The television show that spawned from the book has referenced Greek mythology several times. Hell, they even had a whole episode on comic book heroes if you can believe that. You know damn well ancient astronaut cranks have beaten those last two into the ground.
No, anti science. I am not on board, I am a skeptic. But it irks me when skeptics want to have it both ways. Which is it? They are siding with cherry picked mythological accounts from the very cultures they are accused of discrediting. Many of the Egyptian Pharaohs were black, as both queen Cleopatra and Mary Magdalene were reputed to be, plus one or two Roman Emperors. I always thought the books and shows were funny to watch and sometimes just ridiculous.
But I never once felt like our race was being attacked. This is not a news report. You might disagree with Dr. Its total bullshit and its racist in itself. Accusing things of being racist when they are not is essentially you being a racist. What does this have to do with the Thousand Oaks shooting?
Why are you so threatened just because someone suggests something could be racist? Chill out dude. The divide that is suppose to be shrinking. In your support for this your are inherently racist just like I said above. Calling something racist when it is not racist is racism because you are furthering the gap between people in this country. Get with the picture sister. I think you need to chill out with your ignorance.
I stated the correlation between the two in my opinion. I think you need to chill out because you are the only one contradicting yourself. Talking about people getting upset about racism when that is what the whole article is about.
It is stating that the ancient alien tv show is racist and it is not. Obviously your entire goal here was to just to come in here and bash people and their opinion. Stop being ignorant and contradicting and read for once in your life correctly. Just like the author in this article has stated that the ancient aliens tv show is racist. I do not agree. I have experienced real racism and this tv show is not racist.
Get with the picture or get out. More like specism. We have to remain open to the idea that a civilization capable of such feats would also be capable of being multiracial, just saying. Right on! I said it is bible thumping fundys who are truly responsible for national ignorance, and by extension, every amoral, anti-science, anti-ethical political whore who swallows utter bullshit hook line and sinker from whatever source. Your hostility towards this possibility is quite interesting. You can always pick a boring radical.
Enough already villain. It helps to read the comment before responding blindly with childish insults. Everyone else can see what he actually said. Also, he makes a very good point which you chose to completely ignore.
I read his piece. You should read both his and mine again if you can be bothered to toss yourself further over how clever and mature you are. Paul was just defending me, because of your negative emotional charge. That charge was the reason I originally responded to you — it means that doubting the academic view somehow endangers your view of the world. But if you want to live with reason, you should not fall for dogma.
Doubt is a good thing. Paul adressed the point I made, would you like to respond to have some discussion — this time actually on topic? How could the people of egypt shape granite with bronze tools? How could Incas shape their stones? Move them without knowing the concept of wheel? How would you adress such inconsistencies? He seems to salivate when the topic comes up, to pun a phrase. As to the latter, despite some articles in the Internet and YouTube emphasizing that Africans are of a Sirius B origin, OR even migrated from a far flung planet when the Lyrans were still genetically creating the Nordic — the story was that the Aliens came from a desert planet with lots of Gold but scarce WATER so the former was useless to them and they fled their world because their sun was drying up what precious little water was left, African Americans have to spew their prejudices and HATRED on any article about the Pleiadians, Nordic etc; that come up.
That too gets old. The Sons of God and the Daughters of Men is ambiguous. Are the Sons of God those who continued in the closeness with God as Adam had, and the Daughters of Men a different group? There are some who use the Book of Enoch which is either apocryphal or pseudepigraphic , to put forth their idea of fallen angels mating with humans or in the case of Ancient Alien folks extraterrestrials.
In Ancient Astronaut theory, these are very human although very technologically etc; advanced extraterrestrials. In any case, there is a pornographic obsession with this legend on the Ancient Aliens program; only Linda Molton Howe is the ONLY presenter neither titillated nor obsessed about it.
Generally based on the Book of Enoch, but the original Hebrew and later translations leave a very loose statement. The passage is ambiguous enough to allow differing opinions. I was just presenting one where it could mean godly man and women who did not know God. I would say Roman and Greek technology, while similarly impressive, is generally better documented and their processes conceivable.
The book and the show tend to focus on the more unexplainable feats of engineering. They then use that premise to suggest that beings far more technicolgically advanced than any modern human could be capable of doing those things. I am quite sure those fabulous accomplishments were a product of brilliant minds of all respective races.
