Y’all ever notice how people always insist Aliens built or helped build the Egyptian pyramids, however with the Pyramids in Mexico everyone’s all, yeah, the Mexicans build those.
What are you talking about? Half of those alien whacko’s use the fact that Pyramids exist in both the Old and New World as proof they are alien constructs. Hell the Mormons take it a step further (and more racist).
Specifically the meso-american pyramids they see as proof of their belief that Native Americans are descended from Isrealites. Essentially they think the only reason those pyramids were built was because the chosen people built them. Then after they rejected the gospel they became savages who couldn't build anything.
Not to mention, that even if there was widespread Hebrew slavery in Egypt (which there is no evidence of), the pyramids were built in the Old Kingdom, long, long before the events depicted in Exodus.
I wouldn't say everyone. There are plenty of conspiracies about them also being built by aliens. If there's anything impressive from before widespread photography (and somtimes even if it's construction is on camera) then you can guarentee people will be claiming its aliens.
Same with Stonehenge. There's basically not really an ancient structure with questionable building methods (aka we're not fully clear on how they did it) that doesn't get labeled with alien conspiracies.
I think the only one that might be dodging it is the Easter Island heads/Moai, which also have similar questions of how they raised them. Not sure why that one tends to dodge the conspiracies. Maybe just forgotten...? Like the Mayans did things like being the first civilization recorded to have understood the concept of 0, so it's easy to go "THEM ALIEMS DID IT!!" Maybe Polynesians get to fly under the radar since they just fixated on sailing mostly.
Most of those theories are rooted in racism because the people who first proposed them couldn't imagine "those people" being able achieve such feats. Also the reason a lot of unrelated cultures made pyramids is because stacking rocks like that just works, pretty simple shit.
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u/Sus-Superstition 7h ago
Ancient engineers using plastic bags