Megalithic Marvels - I Asked Chat GPT, Who Built The Great Pyramid?

Episode Date: August 12, 2026

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So I not only asked chat GPT, who built the Great Pyramid, but I also asked it, why was the Great Pyramid built and how was it built? And the answers it gave me might surprise you. But first, I want to invite you to consider joining me on one of my upcoming tours. I'm going to Egypt this December, Cambodia, and Ankara, this January. and I just launched my annual Peru and Easter Island tours coming in May of 2007. And through the end of August 31st, you can get some epic deals on some of these tours. And I'm talking over $1,000 off registration. So visit megalithic marvels.com slash tours or click the link in the show notes below to learn more.

So ChatGPT is considered by most to be the most powerful generative artificial intelligence chatbot that exists. Developed by OpenAI, chat GPT originally released in 2022, and it uses these large language models, specifically generative pre-trained transformers or GPTs, to generate text, speech, and images in response to users' prompts. Chat GPT was quickly adopted, reaching 100 million active users just two months after its release. And as of February 2006, 900 million weekly active users are using the chatbot. Now, proponents say that it has the potential to transform numerous professional fields, and it really is already. Now, many other skeptics have pointed out the biases in the chatbot's training data that have been reflected in its responses.

And they would state that the chatbot can facilitate. academic dishonesty, generate misinformation, and create malicious code. The reality, however, is that chat GPT is now the premier source of information that the masses are using to find answers related to almost any question you can think of. So the chances are that when someone wants an answer to a question such as who built the great pyramid, likely they're going to open chat GPT and get an answer. answer similar to what I just got. So here is the answer I got to the question of who built the Great Pyramid. Chat GPT responded with this, quote, The Great Pyramid of Giza is generally attributed

to the ancient Egyptians during the reign of Pharaoh Kufu, of Egypt's fourth dynasty around 2,580 to 2,560 BC. The people who physically constructed it were like, likely organized Egyptian work crews, including skilled stone workers, masons, engineers, haulers, and seasonal laborers, not primarily enslaved workers. One of the strongest pieces of evidence is the Diary of Marar, a roughly 4,500-year-old administrative record describing Marrars' crews transporting fine limestone from Turah to Aket Kufu, the name of Kufu's pyramid complex at Giza. So the best supported answer is,

Kufu commissioned it and ancient Egyptian workers built it, end quote. Okay, my thoughts here on chat GBT's answer. So to summarize, it's basically regurgitating the mainstream archaeological narrative here by saying that Pharaoh Kufu commissioned the Great Pyramid and skilled ancient Egyptian workers built it around 2,500 BC. Now notice that it references this diary of Marr as the strongest evidence to support Kufu building the Great Pyramid around 2,500 BC, simply because the diary supposedly mentioned crews transporting limestone to Giza.

Okay, but then my next question is, how do they know that this Marar account was describing the original construction date of the Great Pyramid and not just some restoration work or completely other building project on the Giza Plateau that happened thousands of years later than the original construction of the Great Pyramid? Well, the answer is they don't. All right, let's move on to the second question I asked ChatGPT and that was why was the Great Pyramid built? And here was Chats' response.

The standard archaeological interpretation is that the Great Pyramid was built as the funerary monument of Pharaoh Kufu around 2,600 BC and formed the centerpiece of his larger mortuary complex at Giza. In Egyptian royal religion, the pyramid complex was connected with the king's death, transformation, and eternal afterlife. The pyramid may also have symbolized ideas associated with the sun and the primordial mound of creation. There is an important distinction, though, saying Kufu's funerary monument is better supported than saying we know with absolute certainty that it was simply a tomb. This episode is brought to you by Accenture. When your advertising operations fall out of sync, everything else follows.

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like the pyramid text found in some later old kingdom pyramids. So mainstream view. Royal tomb slash funerary monument for Kufu. It belonged to Kufu's royal mortuary complex and was constructed during his reign. what remains uncertain exactly what rituals occurred inside it precisely what every chamber and shaft was intended for and whether its function extended beyond simply housing the king's body end quote okay so my thoughts here on its second response to my second question so it starts out by saying that the standard archaeological interpretation is that the great pyramid was built as the funerary monument of Pharaoh Kufu around 2,600 BC, blah, blah, blah.

