Ben van Kerkwyk
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You've got to rough it and camp and stuff to get out there, but it's on my list.
There are literally other examples of people hammering on them, trying to make replicas with the tools of the time, and then it just jumps to this.
There's no explanation for it other than they did it in order to let this religious sect out of the rain.
Because it's literally some of the really poorly inscribed, you know, it's like the Egyptian stuff.
It's like somebody hammered this text, Sanskrit or whatever it is, and it says, oh, you know, this king gave this to these guys to get out of the monsoon.
It's the ancient version of Kilroy was here.
Little Timmy on the skyscraper.
Patrice, I actually have his full documentary on my channel if people want to.
Oh, this is like, we were in a quarry like this in Turkey.
It was absolutely incredible.
Is this a salt quarry or is it limestone?
A lot of them are salt cabins, but we were inside.
So you have big quarries like this, underground quarries in China.
I have this amazing footage from this massive underground quarry, these caves that were carved in Turkey when we were there in March.
It's a weird thing, isn't it?
Like the history of civilization is one of those things that hasn't changed a whole lot in about 100 years.
Like the idea that civilization started with the Sumerians and the Mesopotamians 6,000 years ago and now we're here.