Anyway, I just wanted to share a link for a video I recorded last night for Light-Light Radio with host Mark Eddy. As always, Mark had some great questions for me, and this interview ended up being probably the best possible summary of my new book that I could ever hope to give, so I thought some of you might like to give it a watch.

Joey is by far the best book reviewer I know, so I was thrilled to have him review my new book! Here’s what he had to say:

“The Mysterious Pyramids”: A Review of Pyramid Tech: The Physics, Chemistry, & Agro-Economics of the Ancients, by Ken Goudsward (Prince George, BC, Canada: Dimensionfold Publishing, 2025). ISBN: 978-1-998395-21-7

In my back cover blurb for this book, I stated, “Ken Goudsward, who is steadily earning a place among the most respected researchers offering heavily researched, technology-based reinterpretations of ancient history, offers a salient, sensible set of explanations for the who, when, why, and how of one of Earth’s most enduring mysteries—the pyramids. From the wrongly mundane, to the genuinely compelling, to the recently ridiculous, Goudsward takes on prior theories and offers us solid, scholarly insights and eye-opening new hypotheses.”

Having read this book a second time, I stand by this statement all the more. In 107 succinct, easy to understand pages, while providing abundant photos, diagrams of the interiors of several pyramids, and technical charts, Goudsward takes us through myriad mistaken information concerning pyramids around the world and offers his assessment of a handful of more viable theories.

Cracking the mystery of ancient pyramids has been a fascination for archaeologists, scientists, geologists, ancient alien theorists, sacred geometry researchers, and others for centuries. Were they tombs? Power plants? UFO landing stations? How old are they? This question of age is one that raises the hackles on the gatekeepers and guardians of a narrative where Homo sapiens and advanced civilizations are much younger than what folks like Graham Hancock and Ken Goudsward have been discovering.

With gatekeeping academics on one end and ancient astronaut kooks on the other, the lies, speculations, entertainment fabrications, and simple misunderstanding are legion. Recent AI images of underground networks and strange pillars have further skewed perceptions. As we move toward the center of the spectrum from either end, we encounter genuine efforts that often make sense upon first glance. Burial places, for instance. Most of us grew up on this explanation. But this assumption has more than a few pitfalls and problems, all of which are systematically illuminated by the author.

After an orientation tour of the major pyramid sites and complexes in Egypt, Africa, Mexico, Peru, and China, and the difficult to categorize Gunung Padang in Indonesia, Goudsward offers a page and quarter on the question of how, which is not the primary subject of the book.

As made clear by the title, Pyramid Tech: The Physics, Chemistry, & Agro-Economics of the Ancients is primarily concerned with the why.

Use as tombs is initially considered, with ancient pyramids grouped under four categories (was a tomb, never was a tomb, later use as a tomb, could not be used as a tomb). Examples are given as each of the categories are unpacked in separate sections. Goudsward then moves on to the idea that pyramids and pyramid sites are aligned to astrological configurations (Teotihuacan and Giza aligning with Orion’s belt being the most popular of these theories). Goudsward also mentions Sirius and Cygnus.

The meat of the matter for the why, however, is technology, beginning with hydraulic pumps (the desert was not always a desert, and the Nile flowed within proximity to the Giza pyramids). This is a theory that is roughly sixty years old.

A very popular theory in more recent decades is that of the pyramids serving as electrical power plants (there is a section in the book devoted to lightning). The text begins to increase in technical complexity at this point, although we are in capable, educative hands (the author is a “solutions architect, systems analyst, with expertise in industrial robotics, software engineering, and data design”). From piezoelectric effects to acoustic resonance (he’s also a musician), there’s an international survey of sites presented that might be candidates for this theory of why.

The most robust section, and perhaps the most intriguing, is the one concerning fertilizer factories. There are several researchers whose work Goudsward unpacks while offering his assessment and further considerations. According to one researcher, Geoffrey Drumm, three pyramids (the Step Pyramid of Djoser, the Red Pyramid at Dahshur, and the Bent Pyramid) might have been a “chemical production chain.” Having a father who managed a chemical plant that processed additives and preservatives for cosmetics, I could easily picture the necessity for dedicated sites requiring different technological configurations for each step in the process.

