Sphinx on the Joe Rogan Experience
7 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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- Zahi Hawass (4)
- Graham Hancock (3)
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“This is why Herodotus, the father of the history history when he came to Egypt in the middle of the 5th century BC he never talked about the things”
Hawass claims Herodotus, who visited Egypt in the mid-5th century BC, never mentioned the Sphinx because it was completely buried in sand.
“Located now between the two paws of the Sphinx in the stele it say that thought wasose IV was a prince, and he came to have a nap beside the sphinx. And the sp…”
Hawass recounts that the Dream Stele between the Sphinx's paws records Thutmose IV as a prince who was promised kingship in a dream if he cleared the sand from the Sphinx.
“Then I brought a team from Cairo University, and we did drill 30 to 35 feet underneath the Sphinx, everywhere. And I do have photos of everywhere under the thi…”
Hawass claims a Cairo University team drilled 30 to 35 feet under the Sphinx everywhere and found solid rock with nothing beneath it.
“He came to the Sphinx and he worked with us for a season. And he came and we published many articles that the erosion that you see outside and inside the Sphin…”
Hawass claims a geologist studied the Sphinx and published articles concluding the erosion is from wind rather than water, contradicting Robert Schoch's water-erosion theory.
“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.
“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.