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Podcast: The DemystifySci Podcast
Episode: Ancient Power Grid at Giza? – Geoffrey Drumm, DemystifySci #398
Description: What powered the pyramids has always been the missing question. In this second part of our conversation with Geoffrey Drumm,  @thelandofchem , explore a provocative but physically grounded idea: that ancient Egyptian structures tapped into natural electricity: earth currents, lightning, and conductive geology. They channeled this electricity to drive large-scale chemical processes at the pyramids, which we discussed in Part 1. Drawing on field evidence, climate history, and experimental modeling, the discussion reframes Giza not as a ceremonial site, but as an engineered landscape tuned to environmental energy. If this view is even partly correct, it suggests ancient technology didn’t figh...