yeah, because the only way that brown people could have built anything impressive is if gods/aliens helped them.
Notice how these people never call into question the coliseum or the parthenon? It's just thinly veiled racism.
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yeah, because the only way that brown people could have built anything impressive is if gods/aliens helped them.
Notice how these people never call into question the coliseum or the parthenon? It's just thinly veiled racism.
I like to remind people that the heaviest stones for the pyramids were about 400 tons while a few thousand years later in Lebanon the largest stones for the temple complex in Baalbek are about 1250 tons.
But no one questions that the construction there
I think many of the people who push this aren't overtly racist, but there is no question that the source of all of this, Madame Blavatsky, was just a racist.
I don't that's because of racism... The racism is that many people think Egyptians were white... Search for it online and you'll find many depictions where they at most have a light tan.
I need this mysterious "rock expanding" technology.
People have said the same things about stonehenge
exception. there's a huge trend toward alien theories about human achievement based on geography. you can bet your ass even if something like the colosseum was in central africa people would be saying it's alien tech.
The colloseum was built in a time and place with written records. The pyramids were not. Same for any other massive structures that get the "aliens built it" treatment. Even Mayan architecture, which comes from a time and place with written records, only got this treatment because Mayan hieroglyphs were unintelligble to most folks, including the people in the region itself.
Buddy, the pyramids are literally covered in written records. 's what heiroglyphs are.
From the very first google result
Contrary to what one might expect, there are no hieroglyphic texts, treasures, or mummies in any of pyramids of Giza. Decoration inside pyramids began several centuries after those of Khufu, Khafre, and Menkaure were constructed
While lacking the panache of Abu Simbel or Karnak, there were written records in the Great pyramids. Mostly work graffiti and seals, as far as I can learn, but that would count.
Good to learn about the decorative drive growing as the Kingdoms aged, though.
It is amazing to me how these people call the ancient Egyptians primitive.
Although they may be considered primitive by today's technological standards, they were very, very smart and accomplished tremendous things with very little resource.
They were not primitive intellectually. They were smart, capable and intelligent people.
Two more points I'd like to address about the cutting of these rocks number one archaeologists replicated the way these rocks would be cut with technology they would have during the time that these rocks were cut. Number two. They would drag the rocks. They dragged the rocks.
Oh, and constructions like the Great pyramids would often take generations to complete and these weren't done in a couple of years these things took decades if not more.
They had the exact same brains we do. Something people like this seem to not understand.
If these people had the same brains as we do, we’d not be here right now.
To all downvoting: whooosh!
What are you talking about? There has not been anywhere near enough time for evolution to change our brains significantly from theirs.
My best guess is they mean ours are full of lead and micro plastics and propaganda.
Although they may be considered primitive by today's technological standards, they were very, very smart and accomplished tremendous things with very little resource.
They were not primitive intellectually. They were smart, capable and intelligent people.
This is exactly the point many people don't understand: People in the past were not less intelligent than today's people.
We developed more ways to discover stuff and more precise tools to measure and detect things and of course with computers we got the ability to handle extremely complex data. All of this gives us an edge over past people science wise but we had very capable thinkers 200, 600 and 4000 years ago. All basic principles of mathematics have been developed a long time ago.
This is why I have a hard time taking anyone seriously who calls any human society, past or present, "primitive."
The pithy version of that is that we know more things than our ancestors, but we're not smarter than them.
These people think we are all as stupid as them.
“wElL I cAn’T eXPlain tHis aND theSE prIMItIve brOwN fOlk sUreLY ain’t SmArtR tHen mE so it MuSt be aLeEyUns”
Ok, I'll go first... Who the fuck says 2 million and 300 thousand? Either say 2.3 million, or 2 300 000 or even two million and three hundred thousand. Fuck it, even two point three million would work. But 2 million and 300 thousand? You're the fucking alien dammit!
Not only were humans not able to stack rocks, they didn't stack rocks in every continent that still stand to this day
I'm glad the size of bricks has been reduced. A wheelbarrow is useless here.
A wheelbarrow is useless here.
Just get a bigger wheelbarrow, easy.
How did the aliens manage to make that when they could have spent all their time on the internet, or watching movies, playing video games, porn, going to concerts, driving cars, taking flights on airplanes, etc whatever.
It's obvious humans could never make something as advanced as a giant ...rock.
I'm not so sure we have the brain capacity for putting one thing on top of another thing.