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BONUS POST: Review of Forbidden History S06E06 "The Pyramid Code"

5/16/2020

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The (originally) British pseudohistory series Forbidden History has been on the air for six seasons stretching over seven years, and I used to review it regularly. But when Time Warner Cable became Spectrum Cable, the channel it airs on in the U.S., first AHC and then the Science Channel, departed from my cable package. For a while that was OK because other people still got the channel, and I could see shows if necessary. But under quarantine, I haven’t left the house, and I’m not about to spend extra money to watch bad TV. However, last Sunday Forbidden History plunged into a topic of special interest to me—pyramids! So, I made the effort to obtain a copy of last week’s broadcast to see what they said. It wasn’t good.
I haven’t seen Forbidden History since 2017, but it seems that the new season has borrowed the brand name and ignorant cable TV barnacle Andrew Gough but otherwise stripped the series of its original purpose in order to refashion it as a formal copy of Ancient Aliens, with Gough in the Giorgio Tsoukalos role. When the series began, it was a showcase for British Top of the Pops presenter Jamie Theakston, who as host traveled the world to track down historical mysteries. Now it is a talking-head show anchored by Gough’s pointless babble and a mountain of b-roll surrounding a couple of single-day on-location local shoots, just like Ancient Aliens. Theakston is gone, and with him anything that made the show unique. It’s almost literally the least common denominator of all the other Discovery and History series, stripped and shorn of anything special, distinctive, or different. It’s Ancient Aliens without the mysticism, America Unearthed without an overriding conspiracy, Rob Riggle: Global Investigator without a personality.
 
This episode got off to a bad start when the opening teaser had the narrator ask if “something more mysterious” than “ancient civilizations” built the world’s pyramids, followed by Gough lying about our knowledge of why pyramids were built: “If someone tells you they have the answer, they are either delusional or they’re lying,” he says. Naturally, he has answers to sell you, which tells you everything you need to know about how he sees himself.
 
The episode itself is a case study in deceptive editing. The narrator opens by asking if the world’s pyramids were all planned and produced by a “mysterious common ancestor” civilization—basically Ignatius Donnelly’s vision of Atlantis. Then they cut to archaeologists Klint Janulis, whom we last saw being edited into confirming Rob Riggle discovered the medieval hiding place of Holy Grail. Here, Janulis—who ought to know better by now—is edited into saying that the pyramids are a massive mystery. Lynn Picknett claims that “little” is known about any pyramids, and obviously she has no familiarity with either archaeology or history, for there are plenty of records about pyramids. The Greeks recorded some correct information about the Giza pyramids’ construction, and Sima Qian recorded quite clearly the techniques, architecture, and reasons behind the Chinese pyramids.
 
“Pyramids have sprung up all over the world. They all are aligned to the cardinal points. They all have a causeway. They all have a mortuary temple. None of them have tombs,” Gough says. Every point he made is wrong. Only some pyramids are aligned to true north. I needn’t remind you that Mesoamerican pyramids have no causeways, nor mortuary temples, or that the Egyptian pyramids are literally tombs, complete with burial chambers. The Fifth and Sixth Dynasty pyramids in Egypt even have burial texts written on the walls of the tombs. The Nubian pyramids are also clearly tombs.
 
Tony McMahon, whom we also saw lying on Rob Riggle’s show and before that on America Unearthed, actually manages to make a real point when he correctly says that everything we just heard is pseudoscience. That will not stop him from promoting it later, however.
 
The show mentions the recent discovery of a void in the Great Pyramid and describes the pyramid’s various architectural features and literally calls the King’s Chamber the “burial chamber,” in distinct contradiction to Gough’s claim. Naturally, Gough returns to claim that the evidence that Khufu built the Great Pyramid is a lie. The show has art historian Bob Bianchi on to point out that we literally have a papyrus saying the pyramid was built for Khufu. To its credit, the show does let real experts offer scientific analysis, often quite passionately, before dismissing them as wrong or ignoring them altogether. The narrator rejects the actual information Bianchi just provided, for example, and pretends as though it never happened, speculating that the pyramid had another purpose and a “magnificent” lost civilization built them instead. It’s almost as though the scriptwriter and the editor were in opposition.
 
