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Originally Posted by BK911
Not what I said.
No ETs. Well, maybe.
But definite signs of technology that was more advanced than us in certain areas.
Especially megalithic structures.
Some (many) structures had MUCH more advanced abilities than the structures built on top.
Sticking fingers in your ears doesn't negate these facts.
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I don't think that's that unusal, especially back then when things were far less global. While I think man has traveled farther and more widely in the past than many historians expected, I think it was more unusual, and the greatest knowledge of various civilizations didn't necessarily travel.
So if there was a civilization with the knowledge to do X, Y, and Z at a very high level, and that civilization fell, the next civilization or a civilization in another geographic area may not, likely didn't have access to that advanced knowledge. So things get lost.
Think about it, there's still a ton of stuff where modern man with all of his tech and abilities isn't entirely sure how ancient man made items or performed tasks, and yet, they did because we have proof. Aliens? Unlikely. Geniuses and polymaths from ancient times that came up with ways of doing things that have been forgotten? Absolutely!
I think modern man grossly underestimates ancient man frequently or nearly as a matter of course.
Some folks question those boundaries and some of those ideas are starting to crumble, but I think for the most part, a lot of folks still cling to some of the ideas that we "knew" despite evidence that seems to contradict them (even if we still don't have a complete picture, because we don't know what we don't know).