ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Fingerprints of the Gods

So, imagine you have five fingers on each hand. These are called your fingerprints and they are unique to you. No one else in the whole world has the same fingerprints as you!

Now, let's think about history. A long, long time ago, there were people who lived on Earth before us. We call them ancient civilizations, like the Egyptians or the Aztecs. They built big, impressive structures like pyramids and temples.

But scientists have noticed something interesting about these structures. Some of them look very similar, even though they were built by people who lived far away from each other and never met! How could this be?

Well, some people think that maybe the ancient civilizations all had a similar knowledge or technology that they used to build these structures. They might have learned it from an older civilization that came before them.

This idea is called "Fingerprints of the Gods." It's like saying that the ancient civilizations left their own unique fingerprints on the buildings they made, and we can see similarities between them that suggest they all used the same techniques or knowledge.

But not everyone believes in this idea. Some people think that the similarities between the buildings are just coincidences, or that they were all built by humans who came up with similar ideas on their own.

So it's still a bit of a mystery, but it's interesting to think about!