All this stuff is actually why I didn't mind the original Alien vs Predator movie... It's a gigantic stretch to say that it's at all based on history.. But it brings a little more meaning to the movie other than just one horror movie bad guy taking on another horror movie bad guy....

(If you have seen it, scientists find an ancient pyramid under a mile of ice on Antarctica which has somehow become 'active' due to a certain cycle in time passing, where the Predators return to earth and compete in a 'training game' against the Aliens.. At one small point in the movie it goes off on a little tangent showing how the 'predators' helped build the pyramids and gave the ancients their extraordinary technology..) You wouldn't exactly use it for a point of reference for our real history, but it definetly gave the movie a lot more character.. Enough so that I enjoyed it even though the rest of the story was pretty flat..)

I actually wondered right up until now why I didn't mind this movie while others were saying it sucked,,,, but I now realise it's definetly because of the movies reference to the history that intrigues me so much.