Humans can’t comprehend that early humans were as smart as we are today. They didn’t have our technology or knowledge, but they were as capable as we are of figuring things out and most any technology they had has decayed away. Just because we only find stone tools, it doesn’t mean that’s the only tools they had. There is so much we don’t know.
There is a clear, long and evolving history of pyramid building. From the mustaba to the bent and step pyramids, and finally the true pyramids. This has been known for a long time. Ancient Aliens has as much factual credence as hollow earth theories: absolutely none. Wasn't sure I would find anyone in these comments with a brain. Thanks for what you said.
May I suggest that were even more intelligent than modern humans. Pre civilisation humans had larger brains and were subject to vastly more intense selection pressures. Our smart phones are not making us smarter
@@SuckasNeverPlayMe Empty child you are demonstrating my point. You have evolved to have an empty head. Keep talking, perhaps your ancestors would understand, you obviously don’t
@Frharlee The average modern person doesn't know how to build a stable bridge. People who do are specialists who get a degree in engineering before they try. In ancient Egypt or other past societies, the average person also couldn't build a stable bridge, but they had specialists back then too.
@iceguy9723 Maybe they realised that there was nothing else on this planet that would last as long as the rocks would. The casing stones on the great pyramid were so well installed that they were immovable for 4,000 years. Just consider that for a moment. It was only after a huge earthquake in 1303 ad that they were dislodged, and it didn't take long for the local populace to then cart them all off for other building projects. There is absolutely nothing that we're building today that would last that long.
Oh, that's pretty easy. History programs usually include some sort of reenactment followed by talking heads, and a voice over. You also have archeologists taking you to the site to explain what they see, as well as some B roll for the voice over. The historians and archeologists also need to be paid. Ancient Aliens is way cheaper. Show some B roll, maybe a few still images of whatever the subject of the day is, add and then let the ominous phrase "Some Ancient Aliens/Astronaut theorists believe.." and off we are to the races making up all the shit we want. Humans never do anything by themselves, it's always aliens. Besides, this rubbish became popular as a tv show in the shadow of the Iraq war. World over, but esp in the US, you saw a sharp decline in trust in the govt. "some ancient astronaut theorists believe that telling people that there were benevolent Gods watching over us and our government was hiding their existence became really easy to believe". Also, millennials are the most educated generation, and amongst other things we'd like the hope ancient aliens provides, and as we get more educated we think way too highly of ourselves. "I'm smart, I have a master's degree all these peasants were stupid" except we are also peasants. Experts say i don't know. Geniuses say Aliens.
Most people can't even grasp the fact that other people have a completely different reality and thought process to them, so the fact these same people, who have zero scientific understanding of the universe, believe in the super dumb stuff, is not surprising at all
Great video! As to what I would like to see next: here in Belgium a lot of our older generation still believe that by 'discovering' Congo, we saved the black people living there from evil arab slavetraders. Unfortunately, this chapter in our history does not get a lot of attention in our schools. The story basically goes: Stanley says "Livingstone I presume", our King makes a bit of money and then presents the colony as a gift to the Belgian government, who then build a lot of modern buildings and roads, the Congolese want independence so we granted them that and well now you can see on the news what became of them... I sincerely wish I had learned on lot more and with way more respect for the experience of the indigenous people. And still today, with all the atrocities that have come out, there are still a lot of people here that say: "well, at least we gave them civilisation". I often don't know what to respond to that, it leaves me with such a shock. So I would like to see a video on "why do Europeans believe they saved/civilised black Africa?"
This is why scientific papers are submitted for peer review. The evidence has to stand up to it. Now and especially with the rise of the internet, theories are profligated and accepted without any real scientific scrutiny. "Evidence" is accepted on Faith, Belief is all. "I believe, so it is true."
Peer reviewers have zero accountability and have neither the motive nor the means to check the proposed evidence. It's largely a matter of who you know.
I would love to learn more deep history from indigenous people. I love that this video really brings home. Humans can do incredible things if we work together.
Great program. I can remember the craze that surrounded "Chariots of the Gods" when I was in high school. So many people believed that stuff. Another program (or more) on this topic would be great.
Well, to be fair, you don't start teaching a toddler high school physics either. You start by uhm... teaching to pile rocks on top of each other. :P In a 1000 years the aliens will be back and then they'll teach us how to make other shapes like... cubes,.. and cilinders.
Brilliant video! As a historian (and a former believer in ancient aliens) I think you’ve perfectly captured the issue of these theories. Just a shame this video won’t get as many views as one claiming aliens built the pyramids. My question is did you change t-shirts on purpose for effect of just felt like it? 😂
I'm fascinated by the cognitive dissidence that is required to by the Ancient Aliens believers to say "The Bible is so accurate that Ezekial can be considered a reliable primary source described a UFO sighting" yet also say "God doesn't exist; humans were created by space aliens."
I'm as sceptical as they come. But I just don't think you should rule out anything. Especially when we don't know the answers to alot of these questions about ancient history. It's probably not aliens. But I mean it's not good science to do so
Read the title as “Ancient Aliens” instead of “Ancient Civilization” at first and was like huh I guess if I was an alien I’d make a wacky show like that so people think I’m not real
Part of the problem is that some people think opening a lot of tabs on their browser = high IQ research. The internet is a good starting resource for information, but it shouldn't be the end as well.
I would love to see more of these. Young earth creation, a global flood w/boat saving the continuation of life, flat earth, giants, etc are all excellent conspiracy theories that a video like this could help people avoid falling for.