But the writing does do something that even Ancient Aliens doesn’t usually do. The script describes pseudohistorians as “skeptics” who are asking reasonable questions about missing evidence. This is the same tactic used by climate change deniers, claiming the mantle of scientific skepticism to give false merit to their ideological beliefs. It is also disturbing that the show makes such heavy use of the minor doubt over when during the middle third millennium BCE Khufu lived to argue that Egyptologists don’t really know when the pyramid was built.
 
This doubt gives room for the show to bring in cable TV bottom-feeder and giant-hunter Hugh Newman to ignorantly spout nineteenth-century drivel from Auguste Mariette, Gaston Maspero, and Francois Lenormant that the pyramids were the work of the Followers of Horus in the pre-dynastic period. Those French eminences mistakenly believed the Inventory Stela to be contemporary with Khufu rather than a Ptolemaic fraud, so they accepted its false claim that the Sphinx predated the Old Kingdom. Newman, ignorant of this history, crudely equates nineteenth century conclusions with forbidden truths. Similarly, he accepts the medieval Islamic pyramid myth at face value and therefore concludes that Nephilim-giants built Egypt’s pyramids. (I have to apologize for accidentally being one of the sources for his boneheaded notion.) He brings in the dumb idea from Ancient Aliens that Robert Bauval’s Orion Correlation Theory of Giza also applies to Teotihuacan in Mexico (even though the pyramids do not align at all, in size or shape), and he argues that the Egyptians traveled to Mexico.
 
As we move to talk about Teotihuacan, Gough pops up to repeat his false claim that “all” pyramids have causeways and mortuary temples, and when Picknett starts talking about “pharaohs” it becomes clear that the producers of the show are simply mixing and matching quotes without paying attention to which pyramids they are discussing. It’s possible Gough was referring to all Egyptian pyramids but that the producers couldn’t tell the difference, or didn’t care.
 
Gough and another talking head, anthropologist Karen Bellinger (who has one of the most artificial and over-practiced deliveries I’ve heard on these shows), both claim that we don’t know who built Teotihuacan. Well, they were built by the Teotihuacanos, who were an actual people with a culture and a civilization. At the peak, more than 100,000 people lived in a multiethnic city drawing people in from across its sphere of influence. Their bodies were buried there—including under the very pyramids we are discussing. They were known across Mexico and left evidence of their culture where so far as their influence spread. Gough says that space aliens might have built the city since we don’t know that Native peoples really built the buildings they lived in. Sorry, people of Teotihuacan. You might have lived in the sixth largest city in the world at the time, but you are no match for two space Aryans in a flying saucer.
 
Unable to find anything interesting to say about Mexico for more than three minutes, the show returns to Gough to let him speculate whether pharaohs were really capable of building pyramids. Janulis correctly explains that the pyramid shape isn’t mystical. It’s the only stable way to build a really tall stone structure. It has to be wider at the base.
 
Lynn Picknett describes the 1952 discovery of Sekhemkhet’s sarcophagus, which was found sealed but empty within his unfinished buried pyramid. (The sarcophagus was probably ritually closed when the unfinished burial chamber was abandoned.) The show, however, doesn’t realize she’s talking about Sekhemkhet, who was Djoser’s brother or son, so it imagines that she is talking about Djoser himself and wonders why he had a sealed but empty tomb. Gough follows this misunderstanding and adds that no bodies have ever been found in an Egyptian pyramid, but that’s untrue. Fragments of mummies have been found in several pyramids, mostly bits that fell off when they were looted. The medieval Arabs left some accounts of opening pyramid burial chambers and the mummies found therein with their grave goods.
 
