Chariots of The Gods by Erich von Däniken

Could they all have lived on the scanty yields of agriculture in the Nile Delta? There were not only a host of construction workers stone masons, engineers and sailors, there were not only hundreds of thousands of slaves, but also a well equipped army, a large and pampered priesthood, countless merchants, farmers, and officials, and last but not least the Pharaonic household living on the fat of the land. But one thing is clear-they all had to be fed. With such enormous estimates a couple of million men more or less does not matter. (A figure, incidentally, that flagrantly contradicts the 20,000,000 considered to be the total population of the world in 3000 BC.) Yet experts now estimate the number of inhabitants at the time of the e building of the Great Pyramid at 50,000,000. Genuine miracles in a country that is suddenly capable of such achievements without recognizable prehistory!įertile agricultural land exists only in the Nile Delta and on small strips to the left and right of the river. Great cities and enormous temples, colossal statues with tremendous expressive power, splendid streets flanked by magnificent sculptures, perfect drainage systems, luxurious tombs carved out of the rock, pyramids of overwhelming size-these and many other wonderful things shot out of the ground, so to speak. If we meekly accept the neat package of knowledge that the Egyptologists serve up to us, ancient Egypt appears suddenly and without transition with a fantastic ready-made civilization.

However, Russian Professor Agrest considers it possible that the terrace is the remains of a gigantic airfield. Until now archaeologists have not been able to give a convincing explanation why, how, and by whom the terrace of Baalbek was built.

To the north of Damascus lies the terrace of Baalbek-a platform built of stone blocks, some of which have sides more than 65 feet long and weigh nearly 2,000 tons. See also Data on pyramids ( not from Von Daniken!) Chariots of the Gods: Unsolved Mysteries of the Past

Chariots of The Gods by Erich von Däniken