nothing.
Now, we come to the Edgar Cayce and what people believe, because we had John Antinous and we had many New Age people who believe there is something hidden underneath us.
I said, how can I let someone who's not an archaeologist, who's not a scientist, to drill?
No way!
But recently, I found out the rise of the water table in front of the Sphinx.
And I was really afraid.
That the water could damage the Sphinx.
Then I brought a team from Kyrie University and we did drill 30 to 35 feet underneath the Sphinx everywhere.
And I do have photos of everywhere under the Sphinx.
The Sphinx is a solid rock or a living rock and there is nothing underneath.
joe rogan
So there's no tunnels?
dr zahi hawass
No tunnels.
Exactly.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
I told you water.
joe rogan
What do you think about Robert Schock and his theory about the temple and the erosion outside of the Sphinx, that it's water erosion?
dr zahi hawass
When Schock said that, okay, we brought through the American Research Center a scientist from Louisville University.
I don't remember his name now.
And we gave him what Robert Schock...
You know what Robert Schock said?
It's not a theory.
It's a theory of a New Age guy who talked about this before, and John Anton West brought Schock.
I don't remember who.
Then we gave this guy from Louisville University.
He was an Indian-American who really studied.
He came to the Schinks, and he worked with us for a season.
And he came and we published many articles that the erosion that you see outside and inside the Sphinx is from wind and not from water.
Now, what shock want to say that this is dated back 15,000 years ago?
I agree.
Okay.
If I came here and I dug the Sphinx, I would leave something.
Then what I did, we dug an area northeast of the Sphinx.
I found, live in Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom, New Kingdom, Roman.
Nothing underneath.
In this new age, people say that the head of the Sphinx is very small compared to the body.
Yes.
Why?
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Why?
dr zahi hawass
If you take all the casing stones away from the Sphinx, you'll find exactly here.
The Sphinx, and now this, and another part like this.
In between, there is a hollow.
Remember, I told you that Giza Plateau is divided to three levels.
Level one and two is very bad stones, can be seen to the chest of the Sphinx.
Level three, they carved the head from level three.
Then when the Egyptians carved the head...
To represent the King Kephrin with the copra, the royal head Remus.
They began to make a loin body.
Then what they did, they filled this hollow between the two sphinx pieces with stones.
And they covered the whole body of the sphinx with stones.
And they did the modeling of the loin body on the covering stones.
And this is why the head.
It's very small, comparing to the body.
joe rogan
So you think the head was made first, and then the body was made later.
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
joe rogan
If that's the case, why is the body so much more eroded than the head?
dr zahi hawass
I told you, the body, it is a part of the bad stones.
joe rogan
Bad stones.
The top one is the head.
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
joe rogan
So there's a different density to the stones.
That's why the stone in the Sphinx's head...
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Is intact and the body is a softer stone.
dr zahi hawass
It's level three.
joe rogan
So it's a different kind of stone.
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
Of the body.
joe rogan
Because there's layers to it all and some of the layers are more dense.
dr zahi hawass
The Egyptians wanted to make a loin body.
They couldn't.
The only way is to cover the body of stones and do the modeling of the loin body on the covering stones.
Can we...
Take two minutes rest.
joe rogan
Yeah, sure.
You want to take a break?
dr zahi hawass
Yes, to go to the bathroom.
joe rogan
Okay, go to the bathroom.
You know where it is?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
joe rogan
Just go outside, take a left.
We're back.
The Sphinx.
Let's pick up where we left off.
So you were saying that these other experts that looked at it didn't agree that it was water erosion and said that they think that it was wind.
So what...
John Anthony West and what Graham Hancock and what Robert Chalk and all these different people are trying to allude to is that perhaps there was even older stuff that was in Egypt and that the things that you're seeing that are 2500 BC, those are even more recent than the older stuff.
Tell me about Zeptepe.
dr zahi hawass
What's Zeptepe?
What's this?
joe rogan
You never heard about...
Have you heard about, you know about the King's List, right?
The old King's List that goes back 30,000 whatever years?
dr zahi hawass
Who said that?
joe rogan
You never seen it?