The narrator asserts that “academics” believe all pyramids are tombs—they are not; Mesoamerican pyramids were temple platforms for example—and then claims that “a growing group of people” are taking a courageous stand against the tomb theory. Hugh Newman says pyramids vibrated to “fertilize” the surrounding land, though he admits to not knowing what kind of energy they produced. “Who knows?” he says. He adds that he thinks UFOs seen over the Giza pyramids are remnants of their vibrational energy.
 
Naturally, this leads to the show promoting Semir “Sam” Osmanagich’s so-called Bosnian pyramids as artificial structures, though the show admits that most everyone else understands that they are natural formations. Osmanagich offers his usual lies about the Bosnian pyramids curing disease through “energy” and Gough alleges that a unified group of teachers spread pyramid knowledge around the world. Osmanagich says that pyramids were too much work to flatter a single man’s ego, so they must have had socialist purposes to benefit whole communities. Surely there is a political angle to his beliefs that is reflected in his egalitarian socialist imagining of the past.
 
The hour concludes with McMahon asserting that space aliens may have built the Bosnian pyramids and Bellinger delivering an over-scripted line about the Bosnian pyramid claims being good for Bosnia’s economy but not for its academic reputation. It’s so scripted, you’d think it was made to order. Well… It kind of was. Bellinger, Janulis, and Bianchi appear through the offices of Past Preservers, a talent agency for history-themed talking heads, so Forbidden History literally dials up their content from a service. I’ve seen on Twitter that the agency is proud to be associated with shit shows like this, Search for the Lost Giants, Paranormal Egypt, etc.
 
The show offers no conclusion about pyramids in general and seems to have forgotten about all the other pyramids in the world, from the Maya to the Aztecs to the Chinese to the Nubians. The whole of the pyramid “mystery” is reduced to Giza, Saqqara, and Teotihuacan. All told, it was a disappointing hour, and I hate to say it, but Ignatius Donnelly did a better job making the same case in 1882.
26 Comments
Kent
5/16/2020 03:20:48 pm

"in the Giorgio Tsoukalos role" No Andrew! You never go full Tsoukalos!

"Naturally, Gough returns to claim that the evidence that Khufu built the Great Pyramid is a lie." If I recall correctly you have one of those guys here.

Thanks for the bonus post.

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Cesar
5/16/2020 03:51:44 pm

There is an interesting coincidence of measures between the great pyramid of Giza and of the pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan.

Giza
Base‎: ‎length 230.34 m
Height‎: ‎146.7 m

Teotihuacan
Base: width 230 m, length 220 m
Height: 71, 7 m

Since both are ruins, the pyramid of the Sun have about the same base and half of the height of the great pyramid.




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Hanslune
5/17/2020 01:08:34 pm

I believe the width is actually 223.48 meters

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Kent
5/17/2020 02:23:33 pm

As George Will says Thomas Jefferson said, "Important if true." The first, easiest, most obvious, and what is wrong with people who haven't thought of it question is "How many paces is that?"

You're welcome.

Jr. Time Lord
5/30/2020 03:09:43 pm

Both structures were built using the same solar science. The ratio between light and dark. Latitude also dictates design.

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Crash55
5/16/2020 08:56:40 pm

I was at pleased to see Bianchi take a rather firm stance on the science. The other actual archaeologists also related just facts. So at least in some ways it presented more facts than Ancient Aliens and the other pseudoscience shows.

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Bryan Daum link
5/17/2020 05:53:28 pm

Andrew Gough, apparently a trained historian, is certainly annoying as he makes faces with fake intensity to the camera.

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Margaret Robertson
5/18/2020 07:57:03 am

It would seem that if it weren’t for Andrew Gough you would have nothing to say. How many blogs have you written about him? I think this blog puts the count at 14 or 15. Obsessed much? Your jealousy is now completely obvious. You can’t deny it. I’d say you should stop because it’s embarrassing, but it’s so entertaining! I wonder if Mr. Gough knows of this bromance? I’m sure he would be horrified. You don’t seem his type.

