[empath75]

the wild thing about this is that _we have contemporaneous records of how they were built_. They know the names of architects and managers. There's no mystery to it at all.

[ahazred8ta]

There are egyptian paintings showing colossal statues being dragged on sledges by crews of men with ropes. -- https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-ancient-...

[nonethewiser]

But how do you haul 70ton granite blocks 350 above ground? And then turn the? No one really debates how they dragged statues across flat ground.

That doesn’t mean “aliens” but lets not pretend its a solved problem.

[spogbiper]

the aliens could have planted those records tho

[echelon_musk]

Extraterrestrial parallel construction.

[ceroxylon]

There are no photos of Merer, they were actually extraterrestrial /s

[soperj]

links?

[empath75]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diary_of_Merer among many others.

[BoardsOfCanada]

I thought these were just about limestone blocks being transported from quarries in Tura to Giza.

[inigyou]

aliens had to hire humans to move the stones?