Archeologystudent

There are several claims in this episode that I find to be flawed. · Egyptians gained beliefs of afterlife from ancient aliens o If ancient aliens influenced ancient Egyptians and helped shape their religion and beliefs about the afterlife, why wouldn’t they have tried to spread these beliefs to other ancient civilizations. It isn’t likely that the aliens would have simply decided that Egyptians were the sole inheritors of their knowledge, and the aliens had to have known of other humans or could have detected them with technology advanced enough for space travel. Since the belief in the afterlife is so varied between cultures and not even universal, it couldn’t have been the work of aliens. · Mummification and winged creatures were a result of a universal alien culture o If the beliefs behind the winged creatures/gods was inspired by aliens, and so was mummification, then the practices should be less varied then they are, while the winged creatures are found in multiple ancient cultures, their depictions as shown in the episode are only comparable on the surface, as the Egyptian god is the body of a man with the heads of a bird, and other such depictions are men with wings or creatures with wings. If these were supposedly from the same source, they would all be universal. The same can be said for the different mummies. The Chilean mummies depicted do have their organs removed, but that step is necessary for the process of drying the body, and was probably found to be useful by trial and error, furthermore, there is no mention that their organs were preserved in jars like the ancient Egyptians did, and if they could have been incased in mud, they should have been capable of making mud jars. The fact that these winged creatures and mummy practices are similar are not unusual, as throughout more modern history, similar breakthroughs have surfaced in different areas at the same time, such as the birth of agriculture and the industrial revolution. · The Chachapoya sarcophagi o Again, if this knowledge was passed down from aliens it would make since that they should have given this knowledge to all ancient humans, or at least all humans in the area, yet the show clearly states that this tribe was the only one to make the sarcophagi. So why wouldn’t the other tribes have made them as well? surely, they would have heard of the aliens and their tales of the afterlife. These claims, while interesting, can be proven to be coincidental or explained in more logical manners, and while I myself believe in aliens, I find it hard to believe that aliens had anything to do with mummification, or any ancient civilization for that matter.