History's Mysteries

Why do we feel as if we have to attribute histories greatest mysteries to aliens?  How did the ancient Egyptians, who had yet to realize how useful a wheel could be, build the pyramids? They didn't; aliens did. Why did the ancient Peruvians draw the Nazca Lines so large? So aliens could see them better. What's the purpose of the standing stones arranged in lines and circles all over Europe? To attract aliens. Who first used fire and how did they start it? Early men, but they didn't start it. Aliens landed and taught them how to rub sticks together.

And then you have Atlantis--great civilization, much greater than ours, but it sank somewhere and now we can't find it. King Arthur definitely lived, was a great king, and his court (sometime in the 4th to 5th century) lived and dressed in the style of the Tudors (their juniors by more than a millenium.) Need we talk about secrets of the Knights Templar? Those poor guys who got burned at the stake because they made too much money? (Watch out Wall St. fat cats!)

We have only two real answers to these mysteries:  "I don't know," and "There's no way to find out." Sorry, but that's it. The human mind rebels. Nature abhors a vacuum and humans abhor a puzzle they can't solve.  Not surprisingly, a number of entrepreneurs have proposed the alien theory and others to sell books and  TV documentaries. I don't knock it. Just wish I'd thought of it myself.

I do still have hopes for vibrations locked in ancient pottery.