Some of ancient alien theory holds weight when you look at how most of the ‘gods’ are depicted in hieroglyphs as beings who descended from the stars…i understand how that may sound like it takes away from ancient cultures but it might not necessarily have to be viewed that way.
It can be a beautiful thing that a once primitive form of ourselves were once helped by incomparably more advanced other-worldly species, i guess my question to you is, why not consider that theres just as much of a chance of this happened vs our history being rooted only in having never been in contact with any alien races?
hey, anon, show me in the hieroglyphs where it says aliens helped build the pyramids. and don't try to be funny about it because i can read them. i'll wait.
The Egyptians very definitely use hieroglyphs to write that one god masturbated and the rest of them came from the mound of earth that formed from his fossilised cum. Like, they're pretty clear on that. Fossilised cum is a repeating motif. Trust me, like the above, I can read them and I'll wait for where it says aliens did it.
Things that hieroglyphs say: masturbation made the world, cum lettuce made the moon, a lioness goddess drunk on a river of blood-coloured beer turned into a sleepy cat, having too-vigorous sex causes divine headaches all around,
Things that hieroglyphs don't say: aliens built the pyramids
What bothers me the most about pseudoarchaeology as an archaeologist is that it’s so bloody boring. People aren’t “primitive”, we’re incredibly creative, and have throughout our history come up with both similar and diverse ways of tackling problems, often entirely independently. Unfortunately, early archaeologists often failed to recognise this due to scientific racism, and are in many ways responsible for laying the foundations of the pseudoarchaeology/pseudohistory that has people using the simple answer of advanced alien civilisations for the complex question that is our past. I could go on, but I’ll instead borrow from David Wengrow’s great article on this type of thing, here, and quote Bertold Brecht’s poem, Questions From a Worker Who Reads:
Who built Thebes of the 7 gates?
In the books you will read the names of kings.
Did the kings haul up the lumps of rock?
And Babylon, many times demolished,
Who raised it up so many times?
In what houses of gold glittering Lima did its builders live?
Where, the evening that the Great Wall of China was finished,
did the masons go?
Great Rome is full of triumphal arches.
Who erected them?
Over whom did the Caesars triumph?
Had Byzantium, much praised in song, only palaces for its
inhabitants?
Even in fabled Atlantis, the night that the ocean engulfed it,
The drowning still cried out for their slaves.
The young Alexander conquered India.
Was he alone?
Caesar defeated the Gauls.
Did he not even have a cook with him?
Philip of Spain wept when his armada went down.
Was he the only one to weep?
Frederick the 2nd won the 7 Years War.
Who else won it?
Every page a victory.
Who cooked the feast for the victors?
Every 10 years a great man.
Who paid the bill?
So many reports.
So many questions.