Place
The Osireion
A sunken granite hall behind the temple of Seti I at Abydos, built in the thirteenth century BCE and finished under Merenptah. Some pillars carry red-ochre drawings of the Flower of Life.
Teomancimit, “Göbekli Tepe, Urfa”, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Henri Frankfort excavated and published it for the Egypt Exploration Society in 1933. The drawings are not carved; they are painted, undated, and sit among Greek graffiti, so they are generally placed in the Ptolemaic or Roman period, more than a thousand years after the hall. Grant repeats a date of about 10,000 BCE for the temple, which comes from a reading of its megalithic style. The dated layer and the claimed age differ by about nine thousand years. On the Hancock timeline it sits with Malta and Derinkuyu.