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From ancient atomic weapons to virmanas to a 1000 year old iron monument in India that never rust despite being in a region that gets monsoons David brings all kinds of cool stuff to this piece of wierdness. This book is not so much as explaining why as telling you what was. Alot of his odd little stories are in Micheal Cremos Forbidden Archealogy but there are some really wierd one's like when they where blasting a mountain that was millions of years old in wyoming and they found a little cave in the blast site with the mummy of a little human like being sitting in the lotus position that was only 12 inchs high you gotta see the picture of this little guy he looks like Yoda. This is a neat book that is what it is fun strange stories.
This book provides terrific information on the subject including facts and photos, but the editing and presentation of said is sort of annoying. References in chapters to photos do not match "photo below" when the photo might be 20 pages beyond at the end of the chapter with all the other photos. Grammar check was not preformed as various sentences and sometimes whole paragraphs are repeated throughout the book, it's just aggravating.The book does convey the facts about the subject and I would recommend it to anyone who is interested in the true history of the human race.
Now the writing style.THAT was horrible.Definitely would not recommend this book (maybe "Revision 2, with an Editor," but at as-is). So, every other (if not every) sentence has "metallurgist" or "metallurgy" in it.Just opening up the book is sight to behold. Try out Graham Hancock books if you haven't already - doesn't cover the exact same topics, but is a skilled writer that dabbles in some similar areas. A bit short on details in some sections, a bit high on assumptions in others, but some fairly good arguments are made.
The detailed studies of metallurgists and the new carbon-14 dating method should be sufficient to give a definite answer on this point.".turn page."in doubt. Not because the author uses anything above a high school vocabulary, but because it reads like a first-draft manuscript that was never edited.From page 79, last 2 sentences:"This startling item, however, is one that should not remain in doubt. There is maybe 1/8th inch for the left-right margins. (And something else really weird - some of the images that seem important are SO important that they're in the book TWICE).OK, I just tried unsuccessfully to find a page without a nifty little graphic.but that reminded me of something else.
This author uses quotes so much, that he runs out of ways to introduce them."As for the pillars of salt, Keller says.""However, Keller himself admits.""Says Keller.""In short, Keller is saying""Says Keller.""In short."ALL of those were JUST from page 230. The margins on the page seemed to have been completely removed. Not a big deal if everything else was perfect, but it was far from it.Trying to work over to the actual writing portion.but wait. There's a little picture next to the text. Quick summary:Writing style/ability + editing ability + format: 1 star.Information: 3-4 stars.This book is incredibly difficult to read.
There are entire sections of this book that are simply quotes from other guys. If I wanted to know the views of that OTHER guy, I would've bought his book. Other pages and sections are equally painful.OK, to the actual info in the book. It's pretty good. In fact, it looks like the author got a DVD full of black-and-white clip art, and wanted to use ALL of it. The detailed studies of metallurgists and the new carbon-14 dating method should be sufficient to give a definite answer on this point."Any mildly-skilled editor should have caught that, and there are numerous other lack-of-editing issues as well.While on the same area of the book (first 20% or so), it seems that the author didn't know what a pronoun is. With additional research narrative, this could have been a lot better.
And it has NO CAPTION, and NO mention in the text. While some of the graphics are actually important, a lot of it seems to be there just for looks. As it is.not great, not horrible.
However, if one were to REALLY do a little research and see how much of what Childress write is actually TRUE, they would find that much (and I would say, most) of it is just plain science fiction. Or better yet: science fiction. But this explanation is never written about by Childress,-the "metallic vessel" from Dorchester, MA was found near a mine in loose rubble, not, as Childress claims, "blown out of solid rock",-the Coso Artifact, was found inside of a ball of hard clay, not, as Childress claims, a geode. Quick examples:-the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull: was actually bought at an auction by Mitchell himself.not found at an archeological dig, as he claimed. Tomas is a good example. As I read Technology of the Gods, wanted badly to verify the accuracy of what Childress claimed, because as it turned out, the book made ever more outrageous claims as you get deeper and deeper into the book.
