I don't know about the guy on Rogan but I have had the chance to travel a good bit, especially around the Middle East - Saudi Arabia and Egypt specifically.

In my hometown in Saudi Arabia, there was an area near us where if you went to the beach, there were thousands of pottery shards all over the beach and surrounding sand dunes. Most of them were painted colourfully. The pottery shards were of different sizes and I did know of one person who claimed to have found an entire intact pot. I always wondered where they came from and why they seemed to be scattered all over this one particular beach area.

There are several forts in Saudi that were built by the Ottoman Turks and of course the remnants of the Hejaz Railway. Near Taif, there are some petroglyphs outside of town and of course a well constructed camel trail that descends down to Mecca and Jeddah.

The crowning achievement of the ancient Nabatean civilisation is their tombs north of Medina, Saudi Arabia in an area called Madain Saleh. It's just fascinating to me that some ancient civilisation made such elaborate works of art that have stood for thousands of years now.

And obviously we still don't know all there is to know about Egypt. The stuff is interesting but, do I believe that there was an ancient Egyptian civilisation in The Grand Canyon like some guy I heard on Joe Rogan said? Doubtful. Not impossible but extremely doubtful.

Moving further north, in a bar last week in Tokyo, I met a drunken Swede who told me very proudly about his Viking ship and showed me photos. The Norsemen did a lot that I think we still don't know about.

For your enjoyment, here's one of my favourite Nabatean tombs. I've been there and it is magnificent. There are many more but this one that stands alone is pretty neat.