They were not, so the polemic went, the work of 'voonsy' man, but instead those 'Giants of Mars'.
Yes, the pyramids of Giza – those monuments for God -like splendor who have been stood for more than 4000 years – were built by alien beings.
That was the 'claim' made by the American astronomer Garrett P. Serviss in his book Edison's Conquest of Mars from 1898.
Perceptive readers will have noted that the work of SERVISS – an unauthorized rewriting of HG Wells' from the Alien Invasion Novel the War of the Worlds from 1897 – was fictional.
But it made a theory that, even in more recent years, has continued to find a grip.
In 2020, billionaire Tesla -Baas Elon Musk took the contempt of experts when he went to Twitter – the social network he bought in 2022 for $ 44 billion – to write: 'Aliens built the pyramids based on'.
Now, the discovery this month that an 'underground city' lies in a 'hidden world' under the most famous pyramids in Egypt, has again drawn attention to the structures that both experts and amateurs have already obsessed millennia.
Where would the huge network that can fall in the sand for more than one and a half kilometers have been used?
The mysterious and commander Pyramids on the Giza plateau near Cairo
The idea that aliens forms would have built the pyramids was made popular in the late 19th century
Five years ago, Musk's remark led Egypt to say that seeing the graves of the pyramid builders would be proof that alien beings did not construct them.
Rania al-Mashat said: 'I follow your work with great admiration.
'I invite you and Space X to explore the writings about how the pyramids were built and also to view the graves of the pyramid builders. Mr. Musk, we are waiting for you. '
The Egyptian archaeologist Zahi Hawass also waded in the bizarre row and said in a video that Mr. Musk's argument was a 'complete hallucination'.
The largest of the three pyramids in Giza – the great pyramid – was built more than 4,500 years ago in around 2560 BC for King Khufu, who was the second Pharaoh of the fourth dynasty of ancient Egypt.
Until the completion of the Lincoln cathedral in the 14th century it was the tallest building in the world.
The pyramid, which was garnished with a gold or electrum cover, was built as a holy grave for Khufu, who believed that he was divine.
The other two pyramids, built for Pharaoh's Menkaure and Khafre, were built decades later.
The idea that the structures were built by or with the help of aliens who have received further grip with the Swiss author Erich von Däniken's influential book Chariots of the Gods from 1968.
He argued that Giza's great pyramid could not be built without the help of advanced alien technology.
The author wrote: 'If we accept the neat package of knowledge gentle that the Egyptologists serve for us, ancient Egypt appears suddenly and without transition with a fantastic ready-made civilization.
'Large cities and enormous temples, colossal status with enormous expressive power, beautiful streets flanked by beautiful sculptures, perfect drain systems, luxurious graves cut out of the rock, pyramids of overwhelming size – these and many other beautiful things shot out of the ground.
“Real miracles in a country that is suddenly capable of such performance without recognizable prehistory!”
He added: 'An artificial mountain, about 490 feet high and with a weight of 6,500,000 tons, is there as proof of an incredible achievement, and this monument is supposed to be nothing more than the cemetery of an extravagant king!
“Everyone who can believe that explanation is welcome …”
The deceased Belgian author Philip Coppens was frank in the same way in his book The Ancient Alien Quest 2011.
The discovery this month that an 'underground city' is in a 'hidden world' among the most famous pyramids in Egypt, has intrigued both experts and amateurs. Above: a scan of the structures
In his novel of 1898 Edison's Conquest of Mars, the American astronomer Garrett P. Serviss wrote that alien beings had built the pyramids
He said in one passage: “If alien beings built the great pyramid, it must be argued that they were also responsible for at least some of the other pyramids in ancient Egypt.”
But experts have set up every idea that beings of other planets may have been involved in the construction of the pyramids.
The British Egyptologist professional professor Joyce Tyldesley said on the history of BBC's extra podcast from BBC, said: “It is almost a bit like a form of racism, not that these people couldn't do it, so someone else must have done it.”
“But I think there is something more than that. Because prior to the idea that alien beings helped to build the pyramids, we had the idea that people from Atlantis may have helped to build the pyramids, and for that we had the idea that God inspired builders to use the pyramid inch, a divine inspired measurements to build the pyramids.
'So I think it is that there has always been a long succession of theories about how the pyramids can be built, and because one kind of the other is replaced.
“So it's not just from nowhere. I think it is a kind of changing and evolving faith if how the pyramids are possible, and that is just the newest we have.
“As we become more interested in space and aliens, then they are also a bit attached to this theory.”
However, mystery about the construction of the pyramids remains.
The big pyramid is the only one of the seven wonders that usually survives intact
The large pyramid was supposedly completed in 24 years.
But it was built from 2.3 million limestone blocks, each weighing between 2.5 tons 70 tons.
The British writer Graham Hancock noted: “Assuming that the Freemasons worked ten hours a day, 365 days a year, they should have placed one block every two minutes.”
More than 1000 years ago, historian Abul Hasan Ali Ali Al -Sudi wrote the idea of ​​'acoustic levitation' – the use of sound waves to make the blocks weightless.
Al-Masudi said that an inscription in papyrus was slipped under each block.
When a note sounded, the stone lifted off the ground and then floated into the space.
The newest discovery that cave -like spaces exist among the pyramids was made by researchers from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow and the Italian University of Pisa.
“When we increase the images, we will reveal that it is below what can only be described as a real underground city … A very hidden world of many structures,” said Corrado Malanga, one of the archaeological researchers.
The Pyramids of Egypt have long fascinated scholars and still appear amazing revelations
It remains a mystery how many older than the pyramids the structures are.
It is also unknown that their goal is, but they are connected by geometric passages.
Even more spectacular are eight vertical columns that descend 2,1245 feet into a few huge rooms.
The depth is almost five times the height of the Khafre pyramid.
The cylinders are aligned in two rows of four walking from north to south.
Given that the edges of the large pyramids are confronted exactly to the north, south, east and west, the regulations of the cylinders are certainly important.
And around every pillar is a pedaly walkway.
The discovery of the underground structures also stacks intrigues on a subject that is endlessly fascinating.
Scholars around the world – and amateurs who eagerly follow each development – will wait to see which findings then arise.
The mystery of the great pyramid of Giza
For more than 4,500 years, the Pyramids of Egypt have hidden their secrets deeply in the labyrinth of passages and rooms that are in their towering stone structures.
But the long -term row about whether the large pyramid of Giza hides a network of previously undiscovered tunnels behind the stone walls has now been answered.
The researchers confirmed the find with the help of cosmic particles known as muons to scan the great pyramid of Giza.
They used the scans to make cards to reveal the internal structure of the 479 feet (146 m) high pyramid.
Last year, Thermal Scanning identified an important deviation in the large pyramid, the largest and oldest of the pyramids in Giza and one of the seven wonders of the old world.
Those scans identified three adjacent stones at the base that registered higher temperatures than others.
The Egyptian museum in Cairo began to show the oldest papyruses in the country on Thursday, who date 4,500 years, with details about the daily life of the pyramid builders.
This led to theories that they may hide a secret room that still had to be discovered.
A team of experts then set up the project of the scanpyramide to use muons, small subatomical particles that are usually produced by cosmic rays that are beaten in atoms on earth, to lead by the enormous stone blocks of the pyramid, some of which are up to 15 tons.
Dr. Hawass has been skeptical in the past about the usefulness of performing such scans.
He recently crashed publicly with British Egyptologists about their theory that a secret burial room can be hidden behind the walls of Tutankhamun's grave in his pyramid in the valley of the kings.
Scientists use a MUON detection machine (depicted) to scan the internal structure of Giza's large pyramid
