Graham Hancock
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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I'm leaning towards ever, too. Because, look, can we think of any other civilization that has survived for 3,000 years? Right.
That you can go visit right now. But ancient Egypt, as a culture, survived for 3,000 years. It survived the Greek occupation. It survived the previous Persian occupation. It was only the Romans that brought it low. The Roman occupation of Egypt was the beginning of the end.
They certainly were. And I think they had mastery of techniques that we don't know about yet. And perhaps equipment. And perhaps equipment. The Great Pyramid remains to me an abiding mystery, which despite probably 100 or more visits to the Great Pyramid and being inside it and spending the night in it and exploring every passage and every chamber...
including the relieving – so-called relieving chambers above the king's chamber. I still can't figure it out. I don't understand how it was possible to do this. And then the time span which Egyptology gives us because Egyptology is fixed on the idea that the Great Pyramid is a tomb and only a tomb. And then it was built in about 20 years. 23 years.
Because if it's the tomb of Khufu, then it had to be built in 23 years because that was his reign. He would start, in theory, building it at the beginning of his reign and it's finished by the end of his reign. That's 23 years.
And in the broader span, if you look at the fourth dynasty pyramids and even go back to the end of the third dynasty, the pyramid of Xhosa, the step pyramid, you find that this is a sudden... emergence of incredible skills, which lasts for about a hundred years, and then it goes away. It stops.
The pyramids that follow the Great Pyramid of Giza, the three pyramids on the Giza Plateau, the pyramids that follow them, the fifth dynasty pyramids, are really poor. They're very, very poor quality workmanship. They're falling to pieces. You can hardly recognize from the outside that they're a pyramid at all. When you get inside,
You do find wonderful chambers and you do find what you don't find in any of the Great Pyramids, which is huge numbers of hieroglyphs and accounts of the person who was supposedly buried in that pyramid.
I think it's a theory which deserves to be taken seriously along with other theories as to what it is. One thing I know for sure is that the theory that it was just a tomb and nothing else is bust. That is not a satisfactory theory anymore. So we should be open to a number of possibilities. And Chris comes to this from a background of machine tool making. He's a very precise guy. He's an engineer.
He understands this kind of thing. And when he looks at particularly the At Saqqara, you have this thing called the Serapium, which is an underground labyrinth. And it's got wide corridors through it and then off each side are rooms. And in each room are these gigantic basalt chambers. which appear to have held the corpses of bulls.
They're like sarcophagi for human beings, but they're on an enormous, gigantic scale, weighing hundreds of tons and cut out of the hardest possible rock, precisely engineered. Everything is exact. And it's that, amongst other things, that is attracting Chris's attention to the possibility of... A lost technology in ancient Egypt.
And then he asked himself the question, well, what was the Great Pyramid if it wasn't a tomb? What might it have been? And he's come to the solution that it was some kind of energy generator, some kind of power plant.
Oddly enough, there's just a recently published archaeological paper. concerning the step pyramid at Saqqara, which is suggesting that they used hydraulics to lift the big stones up inside there. And that begins to come close to the kind of technology in some ways that Chris is talking about. I think it's worth taking very seriously. I've always had great respect for Chris.
I've traveled to Egypt with him. And I think he's done very important work contributing to this. And also... Looking at the stone vases from ancient Egypt, I remember the first time I was drawn to this mystery, which was… You gave us one of them.
That's a 3D print of one of those vases.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense given what we are taught was the level of technology of Egypt at that time.
Well, perhaps in some cases we are, but certainly in others, including those in the great museums in Cairo. They've now moved a lot of the content of the Cairo Museum out to a big museum at Giza, and some of it's in transition, but they have thousands of these things.
How did you do that? Very thin necks, and then this bulbous base to it. It's all perfect. There's another piece, which it's hard to describe, but it's got a series of three flanges that come across. It's like a wheel. But nobody knows what it is. And it's cut out of incredibly hard rock or cut or shaped in some way. I've never seen a satisfactory explanation for this thing.
I wish I could call up a picture, but I don't know.
I've written about it in Fingerprints of the Gods. I bet Jamie's already found it. Is that it? No. Yes. Top left. That's the one. That? When I first saw that in the Cairo Museum, it's cut from Schist. This thing is hard. And when I first saw that in the Cairo Museum, I thought, how on earth did they do this? Why isn't this a big mystery? Why isn't this being seen as a mystery?
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