As with his advanced technology explorations of Sumerian texts, such as the Enuma Elish and Atrahasis Epic, Goudsward offers clear explanations and visuals to guide the reader who lacks a background in chemistry as to where these theories succeed and come up short. Along the way, there are some disturbing facts of archaeologists tagging these ancient structures with graffiti and other gestures of disrespect. We also meet the leading (although ultimately discarded) German chemical warfare specialist from World War I and inventor of chlorine gas, Fritz Haber (who also won a Nobel Prize for his invention of his self-named process for producing ammonia).

A fascinating set of sections goes into the details of pressurization and how the shape, weight, and interior architectural features of select pyramids, including the shafts that have given theorists fits given that they are too small and/or have angles that would disallow sarcophagi being carried through them into the open chambers within, were essential for fertilizer production.

Threaded throughout the text and examined in some detail later in the book is the theory that some of the pyramids in Egypt, being much older than the gatekeepers and guardians claim, were constructed by an unknown civilization that predates the pharaonic dynasties and ancient Egyptian civilization as we have come to accept it. A point in favor of this theory is that there are no hieroglyphics in the pyramids and no mention of pyramids in any hieroglyphics—this from a civilization that otherwise kept very meticulous records. This question of who may never be answered, and Goudsward does not choose to tread that path in this text.

The final section of Pyramid Tech: The Physics, Chemistry, & Agro-Economics of the Ancients further elaborates the question of when the pyramids were built. Goudsward says that the traditional estimates of their being 6,000 years old or so is “fundamentally flawed,” based in part on the mistaken notion that they were built as tombs. Respected researchers such as Graham Hancock estimate the Giza pyramids to be more than 12,000 years old.

Once again, Ken Goudsward should be applauded (and supported by the purchase of his books) for applying his polymath expertise to ancient mysteries, giving us serious scientific theories to ponder instead of click-bait, unsupported statements, sexy conjecture, and outright lies.

A bit more about Joey:

Joey Madia has more than 20 years of experience in the arts. He is a teaching artist who has appeared in and/or directed nearly 100 productions throughout the United States. He is artistic director of New Mystics Arts, managing social justice theatre companies in West Virginia and New Jersey as well as the artistic management of the Center for Arts and Education in Fairmont, W.V. His 15 plays for young audiences have been produced in 16 states and Nova Scotia, and his series of books on using theatre in the classroom as well as his workshops are helping teachers redefine learning. Madia has taught classes in theatre and creative writing for dozens of school and community organizations and has been a mentor to young artists from the United States and the United Kingdom. He’s been keynote speaker at several schools and appears on national conference panels on the arts. Madia is resident playwright for Youth Stages, LLC.

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Firstly, Drumm directly addresses the very strange evidence of a lingering chemical odour in many pyramids, including the strong smell of ammonia in the Red Pyramid, and of sulfur in the Great Pyramid.

Secondly, Drumm’s theory provides a foundation to integrate “competing” theories in such a way that they become necessary components. That is, if the pyramids were chemical factories, they would have required water pumps, so the “pharoah’s pump” theory gains credibility as an assistive technology. Similarly, but perhaps to a lesser degree, some of the ideas that Christopher Dunn presents in his books “the Giza Power Plant” and “Giza: the Tesla Connection” also might be considered assistive technologies to provide power or catalytic amplification to the factories. Drumm gives strong economic motives for ancient peoples to invest in massive construction projects—namely, irrigation in a time when vital food crops were being choked out by desertification. No other theory comes close to providing any viable REASON to build pyramids at all.

Thirdly, the chemical process described here require very high pressures. These pressures must be encapsulated and countered by strong enclosures. In my book, I show that the gigantic size and weight of the pyramids are needed to provide sufficient downward pressure to “keep the lid on”. This is the only theory ever proposed that explains why pyramids HAVE TO be so enormous.

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You may recall my good friend Mark Eddy from his radio show where he has interviewed me a few times. Well, Mark has completed the first of his planned trilogy focusing on the prehistory of the upper Ohio River basin in his home of West Virginia. If you are a fan of the well-known “Ohio mounds” you will likely be surprised at how many similar structures have lain forgotten in the state. Fans of fluvial geomorphology will get their fix as well. There’s also something for the paleontologists among us.

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I also recently had the pleasure of working with the Stellat’en First Nation, located here in central BC to help them bring a very dear project to fruition. This book began way back in the late 80’s with a set of interview with the tribal elders. The intent was to capture the beauty of the traditional way of life by gathering oral knowledge and photography of the breathtaking vistas that grace the traditional territory.

“Our History is in the Land: An Oral History of the Stellat’en” is an phenomenal multi-generational rendition of ancestral knowledge encapsulated in coffee-table book form.

