Hawass calls out claims of pillar structures under pyramids as “bull****” on the Joe Rogan Experience

Zahi Hawass made an appearance on the world’s most widely watched podcast. In a rare — and very welcome — break from the usual pyramidologists and conspiracy theorists invited on to Joe Rogan’s wildly popular podcast to talk about the Giza Pyramids and other ancient Egyptian monuments, former antiquities minister and actual archaeologist Zahi Hawass was invited on to give his two cents on the matter (watch, runtime; 1:58:34).

Hawass addressed claims of varying degrees during the interview — from theories that the builders of pyramids were slaves all the way to claims they were aliens. The archaeologist also turned his attention to recently popularized claims that there were 600-meter cylindrical structures underneath the Khafre Pyramid by asserting that he had talked to everyone he works with that knows about the use of radar ultrasound and they described the claims as “bull****”, as the technology used cannot give any usable data so deep within the ground.