Egypt on the Joe Rogan Experience
8 fact-checked claims across 3 episodes · Apr 2024 to May 2025
Each is a receipt: the exact quote, its timestamp, what published evidence says, and who benefits.
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- Graham Hancock (7)
- Zahi Hawass (1)
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“we have in Egypt 120 pyramids we don't have only Kufu pyramid that everyone is talking about. You have 120 pyramids.”
Hawass states there are 120 pyramids in Egypt, not only the Khufu pyramid.
“result of heavy rainfall, exposure to heavy rainfall for thousands of years. And you have to go back to the younger dryers to get that kind of heavy rainfall i…”
Geologist Robert Schoch attributed the weathering of the Sphinx to thousands of years of heavy rainfall, implying it is more than 12,000 years old.
“The Sphinx aligned with, it was looking at the rising sun and behind it the constellation of Leo 12,500 years ago.”
The Sphinx faced the rising sun with the constellation Leo behind it 12,500 years ago.
“Because if it's the tomb of Khufufu 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…”
The Great Pyramid, if the tomb of Khufu, would have had to be built within his roughly 23-year reign.
“when we work precession into the equation, we find that they're not laid out in the pattern of Orion's belt as it looked in 2500 BC when the pyramids are suppo…”
The three Giza pyramids are laid out matching the pattern of Orion's belt as it appeared in 10,500 BC, not 2500 BC when they were supposedly built.
“and that time is around 12,600 years ago. It's not a single moment, it's an epoch of several hundred years. But the constellation of Leo, it was the age of Leo…”
Hancock claims the constellation Leo housed the rising sun at the spring equinox around 12,600 years ago, aligning with the lion-shaped Sphinx.
“And this monument is aligned to within three sixtieths of a single degree of true north. Why do I pick three sixtieths? Because degrees are divided into 60 min…”
Hancock claims the Great Pyramid is aligned to true north within three arc minutes (three sixtieths of a degree).
“Now I give you some statistics. It's 481.39 feet high originally. It's a bit lower today. It lost some 30 feet from its top in an earthquake. Footprint of the …”
Hancock gives statistics for the Great Pyramid: originally 481.39 feet tall, base footprint 13.1 acres, weight 6 million tons.