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Cheers for now!

Ken

I’m thrilled to announce three new history and prehistory books that we have published recently.

The first is a real treat from Tyrone Ellington, whom you may know from his “Rebirth of the Word” blog (https://rebirthoftheword.com/) and youtube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@rebirthoftheword7099).

Tyrone’s book is, well, actually, you know what? Instead of describing it, I will leave that job to my good friend Joey Madia who recently wrote this fabulous review of Tyrone’s book.

A Review of Journey Through the Origins of History by Tyrone Ellington (Dimensionfold Publishing, 2024). ISBN: 978-1-998395-15-6

Over the past several years, Dimensionfold Publishing has built a solid reputation for scholarly works that analyze ancient texts, myths, cultures, and the Bible from an array of eye-opening, alternative-narrative lenses. With a stable of authors that includes Rev. Michael Carter, Wallace Wagner Jr., and Ken Goudsward, Dimensionfold gives readers plenty to think about, girded by painstaking textual and contextual analysis and well-developed theories founded on years of scholarship.

If you’re daunted by the idea of considering Sumerian, Babylonian, and Mesopotamian texts and the most challenging passages of the Bible through the lens of advanced civilizations and technology (gods and magic), but are interested in ancient history, religion, and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, Tyrone Ellington’s Journey Through the Origins of History is an excellent place to start. The use of journey here is twofold—meaning both the survey/overview nature of the book and the author’s own journey as an independent scholar. The cover of Journey Through the Origins of History is a depiction of the author in headphones, reading research material surrounded by stacks of books, recalling the classical scholar in their study or laboratory. Like many researchers, I know that depiction well and live it every day.

Throughout the book, Ellington shares his curiosity and seeker nature as primary drivers in his life. Much of the book is taken from his blog; this at times leads to repetition, and circling back to previously covered subjects, but this is quite a good thing. As much as educators talk about scaffolding (learning incrementally from basic to complex topics and skills, where the preceding material serves as an essential foundation), the type of big-picture, transdisciplinary research Ellington is doing does not work well that way. Using what I term parallels, patterns, and pathways, a survey like Ellington’s of ancient history and the most challenging theological, cultural, anthropological, philosophical, and sociological aspects of our existence on Earth becomes essential reading for those seeking deeper understanding of the human condition.

Starting from The Beginning of Time, Ellington considers the creation of the Universe, the development of life on Earth (focusing primarily on our forebears and us), and the definitions and conditions of Civilization. Compared to some recent books I’ve read where this journey is taken solely through the lenses of traditional Hard Science, Ellington examines these meta topics, not just through science but also through the transdisciplinary topics listed in the final sentence of the previous paragraph. This approach allows him to incorporate case-building contextual analysis while not dismissing religion, spirituality, mythology, and belief in extraterrestrial life as reprehensible paganism. Like Wallace Wagner, Jr., Ellington presents us with passages from a range of ancient religious and mythological texts, placing them together so the overlaps emerge and contribute to painting a larger picture of our history.

A core focus of the book is the mysterious Annunaki and the work of Zecharia Sitchin, whose (mis)interpretations of Sumerian texts Ellington begins to unpack through his own research and that of additional scholars. As it turns out (and this is supported by the work of Ken Goudsward), one of the pieces of scholarship for which Sitchin is most well known, the existence of a planet called Nibiru from which the Annunaki originate, is the shakiest.

Again like Goudsward, Ellington considers the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, offering new and compelling insights into one of humanity’s oldest narratives. While engaging with this story, the author also enlightens us regarding the overlaps between the gods in the Epic and those that appear in the stories of other ancient civilizations, a la comparative mythologist Joseph Campbell and alternative history researcher Graham Hancock. He returns to this later when contemplating flood stories and variations on the Garden of Eden mentioned throughout a variety of ancient texts. His links between the Sumerian Enkidu and Bigfoot are intriguing, and I would add that they are also akin to the folktale of Iron John. Again, these parallels and pathways are invaluable in any search for the truth of humanity’s origins and the evidence for outside influences on early civilizations. This is essential work given that it is clear that institutionalized academia and myriad gatekeepers have obfuscated, lied about, distorted, and suppressed a great deal of crucial information in the name of governmental, theological, and economic control.

Ellington spends a fair amount of time considering the nature of and characteristics attributed to “God.” In this endeavor, he proceeds with the care and respect for which Wallace Wagner and Rev. Michael Carter are known.

