num_pages: 351
description: Is it a coincidence that pyramids are found across the globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces &amp; times, such as the ancient Egyptians, early Buddhists, the Maya, Inca, Toltecs, Aztecs, British Celts &amp; even the Mississippians of pre-Columbian Illinois, simply dream the same dreams &amp; envision the same structures? Scientist &amp; tenured university professor Robert M. Schoch, a preeminent geologists, believes otherwise. In this meticulously reasoned book, Schoch, like anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl in his classic Kon-Tiki, argues that ancient cultures traveled great distances by sea. Indeed, he believes that primeval sailors traveled from the East, primarily SE Asia, &amp; spread the idea of pyramids across the Earth, involving the human species in a far greater degree of contact &amp; exchange than experts have previously thought possible. Voyages of the Pyramid Builders features 16 pages of color photos &amp; an appendix, "Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza," in which Schoch provides his most up-to-date evidence of the Sphinx's origins.IntroductionGiza &amp; the question of timeThis world's many pyramids Coincidence or connection? The mythic foundationThe peopling of the Americas Across the Atlantic to the New WorldAcross the Pacific to the New World How the pyramid builders sailed Fleeing the angry skies Seeking the source Civilizations beginning, isolation's endAppendix: Redating the Great Sphinx of GizaAcknowledgmentsSources &amp; ReadingsIndex
language: English
title: Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America
titlecomplete: Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America
genres: Science, Alternate History, Nonfiction, History, Egypt, Ancient History, Geology
ratings_count: 94
publisher: Tarcher/Penguin Putnam (NYC)