Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition

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The series was translated into 12 languages and the first four volumes were translated into English and released by Methuen Children’s Books. An unmarked copy-Reprinted 1970-" Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens. copper and bronze objects in early Egypt are, I suspect, mostly Egyptian in manufacture, shockingly. The book further suggests that the origins of many religions, including interpretations of the Old Testament of the Bible, are reactions to contact with an alien race.

was on The New York Times bestseller list and helped to launch von Däniken's career as a public speaker. A great deal of our real history has been occluded by the irrational zealotries of past (and maybe not so past) religious and politcal authorities - an immeasurable shame. Erich von Daniken was responsible for popularising the ancient astronaut hypothesis of human development.An internationally bestselling book by Clifford Wilson, Crash Go the Chariots, was published in 1972. 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'. Rather, the prose is so stilted, the editing so horrible, the sentences so run-on, it was hard to plod through. Discredited artifact [ edit ] The iron pillar of Delhi, erected by Chandragupta II the Great, which von Däniken claimed did not rust. 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.

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. The concept of ancient extraterrestrials has been used as a plot element in television shows and movies like Star Trek (which actually addressed the question before von Däniken's book was published), Stargate, The Thing, The X-Files, the Alien franchise (most notably, Prometheus), Neon Genesis Evangelion, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull and The Eternals. The copper was at first largely from the Sinai; the bronze was at first probably arsenic-contaminated copper, while long-distance tin trading developed later, including with a large tin mine in southern Turkey.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. Seems far fetched from naked observation, but far less far fetched than the childlike story of Adam and Eve, or just about any other cultural story of creation, which are, one and all, stories to placate minds far more ignorant than any of those alive in the 21st century should be. Don't misunderstand though, this should in no way shake the faith of believers in God, Allah or whatever, Von Daniken merely asks questions and presents evidence. Erich von Daniken's Chariots of the Gods is a work of monumental importance--the first book to introduce the shocking theory that ancient Earth had been visited by aliens.

A 2004 article in Skeptic magazine [20] states that von Däniken plagiarized many of the book's concepts from The Morning of the Magicians, that this book in turn was heavily influenced by the Cthulhu Mythos, and that the core of the ancient astronaut theory originates in H. except I accidentally opened it on a random page and felt the stupidity was too overwhelming not to comment on.Von Daniken's ideas have been the inspiration for a wide range of TV series, including the History Channel's hit Ancient Aliens. As a young gastronome, he began writing articles before eventually authoring his international best seller Chariots of the Gods. Orthodox historians have been sceptical but a vast public have been drawn to his ideas by instinctive interest and wonder.