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Baksei Chamkrong
What the Show Claims
- ›Ancient Astronaut theorists claim that Baksei Chamkrong, an ancient pyramid temple in Cambodia, is an almost identical match to the Temple of the Jaguar in Guatemala, suggesting a common extraterrestrial design influencing widely separated civilizations.
What Archaeology Says
Baksei Chamkrong is a 10th-century Hindu temple built during the Khmer Empire, featuring a pyramidal sandstone structure typical of Khmer architectural traditions. Mainstream archaeology attributes similarities between distant structures to convergent architectural evolution and common engineering principles, not extraterrestrial influence.