The author also considers such wide-ranging topics as out of body experiences, alien encounters, visions and dreams, astral projection, giants, haplogroups and genetics, and even fasting. Chapter 10, “From Pictographic Script to the Translation of Myths,” makes for excellent reading, providing both an overview of the composition and function of myths and educating the reader on finding elements of comparison. An example of the latter is Ellington’s study of the Mesoamerican serpent god Quetzalcóatl/Kukulcán and its striking similarities to the Egyptian god Thoth and Annunaki god Ningishzidda, which again calls to mind the work of Campbell and Hancock.

Ellington closes many sections of the book with the phrase, Until next time, Knowledge is Power. He certain demonstrates his pursuit of knowledge in the Bibliography, which comprises 224 entries.

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Speaking of the Q&A, there was one particular question about the Bara Bible translation project that I really felt needed addressing in more detail, so I answered that more fully this morning on the Bara Foundation podcast channel. If you are a subscriber to my Dimensionfold Channel, you might want to also subscribe to the Bara Foundation channel, since I don’t typically do a lot of crossover between the two. You can hop on over there with this link to this morning’s issue which covers that question. Don’t forget to hit subscribe once you get there!

Cheers,

Ken

Tonight, I get to cross off one of those bucket list items!

I will be appearing on Coast to Coast AM tonight at 3AM to 5AM EST to chat with Rich Berra about UFOs In The Bible, and selected topics from my other books. For my American friends, I hope you can join us live. See you tonight!

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And keep an eye on my youtube channel - I’ll be chatting with Joey about his new book very soon.

Here’s a chat I had with Mark Joseph Young, the author of “The Essential Guide to Time Travel: Temporal Anomalies & Replacement Theory”. The book examines a lot of great Hollywood movies with time-travel themes, and outlines a couple of different theoretical models of time travel, focusing on Mark’s theory which he calls Replacement Theory.

Prefer video?

The book is available HERE

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It would really help everyone if you can share this with your friends and family. I know all of you have a couple of nerds in your circle that would love this.

Cheers,

Ken

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Our mutual friend and colleague Michael J. S. Carter had the following to say about this book:

Wallace Wagner is the rare human being who combines head and heart in his research. I know him to be a man of impeccable integrity and authenticity. In his book, Crossing The Crevasse, Wallace invites you and I to remove the scales from our eyes, to soften the hardness of our hearts, and to view scripture from a 21st century world view. Nothing has to be lost, except the illusion of certitude, and to see and experience our Western Scriptures in fresh, new, and exciting ways. Once we acknowledge that we live in a populated Universe, our conception of “God” has to change. I for one rejoice at the possibilities.

Rev. Michael J Carter M. Div.; Author of A New World If You Can Take It, and Alien Scriptures

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Recently I had a great chat with John Kirwin, author of The Conspiracy Theorist Survival Guide, about perception, paradigm shifts & pain, cloaks, conspiracies and coping, but ultimately about openness and love.

I think you may find our conversation both captivating and inspirational.

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Remember how in my book “Fermi’s Paradox is Bullshit”, I talked about how SETI is wasting their time by focusing on obsolete radio technology? Well, SETI has yet to mention it, but it turns out NASA at least has finally realized that optics are the way to go (just like I said).

NASA’s new Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC) experiment in conjunction with their Psyche space probe has successfully transferred data across 16 million km by using a constrained laser beam (just like I recommended in my book) in a configuration that is not unlike our standard fibre-optic technology, but doesn’t require a fixed medium.

This new tech is going to quickly deprecate existing radio communications that are very ill-suited to, yet still routinely used in space.

This will mean a huge shift in SETI’s entire strategy, technology, and algorithms, so I doubt it will be a quick pivot by any stretch of the imagination, but at least if SETI eventually does make the switch they will ascend up to the statistical level of “a snowball’s chance in hell” of meeting their stated goal, instead of their current statistical level of Zero.

Wondering what the hell I’m talking about? read the book!

This time we mostly covered topics from my commentary on the Atrahasis Epic, but also a bit from my book “Fermi’s Paradox is Bullshit”, and a few other things. As usual, our conversations tend to range far and wide, but that’s what makes them fun!

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As discussed in my books “Before Roswell“, “UFOs In The Bible” and the Sumerian “Enuma Elish“, UFOs have been visiting earth for many thousands of years. In fact, these events have been captured by artists, since the dawn of antiquity and show up in a number of paintings created by the renaissance masters.