@@kariannecrysler640 Do you know the YT-Channel *World of Antiquity?* They've got lots of myth-debunking in more detail on specific sites or artefacts. Also *Miniminuteman* is recommendable in this regards.
Excellent piece, and formatted in a way that would likely not scare away a conspiracy theorist who might need to hear this whole message. Also, love the book recommendations at the end. Please do more pieces like this, as it's important to supress the negative effects of fake news Also, love the shirts -- very cheeky!
We cease to realise that most people today are generally unskilled in terms of practical ability. We sat through school disinterested and most have a basic unskilled job. Whereas many people of the past were highly skilled in a specific area. children were pushed into work, say as a builder and would do that job everyday for their lives. If they didn't work and weren't highly skilled they didn't eat. Whereas we don't have to work hard to get by.
“But please, let’s not throw out reality”. I fail to see how the possibility of an ancient civilisation or aliens is anymore outlandish than over half of the adult human population believing in an imaginary god in the sky, watching over their every move and judging them in an afterlife is. Maybe we could have a video commentary on the historical accuracy of “any religious figure performing miracles”
The reason why the concept of God was invented by the Elite was to prevent humanity from evolving and transitioning to an eternal spiritual existence which is the actual purpose of life as a human being on this planet. You are not considered to be alive unless you have an eternal soul residing in your physical container. This is why extraterrestrial entities avoid contact with the majority of the population because they do not want to interrupt the delicate process of human soul development which is dependent on the individual's state of being.
Personally I think religion is for some who need help getting through life so need something or someone to either blame for bad things that happen or praise for good things and some who want an easy way to control and get rich off the masses. What gets me is when I hear people say that God saved someone they love instead of not thanking a surgeon who operated and actually saved their life, because I had a lot of issues from birth ( I'm actually the oldest survivor of at least 1 in the UK and possibly the world ) my mum was verbally abused because she authorised a blood transfusion because they said it was gods will for me to die and she shouldn't of let them do anything. Religion has totally brainwashed so many people and been the cause of more deaths through conflicts and other means than anything in history, in reality without religion there would be more peace through history even though religion is supposed to solve suffering.
@@HistoryHit Sure - you’ll be saying a man called PV Glob wrote The Bog People next. I may believe god is an astronaut, but man, such outrageous examples of nominative determinism are beyond belief…..
I think a lot of this kind of story probably also flourished in the centuries after the Roman Empire collapsed. If people in the middle ages were digging their fields and came across a Roman burial, with glass and jewellery etc, it would be quite understandable if they thought there was some ancient, god like civilisation.
@@jonnylumberjack6223 The Traveler is an early Anglo Saxon poem that tells of what it's like to find old Roman ruins... you'll recognise it as Tolkien ripped it off 😑
The problem with the alien thing is, if they did come here(either to help existing or seed humans) how come they didn't come back? Did they destroy themselves? Is the human race an experiment to be destroyed again and again(until peaceful beings develop)before it can visit other planets and bring violence to them? There will always speculation until they(aliens) make themselves known to the entire population
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology was required reading in my archeology class in college. I still have a copy. I think everyone should read it.
Interesting video. If there was an ancient civilisation it wasn't very advanced because none of the structures it left included concrete, steel, aluminium etc not does it appear to have had nuclear power.
It's condecending to believe the people who made advanced constructions really weren't able to make them. Even worse when "discoverers" baffled over what native populations had accomplished thorughout their history. Patronicing.
The Nazca Lines.... if they were created by someone in the air, why aren't they more accurate? Was Salvador Dali directing them? There are going to be questions that will be difficult to answer for a long time, or maybe forever. But there is no need to denigrate the abilities of the ancients.
Fascist was the Italian party. Germany’s party was national socialism. Both were based on Prof Gentile’s economic policy, initially only Germany developed racial policy from Galton’s Eugenics.
24:00 I would say there are many groups around the world who have taken to exoticism for other cultures. Western people or countries aren't the only ones who do this.
Great video and lots of interesting facts to debunk the Alien Myths ..... However I do like that you are open to the fact that nobody knows what new discoveries will be made in the future or what scientific advances that may prove or disprove any number of todays theories ..... we continue as a species to learn and grow and our understanding evolves with us and with that evolution our firmly held beliefs of today may be eroded by our future knowledge. I love any content that makes me think and question ...so thank you again.
Uhm one problem since has is that there is little evidence, mostly theories. There are a lot of theories and hypotheses how the pyramids were build, some are even crazier than aliens, but still no evidence. And even it is debunked with evidence, people still come up with slaves.
Can you do Victorian Hermeticism like the Theosophists as mentioned and The Golden Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis. Always been fascinated by those guys. They were so dramatic! Yeats was in the GD and a bunch of other fun Victorian characters.
The quote from one of them about "our understanding of dinosaurs started with a theory" shows the usual lack of understanding that pseudoscientists have about the way real science works, not just a misunderstanding of what a scientific theory is. Science starts with data (like fossils, location in rock strata, etc), then comes a hypothesis to attempt to explain the data, then testing the hypothesis (which will include predictions of what we will find, something often missing in pseudoscience), more data, refining the hypothesis, around and around, until finally getting to the level of theory. Pseudoscience at best is jumping to conclusions based on inadequate data, if not outright starting with the conclusion they want to believe and then trying to find what data fits, usually cherry picking or manipulating data to say what they want,
In all fairness, it's been a common belief, based on the actual space exploration progress in the 1960s, that flights to Mars would be common in the 1980s.
