Chariots Of The Gods Book Review

Chariot of the gods was written neatly 50 years ago and was the first book i read to discuss the possibility of visits to earth by extraterrestrials.

Chariots of the gods book review. I picked up the book in an airport bookstore just prior to my flight to vietnam in january of 1969. Chariots of the gods is a provocative attempt to explain some of the universe s most interesting mysteries erich von daniken has spent a lifetime gathering evidence to prove that before the dawn of recorded history our ancestors were visited by an alien race. There are many things in ancient history that can t be properly explained by mainstream archaeology and the book shines light on a few. The author postulates that ancient societies had help in their development by aliens.

I will only explore one idea from each chapter as von daniken explores many ideas in this ground breaking book. I finished the book before we arrived in country and was hooked. Now for my review. Now for my review.

Chariot of the gods was written neatly 50 years ago and was the first book i read to discuss the possibility of visits to earth by extraterrestrials. Better yet watch the television show ancient aliens for a better structured and more believable argument for the ancient aliens theory. Chariots of the gods is extremely well written a great read and it can be fairly persuasive. Von däniken suggests that some ancient structures and artifacts appear to represent higher technological knowledge than is presumed to have existed at the times they were manufactured.

Chariots of the gods is a book better left unread. One of the biggest issues i had with chariots of the gods was däniken use of examples facts and myths that are difficult to verify. The author postulates that ancient societies had help in their development by aliens. I finished the book before we arrived in country and was hooked.

Chariots of the gods is extremely well written a great read and it can be fairly persuasive. The remainder of the review is mostly a summary of chariots major claims focusing on the allegation that sodom and gomorrah had been destroyed by a nuclear bomb a claim originally made in soviet propaganda a decade earlier the claim that the ark of the covenant was a device for communicating with space aliens and the claim that the lid of pakal of palenque s sarcophagus then mistakenly believed to represent the god kukumatz rather than a king was actually a depiction of a man in. I picked up the book in an airport bookstore just prior to my flight to vietnam in january of 1969. There are many things in ancient history that can t be properly explained by mainstream archaeology and the book shines light on a few.