”I actually came here as a, what would be called, an American ‘New Ager’. I guess there’s an impolite British term, ‘nutter’. I was a believer in ‘Atlantis’, and I was influenced by Edgar Cayce; the American psychic. I did have this alternative view that…that probably more people in the world today have...than academics, scholarly…you know, traditional archeology, Egyptology.
But, I spent every waking moment I could on the Giza Plateau, and it didn’t add up…to the ideas that I came with…Atlantis, Lost Civilization. No, it looked like the real people, real Egyptians, did this. But that became more interesting in its own right. The dumps of the pyramid builders interested me more than the pyramids themselves. I found…that discovering new information was like shooting ‘fish-in-a-barrel’. All you need to do is pay attention, and look. And basically, I am still looking. And that’s so exciting for me to see something…Oh!, ‘oh we didn’t know that, we didn’t see that before’. And after forty years of doing this, that experience still happens to me almost every time I go up on the Plateau…”
Mark Lehner – excerpt from CNN’s series: “Inside Africa”
Dr. Troglodyte