Name: Joe Rogan Experience #2321 - Dr. Zahi Hawass
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Joe Rogan Experience #2321 - Dr. Zahi Hawass

the Joe Rogan experience train by day Joe Rogan podcast by night all day
no it's up to you it's up to you I'll talk to you forever I have so many
questions I'm very
excited to meet you see I've seen you in documentaries for decades so many
documentary
I've watched so many things about Egypt I'm completely fascinated by you know I
will tell
you something do you know this guy used to do a radio show late evening Art
Bell the best can I
best I need to say this on air I need to say his story on air okay now are we
in air now yeah we're
on air Art Bell used every evening to attack me hit that you yes oh how they're
how I say how the
Egyptian can move stones that's not true the Egyptians cannot do that babababa
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
and he said okay that we are cutting stones to conserve 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 that all the
man is stood above the stone you know stones has weak parts like us with a
pencil he draw a line from the
from the beginning to the end in the middle he put a piece of iron bomb bomb he
cut it for twice I said
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 being why because you
don't know and number two if you try to do today you will never be able to do
it are you going to hire today
10,000 workmen to work for 10 for 28 years for nothing that was a national
project of the whole nation I
think Art Bell's real concern was how would someone possibly move those stones
4,500 years ago okay a lot of questions right yes but can I answer you now yes
please
listen this two examples I will tell you the first example happened a few years
ago I discovered a tomb in a site called Abbas here in the top of the tomb
there was a huge granite sarcophagus 20 tons weight
wait okay okay if you come to Egypt have you been in Egypt no I haven't you
have to if you talk about
you know I have to you have to come I know but you have to tell me before you
come I'll call I will tell you now I
promise I brought only 10 people because I called the minister of culture
and I told him we found an intact too 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
and then I came to the site I brought my workman 10 workman only moved the 20
tons
only by wooden slidges we found underneath another sarcophagus 10 10 tons
weight of granite we took the
third one and we found underneath another a third one five tons weight we took
the five tons out and we found
underneath a coffin with a mummy and I told the workman put everything back and
I called the minister I said
you can bring the press will 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 weight to work command only open the lid for me we have a
machine called the devil I don't
know why they called it the devil devil devil why I don't know I asked them
they said our grandfathers
called it like that then they bros is an ancient machine it is an ancient
machine jamie could probably
pull it up then they they they put this machine under under the lid and they
come
doing like this and there is a little bit mm-hmm when the lid there it is laced
they put a piece of wood
another piece of wood another until there is a half a feet that they can put
right my
face inside with the circle with a flashlight to see what's inside the coffin
that's what we
because the people today are the descendants of the ancient egyptian there is a
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 asian egyptian people and all the people working
with me i'm excavating
right now in giza we're going to tell you good news inside the great pyramid
that we found
and also in zaqqara and luxor and this why in my lecture tour now i'm making
major important
announcement that we'll talk about it with you today okay what did you find now
you know can i call you joe please do and you call me okay now you know i do
receive fan emails you've
received emails fan fan emails about 50 a week some of them bad ones some
people think that i discovered
evidence to prove that pyramids built by aliens or lost civilization and i hide
them i never answer
these questions but to you i tell you how do i how can i hide anything i'm not
working alone i'm working
with people you you cannot hide anything because people will see you and i will
tell you a joke
it happened but it's a joke a reporter came to see me from california to my
office and my office
was located next 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 through it is what he said and you go
from the tunnel to the
great pyramid oh 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
did he check all the panels and
he came back has 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 w w that's how west bathroom that come is that much of an issue that
people really believe
it that you had to make a website for it they do they do believe in this and
and some of them attack
me badly well that's part of the problem right is that the egyptian pyramids
and just egypt in general
is so spectacular the accomplishments of the ancient egyptians were so
monumental and so above
anything that anybody had ever achieved and since you know what they've done
thousands and thousands
of years ago still to this day puzzles people when they try to figure out how
it was built
i will tell you you will tell me how it was built of course okay i how do you
know how do you know
how do you know i found all the evidence of building the pyramid i we we
published a book one thousand
pages this book is a bible of the pyramids of giza plateau okay tell me how
they did it 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 most of it most of it in archaeology books
in archaeology books
really except me and mark leaner you guys are the only ones that have it right
because we i have
been working in giza for the last 57 years of my life i excavated every piece
of sand okay let's take
what of what do the archaeologists have wrong in these archaeologists books for
example number one
they say that the workman who built the pyramids worked only four months a year
when the flood
covered the whole country the king hired the workman 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 came from torah and
torah is a 25 mile to the east from giza and number three that go for ruled for
23 years and number four
that the stones of the great pyramid are two million and three hundred social
blocks how many blocks are
there now let us talk about number one the workman the workman i found the tombs
of the pyramid builders
only one mile south of the sphinx a major important discovery that can tell
everyone number one that
pyramids built by egyptians because of the names that we found inside the
cemetery and they were not
slaves because your phone yes i have to i have to kill that thing kill it you're
right i always because i do
lots of interviews i always close it oh i get accepted today no worries
nobody knows how to shut these things off anymore
then now this discovery so explain so you found the pyramids excuse me you
found the workers pyramids
graves a mile away away one mile south okay of the pyramids and by their names
then they found names of the workmen i found the lower symmetry the lower
symmetry were for the burial of
the workman who moved the stones and the upper symmetry was for the technicians
right and how do you
know this i will tell you okay 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 you want to drink
beer in the afterlife if the skeleton is for a woman she has a perfume vessels
she 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 oh it says that the overseer of the
side of the pyramid emirah
guess marriage in hieroglyphic the overseer of the west side of the pyramid
draftsmen 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 what tools do you
write and a flint
tools because in the old kingdom there was no iron are these uh photos of these
tools available online can
we look at them yeah i can send it to you can see them are they online no in my
book giza and the pyramids
i don't know if it's online i'm sure it's online jamie will find it so these uh
students these tools were
flint and durite what is durite durite d-i-o-r-i-t-e durite is more sharp stone
than iron
and it came from uh uh a quarry south of aswan so you feel like they used this
very hard stone to
cut into the stone and i will come back to this cutting the stones but let me
continue about the
workman okay 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 workman barracks for the workman who moved 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 workman 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 workman who built the pyramids were 10 000 workmen and they worked
every day and they took
one day off every 10 days joe i want to tell you the pyramid was the 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 with 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
even the king's chamber
no except except the granite in the king chamber and and where'd that come from
from aswan and that's
500 miles away right yes by the flood the flood and those were 50 to 80 tons it
doesn't matter it doesn't
yes i would if i was working there it would matter no because i showed to you i
showed you not only 50
tons it's 20 tons now what we found out first how the egyptian built the
pyramid they make on the ground
a square base okay okay and after that they cut in the solid rock in the four
sides
you know i'm going to tell you one thing okay if you tell me that pyramids
built by giants okay i'