Ancient Aliens: Who Really Built the Pyramids?

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Education, Science, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 24 March 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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[REBROADCAST] Is it possible that the pyramids were built with a helping hand ... from aliens? If not, how did the ancient Egyptians build them without modern technology? To get to the bottom of this, we speak to author Erich von Däniken, paleoanthropologist Dr. Shelby Putt, Egyptologist Dr. Mark Lehner, and archaeologist Prof. David S. Anderson. Check out the transcript here: https://bit.ly/3LbPnoJ This episode was produced by Rose Rimler with help from Wendy Zukerman, along with Meryl Horn, Kaitlyn Sawrey, Michelle Dang and Odelia Rubin. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell. Fact checking by Michelle Harris and Erica Akiko Howard. Mix and sound design by Emma Munger. Music by Emma Munger and Bobby Lord. A huge thanks to the team at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, as well as Professor Pierre Tallet, Professor Roland Enmarch, Jens Notroff, Professor Erin L. Thompson and everyone else who spoke to us for this episode … thanks for your help. A special thanks to Sarah Hendricks, Jake Finnicum, Frank Lopez, Joseph Lavelle Wilson and the Zukerman Family. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Verses from Gimlet. Today, we're
0:04.8	pitting facts against pharaohs as we return to one of our favorite episodes, which asked,
0:13.5	who really built the Egyptian pyramids and how?
0:28.1	Because some people say the pyramids couldn't have been a purely human achievement.
0:29.5	That's something else.
0:33.7	Maybe even aliens had to have stepped in to help out.
0:37.9	Which, all right, might sound a bit silly, but just stick with us.
0:43.3	Because the more we learned about how impressive the pyramids are, the more we were like,
0:46.5	wait a sec, how did they get made?
0:52.6	So, producer Rose Rimler and I went on a bit of a discount tour of Google Earth.
0:56.8	We sent the little avatar down to the pyramids so we could see them ourselves.
1:01.0	Can we go in closer?
1:02.8	Yeah, we can drop the little guy.
1:04.7	I love dropping the little guy.
1:05.8	Whoa! We go into the map!
1:09.3	Oh, wait, this is the wrong pyramid. Let's go out of the map. Out of the map. Oh, wait, this is the wrong pyramid.
1:11.7	Let's go out of the map.
1:13.1	Out of the map.
1:14.3	Whoa!
1:17.3	Rose wanted to show me the biggest, baddest pyramid of the mall, which is appropriately
1:22.1	called the Great Pyramid.
1:25.0	Okay, so here we are at the foot of the Great Pyraman.
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