Sarah Kurnick: "Aliens built the pyramids" and other absurdities of pseudo-archaeology | TED
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- Aliens have invaded ancient history: they've cropped up in humanity's past through popular television and movies, displacing facts with absurd yet commonplace beliefs like "aliens built the pyramids." Archaeologist Sarah Kurnick illustrates why these misconceptions perpetuate racist and xenophobic notions of history and culture -- and demonstrates how you can help debunk these dangerous, outlandish myths.
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In response to what she said about finding ways to keep archaeology interesting, I think it would be dope if we made 3D scans of artifacts and uploaded them to a VR archive so people worldwide could have virtual access to the "real" items. I've found ancient history very interesting and you can find high-resolution photos online, but I haven't been able to experience these things in person and VR would allow for more opportunity for that.
^ Why are we not funding this?!
@@TheBadRandolph We could be funding VR museums and NASA, but instead we fund the military. GG
Excellent idea. That's marketable but I'm not a business head.
@@alexclark9292 Neither am I haha I'm just a digital artist who sometimes has good ideas.
A few museums and public libraries actually have begun scanning and sharing a 2D/3D library of their collections! Including the Smithsonian and the Met, NYPL, among others. It's a start at the least!
Sounds like something an alien would say
Her nose says something different
Lmao
Exactly what I was thinking.
She’s one of them
😂 best comment
Lmaooo
Did she just call ancient aliens racist lmao - some people are psychotic.
Yes omg
You do realize that they pay people to do these type of political hit pieces, this is not the first time lol
That show is pseudoscience garbage that claims that our ancestors weren’t “smart” enough to complete monumental tasks
Are you going to explain why it's not racist? 🤔
The British were building a railroad in the Sindh province of what is now Pakistan. They found an excellent source of stones and were using it as a bedding for the railroad until an archaeologist discovered that they were destroying Mohenjo Daro, one of the oldest settlements in human history and one of the first human cities.
"One of the first human cities" ©️ 👍
do you want your railroad or dont you?
i'm gonna come back and watch this again in a couple of months...
Exactly
She doesn't even stop to think for a second that indigenous people and ancient civilizations could have possibly been honest in their depictions and writings.
She just assumes they are all liars. Including that seemingly nice Mayan artist who presented her with some of his art. She basically just made fun of him.
Ancient aliens hypothesis starts with the initial premise that these people may have witnessed something real. That they aren't merely lying or mythologizing. And there's some physical evidence that corroborates the stories of these ancient peoples.
Let's be honest we all want aliens to be real as we know there real just imagine what whould happen the government tells us the are real
Aliens never left earth behind. They are simply invisible, observing us, because they know they shouldn't influence mankind too much and solve all our problems. They are in contact with many "primitive" cultures, which are spiritually more evolved than the "intelligent" people like us. Our mind is too closed, yet, to make contact with other beings.
Well, the pentagon confirmed several video footages in the last year and the last one some days ago. They ARE there, simply waiting for us, until WE are ready to have open contact without worldwide chaos and fear.
Many ancient cultures were way more advanced, than science thinks and they were more spiritual, that's the reason they had regular contact to beings from other planets or even dimensions.
So, you all, sit back and watch what the pentagon will reveal on 01.06, maybe the existence of extraterrestrial, or at least much more UFO information, if they think we aren't ready for that.
The amount of UFO sightings will increase more and more in the near future.
And sit back a few more years, then the so called ""Aliens"" will land worldwide, when humanity is sensitized enough. Theoretically they don't need ships, they can simply materialize their physical body infront of us, if we would be ready for that...
@@heffalumptarkin1384 yet this is something you belief because it makes sense but that doesn't mean there like that even if we find aliens we don't know how they are there is only one way to find out
But...but...many native and indigenous people all over the world speak of people that came out of the sky in their folklore.
This lady: yeah, they're all racist also.
But those "sky people" didn't help them establish their culture, technology, or architecture so it's besides the point. Not to mention how they would just as commonly talk about demons coming out from an underworld.
@@BEZW1K no
On India there are books where they describe non human and even "outsiders" who helped with medicine for example.
Same goes with Mayas. Their knowledge they had are attributed from the stars.
You can argue and believe this is bulshit and there aren't aliens. But claiming all of these movement are purely racism on non European cultures is pure stupidity
Well, Christian angels also come from the skies, yet you seldom hear them being equated as aliens. There is literally the believe that they came from the Heaven. So... why do those ancient aliens guys talk disproportionally about other cultures, instead of focusing on the bible and christianity. There is the whole Nephilim thing going on, yet whenever I watch that dumb show, it never downplays western civilizations. SOme Gothic churches are amazing feats of engineering... Surely the Europeans in the middle ages (aka dark ages) must have had some help from an advanced civilization!
@@VectorPlexus long ago there was a entire chapter dedicated to Christianity. So....
@@VectorPlexus AAT CONSTANTLY look to the bible and "Angles" a clear proof of the ancient astronaut their.. just watch a little more than one episode and see for yourself. INFACT one of the leading AAT Paul Wallis was once a Christian preacher
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Someone : If you want to rule on other society change their history
People just have no idea how strong their ancestors were.
that’s what the soviet bloc did 😂
That is what people are tying to do with Islam!
you're right it's as ancient as 'devide and conquer'
History is written by this doctors
*Ancient Aliens has left the chat.*
smh
naahhh, how about watch it by yourself.. its not some random things, they have basis, calculation that will make you think twice.. also you need to have at-least some physics knowledge..
following what this white lady is saying, Acient Aliens are a racist, xenofobic, ofensive, and they should be out the internet, air tv, and social media, they should be canceled
@@Cesar-iu7qf you should be cancelled
@@ultimate3145 XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDXD
After seeing the "Ariel school incident phenomenon Zimbabwe" i no longer have any doubts.
Min2:49 faulty logic, it’s because the piramids are impressive and we don’t know how to build them. However roman and greek architectural structure we do know how is done. I am a contractor.. she id using faulty logic
Ancient alien theorist believe aliens built Stonehenge. They believe roman knowledge of architecture came from aliens. It has nothing to do with racsism
The UK used to have a program called Time Team that did great, entertaining, archaeology program. They have an Official site on CZcams that shows their old programing and they are trying to start up a new series right now.
i grew up with time team and even did the big dig when it was in swindon back when i was a kid. even to this day when the old man digs in the garden and finds a weird stone i start with the phil impersonation "ooh arr thats a roman tile that is"
Well said. Reality is brutal. We all want to escape it. This is why these far out theories are popular. I remember buying the book "Chariots Of The Gods". These days I do not believe aliens are going to save us. What could save and transform us, is all of us going vegan.🌱
Buuutt,Tony Robbins,😬?????
@@jamiegoss Do you mean Sir Tony Robinson? The actor and presenter of Time Team or actually Tony Robbins the "motivational speaker" because those are two different people anyway if you don't like Tony Robinson, you always say "Shut up Baldrick" anytime you don't like what he says. Additionally the new season which came out last year has a new set of presenters.
