Piers Morgan Entertains with the Pyramids: Archaeologists Participate

Piers Morgan Uncensored (3.8M subscribers) has the aim of  continuing what its host announces as: "our mission to inform irritate and entertain and we'll do it all for free" (well, you have to sit through and listen to some supremely irritating promotional material). In one of the latest podcasts, Morgan decides to try and use the Biondi-Malanga-Meli under-pyramid scanning as a starting point ('INCREDIBLE Claim' Giza Pyramids Discovery SPLITS Science World Mar 28, 2025). So far this has clocked up 1,545,323 views for him, despite it being a very shoddy piece of work on his part. 

"A team of scientists, well-respected in their fields, have made a mind-boggling claim that many archeologists are struggling to believe. A team led by Corrado Malanga from University of Pisa and Filippo Biondi from the University of Strathclyde claim to have discovered huge structures lying beneath the Pyramids of Giza, based on a new technique that utilises Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR). These structures could be 10 times larger than the pyramids themselves, which is why many researchers and Egyptologists are finding it hard to believe...

So, to do some decent " independent uncensored media" work, on this, a decent programme host('s team) would invite somebody qualified to talk independently and uncensored on the geophysics and remote sensing, maybe an Egyptologist and... but that's not what he did at all. 

First of all, in order to get the background, he talks (02:06 to 15:45) to You Tube pseudoarchaeologist Jay Anderson (Project Unity) who seems not to have been briefed on what the programme's plan was. 

Morgan then turns to a four-member "pyramid panel" beginning at 15:45 to comment. This consists of academic  archaeologist and YouTuber Dr Flint Dibble, archaeologist and YouTuber Milo Rossi (AKA Miniminuteman) Jimmy Corsetti from the 'Bright Insight' Podcast, Dan Richards from 'DeDunking the Past'. 

He then asks them to react in turn to this discovery. They give more or less the same opinion, that this an untested technique, the results were presented in a rather unsatisfactory manner, without proper peer review, there are no details of the actual techniques used. Morgan then reveals the whole reason why he's got these people in. Corsetti imagines (in his layman's way - not really seeing the practical realities involved)   suggests that testing the presence of these alleged features by "drilling down with a camera", Dr Dibble points out that it's not so simple as that... and Morgan drops in, in a taunting tone "why cant you just drill down?...". What he clearly wants is for a conflict to break out online, its why he got two random archaeologists and two random outspoken Youtuber "content creators" in his panel. Note the "or, or, Jimmy..." that follows what Dr Dibble says about remote sensing.  Jimmy Corsetti begins confidently that it'd be "easy" to just drill down and take a look, but then makes the odd assertion that somebody could drill down into features [all of which are shown as tucked away UNDER the Khafre pyramid], but "we are not talking of doing it straight through the pyramid" - so he wants somehow to come in from the side? Eh? But when questioned starts floundering...  including about how data from a radar scan are presented... he gets cut off. 

and so on, then talk shifts away from the pyramids and onto a rather lacklustre chat on pseudoarchaeology in general. Then Morgan announces "OK, we are going to have a bit of fun with you now" and proposes a "quickfire quiz" of cringey archaeology questions or what he thinks archaeology is:

1) Is the earth flat?

2) Life did not evolve randomly, there was intelligent design, true or false?

3) What was there before the Big Bang? Was it not God? 

4) CIA found the Ark of the Covenant in Ethiopia, guarded by a celibate monk, true or false? (alternatively: is the "Ark of the Covenant real"?)

5) Lost civilization of Atlantis, did it exist, yes or no?

6) Man has never landed on the Moon, yes or no? 

7) UFOs have visited earth and governments are keeping it secret, yes or no?

The surprised panelists struggle to provide an answer short enough for the attention-span Morgan has in mind. The idiot presenter also kept jumping in with his own vacuous opinion before adding: "There you go, it does not make me a pseudoscientist not to be able to answer that" in a slightly disappointed voice a couple of times, showing what his agenda was. The guy has no idea what pseudoarchaeology is. Several of these questions touch on religious faith and belief, at one point, he forces Corsetti into a confession of Faith... I think this line of questioning has no place in a discussion like this. Totally unethical journalism. 

Morgan closes off by turning to the editor of Skeptic Magazine, Michael Shermer to discuss .. well, it is interesting to consider what this discussion would have looked like had a heated quarrel broken out between the academics and the YouTubers on the "panel" as it seems to me he was envisaging. 

Probably the participants in that discussion thought they had all been invited along to give their opinion about the topic they were told was being discussed. Anderson clearly had prepared a lot of material but was abruptly cut short . In fact it seems to me that Morgan had invited the four "panel" members to poke fun at them, and perhaps humiliate them. I do not think any actual archaeology outreach was done here, because the format of the programme simply fragmented the contribution of each of them. 

I'll add at the end, though I am not at all a fan of his, quite the contrary, Dan Richards gave a couple of intelligent answers - it is a shame he abuses his abilities by using them only to attack academics to earn cheap YouTube clicks.