Owain Rhys Davies Under Fire for Viral 'Ancient Alien' Claims in New Netflix Documentary
A clip from a forthcoming Netflix docuseries featuring Welsh historian Owain Rhys Davies has gone viral after he suggested that "ancient hieroglyphs in Egypt may depict extraterrestrial contact." The snippet, which has been shared over 500,000 times on TikTok, shows Davies pointing to a stone carving and claiming it resembles a "telephone device from an advanced civilization." However, fact-checkers have debunked this as fake, clarifying that the image in question is a well-known misinterpretation of a traditional Egyptian ritual scene involving a priest and a ceremonial scepter. Independent Egyptologists confirm the carving is from the Temple of Dendera and represents the "opening of the mouth" ceremony, not alien technology. Davies has since issued a statement saying the clip was "taken out of context," but the controversy continues to fuel debates between pseudoarchaeology enthusiasts and mainstream historians.