Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America - Hardcover

Schoch, Robert M.; McNally, Robert Aquinas

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585422037 ISBN 13: 9781585422036

Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penquin, 2003

Synopsis

Contends that ancient cultures traveled great distances by sea and that primeval sailors were responsible for exchanging information on how to build pyramid-like structures throughout the world. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert M. Schoch, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics at Yale University. Dr. Schoch has been quoted extensively in the media for his work on the Sphinx, and he was featured on the Emmy-winning documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx, hosted by Charlton Heston.

Robert Aquinas McNally is a writer and poet. Voyages of the Pyramid Builders is his seventh book.

From Publishers Weekly:

The great pyramids of Egypt provide a wonderful glimpse of the artistry, skill and imagination of the ancient world. But pyramids can be found in India, China, Peru, Bolivia, Mexico and Ireland. In this provocative book, geologist Schoch (noted for his work in redating the Sphinx, which was recounted in his Voices of the Rocks) wonders how so many diverse cultures built such similar structures with similar purposes. Using geological, linguistic and geographical evidence, he contends that a protocivilization of pyramid-building peoples was driven out of its homeland, the Sundaland, which geologists believe connected Southeast Asia with Indonesia, by a rise in sea level caused by comet activity between 6000 and 4000 B.C. Fleeing their homeland, these peoples took their knowledge of pyramid building with them into Sumeria, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China and Peru. Schoch hypothesizes that the pyramids were built to reach into the skies and to penetrate the mystery of the heavens, source of catastrophe. Schoch also asserts that the pyramids point to unity and symbolize the deep concerns shared by all humans. Schoch builds his engrossing case on geological details of the pyramid sites he has examined around the world. In the end, however, even he admits his evidence of a Sundaland protocivilization is speculative. As controversial as this book is bound to be, Schoch's evocation of the pyramids forcefully reminds us of their enduring power as monuments to the spirit of human creativity. 16 pages of color photos not seen by PW.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penquin
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1585422037
• ISBN 13: 9781585422036
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320