Zahi Hawass
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284 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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Exactly. Okay. And what does this say? Now. First of all, how old is that? 4,600 years ago.
No. Papyrus was of papyrus from the papyri. Right. What is it? The papyri is just like leaves. Okay. Now, but listen to the papyri. It is a diary. of an overseer of the workmen, his name is Merer, M-E-R-E-R. Okay? Merer is saying, I am Sahaj, in hieroglyphic, means inspector. Under me, working 40 workmen. I was hired by Kufu to work in his pyramid. This is in hieroglyphic. Mm-hmm.
And he said, my immediate boss, his name is Diddy. Like P. Diddy? Diddy, yes. Now, 20 years ago, in my excavation, west of the Great Pyramid of Kofu, I discovered 20 tombs. Are these the tools? No, no. No, this is the tools. No, no. The tools are really sharp type of big tools. We found some of them. What is that Jamie's looking at? What are these?
This could be the tombs in the left is like them. In the left here. Those tools? No, no, no, no. More. No doubt. No. Where? Where? You know, I have that is to that is more to the left, to the left, to the left, to the left. No, I mean, what?
What are you talking about? The second one after this? That's it up. That's it. And this one.
Those.
That looks like the heads of these things. But this one's the smalls. I'm talking about big ones. So that's... These are tools for making statues and things like that, but not cutting the stones.
But let me talk about... The papyri. Okay. Because this many people doesn't know about this. Okay. Then Miller said, my boss's name is Didi. 20 years ago, I excavated west of the Great Pyramid of Kufu. 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 Meir.
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 Meir said, I took my workmen. This is hieroglyphic. We went to Torah to cut the white, fine limestone. This sentence means... that the pyramid was finished. And Meir 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, and the third group moving the stones in wooden sledges. This is all in the papyri.
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 Kufu 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 Kifrin, 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, durite from Nubia, basalt from Fayyum, white limestone from Tora.
No, after you finish building the pyramid. Right. There is two important things when they finish building the pyramid. I discovered in a site called Abu Sir. I discovered two scenes. One scene, workmen dragging a capstone. Above the capstone is a hieroglyphic word called Jaim.
Yes.
Find out. I don't know if it's internet or not. What would Jamie look for? Look for Zahi Hawass' discovery in Abu Seir.
A lot, of course. Everything, right? Everything. And this is why what I'm telling you based, I have been excavating in Giza, Joe, for the last 57 years. I know every piece of sand in the site. And I want to tell you one thing also. I am the only Egyptologist who have an open mind. 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, Meir said, I put the stones on a cargo boat. Okay. And we came in the boat to Giza Plateau. the workman took the stones up to the pyramid. We slept overnight at Giza.
I got up early in the morning with my workman, wanted 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 that the architect who designed the Great Pyramid, who was Khufu's cousin, his name was Ham Iyuno.
Then actually, it seems now that Ham Iyuno died and Ankaf completed the Great Pyramid and built the second pyramid of his son, Kefrin. Then he said, I'm working in year 27 of Khufu's reign. He mentioned that Khufu was alive. In year 27.
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