And they might have been common, had the world not defunded space exploration after the Apollo program. NASA's funding in the mid 60's was 4 billion, and by 1974 it was reduced to 3 billion. In 2020 nasa's budget was 22 billion. Adjusted for inflation in the 60's their budge was over 50 billion.
Read Dannekin, too, back in the 70's. Lovecraft ? Yeah. Pieces of fiction. Entertainin, at the time. Sure. Don't base my concept of the World around them.
I wonder if some of those step pyramids didn't start out as pyramids. Like, perhaps it started with a single raised platform for rituals or markets and subsequent generations kept raising the platform, one level at a time. Eventually, you'd end up with a pyramid even without planning it as such.
It's such a disservice wondering how the ancient peoples built great things with simple tools, when our own tools can build marvels on a daily basis. We're just so used to roads and buildings that we take them so much for granted.
But do you think those heavy granite blocks with perfect edges were transported and carved with traditional chisel? They are pretty impossible to be transported by a simple wooden crane....
Thats a fact wencant say it did or didnt exist. We definitely cant say plato madenit up. Thats in no way good research or science its just pushing opinion as fact and thats deceptive.
@@vikingskuld There is no physical evidence for Atlantis. There is no written mention of Atlantis Prior to Plato. If Plato didn't make it up then he most likely copied the idea from someone else who did, but whose writings have since been lost to history. If we find physical evidence for Atlantis then we have reason to come up with a new hypothesis.
@@ziploc2000 @ziploc2000 ok your comment shows exactly what is wrong with academia today. They typically tend to be very arrogant poorly educated with our the ability to think for themselves. Then pass those very characteristics on to students to ruin science. Some of many examples where people like you and them were so very wrong. Vikings never came to North America they made it up just like plato. I told people foe 20 years they got here I was told how dumb that was we have no proof. I said they were not a culture of liars. Oh wait we know they made it here. The city of Troy was made up. The battle was just a story and the city never existed. The guy used the same text quackademics said was made up and found troy. Contact with the America's was always said to be wishful thinking a story with no facts behind it. Oh wait then we find nicotine and cocaine in Egyptian mummy's. Clovis first quackademics ruined careers of people who said otherwise yet today we know there were others here before. Some groups of people said they came from the Mediterranean even though they are in islands around southeast Asia now. Oh that can't be true yet DNA found out the came from Persia. I can keep going but if you have any common sense you'll see what I'm saying. Atlantis could be made up but most likely not. Hel you can even find place names like atlas mountains and Atlantis on ancient maps. There is far too many little things that point to it being real. Like the bask culture that says they basically come from Atlantis originally. There language isn't even related to any of the other European family's so we know they come from somewhere that's not there any more. I could keep going. Just because we don't have evidence now doesn't mean we never will and that it wasn't a real place. It may not have been but to write it off and act like it's made up is beyond bad science it's criminal at best.
@@ziploc2000 although I sympathise need to stay intellectually honest as absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. So the fact that we haven’t found anything does not prove it didn’t exist, chances are slim though 😉
@abbofun9022 to be intellectually honest, of course it does. If I say I have an alien in my basement, or a purple dinosaur in my backyard, absence of evidence is absolutely evidence of absence. A wildly absurd claim with a lack of evidence can for all practical purposes be dismissed. The intellectually honest have no obligation to entertain unsubstantiated absurdity.
It’s because we’re not the first “advanced” humans to have existed, and we won’t be the last. We will destroy ourselves again, as we’ve done so in the past. And our descendants will discover and replicate similar and even new technologies and they’ll find some of our ancient items and ask how we did certain things.
@HistoryHit Considering that we can't even put a few similar blocks together ourselves (using the "accepted" methods), it is a bit much to say it's patronising to question the ability of the ancient Egyptians to build the pyramids. Also, they had thousands of years to perfect it? Really?? So they didn't have to get food, water, shelter and fight each other all of the time - or did that just begin as soon as we started writing history down?
Nothing existed before last Thursday. Everything before that is just fiction stories and implanted memories. It is a joke concept, but it has adamant believers like most of the others. Btw, Stephen King's The Langoliers is based on this idea. Slightly twisted to be horror, of course, cause that's how he writes.
I think a main reason is so many civilisations all over the world who never interacted built the same type of structures and said the gods came down from the stars ( some on machines ) and gave them the knowledge and tools to build them and told them how they wanted them built, also there are structures in areas that even now with the technology we have would be impossible to recreate, personally i can't say how they were built but i can't definitively say it wasn't visitors from other planets, anyone who doesn't think there are other lifeforms out there that are also more advanced among probably trillions of other planets are just ignorant.
As far as alternative theories, I have a bit of a soft spot for Graham Hancock's. Sure the dure is a bit out there but his thoughts are entertaining to me. Also when I was a youngn' in school, I had a fantastic history teacher that taught me to be curious about everything out there without necessarily believing in any of them.
Good presentation until near the end. Disappointing that the images poking at right-wing sacred cows did not also poke at the left-wing ones. I would hope HIstoryHit would be more moderate?
I was thinking to myself, the populist movements are responses to corruption and incompetence that are destroying and destabilizing nations, not whatever propaganda he said.
@@andrewglynn1982 I'm assuming that the neurochemistry of gender is a completely mystery to you. And that's ok, stuff like that is complex and the science behind it only available if you go out looking for it. Usually though, people like you are utterly ignorant of the world you're living in and prefer to accept reality only when it conforms to the ideas you already had since you were 12. Kindly sod off with your transphobic shit.
Chariots of the God’s is a great theory but farther from any evidence that exists. Ancient Aliens just goes way out to Left Field and beyond! History Hit is like going to University and listening to real facts.