It's not in hieroglyphs?
dr zahi hawass
This is not true.
joe rogan
It's not true?
dr zahi hawass
No.
This is speculation from people who knows nothing about history.
There is nothing King's List dated back 30,000 years ago at all.
joe rogan
So why do people keep saying that?
dr zahi hawass
Because they don't know.
It's speculation.
Give me one evidence of that.
The first king list dated back to Dynasty V. Only.
joe rogan
I was reading that people were saying that it was myth.
That the king's list, even though there is like some hieroglyphics of ancient kings, that these are just mythical tales.
dr zahi hawass
This is not true.
There is no at all a name that you told me.
I never heard of this name.
I am an Egyptologist working in Egypt for the last 57 years.
I never heard of this king list at all.
joe rogan
Never?
dr zahi hawass
Never.
joe rogan
You never even heard of it?
dr zahi hawass
Why do I have to hear about it?
Because it's not true.
I don't want to waste my time.
In things like this, I am a person, give me a fact.
joe rogan
Tell me, what is this list?
So in ancient Egyptians, Zeb Tepe refers to the first time or the first occasion.
Who said this?
This is an AI.
It refers to a mythical golden age of Egypt where gods lived on earth and civilization was in its infancy.
This period is often associated with the beginning of creation and the establishment of societal structures.
You've never heard of that before?
dr zahi hawass
No, and this is not true.
joe rogan
What do you mean it's not true?
I'm getting this off of...
dr zahi hawass
It never happened at all.
joe rogan
Okay, I'm not saying it happened.
I'm just saying this is something that's referred to.
dr zahi hawass
I never heard about it.
It is not true.
It has not existed at all.
joe rogan
Even if it doesn't exist, the myth of it exists.
dr zahi hawass
Listen, Joel.
Why do I have to go to a myth?
joe rogan
If you go to Wikipedia...
dr zahi hawass
I don't care about Wikipedia.
joe rogan
I understand.
dr zahi hawass
I care about what I see in my eyes as an archaeologist or a philologist.
joe rogan
In all the myths, the world was said to emerge from an infinite lifeless sea when the sun rose for the first time in a distant period known as Zeptepe.
The first occasion.
Different myths attributed to the creation of different gods.
The set of eight primordial deities called...
Agdod, the contemplative deity Ptah, and the mysterious transcendent god Amun.
While describing these different cosmologies, completed to some extent in other ways they were complementary in different aspects of Egyptian understanding of creation.
It's the Egyptian creation myth.
dr zahi hawass
Fine.
joe rogan
You've never heard of that before?
dr zahi hawass
Never heard of that.
joe rogan
That seems strange that you didn't hear about that before.
dr zahi hawass
Listen, listen.
joe rogan
I've heard of it before.
dr zahi hawass
Fine, you can hear about it.
joe rogan
But I mean, I just found it online.
dr zahi hawass
It's a new age theory.
joe rogan
It's new age?
dr zahi hawass
Yes.
Listen to me.
I know.
And any Egyptologist who study Egyptology in the States here, you have universities in UCLA, and you have Berkeley, and you have John Hopkins, and you have every...
There is no...
Every Egyptologist here study languages and archaeology.
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No one can...
dr zahi hawass
Answer what you are talking about.
This is hallucination.
I'm sorry.
This is not true.
It's a speculation from people, but never in Egypt.
We know the prehistory of Egypt.
We know the pre-dynastic of Egypt.
We know the beginning of civilization.
We know there is no gap in anything that can let some things like that.
And that's why I never heard of it, and I don't want to hear about it.
joe rogan
You don't want to hear about it?
dr zahi hawass
No, why?
Because there is no evidence.
I am a scientist.
I believe on what's written in front of me, and I believe of a scene that I can see.
But I don't believe on theories like this.
Tell me where is this found, and where it is, and who published it?
What is the scientist who published it?
What is the eseptologist who talked about it?
joe rogan
I'd like to know.
That's why I'm asking you.
dr zahi hawass
I never heard of it.
joe rogan
Well, I'm shocked that you haven't at least heard of it and dismissed it before.
Because I think it's a part of the creation myth.
dr zahi hawass
I know, but it's not true.
