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.
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 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
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.
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!
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.
Most certainly it is. They make us think that the locals were too dumb and not evolved enough to build things they couldn’t figure out so they claim aliens must have done it. Plus most real ufo research points towards these crafts being supernatural
Archeologists have also questioned Stonehenge and other sites in the same way, so that disproves her racist theory right there. Plus is this speaker actually thinking that the Egyptians of today are the same tribe/race/people of 10,000 years ago? Isn't that racist of her to presume? Are people supposed to NOT question dogma just because? Should we go back to flat early and that the earth is at the centre because....well, you know because of racism, patriarchy, privilege, (insert leftist word of the week here).. Pretty tiring and unscientific to constantly twist things into critical race theory to get clicks.
Early archaeologists also had some racist theories about Stonehenge, notably that "Celtic peoples weren't advanced enough to move a bunch of rocks around so clearly Romans or Vikings did it!", and it's fairly clear that she's talking about this in a primarily modern context. I don't agree with a lot of her arguments but the overall point that archaeology and in particular pseudo-archaeology has a racial component to it isn't necessarily wrong. Case in point, the insinuation that modern Egyptians aren't the same as those from 10,000 years ago. Their genetic markers are very similar and and difference in line with both natural progression and what you would expect from a people group centered heavily trafficked sea lanes and land routes. At this point when we have so much to the contrary saying that they're completely different people is pretty much a conspiracy theory and one that is historically steeped in heavy anti-Arab and Muslim sentiments. " Are people supposed to NOT question dogma just because? " Yes, that's exactly what she's saying. Don't question, don't think, just eat your oatmeal like a good soldier. Did you realize that before or after she started talking about the slate carving and the Mayan man?
@@anentiresleeveoforeos2087 She's shoe horning an argument to fit progressive dogma with the assumption that you aren't allowed to question that. Hence, yes she's saying don't question, don't think, just eat your oatmeal or else you are in wrong think. She could have presented herself better than this if she wanted to make a clear argument that there is some possible racial undertones to certain theories, but to cherry pick theories and ignore others to make it fit the playbook isn't the science that she's claiming to be advocating at all.
@@drakezen I don't think she saying you can't question her assertions. There's a difference between making a definitive statement and rejecting all criticism of that statement and I'd like some example of when she actually does that. "She's shoe horning an argument to fit progressive dogma" I don't really disagree though that's a separate issue from whether there is or isn't significant racism in professional and pseudo-academic.
@@anentiresleeveoforeos2087 She's cherry picking data to make this about racism when there is no proof that it is. It's just fashionable right now to play the hero and point the finger at someone proclaiming them to be racists. They used to do this in Germany back in the 30s where people would 'help out' by pointing out where the jews lived. People don't learn from history, they just think they can do it better now. It's not up the to audience to disprove that the choices made by archeologists aren't racist. It's up to her to make it definitive. You want to say this is just speculation and she wants to question things then fine, but its dangerous to be doing these kinds of things and not some minor assertion she's making. Sorry, I am not buying her BS just to join the mob.
Get over it. Ancient Egyptian civilization was black African. I am currently doing a RU-vid video to prove it with living evidence. Real people that were present in Egypt plus the artefacts. Aliens theory is dead on arrival
Part of it is confirmation bias. When you're only tool is a hammer every problem looks like a nail. Then there's also the problem of grifters we don't actually believe this stuff they just push it because they know it's profitable.
ancient aliens and many shows like it claim that non white cultures couldn't have built this stuff. Never do they look at ancient Rome or medieval cathedrals and say the same thing. That's why it's pretty obvious.
@@ThouArtOfWar0724 The whole alien thing is bollocks but the reason they don't say it about Rome or medieval cathedrals is because there is a lot of evidence, written and physical to tell us how and when the monuments and buildngs were built, something we don't have for Meso-America for instance. I'd say that was "pretty obvious", wouldn't you?
