Here at Skeptoid we really hope you aren't offended at this prolonged counter-strike against

the tsunami of misinformation promoted by History's Ancient Aliens series.

So we ask that you please bear with us during this second of our three-part battle.

Today we're going to fact check Ancient Aliens claims about a mysterious hall of records

they claim is inside Egypt's Great Sphinx about an ancient megalithic site in South America

called Puma Pumku and a few other offenses to archaeology and to our ancient civilizations.

That's all coming up right now on Skeptoid.

You're listening to Skeptoid.

I'm Brian Dunning from Skeptoid.com.

Debunking Ancient Aliens Part 2

Today we're continuing our three-part discussion of some of the most popularly believed falsehoods

promoted as fact by the TV series Ancient Aliens.

To keep this gargantuan task somewhat manageable, we split it into three parts.

Ancient texts covered last week in Part 1, ancient artworks and artifacts, which we'll

talk about next week in Part 3, and today's Part 2, in which we'll focus on ancient sites

and landmarks.

For the most part, these are places with stone structures that ancient aliens teaches

were beyond the capabilities of humans to build.

Thus, the only reasonable explanation for their existence is that literal space aliens

in flying saucers came to Earth to build them and then left.

It's a hypothesis that has always boggled my mind personally.

I think of our own space program, in particular the Voyager and Pioneer probe series that we sent

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