While Ancient Aliens has risen in popularity, its sense of proof is exactly enough. To be able to prove your theory is right, you have to do your best to prove it wrong. It sounds backwards, but if you can’t prove it wrong, then there is no other option but the truth. This process is called the Scientific Theory and its taught in most classrooms.
The bit of evidence I want to talk about was the Saqqara bird. The artifact in question is a small wooden carving of what is presumably a bird, but what the show claims is that it actually was a plane, in which extraterrestrials used to visit the Egyptians. Now, that does not sound right to me at all. First of all, the painting on the figurine is of that of a bird. The beak is well defined, and you can clearly see the eyes. The cool part is not that it was based off a plane, but rather planes where first based off birds.
The wings of the figurine are thicker towards the body, but thinner at the edge. Planes are modelled the same exact way, so I see why the show counted that as evidence, but they jumped the gun so to speak. While it does look like a plane, it is in fact modelled after the same thing as planes, birds.
The Saqqara bird is theorized to be a ceremonial tool, as it could symbolized that of Horus, one of Egypt’s main deities. It was placed in the tomb to ensure safe passage in the afterlife. I personally believe it probably was a to, made to glide like the birds, like we do now. Ancient civilizations were teaming with ideas that are similar to ours, from math to calendars. Human ingenuity is absolutely incredible, and this little guy just shows it.