We truly need more realistic Archaeology books.
They had to hide the truth long enough for people to become ignorant to the fact that God exists.
This illuminati disinformant. Selling her own soul out to these piece of shts. If you want the facts you all should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l on my channel to know more about these history stealing piece of shts. They are all in a secret society selling themselves to these 'people' that gangstalk and belittle them until they join them. They do this to me all the time. Intimidation from the sheriffs office here in las cruces nm. And stealing my amazon packages and food I get from walmart. Theyve done it all to me. Using societal means to bully and get me to join in their agenda. They follow me around online they follow me when I ride my bike they follow .e into stores when i buy food they follow me when im with people. Theyve shot guns in my direction among other things. These are disgusting secret society piece of shts that need to be stopped and the only way to do it is to talk about it.
Michael Cremo - hidden archeaology
How many have you read? How many college level archeology textbooks have you picked up and actually read before you dismiss them. Because I assure you, she has read that ancient alien drivel.
@@brialapoint2608 Why do you say that?
The part about the Mayan man she met is a bit depressing. I have lived in Perú for many years and while I met many people proud of their heritage I also met many others who bought into these ancient astronauts myths. I think some part of the blame lies in the school system, who in some areas still teaches outdated notions of history or sometimes doesn't include them due to lack of time. If we add the fact that much of those old historical notions taught are very hispanocentric (and therefore eurocentric) and the influence of movies and TV series, it doesn't surprise that some locals still believe in these myths.
It is more absurd to dismiss an idea on the basis of assuming it’s impossible. This is a major reason why I am willing to accept “ancient aliens” as potentially true. When all the arguments against it boil down to “that’s impossible because I don’t believe it.” Whereas the ancient alien arguments have evidence, logical arguments, ancient art, writings, and genetic tests. It could easily be misunderstood data, but still far better than brushing it all off as wrong for quite literally no reason. Their arguments use science, those against them just say they’re wrong without offering anything and without even learning about their arguments and data. So, the “real” archaeologists are not using scientific principles.
couldn't agree more! I don't claim to know who's wright or wrong but everytime I see "real" archaeologists dismissing every claim that goes against the familiar narrative they rarely do so with any kind of data.
Is it really racist though if they also believe stonehenge was built by aliens?
I just watched the History channel episode on Stonehenge and funny enough they never gave aliens any credit...
@@Exxperiment626 yes they have several times. Watch any episode of Ancient Aliens and they say all sorts of stuff. Like how it was a docking bay for a ship or something like that.
She's an ignorant left wing tool. Spewing propaganda.
@@jankjaws9815 Watch the episode again. They claim Stonehenge may have been used to communicate with aliens, but they never questioning if it was built by Europeans or not.
I wonder why?
@@andreas956 That maybe true, but she has a valid point when it comes to Acient Aliens and how that program discredit everything built in the acient world outside of Europe. But never in Europe funny enough.
Thank you Sarah. I'll start following you. I'm a fan of Dr Miano, a historian and I also learn a lot about history from and the pseudo archeologists.
What kind of respectable scientist must convince people to place mistrust in those who do not agree with them in order to validate their research or theology?
Perfectly put, Miss Kortnie!!!
The saddest thing is she needs to convince people. There are that many morons out there she is forced to make a stand.
@@brialapoint2608 no one is coercing. She is just pointing out how damaging the bullshit is for gullible idiots, of which there seem to be plenty.
@@bioux101 Ancient Aliens are bullshit, but it's pretty conclusive that Egyptians some 3,000-6,000 years ago DID NOT BUILD the pyramids or Sphinx. Göbekli Tepe is proof that megalithic sites could be constructed as early as 14,000-18,000 on top of the very clear weathering that indicates the Sphinx was at least carved between 13,000-14,000.
@@davincimemes3631 in the British Museum there is an educational document explaining the arithmetic of how to pay your pyramid builders by the year vs the number of staff. We know the age of this document. There are also artefacts from UR, the oldest city in the world. By your reckoning this first city wouldn't have been built before the pyramids! There are no artefacts that prove the pyramids are older than they are. Egyptology is pretty detailed and the building of the pyramids is accurately dated. You'll find they're not between 13'000 and 14'000 years ago. That is nonsense, sadly.
This lady says the ancient pyramid are similar to the coliseum in Rome. Many Roman great architecture structures were developed from previous foundations
So if we cannot make these now with modern technology, how did they do it?
Prof. Kurnick didn't mention the Stonehenge or the Super-Henge alien stories as being racist. While racism is always stupid and uneducated (not the same things), the uneducated and stupid are not always racist. MANY people have no concept of the time line of civilizations. In their minds the Mayan pyramids are contemporary to the Egyptian pyramids, especially with their similarities in design and pictographic writing. They associate the same mysteries of how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids, to the South Americans. It had to be aliens, right? Because they didn't have big machinery and COULDN'T document how it was done. Of course this is foolishness, but not racist. There are records of how the coliseum was built, and all of the western European things you mention because they were all done after common records were kept. There's no mystery.
Well said.
She’s not saying people are always racist but that these pseudo-sciences always become the tools of racists
@@silentmagelvx2925 except that is not what she said. She said racism is why the pseudo sciences exist for Egypt but not Rome.
@@TheArtisticBiker exactly. To me, she is just jumping on the racist bandwagon and trying to gain fame before it’s too late. Disgraceful tbh
EXACTLY
Does this mean aliens don't like white people since they've never built white countries 🤣🤣
Yeah, we are stinky and fussy. Aliens hate that. And then there are the Karens. It's just not worth helping us.
Yes
I’ll respect aliens more if that’s the case
That's probably the funniest analysis I've ever read.
Yes they did in russia for example.
Oh no, people transported a 220-ton stone block 250 kilometers using donkeys :)
No floats
Most of the people who believe these ancient alien theories do not know very much about these cultures at all. Part of the reason we do not entirely know how some things were built is that the crafts were oral and vocational practices and traditions, passed down through apprenticeships and not written down or well documented. These flawed theories by archiologists and historians derive from and are informed by similarities elsewhere that crop up throughout history which ARE well documented.
This process stems from our brains which naturally compare unknown experiences with the things we have already learned and experienced. Therefore people who are thinking these ancient alien theories must be right simply haven't done enough research and learning.
They think because they can't be disproven or that the current models and theories are incomplete, combined with a mistrust in the archiological and historical communities that the alien theory must be right. This is no different from ancient peoples thinking an eclipse was the wrath of the gods. The pyramids are magic to these theoriests. But I would imagine a car or smartphone would be too.
I have yet to see someone who beleives these psuedoarchiolgical theories use up-to-date information and address the many flaws in their arguments.
If you can't deconstruct and counter your own argument first, then you don't really understand it enough to champion it.
Went to Barnes and Noble in Denver looking for books on Native Americans in Colorado. There were ZERO books in the Colorado history section, but THREE books on "lost department stores".
