... Three (where did Three go - ahh here it is).

Three. As Pete has already pointed out there is water everywhere and Silbury Hill, the Silbury Mound and the Marlborough Mound are all situated near springs and wells. It's been suggested that the pyramids may once have also been surrounded by water. It does seem more than just coincidence that we have similar structures appearing around the same time in both Britain and Egypt and in an area called by both cultures 'Kennet' (putting aside various spellings for the moment). The very name Egypt derives from the word meaning 'fertile' while the word Kennet derives from cunnit etc etc - also with the connotation of fertilty and a place where life is given.

It's easy for us in the 21st century to assume that cultures like Britain and Egypt 4000-5000 years ago were isolated and discrete; not so. Give a man a horse and he'd get from Britain to Egypt and back again in a couple of years - five years at the most. More than a thousand years ago Alfred the Great went to Rome and back a couple of times and I haven't been there once yet!

The really interesting question is not whether there was communication between Ancient Britain and Ancient Egypt half a millennium ago but who first went where. Most interesting of all, why did they go?