Posted on 05/14/2024 4:54:30 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The ancient mysteries such as who built the pyramids and other massive structures have gained numerous followers in the age of social media where pseudoscientific explanations proliferate.
Through elaborately created videos posted on YouTube, theories about aliens visiting the Earth lending a hand (or tentacle) to the Egyptian laborers to lift the impossible-to-lift stone blocks or drawing with laser beams the Nasca lines from their spaceships are fun ideas for one to entertain. And, why not, believe?
Many of us, young and old, willingly suspend our disbelief to watch for two hours Spiderman saving New York from the evil Mysterio, or Godzilla in a bad mood destroying Tokyo. Why not do the same when we see a sculpture of a Sumerian figure holding a modern (and fashionable) ladies’ handbag and listen to the video narrator telling us there is a sophisticated tablet inside the bag that navigates spaceships beyond Orion?
In addition, the scientific explanations of the construction of such ancient mysterious monuments in several cases appear equally far-fetched as the ancient astronaut theories, as if the researcher is determined to present a scientific theory by any means necessary.
There is the argument that ancient astronaut theorists propose that has a certain logical appeal: In an infinite universe with countless planets, how likely is it that Earth is the only planet where life exists and no other planet is habitable by non-human life forms? And isn’t it arrogant to believe that humans are the only intelligent beings in the universe? Or that we can colonize Mars but Martians don’t exist, so they would never beam down to Earth?
Grecian Delight supports Greece Whatever the case, such theories, which are roundly dismissed by professional historians and archaeologists, speak to a certain sense of wonder that the ancient past inspires. Until scientifically sound explanations for these ancient “mysteries” are established, various fantastical theories are likely to remain popular, especially in online spaces.
The Giza Pyramids
Elon Musk is known for his extravagant ideas and imaginative postulations. One of them is that aliens helped build the pyramids. Egypt rushed to reply by inviting the eccentric billionaire to see for himself that the pyramids were built by human hands.
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Perhaps the awe-inspiring pyramids will forever remain an ancient mystery. Modern Egypt can bask in its glorious past and claim that its ingenious ancestors built the pyramids using thousands of citizens with brawny arms, smart machines, and a collective attitude.
And what about the three pyramids’ alignment with the stars in Orion’s belt? Proponents of the “ancient aliens” theory would have us believe that the ancient Egyptians were in cahoots with extraterrestrials who were frequently traveling to their planet in the Orion belt.
The Nazca lines, the perplexing giant lines and geoglyphs in a dry plateau in Peru, 250 miles (400 km) from Lima, continue to fascinate scientists and laymen. Created by the Nazca culture (200 BC-600 AD) that believed in the gods of agriculture and fertility, still fascinates researchers.
There are more than 800 long straight, white lines etched in the hard sand, some are 30 miles long (48 km). There are also over 300 basic geometric designs such as triangles, rectangles, and trapezoids, along with spirals, wavy lines, and arrows. Most important are the representations of about 70 animals and plants, such as a monkey, a hummingbird, and others, some of which measure up to 1,200 feet (370 meters) long.
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The largest shapes stretch up to 1,200 feet and can only be seen whole from up in the air. Scientists estimate that the mysterious ancient drawings could be about 2,000 years old. The assumption is that the huge designs would be impossible to draw with such precision while standing on the ground. They could only be drawn from up in the air. But how?
Another assumption is that the makers of the designs removed the top rust-colored rocks, exposing the white sand underneath. But how to explain the length and the precision? And more importantly, what was their purpose?
Who moved the Stonehenge rocks?
Again, the issue of moving rocks that weigh several tons each before the age of cranes. Some of them are about 50 tons heavy to be precise. All coming from a quarry hundreds of miles away. Placed forming a circle for reasons unknown, but open to wild speculation. Were ancient people strong like Hercules? Or did they get any help from green men above?
Stonehenge is an ancient mystery that has fascinated people for centuries. Swiss author Erich von Däniken, who spent most of his life studying and writing theories about such unexplained phenomena, suggested that the circle of stones near Salisbury was a model of the solar system that also functioned as an alien landing pad. A wild theory that contradicts itself, but definitely an entertaining one. Aliens with superior brains would have built something more tidy and less cumbersome to land their advanced vehicles.
Nevertheless, Stonehenge is a sophisticated construction with the stones aligning with solstices and eclipses.
The statues of Easter Island
If aliens landed on Earth and didn’t want to bother with annoying humans, Easter Island was the ideal place for privacy and room to express themselves. The same applies to human sculptors who could work on their art uninterrupted by petty human activities.
Ideally hidden in the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian Triangle in Oceania, Easter Island is the perfect location for an ancient mystery that will likely remain as such. Rapa Nui, as is its other name because of the tribe that inhabits the island, officially belongs to Chile. It is not known exactly when people first landed on the island and its population was created. Older estimates range from 300 to 800, but more recent ones based on radiocarbon dates indicate 1200.
However, the real mystery of this isolated part of the World is who made the 900 or so monolithic anthropomorphic stone statues, the Moai. It is said they were carved by the Rapa Nui between 1250 and 1500 to depict their ancestors. Such zeal is hard to explain, taking into consideration the scant resources of Easter Island. As for the faces of their ancestors, the sculptures seem expressionistic. Also, by law, visitors would have to pay a hefty fine if they touch them.
The sunken city of Atlantis
The story of the sunken city of Atlantis and its magnificent civilization is an ancient mystery that teeters between the real and the imaginary. Its location has been described as being in the Mediterranean, the Bahamas, and even in Japan, depending on the claim and the site where sunken ruins of a large ancient city have been found.