Colorado...once home to the largest buffalo skin trading post west of the Mississippi.
have you considered that there weren’t any books about Native Americans in Colorado in the store bcos it’s a specialized interested?
bookstores aren’t libraries, their purpose is to provide books to a mass audience, books people want to buy and read. This is an example of the free market working, if people want books, bookstores will sell those books.
libraries exist to store books on every single subject and interest.
@@nolan412 Colorado area... once home to zero caucasians
@@anti-everybody It was once home to no humans. First come only served. It may soon be home of the central American! Then the alien will return finally
go to google earth and check out 39"34'26"N 84"36'21"E and youll see the wind is already starting it for us.
Yeah bring that show back(what in the world) I would love to watch that show!!!
The Archaeology Field itself has historically been racist, with the professors, historians, explorers and archaeologist that lead in the field mostly being from European decent and from countries other than the subject culture, indigenous people being studied(ex: Howard Carter, Columbus, etc.) I feel that the Alien explanations come in when they can't explain how or why certain structures or practices were done, and I have seen them explain how the Greeks, Stonehenge, was done with help from aliens.
Twelve minutes is brief for such a vast topic but all she said is correct as most of the ancient astronauts myths were a reinvention of older myths about old worlders (Atlanteans, the lost tribes of Israel) that in the 18th and particularly 19th century were prevalent and were used to deny the merit of other civilizations, especially from "savage" lands.
And what's worse is that there were records of Europeans visiting these structures in the 16th century, but they were occasionally dismissed. Take the example of the Great Zimbabwe. There were Portuguese written testimonies of said structures dating back to the 16th century, yet 19th century British colonists spreaded the theory that Africans couldn't build anything like that therefore it must have been work of some ancient Asian or Middle Eastern lost civilization. Ian Smith government even resorted to censor or block archeologist works in the area.
Lmao if the guy from the airplane is watching this.
I expected a lot more facts that deflate all the "alien" participation in ancient archeology, this should be adressed head on to avoid people being confused and/or convinced of absurd theories that end up in humanity being "meat farms" for aliens, etc.
Addressed head-on with the lack of facts? I'm not sure I follow. I will agree that it is an absurd theory. Humans, being used for meat lol you would have to be a complete idiot with no critical thinking skills whatsoever even to be able to come up with such absurdity.
How about the fact that hugely advanced aliens came all the way across the universe to teach us how to build things with rocks?
Didn't the aliens know about concrete? Those are some really stupid aliens. The aliens didn't even bring these people the wheel. The highest tech thing they did was some cool stuff with rocks.
Does that even sound reasonable to you? Does it sound any more sensible than saying leprechauns did it?
Every alien claim falls on its face if you just ask basic questions about the claim itself.
@@cliffordschaffer5289 Not true, no one can explain why aliens did it but its not reasonable to completely dismiss that theory. No one to this day can explain how people of that time built the pyramids so it makes sense to think that it was someone else in this universe.
@@adels.185 Explain what these super advanced aliens ever did besides stack rocks.
There are simple explanations already known for nearly all of it. If there was anything alien-advanced about it, there would be evidence all over the place -- way more than some nicely stacked rocks.
Now tell me what the aliens ever did besides stack rocks. No one has been able to answer that, yet.
I mean there is alot of other stuff but obviously talking to someone who is brain dead like you who doesn't even know about the other stuff in the past we can't explain or figure out anything besides stacking rocks your a joke if u want to say that maybe try looking more into past civilization before you try to have a conversation with because having a conversation with you I can already tell from your post's would be pointless you will shot everything down even with evidence and be extremely hateful to anyone
I’m just sitting here wondering who created all of these theory’s. Seeing who owns all of these gateways to distribute this tricknology knowledge. Answer seems quite clear and that’s why we live in a confused and chaotic world.
Explain the ancient documents that describe how the Star People came from the sky to teach them technology.
Her points against “pseudo Archeology ” make far less sense then pseudo archeology itself.
Also history is not about cherry picking evidence and “finding something to take pride in”. It’s about finding out what happened good or bad.
This mans telling a credited archeologist she makes no sense lol .. idk about you but this video makes absolute sense. Except for the racist part cuz most ppl day to day aren’t thinking of it from a racist point of view
Here is the thing about evidence. First you must have some before you do any picking. There is none for aliens.
@@cliffordschaffer5289 exactly
As the indian historian Romila Thapar sayed: all the civilization were miracles. So in that order of ideas is right to say "finding something to take pride in". And the true about what happened is the day-to-day debate in historians community, as she pointed the past is always open to interpretations and has political consecuences.
Stargate wasn’t a documentary?
It actually was. But some people are too cluelessly arrogant to consider the possibilities.
Its a historical document
Yeah but only Ra footage is real and original. Other recordings were damaged. They had to re shoot it
@@poe12 seems legit
Id pay to see if she'd have a one on one debate with Graham Hancock on the matter. Many would refuse.
Including Graham Hancock. The moment someone disagrees with him he starts sobbing about how he's being silenced.
Did you know Erik Von Daniken has, or perhaps had, a theme park promoting his hypothesizes?
Came for a debunk of the alien theory, left without one.
@@comradeusa8351 It cuts both ways. Ridiculing and dismissing the ever mounting evidence from very credible sources (such as the Pentagon, US Air Force) is also bad. Keep an open mind and let's do more investigation into this phenomena.
Else you will end up like the Catholic Church during Copernicus, secure in your fallacy and dogma that the earth is the center of the universe.
What is presented without proof can be dismissed without proof. She did not present any proof that the Ancient Aliens humbug is racist either. They are simply picking spaces that are prone to being more blank in peoples minds because Mayan and Egyptian culture did not receive the same attention in the education of Europeans and emigrants from Europe as European culture. Big surprise.
@@comradeusa8351 or maybe it’s just another white person undermining ancient civilizations that aren’t European lol…………..
There is a library of alternative history literature on Ancient Astronaut Theory. In depth debunking of the claims is beyond the scope of an 11 minute ted talk. However, you can consult many books and documentaries made in response to Daniken’s success in the 70s.
@@checher3129 None of that evidence holds up. Flying saucers are just the way Cold War humans interpreted weird things in the sky (often being encouraged to do so by the US government in order to distract from military projects) that humans have been seeing and interpreting differently forever. Right before the Cold War people thought the UFOs they saw were Jules Vern flying machines rather than alien craft.
Oh yah, then explain to me then how ancients laser cut the stones of puma punku. Gv me a a god damn scientific explanation b4 u shut me off my alien theory.
The serapeum, Baalbek, poligonal walls also
Did she write a talk or an essay because it really sounds like she wrote an essay instead of an engaging talk
Thank you for your talk, i love those DND OC idea
Hold on. She seems like a nice person and there is merit to her point BUT - what she is not taking into account that one cannot compare any still-standing historic building with the insane engineering of the megalithic structures on this planet. Tell me again how the Colosseum and Parthenon compare to Kailasa Temple carved of one piece of mountain or the 1000+ ton blocks of Baalbek? You see, we can build things like Colosseum but WE CANNOT build megaliths like pyramid of "Kufu" in Giza! What does she make of this?!