In 2001, I was taking a humanities class in my senior year of high school. That was my first class and I was tired so I was sitting with my head down while the teacher went over the syllabus. She said "In this class we'll discuss many of the ancient wonders like the hanging gardens and the pyramids and discuss how and why they were built" I lifted my head, said "aliens did it" and laid my head back down. Teacher laughed and asked if I wanted to explain my theory. "Nope, it's dumb. Just wanted to get that out of the way so we could get to facts"
I try to make a distinction between modern believers in this sort of thing and the original creators. The core foundation of these beliefs is "I refuse to believe that the local people are capable of doing it themselves." This is absolutely ethnocentric and racist. However, this doesn't mean all current fans are racist, though many of them are. There are other, more innocent, reasons for many; it's just some fun, it's escapism, ignorant gullibility, it's a new find of faith. a misunderstanding of science, or simply an ego boost to think they have some special knowledge others don't have (which does seem common among conspiracy theorists)
It’s mainly down to personal incredulity and laziness, they don’t understand and are too lazy to do any research, so they rely on the Facebook rumour mill for their information, there’s no hope! 😂
Ancient Alien Theory is an insult to actual human history; but I do watch it as I see it as my version of the Comedy Channel....but yes, it's an insult to human history.
Humans can’t comprehend that early humans were as smart as we are today. They didn’t have our technology or knowledge, but they were as capable as we are of figuring things out and most any technology they had has decayed away. Just because we only find stone tools, it doesn’t mean that’s the only tools they had. There is so much we don’t know.
There is a clear, long and evolving history of pyramid building. From the mustaba to the bent and step pyramids, and finally the true pyramids. This has been known for a long time. Ancient Aliens has as much factual credence as hollow earth theories: absolutely none. Wasn't sure I would find anyone in these comments with a brain. Thanks for what you said.
Yeah. Like you don't know. You even think they had metal tools. You are a complete nitwit
May I suggest that were even more intelligent than modern humans. Pre civilisation humans had larger brains and were subject to vastly more intense selection pressures. Our smart phones are not making us smarter
@@Jondantic ah right... So you a brain surgeon back then?... You actually saw these larger brains did you?... No... You did not...
@@SuckasNeverPlayMe Empty child you are demonstrating my point. You have evolved to have an empty head. Keep talking, perhaps your ancestors would understand, you obviously don’t
One of my dad's favorite quotes is "some people are so open minded their brains fell out"
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Brilliant!
That quote is everywhere, but where did it come from?
@@MrGksarathy Fell out of some person's brain some decades ago.
@@EntropicEcho Good one.
What gets me is that interstellar aliens show up and teach humans how to move rocks.
Ancient humans were pretty dumb haha. I mean, ask the average person how to build a stable bridge ~ they don't know. It's not that farfetched
Ancient humans were as clever as you
@Frharlee The average modern person doesn't know how to build a stable bridge. People who do are specialists who get a degree in engineering before they try. In ancient Egypt or other past societies, the average person also couldn't build a stable bridge, but they had specialists back then too.
Or travel thousands of light years to put one rock on top of another 😊
@iceguy9723 Maybe they realised that there was nothing else on this planet that would last as long as the rocks would. The casing stones on the great pyramid were so well installed that they were immovable for 4,000 years. Just consider that for a moment. It was only after a huge earthquake in 1303 ad that they were dislodged, and it didn't take long for the local populace to then cart them all off for other building projects. There is absolutely nothing that we're building today that would last that long.
Miniminuteman has an excellent multi-part dismantling of Graham Hancock's series. Worth watching.
How can one _dismantle_ someone's supposition?
Graham is pretty cool. And he should not be put in the same category as Eric..
Graham Hancock’s nonsense docs are a lot of fun, the Ark of The Covenant one particularly 😊
@@John.Flower.Productions piece by piece, with judicious use of critical thinking and facts.
@@Costa_Conn Incorrect.
It is confounding to me how Ancient Aliens got so many seasons out of Chariots of the Gods which was originally quite a thin paperback.
But it gave us Frank Zappa's "Inca Roads" so not all bad news
The History Channel swerved off the path of legitimate history years ago. Most of their programming is a joke. Just look at The Dorks of Oak Island.
Oh, that's pretty easy. History programs usually include some sort of reenactment followed by talking heads, and a voice over. You also have archeologists taking you to the site to explain what they see, as well as some B roll for the voice over. The historians and archeologists also need to be paid.
Ancient Aliens is way cheaper. Show some B roll, maybe a few still images of whatever the subject of the day is, add and then let the ominous phrase "Some Ancient Aliens/Astronaut theorists believe.." and off we are to the races making up all the shit we want. Humans never do anything by themselves, it's always aliens. Besides, this rubbish became popular as a tv show in the shadow of the Iraq war. World over, but esp in the US, you saw a sharp decline in trust in the govt.
"some ancient astronaut theorists believe that telling people that there were benevolent Gods watching over us and our government was hiding their existence became really easy to believe".
Also, millennials are the most educated generation, and amongst other things we'd like the hope ancient aliens provides, and as we get more educated we think way too highly of ourselves. "I'm smart, I have a master's degree all these peasants were stupid" except we are also peasants. Experts say i don't know. Geniuses say Aliens.
Easy: Aliens did it!
'Ancient Aliens' toilet rolls would be good idea. Read a few sheets whilst sitting on the ivory throne, and then...
I don't really think that aliens built the pyramids but reading wild conspiracy theories about that is a guilty pleasure of mine.
