To start a conspiracy theory thread about the pyramids?

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Do you believe the pyramids or The sphinx were built by the ancient Egyptians?
I’m just watching Egypt’s Secret code and Bradley Walsh isn’t accepting this theory, my husband believes it was Aliens.
I don’t know what I think really, please discuss, Share your thoughts.

2 wonders of the world:

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

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!"

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.

Yes he did.

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

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.

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.

There was a mermaid on This Morning once.

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 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.

Brings this to mind

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.

Hahahaha

There are unintelligent people who genuinely believe conspiracy theories

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

Agree with this

I believe they were built by ancient Egyptians and slaves. But I do think they had some (not technology but some greater understanding of physics) knowledge that we don’t maybe understand now. Same as Stonehenge. I believe there is some knowledge that’s been “lost” over time.

Like what? Levitation? Morphic resonance?

A couple of years ago I read a very interesting book about the "how" of building Stonehenge. Not the "why".

The uprights of the giant trilithon weigh about 45 tons. How did they move such huge blocks of stone? How many men? How far could a block be moved in a day? How were the stones dressed and tapered? How were they set upright? Who provided food for the workers?

Very interesting reading.

The pyramids were a huge undertaking, but not any more advanced than the technology that was available at the time. When you have thousands of workers at your disposal you can do amazing things.

Modern machinery wouldn't struggle at all to build the pyramids.

That is why it’s called the Renaissance though. The rebirth of old, lost learning and skills ( in this case, relearning and emulating the realism in ancient wall paintings)

@Aviri I’ve enjoyed your comments 😂

You wot? Im probably misreading your comment, but history books aren't all useless conjecture.
We've evidence aplenty, from many millennia, with which to build up a picture of this or that event/reign/ civilisation.
We change over time, as readers, and books are revised to accommodate new perspectives, not to mention physical discoveries of course, but to me that makes history books a sort of ongoing symposium, with new speakers and papers coming in all the time, as the original historical matter is revealed in ever clearer focus.

Point of order, Madam Speaker! We should acknowledge the part played by Christianity in Europe after the fall of Rome, by preserving culture, in writing, language, and learning as everything returned to the soil, once the Empire had left.
Irish monks, for example, roamed across the Continent keeping Latin and Greek (and therefore learning) alive, thereby spinning a thread that would lead to the Renaissance.