re: Ancient civilizations. Y or N?

quote:

---

But that's the point, that we evolve in stages, and we don't expect that farmers and nomads will casually wake up one day and decide to erect massive stone structures. Yet that's what we're TOLD to believe by Archaeology™.

---

That is not what we're told. Do more reading about sites like Gobekli Tepe. Thousands of years of development, with the time estimates having a margin of error around a thousand years.

The dreaded "mainstream" archaeologists, who have significantly pushed back the estimates of urban development in just the last decade.

I think it's all pretty cool and interesting; our ideas about the history of civilization and agriculture that we were taught in school as kids have changed drastically, just in the last ten years.

But...those discoveries have been made my "mainstream" archaeologists, Con-artists like Graham Hancock have made a nice little cottage industry of pointing to new discoveries by archaeologists, and then pointing the finger and acting like they're hiding their own discoveries or something.

The pyramids are a great example of people inventing mystery where knowledge exists. Hieroglyphics and inscriptions have in fact been found, and studied and written about extensively. Herodotus visited the pyramids in the 5th Century B.C. and wrote that he was taught by local priests and scholars who showed him inscriptions about the building of the pyramids as tombs to the great pharaohs.

But all it takes is a few persistent youtubers and con-artists to deny the existence of actual historical records to convince other people that those records don't exist.

ETA: I forgot to bash the Ancient Alien "theorists" too. I would call them idiots, but they're smart enough to make a career out of outright lies.

quote:

---

we evolve in stages, and we don't expect that farmers and nomads will casually wake up one day and decide to erect massive stone structures. Yet that's what we're TOLD to believe by Archaeology

---

Weird, archaeology never told me that. I always read we got to that point through thousands of years of development.