I loved Stargate but some of these people think that was a documentary 😂
Well done! This Alien nonsense has penetrated far too deep into modern society. We need more debunking content!
It already be3n leaked .
That's a silly statement on so many levels,
God is an Alien!
Indeed, you brain leaked from your skull and we see effects of that in yout bs comments.
@stephenenders2066
Well we don’t know either way.
I just realized cheerleaders make pyramids all the time! They're obviously in contact with aliens 🤯
If aliens with interstellar travel came to visit us, I would have hoped to have better than the pyramids et al
and they were so advanced that they didn't bother teaching any basic science facts about the physical world that we teach our children.
Give me a damn hyperdrive.
Most people can't even grasp the fact that other people have a completely different reality and thought process to them, so the fact these same people, who have zero scientific understanding of the universe, believe in the super dumb stuff, is not surprising at all
Great video! As to what I would like to see next: here in Belgium a lot of our older generation still believe that by 'discovering' Congo, we saved the black people living there from evil arab slavetraders. Unfortunately, this chapter in our history does not get a lot of attention in our schools. The story basically goes: Stanley says "Livingstone I presume", our King makes a bit of money and then presents the colony as a gift to the Belgian government, who then build a lot of modern buildings and roads, the Congolese want independence so we granted them that and well now you can see on the news what became of them... I sincerely wish I had learned on lot more and with way more respect for the experience of the indigenous people. And still today, with all the atrocities that have come out, there are still a lot of people here that say: "well, at least we gave them civilisation". I often don't know what to respond to that, it leaves me with such a shock.
So I would like to see a video on "why do Europeans believe they saved/civilised black Africa?"
Because Africans are fucking drowning themselves to get here 😑
An excellent presentation with some of the best t-shirts worn by any History Hit presenters! Well done, James!
Thank you kindly!
@@HistoryHit Yes, PLEASE tell me where to acquire the t-shirt with cats debunking flat-Earth speculation. 😂
This is why scientific papers are submitted for peer review. The evidence has to stand up to it.
Now and especially with the rise of the internet, theories are profligated and accepted without any real scientific scrutiny.
"Evidence" is accepted on Faith, Belief is all. "I believe, so it is true."
Peer reviewers have zero accountability and have neither the motive nor the means to check the proposed evidence. It's largely a matter of who you know.
It has been proven that some peer reviews are not worth the paper they are written on.
That is part of the Scientific process. Papers fail at review and some reviewers fail at their job.@@Design_no
There's no such word as "profligated".
I would love to learn more deep history from indigenous people. I love that this video really brings home. Humans can do incredible things if we work together.
Great program. I can remember the craze that surrounded "Chariots of the Gods" when I was in high school. So many people believed that stuff. Another program (or more) on this topic would be great.
Of course, havent you watched the documentary about stargates? Pyramids are landing pads for spaceships.
Aliens who mastered long distance space travel, left the secret of building stone pyramids…..
Haha, yeah thanks guys. We now know how to pile up rocks
Well, to be fair, you don't start teaching a toddler high school physics either. You start by uhm... teaching to pile rocks on top of each other. :P
In a 1000 years the aliens will be back and then they'll teach us how to make other shapes like... cubes,.. and cilinders.
If the aliens come back, they will devour people, starting with the firemen, then the math teachers and so on in that fashion until everyone is eaten.
Okay, Futurama guy lol! Or was that the Simpsons?
@@sino8r499 Futurama. "The problem with Popplers." 🙂
@@sino8r499 I remember it since I'm a mathematician and used to be a teacher. 🙂
ua-cam.com/video/EdpcB_qWOr0/v-deo.htmlsi=f3i2FOIQl78ASC8P 'i disagree' 😂
Probably the most rational take on this video I've heard
Ancient Aliens pretty much single handily ruined the History Channel.
Seems like another conspiracy theory brewing...
Ah, same reasoning people think the Earth was created 6000 years ago?
Brilliant video! As a historian (and a former believer in ancient aliens) I think you’ve perfectly captured the issue of these theories. Just a shame this video won’t get as many views as one claiming aliens built the pyramids. My question is did you change t-shirts on purpose for effect of just felt like it? 😂
Not sure about the cats one, but the other t-shirts fit what's said!
Cross galaxy travel would be so incredibly expensive and tedious for no reward. Who would waste the time and resources? It makes no sense.
Especially a travel to Earth.
Cross galaxy travel as we know it you Mean.
That's a great collection of t-shirts! Great video, thanks.
Cat/earth t-shirt is excellent, BTW.
I'm fascinated by the cognitive dissidence that is required to by the Ancient Aliens believers to say "The Bible is so accurate that Ezekial can be considered a reliable primary source described a UFO sighting" yet also say "God doesn't exist; humans were created by space aliens."
Very perceptive.
And right next to the video window, youtube offers 14 seasons of Ancient Aliens for streaming to buy...
I'm as sceptical as they come. But I just don't think you should rule out anything. Especially when we don't know the answers to alot of these questions about ancient history. It's probably not aliens. But I mean it's not good science to do so
Read the title as “Ancient Aliens” instead of “Ancient Civilization” at first and was like huh I guess if I was an alien I’d make a wacky show like that so people think I’m not real
Part of the problem is that some people think opening a lot of tabs on their browser = high IQ research.
The internet is a good starting resource for information, but it shouldn't be the end as well.
I would love to see more of these. Young earth creation, a global flood w/boat saving the continuation of life, flat earth, giants, etc are all excellent conspiracy theories that a video like this could help people avoid falling for.