Because she’s using facts to tell you and show you the racism. You choose to not see nor try to understand what she’s saying. You’re choosing to remain ignorant. She debunked the theory and showed you why and how she debunked it. It’s you own racial discomfort that cause you to ignore what is being taught here. Maybe you need to deal with that.
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.
@@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.
@@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
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…
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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
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?
@@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.
Literally the whole show is that brown and black people can't have their own language, culture, or architecture without it having come from "Aliens" because God forbid they made something themselves without white people
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.
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
@@MichaelMiller-tm2os Yeah, really. It should be obvious to everyone that it was leprechauns. Who would believe that stuff about aliens coming across the universe to teach us how to stack rocks? Leprechauns were here the whole time, and they were the ones who invented the rock levitating machines, in the first place. Why would anyone believe that silly stuff about people coming from the other side of the universe?
@@cliffordschaffer5289 all we know is that someone that they perceived as superior ,pass on to them some knowledge of Breeding (genetics) stacking up rocks(architecture ,mathematics), geology , geometry , etc .... there is no need to infer that this superiority means aliens or gods, Its is actually very obvious that any knowledge use by a civilization had to passed on by someone , minimum their own ancestors . but there seems to be a theme in human mythology across many cultures and this theme includes religus philosophies , and this theme seem to suggest that at some point in our evolutionary history something/someone different did got involve and pass on some precious knowledge... recall that 40 thouthans years ago 7 different hominid walked the earth with us homosapiens.sorry for the rant . People belive in god creating the universe for us , aliens coming from the other side of the universe and doing some genetic experiment on us while unlikely it is still possible . people need to understand how got here , when people dont truly understand reality , evolution , etc . they will accept any claim they consider possible and that already alines with what they know. people believing things with out evidence of any kind and valid reasons is a common phenomenon that we all struggle with to some degree and some embrace it . and of all the crazy things that people belive . I dont think that people believing the aliens came is any more problematic that believing anything else without evidence.
@@claudiareyes1759 It is a fraud. The guy who thought it up went to prison for fraud. It is another way to fleece stupid rubes. That's why it is problematic, among other reasons -- like college students actually enter courses thinking this stuff is real.
That's the thing with you "this is racist" people. You have no real arguments. You just say "this is racist". It's a theory. Try to debunk it. *Claiming that a theory is racist does not debunk it!*
I'd like to propose another theory. That humans have a natural tendency to imagine fantastical theories about the mysteries of the unknown, and that You are the only one thinking racist thoughts.
@@silentmagelvx2925 Moreover, as Sarah mentions above, the overwhelming majority of these "ancient alien theories" only discredit the achievements of people of colour.
@@GetUnrealistic hmm they also seem to discredit the achievements of ancient europeans like uhhhh........ the anglo-saxons...or their ancestors rather...you know so there's that lol--but that doesn't really fit with your idea though....so in the end I honestly think people just tend to lean towards the fantasy side of things instead of you know a deep-rooted racism. Mebe they like the escapism it provides? the mystery? I'd assume that before I get all in the hating mood
I feel like there is some bias projectioning going on in this talk. I agree on some aspects, like we shouldn't be selective in what we teach, and that there is too much misinformation, because we prefer entertainment, rather than the harder things, learning and obtain some knowledge. But saying that people are racist and xenophobic because they have rather radical opinions due to their own ignorance is a bit of a strong statement. And those two words shouldn't be thrown around so easily and generalizing a group of people that might be very diverse. Also you must have had a really poor education if you thing the pyramids are the only impressive thing that is connected to the Egyptian civilization.
Yes I agree. Also isnt Stonehenge one of the places considered to be built with assistance by aliens? And nobody says the great wall of china was built by aliens. It rly seems like lack of documentation is the biggest factor rather then simply non-European civilizations. There seemed to be a lot of leaping to conclusions in her argument
I agree that pseudo-archeology has low or even anything to do with facts, but it’s a huge claim to say that pseudo-archeology is “racist and xenophobic”. Not to mention that most mainstream ideas were considered once pseudo-archeology, for example dinosaurs.