They should get credit for that. Regrettably their documentation is lacking. Enter ancient astronaut theory AAT -a fantastical way to explain those impressive structures! I cannot speak to the motives of others and sadly there may be some that would laughably use AAT to do just that, but I would think that would be a very small group-a said, sad little group.
I cannot accept the idea of AAT racism as any more believable than the idea that aliens are responsible for building the pyramids. Just because the Romans and Greeks documented the building of their civilization doesnt mean squat! Because IF they built other Civilizations elsewhere, they probably built Greece and Rome too, since man was so pitiously inadequate at that time. Like Fox Mulder, I want to believe. My argument was simply that there was at knowledge of the process versus mere speculation regarding other ancient civilizations.
Nice try, but nothing explains the machining of stone to within microns using bronze era tools. This is just another attempt to conceal the truth behind our alien ancestor lineage. Institutional racism is real, but the ancient aliens notion is fun and whimsical.
Thanks for trying to ruin it. You have a sorry sense of whimsy. Never believed the alien crap. I Loved ancient Egyptian study.. No racism…she was considered his favorite Bride. He had lots btw. See science fiction writers are dreamers. Just like all of these writers, their books are Fantasies. Mankind is dumb to believe in aliens, and not their fellow man being smarter, stronger and really good at everything..
Are they now claiming that Africans were the actual aliens? Thank you for an extremely interesting and well-researched article. Instead, they pretend that it must have been done by an alien life force.
People make up outlandish stories with no factual basis to explain it, but the simple explanation is lost knowledge. For example, the Romans invented concrete. The original Roman concrete, ironically, still outperforms many modern versions in strength and longevity.
No aliens involved. Copies of De architectura On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio which contains several versions for opus caementicium Concrete were in existence and known by various societies continuously since the books were written about BCE. There a lot of accounts of the books being in the palace scriptorium of Charlemagne in the early 9th century. These were almost certainly copied from Byzantine sources, which also was the source for the Arabic empire use of the writing as the basis of its extensive engineering capacity.
Roman construction could be just a poor and badly done as any throughout history. Roman writing of the time shows construction failure were commonplace before CE, with lots of accounts of building with concrete suddenly collapsing. There are examples of post CE Byzantine construction which used the Pozzolana concrete at times when they had control of southern Italy. Modern, regularly produced concretes have strengths up to MPa or 19, psi weather resistance and workability that is far superior to anything the Romans could have made.
There is this certain head-of-state right now who is particularly good at this…. Yes, but in the case of ethnic Americans Native Americans , old was definitely better, before the mass immigration of the Euro hordes and their slaves.
Are you trying to say that Egypt has no ties ancestral ties with Africa? That haplogroup being prominent among Egyptians. The pyramids at Giza and elsewhere are a human achievement. Not an ET achievement. There is no more evidence for life capable of interplanetary travel than there is for gods and the Tooth Fairy. Plato, a great thinker not because he was white, because his philosophy was well documented and nearly his entire works have survived in tact thought we had beams shooting out of our eyes to explain eyesight.
As silly as that sounds to modern man, still considers him one of the greatest documented minds of all time and values his works. Even the greats can be wrong. It just is. How about looking at the evidence before u shout racism? Do u think in the 19th Century we had craft in the air traveling at mph,or even in the ,s?
In Columbus discovered America not the Indians that were here for thousands of years and was Columbus give me a break time to change our education system and for people to take over on facts not censorship and lies. There is zero evidence that any other technological intelligence ever evolved within our galaxy at least. Even the evolutionary history of intelligence on earth indicates that it is vanishingly unlikely due to all manner of bottle necks and evolutionary filters. We are all equal as humans.
Yes there have been numerous even more intelligent races humans on this planet that wiped each other out. Not at all uncommon or out of place for people to believe an invention, concept, artwork etc. Thanks for doing the research and presenting this information to us, Dr. The discovery of a ramp does not dispel or solve the problems of the building of the pyramids which many archeologists now believe were built before the dynastic pharaohs.
This article is misleading and amounts to nothing more than a hill of propaganda and OPINION that is filled with the same ignorance we have been hearing for years. It is an attempt to control information and is a defense of the historical status quo which is struggling to maintain its errors and ignorance in the face of a frontal assault on its dubious claims.
