Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

1 - The Gold Of The Gods
Is man really prepared to admit that the history of his origin was
entirely different from the one which is instilled into him in the form
of a pious fairy story?
Fig. 5 An amulet dating to around 9000-4000 B.C. A being stands on
the terrestrial globe. How did Stone Age men know that the earth was
round, a discovery that was not made until much later?
Are pre-historians really seeking the unvarnished truth without
prejudice and partiality?
No one likes to fall off a skyscraper he has built himself.
The walls and passages of the tunnel system were bare. There were no
paintings like those in the deep burial chambers in the Valley of the
Kings near Luxor, no reliefs of the kind found in prehistoric caves at