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* 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.
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Is it conceivable that we world citizens of the twentieth century are not the only living beings of our kind in the cosmos? Read the first page
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Front Cover | Copyright | Table of Contents | Excerpt | Index | Back Cover
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining, even if flawed,
This review is from: Chariots of the Gods (Paperback)
Judging by all the reviews, this book has obviously polarized readers for decades. However, despite all the criticisms and detractions, few can deny the power of Daniken's provokative theories. As a critical thinker who is open-minded, but not gullible, I have to say that I really enjoyed the read, and am glad to have a copy of Chariots of the Gods on my bookshelf. Even if you discard half of what passes as evidence in this book, it is hard to deny that at least a portion of the information presented invites further questions, and merits further research. So, at the very least, I give it a positive rating because of the entertainment factor, and for the conversation-starter that it is ;)
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A World Tour Movie in Name of Out of the World,
By Kemila Zsange "Accessing Your Inner Wisdom th... (Vancouver, BC, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chariots of the Gods (DVD)
The documentary Chariots of the Gods was made out of Erich Von Daniken's book with the same name. The fascinating book was written in 1968 and the movie was made in 1970.For ruins lovers, the movie is a must-see. It takes you on a world tour to Africa, Europe, North and South America, Australia, Asia, Middle East, Pacific Islands, Antarctica' Ruins, ruins, and ruins! This movie explains my lifetime fascination and love of ruins and stars! One thing that I was pondering when I was watching it, Von Daniken showed a lot of stone/cave paintings and carvings from thousands of years ago, and those paintings look exactly like a spaceship man. Some even are sitting in there spaceships. So he drew conclusions that our ancestors saw those 'gods from outer space' and recorded the images on stones and in caves. However, since nobody knows how gods from outer space really look like, and those paintings and carvings look stunningly like today's earth spacemen. Would it be possible, that those ancestors, in our past, actually saw the earth men, in spaceship outfit, who will go, in our future, time traveling and landed thousands of years ago? In 2009, another documentary Ancient Aliens with the same theme was made. It took nowadays formula and added a lot of talking heads, but shows less ruins.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars
INTERESTING BOOK, ALSO A DVD -- BUT ANYTHING BUT CREDIBLE,
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This review is from: Chariots of the Gods (Mass Market Paperback)
Daniken has sold over 60 million copies of his 9 books worldwide. He is a man you can look up to, he rose from waiting tables in Switzerland to being a hack philosopher. But here is something for the teenagers going gaga over his work. His basic premise was clever, that our ancestors were approached and affected by aliens, for the same reasons that X-Files has caught the fancy of our generation. Most of it however is unsupported and some of it plain screwball. Basically his big breakthrough came when he found the critical piece of evidence to back up his theories -- the Palenque Stone in Mexico. He claimed that a large stone in the temple at Palenque had a carving of a creature sitting as if inside a rocket. In truth though, archaeologist and Mayan expert Dr Ian Graham explained his view of the figure on the Palenque Stone -- that there was no proof that this being sitting inside a "rocket" was a "spaceman." There weren't any oxygen tubes for examples, which would have been easy to sculpt by even "primitive people" such as Mayans. It was a standard Mayan face as is seen all around in the architecture of that period. Several quotes from the bible such as "a celestial beam of light" etc were spun to reflect space travel (tractor beams of a space craft for e.g.) After several spells of ups and downs (for financial peccadiloes) Daniken's credibility was finally undermined after he was unable to substantiate claims made in another book, "Gold of the Gods," that he had photographed metal plaques containing the wisdom of extraterrestrials. In 1977, a BBC Horizon programme, The Case of the Ancient Astronauts, took a rational look at his theories and showed them to be pseudo science. Several other such "wonders" cited by von Daniken as corroboration for his theories were similarly debunked. In the late 1970s he rapidly disappeared from the public arena, and in 1982 he could not find an English or American publisher for his 10th book. As though this were not enough, the guy has been arrested several times for petty crimes such as defrauding his hotelier boss in Zurich, to more elaborate ones such as being in unpaid bad debts of up to Euro 350,000. While his books make for a fun read, primarily "Chariots of the Gods" as this is perhaps the only one that comes close to credibility, it is not a great idea to go about bandying ideas contained therein with a delusional passion usually associated with farts. (Believe me, an alien told me so)
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