Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition

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It might be because when you are mature, you will start questioning the problematic parts of the book which you missed when you read it earlier.

copper and bronze objects in early Egypt are, I suspect, mostly Egyptian in manufacture, shockingly. I've read so many similar books so there wasn't much in here that I've not read about before but I still enjoyed reading it because it's very well put together and I find it interesting.the narrators of the Thousand and One nights drew on their own imagination, and on a rich heritage of folk tales. An alien astronaut preserved in a pyramid * Thousand-year-old spaceflight navigation charts * Computer astronomy from Incan and Egyptian ruins * A map of the land beneath the ice cap of Antarctica * A giant spaceport discovered in the Andes Includes remarkable photos that document mankind's first contact with aliens at the dawn of civilization. I could see her point; but in my case, on the rare occasions I've done it, it's been with nonfiction books read in the past that I didn't have leisure to review, but didn't want people who might browse my shelves to think I agreed with or endorsed, just because I'd read them. Many scientists and historians have rejected his ideas, claiming that the book's conclusions were based on faulty, pseudoscientific evidence, some of which was later demonstrated to be fraudulent or fabricated, and under illogical premises.

Compare photographs of American space centre launch sites to the constructions on the plains of Nazca in Peru. It is not fair to bash a work for inacuracies from the viewpoint of the 21st century, Of course there are inacuracies! There are some popular books that will disappoint you when you read them for the first time due to your expectations, but you will be totally impressed by them and the author's writing skills when you reread them after a few years. Read Von Daniken for yourself, cross check it in the books of whatever religion you are most familiar with, it is all there.

I feel that every grey area, every part of history obscured by the fog of time, is exploited and made to fit somewhere into his sprawling untidy theory. Every religion, major or minor, documents clearly, for those who want to read them, the arrival of astronauts, descriptions of their machines and weapons, sometimes in technical detail. Surely ancient India was home to intelligent (and highly literate) animals as well as the sporadic aliens, all conspiring to befuddle the poor humans into worshiping them and then mythologizing them. Summary [ edit ] Statue from the late Jōmon period (1000–400 BCE) in Japan, interpreted by von Däniken as depicting an alien visitor. The third school of thought is that the scientists already know how the pyramids were made, including their architectural design and blueprints.

Throughout the book I noticed that he would insert his theory into conversations about real science and drop in discussion by real scientists and yet not draw the distinction between the established idea and his idea. One must fully experience and understand what the sacred texts that Daniken speaks of and quotes from in his in his books. How could an ancient Sanskrit text contain an account which could only be of a journey in an alien craft? In the sagas, apparently, the Earth is "remarkably" described as a disc or ball (what should they have described it as!The worldwide best seller was followed by 40 more books, including the recent best sellers Twilight of the Gods, History is Wrong, Evidence of the Gods, Remnants of the Gods, and Odyssey of the Gods (all published by New Page Books). On page 83, the author discusses with incredulity the fact that the Egyptians had a calendar that counted from the first rising of Sirius; for what possible conceivable reason could the Egyptians have cared about Sirius, he asks in perplexity, rather than, say, the moon?

An internationally bestselling book by Clifford Wilson, Crash Go the Chariots, was published in 1972. Most incredible of all, however, is von Dä niken's theory that we ourselves are the descendants of these galactic pioneers--and the archeological discoveries that prove it. Sirius can clearly have no significance to anybody, unless their civilisation was founded by space aliens.The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The tomb in which a gold necklace and the skeleton of an entirely unknown animal were found probably belonged to King Udimu.