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Were These 7 Ancient Sites Built By Aliens? 45

7 Ancient Sites Some

People Think Were Built

by Aliens

By Nadia Drake

These spots might not have been
crafted by extraterrestrials, but that
doesn’t mean they’re not out of this
world.

Planet Earth is home to some spectacular relics
from bygone eras, constructions that seem to
defy the technological capabilities of their time
either because they’re too big, too heavy, or too
complex.
As such, some suggest the ancient
builders of the Egyptian pyramids, the Nasca
lines, and others were following an
extraterrestrial instruction manual. Perhaps the
hands that crafted these sites weren’t really of
this world.
To be sure, it’s fun to think about southeast of Lima, more than 800 long, straight align with the stars in Orion’s belt. As well, alien
whether aliens have visited Earth. After all, white lines are etched into the Peruvian desert, theorists often point to the fact that these three
humans are on the threshold of expanding our seemingly at random. Joining them are 300 pyramids are in way better shape than others
reach in space, and places like Mars are in our geometric shapes and 70 figures of animals, built centuries later (never mind the amount of
sight. But the truth is, there’s no evidence including a spider, monkey, and hummingbird. work that has gone into preserving them over the
suggesting that aliens have ever been here. And The longest of the lines run straight as an past several centuries).
invoking a supernatural explanation for some of arrow for miles. The biggest shapes stretch So are Egypt’s pyramids artifacts of
the most monumental of human achievements nearly 1,200 feet across and are best viewed aliens? Not exactly. It’s true that scientists aren’t
means skipping over the fascinating ways in from the air. Scientists suspect the Nasca quite sure how the ancient Egyptians build the
which prehistoric civilizations managed to make drawings are as many as two millennia old, and pyramids—and especially how they did it so
some of the largest and most enigmatic because of their age, size, visibility from above, quickly—but there’s ample evidence that these
constructions on Earth. and mysterious nature, the lines are often cited tombs are the work of thousands of earthly
as one of the best examples of alien handiwork hands.
Sacsayhuamán on Earth. Otherwise, how would an ancient
culture have been able to make such huge Stonehenge
Outside the old Inca capital of Cusco, a fortress designs in the desert without being able to fly?
called Sacsayhuamán rests in the Peruvian And why? A huge circle of stones, some weighing as much
Andes. Built from enormous stones that have Turns out, it’s rather easy to understand as 50 tons, sits in the English countryside
been chiseled and stacked together like a jigsaw the how. Called geoglyphs, these enigmatic outside Salisbury. Known as Stonehenge, the
puzzle, some say Sacsayhuamán could be the designs are made by removing the top, rust- Neolithic monument inspired Swiss author
work of an ancient civilization that had a little colored layer of rocks and exposing the brighter Erich von Däniken to suggest it was a model of
help from interstellar friends. white sand underneath. the solar system that also functioned as an alien
The 1,000-year-old interlocking fortress The why is a bit tougher to comprehend. landing pad—after all, how else could those
walls are made of rocks that weigh as much as First studied in the early 1900s, the designs were massive stones have ended up hundreds of miles
360 tons each, and which were carried more than initially suspected to be aligned with from their home quarry?
20 miles before being lifted and fit into place constellations or solstices, but more recent work No one knows what, exactly, the
with laser-like precision. suggests the Nasca lines point to ceremonial or meaning of Stonehenge is, but, as with all the
How an ancient culture accomplished ritual sites related to water and fertility. And in other sites in this collection, the explanation is
such a feat of engineering is a fun little problem addition to being visible from the air, the shapes not aliens. Instead, scientists have demonstrated
to solve; turns out the Inca were as adept at can be seen from surrounding foothills. it’s actually possible to build such a thing using
building houses and fortified complexes as they technologies that would have been around 5,000
were at watching the sky and keeping calendars. Egyptian Pyramids years ago, when the earliest structures at the site
In fact, Sacsayhuamán isn’t the only example of were built.
this intricate masonry: Similar walls exist Just outside Cairo, in Giza, the most famous of And now, it appears as though the stones
throughout the Inca Empire, including one in Egypt’s pyramids rise from the desert. Built are aligned with solstices and eclipses,
Cusco where a 12-angled stone has been more than 4,500 years ago, the Pyramids at Giza suggesting the Stonehenge builders were at least
carefully wedged into place. are monumental tombs where ancient queens keeping an eye on the heavens, even if they
More recently, archaeologists have and pharaohs were buried. didn’t come from above.
uncovered traces of the rope-and-lever system But how, exactly, did the Egyptians build (Continued on Page 48)
the Inca used to transport stones from their these things? The Great Pyramid is made of
quarries to their cities—a system that relied on millions of precisely hewn stones weighing at
strength and ingenuity, rather than alien least two tons each. Even with today’s cranes
architects. and other construction equipment, building a

pyramid as big as that of Pharaoh Khufu would
Nasca Lines be a formidable challenge.
And then there’s the astronomical
On a high and dry plateau some 200 miles configuration of the pyramids, which is said to