It really isn't a stretch from that point to adopt the notion that the Egyptians didn't build them after all, or at least not the ones we celebrate.
It really isn't a stretch from that point to adopt the notion that the Egyptians didn't build them after all, or at least not the ones we celebrate.
The above is exactly my viewpoint on the matter.
Applying simple logic to the existing hard evidence has led me to the inescapable conclusion that, someone other than the dynastic Egyptians built the megalithic monuments in that country.
Likewise with the megalithic structures of Central America, Japan, New Zealand, Mexico, Easter Island, India, and many other places.
Westerners have been puzzling over the origin of these monuments since they first encountered them centuries ago. When they asked the local populations about the origins of those structures, they were consistently told, "They were built by the gods."
One of the earliest examples of that, is of an incident related by the Greek philosopher Solon (forebear of Plato), who asked the Egyptian priests about the origins of that country's great monuments. When asked, the priests gave him the same answer as was given to the Spanish conquistadors, centuries later.
Weirdly, westerners seem to have consistently rejected those testimonies from the people who should know best. Westerners are still rejecting that explanation to this very day. We're now locked into a hardened view that all such structures MUST have been built by the ancient civilizations we're aware of -- arrogantly dismissing the possibility that we could be unaware of advanced civilizations that preceded the ancient cultures that we're familiar with.
Graham Hancock's theory that an advanced, lost civilization, was wiped out by a worldwide cataclysm, makes the most sense. In my view, his theory will one day become the dominant, mainstream view of this enigma.