For generations, the great pyramids of Giza have stood as towering witnesses to humanity’s ancient past. Yet a growing body of evidence—scientific, geological, and now technological—is prompting fresh questions about just how old these monuments truly are and what catastrophic events may have disrupted their original purpose.
In a recent episode of The Joe Rogan Experience, telecommunications engineer and radar specialist Filippo Biondi shared research that could alter what many of us have long believed about the pyramids. Using a cutting-edge satellite doppler tomography technique, Biondi and his team scanned beneath the Giza plateau—discovering massive subterranean chambers, shafts that appear far older than the dynastic Egyptians.
But Biondi’s comments about age and the Great Flood may prove even more disruptive.
“The thing that we can say for certainty,” Biondi explained, “is that the pyramids are older than the dates that are written on the typical history books… between the Zep Tepi and the Great Flood, we can locate the pyramids and the Sphinx.”
The ancient Egyptian tradition of Zep Tepi—the “First Time,” when gods or demi-gods ruled—appears in early inscriptions and king lists that stretch tens of thousands of years before the Old Kingdom.
Biondi believes the pyramids were violently interrupted by a global flood. His reasoning is both empirical and observational.
During a recent visit to Egypt, he noted thick salt deposits clinging to interior surfaces, stating, “I found salt on the wall… I taste it. It is of water of the sea.”
If true, the implications are staggering. It would mean the Giza plateau was submerged by sea water thousands of years before dynastic pharaohs ever claimed the site—filling shafts with debris, burying subterranean chambers and sealing access to advanced infrastructure below.
Rogan summarized the gravity of the claim: “That salt… that’s really extraordinary… That it’s still there… 11,000 years later.”
If the pyramids were constructed long before the biblical flood, their builders may not have been the descendants of Adam. Still, it makes it more plausible that they were constructed by “mighty men of old,” by those hybrid man and fallen angel creatures, the Nephilim.
Right now, one thing is clear: Earth’s past is waiting to be revealed.
Abby Trivett is a writer and editor for Charisma Media and has a passion for sharing the gospel through the written word. She holds two degrees from Regent University, a B.A. in Communication with a concentration in Journalism and a Master of Arts in Journalism. She is the author of the upcoming book, The Power of Suddenly: Discover How God Can Change Everything in a Moment.
