Who Were the Ancient Engineers of Egypt? Ancient astronauts: The
term has a ring to it, conjuring up visions of lost
civilizations, extraterrestrial visitors to primitive earthly
civilizations, and high intellectual adventure. No one who has
read science fiction in his youth can forget those marvelous
short stories that ended with the revelation that the planet on
which the spacefaring voyagers had landed (or been shipwrecked)
was actually the earth. So when Eric von Däniken published
Chariots of the Gods?, there was a ready-made audience for
him—an audience (including this author) that somewhere deep down
wanted to believe that the human race got a helping hand from
some old, benevolent culture that even now might be waiting to
help us again if we should flounder. It’s a comforting thought.
Unfortunately, there’s a big gap between wishing that a
particular idea were true and actually finding evidence in
support of it. Unless you are prepared to reveal what happened
on every spot on the earth since the beginn