Lastly, she laments that 'aww aliens denigrate my science', but makes no effort to address WHY for some people believe that the 'alien hypothesis' is actually reasonable when you consider the incredible astronomical precision and knowledge that the builders of these ancient sites had... some of which we only 'discovered' in the last few hundred years.
So ye, let her not discredit that many things were 'pseudo' before they became fact and that understanding why this idea persists in even every level of society is an important question to ask.
you should read actual architects discussing how we have the tech to achieve all of this but no one interested in funding its construction
@@silentmagelvx2925 sounds interesting, do you have a link?
Personally, I'm still skeptical because even if we gave modern architects all the money necessary (and assumed they are able to build such megaliths) - It still does not explain how the ancients did this several millenniums ago.
The geo-astronomical knowledge and precision baked into these megaliths is the part we cannot ignore. Whilst building massive structures is an impressive feat, the more amazing part is how these designs indicate that our ancestors had knowledge of things like calculus, orbital mechanics, precision tools and the measure of the Meter (to name a few) - all of which were only discovered in 'modern times'.
So yes, modern architectural projects like Hoover Dam are mega constructions with astronomical features - but it was built with computers, GPS satellites and modern cranes/trucks - So the question remains, how did our ancestors get that degree of precision in their masonry and still match it with other astronomical bodies/motions when (as academia tells us) they only had copper chisels and thought that the Earth was flat?
Again I'm not saying it was Aliens, but the speaker of this TED talk does not address the deep mystery staring us in the face and so it is obvious that she cannot understand why even reasonable people link the megaliths with the 'ancient astronaut' hypothesis.
@@marcod9388 Exactly. They even have asked engineers about various megalithic sites. None of them could replicate the job with modern-day machinery. So I would be curious about any links that show otherwise, as well.😕
Yes of course we could build the pyramids of Giza. We could even build them much, much larger. We could build them to pretty much any size.
It's just that no one wants to pay for that.
You clearly no grasp on what it takes to build those old stone buildings. They are impressive, but not technologically - just in the ammount of effort it took to build them.
@@marcod9388
>how these designs indicate that our ancestors had knowledge of things like calculus, orbital mechanics
No, they don't. All you need is to observe where the stars are right now. And you build according to that. It's impressive, but nothing that can't be achieved with tools of the time.
>how did our ancestors get that degree of precision in their masonry
By being good craftsman. There is nothing mysterious about building your construction facing a certain direction.
>they only had copper chisels and thought that the Earth was flat
Patience. And it doesn't matter what shape the earth is for these constructions.
" Every statement about the past is a powerful statement about the present"
"Past events are often the best predictor of future events"
@beans oof Homie, it's not that hard to take this TED and this comment and connect them.
Absolutely
@beans oof you haven't heard that thrown around before? The people love it where I'm from
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
So how did the pyramid builders get the scale of the great pyramid to be 1/432,000 the diameter of the earth a ratio which has them moving a distance relative to earths rotation at the equator that is equal to the length of the perimeter of the base of the socle every 2 seconds so in half a socond if you were standing at the base of the pyramid the earth will have rotated the length of one side of the pyramid. This accuracy of placement and proportion measures the earth with a degree of accuracy that we did not achieve until the invention and development of space travel and remote sensing technology with satellites, logically do we assume that if they knew this and more and were building these structures which the great pyramid has 2.6 or so million multi ton polygonal blocks that would need to have been placed exactly not including the foundation of the plateau which is worked as well. Where did this technology come from with no upwards slope of progress rather downward the oldest sites being the oldest for example puma punku which according to my conservative measurement of lichen erosion being 25,000 years old. What about the Sumerian tablets saying the Annunaki came from a world kept warm by volcanos with lakes and rivers that ran red sound familiar coincidence mars last volcanic eruption was 55,000 years before present when did pre glacial flood melt agricultural civilization haplogroups appear? 48,000 years ago or something sounds bizarre but how is that same anotolian haplogroup t appear in Cherokee Indians who weirdly have legends of light skinned giants with red hair coming on ships and being friendly to them,some of the oldest mummy in Egypt are 7ft tall with elongated skulls and red hair like the paracas culture who had date palms a middle eastern species in Peru with mummies that had children with anatomical issues such as bones that wouldn’t support them in this gravity at least and a skull volume twice as much almost proportions competitive to mars gravity and earths. Makes sense why the Sumerians say the gods couldn’t handle the load of the labor of the earth ie the gravity. Gotta be more open minded we don’t know the truth and we should question anyone who claims to the truth is truth and doesn’t have to comply with your supposed opinion or feelings or political beliefs. Just like the Clovis level situation we should be more humble and not put any limit on how or where artifacts could be we have only just arrived so to speak who’s to say somone couldn’t have originally settled the solar system from elsewhere in the first place...
If you watch ancient aliens they do point to stone hedge as being alien, but not anything built by Roma or Greece which is racist. Just because the Egyptians or maya didn’t have the same water systems Roma had doesn’t mean they couldn’t build simple structures like a pyramid. Yea it is pretty simple compared to how anything is built today. Since humans evolved at the same rate around the world, ancient peoples only built what they wanted to build. Just because maya temples might appear more simple compared to Egyptian for example is because they used their pyramids for different things
Yeah, not only that but humans also know what geometry is, not surprising so many ancient structures have some similarities to them.
Where are her FACTS?
She doesn’t have any
You don't think giving credit to aliens instead of non-European civilizations can be deemed as racist?
@@lifeisactuallyveryboring.7771 yep, then they will claim to be magick descendants of the super special lala-land of alien angle gods, so it makes sense they can get to be in charge because the story they just made up has a narrative that says they should be in charge....
JUST CHECK THE BOOK THEIR MAGICK ALIEN ANCESTORS WROTE
Did not expect a TED talk about alien conspiracy theories to be eloquently and logically linked to implicit bias and systemic racism, but here we are.
Yeah got me to
Seems more like people just wanting to believe in something bigger instead of inherent racism. Instead of going the sky daddy route, they go for sky "people" who have our best interests in mind and are maybe still looking out for us. Naive, yes. Racist, not really imho.
@@Memento_Mori_Music Then why is it only brown people who need ancient aliens?
@@sneed472 Except the involvement of white supremicists and other grifters of misinformation's involvement with the alien conspiracy theories since the early days of the internet, when we were still using ftp servers, is well documented.
A lot of the poisonous misinformation infesting social media is not unconscious memes, but deliberately spread and used as recruitment by fringe groups.
If you can convince someone that ancient aliens were responsible for all of the achievements of "less developed people" you can quite easily convince people of the doctrine of white supremacy. ie. "The africans of Great Zimbabwe were pre-historical people stuck in the stone age, so needed ancient aliens. The reason why the people of great zimbabwe were still in the stone age was because they were inferior."
