To start a conspiracy theory thread about the pyramids?

I’d like to think it was giants! Probably not, but that would be cool.

There are unintelligent people who genuinely believe conspiracy theories

Hahahaha

I don't buy that.

Consider the water cycle. Near everyone on earth today has some awareness of how it works. And that is a relatively recent discovery. There is no evidence the ancients do.

That's just one example.

Brings this to mind

There are similar on Chinese social media.

The first if that the ancient Egyptians are Chinese.

The other, more popular one, is that it is all fake. Built by the Europeans in the last couple of hundred years using tech they stole from China. This one says all European history is fake.

Yabu. The so called 'ancients" were far more advanced than most people think. (And likewise we in the "modern age" are far less advanced than most people assume).

There was a mermaid on This Morning once.

The Egyptians built pyramids for thousands of years. The early ones are a bit rubbish, but they got better at it. Pyramids are the easiest shape to get tall, that's why several complex civilisations all over the world went through a pyramid phase.

This is the same species, Homo sapiens, that went from the horse and cart to the internal combustion engine, to space travel and AI within 150 years. It's really not inconceivable that we could have worked out how to build a fuck-off big pyramid in ten times that. I mean, maybe not the halfwits that believe aliens did it, but certainly other humans could have.

Why would he think aliens built them?. I presume we are talking about alien beasts that are considerably stronger than humans, since that's the point that he can't reconcile. So these massive aliens built the pyramids and nothing else, just did one job and left with no trace.

My neighbour told me last week she believes in mermaids. I thought she was joking. I was so busy trying to be respectful and not laugh in her face that I never asked her why exactly she holds this view.

It’s deeply racist to assume aliens built pyramids and the Egyptians couldn’t.

Yes he did.

Lol that shit's wild. Didn't he get a Netflix deal or something?

What is observably known is wild enough anyway, although for day to day purposes we're still hampered by this "everything starts with Jesus" mindset. Eg when you go to art galleries in Italy the displays will tell you about how painters discovered perspective in the 1400s. But just down the road in Pompeii (and works from there in Naples) you can see with your own eyes that painters there were using perspective in around 100 BC.

If you watch videos by archaeologists and even stonemasons, you'll easily find out how the pyramids were built. I can see that dramatic conspiracy videos with all the music, historically inaccurate drawings and interspersed 'mystical symbols' probably make the viewer feel more special, though.

On that subject, the aliens were humanoids with animal heads. They're depicted all over the tomb walls. Fuck knows why the entombed were actual humans, though. I suppose the aliens landed, said "Hi, we're gods. Bring us gifts and we'll use our advanced laser technology to build giant tombs for your aristocrats. Cool, huh? No, you can't use our technology for your daily lives! You'll have to keep carving your memorial texts into stone using chisels, grinding corn by hand and using long sticks to figure out when the Nile's going to flood. Enjoy the pyramids! Bye!"

2 wonders of the world:

1. The pyramids
2. The volume of posters who think is a serious thread

History is just ‘a consensus of some people’.
it doesn’t mean it’s factually correct.

Do you imagine that anything in a history book could be factually incorrect?

Without evidence there are only theories.
It is an interesting topic.

He’s clearly an alien masquerading as an HR manager.

If the sphinx stood upright it could reach the top of a pyramid with its paws. So if wasn’t aliens I think it was the sphinx.

I’m sure I saw something recently by someone knowledgable which said it wasn’t slaves but seasonal workers who built pyramids when they weren’t being agricultural workers.

I think that Europeans can’t believe that an African race are very far ahead of them so they make up these excuses as to how the Pyramids could’ve been made.

Agree. Graham Hancock took ideas a bit further in Fingerprints of Gods & Ancient Apocalypse etc…
Hokum but interesting to ponder.

I have watched a few ancient aliens programmes too. It is all semi-plausible dramatic nonsense made up for the cameras and people are gullible enough to fall for it.

If there genuinely were aliens here several thousand years ago, why would they waste their time building pyramids instead of doing something useful?

I am a Stargate fan so...
Aliens. Makes sense

I watched a doumentry about The Seven Wonders Of The Acient World recently (Bethany Hues???) and was surprised to find out that the pyramids in their time would have been smooth and white with the top/tip copper! Fascinating.
Op, I have watched a few acient aliens programmes. Some of them seem quite convincing!

Yeah, when you have 20,000 slaves and a load of wooden rollers at your disposal you don't need a JCB. 😂

Have you ever tried asking someone who can actually make things if moving large objects when you have unlimited manpower and time, precision work in stone or symmetry is achievable on a large scale?

It is.
If you have enough people, no Health and Safety considerations and enough time, you could sand a mountain into a replica of Buckingham Palace.

Someone in charge would really have to want it done though.