Ben van Kerkwyk

I think you could start in a small area where you know.

Do some more surveys, too.

More GPR, more surveys, more scans.

And really narrow in on a section and then let's see if it's...

If what we're seeing on these scans is there, then maybe do the site.

Right.

And today, it is a symptom of the climate that we only really look in the Nile Valley, right?

Because the dynastic Egyptians settled in the Nile Valley because when they started, it was a desert.

That was the habitable part.

But if you open up the possibility that there's a precursor civilization that...

was existing in the millennia prior to that.

Now you've got the Sahara.

You've got to figure out where the lakes, the river systems, the lake basins were.

And there's very little of the Sahara that's fully... We're not looking under the sand there.

We're developing new scanning techniques.

Let's start looking there.

Because I think there's a...

The Assyrians, this crazy place at the back of Temple of Seti I in Abydos, and it's sitting on top of this aquifer.

It's like this big subterranean granite structure.

And I'm like, I bet this was, I think, clearly some sort of functional thing, and I bet there's a bunch more of these things.