Atheists & Agnostics

I lived in Alexandria. Down around the harbors there were all kinds of ancient graffiti and generally weird stuff to look at. Including some drawings of ancient ships scratched into the walls of caves and tunnels.

My favorite tour guide was a woman who grew up in Alex and knew every inch of the city. She planned to show me some tunnels near the harbor one day, and we went charging down some old stone stairs into the darkness. (In many places, Egypt doesn't coddle tourists. No lights, no guard rails, etc. You wanna play Indiana Jones, you do so at your own risk.) Fortunately her cellphone had a flashlight. The tunnels had flooded, and we came to a screeching halt about one stair short of taking a swim.

Alexandria also had some clearly human-made ancient docks and jetties. And nobody, not even archeological experts, seems to know exactly who built them. Their best guess is that they were built for, or by, Greek traders who were dealing with Egypt even before Alexander The Great took over, in the Fourth Century BCE. Or maybe ALIENS!1!