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Will Hart Claims Aliens Built the Pyramids, But Offers Little New Proof

4/20/2017

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​First, I have a bit of housekeeping to note: Alex Jones, whose lawyer recently alleged that he was a performance artist, took the stand in his child custody case to dispute his own lawyer’s argument, claiming in sworn testimony that he is not playing a character and that he believes the wild claims he makes. The jury also heard testimony that Jones had been diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.
​Second, at the Women in Classics conference, Helen Lovatt of the University of Nottingham gave a presentation outlining her plans for a monograph tracing the history of the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and evaluating its development from ancient to modern times. Sounds familiar. Lovatt was supposed to publish her book on the subject, In Search of the Argonauts, back in 2015 with I. B. Tauris, but the volume never came to fruition.
 
Now on to today’s topic.
 
OK, so this was a bit of an unexpected coincidence. A couple of days ago I looked into the shorthand claim that “aliens built the pyramids,” and now Bear & Co. is planning to release a new book about why aliens built the pyramids! The new book is called Ancient Alien Ancestors and it is written by Will Hart, a longtime ufologist and ancient astronaut writer. The book is due out in July, but galley proofs are available for reviewers. I took a look, and I’m afraid to say that I can’t possibly gin up enough interest to formally review the book. In short, despite its title, only the first portion of the book is about ancient astronauts; the remainder covers the usual stations of the cross for ufology: Roswell, modern UFO sightings, Travis Walton, alien abductions, directed panspermia, Rh-negative blood, and genetic engineering. There is virtually nothing new in the book, much that is very old, and a generally myopic self-congratulatory attitude whereby the author thinks he has presented something unique.
 
Anyway, today I am interested in his claims about the Great Pyramid, so we’ll take a look at what he has to say about Egypt’s most famous structure. “I have repeatedly invited hard scientists to apply their knowledge, technologies, and skills to make a thorough investigation of the Great Pyramid,” he writes. He complains that scientists refuse to take him up on the offer, and he offers this challenge: “Since you dismiss the histories handed down by our ancestors as being nothing more than mere myths (apparently spun by ignorant, childish minds) that have no intrinsic value or relevancy to scientific investigations, then why do you, contrarily, insist that they were intelligent enough to engineer plant genetics, build the Great Pyramid, and invent the sexagesimal numeric system that is still the basis of timekeeping?” (emphasis in original). It takes no genius to see that there is little to his allegation beyond a misunderstanding of basic artificial selection and basic math, and ultimately relies on his belief that the Great Pyramid is impossible for modern people to replicate.
 
Would it surprise you to know that Hart’s “evidence” for the pyramid is the same set of evidence that John Taylor outlined in 1859 and Charles Piazzi Smyth popularized in 1864? Hart starts with a variation on Smyth’s claim that the Great Pyramid stands at the center of Earth’s land masses, this time revised to say that the pyramid marks the natural starting point for marking longitude, an exquisitely subjective claim if ever there were one. Natural in what way? This presumes one values land over sea, and north-south orientations over east-west orientations. Hart claims that the “natural” longitude begins at Lake Victoria (or the mouth of the Nile) because the Mississippi’s mouth is 90° west and the mouth of the Yangtze is 120° east. But such geographical points are again arbitrary. Why not the Amazon and the Indus? Nor are those geographic features fixed; they move with erosion, sea levels, and other factors. For Hart, though, this is a non-starter; he believes geography is fixed in place and that space aliens terraformed the Earth, planning rivers to reach particular lines of latitude (especially 30° N and the equator) yet somehow neglecting to organize them in a way that would allow for easy shipping from one alien urban center to the next.
 
Hart also refuses to accept the standard sequence of Egyptian pyramids, denying that there is any evidence of evolution in pyramid building. Thus, he does not accept the progression from mastabas to step pyramids to the failed bent pyramid and eventual true pyramids. Instead, he holds that the Great Pyramid emerged out of nothing, with no antecedents at all. His conclusion is as illogical as the rest of his argument: “… ancient Egyptians simply lacked the architectural knowledge, engineering skills, and technology required for the pyramid’s construction. This nullifies the orthodox thesis. Ergo, an advanced extraterrestrial race built the Giza complex.” Even if we accepted Hart’s assertions about the “advanced” engineering of the pyramid—and here he severely underestimates what impossibly large numbers of motivated workers can accomplish—it does not follow that extraterrestrials are the alternative. What about Atlantis? Time travelers? Dinosaurs?!?
 
