🧩 BND Motif Index · M1911
Ancient aliens
The great works of the ancient world, pyramids and megaliths, are said to be beyond the peoples who built them, so aliens, giants or a lost race must have made them; the answer is that their own builders did, and the doubt is called racism that cannot credit non-white peoples with their own wonders.
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🗣️ In so many words
the words that carry it
💬 the tellers' own words: “just because you couldn't do it does NOT mean it was aliens.” “Over centuries, European Whites have called EVERY SINGLE WORLD WONDER made by people of color into question” “The pyramids were built by ingenious Africans.”
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, in our words, by who told it: newest first in each; a claim's dots are the shows it came up on, in their lean's color (point at them for their names)
Retold online 1
claims many people posted in their own words
- 2026-11-11 “The pyramids were built by ingenious Africans using engineering and manpower, not by aliens.”
M1911 · first seen 2026-11-11 · what this is · how the index works