Most likely its ruins can be found deep in the Mediterranean and close to the Aegean Sea, due to the advanced Minoan civilization. It was first described by the Greek philosopher Plato in 360 BC as the island of Atlas, a place with magnificent civilization and great naval power, before sinking into the sea 10,000 years ago after a catastrophic event.
Archaeologists debate the actual historical existence of Atlantis. Historians who have studied Plato claim that Atlantis was invented by Plato as a metaphor for his ideal state, how he wanted Athens to be, and also to honor his ancestors.
Historically speaking, the decimation of the islands of Crete and Thera (modern-day Santorini) by a tremendous volcanic eruption in around 1450 BC may have constituted the myth of the magnificent “Lost Continent” that was Atlantis that continues to engage the popular imagination.
These ancient mysteries and several others will continue to fuel the imagination for the decades to come, and more. The continuation of a mystery is more fascinating than its explanation. Mysteries help us expand our horizons, engage the mind, and make us want to learn more about the world, even if the world includes little green men with odd-shaped heads. The more difficult a puzzle, the more engaging it is.
If they did, they must have been overcompensating.
well...stone age people DID have brontosaurs burgers and cats. really big cats.
“The Book of Enoch describes Giants and Fallen Angels and Nephelim as possible suspects. The Fallen Angels taught forbidden technology to mankind. So there’s that.”
There’s a lot of this and other “fables” on ancient tablets from India. Extraterrestrials basicially.
https://youtu.be/vZBRMcUkqNA?feature=shared
Don’t show me massive blocks or buildings that humans could have moved.
Show me a widget or part of a widget or metallic part or any artificial element that earthly humans were known to be unable to manufacture with the known technology.
Then and only then will I believe in “ancient aliens”!
Hybrids from fallen Angels and women of the human race.
It’s a Stargate SG-1 joke…
“The Fallen Angels taught forbidden technology to mankind. So there’s that.””
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Okay, I’ll bite.
So where are the remnants of these forbidden technologies “?
Everything breaks, gets stolen, lost etc.
You can go far back to the stone age and discover bits and pieces of their tools.
So what happened to all their equipment and why didn’t it get passed along to other men?
Finally!
They mostly were built by skilled laborers. The use of slaves is mostly myth. Good Hollywood & TV but not history. One could argue that everyone not the Pharoah was a “slave” of sorts. It’s clear it wasn’t the “slavery we think of. Historians still argue how much of it was a corvee system or not. Agricultural labor in Egypt was very seasonal (Still is!) so there’s people with “free time”. There’s considerable archeologically evidence that working on the pyramids was both an of religious devotion and a way of paying your taxes for the Egyptian peasant. There was no currency, labor was the only thing of value that could be easily exchanged.
No, Aliens did not build it. We know where the stone was quarried. We know how it was transported up the Nile. Aliens would have simply cut it with their great science and teleported it to the pyramids and built the damn thing almost instantly. That did not happen. We know where the workers lived and worked and how. We also know it was at great cost to all. That is what happened!
If they did, you can be sure they weren’t given free rent, food, cell phones and the right to vote so they could overwhelm the ancient Egyptian system ...
I think there's a line in the Haggadah about "when we were skilled trade union masonry workers in Egypt." Or something like that. Oh, wait....
We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the L-rd, our G-d, took us out from there with a strong hand and with an outstretched arm. If the Holy One, blessed be He, had not taken our fathers out of Egypt, then we, our children and our children's children would have remained enslaved to Pharaoh in Egypt. Passover Haggadah.
In Flavius Josephus's history, it is claimed that, after Ptolemy I Soter took Judea, he led some 120,000 Jewish captives to Egypt from the areas of Judea, Jerusalem, Samaria, and Mount Gerizim. History of the Jewish War (75–79) and The Antiquities of the Jews. Encyclopedia Britannica website.
“Such explanations insult us as humans”
Well not all humans, just the stupid adult ones. Which is most people on this topic when it comes to space travel. A solar system only 10 or 15 light years away would take literally a million years at space shuttle speeds. I remember reading Chariots of the Gods over and over again as a kid and believing every word of it LOL.
The space shuttle is super slow.
Just last week I read about 1g electric propulsion.
At 1g acceleration and without propellant the universe becomes much smaller, and with cryogenics smaller still
We humans, and all other life forms. are not originally from this planet.
We are actually ‘jumpers’ who came from a galaxy which merged with what we now call the Milky Way.
Thus, by that count, there is life elsewhere, and before that smaller galaxy merged with ours, it had ‘visited’ the Andromeda galaxy, which is the actual first galaxy that all Earth life came from. When we get to visit Andromeda, we will be able to visit our very ancient ancestors.
The real story is that, the Milky Way galaxy undergoes ‘life-changing’ events every 250 million years or so, which is the amount of time that it takes to make a complete rotation on its axis. Every 250 million years, we get to visit the same region in space where the Milky Way got its first life-forms. We get to ‘exchange’ life=forms with whatever is out there; we give that region some of what we have, and we get some of what is still out there.
It’s ‘God’s plan’.
But wait!!! There’s more.
Andromeda and Milky Way are not the only galaxies that got God’s gift of life, and the exchange of ‘life-forms’ has been occurring between galaxies for many billions of years.
So, in fact, the Aliens we keep talking about, are just us, but from other regions of the universe.
In a galaxy far, far away, we are still there. ;)
It was Morgan Fairchild.
“So where are the remnants of these forbidden technologies “?
Adult video stores everywhere.
Yes, I surely doubt the Egyptians had the means.
Yes!
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