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i think it has more to do with what color skin people think they had and not how advanced they actually were...
When your civilisation is white enough that documentaries don’t credit alien
Even then I'd say "whitewashed" more than actually being white. Many Romans would have had skin dark enough that they wouldn't be considered white by today's standards
Also the slavery.
lol up until very recently in the US, Italians weren’t considered white.
The fact that the OP is talking about a road (some stuff we build every day) instead of a huge pyramid also helps.
We build massive mounds of dirt and rock all the time. We also have a widespread history of building massive stone structures all over the world for thousands of years. The pyramids are impressive, but other than the location and structure they are just another big pile of stones that humans like to make.
Yeah but the Colosseum tho. That's some extremely advanced architecture and it's HUGE. The fact that most of it is still standing after centuries of earthquakes (and being used as a quarry for other construction!) really says something.
I was about to comment something about "alien" Stonehenge and how people assume the Brythonic Celts were fair-skinned, but then I looked it up and was surprised to learn that Stonehenge predates the arrival of the Celts by roughly 2,000 years