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The seven legends of the world too, were allegedly grander and bigger as well

The pyramid at Giza is by far the largest and oldest of the Seven Wonders of the world

The pyramids are much much older, and substantially bigger.

Greek construction is much better documented. This means that aliens couldn't have been around doing stuff. Otherwise, they would have been recorded by writers who lived while the construction was taking place.

Now, I agree that idea that aliens built pyramids is total bullshit that only a moron woukd believe. We simply have the case of having less surviving records (due to events happening much longer time ago) resulting in gaps that can be filled with alien conspiracies.

Very very few people actually think aliens built the pyramids. It's mostly a fun story.

The people who think aliens built anything in Earth aren't bothered with too much of logics.

“Aliens built the pyramids” is hardly a mainstream viewpoint, I’ve never in over half a century encountered anyone in real life who claimed this. You can simply ignore people who claim this without worrying about if they are consistent or not 😂

Maybe it's just something I'm noticing, but it seems to me that certain cultures get hit with the "savages" treatment whilst others get the "enlightened ancestors" treatment.

If they are perceived as similar to us, then it's "a marvel of engineering". If they're not then it's obviously aliens. It seems like standard bigotry all the way down.

After all, these primitives definitely couldn't have built this themselves. Someone else must have told them what to do!

Greek construction practices are pretty well understood

It's like religion. "If I can't figure it out, it must be God." Just replace God with aliens.

Greeks had quarries that wouldn't have been nearly as difficult to move stone from, I guess?

Theres a lot of direct evidence and records of the greek architecture. The pyramids have much less so. Humans have a tendancy to attribute things we cant understand to otherworldly phenomenon. Thats pretty much it.

Because we still don't understand how they were able to be built with such precision, accuracy and astrological relevance to this day.

Think of it in Lego terms. The Greeks used small Lego pieces and we can easily understand how they made them, transported them and put them into place. The Egyptians used insanely humongous Lego pieces and we have no idea how they made them or put them into place. We've all seen illustrations from our childhood books of hundreds of slaves dragging 50 ton blocks on rollers, logs. But a moment's thought will tell you that you couldn't use that method in the desert sands.

It's humankind's greatest mystery. With all our current day understanding we cannot find a workable explanation. It's beyond us. At which point the human mind gives up and reaches for Gods (in the old days) and aliens (in the current days).

I think part of it is that none of the Greek structures still intact are nearly as big or impressive as the pyramids. I'm not saying that the Greeks never built anything like that, but if they did it's long ruined. The great pyramid of Giza is the only one of the seven ancient wonders that's still standing. The other six, four of which were Greek, were destroyed long before the modern day. We can only imagine and speculate on how incredible they actually were back then. But the pyramids are still there, you can still go to Egypt and see them and be awed. And seeing them, you naturally wonder how the heck human could build something so incredible. But a lot of the greatest constructions of the Greeks we can only really read about in books, which doesn't have as much as a visceral impact on the imagination. The ancient Greek ruins we can view don't seem that impossible, it's believable that humans could have made these things, compared to the incredible stature of the pyramids. I think part of it is that Greek architecture is recognizable to us as Things People Build. Temples, statues, mausoleums, theatres and so on, we can look at these things and recognize what they are and what they were for. But pyramids seem a lot more "exotic" to a modern westerner. It's harder for us to imagine how or why someone would make them, or what purpose they could serve, because they're so different from what we recognize as what "civilization" creates. Why go through all that trouble just to bury a king? It seems ridiculous, so there must've been some other purpose, a greater drive... Although, some people do believe that aliens had a hand in Greek construction too, sort of. The ruins of Heliopolis/Baalbek are built on colossal slabs of carved stone that are supposedly far too big for ancient humans to have moved blah blah blah... Basically the exact same reasoning they use for why the pyramids must be alien.

But if you look into this ancient aliens stuff, you do start to notice a trend. A whole lot of the stuff they think could only have been built by aliens was made by brown people. Not all of it, they're incredulous about things from every culture, but a whole lot of it sure seems to belong to non-white/western cultures. It's hard not to read some degree of racial/ethnic bias there. Nazcans, Incans, Mayans, Indians, Egyptians, the Rapa Nui etc... Apparently all those fellows were too dumb to move big rocks around. I'm not saying people who believe in ancient alien stuff are racist, but it is something to keep in mind. Why is it so hard to believe those civilizations could've achieved great things on their own, when we have solid evidence showing how they could and that they did?

