Irving Finkel

Everybody in the world knows what that means.

They don't know what the word for cigarette is in this language, or cancer, or filter, or tobacco.

It doesn't matter.

That's pictographic writing.

We still use it.

And it's above all kinds of mess.

And I think that was the prevailing system.

Because I honestly believe that the people at this time were not stupid.

They weren't guerrillas.

They weren't less advanced than we are.

They were probably indistinguishable from what we are.

So you have merchants and wanderers and people who say, let's go down the river and see where we end up.

And people were looking for money, looking for women, looking for everything.

But that's surely how it was.

But if you look at those Gobekli buildings with a sceptical eye...

How it could be.

I mean, the finish of it is astonishing.

The structure of it, the vision of it.

So the workforce and the tools and the organization, you know, what do they do it with a megaphone, your breakfast and all that kind of thing?

No way.