I LOVE THAT IF YOU GET NOTHING ELSE FROM THIS BOOK,IT IS VERY THOUGHT PROVOKING AND ALLOWS YOU TO EXAMINE ON YOUR OWN,THE AGE OLD QUESTIONS OF, ARE WE ALONE? Maybe it was a side-effect of my mother's crazy theory, which she narrated to me again and again, that the Pushpaka Vimana in the epic Ramayana was a real aeroplane; and the sights described as Rama, Lakshmana and Sita flew back to Ayodhya from Sri Lanka was really written from first hand accounts.

The tomb in which a gold necklace and the skeleton of an entirely unknown animal were found probably belonged to King Udimu. The global media rights to the book have since been purchased by Media Invest Entertainment which is developing a "360-degree entertainment" franchise entitled Chariots of the Gods.Examples include Ezekiel's vision of the angels and the wheels, which Von Däniken interprets as a description of a spacecraft; the Ark of the Covenant, which is explained as a device intended for communication with an alien race; and the destruction of Sodom by fire and brimstone, which is interpreted as a nuclear explosion. Before space travel was achieved by man, the evidence was considered to be 'visions' or the workings of an overactive imagination, then when man finally started his tentative steps into space, Aliens from another planet were considered impossible because we didn't then know how to travel at the speed of light, now we know this can be achieved, the real experts have had to allow that there 'may' have been such visits. The worldwide best-seller and was followed by 32 more books, including The Eyes of the Sphinx, Twilight of the Gods, History Is Wrong, Evidence of the Gods, and Odyssey of the Gods.

Von Daniken's ideas have been the inspiration for a wide range of TV series, including the History Channel's hit Ancient Aliens. They are the books you will love during your first reading when you were young but won't impress you that much after rereading them after a few years. 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. I'm a fan of the first season of Ancient Aliens and I wanted to read this book because it seems to be the one that started it all. As a young gastronome, he began writing articles before eventually authoring his international best seller Chariots of the Gods.It is an enjoyable read, fast paced, if you consider it more as a fiction novel and don't take it seriously.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.except I accidentally opened it on a random page and felt the stupidity was too overwhelming not to comment on. Von Däniken attempts to draw an analogy with the " cargo cults" that formed during and after World War II, when once-isolated tribes in the South Pacific mistook the advanced American and Japanese soldiers for gods. In 1977 an eight part Polish comic adaptation of the book was created by Alfred Gorny, Arnold Mostowicz and artist Boguslaw Polch. 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 this book shines a light on a few.