A closer look
Mystics and conspiracy theorists have spent decades arguing that the Egyptian pyramids could not possibly have been built by humans, claiming they must be the result of advanced alien technology or lost Atlantean magic; archaeologists have literally found the ancient worker villages, the tool quarries, and the surprisingly mundane payroll ledgers documenting the beer and bread rations given to the completely human labor force; the entire ancient alien mysticism angle is essentially just a profound underestimation of what thousands of incredibly bored, highly organized people can accomplish when a ruler with an absolute god complex tells them to stack rocks; refusing to believe humans built the pyramids is less about mystical insight and more about refusing to respect ancient civil engineering
