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"I personally can't conceive of how one might built this, and I must be a million times smarter than people 4500 years ago, ergo people didn't build this." is how the Ancient Aliens theory always sounds to me.
Egyptians were clever. They had rivers, water and advanced water-management technology. The shaduf, which is a hand-operated lever with a bucket, to lift water from rivers and canals for irrigation. The Nile River annually flooded which was monitored because it determined agricultural success. As well, the Nile served as a transportation route. Huge stone blocks transported through and evidence suggests that canals a…
Of course that doesnt means aliens did it.
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.
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-...
That doesn’t mean “aliens” but lets not pretend its a solved problem.