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On the other hand, what about the proposition that these feats of engineering and expert stone dressing couldn’t have been done by humans all those thousands of years ago—so the builders must have been aided by Ancient Aliens.
And it was probably built as a temple to worship those Ancient Aliens.
Huh? Huh? What about that?
I watched a documentary on Gobekli Tepe. They brought in a British stone mason. He took a piece of stone of the same type as the T-pillars with animal reliefs. Using a harder stone he was able to shape an animal relief in about an hour.
The lesson to be taken away from Goblkli Tepe is that Man was well experienced in stone work 11,000 years ago. This was long before your Zecharia Sitchin aliens arrived. It shows me that man was able to create magnificent works long before the bronze age. I would not be surprised to see works down deep or covered in coast seas that were made even earlier.
The more I hear about ancient aliens the more I believe their adherents are extreme liberals. They do not believe individual genius and creativity can be responsible for magnificent works. They have no faith that men left to their own ways can produce anything. So, I believe you are a liberal lurking here on FR
Yeah, those aliens with their technology to cross light years of distance always did have a thing about masonry. ;’) It means they had a sense of humor — “see how easy it is to get these monkeys to cart all this stone around.” ;’)