Following this, Hart devotes a chapter to the familiar argument, of Victorian origin, that the Pyramid is “precision-engineered” to a tolerance that modern civilization would struggle replicate. His arguments are familiar to anyone who has read a fringe book in the last century or two, but they lean heavily on recent efforts to replicate Egyptian techniques. Because modern experimental archaeologists have not been able to move or raise similarly large blocks as easily with the small crews available to them, Hart concludes that the Egyptians, even with their virtually unlimited manpower, would also have been unable to do so. He enters into evidence the fringe claims about the supposed Ice Age date for the Sphinx and adds to it the allegation that the Pyramid itself is of the same vintage. He states that Egyptologists are in a “war” to defend the idea that the Pyramid was a tomb, with the strong implication that they want to avoid admitting evidence of aliens.
 
Afterward, he argues that Egypt was not even a civilization. He claims that the country lacked any major cities, and that all of its technological prowess was borrowed from higher civilizations in the Near East. Therefore, they could not have built the pyramids. I suppose it goes without saying that ancient Egypt did in fact have cities and that places like Memphis flourished in the Old Kingdom.
 
Hart introduces a new claim that is at least somewhat different than traditional ones. While Robert Bauval made the pyramids into stars and Victorian writers had already suggested that they represented the orbits of planets, Hart decides that the three Giza pyramids represent Mercury, Venus, and Earth in their relative sizes. To accomplish this, he relates the area of each pyramid to the mass of each planet, and the length of each pyramid’s side to the diameter of each planet. These measurements don’t seem to have a natural correlation—why, for example, would we not use the diagonal of the pyramid rather than its side?—but even doing so, Hart can only come up with approximate figures that he then fudges. For example, he claims that the ratio of the sides of the Khufu and Khafre pyramids is identical to the ration of Earth’s and Venus’s diameters. But the numbers are wrong. He gives the pyramid side length (in feet) as 755 and 706, and the diameters (in kilometers) as 12,752 and 12,100. He claims the smaller in both cases is 95% of the larger. But in the case of the pyramids, the smaller is 93.5% of the larger, while Venus’s diameter is 94.8% of the Earth’s diameter. In his comparison to Mercury, he didn’t even bother to fudge the numbers. He simply admits they are not even close, but says “there is no question of the overall effect.” Imagination can do that to you. Perfect correlations are “evidence,” but so, too, are ones that aren’t even close—then they are merely symbolic!
 
He concludes by writing that pyramids sit in an “Earth vortex” just like Coral Castle in Florida, and he repeats incorrect claims that no one can explain how Coral Castle was built. (Hint: It involved elbow grease, simple machines, and physics.) Hart’s sources are, of course, other fringe books, and there is little he adds to their earlier claims except a great deal of undisguised anger at various elites, all of whom seem to have offended him in ways that he never quite makes clear. What is clear is that he actively despises anyone who is associated with universities, higher education, professional organizations, or academic learning of any kind. The true heroes are for him the lunatics and eccentrics who propose ideas unencumbered by the burden of proof and unleavened by plausibility. There, in the infinite possibility of unrestrained imagination, is where the aliens are to be found.
21 Comments
Shane Sullivan
4/20/2017 11:25:15 am

"Hart starts with a variation on Smyth’s claim that the Great Pyramid stands at the center of Earth’s land masses, this time revised to say that the pyramid marks the natural starting point for marking longitude, an exquisitely subjective claim if ever there were one. Natural in what way?"

Well of course they're natural, Jason. They're not *supernatural*, are they? That would just be silly. No, aliens are the sensible answer.

"There, in the infinite possibility of unrestrained imagination, is where the aliens are to be found."

Nice turn of phrase, and very true.

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Only Me
4/20/2017 12:04:03 pm

Hart can't explain certain things, he can't understand the science behind rational explanations for them, so, the answer *must* be aliens. Perhaps Hart would care to explain how humanity continued unaided when our alien benefactors left and didn't bother to return?

