Zahi Hawass
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284 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard May 2025
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I was here a B as in boy.
It's I told you if you come today and see how the way to come and move 20 tons of granite you understand workers today. Yes today like yesterday the same workman Okay. Right. But now, Joe, if they're doing it today, they have access to modern machines. If you don't know, they don't know. It's everything based on the idea of the national project. They want to make this for the king.
I understand the national project.
This comes through the Nile. You can bring all the stones. But the quarries are in the mountains, right? No, the quarries, the granite quarries in Aswan, and we have cutting of the obelisks. and cutting of the stones and cut of everything in the site. And they brought in when the flood comes in July, they bring boats through the flood. They bring us out of the stones.
Now, if we now do not believe that this cannot be moved by 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 chamber. One of the names, friend of Khufu, I did a 3D few months ago and we recorded in the five chambers that has this huge blocks. We found two more names of the gangs.
One name called those who are connected with the goddess Wadjat. 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 moved these stones. And in the fourth... room, we have the good gut. Another name was year 13 of Kofu's reign.
This is when they moved the stones.
You know, again, this is the most important thing. This is a national project. Oh, I understand. It was very valuable to them. I just wondered what technology was used.
Technology is levers.
The huge wooden slidges. Huge wooden sledges. This is the only way that today we move huge stones. This is how my workmen moved 20 tons of sarcophagus in a tomb. How far did they move it? They moved it just a few feet away. But we have scenes of how workmen move 60 tons statue, how they move with their sledges. And they draw it.
Yeah. Then we have all this type of scene that the Egyptian So that again, this is the national project.
We have this in the tombs. It's wooden slidges. Yeah. But let me take you now. To what I began to reveal the secret of Kufu pyramid. Okay. 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. I spent most of my life there.
Then I closed this pyramid for a year. to stop humidity. To stop humidity? Because every person... All the breathing? Exactly. The pyramid gives about 20 grams of water. And this water becomes salt. Then mechanically, I removed the salt. You had to clean the walls. Exactly. And after that, I thought, how can I make a ventilation system of the pyramid? In the king chamber,
and the Queenie chamber, you have this tunnel 20 by 20 centimeter only small tunnel, right? Then I thought I should clean this tunnels. Then I can make a ventilation system. I had no idea of what I'm going to find out. Would you find out that I hired a German robot and we took the German robot to the king chamber.
We are sitting in the king chamber with a TV screen and the robot entered in the shaft. We found out that the interior of the pyramid, the stones were interplugged. And this is why when the Arabs came to Egypt and they said, man feels time and time feels pyramids. Then we found out that this shaft went outside.
Then we'll put the fan here and the fan suck the air and push it in the tunnel and we made a ventilation system in the parent.
How they put the stones with each other. Okay. But now the most important, then I took the robot to the second chamber. Now we know that the tunnel in the first chamber are open outside. Open outside. I said, why we have these tunnels in the second chamber? They call it the queen chamber. Right. Then we took... the robot to the northern tunnel of the query 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 which took 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. There were nine explorers. 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 centimeter of this door, a second one. And the second one has an eggy shaped like that. As if it's hiding something. Then after that we went
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