Ben van Kerkwyk

I think, I mean, it's not a criticism.

It's maybe more characteristic of archaeological digs everywhere.

Sometimes the way this works is you might have to wait 20 or 30 years or a decade for information to come out because then it has to get perfect.

If someone has to publish a paper, they sit on that information until that point, or maybe it never sees the light of day.

Because it's inconvenient.

Well, I do think that anything that's going to seriously upset the apple cart, like if you came out and found something that was, damn, we found the Hall of Records.

We found this evidence that is incontrovertible that suggests that there was a predecessor culture and a predecessor civilization to the ancient Egyptians.

I think there would be some long and hard thinking about whether or not we actually release that because it's going to make everybody look bad.

You know what I mean?

I agree.

Yes.

Fucking nuts.

It is.

And I love your approach.

I think you're absolutely right too.

Even if these figures, all they'd have to do is embrace it.

All they'd have to say is look at what we learned and everyone would be like, that's amazing.

It's still Egyptians.

Yeah, I think it's worth taking a look.

Jeez, you think?