Much has been said about great monuments around
the world that are so magnificent in their structures that it boggles the mind how the
ancients built them. According to some left-field theorists, people
didn’t build them at all, but aliens descended from the skies in what some have called giant
eggs or boats, and it was those beings that actually built the structures. Well, if not build them, then directed the
construction. That’s how a pyramid could be made sitting
at true north, say the theorists. They go one step further, too, telling us
that the pharaohs were actually alien-human hybrids. Sounds pretty far-fetched, but what’s leading
some to make these claims? Is there any evidence at all? Let’s take a look at why some people believe
this. As you may have seen in our other shows on
the pyramids, to some Egyptologists the question of how the pyramids were built still remains
shrouded in mystery. We are not only talking about the hard labor
of moving millions of stones, dragging them across the land and then up the foundation,
but the absolute precision in regards to how they lie. The fact the pyramid of Giza sits true north
should be astounding to just about anyone, not just conspiracy theorists, while others
who have studied the structure insist that this great monument was precisely built to
reflect the dimensions of our planet. There are critics of this theory and they
state that if you shuffle the numbers enough you can get the results you want to fit your
theory. Nonetheless, with the pyramids being so incredibly
majestic, it’s certainly understandable that some people might think humans had a
helping hand from something not of this world. Slightly more down to Earth but still outside
the mainstream theorists have their own hypothesis, saying it wasn’t aliens that did the work,
but prior to the ancient Egyptians another advanced civilization existed on Earth that
had passed on their knowledge to them. Before we turn to the alien-hybrid pharaohs,
let’s look at some other reasons why a certain segment of the public believes aliens came
down to Earth, left, and then were worshipped as gods by ancient civilizations. For starters, we have the Moai of Easter Island,
and the giant stone heads that certainly couldn’t have been easy to erect. There is plenty of evidence that it was possible
for the Moai to build these statues, but there are still those that state these were built
in the shape of the alien’s who lent a hand in their construction. Then there is the ancient Bolivian temple
Puma Punku, which was built with stones weighing over 100 tons. Even today scientists are in disagreement
as to how humans moved them. The stones in the temple fit together like
an interlocking puzzle, and this would have meant those builders had to have possessed
a profound understanding of geometry and masonry. Not only that, the incredibly intricate decorations
in the stones are so outstanding experts don’t really know how they managed to make them
with such basic tools. Tests on mummies have shown that people in
that area regularly consumed hallucinogenic plants, and to some theorists this was their
way of connecting to another world, which might help explain their brilliant inspiration. We won’t go through all the great wonders
on planet Earth, but there are many historical sites that boggle the mind. Take for example Stonehenge in the UK, or
the temples of Vijayanagara in India that seem to have alien-looking figures and objects
carved into the stonework. We are by no means attempting to sway you
into thinking that just because humans in the past showed that they could do incredible
things that it means they had help from aliens, but we are merely saying that this is a reason
why some people believe this might have happened. Back to the Egyptians. Have you ever seen a picture of Pharaoh Akhenaten,
the father of King Tut who was said to be the living embodiment of the solar deity and
who died around 1336 BC? There are many remaining artifacts that depict
what Akhenaten looked like, and you know what, he has an elongated head much like the average
Grey alien. You can find one stone carving of him worshipping
the disc of the sun, known as the Aten, with the beams of light shining down on him. Looking at this though, with his elongated
head looking rather alien-like, if you didn’t know better you might think that the great
disk was actually a spaceship… some kind of flying saucer. Of course this is a long-shot, and if you
read more about ancient civilizations you’ll find that depicting people with elongated
heads happened a lot, from the Australian aborigines to the Mayans to many other places. Some have suggested this might have been because
they actually did have big heads, a deformation called “Macrocephaly.” That basically means “big head” in ancient
Greek. This might have been the result of inbreeding
or disease that led to an abnormality. It might also have been done on purpose. Cranial deformation might have also been a
very painful procedure, something that children of noble birth had to go through to make them
look unlike other ordinary folks. The theory is that it gave leaders-to-be great
prestige. Whatever the reason, there is a lot of evidence
of ancient people having these large heads all over the world. Some people would have you believe these people
were alien-hybrids, or at least fashioned to look like the great things that came from
the sky. There is no real solid evidence for this,