I wouldn't know where to start with a review, but a few facts stand out. For one, Childress quotes very extensively (and almost to the point of making his own analysis mute) several authors, such as Andrew Tomas, who have been known to write falsities themselves. For those not researching much of what is written in Technology of the Gods, the stories would appear to be so fascinatingly convincing and wild and, for the most part, they are. (None mentioned in Technology of the Gods),and many more. This is not science.this is pseudoscience. This is a type of religion, in which you must simply believe what is said and leave it at that.Another problem I found with Technology of the Gods is that there were half-truths (in which the whole explanation or alternative, and more realistic, answer seems to be ignored and not written about) or there were outright lies associated with many of Childress' claims. In short, a book would need to be written that described the many inaccuracies and missleading information contained in Technology of the Gods.
The "Vedic UFO's" from which Childress gets most of his ancient Indian Vimana ideas from (including illustrations of them) were inspired by a book, Vaimanika Shastra, that was claimed to have been "channeled" by the transcribed author, Pandit Subbaraya Shastry. Period. Also, the object was found, under intense investigation, to be identical to a, then current, 1920's Champion spark plug, probably from mining equipment of the area. Most of what Tomas writes about cannot be tracked down mostly because he never left any sources for his outrageous claims. Childress performs these same erroncies in which claims cannot be traced, verified, or researched. Of course none of this is ever mentioned or written about by Childress,-the Iron Pillar of Delhi: not rusted due, possibly, to the high content of phosphorus film on its surface from the manufacture of it and also to its thickness. The book makes for some great science fiction, but not knowing anything about the subject matters written about and not researching any of the claims made by the author will lead one into believing a false religion.
An additional star is for providing information to be looked up independently with more trustworthy sources. However, most unsolved mysteries are hilariously distorted by wild fiction fevers. Now we know the reason for the distortion into a real life priestess, killing all the symbolism. Some true discoveries, such as the very real antikythera mechanism device found in an ancient Greek ship wreck, are intermingled with fantasy. In reality, the re-built library had been re-burned the last time seven centuries before their arrival - by Christian fanatics.
I clearly expected a more reliable, truly scientific book. It would be even bold to interpret the really depicted things literally. And Archimedes constructed a lot of (wooden) machines with which to destroy ships, yet no giant lenses were used to burn any fleet. The thing with speculation is: Nearly always, it will lead to the realization later that it was a very funny imagination, even should the direction of thought have been somewhat based on reality. The author, however, doesn't engage in science. Either in the tune of: "I once saw a levitating lama"; via free spaces in ancient cities around the world without further circumstantial hints have to be nothing else, but landing grounds for air and space ships; to the causal relationship string of thought that the A-bomb on Hiroshima caused some sand to turn crystally salty, the SIMILAR LOOKING salty area around the Dead Sea must have been caused by the ancient nuking of Sodom and Gomorrha, which turned organic material (Lot's wife) into the very same salt, too (but her family could escape the blast, I presume.). None of the contemporary historians discribing his gadgets report such lenses, but many centuries later, this myth came to life.
The author doesn't provide ANY context of that image. More theories exist than described in the book, which avers nuclear warfare, because no vulcanic or meteor crater has been found. He merely compiles sensationalist stories, concocted for the Atlantis and UFO philes. His credo by his very own (quoted) words: "The absence of proof is no proof of the proof's absence." Oh, I forgot: The usual unusual item to have been found by private citizens have been lost by now (Including the biggest megaliths ever known, which couldn't get transported by modern means).
I call the Mediterranean a lake myself, yet, tectonics teach that it used to be an OCEAN getting closed. Also the ancient Egyptian source for the word "soap" is revealed, which is nice. no metal necessary for the electricity to flow). Hence it is funny reading this book averring (relatively) sophisticated technology involuntarily based on basically a fairy tale, exposing the very carelessness of the author's approach to scientific findings.So why did I give any stars at all.
(The first time by Julius Caesar as punishment for not submitting quickly enough). He is actually doing a mighty disservice to progressive/alternative science.Take the title page as an example. Half a star is for the principle of challenging orthodox believes, suggesting the ancients didn't know anything. Gases breaking through the ocean floor temporarily cause such vessels not be supported any more by the transformed water and air. His knowledge about Egypt seems to be very limited anyway, as he terms the GODDESS Isis/Aset a priestess. Some curious phenomena are merely mentioned in a sentence, a paragraph or a sub chapter of 2 or 3 pages. The referenced example of a squadron disappearing has been reconstructed by now as an error of judgement by the leading pilot flying in the wrong direction, though.I have to close. or the owners refuse any examination.
