Chariots of the Gods: 50th Anniversary Commemorative Edition - Exploring Ancient Mysteries and Unsolved Puzzles

Meir Chaims: The quality of the paper and print was a bit disappointing. But on the whole, it was a good buy.

United States on Nov 25, 2023

Margaret 0 Connor: I wasn't too mad about this book but it would make you think.

United Kingdom on Nov 25, 2023

Alarico De Sena: First, there is no God that controls us. There might be life that exists somewhere in the universe. Although there is no scientific evidence about the existence of life on another planet, that does not mean they do not exist. Erich Va Daniken believes this because all cultures worldwide point their fingers into the sky to look for God.

Australia on Nov 03, 2023

Dalma: The ancient aliens origin book

United States on Oct 26, 2023

Oswaldo Lozada Galan: Muy bueno

Mexico on Oct 16, 2023

Danette Bowling: Read as a teen and wanted to have my own copy and enjoy reading it again.

United States on Sep 26, 2023

William H. Conlon: I liked everything that I read and I believe it. A must read, especially now.
I mean, who really knows, but…Religion, organized religion is a farce and science, don’t get me started on that subject. My only disagreement is the US space program, man, they spend a tremendous amount of money on that. The money could sure help in other more meaningful ways.
Look up!

United States on Aug 29, 2023

Dave Bloomer: In one of his introduction pieces to this edition, he tells you some of the things in this book were incorrect. One that I can remember is the post that purportedly didn't rust but does. In the afterword Daniken categorically states the pyramids were man-made. Then why did he claim within the book it would be impossible for the Egyptians do have achieved it? At least he could have edited the text in order to outline this change of mind but that would negate his story.

Now to the book as it is. It's basically in 3 parts; ancient gods, UFO's and whether aliens could exist. These are interspersed throughout the book but those are what sticks out as the main points of the book.
The first being, was god an astronaut. No, he wasn't. The premise to his theory is that knowledge couldn't come without somebody giving man the idea. To use my example rather than Danikens; the bike couldn't have been thought up by man, some superior being must have shown man a bike like vehicle and then man copied it. That's how it seems to be for poor old ancient man. Too dumb to create things and could only make "new" things because he had been shown something of a similar thing before. Man...

United Kingdom on Aug 24, 2022

Amazon Customer: I was very disappointed with this book , when I bought the original version back in 1975 it was cram-packed with hundreds of colour pictures and it was this that made the book so special , the words are all there but the pictures apart from a few poor black and white pictures in the middle of the book just doesn't do it for this latest version .

I have not seen the much older version , which is a great shame , another case of making something cheaper but not better .

United Kingdom on Oct 14, 2017

DA: I read this book because I watched the show Ancient Aliens. I found the idea interesting but in the show I did not like it too much because the basis of all theories is that, "I don't know, therefore aliens." I gave it a benefit of doubt though because the show is short and they cover a very wide range of history and never really focus in on the core of their beliefs.

So in came this book, Chariots of the Gods. There's no real reason why I selected this book other than the fact that the name of it sounds interesting and it also got a lot of reviews. Since I don't know the subject too well, I figured I'd get some sort of starting point.

After reading the book I can't say I'm all too convinced about aliens visiting us in the ancient times. In the show Ancient Aliens, the conclusion was, "I don't know, therefore aliens." In the book, the base of the theories are, "If it's possible, then it must be true."

At the start of this book, I felt Erich presented a good hypothesis. Could it be possible that in ancient culture they have seen aliens and describe them as gods since they could not interpret the technology? The answer is yes, of course, it's all...

United States on Feb 01, 2012