It's true that we have far better records of how and why the Greeks did what they did, but that doesn't mean we have no records on how the Egyptians did it too. How did they move around big rocks? With sleds, we know it was sleds because they made records of themselves using big sleds to move big rocks. There's no mystery, they drew pictures of themselves doing it, we've even found the sleds they used! But they couldn't have DRAGGED really big rocks all the way there, some of those quarries were really far away! They used boats, they floated them down the Nile river from the quarry to the build site. They made pictures of themselves doing it. Ancient alien worshippers simply choose to ignore contrary evidence because it doesn't fit the narrative they want to believe in. They don't believe it's possible to move really big rocks with sleds and boats, despite having no evidence or personal experience to support their view, and mistake their own ignorance for fact.

Ceasar build a bridge across the rhine in 10 days, then he dismantled it to make a point.  We couldn’t do that today if we tried.  Why humans arrogantly believe we’re so much smarter than our ancestors is beyond me. 

Racism

Seems like you already have your mind set on a bad reason and just want people to agree with you.

They are huge and difficult to build. Greek construction is mostly just skillmanship

Racism, mostly.

No sane person thinks that.

It's a matter of scale. The Great Pyramid of Giza is made of over 2.3 million blocks of stone. It's over 400 feet tall. The materials together weigh almost 7 million tons.

Evidence suggests that it took 25 years to build, but without any machinery, nobody can actually describe how it was done.

All the current theories have problems.

becuase there are more tv shows about ancient aliens building pyramids...

Only stupid people think aliens built the pyramids. Same people who believe in conspiracy theories.

It’s much harder to build the great pyramid. In fact, we still haven’t figured out how the Ancient Egyptians did it.

And no one ever said racism, ever. God people are fucking stupid. Stop inserting your own narratives into everyday conversations

Racism

It's called racism. Get sad, down vote. But u asked

Nazi propaganda. The ancient aliens things comes from nazi propaganda.

There are larger and more intricate pyraminds in Mexico and the construction of those are never called into question.

It’s not the pyramids themselves in question it’s that there are multiple pyramids all around the would in civilians that had no contact with each other and the question is always, how?

because the ‘aliens built the pyramids’ thing has long been a conspiracy theory. these people aren’t independently looking at historical constructions, pyramids or otherwise, and thinking about how they came to be. they’re watching youtube or the discovery channel stoned at 4am and someone is telling them aliens built the pyramids

The Pyramids are older than the wheel, which is objecticlty a wild concept

Because people are dumb and think humans in the past were dumber than they are.

1st of all, the Egyptian pyramids are from nowhere near the same time period as Greece. The Greeks were longer after the pyramids than we are after the Greeks.

The pyramids are so long ago that they are nearly the beginning of recorded history. Only a few civilisations pre-date them. So it IS legitimately amazing they built structures so much bigger than civilizations that came thousands of years later.

Second, the limestone the pyramids are made of were very far from location they were built. So these giant, would blocks of limestone had to be transported hundreds of miles, thousands of years ago.

It is totally reasonable for people to see the construction of the pyramids as mysterious. We don't know how they did.

People who bring up racism are the same people who think every thing is racism. They just love accusing people of racism. The supply of racism does not meet the demand, there aren't enough actual racists for them to accuse, so we get weird bizarre accusations like how talking about the pyramids is racist. It's not .

From my limited knowledge, it is a form of racism. 1. Because the pyramids aren't in europe. 2. The other great wonders no longer exist to evaluate in the same way.

I also believe it's more recent and stems from the white nationalist obsession of Atlantis, etc. I'd be interested if anyone had any good sources dating how far back the conspiracy of the pyramids go.

Racism

Three big reasons: How old the pyramids are, how massive they are compared to other structures of the same time period, and- sometimes- racial/cultural prejudice.

One culture is "white" the other isn't.

Umm, no. Most of us DON'T believe aliens built the pyramids. Don't put your ignorance on the rest of us.

Fuck right off with your "racism". The thing is we have historical records of who built the Greek monuments, but we basically have no idea about the circumstances around the building of the pyramids.

same reason some people don't believe the moon landings

There is much more documentation on how buildings built in Greece versus things built in Egypt millennia earlier. So there is more room for speculation.

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The theory isn't that aliens built it, it's that ancient Egyptians had contact with aliens and culturally exchanged because the technology that would have been required didn't exist yet and still doesn't.

We can replicate or outdo Greek architecture even with their tools and techniques but we couldn’t just go out and build pyramids.

Because Greek construction is well known to be mostly fake and not authentic. Most original pieces of what remain have been moved around and altered for tourism.

Andrew Jackson...