One star is obligatory. The Egyptians depicted are supposed to hold light bulbs. Two years after the publishing of the book, that mystery seems to have been solved: The ancient melting process of producing iron had been fundamentally different, leaving MUCH more phosphor in the product. errors): One example would be the supposed burning of the library in Alexandria by Muslim conquerors. Mentioning the pictures: Most of them are depicted twice or even four times without any apparent reason, which remains one of the biggest mysteries in this book.In principle I know that "the ancients" had been MUCH more sophisticated than presented and/or believed by orthodox "science". For that, in depth science has to get applied, usually over many years to come to worthy conclusions, usually not expected from the start.
Then you WON'T have to wonder wether in 2,000 years someone interprets Star Trek and Harry Potter as the real state of technology of today. The author himself terms it "speculation" once in a while. By the way, the sinking of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle has been solved in the meanwhile as well. Don't shoot the messenger, this is yellow press at its "best". The only somewhat in depth analysis by comparison is a lengthy some 30 page quote from a another book, The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt, which at least offers a cohesive theory to work with. Actually, I give 2.5 not 3. you name it, and David Hatcher Childress will tell you, it's all true.His proof is usually a bit lacking.
To me, this looks like serpents in a container or symbolic flower, but I wouldn't dare to aver this impression as such. Why that huge. I am glad to have been introduced to the (lack of) knowledge about vitrified forts and Libyan Desert Glass (in Egypt), which obviously formed while exposing rock/sand to enormous heat. The cover image has been distorted, within the book it becomes clear that these light bulbs are human sized. He's not shying away to present pictures supporting his theory, captioning them with the small print "POSSIBLE secret chambers beneath the Sphinx" (highlight by myself). The poisoning of Alexander the Great is controversial at best. The "best-selling" (as in sell the headline best) author - and yes, he's a journalist - hardly leaves anything out, which makes a fine sensation: flying carpets, Perseus' invisible making helmet, manbird Garuda's space travel to the Pole Star 58 lights years away, Icarus flying to close to the sun, King Solomon traveling in aircrafts, an ancient H-bomb knocking out the power plant in a pyramid (still standing). Unorthodox views describe that process a bit variated, yet, it never has been a dry valley, even though the sea level (all over the world) was a bit lower at times.The author also falls for historic legends (i.e.
The symbolic Djed-pillars they are resting on are supposed to be electric generators (yet holding the GLASS then, according to this interpretation on the back cover, i.e. Occasionally, it DEFIES any existing scientific knowledge. (Even though the reference to the mythical first ruler of pre-dynastic Egypt having turned into a god tells the diametrically opposed story of Egypt coming OUT of the water - the growing Nile Delta). You expect to read about "ancient computers" and find out meant is Stonehenge, only because astronomy can be predicted with it. That in turn caused a very thin, but very effective protective film to develop on the surface. For example I had never heard about the Iron Pillar of Delhi, which mysteriously has remained rost free and is some 97% pure iron, which is difficult or should be impossible to produce in these quantities. For example he avers the Mediterranean would have been a dry valley with some lakes, inhabited by an ancient ancient civilization he calls Osirian.
In that row of "priestesses" depicted one has a lioness' head. He doesn't refer to how he blinds THAT literally.Usually the book is about phenomena AS OF YET unexplained (= in 2000 when the book was published originally). This book simply is not the way to present that knowledge, for hardly any real knowledge gets included. Yet, as inconsistent as the book gets, existing craters elsewhere are supposed to be caused by nuclear bombs. It is a bit bold to interpret ancient temple wall paintings and hyroglyphs of what they remind of in the modern world. She and other facets of the goddess(es) are supposed to wear very real electric light or crystal lenses on their heads. So: Yes, we didn't know and the product is superior to modern corrosion stricken iron, yet the wild speculation in this book has proven to be just that.
If you are interested in REAL, in-depth and as of today judged unorthodox science revealing ancient ancient technology, forget this book and read instead the 1966 Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age and the 2004 Civilization One: The World Is Not as You Thought It Was.
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