But then it makes an important distinction, explaining that it's better to refer to the Great Pyramid, quote, as Kufu's funerary monument, end quote, than saying we know with absolute certainty that, quote, it was simply a tomb. Wow, I'm a little bit shocked by this. Now, I don't know if chat GPT would be this honest with someone else who hasn't already trained it to kind of know that they are more alternative leaning like me when it comes to ancient history? Again, because I have an account and I've used it in the past for research so it kind of knows what my brain is thinking. So I'm taken back that it's qualifying its answers. Chat then goes on to admit that no original royal mummy has ever been found inside the Great Pyramid, that Kufu's supposed granite sarcophagus

was found empty, and that the Great Pyramid itself contains no extensive funerary inscriptions like the Pyramid texts found in some later older kingdom periods. It's literally almost as if it's quoting me from my episode just from a few weeks back that was titled, Why We're No mummies discovered inside the great pyramids. Now, I will link that episode on the show notes, and I would encourage you strongly to go back and listen to it because they take a lot more time and go in depth on why no mummies were ever found inside the great pyramids. Okay, let's move on to my third question that I asked Chat GPT, and that was how was

the Great Pyramid built? Chat responded with this, quote, We don't know the exact construction method used to build the Great Pyramid. Archaeologists have a fairly good picture of the overall process. But several important engineering details remain debated, quarrying the stone. Much of the roughly 2.3 million blocks was local limestone quarried near Giza. Higher quality white casing limestone came from Tura across the Nile, while granite used in the king's chamber came from Aswan more than 500 miles to the south.

Moving the blocks. Egyptians used wooden sledges to move heavy stones over land. Ancient Egyptian imagery shows workers pulling large objects on sledges while water is poured onto the sand, which experiments show can reduce resistance. Boats and canals were also crucial for truels. transporting stone. The Diary of Marar actually describes crews transporting to our limestone by boat to Kufu's pyramid complex. Getting Stones upward. This is the big unresolved question. Most Egyptologists believe ramps were involved, but we don't know the exact

arrangement. Proposed systems include a large straight ramp, zigzagging ramps, ramps wrapping around the pyramid or combination of ramps and levering techniques. Positioning the blocks. Workers probably used combinations of ropes, wooden levers, sledges, and carefully prepared working surfaces to maneuver blocks into their final positions. Finishing the exterior. The pyramid was originally covered with smooth, polished white-tural limestone casing,

making it look dramatically different from the rough, stepped appearance we see today. And it was probably constructed in approximately 20 to 30 years, although the exact construction period isn't known. We understand many pieces of the process. The complete engineering method remains one of archaeology's great unanswered questions, end quote. Wow, so a lot to unpack here. Okay, my thoughts here on chat GPT's third response to how was the great pyramid built.

So have you ever noticed that whenever you ask these first two questions such as who built the Great Pyramid or why was the Great Pyramid built? This is where the mainstream academics and even chat GPT here will give you their confident answers such as, oh, well, Kufu built it about 2,500 BC and it was built as a tomb. Easy, no problem. They're very confident with those answers. But it's this third question of how. How was the Great Pyramid built that suddenly seems to get them stuttering a bit? It suddenly seems to get them stumbling for their confident answers. Now notice here how ChatGPT qualifies its overall answer by first stating that, quote,

we don't know the exact construction method used to build the great pyramid end quote it then goes into where the limestone and granite was cored and i agree with all of that it then continues and addresses the transportation of the blocks and basically regurgitates again the mainstream talking points of the dynastic egyptian workers using wooden sledges while pouring water on the sand now here's the good part when it comes to the subject of lifting and setting into place, the 2.5 million multi-ton blocks. Chad GPT says, quote, most Egyptologists believe ramps were involved, end quote. Like, that's the overall answer it gives. And then it admits, but we don't know the exact arrangement. We just know that ramps were involved and that discusses some theories of zigzagging ramps and straight ramps and wraps it wrapped around the pyramid. And then it goes on to say that workers probably used a combination of ropes,

wooden levers, sledges, and carefully prepared working surfaces to maneuver blocks into their final position. Now, I just got to say that it's one thing to read about the Great Pyramid or see photos or even YouTube videos of the inside of it, but it's a completely another thing to be inside the Great Pyramid, yourself and see how this is not just a bunch of blocks stacked into a triangle shape. No, the inside is like a machine. When you are in the so-called king's chamber or the anti-chamber before it, or when you are in what's known as the Grand Gallery and you look up and you see 50-plus tonne granite blocks perfectly

interlocking into trapezoidal shapes where you can't fit a hair through the joints, this thing is advanced engineering at its finest. Again, when you consider the massive scale of the granite blocks inside 70 plus tons and the beams over the ceiling of the so-called king's chamber and the secret chambers above that that go up multiple levels, you, sit there dumbfounded going there's no way they did this with wooden sledges and ramps and polies

in ropes. Now the Great Pyramid stands almost 500 feet tall. Again it was composed of 2.5 million multi-ton blocks and mainstream Egyptology tells us it was constructed by this huge workforce of people cutting,