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Ed Grimley
5/18/2020 11:52:29 am

I just took a quick looking at blog post topics by Jason. Got bored and quit after about the 10th one. None of them dealt with Gough. Your count of 14 or 15 is within the context of hundreds of blog articles going back years. A piss-poor job of obsessing I must say.

Have a delicious Zagnut candy bar and try to work on that blood-sugar level and maybe you will be able to think a little more clearly.

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Jim
5/18/2020 01:27:32 pm

Lol, the guys name only shows up on posts where Jason reviewed an episode of a show he was on.

Seems to be an uptick of lunatic fringe/far right based criticisms of Jason lately.

Andrew
5/22/2020 09:57:01 pm

Jason reviews tv shows. How many episodes has that lying hack Gough been on? Weird that you consider mentioning a person was on TV again to be "obsessive."

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The Atlantis Expert link
5/18/2020 03:02:21 pm

If academics are correct in their belief that most pyramids are tombs, doesn't that increase the likelihood that pyramid building originated from a common ancestor civilization?

It's reasonably probable that a similar structure would have been independently adopted by multiple civilizations. But methods of preserving the dead are very diverse. There isn't one universal preference that has been adopted over the ages (mummification, burial, cremation, coffins, urns, etc.).

To suggest that people from all over the world who had no contact or common cultural influence not only invented a common monumental architectural form in its structure AND on top of that used it for mostly the same purpose (tombs) is an example of a "double coincidence" and hence is even more unlikely.

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Crash55
5/18/2020 04:49:56 pm

You are neglecting a few very important points.

First, what is the simplest way to make a tall pile of anything? stack loose material higher and higher and you will naturally form a cone shaped pile. When trying to build in stone though rectangles are easier than curves so a cone becomes a pyramid. So multiple societies arriving at a pyramid shape makes perfect sense - pre advanced construction techniques / materials a pyramid is the shape you will wind up with.

Second is the time and distance between the different pyramid building civilizations. By the time the Maya started started building pyramids no one was left in Egypt that knew how to build them. There is a large gap between when pyramids stop in one civilization and start in another, so there is no way for them to pass the knowledge from one to other.

Third though the shapes are the same the construction methods and use very across cultures. South America tended to build pyramids on top of pyramids. Some were tombs but they were also used for ceremonies. Egyptian pyramids were built solely as tombs and weren't expanded after the initial building.

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The Atlantis Expert
5/18/2020 07:32:18 pm

Why do so many buildings on different continents have two beams of wood or metal that intersect each other at right angles with one of them being longer than the other?

Straight lines are geometric elements that are everyone from all cultures are familiar with, yet the simple crossing of these straight lines with one of them being slightly longer is not an idea that was independently invented but originated from a specific empire at a specific time as a specific symbol.

Someone who had no knowledge of world history would be totally wrong in concluding that even this very simple symbol was independently invented.

Why should it be any different for a pyramid?

Crash55
5/18/2020 10:15:37 pm

What are you going on about now? What symbol are you talking about?

Crossing two beams of differing lengths happened all across the ancient world. Pretty much in any structure that wasn’t a square.

Jim
5/18/2020 10:28:42 pm

Whatever you are talking about is clear as mud.

I'll take take a wild guess and give you a little history of crucifixion:

"Probably originating with the Assyrians and Babylonians, it was used systematically by the Persians in the 6th century BC. Alexander the Great brought it from there to the eastern Mediterranean countries in the 4th century BC, and the Phoenicians introduced it to Rome in the 3rd century BC."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14750495

Crash55
5/19/2020 12:11:19 pm

If he was going for Crucifixion then he has lots of bad info. Not only that various cultures practiced it but that their were various shapes besides the one we in Christian churches.

As for it being a symbol of Christianity, that didn’t occur until around the 4th century.