I received many theories every day.
My mind, Joe, now is really cannot stand all these theories, all of it.
It's too much for me.
It's too much for me.
joe rogan
Got it.
See if you can find anything on that, Jamie, where that myth came from.
jamie vernon
I'm working on it.
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I think I know.
joe rogan
Yeah?
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Yeah.
joe rogan
Is it a Bufal thing?
jamie vernon
What I just found is that it came from a...
dr zahi hawass
Who's Bufal?
Bufal is not a scientist.
joe rogan
No, I'm just asking.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah, I know.
Those people, I mean, when someone came to you with a theory, he has to have an Egyptology background.
He has to write a scientific article.
We write all what we discover.
We write articles about them for people to read and criticize and give us opinion.
But I can't go to theories like this.
joe rogan
I understand.
What do you base the dates on?
Do you base it on carbon isotope?
dr zahi hawass
No, we don't.
We base dating on the evidence that we discover.
joe rogan
Right, but some of it is based on carbon, right?
dr zahi hawass
No.
I don't believe in carbon date 14 at all.
joe rogan
You don't?
dr zahi hawass
No.
Carbon date 14 never gives an accurate dating.
And that's why I believe, you know, when you discover something, if you discover a symmetry, there is two types of datings.
One called absolute dating.
Means that in this symmetry, you have a name of a king and a date.
Means this is absolute.
But if you discover another symmetry and has no dates, then the best thing that we do is to find the artifacts in this symmetry and try to compare it with other dated symmetry.
And you give a date for this.
joe rogan
But you don't believe in carbon dusting.
dr zahi hawass
I don't believe in carbon dusting at all.
And it's not working in Egypt until today.
I have been excavating.
I'm excavating also in the Valley of the Kings.
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Right.
dr zahi hawass
And I discovered major important things that we can talk about.
joe rogan
So if you're going back...
dr zahi hawass
But I used radar in all my excavation.
joe rogan
What do you mean?
dr zahi hawass
And I never had a result by radar.
And carbon date 14, people use it when there is no date.
joe rogan
But wait a minute, you use radar to date things?
How?
dr zahi hawass
No, I use radar to discover things.
joe rogan
Right.
But what do you use to date them?
dr zahi hawass
Dating, as I told you, two methods of dating.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
Most of the dating that for me now in Luxor is based on evidence.
Like I discovered the Golden City.
It's a major...
Big, large cemetery, large settlement, a city.
And you know, this city was chosen the most important discovery in the world of year 2021 because this is the first time that we have a big, large city to tell us about the people who made this civilization.
joe rogan
So how do you know how old the city is?
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
In the city, we discovered the names everywhere of King Amenhotep III, who was the father of Eknaton.
Inside the city, we found many statues of his queen, Queen T. We found inscriptions about dried meat stored to celebrate the third set festival of Amenhotep III.
We found nine royal workshops in the city.
Then the city tells us about the golden age of that king.
It is dated by pottery, by hieroglyphic inscription, by many things.
joe rogan
But I'm curious as to why you're...
I'm skeptical about carbon dating because I think carbon dating is generally accepted as being accurate within a certain framework.
dr zahi hawass
It is, but I never used it.
And many people, very rare, used in Egypt because in Egypt mainly we have absolute chronology.
We have absolute dating based on inscriptions.
joe rogan
Right, but I thought it was used in Egypt like to measure wood that was in mortar.
To date the Great Pyramid to 2500 BC?
dr zahi hawass
No, that was an experiment to date the pyramid.
I think it was about 2009.
And it's not working.
I didn't see the result.
joe rogan
You haven't seen a result on carbon testing of the mortar of the Great Pyramid?
dr zahi hawass
No.
But the mortar, you can't.
One thing.
The mortar between the stones.
joe rogan
Right.
dr zahi hawass
This mortar...
Like, if you take a piece of stone from the pyramid and you try to take Corporal 14, this piece of stone could be thousands of years in the quarry.
It cannot date the pyramid.
How can you date it?
joe rogan
Well, hold on.
Hold on.
