Ancient Aliens???

[enyawd72]

I tell ya...my trip to the Cleveland museum of art several years ago was a real eye opener. When you see all the incredible and intricate sculptures, carvings, metal works, etc that people hundreds and thousands of years ago were capable of, you realize how far mankind has fallen. So many of these things are now considered lost arts. That's why it'll be a cold day in Hell before I trade in my paint brushes and canvas for a digital drawing pad.

[torgospizza]

I think Tsoukalos is shortchanging ancient civilizations, and it's entirely probable there have been stages we've lost knowledge and had to regain it later, due to war, disease, or whatever. It's like the nonsense people believe about flat-earthers--it's been pretty much common knowledge since the Bronze Age that the earth was round--there were just periods when certain peoples forgot it, essentially. Surely, in an empire the size of Egypt's, they could find math savants that could hash out problems for them about stuff like moving stones. Thinking it takes aliens with anti-gravity rays to build the pyramids is almost insulting.

EDIT: Or to put it more succinctly, "What TomStrong said."

[osker55]

I like the series very much a lot of different nahlig and if I was on tv my hairs would be like that to.

[enyawd72]

I think that one dude needs to buy a freaking comb already. Seriously, what is up with that guy's hair? You're on TV. Try not to look like you just crawled out of a dumpster.
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[TomStrong]

I think man and ancient man in particular is a wondrous creature in and of himself. I think we sell ourselves short in thinking that the only way the ancients achieved great works was through a superior alien technology. Man has achieved great things both ancient and modern and it's just possible that our current manner of thinking and beliefs clouds our minds to the way the ancients built things and solved their problems.

[EmergencyIan]

Maybe it's just me, but the series "Ancient Aliens" on the History channel seems ridiculously far fetched, most of the time. It, now, seems as though they come up with a topic and somehow involve "ancient aliens" in it.

I'm not saying that the "ancient alien" theory is completely off base. There may be something to it, but...

What do you think about the series and/or about "ancient aliens" in general?


- Ian