Giza: BREAKING NEWS
June 6, 2025
Gregor Spörri receives the following breaking news:
Zahi Hawass presents explosive news about the Great Pyramid of Giza in the English-language podcast “Matt Beall Limitless” (available on the YouTube channel of the same name).
The podcast by US entrepreneur Matt Beall is dedicated to unusual, sometimes cross-border topics. Beall sees himself as a “free thinking CEO and podcaster” – a fitting environment for someone like Hawass, who clearly no longer feels bound by scientific conventions.
Instead of presenting his findings in specialist journals or at conferences as usual, Hawass prefers to take the populist route via the social media spotlight.
Why is Hawass doing this?
As a reminder: Between 2002 and 2011, Zahi Hawass was Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt – a state authority responsible for the protection, management and preservation of archaeological sites. In 2011, he even temporarily took over as Minister of Antiquities – with full responsibility for excavations, museums, cultural tourism and the fight against antiquities theft.
However, Hawass has not held any official government office since 2011. Since then, he has been traveling internationally as the “Indiana Jones” of Egyptian history. He gives lectures, leads excavations and presents himself on his website as “UNWTO Ambassador for Responsible Tourism” at the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO = today: UN Tourism).
Is Zahi Hawass primarily interested in money?
Cultural tourism in Egypt undoubtedly needs new impetus – and who better than the charismatic Zahi Hawass to market the ancient stones in a new way? Right at the beginning of the podcast, he enthusiastically enthuses about the new Grand Egyptian Museum. What’s more, he calls it “a gift from the President to the whole world”.
Sounds big, but the museum has cost around 1.4 billion US dollars so far. The original plan was 550 million. Three quarters of the costs are covered by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JICA) in the form of a development aid loan. Although the interest rates and repayment conditions are very moderate, income must be generated.
Orascom is always in it for the money
Under the management of Orascom Pyramids Entertainment the Giza Plateau has been transformed into a commercialized zone where event management, light shows, controlled visitor flows and exclusively marketed entrances dominate everyday life.
The focus is increasingly on tourist staging: modern entrance areas, shopping malls, shuttle buses and cordoned-off VIP zones are now standard. Events with celebrities, major events within sight of the pyramids or advertising shoots with an international audience are being pushed – all under the direction of Orascom.
For archaeologists and independent researchers like Gregor Spörri, this means a noticeable restriction: access to certain areas is limited, permits are more difficult, spontaneous investigations are hardly possible. The once open interaction with the site has become bureaucratized and mainly linked to commercial interests. Scientific priorities are increasingly taking a back seat to economic considerations – a development that many experts are observing with great concern.
So what is this breaking news about Giza and the Great Pyramid?
According to Zahi Hawass, previously unknown inscriptions were found in the so-called relief chambers above the King’s Chamber. These are supposed to confirm the age of the pyramid (4,500 years, reign of Cheops).
In addition, the hieroglyphic texts drawn in paint are supposed to prove that the pyramids were built by well-fed, well-paid, highly skilled workers – with regular working hours and even days off. The myth of the slave army, which toiled for 20 years under miserable conditions, has thus been refuted once and for all.
Wait a minute …
If I have understood correctly, the newly discovered scribbles date from the 13th century BC – around 1,300 years after the official construction date of the pyramid. How can inscriptions that were only added later were left behind, documenting the construction period? It is more likely that they were made by workers who were carrying out repair or reconstruction work in the pyramid at the time. There can be no question of proof here.
What else was discovered?
According to Hawass, the tombs of the pyramid’s builders were discovered south of the pyramid. Inside: Small statues showing workers hauling and working stones. In addition, job titles such as “overseer of the pyramid side” or “craftsman” are carved into the masonry of the tombs. Furthermore: Flint tools and chipping stones that were supposedly used to build the Great Pyramid.
All very impressive, but here, too, these finds prove not that these workers actually built the pyramid. Cheops is not mentioned anywhere in the carvings, unless I have missed it. The Giza Plateau was once a huge complex with numerous buildings and temples. These workers – possibly the same ones who left the scribbles in the pyramid – could therefore have been working there.
And what else happened on Matt Beall’s podcast?
Hawass talks about a ramp that once led to the pyramid from the southwest, about building organization, foundation design and more. He backs up his statements with exclusive, previously unpublished images.
Host Matt Beall tries several times to ask him about alternative theories about the Sphinx and the pyramids. But Hawass always blocks this, referring to his decades of experience – and makes it clear that he is not available for such theories.
And a real cliffhanger at the end
At the beginning of 2026, a mini-robot will actually investigate the mysterious “Big Void” – the huge cavity above the Great Gallery discovered in 2017. A hole is drilled through which the robot, which is only 1 centimeter in size, can penetrate the cavity. Hawass is confident of victory: he believes he will finally find the tomb of Pharaoh Cheops there.
Is he right? Read my section on this: SECRET CHAMBERS
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