Of course, the people of Great Zimbabwe were not in the stone age, had ironworking technology, great wealth and social complexity, and were linked to the wider cultural world by the Swahili coast. But if you convince people it was aliens, you can paint sub-saharan africans as inferior savages instead.
@@Memento_Mori_Music I'm extremely naive then. With the technology back then, it would have been absolutely impossible to build such massive pyramids in Egypt.
Semi-related: If space is infinite that would mean the stars and planets in said space are also infinite. This would mean the chance we are alone is virtually zero.
Ok. I agree that the claims of alien intervention are a bit far fetched. However, so are some archaeological finds. Respectfully asking questions about our past isn’t racist. Can archaeologists tell us how our ancestors with their bronze tools built the pyramids, or how we perfectly flattened the tops of mountains in Nazca, Peru? I think most people are just running out of patience waiting around for some academic to pinch out a plausible explanation out of their “obviously superior” brain.
Wuuuuuuu arriba los Mayaaaaas
Joe Rogan needs to hear this and get Graham Hancock as guest for the same show with her as the guest as well. It will be an awesome debate
I doubt she would debate with conspiracy theorists, she is a scientist
@@stiannobelisto573 she is using theories too so...
@@LORDMETALMAN lol...... "Theories". Are you suggesting that some theories are comparable to others? Like, the explanation of why someone gets cancer: diet, environmental factors, genetics..... Vs "god/devil", "aliens", "CZcams comments"
@@needmilk77 So she was there in the construction of the pyramids and has the absolute truth, got it.
Graham Hancock's research is great, right up until he decided that the only way that humans could have built all of those structures is.....aliens???? Talk about a leap. lol
We do have something here countless bodies buried under cities
I didn't come here to hear about robert e lee i came here to hear someone refute ancient alien claims
apparently she can't. But she is qualified to tell us we are racist.
I guess you just have selective memory or didn’t watch the whole video
The video isn't about refuting, it's about telling the racist origins of said beliefs.
This lady sounds like an actual robot. The inflection and pronunciation of each letter is NUTS.
Hey Google, did aliens build the pyramids?
Dedication for the job and community and literature
Reptilian she is
Damage of academic learning process...
@@whosthebest5171 Speak for yourself
Her comparisons!! Has she seen the massive megalithic razor edged interlocking stone work! She should be happy that people are interested in archeology!
It’s because people are desperate for the truth.. and the truth isn’t being provided, and people actually being smart enough to know that they’re being told lies!
She’s conflating different issues here…
Tell me anything these super-smart aliens did besides stack rocks.
just because white people were too stupid too figure it out doesn’t mean it was aliens
The only absurd thing here is the fact that we basically date the pyramids based on ancient grafitti scribbles on one of the monuments, that there are no evidence whatsoever of the pyramids being tombs and that Egypt has been gatekeeping any real excavation, even lidar of interesting places around the pyramids.
Did you guys know that we most likely know where the mythical labyrinth is located but we arent allowed to check?
Did you know that some parts of the plateu has holes between the blocks on the ground that has been able to swallow sand for decades? Meaning that there is a vast room underneath?
Did you know that there are most likely tunnels inside and under the sphinx that we arent allowed to research?
But most of all, it is INSANE to believe that the pyramids were built by the egyptians, with copper chisels and manual labour when we have clear evidence of rotary tools being used and glass like polishes on one of the hardest stones known to man.
The comments are so sad, people actually believe conspiracies like this? Smh
This was a great video, thank you
Oh no, the next thing we'll find out is that humans invented god.
Didn’t we? Lols
We did actually
🤣🤣🤣🤣
No we did not!
@@anamikamondal7393 isn't he being ironic as we do pretty much all understand man made gods? I live in Britain and most people here are atheist or agnostic.
I was hoping she would have a stronger case to debunk the conspiracy theorists.
Actually she presented NO counterarguments to the Ancient Aliens theory, she just called it racist
The great pyramid of giza is 3 times taller than the coliseum
Agreed. This is a very weak argument shamelessly presented in a relatively high profile arena. It's like booking Pee Wee Herman to talk about Covid. There are presumably all sorts of methodologies that could be used to address the ideas put forward in shows like Ancient Aliens.. credibly methodologies.
@@napoleonofdorset yeah. Its a shame. This isnt even TEDx this is TED.
Yea racism obviously
Beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises. Much pain but still time.. There is good out there. We oppose deception. Conduit closing.
How were the pyramids built?
Interesting talk. So can you refer us to some resources that definitively prove who built the pyramids and how exactly they constructed it? Would love to read the resources recommended by you. I am in the process of reading Graham Hancock's book: Fingerprints of the Gods and am finding this perspective interesting indeed.
Emerald tablets. The book of Thoth the true creator of the pyramids
Maybe try a real essay of an historian or an arhceologist, not this sensationalist stuff.
@@Laurelin70 and what do the essays say, Claudia?
I recommend you only read Hancock’s book for entertainment purposes - he believes that an ancient civilisation passed technology etc to Egypt and then tries to find evidence (which is often not good evidence) to back it up. The chronology of Egypt gets quite technical but very well understood by actual egyptologists - have a look at something like the Oxford history of ancient Egypt for a good grounding in what the experts think before coming to any conclusions!
graham hancock only deals in pseudoarchaeology and profits from the gullible! he also endorsed Uri geller a spoon bending charlatan!
She says that history should be told by the marginalized. Yet the kind Mayan artist who made a piece of art for her was ridiculed. She white-splained to him his history and ancestry, as he interpreted it, was a lie. And that she had the only truth.
Yet she gives no concrete evidence or really anything to back up her claims. Yet Ancient aliens hypothesis do rely on observable evidence. There are still some mysteries in our histories.
@Saad Aleem alright maybe you got a point 🤣
3:55 and I don't think this is the original image
The actual image is carved Into stone and is different
Tilt your head to the right and it looks like he's riding something mechanical more than anything she described
I'm an open minded guy. Heck, I even believe in UFO's. But the argument for ancient aliens always goes something like this: we don't understand how X was performed, or WHY X was performed, therefore aliens.
This always struck me as arrogant and a little pathetic.
Nobody clapped.
Finally someone on the internet who knows the plural of Maya is Maya, and not Mayan
Yeah ...so
I thought everyone knew... Mayan is 'belonging to the Maya', never heard of anyone using Mayans as plural of Maya...
@@MichaelBerthelsen possessive of Maya is also Maya.
So it's "a Maya artifact" or "the Maya culture"
@@CoffeePoints So the word 'Mayan' doesn't exist?
@@MichaelBerthelsen not officially, no. People just add N to the end of it to be possessive because that's what gets done with English words
Archeology/archeologists haven’t even scratched the surface of releasing information pertaining to other star beings and ancient advanced civilizations beyond planet earth. We, humans are not the only beings that exist.
Is that why these pseudo archeologists have been making bigger discoveries in past ten years than traditional archeologists???
The fact that there are 15 seasons of ancient aliens and not one season on the standard archeology narrative that appeals to the masses, just goes to show what a failure standard archeology is at satisfactorily/ honestly/convincingly explaining the ancient artifacts discovered...
