There is too much waiting to be excavated, discovered... Eridu sits as if it never existed, abandoned, buried. So many answers around us, unseen, mostly buried.

What particularly irks my mind is Ayanis Kalesi, and more specifically, the stonework over 20 meters beneath Lake Van discovered by Tawson Ceylon. Elaborate stonework, that deep, and our trusty gatekeepers say it's a medieval Urartian fortress. And yet, if we notice, on the land portion, this so called castle has lower layers that do not match Urartian stonework. But 24 meters beneath Lake Van? A rosette carved into the block?

We are finding many smaller sites around Gobekli Tepe and elsewhere... We've found stone mounds beneath the Baltic sea. Then there's Dwarka and the Gulf of Khambhat! And we do have more than a piece of wood to work with, but we dwell on it still.

I really wish we would get collectively obsessed with this all and impel more work. I look at Ukraine, Iran, other potential conflagrations, with whispers of nuclear... exceptions?, economic disintegration etc, and I fear, another setback. Even in 2026, there is so much to discover.