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That's what I don't get, like, why are people so quick to give aliens credit? Like, do they think people did not know about 3d triangles a few thousand years ago or something?
it's just racism. Nobody questions the colloseum or the parthenon. Anything cool built by brown people tho must be aliens.
It's funny, because the Greeks and Romans both regarded the Pyramids as exemplary demonstrations of Egyptian architectural ingenuity, and thought it reflected very highly on the Egyptians to have made them - at least on a technical level.
The Roman writer Frontinus, in typical Roman fashion, admits it (and, for good measure, also the works of the Greeks) are impressive but impractical, and thus inferior to GOOD HONEST ROMAN ARCHITECTURE which does practical things like bringing water or giving public spaces for plays (please ignore all the useless Roman monuments).
Some people question Stonehedge, but that wasn't built by Anglo-Saxons, so it still proves the rule.