There's also 15+ of seasons of Kardashians, and that's garbage.
@@johnh.mcsaxx3637 😂true... but this TED speaker expresses worry over mainstream archeology competing with ancient aliens not the kardashians ... nobody can compete with the popularity of the kardashians ...
I know it's a year ago, but exactly! If this stuff, Ancient Alien is bunk, why haven't real archaeologist gotten involved to say hey that's not the truth. 15 seasons later... It's a little late Sarah.
As well as History Channel. There was also a show on Vice, that was just fat stoners, getting stoned and watching the Ancient Aliens show. Ugh. IDK.
I think the ancient alien stuff is pretty funny as a SciFi and Fantasy concept, very overused but it can be pretty cool. Too bad that so many people can't see what fiction and what reality is
2:35, Kufu Pyramid and Colosseums are two different building challenges...
SO?
@@bioux101 classic strawman, scuse me, strawwoman argument
@@TheLotionInTheBasket I don't understand the point either of you are trying to make.
Both of which humans can and did accomplish without the help of space aliens.
Exactly two totally different challenges… 1000s of years apart
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Can anyone talk at these things? The reason the parthenon & colosseum aren't mentioned is their current state, lower level of craftsmanship & fact they are more recent builds
I have watched all the Time Team CZcams’s this covid lockdown. What a fun thing the British had going for 20 years on television with 6,000 years of history being dug up and explained by real archeologists, historians and documents. I think they got a outlet of generations of new archeologists with the village digs and the kids involved locating Roman and bronze age finds in their back yards. Wish we had something here, but it seems to also depend on the charisma of the personnel doing the digging.
People don't give ancient humans enough credit....
*Africans
You should see what they said about Yoroba art and Great Zimbabwe 😅
@@sollymadeit I wasn't familiar so I looked into it and from what I read so far, it is amazing stone sculptures from around 1000 A.D.
If that's what your referring to
coz we are always told they were stupid and primitive.. no one in the power will tell anything different duo peaople have to be kept in stupidity! if we were evolved back then so what happened? what aout other social systems ? and religions and gods? we gona start questions about true rleigion and gods and social orders.. and rulers dont want that!
@@markisthegreat3432 i do not have good english . but if you are unable understand , its just sad.. stay in naive place..that we are on pick our evolving our social system is also the best , democracy is working well, financials system also! and outr religions are the true one and will be not replaced by anyother god and bulshit..
@@walsjell ok man. I follow you. But we were getting far off topic so I think that's why we were getting apart.
I was expecting a more technical debunking of why its absurd that aliens helped build pyramids(which i also do think is absurd) but i got some CRT class instead lol.
I guess you don’t know what CRT is then.
@@byrnemeister2008
^^^ “well actually” guy
Egyptians and Mayans never layed claim to building their pyramids... So it kinda fuels theories on "who may have built them".
They cannot debunk anything because they are lying..this pawn may not know it . Ill give you a stone ball and a copper chisel and let see if you can carve just one block the rest of your life lol.
is that what it is? The ignorance, man. Comments reek of it.
Well then explain technology used in ancient construction that today's engineers find difficult to understand and reproduce.
"He discovered America is what he did! He was a great Italian explorer! And in this house Christopher Columbus is a hero! End of story!". Tony Soprano
He discovered nothing.everyone knew the Americas existed he was an idiot that thought the world was breast like in shape and smaller than it was .he said so in his own writing .He thought he found India which he didn't.he called the carribbean the indies and massacred the native population of a number of the islands .Also how do you discover somewhere that people were already living in for millenniums.
He was a pirate
@@tombash4329 Whoa wait a minute, what's wrong with being a pagan?
@@tombash4329 ... except most of that is provably false slander by his rivals for royal favor. He didn't "discover" anything, but he also wasn't the bs you're spreading because of your own biases.
@@tombash4329 Try reading my comment again. The word wasn't "probably."
That's a "v," not a "b."
I'll rephrase for you: virtually all of those slanderous claims have been proven to be false.
To be honest, ancient alien or ancient lost civilisation with technology beyond our understanding… is not that absurd… those who believe in that theory is not downplaying our ancestors, but uplifting them… to think that ancestors are just people using simple tools to create all this wonders are downplaying their capabilities
Yep, it's just.. Her feelings are hurt. libs gon lib
No it's absurd. Those theories are actually downplaying those cultures because it's saying those people couldn't have built those structures on their own, but needed help from aliens.
It's bullshit. By this logic everything was/is done by aliens. These theories can seem exciting and romantic but are fringe at it's core. Archaeologists, anthropologists and historians put decades of research into our understanding of the past. As they as reality is often disappointing.
@@bg1056 It's not, though.
If somebody said the Ancient Egyptians flat out had NOTHING at all to do with the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza, that'd be downplaying the culture, sure. But the problem is a lot of skeptical thinkers hear the ancient alien theory and simply put everything into a basket and label it as "offensive" or "downplaying the ability of ancient humans".
The point I want to make is, just because one theory suggests aliens built the pyramids, it doesn't mean anything involving ancient humans + aliens isn't worth speculating upon. For example, another theory may suggest aliens had a slight involvement, and were not directly responsible for the construction. This would not reject the notion that our ancestors were very smart and capable of such things.
It would simply be suggesting that they had perhaps had some help along the way, or had even been given schematics, as crazy as it sounds.
Look at modern day construction workers, for example. They create the structures, sure. But who designs them? The architect. The fact that the architect exists does not mean the construction workers are stupid fucks that are incapable of anything remotely magnificient. It simply means there is an architect.
In the same vein as you, I could say it is absurd that you outright reject the possibility of ancient mythological stories being completely real.
"They truly believed this, and put lots of emphasis on these stories of their Gods coming to teach them and bestow knowledge to them! How dare you say it is complete fiction/fairytales!"
You see the problem with that? The problem is nobody knows for sure, and we probably will never know for sure.
To label the ancient alien theory as absurd, is JUST as absurd as whole heartedly believing in it.
That being said, I'm not 100% convinced of any particular aspects of an ancient alien theory, but I just wanted to point that out, because I think people are too accustomed to taking sides and not thinking properly about things we don't even fully understand yet.
@@KarusMBII well let me ask you this about your theory. why didn’t aliens “helped out” building the colosseum in Rome or any big church in Europe but apparently helped out the Egyptians built the pyramids and hieroglyphic language. This is clearly another white person downplaying ancient cultures that aren’t European. If you watch ANY history documentary or theory about that pertains to ancient civilizations and aliens, it’s always a white person claiming that aliens helped out building a whole language, gave them tools, and even buildings.
In my previous life I swear that I moved a
I those sandstone blocks with anti-gravity
Where does racism come in you got me on that one
I seriously can't believe you complained that a Mayan man wasn't appreciating his ancestors properly and then went on to lecture us about how the history books are written by oppressors.
