I bought this for my son who has been watching Ancient Alien Civilisations which the author Daniken does some narration on.

Von Däniken's book, and much of his subsequent publications such as Gods from Outer Space and The Gold of the Gods, have drawn largely negative receptions from the academic mainstream despite being popular best-sellers. It is only a question that we will be able to answer in the future if we fully unravel the mysteries behind ancient civilizations and time travel. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Von Däniken maintains that these artifacts were produced either by extraterrestrial visitors or by humans who learned the necessary knowledge from extraterrestrials.Erich von Daniken has held countless lectures and discussions at public forums and educational institutions. So who cares how ridiculous it is to blame 'mathematicians' for their theories on the human ability to withstand high-speed travel? AS SEEN ON ANCIENT ALIENS • The groundbreaking classic that introduced the theory that ancient Earth established contact with aliens. maybe he was mentioned in another chapter, but not in the several pages before or after this paragraph) believes that the word 'hammer' meant 'stone' in the stone age (actually it's obviously from a word that meant approximately 'stone-ish', 'stone-oid' or the like, and originally meant any stone-headed tool - but this transparent derivation happened in the Bronze Age), and therefore Thor must have been worshipped in the stone age (wait, what? However, exotic animal skeletons, included hippos, leopards, baboons and elephants, are common in early Egyptian tombs.

I have to admit that it was seriously entertaining though, mostly in imagining who it was who played the practical joke on Däniken each time he sticks his neck out on an imagined 'fact'. I soon lost my grin, became profoundly curious, and what followed was a wonderful experience, unusual in evert respect, an undertaking which was done exclusively in my spare time, since NASA, my employer, is not engaged in such matters. Looking at these two books and the topics the authors discussed from here in the future with a more solid background helps me to consider them from an analytical point of view. It is true that some scientists and engineers were able to describe the secret behind the Pyramids to a certain extent. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 43rd Academy Awards in 1971.The author intelligently tells us how we should react when we don't understand a concept discussed by a genius. If one is not willing to delve deep into this matter then she/he should not make comments against Daniken or his books, and especially not insult him.

What I do know is that any civilization advanced enough to visit us would be so far beyond us at this point that it is perfectly feasible that they would be able to do so undetected (as we already have stealth technologies that evade our own detection to a large degree and we are centuries, if not millenia from deep space travel). How could an ancient Sanskrit text contain an account which could only be of a journey in an alien craft? It is the equivalent of skimming through a text book that, for instance, says that a particular event in history happened one way while there are many other books that say the event happened differently with each book stating its own either biased or credible theories, while walking away and claiming that you know everything that happened based upon one book and your own opinions. Von Daeniken rules out the possibility of a connexion to the flooding, because Sirius doesn't necessarily predict the exact day of the first flood each year, and hence the calendar matching the flooding must be a coincidence. Interestingly, although there was a hysterical fear of early train travel, including a few notes of concern from doctors about things like the level of pollution inside tunnels, the fearmongering was almost entirely drummed up by politicians, businessmen, quacks and madmen, and the train companies had to hire actual doctors to calm the public.and he asks this, incredulously, in exactly the same paragraph that he mentions that the first rising of Sirius each year occurs at more or less exactly the time that the annual Nile floods, the central fact of Egyptian culture and economics, begin. I have to clarify my rating here: One star for "scholarship" and five stars for entertainment value.