British Adventurer Forged the Khufu Inscription in The Great Pyramid ?

 

On Dec 8, 2025, the Graham Hancock Official YouTube Channel (484K subscribers) released a heavily AI-bolstered 43minute video "documentary by Scott Creighton: " The Great Pyramid Hoax", that one day later achieved some 99,907 views. This seems largely to be a rehash and enlargement on the material already presented in a 2016 book: "The Great Pyramid Hoax: The Conspiracy to Conceal the True History of Ancient Egypt" that claims that the workgang and 'quarry' marks discovered on stones in the relieving chambers above the King's Chamber by Colonel Vyse in 1837 were forged by Vyse. He claims that these are the only piece of evidence linking the structure to the 4th Dynasty king Khufu. According to the book's blurb:

" Proving Zecharia Sitchin’s claim that the quarry marks are forgeries and removing the only physical evidence that dates the Great Pyramid’s construction to the reign of Khufu, Creighton’s study strikes down one of the most fundamental assertions of orthodox Egyptologists and reopens long-standing questions about the Great Pyramid’s true age, who really built it, and why".

The film looks like an attempt to attract attention back to the issues that the book raised.

Hancock uses this text to help renew the attention:

"I have chosen to publish Scott Creighton's documentary on my Youtube channel, because I find the case he makes here persuasive with important new evidence that has not been addressed in the public debates thus far. Others are welcome to disagree and no comments will be deleted. Comments that consist of lazy and insulting outright rejections of Scott's case without giving any solid reasoning for the rejection are predictable: this is how archaeology's "debunking lobby" works. [my emphasis PMB] However, what we're really looking for from those who wish to "debunk" this video are comments, unpolluted by insults, slurs and smears, that offer fair, reasoned and constructive criticism of Scott's thesis. If you think he is wrong the least you can do is hear him out in full -- 42 minutes with no ads to slow down your viewing -- and then address the points he makes in this video with as much care and diligence as he has made them."

What is really indicative is that when you look at teh 5900+ comments under his video, not moree than 2% refer to the name Vyse, but a huge preponderance write insultingly on "Hawass" and "Dibble" (with of course the usual half-brain mocking/derogatory distortions of these people's names). There is not a single example of an archaeologist joining in the chorus and engaging there with the arguments.

On Twitter, Hancock (587.8K followers) has got 203.3K views of that post but so far only 76 replies. Again the usual pseudo-archy stuff, some hate-posts directed at archaeologists, some with the sender's own crackpot ideas and hypotheses. Again, as far as I can see no archaeologists.


See the post: How Likely is it that Colonel Howard Vyse Forged the Khufu Inscription in The Great Pyramid? below.