re: #333 Big Beautiful Door

People 5k years ago were just as smart as we are and capable of amazing feats of architecture. That’s one reason I hate all those stupid “ancient aliens” shows; it denies the geniuses who built these monuments the credit they deserve.

Same here - and I’ve often there’s a certain degree of bigotry, if not occasional outright racism - involved in that sort of woowoo.

“C’mon, those silly inferior people couldn’t possibly have done that! Must’ve been aliens!!”

When the French first came across Angkor Wat, they simply couldn’t believe that the people saw in the nearby rice paddies were the descendants of those long-ago architects.