@R T how do I explain this? Well I'm busy right now. But a few minutes of research and evaluation would show you how racist and xenophobic pseudo-archeology actually is. As a student of history BA I've read outrageous textbooks by racist writers about the history of Africa you would be shocked by the deliberate run down of Africa.
The UK used to have a program called Time Team that did great, entertaining, archaeology program. They have an Official site on RU-vid 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.🌱
@@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.
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.
You are completly missing the point. How come is only non-European achievements thats build by aliens/atlantians ect.? Because of the racist notion that Black and Brown people couldn't possibly build something that, we still can't figure out today. No one is questioning who build stonehenge, or the Colosseum, Notre-Dame, Hagia Sophia... Why wonder why? Because they were build by white people. Classic example of european superiority complex.
@@monkegames6133 they did the same thing with Great Zimbabwe I think it was the British was trying to say that the ancient Greeks built Great Zimbabwe because there's no way an African nation could have built such a great City do you know what type of racist logic that is and it's still persisting here with ancient aliens
@@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.
@@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.
I don’t think that anyone denies that ancient tribes on all sides of the globe had knowledge and understanding of math and science. But what I think people struggle with is how they had the means to do what they did. As for why they don’t necessarily question the Greeks and the Romans I don’t think has to do with xenophobia. I think it is nearer to the era that we live in, several thousand years later though still ancient to today, but so much more is known about exactly who built these structures, how they were built, when. Simply, we have better records.
Ad hominem. Attacking the man doesn't address the ideas. Defeat the ideas with facts and evidence or gtfo. Bold claims require bold evidence can you please explain the tangible evidence that aliens built the pyramids ? Fallacious arguments are just that. By all means if you can logically make a case it will be considered but just spouting off fallacies on the internet doesn't help your case.
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.
Why don't you actually discredit it using science, rather than appeal to emotion? How did the Egyptians construct the Pyramids with ancient tools? I really want to know that.
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.
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
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.
She has not yet caught up with the 21st century though...even the Pentagon now acknowledges aliens. That actually makes HER the pseudo archeologist. And, if they exist now, it is highly likely they existed all along human history. Now that DOES put things in a different perspective. Also I detest the fact she makes anyone who disgrees with her a white supremacist, a racist or a xenophobe.
@@gammaraygem She's not saying that aliens do not exist, universe is litterally infite, but she says that they are not responsible for human accomplishments. Which, in my opinion, is true. Also, why would they leave or, if they didn't, why are they not visible? I mean, if, for a second, I accept your theory, they were present in our past and probbably helped ancient civilizations, why are they not doing so now?
Not everything was accomplished by white males, even though that's what nonsense like 'Ancient Aliens' is promoting. Filling Americans' heads with garbage.
Right... so aliens travelling across universe to teach a species that has comparative intellect to them that a dog has to us on how to build a big grave or africans can stack rocks in a pattern especially for a civilisation as old as Egypt that educated the ancient Greeks.... unless greek fire is another sign alien intervention in human history
That just shows the ones talking about aliens got the 10 dollar history a science lesson on the lazy boy recliner at home. People are falling for it like a monkey trap .They can't let the idea of having something go so they wait on aliens to come save the world....Very strange to see this type of thinking blossom. I guess this is how myths happen over time.
If you did your research like many of us you will see you are being spoon fed by liars and power brokers . Nothing is as it seems . The truth is in plain site but it is not seen as such cause your government dont tell you it is .
When you work so hard to tell to posterity, through books, that "gods" helped to learn about mathematics, physics, laws, architecture and so on.. then people say humans did it 😂😂😂
@@lamsiver9673 books, schools are part of indoctrination, thats fine if you really believe everything you read there you are a mental athlete, but at the same time i get you cause i fell for alien projects too
Racists are so stupid 🤣.. You find ancient artifacts in Africa, with pictures of Africans all over them, yet you're 'debating' who built them🤣.. look at this detective Johnson.., this black guy just broke in this house and hung up pictures of himself everywhere🤣🤣🤦🏿♂️... The black community applauds y'all for your dedication at keeping us entertained🤣🤣🤣
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.
