He describes the destruction of ancient libraries, deems this “suppression” of ancient knowledge (by evil secularists, scientists, and “Moslems”), and speculates that the lost books contained technological secrets about plumbing. to provide an argumentum ad populum that associates his ideas with the borrowed acclaim of others. This program prevented Robert Schoch’s re-dating of the Sphinx, which Childress only vaguely understands, relying on the TV show to tell him everything he knows about the controversy before complaining via a quote from James Joyce’s wife that scholars write stuff normal folk can’t read.Ĭhildress sprinkles his text with phrases like “highly rated,” “popular,” “famous,” etc.

To “prove” an ancient civilization pre-dated Egypt, Childress uses John Anthony West’s 1993 NBC-TV documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx, narrated by Charlton Heston. Worse, Childress states upfront that he plans to “recap” information he’s already delivered in innumerable other collections that in turn reported on other alternative theorists’ earlier plagiarisms and crackpot ideas. Childress’s evidence includes the long-debunked ancient astronaut standbys, the Denderah “light bulb” (actually an image of a lotus flower) and the Colombian “airplanes” (fewer than a half-dozen stylized pieces of jewelry cherry-picked from hundreds of examples to because they vaguely resembled airplanes). Few alternative writers support this hypothesis now (even Childress jumped on the alien bandwagon), but in the wake of Graham Hancock’s Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), it was all the rage around the time Childress wrote this book.

Things don’t start well when Childress begins by trying to establish whether Egypt received its civilization from an ancient, more advanced earlier civilization. Instead, I’m going to discuss the types of evidence he uses and the way he constructs his arguments.

Impossible artifacts, and more, much more.Childress has done it again! From beginning to end, Technology of the Godsis filled with facts, keen observations and tales that challenge modernassumptions in a humorous, intelligent and compelling way that isquintessential Childress.First off, I’m not going to be going through Childress’s claims one by one at more than 350 pages that would be impossible. The role of modern inventors, such as Nikola Tesla, in bringing ancient technology into modernuse* The use of crystal lenses and the fire from the gods*Īncient evidence of high-tech weapons, including atomic weapons* Childressalso uncovers many other mysteries, including:* “Popular Lost Cities author David Childress opens the door to the amazingworld of ancient technology, from the computers of the ancient world to the'flying machines of the gods.' Technology of the Gods explores thetechnology that was allegedly used in Atlantis and the theory that theGreat Pyramid of Egypt was originally a gigantic power station.

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