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Explanation: A lunatic proposal that sometimes is passed around is that many of the great architectural marvels of antiquity were constructed or assisted by ANCIENT ALIENS despite the utter lack of evidence to even vaguely suggest such a thing, and often with very basic mistakes about the history or construction of the questioned structures. Curiously, such accusations of assistance by ancient aliens are almost exclusively leveled towards non-white civilizations by extremely Eurocentric authors.
This is only a coincidence, I'm sure. /s
Milo Rossi would appreciate this I think
I love his take on ancient aliens folks as being mechanically incompetent and having soft hands.
Though the Pantheon in Rome is a legitimately marvelous piece of engineering that they were somehow able to pull off nearly 2,000 years ago.
The only difference is that the Pantheon says who made it right on the front facade, and obviously the aliens would never lie to us about that.
(I know Agrippa's original structure was actually rebuilt by Hadrian, but still)
Only ROMANS could be so duplicitous as to lie about their work!