though, it’s mere speculation, or more like fantasy. As for the great Akhenaten, did he really
have an enlarged head? Surely his mummy would tell us this, but we’ll
get around to that soon. Then there are the fantasies of the British
tabloid press, who have at times not let the facts get in the way of telling a good tale
to put it politely. In 2016 some of the tabloids published an
article about an ancient Egyptian coin that was unearthed. If you look at it there is no doubt that one
side portrays the elongated head of a grey alien. The problem with this is the fact the only
evidence of that coin being real was a line that told us the artifact was discovered by
a “group of people who worked on the renovation of a house in southern Egypt.” We looked for more information at all on this
mysterious group of renovators and couldn’t find anything. We did though find coin experts talking about
the alien-head piece of cash, and they said this. “A little research revealed that it’s
not even a real artifact, but a heavily retouched (“photoshopped”) image of an actual Roman
medallion in the famous collection of the Cabinet de Médailles in Paris. The hoax was uncovered by computer scientist
Ralf Bülow.” So much for trustworthy news sources. We found another dubious source telling us
that DNA tests of Egyptian mummies revealed a gene called “CXPAC-5”, which we are
told, is responsible for the building of the frontal cortex, the thinking part of the brain. Eight out of nine mummies didn’t contain
this, but the mummy of Pharaoh Akhenaten did. The article then jumps to the conclusion that
aliens must have planted this in the pharaoh. The blog post tells us it is unusual to find
CXPAC-5 in the mummy of Akhenaten because he died aged 45, and it only appears in much
older people. Akhenaten seemed to have an advanced brain. That said, we can find no one but alien enthusiasts
talking about it. In fact, there are no links at all leading
to the supposed study that tells us the Pharaoh might have been linked somehow to aliens because
of the appearance of this gene. Scientists are actually not sure where he
was buried anyway, with it being speculated that he might have been laid to rest in KV55,
a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt. One of the skulls found there was enlarged,
but it’s thought this was because of a disease called chronic hydrocephalus. This basically means too much fluid on the
brain and this can distort the cranium. Other experts say the ancient’s enlarged
heads could have been down to various syndromes that cause macrocephaly. Still, the reputable experts are still debating
if that skull was Akhenaten’s at all, and they certainly haven’t put forth a theory
that aliens had planted a gene in his head which made it larger or made him more intelligent. The alien believers certainly connected a
lot of invisible dots to make that story work. Finally there’s the allegedly ancient Egyptian
text called the “Tulli Papyrus”. You will find certain sources saying this
contains script that looks like it talks about UFOs. One translation of part of the text reads
in English, “In the year 22 third month of winter, sixth hour of the day the scribas
of the House of Life found it was a circle of fire that was coming in the sky,” Another
part reads, “They were more numerous than anything. They were shining in the sky more than the
sun to the limits of the four supports of heaven. Powerful was the position of the fire circles.” Wow, that certainly sounds like it might be
an account of an alien sighting. The only problem us, the Tulli Papyrus is
not an authentic papyrus. It is a transcription of an alleged document
of whose origin is dubious at best. Even some ufologists called the entire thing
a hoax, saying someone was handed an ancient document and told it was a transcription of
the original and then someone translated that and that’s about it. In something called the “Condon Report”
a report by a group funded by the US Air Force on the possibility of alien life coming to
earth, this Tulli Papyrus was talked about. The researchers wrote that it was “taken
from secondary and tertiary sources without any attempt to verify original sources.” They also said that all such accounts of UFO
sightings handed down from ancient times have proved to be weak and unverifiable. Until they can be verified they are meaningless. From what we can see a lot of people don’t
bother with the verification process but are quite sure when writing their blogs from their
bedrooms that they are right. Their evidence is like the Tulli Papyrus in
digital form, dubious evidence handed down and rewritten and copied and passed on. It makes for a good story, but until we have
more evidence that’s all it is, a story. As you can see, a lot of people claiming that
pharaohs were part alien or contacted by aliens are connecting a lot of dots that don’t
necessarily mean much except in their own minds. They already have a picture they want to see,
but science doesn’t work by starting from a conclusion and finding evidence to back
it up, it’s the opposite, we look at the evidence we have and use that to come to conclusions. With that, we’ll finish this with a quote. In the words of astrophysicist Carl Sagan,
“In the long litany of 'ancient astronaut' pop archaeology, the cases of apparent interest
have perfectly reasonable alternative explanations, or have been misreported, or are simple prevarications,
hoaxes and distortions.”