Hollow earth, lizard people, Antarctica ancient civilization, Neanderthals were barbaric cave men, etc…..
Lot’s more too lol.
@@kariannecrysler640 Do you know the YT-Channel *World of Antiquity?* They've got lots of myth-debunking in more detail on specific sites or artefacts. Also *Miniminuteman* is recommendable in this regards.
Excellent piece, and formatted in a way that would likely not scare away a conspiracy theorist who might need to hear this whole message. Also, love the book recommendations at the end.
Please do more pieces like this, as it's important to supress the negative effects of fake news
Also, love the shirts -- very cheeky!
We cease to realise that most people today are generally unskilled in terms of practical ability. We sat through school disinterested and most have a basic unskilled job. Whereas many people of the past were highly skilled in a specific area. children were pushed into work, say as a builder and would do that job everyday for their lives. If they didn't work and weren't highly skilled they didn't eat. Whereas we don't have to work hard to get by.
Thank you for pulling so many related strings together for a half hour of rational entertainment, which includes tracking your tee shirts 😊
“But please, let’s not throw out reality”.
I fail to see how the possibility of an ancient civilisation or aliens is anymore outlandish than over half of the adult human population believing in an imaginary god in the sky, watching over their every move and judging them in an afterlife is.
Maybe we could have a video commentary on the historical accuracy of “any religious figure performing miracles”
The reason why the concept of God was invented by the Elite was to prevent humanity from evolving and transitioning to an eternal spiritual existence which is the actual purpose of life as a human being on this planet. You are not considered to be alive unless you have an eternal soul residing in your physical container. This is why extraterrestrial entities avoid contact with the majority of the population because they do not want to interrupt the delicate process of human soul development which is dependent on the individual's state of being.
Get to work!
Personally I think religion is for some who need help getting through life so need something or someone to either blame for bad things that happen or praise for good things and some who want an easy way to control and get rich off the masses. What gets me is when I hear people say that God saved someone they love instead of not thanking a surgeon who operated and actually saved their life, because I had a lot of issues from birth ( I'm actually the oldest survivor of at least 1 in the UK and possibly the world ) my mum was verbally abused because she authorised a blood transfusion because they said it was gods will for me to die and she shouldn't of let them do anything. Religion has totally brainwashed so many people and been the cause of more deaths through conflicts and other means than anything in history, in reality without religion there would be more peace through history even though religion is supposed to solve suffering.
@@kmaher1424it would be a very short video
Are you REALLY trying to tell us there is an archaeologist called Flint Dibble??
Ha. Ps, love the tee shirts
Yes and he's a great speaker. Check out the description for his podcast. Thanks for the t shirt praise!
Just as well his surname wasn’t Lock
@@taffp4360 Or he decided on a career with the police force.
@@HistoryHit Sure - you’ll be saying a man called PV Glob wrote The Bog People next. I may believe god is an astronaut, but man, such outrageous examples of nominative determinism are beyond belief…..
I think a lot of this kind of story probably also flourished in the centuries after the Roman Empire collapsed. If people in the middle ages were digging their fields and came across a Roman burial, with glass and jewellery etc, it would be quite understandable if they thought there was some ancient, god like civilisation.
The Traveler is over a thousand years old 😑
@@barbararice6650 Nope, literally no idea what you talking about. A Val Kilmer film?
@@jonnylumberjack6223
The Traveler is an early Anglo Saxon poem that tells of what it's like to find old Roman ruins... you'll recognise it as Tolkien ripped it off 😑
Great video. I’ll add another vote for you doing one about Young Earth Creationists and also for Flat Earthers.
First sentences made sure the traditional line is being towed. Nothing about Gobekli Tepe. Of course not.🙄
Yes it's a glaring omission.
I don't see why they can't believe in aliens, after all some people believe the earth is flat🤯
In the video ;)
The problem with the alien thing is, if they did come here(either to help existing or seed humans) how come they didn't come back?
Did they destroy themselves?
Is the human race an experiment to be destroyed again and again(until peaceful beings develop)before it can visit other planets and bring violence to them?
There will always speculation until they(aliens) make themselves known to the entire population
Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology was required reading in my archeology class in college. I still have a copy. I think everyone should read it.
Ooo! I'll have to check this out! Thanks for the recommendation!
Interesting video. If there was an ancient civilisation it wasn't very advanced because none of the structures it left included concrete, steel, aluminium etc not does it appear to have had nuclear power.
It's condecending to believe the people who made advanced constructions really weren't able to make them. Even worse when "discoverers" baffled over what native populations had accomplished thorughout their history. Patronicing.
Patronising, yes.
So, it's animation rather than live action? Makes me recall childhood memories of the cartoon series my Mum showed me. Very cool.
Not Aliens, but a previous advanced civilisation that had incredible knowledge.
That's just sugarcoating the alien nonsense under a barely more presentable appearance...!
Proof?
The Nazca Lines.... if they were created by someone in the air, why aren't they more accurate? Was Salvador Dali directing them? There are going to be questions that will be difficult to answer for a long time, or maybe forever. But there is no need to denigrate the abilities of the ancients.
* attempts to watch the show
* fails a is distracted by the awesome shirt
Fascist was the Italian party. Germany’s party was national socialism. Both were based on Prof Gentile’s economic policy, initially only Germany developed racial policy from Galton’s Eugenics.
The most sensible and obvious solution is usually the correct one.
Your Ts are amazing!!! the cat one is my fav!
24:00 I would say there are many groups around the world who have taken to exoticism for other cultures. Western people or countries aren't the only ones who do this.