> 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.
Of everything being called racist. I thought this would be a talk on how these monuments were built in counterpoint to the Alien Method. Instead just another anti white rant.
There's also stonehenge, where people can't think of any way to transport large stones. Those people would be totally useless in a post-apocalyptic world
Enjoyed listening to you, but you have a very closed mind to the possibilities on how structures were made, and by who. The truth is still unknown and probably wil be for much time ahead. You may be in the wrong occupation.
I like how she had to create the premise out of thin air, I've never heard anyone claim only Europeans could build structures. But thanks for that, creating racism where there is none. I'm not saying this is a white woman moment but... Also I fully admit she's far more educated than me, no doubt, but this premise just seems silly.
I hate it too when people force racism into everything, but it's kinda obvious when it comes to most of these theories. Many of them are based on the theory that we should be super surprised and confused about anything, for example the egyptians, made, because in the brains of some people they were just dumb brown people staring at sand the whole day. I'm pretty sure that the most prominent conspiracy theory is the alien stuff created by Erich von Däniken. It literally implies that the pyramids were built by aliens or that they gave Egyptians the mathematical knowledge and methods to do that, because they were apparently too dumb to do anything by themselves. The fact that Nationalsocialist head figures were incredibly fascinated by the thought of Arians being a godly civilization from space, studying this fictional stuff and writing conspiracy theories about it, doesn't help that either lol Of course not all of these theories come from that, but it's pretty weird to say it's very far-fetched, came out of thin air and that there is no connection at all.
Without people like Sarah to expose entrenched attitudes on non-white people in the area of archeology, people like you will still think that non-white people are still too primitive to build these exceptional structures and give credit to aliens. I mean, come on. these guys would sooner believe in science fiction rather than science fact.
Try paying attention to what she actually said, and not just engaging in reactionary stupidity, cause you heard the word racism and got triggered like a whining baby.
Archaeology: aliens building the pyramids is ABSURD!! Also archaeology: we don’t know how the pyramids were built. We do know that the Pyramid of Giza was built in 20 years. But we can’t explain that either.
@@error5202 what I’m saying is that if it cannot be explained, than no theory is out of the realm of possibility. Archaeologist dismiss a theories entirely without being able to prove them. That is arrogance and ignorance. That is the point I’m trying to make. Did aliens build the pyramids? Probably not. That doesn’t mean the theory should be dismissed entirely. According to them Giza was built in 20 years though it has been proven that logistically that feat would be impossible with the technology archaeologists themselves say ancient Egyptians didn’t have. So.. they can’t prove Giza was built in 20 years. Logic and logistics says 20 years is impossible as well.. yet archaeologists still believe that. Your go.
@@Code-n-Flame Professional archeologists dismiss pseudo-archeological claims because they are baseless, not out of arrogance. Following the evidence is the cornerstone of science, and it is applied to archeology. Archeologists think the pyramids were built in 20 years because that is the only number recorded. Archeologists know that this figure could be inaccurate, as many old records are, but the fact of history is that *it was recorded*. Furthermore we can make no such claims about feasibility of the 20 year number because we don't know the precise construction methods used. Now, just because the precise methods are a topic which we know little about, does not mean we can toss our hands up and jump to the absurd conclusion that aliens built it. Put quite simply some theories have evidence and are plausible, and others are baseless and are thus laughed at.
Lol seriously what a snowflake. The pyramids are soo much more impressive than anything else built that’s why people think aliens built them they are more accurate than the White House how are they more accurate than modern buildings? That would make any rational person think maybe they had help
you don’t need creativity to say “white people think it was aliens because they were living in mud huts when grand zimbabwe was being being built” because that’s just a fact.