You don't date stone.
dr zahi hawass
I'm saying if you date mortar.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
How can you say accurately that this mortar is dated to the same time of building the pyramid?
joe rogan
Well, you can actually.
That's the argument is that there is probably repairs done, right?
Of the pyramid?
Yes.
dr zahi hawass
No, of the Great Pyramid.
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There is no evidence of any restoration.
joe rogan
No, never.
dr zahi hawass
Never any accurate evidence that the pyramid was restored in any period of the Egyptian history.
joe rogan
There is restoration that goes on even now, though, on the Sphinx, correct?
dr zahi hawass
I did make 10 years of restoration.
It's me who did the restoration of the Sphinx for 10 years.
joe rogan
Why did you decide to do that?
dr zahi hawass
Because the Sphinx, when I left, I was studying in the States.
I came to take my doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania from 1980.
From '80 to '87, some architects and archaeologists were really stupid.
They began to restore the Sphinx, and they took all the casing stones of the Sphinx out, and they put modern stones, and they used cement.
You cannot use cement in the restoration.
You can use cement in building a house.
joe rogan
Yeah, that's not even restoration.
This is a new creation.
dr zahi hawass
When I came, I stopped this restoration.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
This restoration damaged completely the proportions of the Sphinx.
It brings to you another Sphinx.
joe rogan
Right.
dr zahi hawass
Ugly.
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
A few months later, there was a stone was restored in the shoulder of the Sphinx, and it fell down.
In February, it was raining.
And always people use the Sphinx for politics.
joe rogan
The Sphinx?
dr zahi hawass
For politics?
I tell you, it happened the first time in the Pharaonic period.
You know, the area beside the Sphinx was called the Valley of Gazelles.
And the princes of the New Kingdom used to come to hunt wild animals in the valley and come to worship the Sphinx.
And this story that I'm telling you is written...
In a granite stela, it's called the dream stela, located now between the two paws of the Sphinx.
In the stela, it say that Thutmose IV was a prince, and he came to have a nap beside the Sphinx.
And the Sphinx came to him in a dream and told him, My son, if you remove the sand away, I will make you the king of Egypt.
Then here he moved the sand, and he came to a temple.
He found a door.
joe rogan
What year was this?
dr zahi hawass
This is 3,000 years ago, exactly.
joe rogan
So the Sphinx was constructed long before then.
dr zahi hawass
Before the old kingdom.
joe rogan
And then it had been covered in sand.
dr zahi hawass
Yes, completely.
This is why Herodotus, the father of history, when he came to Egypt in the middle of the 5th century BC, he never talked about the Sphinx.
Because it's completely under the sand.
Then when Thutmuth IV came, he took the sand away.
And he found that the old kingdom casing blocks are falling down.
He put them back.
And he went to the Sphinx, a temple nearby.
He took this granite steel as a door and he wrote this story in it.
But we found there is something politics in that story.
He killed his elder brother.
Who was supposed to be the king of Egypt.
And he wrote this story to tell the Egyptian that the god Horus of the horizon, it shows me to be the king of Egypt.
Then they will forget the crime that he did.
When that stone, it fell down in 1988, a big fight happened between the head of Antiquities and the minister of Kershaw.
By firing the head of antiquities.
It's politics.
But I stayed 10 years.
When people ask me about the best thing that I did in my life, I say two things.
Number one, that I restored the Sphinx.
I brought the proportion of the Sphinx back.
And I restored the oldest pyramid in Egypt, the steep pyramid.
It was falling down.
In 14 years, I made major important conservation and restoration.
And I tell people, why do I have to fight all the time about the age of the pyramid?
We have to fight.
We have to cooperate, all of us, to restore these monuments.
And the most important thing for me always is conservation.
And I dedicate most of my life not only to the excavation.
But to conservation.
joe rogan
What do you think the arguments are that predate, that try to push the date back of the construction of the pyramids?
dr zahi hawass
I never heard of this.
joe rogan
You've never heard of this before?
dr zahi hawass
No, it's only new.
It's theories from the new age.
joe rogan
But I know I saw a debate with you.
I saw a debate with you and Graham Hancock and there was another archaeologist.
Hold on.
