[borgdefense]

People want to believe in something more when it comes to ancient Egypt even if they know it is not reality. To me, it is obviously linked to the beauty and other worldly feel of the ancient Egyptian iconography and art.

If you just had the pyramids in the desert with the entire civilization lost, while impressive there wouldn't be other worldly explanations that sounded palatable. It would obviously just be the engineering of a lost civilization.

It is really a testament to the power of ancient Egyptian art that it can still inspire the imagination to such a degree thousands of years later and across cultures.

[TeaBrain]

I think for some that it is the opposite. Most people are able to understand that due to the extensive evidence of centuries of advanced civilization, including extensive surviving writings and evidence of mathematics knowledge, the Egyptians were able to coordinate the construction of the pyramids using advanced, but not anachronistic technology. However, due to the disproportionate vastness and majesty of the pyramids and some of the other surviving ancient Egyptian works, many people can still be led to believe that there was something more at work than practical engineering with ancient technology.