Khafre's Pyramid, Karahan Tepe and the Sabian Connection | Megalithomania

Now the Sabians came from the area of Haran and you can see a picture of what Haran used to look like. They've reconstructed it recently, it doesn't really look like that anymore, with this tower that's known as the Astronomical Tower. You have the remains here of the Paradise Mosque and also it was built on the site of a very ancient temple of the moon god Sin. It goes back many, many thousands of years and almost certainly this was the clearinghouse of a lot of knowledge that was coming out of Tash Tepele sites like Kebekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe. Now obviously we all know about Kebekli Tepe. It was first constructed around 9600 BC and constitutes the first post Ice Age civilisation really. They created at least a dozen similar sites of which I would say the mother load is Kebekli Tepe. Here this is the reconstruction of Enclosure D at Kebekli, just to give you an idea of the size of the structures of the incredible T-shaped pillars that they were carving out and placing it in the middle of these enclosures that's surrounded by a series of other T-shaped pillars. They're incredibly sophisticated. Obviously this is Karahan Tepe which obviously Hugh is wearing on his chest at the moment on his T-shirt. I mean this is the first rock architecture in human history and you can see it here. They are cutting into the bedrock anytime between about 9600 to about 8000 BC. In around 8000 BC the Tash Tepele culture disappears. Now it's assumed that it just goes to some other part of the ancient world, possibly into Europe, possibly down into the valley, spreading out, but almost certainly it also went into Egypt itself. It's my wonder whether the type of technology that they were using at places like Karahan in particular to carve out the rock could also have been something that they did at Giza. Now people might say well you know the oldest structures that we know at Giza probably only date back to the first or second dynasty, so probably about 3000 BC. But the fact is that within eyesight of the Giza plateau was a place called Helwan where you had very sophisticated settlements from as early as about 19,000 BC. By the time you came to the time of Gobekli Tepe there were sophisticated structures there that even though they themselves have now disappeared, we know that some of the earliest form of cut and dressed blocks in granite in Egypt have been found within the tombs at Helwan. Helwan itself was the role model for what would later become called Heliopolis, the ancient city of Heliopolis, which originally was not where it is today in northeastern Cairo. It was much further south in the area of Helwan. I mean this is something that I've looked at in books like Cygnus Key, Zoe Hawass has written about this as well. So in other words you have sophisticated settlements in the area of Giza possibly as early as 8,000 to 9,000 BC and this is also confirmed by the discovery of stone torts which are found at Tash Tepele sites around Shunlefa and that have also been found in Egypt. Is it possible therefore that those behind the creation or let's say even the discovery of some of these underground structures in the vicinity of the second pyramid may belong to the Tash Tepele culture? I think the answer is yes.