The other archaeologist was saying, if you're saying that something happened 10,000 years ago, where is the evidence of any civilization from 10,000 years ago?
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
joe rogan
But then you found Gopekli Tepe.
So Gobekli Tepe was buried over 11,000 years ago.
dr zahi hawass
That's not true.
I never heard about this.
joe rogan
What do you mean it's not true?
dr zahi hawass
It's not true what I told you.
joe rogan
What is not true?
dr zahi hawass
It never happened.
joe rogan
Gobekli Tepe?
dr zahi hawass
We never discovered this at all.
joe rogan
Wait a minute.
Gobekli Tepe is in Turkey.
dr zahi hawass
Oh, in Turkey.
joe rogan
Yes.
Gobekli Tepe is in Turkey and it's more than 11,000 years old.
dr zahi hawass
Okay, fine.
joe rogan
It's very complex stone structures.
dr zahi hawass
Fine, fine.
joe rogan
But this was the evidence.
Hold on.
This is the evidence in the argument.
The argument was there was no evidence of an ancient civilization from 10,000 plus years ago.
This is before the discovery of Gobekli Tepe.
Gobekli Tepe gets discovered, known to be more than 11,000 years ago.
That changes everything.
Yes, it does.
Hold on.
Because now we know there was an advanced civilization capable of a spectacular construction 11,000 plus years ago.
dr zahi hawass
This is what...
Listen.
Look at the archaeologists in Turkey or in any civilization.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
They never talk about old civilization.
joe rogan
That's not true.
Gobekli Tepe is universally accepted as being more than 11,000 years old.
dr zahi hawass
I am talking now about Egypt.
No, I understand.
joe rogan
But the argument was that there was never any ancient civilization capable of spectacular construction 10,000 years ago.
Now that they showed Gobekli Tepe is more than 11,000 years old, they know for sure that's not true.
dr zahi hawass
Okay.
But now I'm talking about the pyramids of Egypt.
I have the evidence, the written.
We found everything about that.
We know the dating.
And I give you hundreds of evidence.
That this pyramid built by Khufu?
joe rogan
No, I'm not saying it wasn't.
I'm not saying it wasn't.
What I'm saying is...
dr zahi hawass
Any civilization older than we know...
joe rogan
Older and still in the same spot.
dr zahi hawass
How old does it go back?
We have no evidence.
joe rogan
So how does ancient Egypt emerge?
dr zahi hawass
Emerge?
We have...
joe rogan
How does it emerge and go from zero to pyramids?
dr zahi hawass
Okay, we have...
Do you have...
Can you listen to me?
joe rogan
Yeah.
dr zahi hawass
We have prehistoric Egypt.
joe rogan
Right.
dr zahi hawass
And we have the Old Stone Age, Middle Stone Age, Neolithic, when the Egyptians began to know about agriculture.
And they began to live together in communities.
Then after that, we came to the pre-dynastic.
When a king called Narmer, in Dynasty Zero, he began to make unification of the Upper and Lower Egypt.
Until one king...
Called Mina, or Horaha, who united completely.
joe rogan
And what year was this?
dr zahi hawass
This is what was 3000 BC.
5000 years ago.
In a place called Abidas, they built huge mud brick tombs.
Huge.
From mud brick.
No stones.
And these tombs are created in a site called Abidas.
joe rogan
You know, what's really fascinating about this is that 500 years, you think about that, how different just modern civilization was 500 years ago.
500 years ago, we had almost none of the inventions we have today.
We had no internal combustion engine, you know, no hardened steel, none of the things that we have.
And now, look what we have with electronics.
Now imagine what the Egyptians were able to do in 500 years in a different way, in construction with stone.
That their advancements weren't like our advancements, but their advancements were equally spectacular, just in a different way.
dr zahi hawass
Okay.
Now I come back to the mud brick structure.
This is in Dynasty 1 and 2. On Dynasty 3 came a king called Zoser.
He had a genius architect.
His name is Imhotep.
I am searching.
Did you hear about Imhotep before?
Yes.
I'm searching for his tomb.
Only two weeks ago, before I came, I made a major, important discovery in Egypt.
