I know someone into that who Ancient Alien thing. Seeing the old stone structures, Pyramids, etc. they conclude people back then could not have done it.
I keep telling them they cannot fathom how intelligent and ingenious they were.
It’s an insult to those peoples to conclude that a flying saucer must have showed up and done it for them.
Puma Punku is real. How was it done?
For all the derision of ancient people, so many people forget that they not only did not have the advantage we do of building on other people work and knowledge base, they were the ones who discovered/created that knowledge base.
The genius it takes to figure out geometry and calculus and to build stuff we cannot fathom how they did it without machinery and calculators, etc, puts us to shame.
I think the ones who insult them the most are the archeaologists who insist that they worked solely with sticks and stone chisels to carve out giant granite obelisks and things of the sort. They clearly had other tools or indeed it would be impossible within a single lifetime (we're talking about tombs in many cases so one lifetime is relevant). They consider the ancients to be kind of dumb. But whenever they find an artifact or structure that raises a question about that basic presumption, they declare it a religious item with no evidence or followup and move on like it doesn't exist.
There's much more to the ancients than we know. I don't buy much of the explanations of modern archaeologists as 'the truth' nor do I believe aliens came in and did it all.