For those of us who study culture, this is absolutely a thing. Its called pseudoarchaeology and it has always been very popular with White Supremacists. https:

For those of us who study culture, this is absolutely a thing. Its called pseudoarchaeology and it has always been very popular with White Supremacists. https://entangledstates.org/2021/10/05/the-connection-between-ancient-aliens-and-white-supremacy/ https://entangledstates.org/2021/10/05/the-connection-betwee... https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pseudoarchaeology-racism/ https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/pseudoarchaeology-racism... https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-racism-behind-ancient-aliens/ https://hyperallergic.com/470795/pseudoarchaeology-and-the-r... https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.364.6436.110 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.364.6436.110 Also, Even today white supremacists think Einstein was a fraud: https://christiansfortruth.com/albert-einstein-plagiarist-and-fraud/ https://christiansfortruth.com/albert-einstein-plagiarist-an... But that is harder to believe than "Dumb Egyptians couldn't make pyramids, so aliens did it..."