Great video and lots of interesting facts to debunk the Alien Myths ..... However I do like that you are open to the fact that nobody knows what new discoveries will be made in the future or what scientific advances that may prove or disprove any number of todays theories ..... we continue as a species to learn and grow and our understanding evolves with us and with that evolution our firmly held beliefs of today may be eroded by our future knowledge. I love any content that makes me think and question ...so thank you again.
Uhm one problem since has is that there is little evidence, mostly theories.
There are a lot of theories and hypotheses how the pyramids were build, some are even crazier than aliens, but still no evidence.
And even it is debunked with evidence, people still come up with slaves.
Can you do Victorian Hermeticism like the Theosophists as mentioned and The Golden Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis. Always been fascinated by those guys. They were so dramatic! Yeats was in the GD and a bunch of other fun Victorian characters.
Amazing what humans can build when not watching shit on tiktok😂
The quote from one of them about "our understanding of dinosaurs started with a theory" shows the usual lack of understanding that pseudoscientists have about the way real science works, not just a misunderstanding of what a scientific theory is.
Science starts with data (like fossils, location in rock strata, etc), then comes a hypothesis to attempt to explain the data, then testing the hypothesis (which will include predictions of what we will find, something often missing in pseudoscience), more data, refining the hypothesis, around and around, until finally getting to the level of theory.
Pseudoscience at best is jumping to conclusions based on inadequate data, if not outright starting with the conclusion they want to believe and then trying to find what data fits, usually cherry picking or manipulating data to say what they want,
In all fairness, it's been a common belief, based on the actual space exploration progress in the 1960s, that flights to Mars would be common in the 1980s.
And they might have been common, had the world not defunded space exploration after the Apollo program. NASA's funding in the mid 60's was 4 billion, and by 1974 it was reduced to 3 billion. In 2020 nasa's budget was 22 billion. Adjusted for inflation in the 60's their budge was over 50 billion.
Read Dannekin, too, back in the 70's. Lovecraft ? Yeah. Pieces of fiction. Entertainin, at the time. Sure. Don't base my concept of the World around them.
They're also flat earthers.
There are because the earth IS flat at sea level.
This was very interesting to watch. Thanks
I wonder if some of those step pyramids didn't start out as pyramids. Like, perhaps it started with a single raised platform for rituals or markets and subsequent generations kept raising the platform, one level at a time. Eventually, you'd end up with a pyramid even without planning it as such.
It's such a disservice wondering how the ancient peoples built great things with simple tools, when our own tools can build marvels on a daily basis. We're just so used to roads and buildings that we take them so much for granted.
But do you think those heavy granite blocks with perfect edges were transported and carved with traditional chisel? They are pretty impossible to be transported by a simple wooden crane....
The edges are not perfect and they were transported by mass labour and barge.
Finally some sense on youtube
I just want to say, love your t-shirts! Very on point!
how do I get the t-shirts?
We need to get rid of The History Channel who exclusively markets conspiracy content bc it couldn't make it with other documentary channels.
Where did you get the t-shirts?
Aliens must exist, they changed the presenter's shirt multiple times without him even noticing.
Or be changed it himself?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and in absence of that we can only say “we don’t know who or why”
Thats a fact wencant say it did or didnt exist. We definitely cant say plato madenit up. Thats in no way good research or science its just pushing opinion as fact and thats deceptive.
@@vikingskuld There is no physical evidence for Atlantis. There is no written mention of Atlantis Prior to Plato. If Plato didn't make it up then he most likely copied the idea from someone else who did, but whose writings have since been lost to history.
If we find physical evidence for Atlantis then we have reason to come up with a new hypothesis.
@@ziploc2000 @ziploc2000 ok your comment shows exactly what is wrong with academia today. They typically tend to be very arrogant poorly educated with our the ability to think for themselves. Then pass those very characteristics on to students to ruin science. Some of many examples where people like you and them were so very wrong. Vikings never came to North America they made it up just like plato. I told people foe 20 years they got here I was told how dumb that was we have no proof. I said they were not a culture of liars. Oh wait we know they made it here. The city of Troy was made up. The battle was just a story and the city never existed. The guy used the same text quackademics said was made up and found troy. Contact with the America's was always said to be wishful thinking a story with no facts behind it. Oh wait then we find nicotine and cocaine in Egyptian mummy's. Clovis first quackademics ruined careers of people who said otherwise yet today we know there were others here before. Some groups of people said they came from the Mediterranean even though they are in islands around southeast Asia now. Oh that can't be true yet DNA found out the came from Persia. I can keep going but if you have any common sense you'll see what I'm saying. Atlantis could be made up but most likely not. Hel you can even find place names like atlas mountains and Atlantis on ancient maps. There is far too many little things that point to it being real. Like the bask culture that says they basically come from Atlantis originally. There language isn't even related to any of the other European family's so we know they come from somewhere that's not there any more. I could keep going. Just because we don't have evidence now doesn't mean we never will and that it wasn't a real place. It may not have been but to write it off and act like it's made up is beyond bad science it's criminal at best.
@@ziploc2000 although I sympathise need to stay intellectually honest as absence of evidence does not mean evidence of absence. So the fact that we haven’t found anything does not prove it didn’t exist, chances are slim though 😉
@abbofun9022 to be intellectually honest, of course it does.
If I say I have an alien in my basement, or a purple dinosaur in my backyard, absence of evidence is absolutely evidence of absence. A wildly absurd claim with a lack of evidence can for all practical purposes be dismissed.
The intellectually honest have no obligation to entertain unsubstantiated absurdity.
