Ben van Kerkwyk

There's a causeway.

There's what they call valley temples down.

And it's like these were all built on the shorelines of this branch of...

the Nile that went basically disappeared 4,000, somewhere between 4,000 and 3,500 BC, but it was in place for thousands and thousands of years before that.

And today, if you go there and they say, well...

You know, the Valley Temple, yep, they would ship the stones from Aswan and it would be like three months of the year.

It would flood enough where you can get a boat in.

I mean, I've seen pictures.

There are pictures of when that flood happened before they built the dam and stopped that process.

And some years, it's a puddle.

I mean, you're talking about boats that were carrying hundreds of tons of granite.

And only in a three-month period of year can you get them in there.

There would have been many years where there's not even remotely enough water to get it anywhere near the Valley Temple.

Oh, no, I don't either.

mess with yet.

The logistical achievements of what is represented in ancient Egypt is like nothing you can see anywhere.

I mean, there's Baalbek and then there's, to me, the best example is the statue at Tannis.

There's a statue.

I mean, there's several of these thousand plus ton statues, like half a dozen of them.

They got remnants of them, but there was one that was moved a thousand kilometers.