Debunking the Ancient Aliens Narrative: Archaeology and the Cooperative Creation of Monuments at Giza, Göbekli Tepe, and Troy

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Mythical claims that aliens built ancient civilizations persist because dramatic stories and media hype draw people in, a view popularized by Erich von Däniken, but archaeology shows that sites like Giza, Göbekli Tepe, and Troy were created through organized labor and cultural exchange rather than extraterrestrial help, and Blum and colleagues urge a human-centered story of cooperation and craft while noting that the possibility of life beyond Earth does not prove past alien involvement.