Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Edition

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This book will hurt your feelings if you are from Latin America or Egypt as some of the ideas shared by the author might appear racist as it seems to devalue the achievements of their ancestors and put a black mark on their heritage.

Summary [ edit ] Statue from the late Jōmon period (1000–400 BCE) in Japan, interpreted by von Däniken as depicting an alien visitor. The worldwide bestseller was followed by forty more books, including The Eyes of the Sphinx , Twilight of the Gods , History Is Wrong , Evidence of the Gods , and Odyssey of the Gods .

One often hears the bible and other works misquoted, or quoted to back up a statement or theory, so I took the trouble to reread the passages referred to, not because I disbelieved Von Daniken, but to confirm the exactitude of what he was saying.

As a young gastronome, he began writing articles before eventually authoring his international best seller Chariots of the Gods. Putting aside the shortcomings of the prose, the book also did not fulfill its promise of showing evidence for aliens having visited Earth in the ancient past.But here is where it all began--von Daniken's startling theories of our earliest encounters with alien worlds, based upon his lifelong studies of ancient ruins, lost cities, potential spaceports, and a myriad of hard scientific facts that point to extraterrestrial intervention in human history. Looking at these two books and the topics the authors discussed from here in the future with a more solid background helps me to consider them from an analytical point of view.