Kent
5/18/2020 05:19:56 pm

"Stupid" is a harsh word. That said:

The South American Pyramids aren't tombs so right there you're finished.

Cremation isn't preservation.

There are basically two choices: hole in the ground or pile of rocks.

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Crash55
5/18/2020 06:22:08 pm

There have been bodies found in some of the South American pyramids so some were tombs but that was not their sole purpose

Kent
5/19/2020 10:39:13 am

We have something similar today. It's called a landfill, or Ira Einhorn's apartment.

Ed MORTon
5/19/2020 01:18:37 pm

Various peoples such as Zoroastrians, Bo, and Lakota would differ with you on the what do we do with Grandpa's body scenario. But you get an E for effort.

Doc Rock
5/18/2020 07:42:48 pm

Wide at the bottom and becoming more narrow at the top. A wide range of variation in particular shapes, materials used, languages/motifs used inside and out, purpose, size, height, etc.. etc., etc. Yeah, had to have come from a single uber-civilization in Antarctica, or is it the Pacific Northwest, or is it the central Pacific or central Atlantic? The stupidity just becomes tiresome. It reminds me of Richard Belzer's routine on some late night show back in the 80s. He was a call-in radio show host who would hang up on callers after about their first five words because it was so quickly evident that they were dumbasses. It only takes four words here:THEY ALL LOOK SIMILAR.

Click.

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wakko
5/19/2020 11:44:54 am

Besides the fact that the Mesoamerican pyramids and the Egyptian ones were built to different designs for different purposes, there's also the uncomfortable fact that the former are several thousand years younger than the former. The one that showed up in kook stories about the Mayan calendar and 2012, El Castillo at Chichen Itza, is not even ancient. It's about as old as Chartres Cathedral, or maybe a century or two older. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is nearly half a millennium older than that, and was built with an innovative design. No one ever claims that refugees from Atlantis built THAT one, though! :)

wakko
5/19/2020 07:17:00 pm

D'oh! Of course, I meant the "former" (Mesoamercan) are younger than the "latter" (Egyptian). Where's my internal editor when I need him?

Tony Costello
5/21/2020 11:31:33 am

Since retiring, I finally am able to travel to places and sites I always had hoped to see when I was a young man! Recently, we seen the Pyramid in Cholula! Highly recommend the site and the small town Puebla by an active volcano makes the trip "Interesting!"
The biggest pyramid on earth is the Great Pyramid of Cholula, a primeval Aztec temple in Puebla , Mexico. The Great Pyramid of Cholula has a base four times larger than the Egypt’s, and twice as much volume.

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Mitchell
7/22/2024 03:50:29 pm

So will we always exist? If so then each time we reincarnate what form do we reincarnate too? Meaning will we have other bodies? Or if it’s a soul form that we go too?, is that referred to as a sprit? Then how would we mate, rebuild, connect, touch, feel? Will I still have my wife my kids with me and their families with them? Also I’m only young but in my learnings of Egypt they were mummified in order to be able to control reincarnation with some methods keeping organs in certain ways or their bodies to be put into coffins and tombs that apparently were in their best efforts to be kept safe and a secret so that way they could live for ever in reincarnation., is there any truth to this ? If so then what does that mean for the cremation of people after they have passed away? Can they still reincarnate or go on in existence to other dimensions? Also the spirits of past people we know now how can they still look over our lives or communicate through people that are psychic so to speak? Also in one of the pyramid code videos ray says something about the dead and not to talk to them unless they talk to you, if we all reincarnated then why are they still referred to as the dead and on different level as if they have rules on not talking to them unless they talk to you, then is that not reincarnation for them? or all of us? And in what form do they appear to be in if referring to as the dead then I’m assuming it mast be a form of the body they passed away in?, if not then how else are they recognised as the dead because if spirit or soul form then wouldn’t they be conceited as people on the next dimension or path to being reincarnated and not been seen as the dead with rules on not to talk to them unless they talk to you???

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