On second thought, I don't want to hear his explanation. It would most likely belong to a more renowned AAT talking head.

"What about Atlantis? Time travelers? Dinosaurs?!?"

Or...time-traveling dinosaurs from Atlantis? Don't discount the Sleestaks!

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BigNick
4/20/2017 12:58:35 pm

I will never understand what makes the pyramids such a mystery. How was your house built? How is electricity generated and delivered to your house? How about water? Construction America's infrastructure was started before big machines were invented, and nobody questions it. What makes a pile of rocks so special.

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Americanegro
4/20/2017 02:57:19 pm

BN hits the big nail on the head. Pyramids are piles of rocks, the simplest possible structure. "… ancient Egyptians simply lacked the architectural knowledge..." A two year old knows how to stack blocks. Does Hart think the Egyptians didn't make mini-pyramids as proof of concept?

There's fertile ground to be explored that everyone seems to be ignoring: How did the Eskimos learn to make igloos?

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Kathleen
4/20/2017 03:46:42 pm

I like that question !

BigNick
4/20/2017 03:48:13 pm

They must be round to copy the tops of flying saucers! That's at least three books and two History specials. I wonder if the sex apes built them and the Eskimos copied them.

Also I think my local grocery store is run by aliens, based on how they stack oranges. Not to mention the well dressed young men that work there.

Shane Sullivan
4/21/2017 02:37:28 pm

Oh, the Inuits were just using ice and snow to imitate the misunderstood technology of the wigwams built by the Mi'kmaq, who they worshipped as gods.

...The Mi'kmaq learned it from aliens.

Pacal
4/20/2017 02:57:00 pm

This comment:

"Hart also refuses to accept the standard sequence of Egyptian pyramids, denying that there is any evidence of evolution in pyramid building."

This comment goes to something I've seen in a lot of people who create, or buy into woo, nonsense. Very often people not only don't know much, or anything, about the subject their talking about but they actively and deliberately refuse to look at / examine the material that is available. And sometimes they are in fact proud of the fact they have actively refused to learn stuff.

It is also pare for the course that Hart then proceeds to insult the Ancient Egyptians and indicate that his actual knowledge of them is small.

Years ago at the old Counterknowledge website I was involved in a flame war with a couple of people who were openly proud of the fact that their minds weren't full of "shit" that comes from reading actual academic material and instead that their lack of knowledge enabled them to think "outside the box". The debate was about the crap spewed out the Graham Hancock.

The pride so many purveyors and consumers of woo feel for their ignorance and lack of knowledge can be very disconcerting. However it seems to come from the belief that in depth knowledge of X leads to you being brain washed into accepting the "mainstream" view; whereas being ignorant means you haven't been brain washed and hence are open to the "truth".

All in all woo thinkers and consumers can be quite infuriating.

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Americanegro
4/20/2017 06:11:10 pm

Pacal wrote "Very often people not only don't know much, or anything, about the subject their talking about but they actively and deliberately refuse to look at / examine the material that is available."

You are so right, that happens all the time, and on both sides of the political aisle so let's not go down that aisle. But to your basic point, quite often they don't even know their own source material. Years ago I had a debate with a (then) friend over his Nibiru, astrology, 24,000 year cycle, Theosophy nonsense and I pointed out that I knew more about Thsphy than he did, having actually read The Secret Doctrine and Isis Unveiled. For those who don't know, those books have a fuckton of words. Plus I had a 103 year old Theosophist in my back pocket who'd known the first generation but I didn't mention that.

From an old email:
"It does not matter that you read something if you don't understand it. And if you "finished" it -that tells me you have decided there is nothing left of it for you to learn and therefore
place yourself "above" it. So how can you be teach-able or open to discovery, truth or goodness?"

Me:
"It matters when you read something and figure out that it's almost completely wrong."

Him:
"Do you think I need to manipulate an audience of Theosophists who are hearing me praise Blavatsky??? - who you incidentally, obviously hate. Also your concern about me manipulating them puts you in a supervisory position. As I have not placed you there- you- apparently- have placed yourself there. Where do you derive this right to tell me what I am doing? The Divine Right of Kings? "

I'm sure other people have had similar experiences with the Argument From Ignorance.

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E.P. Grondine
4/20/2017 03:28:30 pm

Hi Jason -

What rubbish.

