This brilliantly absurd piece from The Onion perfectly skewers those wild conspiracy theories about "ancient advanced civilizations" that pop up on YouTube at 3 AM. The joke? They've discovered an ancient race of... skeleton people. You know, because apparently someone forgot that ALL people eventually become skeletons. It's like saying "archaeologists discover ancient race of dead people" – technically true but hilariously missing the point.
This pokes fun at pseudoarchaeology claims that mainstream scientists are "hiding the truth" about mysterious ancient civilizations, when really they're just doing normal archaeology and finding normal human remains. Spoiler alert: every civilization eventually joins the skeleton people club. Membership is 100%, no exceptions.
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