@@mbiz1072This ancient non-white culture was too stupid to build this building, so aliens did. I don't know about you, but it sounds a little racist. You will hardly hear such (theories) about Renaissance cathedrals or palaces.
Really dear, have you ever came across any real evidence that the 3 Giza pyramids were actually created during the Cheops dynasty? Not the other pyramids in the Valley of the Kings, just those 3 megalithic pyramids. I am all ears...
You mean apart from people reporting that they are there after they were build and not before? Would have needed a rather huge cover-up by the Egyptians to hide the existance of those huge pyramids.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
She unequivocally stated & rightly so , that those who attribute the great pyramids to alien builders , are in the main motivated by racist malice 😠. THAT to a large extent is exactly factual. It's nothing new , Nazis & others before , who also espoused dubious ethnic/racist philosophies embraced & propagated similarly ridiculous & quack pseudo-scientific LOL😅😅 lies . Go read the history of pseudo-science on Wikipedia or somewhere else. The Crux of her argument , is that the Egyptian pyramids are willfully & maliciously attributed to mythic " aliens " but ancient European monuments in Greece & Rome are not similarly credited to mythic " aliens ". That discriminatory attribution of responsibility to aliens for others' ancient structures & the correct attribution to European Greeks & Romans for European ancient buildings , is abundant evidence of a discriminatory " racist malice " ideology . That discriminatory dichotomy / duality is the bedevilled detail. Some of her detractors or those who may also harbour lowly racist sympathies , would TYPICALLY seek to PLOT, concoct a million excuses to indirectly attack & undermine her majority shared view & universally acknowledged truism.
Yes. The overwhelming majority of absurd claims can't be disproven. All other galaxies are illusions. There's an intangible layer of cream cheese permeating all of space. In order for a claim NOT to be absurd, it has to specifically be capable of being proven or disproven. Otherwise it's just speculation.
What i don't like about Archaeologist and scholar is they are very close minded. If a discovery doesn't fit with their ideal historic set up. They won't listen or try to challenge someone who maybe made a huge discovery who could rewrite human history. They mostly just won't aknowledge it without even looking at it .
"They won't listen or try to challenge someone who maybe made a huge discovery who could rewrite human history." *Horsesh*t* "They mostly just won't aknowledge it without even looking at it ." Even more nonsense. Say, how old are you? You sound like a 12 year old. First of all you're making a fallacious argument called Argumentum ad ignorantiam. Or argument from ignorance. Second of all you fail to understand that it's *always* the side making the positive claim who has to prove it not the side making the negative claim to disprove it. It's also the same as shifting the burden of proof. Third of all you fail to understand (and are utterly oblivious of) the scientific method and what its core criteria are. To you all that matters is *faith* (who maybe made... MAYBE, who could rewrite ... COULD) so for you *anything goes* as long as it tickles your imagination. "They mostly just won't aknowledge it without even looking at it ." And your English is abysmal so that alone speaks of your education level. Explain this to me. Why are some uneducated and ignorant people so eager to challenge the knowledge of scholars? Why do people who have no qualifications, work menial jobs and who can't even name two of their own local politicians think they understand science when it's all GREEK to them? Why bother?? Why not just play games, watch tv and indulge in whatever entertainment you like? Why try to think? What are you trying to prove? And if you're a troll playing a fool then you're even worse.
Can you really say claims that aliens built the pyramids are false when you cannot prove how the pyramids were built, especially in the time period and by the people you claim built them?
