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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.
Funilly enough:
Cheddar Man: DNA shows early Briton had dark skin
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42939192
That makes sense, the total lack of sun means they lost the use of dark skin genes, or maybe they were cursed by God and cast out on the island, you never know
Everyone had dark skin that long ago.
"A cutting-edge scientific analysis" theories about stone henge being built by aliens go back at least 100 years.
And virtually no other European ancient site. Stonehenge is usually the lone exception.
Malta
...is an island?
with megaliths that have been explained by aliens. As an aside, there are simply far fewer impressive prehistoric structures in Europe compared to the the Near East, India and other placed closer to the center of the agricultural revolution which rpedate written records. Those that do exist have all been explained by aliens at one point or another.
On a regular basis? Hardly. And also only recently.
And that, of course, ignores the fact that this whole aliens/Atlanteans built all the ancient monuments comes from an extremely racist source, even if the people spreading it now are not racists:
https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=61440
I don't know what you mean by "a regular basis" but here is a recent attempt to explain maltese megaliths with aliens https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27133303/
Yes. A recent attempt. Hence my saying "and also only recently."
Yes, it's disbelief based on lack of sources, more than anything.
Lack of sources? We have tons of fucking sources. We know a LOT about the pyramids and have explicit writings about them from the times many of them were built. The (rich) Ancient Egyptians were very relatively recent and well-documented.
Aliens just didn't like white people.