Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

1 - The Gold Of The Gods
There was a table in the middle of the room.
Was it really a table?
Presumably, for there were seven chairs along one side.
Were they chairs?
Apparently they were.
Stone chairs?
No, they did not have the same cold feeling as stone.
Were they made of wood?
Definitely not. Wood would never have lasted for thousands of years.
Were they made of metal?
I did not think so. They felt like some kind of plastic, but they were as
hard and heavy as steel. There were animals behind the chairs:
saurians, elephants, lions, crocodiles, jaguars, camels, bears, monkeys,
bison, and wolves, with snails and crabs crawling about between them.
Apparently they had been cast in molds and there was no logical
sequence about their arrangement. They were not in pairs, as is usual
in pictures of Noah's Ark. They were not arranged by species, as
zoologists prefer. Nor were they in the hierarchical order of natural
evolution used by biologists. They simply stood there peacefully, as if
the laws of nature did not apply.
The whole thing was like a fantastic zoo and what is more all the
animals were made of solid metal.
Also in this hall was the most precious treasure of all, the metal library
mentioned in the notarial title-deed, although I could never have
guessed what it was really like from reading about it.