I found a tomb of a son of a king inside incredible statues of Zoser and his father and his queens and his children.
joe rogan
Where's this tomb?
dr zahi hawass
In the shadow of the Stepiram, in the shadow of Zoser.
And this really made me because I have been searching for the tomb of him hot up most of my life.
But the area that I found this tomb, it was under.
houses, modern houses.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
dr zahi hawass
The workmen who work in the site, 100 years ago, they built houses in the site.
But they never excavated what's underneath the houses.
joe rogan
Wow.
So modern houses and underneath there's an ancient tomb.
dr zahi hawass
Six months ago, we gave houses to these people in another area, and we demolished these houses.
And we found underneath major discoveries.
This discovery will be in today's show this week.
Now, I am sure now that Imhotep's tomb is in this area.
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Wow.
joe rogan
What technology can you use to discover these underground caverns and chambers?
dr zahi hawass
All what I do is digging.
joe rogan
That's it?
dr zahi hawass
That's it.
joe rogan
What if these Italian guys are onto something and you can find more stuff?
dr zahi hawass
I want you to come to see what I do and what I discover.
joe rogan
I want to.
I want to talk to the Italians, too.
dr zahi hawass
And what I discover, I can show it to you.
joe rogan
Please do.
Jamie, Zepp Teppi, did you find anything about that?
About that?
Where are the origins of that?
jamie vernon
Maybe a book from 1960.
And I couldn't figure out how he got there.
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It's probably a long sludge through information to try to get to the root of it.
dr zahi hawass
But can we continue with how it happened until you have the pyramids?
joe rogan
Sure.
dr zahi hawass
Then Imhotep came and he built the same mastaba.
Mastaba in Arabic means a bench.
He built the construction in mud brick of stone for the first time.
And he added more section to the first one.
And he put above that five Bastabas.
It's called the Step Pyramid.
joe rogan
So that's the first one.
dr zahi hawass
In the pyramid text, they say that the Step Pyramid is a stairs that the king is buried underneath to go to heaven.
joe rogan
And this one was how many years before the Great Pyramid?
dr zahi hawass
It's almost 700 years.
joe rogan
So, obviously, it's not nearly as sophisticated as the Great Pyramid.
So, in 700 years, it just got way better at it.
dr zahi hawass
But listen, now, on Daraste 3, there is another pyramid was found.
And only I found recently...
That I did not excavate it completely.
I found a pyramid, which is the end of Dynasty 3, of a king called Honi.
Then now we came to Senefro.
joe rogan
His name is Horny?
dr zahi hawass
Honi.
joe rogan
Honi.
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H-U-N-I.
dr zahi hawass
Then we come to Dynasty 4, Senefro.
Senefro had a genius architect.
His name was Nefermat.
Then he started...
joe rogan
Sounds like a good name for a genius.
dr zahi hawass
Yeah, he started to build a step pyramid like this in a site called Maidoum.
But for a reason we do not know, he left it unfinished.
And he went to a place called Dahshur.
He built the pyramid with a huge angle.
And he changed the angle.
It became bent.
And he built another pyramid.
If you look at the other pyramid of the father of Gufu, it's exactly equal to the Great Pyramid.
This is the first true pyramid, but people never go to the shore to look at this pyramid.
They will always look at Gufu.
Then you have in Dynasty four, the pyramids were huge because of the quality of the stones.
In Dynasty V and VI, there is no good quality of stones.
In the Egyptian, made decrees on the volume of the stones and did increase in the volume of the war reliefs.
Temples began to be decorated with scenes for the first time.
In the Middle Kingdom, another trend.
Mud brick pyramid, but underneath maze corridors.
Of stones.
That if you go down, you will lose your way.
In the new kingdom, they built, they came in the top of the Valley of the Kings, a shape of the pyramid, and they buried all the kings like King Tut and others underneath the pyramid.
Shape.
joe rogan
So that's the story.
dr zahi hawass
That's the story.
joe rogan
All right.
But listen, man, it's been fascinating talking to you, and I definitely am going to take you up on your offer.