You’ve probably seen a few of these images before, but we also managed to find a few that you may not have seen.

First up is this painting by Aert De Gelder, a pupil of the great Rembrandt. De Gelder created this painting sometime around 1710. Art historians claim that it depicts Jesus being baptized, but this claim is rather nonsensical for several reasons. Jesus was baptized in the Jordan River, which is located in a deep valley. This image depicts a hilltop high in the mountains. None of the details of Christ’s baptism as relayed in the gospels are present here. Moreover, there are no discernable features on any of the characters in the painting. The people are merely a backdrop for the strange metallic craft hovering overhead, and its multiple beams of bright light illuminating the ground.

The viewer is left with the strange sensation that De Gelder is showing us a representation of an event he personally witnessed in the 17th or 18th century, rather than some religious event that happened hundreds of years before his birth, and for which he didn’t bother matching up any of the actual details of the historical or traditional records.

The same can be said about the next three painting we shall examine. In each case, the supposed depictions of well-known biblical stories in no way match the biblical descriptions of said events.

Here is another supposed depiction of Jesus’ baptism, painted in the 15th century by Piero della Francesca. Again, the details of the painting are in no way reflective of the biblical account. Is that small puddle supposed to be the Jordan River? Why are all the clouds so eerily saucer-shaped?

Another biblical event is “the annunciation”, the event where a flying man tells Mary she will soon be pregnant. (You can read more about this suspicious event in my book “UFOs In The Bible“)

In this 1486 painting, Carlo Crivelli depicts Mary in graeco-roman baroque splendor, rather than as a simple peasant in a backwater Palestinian desert village. The star of the show in this depiction is a disc-shaped cloud enshrouded hovering object with a laser beam. This is a far cry from the story as presented in the gospel of Matthew, although it does bear a striking resemblance to many UFO encounters detailed in the books of Exodus, Ezekiel, Psalms, and in thousands of eyewitness reports dating from antiquity and on through history in a continuous chain up to the present day.

Another 15th century work by Domenico Ghirlandaio shows some unusual aerial phenomena in the form of … well, something rather unidentifiable. Look at the zoomed detail below. There appears to be a dark metal object behind her, and some kind of explosion (another craft perhaps) in front of her.

Speaking of the notion of multiple flying craft accompanied by explosions, there are numerous references in the Psalms of armies of such, in some cases said to number “ten thousand times ten thousand” flying vehicles which on more than one occasion engaged in battle.

An array of flying disc-shaped vehicles is seen is this circa 1430 work by Masolino da Panicale, complete with passengers as indicated in the Psalms.

This depiction is that of a contemporary event to the painting itself, rather than of biblical material. You can see the bishop using a hoe to lay out the floorplan for the new cathedral which is about to be built in Italy. Again, the painter just paints what he sees.

This depiction by Jacques Legrand is from the same year 1430. Although the drawing style is different, the clothing matches (it could almost be the exact same crowd!) and thought the bishop has been replaced by a woman with a weird machine, the one large object and array of smaller objects in the sky are strongly reminiscent of the previous image. Did the same fleet visit both Italy and France that year?

One thing we do know is that according to Hans Glaser, a 16th century Bavarian journalist, a similar fleet showed up over Nuremberg in 1561. He actually published an article about the event, complete with a full-color drawing.

An abridged paraphrase of his article follows:

In the morning of April 14, 1561, between 4 and 5 a.m., this was seen in Nuremberg by many men and women. At first there appeared in the middle of the sun two blood-red semi-circular arcs, and on both sides of the sun other balls in large number, about three in a line and four in a square, also some alone.

In between these globes there were red crosses, between which there were blood-red strips, becoming thicker to the rear and in the front malleable like the rods of reed-grass, which were intermingled, among them two big rods, one on the right, the other to the left, and within the small and big rods there were three, also four and more globes.

These all started to fight among themselves, so that the globes, which were first in the sun, flew out to the ones standing on both sides, thereafter, the globes standing outside the sun, in the small and large rods, flew into the sun.

Besides the globes flew back and forth among themselves and fought vehemently with each other for over an hour. And when the conflict in and again out of the sun was most intense, they became fatigued to such an extent that they all, as said above, fell from the sun down upon the earth ‘as if they all burned’ and they then wasted away on the earth with immense smoke.

After all this there was something like a black spear, very long and thick, sighted; the shaft pointed to the east, the point pointed west.