Ben van Kerkwyk

You have to go back to time periods pre-4,000 BC when the Sahara was a savannah.

It was grasslands with lake basins and river systems, and it had a lot more rain.

You didn't have this annual flood

cycle that you have now, it was like a lot more rainfall.

It was much more verdant and green.

The Giza Plateau would have been green.

Which makes sense that that's why they would settle there in the first place.

Exactly.

Yeah.

When they didn't build in a desert, I mean, you wouldn't because it would fill up with sand.

Well, there's a really other good point associated with that that I wanted to bring up.

But first, just to finish on the Sphinx erosion.

So when Shock came out and said this, he really thought he was moving the story forward.

And he took it to an archaeological conference and they literally laughed him out of the room.

And they said, this is...

you know, this is ridiculous.

Like, where are the pot sherds, was I think Mark Lanner's comment, saying, like, where's the evidence that something's at least 12,000 years old?

Mocking.

Mocking them, yeah.

So he was, he got a good taste of the, I guess, the old boy network of the archaeologists on that day.