I'm definitely going to go to Egypt.
dr zahi hawass
No, now we'll talk.
joe rogan
Now we'll talk.
dr zahi hawass
We'll talk to Mustafa.
joe rogan
Send me that video so we can splice it in of the hieroglyphs that are on the wall.
We'll send that, right?
dr zahi hawass
I will send it tomorrow.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
But give the email to Greg and Mustafa now.
joe rogan
We will do that.
dr zahi hawass
And they are the people that will talk to them now to arrange for your trip.
joe rogan
Okay.
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And I would invite you for a good- How many days do you think I should go?
dr zahi hawass
10 days at least.
joe rogan
Jamie, you got to come.
You want to do a podcast from there?
Just you and me.
dr zahi hawass
Let us do one Inside the Great Pyramid.
joe rogan
Yeah, definitely.
100%.
dr zahi hawass
Okay.
jamie vernon
With the echoey though.
joe rogan
Oh, here's another problem with the idea that these Italians are proposing.
Isn't there a water table under the pyramid that's like a million years old?
dr zahi hawass
No.
joe rogan
There's not water underneath there?
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No.
dr zahi hawass
This is the Osiris shaft that was full of water.
joe rogan
So is that what Mr. Beast was swimming in?
dr zahi hawass
Exactly.
joe rogan
But where's that water coming from?
dr zahi hawass
It's a water table.
joe rogan
Oh, there is a water table.
dr zahi hawass
This shaft, I came, I brought a company.
And we did suck all the water out.
joe rogan
Oh.
dr zahi hawass
Until he found underneath a sarcophagus and four pillars.
joe rogan
Oh, wow.
dr zahi hawass
And this is the symbolic barrier of the God of Osiris.
Because Giza Plateau was called in the new kingdom Per-Ozer-Nebrastau.
The house of Osiris, Lord of Rastau.
Rastau means cemetery, but literally means the underground tunnels.
That Osiris is ruling.
Then Herodotus, when he came, he talked about this water under the pyramid.
It is in the shaft.
And this one beast entered inside and swam in it.
Swamming.
joe rogan
Okay.
dr zahi hawass
You know, I met him because I wanted to convince the younger people that pyramids were not built by aliens.
That's why I took him to three million sites.
Yeah, I don't know.
joe rogan
I don't understand the alien thing.
I think super advanced culture, super advanced civilization.
And I think the Library of Alexandria burning is probably one of the greatest disasters.
dr zahi hawass
Many people in America believe that you believe in aliens.
When I talk to them that I'm coming to see you...
joe rogan
That I believe in aliens?
They do!
Well...
I'm not opposed to the idea of aliens existing.
There's hundreds of billions of galaxies in the known universe, each with hundreds of billions of stars.
The idea that we're uniquely alone.
You don't think there's anything out there?
Nothing.
So you don't believe in ancient civilizations capable of advanced construction.
You don't believe in aliens.
dr zahi hawass
You don't believe in carbon dating.
I am a scientist.
joe rogan
Oh!
dr zahi hawass
If you believe in something, write an article.
unidentified
I understand.
dr zahi hawass
Then I can read.
But don't give me a theory.
joe rogan
But the theory of planets containing intelligent life is...
unidentified
No, no, no.
dr zahi hawass
That's not true.
I have been debating Graham Hancock and Robert Bofall and John Antony West, and I told them.
From the beginning, your theory will go with the wind.
joe rogan
Right, but we're not talking about that theory.
We're talking about aliens being possible.
dr zahi hawass
No way!
joe rogan
No aliens, just us.
dr zahi hawass
This is the national project.
joe rogan
Only us in the whole universe.
dr zahi hawass
If you believe in God...
joe rogan
Us in the whole universe?
Only us.
dr zahi hawass
If you believe in God, you will do miracles.
The Egyptians believed in the afterlife, and they made this great civilization.
joe rogan
I'm not saying aliens made it.
I'm saying it's very possible there's something else out there in the world.
dr zahi hawass
Thank you.
joe rogan
All right.
Thank you.
All right.
Goodbye, everybody.
dr zahi hawass
Enjoyed talking to you.
joe rogan
I enjoyed it, too.
And I'll see you in a while.
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