The folks who say "modern tools" have never used any other tools except what's in a hardware store. Power tools just save time. It's the same shit that we could do thousands of years ago by hand and determination (or elbow grease for those who build character). Machu Pichu was made by people and anyone can go visit it - the city is made of stones the size of cars all fitted together in irregular patterns and joined without mortar. If those "modern tools" folks knew masonry they would understand how incredible it is to build without mortar and have it withstand 400 years in a jungle with no maintenance.

With enough time and not enough else to do, a village can carve a mountain using sand and water. Fuck modernity. Embrace persistence.

There is always a subtext of racism in these claims, because the ancient people that are referred to are always more brown, and surely brown people couldn't have accomplished anything of significance on their own.

Do you think if humans ever achieve interstellar flight and discover a less technologically advanced species that we'll just show them how to use big stick to move big rock and then fly away smug af and high fiving?

Interested in seeing someone tear apart claims like this? Search Miniminuteman on YouTube. He has short and long form content. I have never cared about archeology in the past, but his snarky wit makes it interesting.

Yeah god those humans who learned cultivation from nothing and who made tools without prior knowledge of their existance really were too stupid to, i dunno, cut some fuckin shapes into a rock???

Sandstone is relatively soft. They could easily carve it with tools made from harder stones. A hammer and chisel is not necessary.

Of course they can't carve "this".

They can't carve anything since they're all long dead.

They even carved the history channel logo into the center!

Listen to the Fall of Civilizations Podcast to hear about even more impressive megalithic structures. The one on the Khmer empire talked about stones cut so perfectly that the seams are not decipherable. Aliens, I guess. (shut the fuck up, it's sarcasm)