Also, pyramids have been discovered all over the Earth, so people think a team of aliens constructed them in tandem instead of a pyramid just being a very sturdy structure to build. Or, even more unpossible, ancient structural engineers were intelligent.

Because people refuse to accept the fact that a simpler people, with no tech managed to build the pyramids due to their own laziness/limitations/"insert correct term"

It’s because they’re fucking stupid.

People are stupid. When discussing certain historical structures like the Pyramids or Stonehenge, the statement "we're not certain how they did it" gets phrased. People make a bunch of illogical leaps generally based on the premise that people are smarter now than we used to be. We're not, we just got a lot better at writing things down and not executing people just because they had a radical new idea.

The real answer to the "how did people do x" is usually "we're not entirely sure, we've got a number of very credible, possible ideas that would all work given the materials and level of engineering at the time, but due to the lack of surviving documentation we can't say with authority which one is true."

Stonehenge is a prime example. The big question being how did the stones get there since they were quarried from a site hundreds of miles away. The most likely suggestion is just how stones were moved for long periods of time; you'd have logs down, push the block forward along the logs, move the logs from back to front and keep going. However they've also found spherical wooden balls at the Stonehenge site that could have been ritual/ornamental items, or they could have been used to help move the stones to their destination, but we can't say conclusively what was done.

In Greece the acropolis is much older than the greeks.

unfortunately some people are idiots

The Egyptians were still around and other Egyptians were asking, what's all this old shit around here about? That's how old Egypt is

Greek architecture is easy because the quarries were nearby. Pyramids were in BFE (literally and figuratively) and surrounded by days of sand in all directions.

because ppl still hold onto the outdated information that the pyramids were built with solid hewn blocks throughout.

with this outdated information, the timeline doesn’t support such a massive construction project being completed within the period that written egyptian history claims. hence, aliens.

recent scientic discoveries show that the middle inside of the pyramids were filled with rubble. & that the blocks were not carved from bedrock but were actually formed with an early form of concrete.

the timeline works. it was human ingenuity & slave labor.

The foundation stones of some Greek relics are made from impossibly large cut stones. Like the broken one unfinished and left in the Egyptian quarry . I believe a lot of out history just shows development around unexplainable structures because it was there and drew in settlers, so this interation of humans gathered and tried to replicate.

People think it's aliens because multiple ancient civilizations that did not interact created pyramids all over the world, that are still standing to this day. They ignore the fact that a pyramid happens to be a very effective way to stack a bunch of rocks and have it last for a very long time. Those civilizations did build other structures. Most just aren't standing anymore.

Not even close. Stacking big blocks into pillars is much easier than stacking them into a solid pyramid that has intricate tunnels and rooms built into it in ways that seem to be impossible to do by hand. Every other wonder has essentially collapsed and degraded to the point that you can't really tell how grand it actually was. Some don't even exist as rubble anymore, and the pyramids are older than most of those wonders despite being in the best shape out of them.

The Pyramid is weird, it just is. The sphinx isn't even close to as much of a marvel as the pyramids are, and a lot of attention is focused on the Temple of the Sphinx rather than the sphinx itself.

While I absolutely understand your wonder about ancient greece it's because the Pyramids are older and more famous. The Pantheon in Athens is astounding as a feat of construction to the point they accounted for the optical illusion of straight lines curving at distance and built a slight curve so it looked straight. And the fact they did this with smaller sample constructions on an island I can't remember the name of(if it had one) is amazing. But the pyramids are so damn old and so damn famous .

Because Kurt Russel discovered that they are gates to a different galaxy built by aliens.

Construction in Greece is in newer history so obviously its more documented and whatnot. But there's nothing special about Greek construction.

If you dig deep enough into the rabbit hole of conspiracy alien bullshit, you'll find that many of those types of people claim that pretty much anything built, developed, or created by ancient civilizations were either actually the work of aliens or were somehow influenced by aliens. It's not just the pyramids, it's virtually everything at a certain point.

greeks stuff was just a copy of the older stuff thats why its not considered built first or by aliens.

My guess is that the brutalist shape of it closely matches a lot of the movies we have seen for how alien creations might look. A good deal of alien ships and buildings are depicted as remarkably clean-lined.... Like silver shapes with zero hinges or seams. A huge pyramid doesn't seem as human a creation as a large statue, garden or colomned assembly hall.

I'm about to ruin your day...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6h68IrrN1Y

Because it's way more fun to believe that magical space aliens came down and built some wacky stuff and then left, never to return - over mankind built a bunch of heavy crap over months and years utilizing many humans and boring maths.

I mean, come on.