shaping, moving and setting into place these massive blocks simply using sleds and ramps and ropes, all because they were building a tomb for Kufu over about a 20 to 30 year period around 2,500 BC. Yet there are estimates that state if the Great Pyramid was constructed over the course of a Pharaoh's reign, such as Kufu's, for 20 to 30 year period, that each one of these massive stones would have had to have been not just quarried and shaped, but moved and set

into place every two minutes for a timeline of 20 to 30 years to work. Now, Graham Hancock states that we can calculate from its mass that the Great Pyramid weighs approximately 6 million tons. Its footprint is 13 acres. It's more than 750 feet long on each side. It is 481 feet tall. Again, more than 2.5 million blocks were used in its construction. but it's not just big. The point here is it is precise. It's locked into the cardinal dimensions of the planet. It is targeted on true north within three 60ths of a degree. The point is it is a work of stunning artistic achievement, the work of masters of architecture and engineering. the blocks that weighs 70 plus tons inside the Great Pyramid were raised more than 300 feet above ground. This episode is brought to you by Accenture.

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Because if you make the tiniest mistake at the base, by the time you get to the top of the 481 feet, you wouldn't even have a pyramid. You would just have a mess. and nobody today, with all of our supposed great knowledge and technology and chat GPT, can explain it. Like I've proven to you here, chat GPT, when it comes to this question of how is it built, basically says, we don't know. Now, I couldn't help myself. I couldn't just stop with asking chat GPT those three questions.

I had to push chat GPT one more time, and I had to ask it one more question. And it was kind of this long question, but here was the question I asked, chat GPT. If the Great Pyramid was built as a tomb, then why are the passageways inside the Great Pyramid not even quite four feet high? and therefore how would the ancient Egyptians have brought in sarcophagi and mummies while being crouched over? How would they do this while climbing these very steep passageways up and down? Without the modern day wooden hand railings and wooden steps that have been added in modern times on top of the smooth slick stone. Now, is that a great question or what? And you're going to love the answer that Chat GPT responded with. Check this out. ChatGPT said, quote, you're correct. The modern wooden walkways, steps, lighting, and handrails weren't there. Those are modern visitor accommodations. The ancient Egyptians would have encountered smooth, sloping masonry surfaces, and presumably used temporary equipment such as ropes, wooden supports, boards, lamps, and other aids

if required. We don't have documentation telling us exactly how that final operation was conducted. Where your question becomes especially interesting, if the Great Pyramid was indeed Kufu's tomb, the final burial operation was certainly not a normal standing procession all the way to the king's chamber. There are several awkward features, extremely cramped passage, steep ascent, enormous grand gallery,

low passage again, and then into the king's chamber. But we don't possess a contemporary account saying, quote, here is exactly how Kufu's funeral entered the Great Pyramid, end quote. That's reconstruction based on the architecture

and comparison with Egyptian funerary practices. so I wouldn't use the narrow passage as proof that the Great Pyramid wasn't a tomb. Egyptians were perfectly capable of designing restricted passages that were traversed only once before being sealed. But I also wouldn't dismiss your observation. It's a legitimate question. If this enormous monument was designed specifically for Kufu's burial, why was the final act? access route so cramped and difficult that the king's body and attendance apparently had to negotiate long, steep passages in a crouched position.

The conventional model has plausible answers to that question, but we don't have direct evidence describing the actual funeral procession through the Great Pyramid. So the details remain reconstructed rather than known. End quote. Okay, so my final thoughts here on this fourth question that I asked chat, and here they are. Chat admits that my final question here poses problems basically to the tomb theory. It then also admits a couple times that it says we don't have actual documentation telling us how Kufu's funeral entered the Great Pyramid. Okay, again, so it makes these admissions up front that my question basically does pose problems to the tomb theory, that there's nothing telling us, no documentation, how Kufu's funeral entered the Great Pyramid.

But then it tells me, quote, I wouldn't use the narrow passages as proof that the Great Pyramid wasn't a tomb. So after admitting that my question poses problems, and after admitting there's, There's no proof or documentation, again, of how Kufu's funeral entered the pyramid, it has the gall to tell me, don't use the narrow passages as proof that the Great Pyramid wasn't a tune. You can't make this stuff up. Yet the irony here is that ChatGBT and the mainstream archaeological community and Egyptologists, at the end of the day, they will say, yeah, even though these questions

pose a problem and even though we actually don't have documented proof, the Great Pyramid was a tomb, built around 2,500 BC for Kufu. Again, the point here is that even though they're admitting they don't have the documented proof of how the Great Pyramid was built especially, or how Kufu's funeral procession could even get inside, even though they don't have that documented proof, they tell me, I can't use that as proof that the pyramid wasn't a tomb, but they still get to, even though they don't have the same proof, they get to say it was a tomb built around 2,500 BC for Kufu. Wow, I hope you enjoyed this episode. I would love to know what you think. Do you think the Great Pyramid was constructed

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