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[–] Una@europe.pub 65 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Cano@lemm.ee 37 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 27 points 2 days ago

Ancient furry.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But no nose! Those just fall off anyway, according to my buddy Michael from the future!

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The ancient aliens theories are founded in racism. Just cause they were brown that doesn't mean they weren't sophisticated and needed help from aliens.

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

It doesn’t need to be racism, the reason for claiming aliens was because it was so complex they didn’t see how ANYONE could do it even with 1900s technology. Like I never heard a person claim it had anything to do with the color of their skin

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It doesn’t need to be racism but it sure as hell is. See also: a shit-ton of ancient alien nonsense about Maya or Inca monuments, meanwhile nobody’s out there claiming that Klingons helped build the Parthenon.

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They did claim that Stonehenge was an alien creation even though it was built by white folk

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago

Fair point.

[–] gofsckyourself@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

I didn't say the theories are racist, I said they are founded in racism.

A large amount of the ancient aliens stuff stems from Chariots of the Gods? by Erich Von Daniken, who is very clearly racist.

If we look to von Däniken’s work, there can be little doubt that his racial beliefs influenced his extraterrestrial theories. After a short stint in jail for fraud and either writing or appropriating the material for a number of other books that developed his ancient astronauts theory, von Däniken published Signs of the Gods? in 1979. It is here that many of his racial views are most boldly stated. British archaeology officer Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews points out on his Bad Archaeology blog just a few of the many racist questions and statements posed by the author: “Was the black race a failure and did the extraterrestrials change the genetic code by gene surgery and then programme a white or a yellow race?” He also printed beliefs about the innate talents of certain races: “Nearly all negroes are musical; they have rhythm in their blood.” Von Däniken also consistently uses the term “negroid race” in comparison with “Caucasians.”

https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world -1 points 1 day ago

Yeah fuck those tall whites being racist! The green aliens are the best! lol

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Jaffa, kree!

[–] PlaneMaker@feddit.org 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are those pyramids called pyramids because they the shape that we call pyramid or do we call the shape pyramid because they look like those pyramids?

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[–] _____@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean tetrahedron could work

[–] HeavenlySpoon@ttrpg.network 4 points 1 day ago

It wouldn’t. A tetrahedron has four sides, hence the name, while an Egyptian-style pyramid has five (if you include the base, otherwise it isn’t even a polyhedron).

[–] deus@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Also bury me inside it with all of my treasure when it's done, I want to be rich in heaven.

[–] lath@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago

Don't forget to have your internal organs sucked out and placed in jars just in case you wanna come back down for a visit.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago

And they were absolutely right!

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Someday they'll find an ancient statue that's half man, half bear, half pig.

I'm super cereal

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He could be half bear, half manpig.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No because that would make sense, and the whole point of half man, half bear, half pig, is that it doesn't make sense.

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 1 points 20 hours ago

Boys, there's no such thing as a ManBearPig. The vice president is just desperate for attention.

[–] MycelialMass@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Was it a desert when they were built?

[–] Cocopanda@futurology.today 10 points 1 day ago

20,000 years ago it was a lush jungle. 4,000 years ago it was a desert.

[–] BastingChemina@slrpnk.net 10 points 1 day ago

Apparently the Nile was much closer at the time and there were lakes and rivers around the area when the pyramids have been built.

[–] Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

did you know that, in the valley of the kings, you can see a clear evolution from simple petroglyphs to the later hieroglyphs? on the cliffs there you can literally see where they started as simple tribes drawing pictures of animals, and in that same valley, those little symbols go on to become the hieroglyphs that would adorn the royal tombs of the greatest civilization in the world (at that time).

[–] Pudutr0n@feddit.cl 4 points 2 days ago

Weird way to draw an ancient alien.

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

With squares on bottom.

Although now I'm wondering whether or not giant triangular prisms in the desert would be cooler than pyramids. I think they would.

they'd have tried but then they'd have to get rid of an elephant

[–] sirico@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Not like anyone else bothered until the Eiffel tower

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

It's easy when the slaves do all the work! 💪

[–] Sidhean@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Its brilliant, Djoser, brilliant. We're going to the moon!

(i searched "first pyramid pharoh" (i misspelled it there too) and I guess its this guy)

[–] vane@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (4 children)

...with a maze full of secret passages that archeleogist are discovering to this day (maybe even entrie city) because there is no technology to detect secret tunnels in pyramids because of problem with magnetic field around it.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

X to doubt. They are finding inspection passages and construction vaults with cosmic rays which is very impressive and cool! But no internally concealed passages.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah they are just affraid of dying after Tutankhamun's curse.

[–] expr@programming.dev 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

.... Do you actually believe this nonsense?

[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

Are you egyptian ancestor that gives you right to discuss this nonsense under meme section ?

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

there is no technology to detect secret tunnels in pyramids because of problem with magnetic field around it.

lolwut

[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

giant fucking triangles

[–] WizardofFrobozz@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Why spread misinformation?

[–] vane@lemmy.world 0 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Misinformation meme, is this a new thing ? Did I miss it somewhere ?

[–] BussyCat@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Didn’t they just use high energy X rays and were able to map out most of them?

[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 21 hours ago

They called Professor X and he couldn't make it.

[–] Lazhward@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

They used muons I believe, which are particles coming from space which can pass through most matter, including the pyramids. They then measure how many make it through and derive the density, or something along those lines.