Erich Von Daniken - The Gold Of The Gods

1 - The Gold Of The Gods
the first dome when he excavated Mycenae, a fortress and town in the
northeast Peloponnese, from 1874 to 1876, and that dome was
supposed to have been built by the Achaeans at the end of the
fourteenth century B.C. I actually learnt at school that the Pantheon in
Rome, built in Hadrian's reign between A.D. 120 and 125, was the first
dome. But from now on I shall consider this piece of; stonework as the
oldest example of a dome.
Fig. 8. Probably the very first dome ever built. What we were taught at
school and what we read in books are no longer valid.
A clown with a bulbous nose knelt on a stone plinth (Fig. 9). The little
fellow sported a helmet that covered his ears. Earphones like those on
our telephones were attached to the lobes of his ears. A ring in relief,
with a diameter of 2 inches and 2/5 inch thick, was stuck to the front of
the helmet. It was fitted with 15 holes, which seemed to be admirably
adapted for fitting plugs into. A chain hung round his neck and it, too,
had a ring with a number of holes in it like those we use for dialing