Ancient Aliens DEBUNKED!

Ancient Aliens Debunked!!

The History Channel's show, "Ancient Aliens", frequently misleads viewers through the dishonest (or outright fraudulent) use of historical and archaeological evidence. Academic experts are also used to lend authority to otherwise ridiculous claims.
Join Megan as she provides specific examples of these techniques, using season 12, episode 16 as her case study - Return to Göbekli Tepe!

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[mydudeleakytiki]

I totally loved this episode! Thanks, and please, more of these!

[nomduclavier]

Some guy on the internet: Draws pregnant catbois
Some guy thousands of years in the future: ALIENS

[Paulogia]

32:25 All this proves is that hands are as difficult to sculpt well as they are to draw well... and artists throughout history have been lazy.

[MartijnHover]

If you hear someone ask: "Could the (...) be evidence of ancient aliens (...) in our distant past?", the answer is: "No!"

[MandyGBX]

They really just need to change the name of that show to "Ancient Astronaut Theorists Say Yes"

[vinnytaranova]

I always thought that Ancient Aliens was supposed to be kinda goofy... the history channel version of Cheers or Three is Company... until one day a friend said that he now believed that aliens had created humans and actually used the show as "evidence" to support his belief.
We stay far from those topics now... politics and religion are far safer subjects.

[dragongirl]

Biggest problem with this theory: the aliens would have totally violated the Prime Directive.

[georgejackson]

Ancient Aliens is one of those shows I watch for a good laugh. The answer to everything and anything is always aliens. My favorite episode was when they said aliens nuked the dinosaurs because they couldn't use them as slave labor. So it took the aliens over 100 million years to figure that out?

[munstrumridcully]

Ancient Aliens was the last straw for me as far as the History Channel goes. I used to be hooked on all their docs on WW2 and Ancient Rome. Now, all they do is peddle BS to con laymen and get ratings. Bah!

[patric]

Ancient aliens? Bunk!

I was born in 1961, grew up in the 70's, and was in junior high and high school in the period when Von Daniken's 'Chariots of the Gods' was a phenomenon. One of my junior high school teachers was fascinated by Von Daniken's work. As an impressionable kid (around 13 or 14) I was impressed by all the pseudo-scientific bs. I loved science fiction, and was a big Star Trek fan, so I was prepared to buy into all of the hype.

Later in high school, I asked one of my favorite science teachers what he thought of 'Chariots of the Gods', and Von Daniken's other books. His one word reply is unprintable.

I soon learned that all of the 'Ancient Alien' material was pseudo-science based on fakery and misrepresentation.

My favorite quote regarding Von Daniken is by Dr. Carl Sagan: “The kindest thing I can say about Von Daniken is that he ignores the science of archeology. Every time he sees something he can’t understand, he attributes it to extraterrestrial intelligence, and since he understands almost nothing, he sees evidence of extraterrestrial intelligence all over the planet."

I'm glad that you've taken the time to refute some of the nonsense perpetuated by the Ancient Alien community. Personally, I can't understand how anyone could fall for it, unless they are also impressionable teenagers. Heck, even most modern teenagers are too sophisticated for this tripe.

Keep up the good work, and best wishes,

[johncaulfield]

Finally, a video analyzing Ancient Aliens for it’s fraudulent claims! It’s so hard just to find one video on YouTube that debunks this show. And yeah, there is that 3 hour film called “Ancient Aliens Debunked, ” which does offer factual information, but it was made by a creationist who also was promoting his own views. So thank you for doing this from a non-religious perspective

[dudman]

If I was a super advanced alien civilization I would definitely travel across the universe to super inefficient megalithic structures.

[shaolinderpalm]

Thank you for actually pointing out the time disparity between SUMERIAN and NEO-ASSYRIAN. I hate when people conflate.

[shanet.]

Wow - Look how similar those statues of people look - it's almost as if they are based on the same being - amazing

[daviydviljoen]

My 6 year old niece would absolutely love it if the moon was populated by rainbow unicorns!

I've never watched an episode of the hopelessly poor scholarship, which is why I love your channel, so that I don't have to watch junk like AE. Thank you for doing this, I'm glad the copyright issue was resolved.

(by the way, a biologist would ask how the heck the alien chromosomes are supposed to pair with human chromosomes).

[finderfinder]

13 seasons of Ancient Aliens ...13. It hurts to think that over a decade of this show is out there,

[dropbearattack]

The pictured Armadillo clearly lost a lot of weight on the Ark.
I might use it to start my "Noah's diet " weight loss centers TM, I'll just lock people in a wooden box that can't possibly store enough food for everyone; money up front please!

[ahar]

The way the ancient aliens narrator prefaces everything with "imagine in every episode is rather a give away

[phangkuanhoong]

the fact that this bullshit show has went on 14 seasons and still running with mass popularity, is absolutely horrifying.

[thelemoncoffee]

i think the funniest part of the whole statue hand position thing is that they're using it to promote the concept of inhuman entities while it itself is likely the most human thing an artist could do.
as an artist looking at those statues i can practically hear the artist's pain as they try to carve a human figure out of a rock with such limited tools, skills, and materials. they probably took one look at what they were trying to do in their restrictive medium and made the hands in the simplest way they could without it looking like trash.

those hands reek of being the ancient statue-carver equivalent of artists now days shoving character's hands into their pockets so they don't have to draw them, i can feel it in my soul.