To start a conspiracy theory thread about the pyramids?

I do believe there is life elsewhere beyond the Earth. I just don’t believe aliens built the Pyramids. The two beliefs are not incompatible.

You want to start a conspiracy theory on something which is literally the original conspiracy theory? Think that ship has sailed…

They were built by giants.

Bit cheeky of people to think we are the only ones in universe. No one is that special

See now i think brains of people who discard everything that is "conspiracy theory" are the inflexibly thinking ones. 😁
There were "conspiracy theories" that proved right. So why not aliens 😁

A symptom of the cause you say?

Because once it seemed obvious that institutions could be trusted. Once you've seen several examples of people doing the very opposite of the thing they're trained to do and paid to guard against, trusting anything becomes an act of (often misplaced) faith

You know there are academics who devoted their careers to Egyptology, right? Do you think your husband has spotted something they haven't? Really?

Any theory that rests on the idea that people thousands of years ago couldn't possibly do something is just patronising bullshit.

Correct. It was seasonal labour used when agricultural population had done their thing and was collectively twiddling its thumbs. No slavery as we understand it. Also a papyrus discovered some years ago in a cave on the Red Sea detailed how the workforce was assembled and the stone transported. There were canals serving the Giza plateau to sail the blocks to the site. The Egyptians were obsessive administrators so we have some insight into their world. They wrote everything down-no mention of little green men though 😏

Does it ever make you think Neitszche was right about how catastrophic the death of God has been for us?

The first sign is painting roundabouts. 😅

A lesson for us

When do you think the apex of our current civilisation was or will be? And what sort of theories do you have for our own collapse

How did you manage to shoehorn this into a thread about fucking pyramids 🤦

Many advanced societies have collapsed in the past. Often seems to be because they were so successful - they get bigger and bigger and more people, and then there's a slight change in the weather, the rains don't come when expected..

I love reading archeology and ancient history. Shame no one else seems to, there are lots of lessons for a modern society to learn 😬

I feel like I'm alone in not being particularly bothered about how the pyramids were built and not finding them particularly noteworthy.

Just look at all the churches and cathedrals we have in the UK. Built long before the industrial revolution, in tiny poverty stricken villages.

As is being hyper individualistic "I don't need anyone telling me what to do" types, thus they can't comprehend that when large numbers of humans work collaboratively we can achieve stuff impossible for a single human working alone.

All over the planet things were carved and built out of big rocks. It's pretty obvious it was all done by local humans societies. It just takes a lot of people a lot of time, so there has to be a point. This is really what we don't understand - the why they wanted to.

The reason we can't do it now is because no one can get enough people who want to, and have the time to do it. Its usually 5 historians and some local reenactment groups over a weekend.

Think of UK cathedrals - no one thinks they were built by aliens, but they took hundreds of years to build. Now it would be impossible to organise that too, but we all understand it could be done if we wanted to.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/egyptian-pyramids-new-studies

These kinds of conspiracy theories are fundamentally based in racism/white supremacism as people who don't want to acknowledge cultural and technical prowess in non-caucasian civilisations make up outlandlish theories to help them to continue their racist mindset. I don't expect everyone who then subsequently believes the conspiracy theories is guilty of the same racism, you don't have to be racist to be a bit dim.

Inbreeding and invasion.

You're comparing apples with parsnips there. The two are not related. Of course historians and archaeologists will get things wrong and have their own biases; this doesn't mean they aren't working from actual evidence as opposed to woo nonsense that says aliens did it

Aliens with the technology to travel across many lightyears came here to carve some stones...? Then leave again without leaving any trace of this technology or anyone in the civilisation that was really big on writing, writing about them. OK.

I'm assuming your husband has no idea how long it takes to travel from other galaxies. Even if you could travel faster then the speed of light, you would need to accurately map everything in space and be able to tell where it is going to be at any given point or you would crash into it before you could see it. Anything is slightly out of place and it would tear through your spaceship like a hot knife through butter.

stonehenge is going to blow your mind

There is a fabulous podcast series called More Like Ancient Failiens which debunks ancient aliens claptrap.