The question is raised below if the dynastic Egyptians were able to achieve these great feats, and the answer is no. The pyramids and sphinx were built long before dynastic Egypt. The dynastic Egyptians were not the beginning of advanced civilization, they were the tail end and a people who no longer possessed the advanced technology of those who preceded them. Why are there no inscriptions or pictographs showing the Egyptians building these great edifices?
They were literal and recorded everything else on their walls, but for some unknown reason did not record the building of the pyramids. I just thought AA was good stoner television? You know, like those 3AM bull sessions you used to have in the hall at the dorms? If anything, the focus on non-European cultures is a plus for the show, not a minus. I agree with the commenters here who suggest we should spend our time focusing on verifiable everyday racism. Like the police culture we have today in too many communities.
This is an art news site. Pyramids, Stone Henge, Easter Island, etc. Why are all these people so upset over this article? Spewing rage-filled comments in defense of their alien conspiracy theories is really something else. Pure ignorance. Ironically funny you chose to pick on the guy who actually has been discriminated against for the color of his skin. Your argument falls apart just with that.
U have no clue! This is almost complete nonsense — ahistorical racism posing as anti-racism. This the height of political toxicity and unethical scholarship. Egypt was an integral part of the Greco-Roman world. Egypt IS part of western civilization. The world was always integrated by commerce and empire building. The hypothesis of ancient aliens is absolutely racist trash sometimes. They are mostly just sci-fi fans who incidentally also have the right to look at the world through their own cultural context.
So, everyone, stop demonizing and start respecting facts instead of using academic cudgels to further your political idiosyncracies. The brute fact is that by the late 19th century, Africa and indeed most of the world outside of Europe was impoverished and culturally dead. Europe inherited a vacuum, like all civilizations had before and will after. Given the technological gulf between the cultures that clashed at that time, it did indeed become easier to believe in ancient aliens who created the wonders Europeans found than to face up to the fact of cultural mortality.
The sooner people stop whining about the past and start building a better future, the better off everyone will be. The last few generations are morally sick, all critiques and no solutions, and just need to be cut loose at this point.
This magazine is plain out of touch to feature such depressing narratives nobody under 30 wants to believe anymore. The politically correct paranoid left has now begun to do what NASA and other government coverup agencies have failed to do.
Soon they will make a law against talking about ETs visiting Earth. Soon these left-wing black-hooded people will begin book burning as Hitler did back in Germany. Amazing feats to be sure but I believe one has to ask oneself — what has Egypt done for us lately? And by lately I mean in the last 3, years. Your claim of Eurocentric elitism is imaginary and self serving.
That is what a racist would say. Egypt was in Africa. Egyptians were black and the descendants still live around the Nile today. Go tell an Egyptian they are white and see what happens. Ever notice that these theories that discredit Egyptians, Indians, Native Americans and Africans, are perpetuated by Northern European descended Americans, and Northern Europeans Nordicists, Who do not have any pre-historical High civilizations with monumental architecture at all!
At any rate, Northern Europeans had nothing but Cairns and Megaliths that were mostly primitive. I thinks its jealousy and insecurity, That non-Europeans had high Civilizations, where Northern Euros had none, Why not fantasize about White Nordic gods Aliens who bestowed Civilization to all the Brown folks, in the distant past?
But then there is the question that if they did bestow knowledge and Civilization to Non-Euros, why didnt they do the same for the Germanics, and Celts, and all other Northern European people? Were they not worthy?? This theory of yours about connection to racism is laughable. You can connect anything you want to racism.
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Tsoukalos and first aired on April 20th, The documentary focuses on the "Ancient Astronaut Theory" [2] which states that extraterrestrial beings came to earth throughout the ancient times and helped shape history. For example, the Ancient Astronaut Theory insists that the pyramids were built by the help of alien technologies and that the great pyramids align with the constellation Orion; where some of the aliens may exist or came from.
The show has come under some criticism for being "far fetched", "hugely speculative" and "expound[ing] wildly on theories suggesting that astronauts wandered the Earth freely in ancient time. Giorgio A. Tsoukalos's unworldly appearance and predictable resort to aliens in explaining various mysteries of human civilization caught many people's attention in the audience. Tsoukalos from the TV series. The image macros generally poke fun at Tsoukalos' supposed obsession with "Ancient Astronaut Theory," featuring text that puts forth a question about a well-known mystery like the Egyptian pyramids, the answer to which is always aliens.
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