Yeah I'm offended that it was a wo-man of privilege telling me about white privilege when I am a indigenous
She was highlighting how white science fiction authors persuaded an indigenous person that his ancestors didn’t really do the things we thought they did. Not sure how that flew over your head.
@@owelofminerva you calling me dumb because I'm indigenous?
@@owelofminerva The idea that Mayans had contact with aliens did not originate from the Ancient Aliens program. She’s someone from outside that culture asserting she knows better, which is exactly what she’s criticizing. She’s a hypocrite.
@@tysonq7131 The example she gave was the idea that Pacal's sarcophagus depicted someone piloting a rocket ship, which is ripped straight from Daniken's Chariots, the man in the story directly sites him as inspiration. So I'm sorry, but there is no basis for arguing that it is the ancient alien detractors pointing out the cultural impacts of these beliefs that are the real racists. This is no different than a Fox News anchor calling black lives matter protestors "race baiters".
What a novel idea to ask and listen to the people you are studying about their history🙄
In a modern era where they are influence by pseudoisms from people outside their culture
Have you listened to college students spout nonsense about the founding of the US and its Constitution? Do we really want to ask such ignoramuses what they think is important?
@@jelink22 They are the worst. So they have a degree, now they know best. No real experience or in depth look at things.
This illuminati disinformant. Selling her own soul out to these piece of shts. If you want the facts you all should look up D o n a l d M a r s h a l l on my channel to know more about these history stealing piece of shts. They are all in a secret society selling themselves to these 'people' that gangstalk and belittle them until they join them. They do this to me all the time. Intimidation from the sheriffs office here in las cruces nm. And stealing my amazon packages and food I get from walmart. Theyve done it all to me. Using societal means to bully and get me to join in their agenda. They follow me around online they follow me when I ride my bike they follow .e into stores when i buy food they follow me when im with people. Theyve shot guns in my direction among other things. These are disgusting secret society piece of shts that need to be stopped and the only way to do it is to talk about it.
@@jelink22 The irony is you're guilty precisely of what you're accusing some imaginary person of. You're falling for (1) carefully curated outrage bait churned out by content farms that only care about what gets the most clicks the better to sell your data. (2) what you see is deliberately cherry-picked -- for every "ignoramus" you see, there are dozens who answer the gotchas with no problem, but they don't make the cut. (3) even assuming a high proportion of people giving clearly false statements... the interviewees are obviously freshmen.
But again, you're angry at something that's a trick of selective editing, not an actual person. And it's worth asking, what "nonsense" about the founding of the US and the Constitution are you actually talking about? A specific video? From who? To what end? Is it actually "nonsense" or is it just a perspective you happen to disagree with? There's a huge distinction between the two.
Was hoping to get an explanation of why pseudo archeologists are wrong and all I got was labels. This woman is crazy.
not a single explanation, just racism and avoidance, I´m an artist and see no tree in that depiction
Aliens didnt build the Great Pyramid or the Sphinx.....Thoth the Atlantean did. In the Emerald Tablets, he not only says he built both, he goes into detail of the purpose of both, when he built them, and what he left at both for man to use when the time came....as far as i know, not one other person does this. Kufu name was found(supposedly) in the Great Pyramid but it diesnt mean he built it. As mentioned there is no records of anyone else in history explaining the use of them and exactly how they were built except Thoth, but for some reason these so called experts who are all sell outs refuse to mention the truth
Next time you hear about something that predates mainstream history remember it might be racist
Unproven is NOT disproven.
And frankly, the cutting with chicken bones, & brute force moving of 1000 ton blocks of stones is unproven as well. She says to treat “pseudo-archeology” with skepticism, when academic archaeology deserves just as much skepticism
Also, unproven is NOT proven.
Amen to that
"the cutting with chicken bones, & brute force moving of 1000 ton blocks of stones is unproven "
Unproven, therefore... aliens! :)
Chicken bones? Wow, in Ancient Egypt, they used hardened copper tools to excavate limestone. The Mayans used hardened chert. The aliens used chicken bones?
I've visited the Egyptian limestone quarries that supplied the Great Pyramids: the cliffs are cleaved off in rectangular segments with wedges like humans have done for millennia.
There are millions of discarded copper and chert tools (respectively) at the quarry sites in Egypt and Mexico.
No aliens though...
@@cmosarch5285 The “experts” say the megaliths in the New World were done with chicken bones & no wheel. Andesite is harder than hardened copper, as are a lot of the stones used. There are circular saw marks in the Egyptian quarries. There are drilled holes. And I didn’t say a g-damn thing about any aliens
@@dafttool Sigh. There are no circular saw marks in Egyptian quarries. Stop believing Ancient Aliens, Joe Rogan, and some random CZcamsr with no degree.
"Experts" didn't say structures in the New World were built with chicken bones, Joe Rogan's looney guests did.
What many ancient societies used were copper saws fed with abrasive grit.
...and of course the Mayans had wheels. Where do you guys get this garbage??
as honest as this video seems even now this woman is showing racism by not mentioning black people Africans CRAZY and smart of her she's a genius
THIS is fucking ridiculous.
doesn"t the history of egypt and the mayans go a lot farther back than the romans and greeks tho? it just seems like the reason they dont talk about the romans having help build the coliseum is because we have way more evidence to prove that they probably didnt than we do with egypt since it was so long ago. not because of racism imo. im just speculating tho with little information tbh
It’s about the complex that if a white man can’t do it, must be aliens. That’s it. The end. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk
@@josephgarcia353 And your complex is about being unable to see how Europeans were unable to understand how other civilizations could build architecture in the lack of any documentation and then unimaginatively focusing on racism as the basis of the subsequent speculations.
@@jdm3072 wrong but go off
Why did the aliens always build things with rocks? Why didn't they teach anyone how to make concrete?
The Romans knew more than the aliens did.
@@josephgarcia353 Ancient Aliens is complete bullshit... but they DON'T apply the racist logic that you're projecting onto them: they think Europeans were incapable of simple structures like dolmans, even when there's just one in a field, and are certain that it was impossible for them to assemble many of them in places like Stonehenge.
They apply their ignorance and stupidity universally and without bias, with the ONLY limiting factor being "are there commonly-known historical records of the construction of the structure," NOT race or color or location.
“Why do people claim Egyptians may of had help compared to Italians building the colosseum”. The colosseum was pre dated to 70 AD and the pyramids were pre dated to 2500 BC....that’s a colossal difference. I’m not saying it’s evidence for aliens or anything of the like. But to suggest it’s because Europeans are racist is just wayyyy out of line
Exactly. Pseudo-archaeology cannot make claims about the Colosseum because we have plenty of written records about it. For pseudo-archaeology to work, there must be a big chasm of uncertainty about the subject.
Moreover, it is not true that pseudo-archaeology doesn’t target Europe. Stonehenge, the engravings in Val Camonica (Italy), the paintings in Lascaux (France) are examples of European items on which many pseudo-archaeological claims have been made. She carefully cherry picked some examples, just like a pseudo-archaeologist would have done.
