The Bent Pyramid is my absolute favorite piece of ancient history because it is the ultimate architectural “whoops.”
You can see the exact line of bricks where the engineers realized their math was completely wrong and frantically changed the angle so the whole thing wouldn’t collapse
RealNeedySlutBae on
aliens watching humans take credit like yeah sure
TBTabby on
Dude. They were stacking rocks.
Efficient-Orchid-594 on
For an average person or pop history fan, everyone were primitive before the 1900s
GopherChomper64 on
I remember watching Ancient Aliens as a teenager and just being like this has to be bullshit though funny.
Then I became a stone mason and that show became absolutely hilarious. I don’t even need Egyptians. Give me 5000 well fed Mexicans, 20years and we could absolutely build a fucking pyramid easy
thehorny-italianweeb on
And unsurprisingly those same conspiracy theorists always say those things only when talking about populations that are not from Europe
Pleadis-1234 on
> _It’s impossible to construct The Pyramids of Giza today… Because they are already built_
ferociouschipmunk on
Thank you for introducing to me soyience! I’ll never believe in anything cool ever again!!
morbihann on
I mean, these people were literally exactly the same as us. They just didn’t have that much time to accumulate all the knowledge we have.
And yeah, when you have thousands of workers, they can move and stack a lot of stuff with enough time.
And Pyramids are essentially mounds with an angle to them. Literally the simplest and most enduring for one can make.
Cosmishaika on
I love it on ancient aliens when they’re like “our experiments to recreate [insert ancient artefact] have proven that primitive humans could not have created it by themselves” and their experiments are conducted by 3 old white guys using a chisel for the first time in their life instead of like a team of some hundreds of skilled craftsmen
Background-Tap-6512 on
🤓👆 “they just stacking rocks”
Fedora skeptics, it’s really simple, the weight of the blocks and the precision of the cuts simply does not adds up to the tools they have on record.Â
DrHolmes52 on
You guys must be hanging out in places I don’t go, because I haven’t heard Aliens built the Pyramids bullshit in a long time.
CallMeHuckle on
Pretty sure one guy build like 7 because 5 fell down or something
Philip_Raven on
they also talk about perfect precision the rocks were placed stacked, that couldn’t have been achieved in those times.
Like dude, have you SEEN the pyramids?
or the “The corridors have PERFECT right angles.
First of all, they are nowhere near perfect, it’s still impressive for the time and the available tools, but nothing otherworldly…and second. Being able to create right angles is not something new.
ContextEffects01 on
The most racist variants of ancient aliens conspiracy theorists would probably brand Egyptians just as incapable of trial and error as they are of conventional architecture.
That said, the least racist would probably just point out that we can’t prove it *wasn’t* aliens. Which is technically true.
HIGHGROUNDHUNTER on
It was funny to me that when Egyptians or Mesoamericans built some impressive structures, the alien helped them (where piramids are easier to build).
But when Chinese, Greeks or Romans built something, it was engineering genius of those civilizations, not aliens.
HC-Sama-7511 on
There is a documented evolution of funeral burial sites getting more and more elaborate with the structures put over them in Egypt.
It’s not just pyramids for pharoahs, where you have the nationally funded monuments.
UndeniableLie on
“pyramids required super advanced technology to build”. Pyramids: literally the most intuitive and simple shape to stack rocks on top of each other
Aggravating-Dig2022 on
The comments on here are crazy. People, my friends, these pyramids did not look like these pictures when they were first built.
NoShit_94 on
What do you mean? Surely those were made by aliens also.
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The Bent Pyramid is my absolute favorite piece of ancient history because it is the ultimate architectural “whoops.”
You can see the exact line of bricks where the engineers realized their math was completely wrong and frantically changed the angle so the whole thing wouldn’t collapse
aliens watching humans take credit like yeah sure
Dude. They were stacking rocks.
For an average person or pop history fan, everyone were primitive before the 1900s
I remember watching Ancient Aliens as a teenager and just being like this has to be bullshit though funny.
Then I became a stone mason and that show became absolutely hilarious. I don’t even need Egyptians. Give me 5000 well fed Mexicans, 20years and we could absolutely build a fucking pyramid easy
And unsurprisingly those same conspiracy theorists always say those things only when talking about populations that are not from Europe
> _It’s impossible to construct The Pyramids of Giza today… Because they are already built_
Thank you for introducing to me soyience! I’ll never believe in anything cool ever again!!
I mean, these people were literally exactly the same as us. They just didn’t have that much time to accumulate all the knowledge we have.
And yeah, when you have thousands of workers, they can move and stack a lot of stuff with enough time.
And Pyramids are essentially mounds with an angle to them. Literally the simplest and most enduring for one can make.
I love it on ancient aliens when they’re like “our experiments to recreate [insert ancient artefact] have proven that primitive humans could not have created it by themselves” and their experiments are conducted by 3 old white guys using a chisel for the first time in their life instead of like a team of some hundreds of skilled craftsmen
🤓👆 “they just stacking rocks”
Fedora skeptics, it’s really simple, the weight of the blocks and the precision of the cuts simply does not adds up to the tools they have on record.Â
You guys must be hanging out in places I don’t go, because I haven’t heard Aliens built the Pyramids bullshit in a long time.
Pretty sure one guy build like 7 because 5 fell down or something
they also talk about perfect precision the rocks were placed stacked, that couldn’t have been achieved in those times.
Like dude, have you SEEN the pyramids?
or the “The corridors have PERFECT right angles.
First of all, they are nowhere near perfect, it’s still impressive for the time and the available tools, but nothing otherworldly…and second. Being able to create right angles is not something new.
The most racist variants of ancient aliens conspiracy theorists would probably brand Egyptians just as incapable of trial and error as they are of conventional architecture.
That said, the least racist would probably just point out that we can’t prove it *wasn’t* aliens. Which is technically true.
It was funny to me that when Egyptians or Mesoamericans built some impressive structures, the alien helped them (where piramids are easier to build).
But when Chinese, Greeks or Romans built something, it was engineering genius of those civilizations, not aliens.
There is a documented evolution of funeral burial sites getting more and more elaborate with the structures put over them in Egypt.
It’s not just pyramids for pharoahs, where you have the nationally funded monuments.
“pyramids required super advanced technology to build”. Pyramids: literally the most intuitive and simple shape to stack rocks on top of each other
The comments on here are crazy. People, my friends, these pyramids did not look like these pictures when they were first built.
What do you mean? Surely those were made by aliens also.