Clearly the Pyramids were built under the direction of Ancient Alien Cats, which is why they had the Egyptians build a statue of them in front of the pyramids.

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Dubious f
4/20/2017 06:44:46 pm

Engineering and architectural knowledge?.. I may be mistaking but I was taught that the angles of the base/top of later pyramids was close to 52 degrees, the same that sand will make if you pile it up. Higher degree than that, the sand will sift down. It makes it "gravity stable". Aside that, plane, pile and repeat. Engineering and architecture of pyramids sounds kind of simple. Aliens are simpletons ...

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Ken
4/20/2017 08:18:31 pm

If aliens are so smart why did they use 'rocks' to build the pyramids. Why not plastic? - or aluminum? Surely there are better materials from a design point of view than stone.

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Americanegro
4/20/2017 10:05:07 pm

And this is precisely where the ideas of terraforming Mars, mining the Moon, or mining asteroids fails. Good luck transporting the factories light years.

Oh by the way there's so little air on Mars there might as well not be any air on Mars. I'm not talking oxygen, I'm talking air pressure.

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Dubious f
4/20/2017 11:27:21 pm

Because it's easier, energy wise, to deal with local labour. Get 60 000 people, a compas, protactor, sand (lots of of it), beaucoup de bois, miles and miles of rope, fairly good living to avoid a mutiny of 40000, and stone, tons, 5-10 years: bam! Pyramid. To travel plants light years away.... no point of forging for thorium back home

orang
4/20/2017 10:29:10 pm

Doobie Bros, 1979:
What a fool believes
He sees
No wise man has the power
To reason away.
What seems
To be
Is always better than nothing.

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A C
4/21/2017 07:40:28 am

The Great Pyramid isn't precision engineered at all by modern standards, the main reason its still so spectacular after four and a half millennia is because its horribly over built with no deep knowledge of material stresses other than the stuff that could easily be learned from a century of building less impressive pyramids.

The hundreds (?) of collapsed 'inferior' pyramids built throughout the following millennium may very well have had a lot of advantages over their more famous predecessor and have required a lot more expertise to make.

At least, if you view them analogous to Victorian bridges which have lasted a long time but require a lot less engineering knowledge than a modern equivalent.

"Building for eternity" might be romantic but it also happens to align with the brute force solutions.

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Mark L
4/21/2017 11:39:18 am

If it's not precision-engineered, then nothing in the history of humanity is precision-engineered. While the very top of it was a bit sloppily built, the main section is, for the time, an extraordinary achievement.

Your first paragraph makes no sense. How else would they learn? And the later pyramids not being as good is simply explained by them being many centuries out of practice.

I do love casually dismissing something which has impressed and amazed people for the best part of 5000 years, though.

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Mr. Pyramid
4/22/2017 01:20:16 am

In some ways the Giza pyramids are very carefully built; in other ways, they are not. They certainly are not precision-aligned by modern standards, as A C put it, because it would be virtually impossible to achieve modern standards of precision engineering using Chalcolithic tools.

From The Complete Pyramids by Mark Lehner:

"There is a tremendous ‘slop factor' in the pyramid core, with many irregularly-shaped stones and a fill of smaller stone fragments and debris – this in spite of the fact that Khufu’s pyramid has probably the best-laid core masonry of any pyramid."

The Giza pyramids were also better built than their predecessors and their Middle Kingdom successors, but I am not certain about the late Old Kingdom pyramids, all of which have at least partially collapsed. The Giza pyramids may have survived partly because they are built on firmer bedrock than most others.

Weatherwax
4/24/2017 02:27:47 am

What frequently gets forgotten is that the pyramids were supposed to be giant cubes, but they were a union job, with each shift doing a little less than the previous shift.

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Ol Ven
1/29/2018 05:29:34 am

I stopped following and discontinued interest in Will Hart's FB page and books. I was initially curious and asked questions or colored his theories or posts with something else I related to, only to have him snap and reply with a condescending remark. I was disheartened and made the choice to erase all knowledge of him and his work. I also discouraged my sociology classmates to ignore his work as well.

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Ol Ven
1/29/2018 05:32:12 am

Typed compared and auto fill instantly corrected to colored. Apologies.

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