Bradley Walsh: ‘I thought I’d prove the pyramids were built by aliens in new TV show’

In the show, Walsh probes who built the ancient structures in Giza

Bradley Walsh has said he thought he was “going to prove” the Egyptian pyramids were built by aliens in his new television show.

The presenter, 64, known for The Chase and Gladiators, is the face of Sky History programme Bradley Walsh: Egypt’s Cosmic Code. For the series, he travelled to the country to investigate “this rumour that the pyramids weren’t built by Ancient Egyptians at all.”

He told PA that he wanted to investigate whether: “They were built by a race that had either died out prior to 4,500 years ago, or they were built by someone or something else”.

Walsh added: “Prior to arriving in Egypt, I’m thinking: this is going be great, I’m going to prove this is the aliens.

“People say I’m a conspiracy theorist. I’m not. All I did was say: ‘It could be this,’ and I needed to find out what is the truth.”

Walsh said that being there, “you then realise it’s very difficult to take on board that anyone else other than ‘the Ancient Egyptians built the pyramids'”.

Giza in Egypt (Alamy/PA)

“The great thing about the Great Pyramid is they started building the pyramids about 150 years prior to that one,” he said.

“My expert guides, Meredith and Arto, showed me where the beginnings of the pyramids were about 150 years prior to the Grand Pyramid.

“If you went there, you see the evolution of the pyramids – one’s wonky, one’s drooping on one side, it’s all trial and error.”

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Walsh also appeared to suggest that being inside the Great Pyramid made him stop believing that it could generate electricity.

He said: “Being so deep inside the pyramid, I was expecting a lot of noise. I’ve maintained that I think the Great Pyramid is some kind of power plant in its own right.”

Walsh also said that it was “mind-blowing being there”, and finding out that the final ruler of Egypt, Cleopatra VII, lover of Mark Antony and Julius Caesar, died closer to the modern era than the beginning of Ancient Egypt.

He said: “You can go online and get a load of speculative information from people that have never even been there, they’ve got it from a book or somewhere else online, and you know how dangerous the web can be in terms of misinformation.

“Well, if you are interested in the pyramids, hopefully, people will watch this and go and see it for themselves. I hope they do because it certainly broadens the mind – it also narrows it, to a certain extent, in that you can see all the real information laid out in front of you.”

Bradley Walsh, star of ‘The Chase' (ITV Studios)

Walsh signed up for the show thanks to a life-long interest in the tomb structures at Giza. He was inspired by his teacher - who was the great-niece of Howard Carter, who found Tutankhamun’s tomb.

The Great Pyramid of Giza was built more than 4,600 years ago to house Khufu, a king from Egypt’s 4th dynasty.

The Egyptian Government has previously invited people who do not believe their ancestors built the pyramids to the north-east African country to learn the story of the impressive structures.

In 2020, the then-minister of international cooperation, Rania al-Mashat told South African businessman Elon Musk that she is “waiting for” him to visit the pyramids after he wrote on X: “Aliens built the pyramids (obviously).”

Ms al-Mashat also said: “I follow your work with a lot of admiration. I invite you and Space X to explore the writings about how the pyramids were built and also to check out the tombs of the pyramid builders.

“Mr Musk, we are waiting for you.”

Tech billionaire Mr Musk, who bought Twitter/X in 2022, later pointed to a “sensible summary for how” the structures were built, which explained that archaeological evidence shows that there were villages made to house workers constructing the pyramids, and went into detail about the human evidence.

Bradley Walsh: Egypt’s Cosmic Code airs on March 18 at 9pm on Sky History.