@@MsSlash89 excellent point
What did you expect these people run off of confirmation bias all they care about is confirming their beliefs
@@VogtTD yeh I guess so I just can’t imagine telling an audience of people they’re racist because of asking who built what
So what?
It is called being ahead for its time.
These are all excuses.
If the Romans/Greeks built the pyramids in 2300 BC it would have been the achievement of western Civilization.
What isn't archeology is letting governments stop certain teams from exploring, so they can send in a government team in to laser scan the discovery site and then close it off. Or have a accident where it's no longer accessible.
I cant understand what shes pointing.
2:35 isn't that because ancient romans and greeks are well documented, thus less mysterious? Don't get me wrong, pseudoarcheologists are naive, jump to conclusions and all, but I wouldn't say they are secretly racist for thinking that non-european civilizations had help building incredible stuff, when most of what they left us are ruins and nothing else. About the Greeks and romans on the other hand, only two european civilizations worth talking about, we know quite a lot - they have harder time saying aliens helped them.
People have justified the inferiority of ethnic groups by pointing at their heritage. Plenty of “if there were no white people around, you’d still be bashing stones together” people out there
Really? Greeks and Romans? They were probably the most primitive, German tribes and slavs on the other hand are much, much more interesting, just nearly not documented
How did she go from ancient archeology then go into politics.
She didn’t
@@nothingnothing9157 she did
@@tombash4329 maybe you stop creating conspiracy theories ,🤣😭😭😭
@@tombash4329 you and your theories are quite wild. Love dreamers.
@@tombash4329 yes, it shows quite well 😂
Also another point is that thousands of years ago some accurate star maps were made even well before the first pretty bad telescope was ever made. Pretty much all of the great ancient structures are in a line that crosses through them at a time before maps and no flying machines which would be almost impossible with the technology academics say was the best things humans had to use. How does a scientist dismiss this away with the same learned history we were all taught. Nobody knows really much before 6 thousand years ago. At best a guess but you tell me how you think 20/50 tons of granite was fashioned with prehistoric tools to a level that surpasses our most modern machinery
Because those 6000 of years ago people were more intelligent than you.
Vanishing of a ancient ancestor thats Cornwall go back into the historic times for melanie that's could be from the past maybe 10er or a thousand or more year's maybe predates the sphinx predates the grand pyramids which could of predated the world wilderness precincts the world wild floored that's equal ly prevents the ark building of the ark by God's instructions. Bye the Father of Noah meluthsela! He was confused by the difference between his Father when he eas instructed by Noahs father and his greatest grandfather as his appearances who's fatherly told of Noahs Father thats his young man looked so far a part amd was told an Angel that this being a created man made in the sites that God as he was a Goodly man who will lrad himself and people into their Gods like he was chosen xx
I think she walked onto the wrong stage, the Twitter stage is the 2nd door, not the 3rd.
I’m sure ate got a huge government grant for this speech.
u was waiting for alex jones, huh?
It’s NOT racist to say the human RACE had help. It’s SPECIESIST. They are talking about men, not races of men. It has nothing to do with their skin color, & everything to do with their level of technology
To be fair it's always Middle-Easterners, Indians and Meso-Americans being accused of working with aliens and very rarely Europeans or East Asians. How many people say that the Colosseum, the Acropolis of Athens or the Forbidden City were built by aliens vs the Egyptian & Mayan pyramids, the Nazca lines or Babylon? There's pretty common themes to these theories.
@@anentiresleeveoforeos2087 You speak of later day creations of Europe, which you can easily see how they were constructed, but further back, there are megalithic structures that defy such explanations, structures involving cyclopean & polygonal constructions, those also existing in Europe, as well as the whole world, even underwater, having been built BEFORE the oceans rose 400 ft after the Ice Age. Academia needs to revisit their timeline of events, taking into consideration structures they are thus far ignoring. Or calling you racist for asking.
@@dafttool I didn't study the archeological sites in a systematic way, so I'm going to assume the people that do are not doing it properly because I can't conceive that people in the past could do the math. Not because of racism though, I swear.
@@sneed472 I addressed that.
@@dafttoolNo one is calling you racist for asking. They are calling you racist for giving racist answers.
She’s actually doing a huge disservice to archeology, here’s why:
There are megalithic structures found around the world(including Europe) that are unexplained and defy our known understanding of how they could have been built. This creates excitement and wonder and makes people interested in the past and contemplating varying ideas and hypophyses of how they could have been built.
Some of the answers that we currently have don’t hold up when tested, and some of our understanding is based on the theories of people centuries back that are only seen as legitimate because of how long people have shared those theories.
Not every ruin is a tomb, not every artifact has to have some religious reason for their existence. Yet, the moment an ancient ruin is found it is immediately classified as a temple or shrine or tomb without any evidence for making that conclusion. Finding pots of old food COULD suggest it was a place of sacrifice, or maybe it was just a larder where they kept food.
Its absolutely NOT racist to question these ancient sites, especially when they are also found in Europe. The reason we don’t question Rome is because we known exactly how they achieved what they built, but when you have stones bigger than a bus moved a continent away from where it was sourced carved with laser like precision without chisel marks from a people who supposedly hadn’t even discovered metal... well that raises some eyebrows.
Now, I don’t believe in ancient aliens, though there is something to be questioned about why every religion on earth talks about the sky people. Why do they all share similar stories despite never making contact with each other? Why did they build similar pyramid structures having never met?
I’m interested in the ancient advance civilization theory. We know an asteroid hit earth 12,000 years ago which caused oceans to rise globally lending to credibility of all cultures sharing flood stories, so you got to wonder what would happen if we got hit today and something similar happened? How long would it take for nature to completely erase any sign that we were here? Would there be anything left after 15,000 years? Especially with mankind reverting back to a survival species and losing all education, returning to a culture that shares information through oral tradition.
We barely have remnants of the giant stone monument of 2000-5000 years ago, so if you crash an asteroid into the earth and triple that length of time, what would be left?
People are asking questions because societies just started magically popping up and building megastructures the moment they discovered farming soon after worldwide devastation. It doesn’t make sense, and archeologists should be trying to answer those questions instead of dismissing them. I don’t care about what conclusion some historian came up with during a time before toilets when people were beholden to the church and thought the earth was flat. These questions need modern answers, and our current understanding needs re-evaluation.
Good points. Completely agree. Sarah needs to broaden her mind.
Pyramid of giza is perfect example
people so called pushed these stones weighing hundreds of tons
USING ONLY LOGS FOR WHEELS LMAOOOO
> that are unexplained and defy our known understanding of how they could have been built
No. We don't know precisely how they are built, but that's because there's plenty of alternatives to choose from.
>because societies just started magically popping up and building megastructures the moment they discovered farming
The largest structures were build when people were already settled for a long time. Besides, what's magical about people building larger stuff when they're settled? That's exactly what I would expect.
This lady is an activist…they ancient tablets themselves say gods from the heavens came and helped them achieve what they did
Surely people don’t think that Europeans had help with their monuments, not because of race, but instead because these societies came much later.