There is always a subtext of racism in these claims, because the ancient people that are referred to are always more brown, and surelybrown people couldn’t have accomplished anything of significance on their own.
Nah. It’s “ancient” vs “modern”. “Modern” is anything well-documented or easily translated into English, “ancient” is anything that lacks documentation or has ambiguous translations. Some things I’ve seen ancient alien people freak out about: Stonehinge, pyramids, roman dodecahedrons, antikythera mechanism, ancient astronauts, UFOs in medieval/Renaissance art (yes, that is supposedly a thing), Nazca lines, and more.
My point is that anything even remotely weird or inexplicable with any historical ambiguity is up for grabs when it comes to ancient alien theories. At least, that’s been my observation.
I don’t know that a Quipu is a good example because we don’t actually know how they worked or how well they documented things. The burning of Mayan and other Mesoamerican books would be better examples.
Okay, but that’s not on the ancient aliens people. According to your Wikipedia page, it wasn’t ancient alien theorists trying to prove bullshit that destroyed them, that was done by Christian nutjobs hundreds of years before anyone came up with the idea of ancient aliens.
There’s always one weird exception, which is Stonehenge. But yeah, no one ever says the Parthenon or the Colosseum was built by aliens. It’s virtually always non-white people.
The Parthenon and the Colosseum were built by aliens. Who else could have calculated the proper ratio of pillar to roof area? Not humans, that’s for sure!
Yeah, I just think it’s funny that the Ancient Aliens people are like “no, Aliens never came to Europe… except this one time in the middle of nowhere in Britain.”
There is always a subtext of racism in these claims, because the ancient people that are referred to are always more brown, and surely brown people couldn’t have accomplished anything of significance on their own.
Stonehenge is surrounded by white people and they have doubts about it too.
Never attribute to malice what can be equally attributed to stupidity.
Nah. It’s “ancient” vs “modern”. “Modern” is anything well-documented or easily translated into English, “ancient” is anything that lacks documentation or has ambiguous translations. Some things I’ve seen ancient alien people freak out about: Stonehinge, pyramids, roman dodecahedrons, antikythera mechanism, ancient astronauts, UFOs in medieval/Renaissance art (yes, that is supposedly a thing), Nazca lines, and more.
My point is that anything even remotely weird or inexplicable with any historical ambiguity is up for grabs when it comes to ancient alien theories. At least, that’s been my observation.
*shrug*
There would be a lot more well-documented ancient things if racists hadn’t actively destroyed ancient documents.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quipu for example.
I don’t know that a Quipu is a good example because we don’t actually know how they worked or how well they documented things. The burning of Mayan and other Mesoamerican books would be better examples.
Okay, but that’s not on the ancient aliens people. According to your Wikipedia page, it wasn’t ancient alien theorists trying to prove bullshit that destroyed them, that was done by Christian nutjobs hundreds of years before anyone came up with the idea of ancient aliens.
There’s always one weird exception, which is Stonehenge. But yeah, no one ever says the Parthenon or the Colosseum was built by aliens. It’s virtually always non-white people.
I thought it was a universal truth that non-white people aren’t human; thus they are aliens.
The Parthenon and the Colosseum were built by aliens. Who else could have calculated the proper ratio of pillar to roof area? Not humans, that’s for sure!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exception_that_proves_the_rule
Yeah, I just think it’s funny that the Ancient Aliens people are like “no, Aliens never came to Europe… except this one time in the middle of nowhere in Britain.”
Stonehenge isn’t in the middle of nowhere! The aliens built it right beside the gift shop.