9:08 where did you get your cat tshirt from?
"I'm not saying it was Aliens, but... it was Aliens." -- Giorgio Tsoukalos
It’s because we’re not the first “advanced” humans to have existed, and we won’t be the last. We will destroy ourselves again, as we’ve done so in the past. And our descendants will discover and replicate similar and even new technologies and they’ll find some of our ancient items and ask how we did certain things.
You can only see the glyphs/animal shapes of the Nazca lines from a few hundred metres up in the air....
They are not the 👽 aliens...., we are.....
Finally, someone with some sense.
@HistoryHit Considering that we can't even put a few similar blocks together ourselves (using the "accepted" methods), it is a bit much to say it's patronising to question the ability of the ancient Egyptians to build the pyramids. Also, they had thousands of years to perfect it? Really?? So they didn't have to get food, water, shelter and fight each other all of the time - or did that just begin as soon as we started writing history down?
Great t-shirt mate.
They think the earth is flat, the earth was created in 6 days and Noah built an Ark 😂😂😂😂😂
Nothing existed before last Thursday. Everything before that is just fiction stories and implanted memories.
It is a joke concept, but it has adamant believers like most of the others.
Btw, Stephen King's The Langoliers is based on this idea. Slightly twisted to be horror, of course, cause that's how he writes.
Excellent
Hey, I'm not sayin' it was aliens. But it was aliens. 😅
I think a main reason is so many civilisations all over the world who never interacted built the same type of structures and said the gods came down from the stars ( some on machines ) and gave them the knowledge and tools to build them and told them how they wanted them built, also there are structures in areas that even now with the technology we have would be impossible to recreate, personally i can't say how they were built but i can't definitively say it wasn't visitors from other planets, anyone who doesn't think there are other lifeforms out there that are also more advanced among probably trillions of other planets are just ignorant.
There’s only one way to build a stable tall building in ancient times without modern technology, big on the bottom and little on the top 🤷♂️
As far as alternative theories, I have a bit of a soft spot for Graham Hancock's. Sure the dure is a bit out there but his thoughts are entertaining to me.
Also when I was a youngn' in school, I had a fantastic history teacher that taught me to be curious about everything out there without necessarily believing in any of them.
Hancock is no better than Ancient Aliens. His ideas are just as unfounded.
Good presentation until near the end. Disappointing that the images poking at right-wing sacred cows did not also poke at the left-wing ones. I would hope HIstoryHit would be more moderate?
You weren't the only person to notice this. I guess we must be conspiracy theorists after all 😂😂😂
I was thinking to myself, the populist movements are responses to corruption and incompetence that are destroying and destabilizing nations, not whatever propaganda he said.
Not their fault that misinformation, "alternative facts", anti-intellectualism and religious zealotry comes from right wing people 9/10 of the time.
@@EntropicEcho What, like how a man can be a woman because he feels like it?
@@andrewglynn1982 I'm assuming that the neurochemistry of gender is a completely mystery to you. And that's ok, stuff like that is complex and the science behind it only available if you go out looking for it. Usually though, people like you are utterly ignorant of the world you're living in and prefer to accept reality only when it conforms to the ideas you already had since you were 12. Kindly sod off with your transphobic shit.
Great video - and I really like the shirt 🙂
Chariots of the God’s is a great theory but farther from any evidence that exists. Ancient Aliens just goes way out to Left Field and beyond! History Hit is like going to University and listening to real facts.
I love the T shirts!
In 2001, I was taking a humanities class in my senior year of high school. That was my first class and I was tired so I was sitting with my head down while the teacher went over the syllabus.
She said "In this class we'll discuss many of the ancient wonders like the hanging gardens and the pyramids and discuss how and why they were built"
I lifted my head, said "aliens did it" and laid my head back down. Teacher laughed and asked if I wanted to explain my theory. "Nope, it's dumb. Just wanted to get that out of the way so we could get to facts"
It’s so aggravating that people today think ancient people were somehow as lazy as modern humans
Lost to history, but not to woowoo folk. Wish I could ve so enlightened.
I try to make a distinction between modern believers in this sort of thing and the original creators.
The core foundation of these beliefs is "I refuse to believe that the local people are capable of doing it themselves." This is absolutely ethnocentric and racist.
However, this doesn't mean all current fans are racist, though many of them are. There are other, more innocent, reasons for many; it's just some fun, it's escapism, ignorant gullibility, it's a new find of faith. a misunderstanding of science, or simply an ego boost to think they have some special knowledge others don't have (which does seem common among conspiracy theorists)
Great range of T shirts there!
7 times during the video it was changed. What is it? 😊
I enjoy watching Ancient Aliens. It is top shelf comedy.
I mean, it's fun to think about and makes a good hook for sci-fi novel.
“Halley” is mispronounced. It should thyme with “alley.”
What?
Maybe write a correctly spelled sentence if you want to criticise someone's pronunciation?
Well said, well done!
It’s mainly down to personal incredulity and laziness, they don’t understand and are too lazy to do any research, so they rely on the Facebook rumour mill for their information, there’s no hope! 😂
Agreed.You should debunk flat earthers,evolution deniers,reincarnation believers & Bigfoot believers.
Thank you so much for this.
Really good video until the last five minutes 🤦♂️
The aliens visited Elon in South Africa and taught him how to slice bread.
Great video! But, I just want to know where you got the flat Earth/cat t-shirt!
Ancient Alien Theory is an insult to actual human history; but I do watch it as I see it as my version of the Comedy Channel....but yes, it's an insult to human history.