This week in the “Vrai du Faux Junior”, we answer questions about the interview with Maître Gims where he claims that the pyramids of Egypt were electric antennas or that paintings of African knights are hidden in catacombs.
Congolese rapper Maître Gims has been talked about a lot in recent days, following an interview given to the YouTube channel Yes Hustle. An interview of nearly an hour and forty where he first talks about his childhood, his career and he ends by explaining that he is passionate about history, in particular the history of Africa. He says “I am a fan of history and today I am convinced that Africa has inspired everyone”.
Then he unfolds several very surprising historical demonstrations about ancient Egypt where he says that electricity was developed there thanks to the pyramids. He also talks about a stone that produces electricity that would have been discovered in the Congo. And he also says, that paintings of black knights would be hidden in catacombs. Approximations, even historical inventions spotted by the students of the André Derain college, in Chambourcy in the Yvelines.
1 No there are no paintings hidden in catacombs
Maud wonders if it is true, as Master Gims asserts, “that paintings representing black knights are hidden in catacombs“.
Sophie Brouquet, historian, professor emeritus and author of Misconceptions and Realities of the Middle Ages first replies that “the notion of chivalry is something European and that it appeared in the 11th century.“She then explains that”no, there were no knights in Africa, whether in the Middle Ages and even less 50,000 years ago.“
On the other hand, Sophie Brouquet explains to us that there were black knights in Europe in the Middle Ages, “not many, but there were some on occasion, especially during the Crusades, black men who had been slaves in Muslim countries and who escaped or who were bought, to free them, by Christian knights and there there were indeed a few Christian black knights.“
Regarding this story, developed by Maître Gims, of paintings hidden in the catacombs, Sophie Brouquet replies that it is false, “there are no paintings in the catacombs, at that time of chivalry, very few paintings were painted, it appeared at the end of the Middle Ages.” So no there are no painted black knights hiding in catacombs.
On the other hand, Sophie Brouquet explains that there are many works of art representing black knights from this period, “one of the best known is Saint Maurice, a Roman legionary, he was black and we find for example a statue of him at the entrance of a church in Germany, on a human scale.“
2 No the Egyptians did not develop the use of electricity thanks to the pyramids
Méline and Maud wonder if it’s true”that the pyramids can be used as an electric antenna and that there is gold on their top turning them into an electric antenna.”
Christophe Barbotin, Egyptologist and Chief Curator in the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the Louvre Museum, replies that “all of this is wacky from A to Z, nothing is true!“So the Egyptians in ancient times didn’t have electricity and the pyramids were never used as an antenna.
You should know that the pyramids feed many fantasies about their construction and the secrets they contain. It is therefore not surprising to see many theories flourish, sometimes conspiracy. Master Gims refers to one of these theories and it is confirmed when he publishes Thursday, April 13 on his Twitter account a video that begins with “The great pyramids of Egypt, would not be tombs, but huge power plants that the Egyptians would have inherited from an unknown civilization.“
This is called the “ancient astronauts” theory, a theory that defends the idea that ancient civilizations received help from extraterrestrials who came to Earth to bring knowledge unknown to man. . It is recalled that all this is not based on any scientific basis.
Maitre Gims reacted by releasing a new song on his YouTube account where he refers to his statements on the pyramids. He is very far from the mea culpa, for example he says in his song “the truth: everyone has their own speech“.
3 No there is no stone that produces electricity
Lison heard Master Gims say “that there is an electric stone in the Congo“, she wonders if it is possible and if it exists. Maxence wonders if it is true that the electric stones in the Congo are rather “electrically conductive and not electrically producing“.
We have contacted geologists and all are unanimous, “there are no stones capable of producing electricity.“
If Maître Gims affirms this, it is certainly in connection with these videos which have been circulating on social networks since the beginning of the year and which have accumulated several tens of millions of views. We see a stone connected to a bulb via two small electrical wires, without a battery and yet the bulb lights up.
And Maxence is right, some experts recognized in one of these videos what looks like pyrite, a metal-rich mineral that does not produce electricity, but is a very good conductor.
4 Yes Jacques Chirac spoke well of our overconsumption, but Master Gims does not quote him correctly
Lucy “heard Maître Gims affirm that Jacques Chirac had said that if Humanity ate like the French, it would take six planets‘ and she wonders if it’s true.
That’s not quite what Jacques Chirac said, but he’s not far off. It was in his famous 2002 speech where he said “Our house is burning and we are looking elsewhere”. Then he talks about overconsumption in the West and Jacques Chirac says this: “If all of humanity behaved like the countries of the North, two additional planets would be needed to meet our needs.“