The Burial of Ancient Egypt with Catherine and Robert Schoch. gins of many of these structures date back to a much more remote period even, perhaps, to the era that the dynastic Egyptians referred to as Zep Tepi or the first time. Katie and I are convinced, based on the evidence, that Zep Tepi can be placed in real time at the end of the last ice age, 12,000 years ago (see our book Forgotten Civilization: New Discoveries on the Solar-Induced Dark Age).