Where is the substance? All talk talk talk. Your so called "pseudo-archaeology" has some intriguing features. Archaeology does not explained anything about the amazing perfection in the work of ancient cultures like the things inside the egyptian pyramids and temples and sites in India. Stonehenge is still unexplained. There is so much that archaeology does not explain and not even try to explain seriously. People who are interested want to know, want explanations for all the wonders. If they do not get them from archaelogy, where do they look, where do they go? Some month ago I watch a video about archaeologists claiming they had found a method to make a stone surface really flat and showed some primitive tools they had invented to work on soft limestone. If ancient egyptians had one so, they would not bre ready by today. And what about Gobekli tepe? Soon after it was found archaeologists told the world about some hunter gatherers that built that complex. Oh how really unusual and astonishing. Later we could learn about the ancient city nearby. So what do archaelogists do when they are not digging? They invent and fabricate some stories how it could have who could have done it. And that is the science archaeologists claim to own - especially the us american archaeologists with their Clovis First ideology. There is no science within. It was fiction and it is fiction. And it was dictated by the dominating archaeology authorities of some honorable universities. Archaeology is more religion than science. So go on telling fabricated stories about what you will never understand and be happy in your own separate world far from reality.
Bingo.. if human beings built the great pyramid , they did it with superior ideas tech and engineering .. otherwise they didn’t build it. Humans do not lift thousands of pounds of stone 500 feet up by hand.. ramp or no ramp.. wheels or no wheels.. there was some power moving those stones. These were built to speak to the future in some way
This comment is hilarious. You're complaining about mainstream archaeologists fabricating stories, while the entire ancient alien theory is also fabricated.
And, if they have no idea what a structure was used for, they automatically attach religious significance to it as though ancient people who could barely feed themselves would spend decades building tombs and temples. I mean, who was growing the food and fishing and hunting to feed the tens of thousands of workers who built the Giza pyramids? Give me a break!!
I don't buy her argument about racism. It's just that the Sumerians and Egyptians go so far back in time that it's incomprehensible. The Mayans are also steeped in mystery. She's just wrong.
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.
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 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".
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.
Haha. A side note, the slave theory has been disproved. The homes of pyramid builders have been found in Egypt. They were talented artisans. Maybe some were slaves, but not how we used to think.
Because your basically saying those people were to stupid to bulit and make something of there own and that aliens had to help them, which is just disrespectful to those anicent people and there culture.
What are you even taiking about? What I'm saying is it very disrespectful because those anicent people made those amazing things, and that why we should be learning more about those great anicent people and there culture, and not this alien Sci Fi channel BS becuase that kind of stuff is just disresptful to real people that live back then and a slap to the face of Archaeologists and real history.
@@Jayage5d You really don't know what your talking about... The ancestors of those civilizations are saying some of the old remnants are not theres, Seriously you sound pathetic when you make everything about racism. Take accountability with your words.
Exactly. It doesn't take an archeologist or a mathematician to consider the probability that maybe "humanity" isn't a precedent that we've set and has already happened eons ago. Anything that is possible technologically for us in the future has always *been* possible. To say it is not possible for that to have already happened is hubris.
What do aliens accomplish by building primitive stone temples for savages? how stupid do you have to be to by into that garbage. The only aliens that have ever visited earth are probably robotic drones who just observed us like we observe cheetahs on the savannah. We don't try to teach the cheetahs how to build a house that would be retarded 😂😂
@@greathornedowl1783 see the Aetherius society for the truth about aliens in our solar system. I agree they didn’t build stone stuff here. The Aetherius society has all the true information.. directly recorded audio communication from the aliens themselves. Over 600 recordings .. some over one hour long.
@@greathornedowl1783 what are you even talking about? Who said aliens are building stone huts? Like I said, in a universe that is basically endless it's a little conceited to think you are the pinnacle of existence.
I think you are out of subject during most of the speech... Everybody know that people have to talk about racism at TED but un your case it is not relevant. Pseudo archeologia isn't motivated by racism but by a lack of curiosity for Sciences. It is more exciting to think that Aliens made pyramids, and also less time/effort consuming than opening an archelogy book.
wrong they are motivated by profiting off the gullible with a racist spin that fits the mind set of their audience. the Nazi's perfected this with the Ahnenerbe department of pseudo archeology so famously ridiculed in Indiana Jones movie
