The Mayan pyramids were built by aliens. An advanced civilization made Stonehenge. The Nazca lines are landing strips for alien ships. These and many claims without scientific basis are spread everywhere, and the web is the best place to amplify their noise.
Humanity has always had the tendency, more or less justified, to attribute to superior beings the creation of works that are apparently too complex, too beautiful for their abilities, for their limited intellect. Many theories that see to extraterrestrials as authors of masterpieces of all kinds They developed in parallel with the emergence of modern archaeology. The Mayan pyramids and the Egyptian pyramids, Stonehenge, the moai from Easter Island, not to mention the Nazca lines, geoglyphs that are considered clearly drawn by an alien hand to be visible from above by beings that dominate the sky. Needless to say, there are countless pages that take up these theories and make them their own.
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From Homer to Shakespeare, the writers who never existed
It is difficult to think of people capable of erecting the pyramids thousands of years ago. It is also difficult to think of a man who could write two literary milestones like The Iliad and The Odyssey almost 3,000 years ago. And from there to stating that Homer never existed is a very short step.. The Homeric question, the debate that began already in antiquity, remains open: for the most refined skeptics, the poems are the work of two different authors, or an oral tradition that later became a written text. But although the most recent studies reevaluate the hypothesis of a flesh-and-blood Homer, there is always a hint of skeptical envy towards the genius. Skepticism that swells to extreme levels when it comes to another great writer: Shakespeare, who from time to time, according to the theories of the moment, is said to have been a Sicilian, a Syrian, a stable boy or a lover of the queen. Elizabeth I. There are those for whom Shakespeare would be the pseudonym of the queen herselfwho would have delighted in composing plays. For others, Shakespeare was actually Francis Bacon or Christopher Marlowe. In short, practically anyone, except the Bard of Avon. To delve deeper into the subject and get lost among hundreds of assumptions (some of them suggestive), all you have to do is browse the Internet.
Easy: it was the aliens
Among the most “fascinating” theories that are spread On the Internet there are, without a doubt, those who see impossible techniques and workmanship in the most realistic sculptures. Among the most popular victims of this way of thinking is a work that is not actually among the best known: the white marble bust of Maria Duglioli Barberini, by Giuliano Finelli, from 1626.
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