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  Table of Contents

  TECHNOLOGY OF THE GODS

  Acknowledgements

  Dedication

  Title Page

  Copyright Page

  Praise

  Preface

  Chapter 1. - The Enigma of Ancient Technology

  The Destruction of Knowledge

  Ancient Sanitation: Bathrooms of the Gods

  Many of Today’s Inventions Were Yesterday’s Inventions

  The Amazing Inventions of China

  The Marvelous Chinese Clocks

  The Curious Crystal Skull

  Chapter 2. - The Megalith Masterminds

  Megalithomania

  The Osirian Civilization

  Ba‘albek and Osiris

  Osirian Remains in Egypt

  The Sunken Temples of Carnac

  The Amazing Megaliths of the Andes

  The World’s Largest Computer

  Chapter 3. - Ancient Metallurgy & Machines

  Ancient Mining and Smelting

  The Origin of Smelting

  Metallurgy in Ancient India and China

  The Iron Pillar of Delhi

  The Mysterious Origin of Aluminum

  Mining and Metal Anomalies

  A Spark Plug Found in a Geode

  Oddities Found in Solid Stone

  More Ancient Artifacts

  Robots & Automatons of the Ancients

  Ancient Technology and the Antikythera Device

  Zoomorphic Glyphs of Ancient Heavy Machinery

  Chapter 4. - Ancient Electricity & Sacred Fire

  2,000-Year-Old Electrical Batteries

  Electricity and Religion

  Electric Eternal Flames

  Electric Lights in Ancient Egypt?

  Ark of the Covenant—Electrified?

  Crystal Lenses, Solar Mirrors and Luminous Disks

  Chapter 5. - Ancient Flight & Aerial War

  Ancient Rockets to Ancient Flight

  Prehistoric Aircraft: From Airplane Models to Flying Chariots

  The Airships of King Solomon

  The First Space Programs

  Legends and Histories of Levitation

  The Rama Empire of India

  Fly the Friendly Skies in an Air India Vimana

  Aerial Warfare in Ancient India

  Mercury Engines and Vimana Texts

  The Caduceus

  To Grand Teton in an Atlantean Airship

  Chapter 6. - Ancient Atomic Warfare

  Incredible Evidence for an Ancient Atomic War

  The Mystery of Tektites

  Mysterious Glass in the Egyptian Desert

  The Vitrified Forts of Scotland

  More Vitrified Ruins

  Greek Fire, Plasma Guns, and Atomic Warfare

  Does California’s Death Valley Show Evidence of an Atomic War?

  Sodom and Gomorrah meet Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  Atomic Devastation, Indian Style

  The Doom of Mohenjo-Daro

  Chapter 7. - The Earth As A Giant Power Plant

  The Giza Pyramid Complex

  Was the Great Pyramid Poured into Place?

  What Was the Function of the Pyramids?

  The Giza Power Plant

  Inside the King’s Chamber

  Ultrasonic Machining the Granite Core

  Granite Boxes in Rock Tunnels

  High-Speed, Motorized Machinery Must Have Been Used

  The Great Pyramid and the Mighty Crystal

  The Acoustics of the Great Pyramid

  Tuned Granite Beams

  The Helmholtz Resonator and the Grand Gallery Resonators

  The Great Crystal of Edgar Cayce

  A Giant Pyramid Underwater at Bimini?

  Chapter 8. - The Cyclical Nature of History

  The Cyclical Nature of History

  The Book of Enoch

  The Cave of the Ancients

  A Hollow Mountain as an Atomic Refuge

  Technology is War Driven

  Bibliography & Footnotes

  TECHNOLOGY OF THE GODS

  The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients

  David Hatcher Childress

  Acknowledgements

  Many thanks to all the authors who helped this author, including

  Christopher Dunn, Andrew Tomas, Ivan T. Sanderson, Charles Berlitz, J.

  Manson Valentine, Alfred Bielek, Ruth Hover-McKinley, Flavia Anderson,

  Jerry Ziegler, John Michell, William Corliss, the A.R.E. of Virginia Beach,

  Doug Kenyon and Atlantis Rising, and many others.

  Thanks also to all those who helped me in the production of this book,

  including Ranney Moss, Jennifer Bolm, Harry Osoff, and Chas Berlin.

  Many thanks for your contributions.

  Dedication

  To all scientist-philosophers everywhere who continue to study, learn and

  grow.

  May they take us to infinity and beyond.

  TECHNOLOGY OF THE GODS

  Copyright 2000 David Hatcher Childress

  First Printing

  April 2000

  ISBN 0-932813-73-9

  Printed in the United States of America

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  And here, ...my dear Watson, we come into those

  realms of conjecture where the most logical minds may be at fault;

  each may form its own hypothesis upon the present evidence,

  and yours is as likely to be correct as mine.

  —Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Empty House

  From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down

  I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

  —Groucho Marx

  All are architects of fate,

  Working in these walls of time:

  Some with massive deeds and great;

  Some with lesser rhyme.

  —Longfellow, The Builders

  Preface

  Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

  —Seneca (5 BC-65AD), Epistle 90

  Welcome to the controversial and fascinating world of ancient technology. In this book we will explore the many bits of evidence that lead us to the astounding conclusion that ancient man was virtually as sophisticated as we are today—at least someone, from somewhere, was here using high technology. This technology included everything from electricity to heavy machinery and aircraft.

  The topics of ancient flight, ancient atomic wars, ancient electricity and such, will seem odd to many people, especially “highly educated” readers. To many, these topics seem too incredible to even discuss; yet, as we shall see, there is a lot of evidence pointing to a technologically advanced past. Every culture in the world seems to have legends of ancient flight and a golden civilization before our own. Separating fact from fiction is the difficult part. A coherent time-line of the ancient past would also be helpful. Hopefully, new dating techniques such as the chlorine 23 method will accurately pinpoint when rock was hewn from its quarry and erected. Since the most ancient man-made artifacts are monuments in stone, this will give us information to accurately date the megalith masterminds and the dawn of their vanished civilization.

  As a reporter, I am interested in the strange and unusual. I am also interes
ted in the facts. In this book, I have tried to include those stories, artifacts, and places that seemed the most important and could be largely verified. Admittedly, there is much speculation in this book, and I invite readers to speculate as they will. Like all “scientists” the readers of this book will sift through the information presented, take that which seems reasonable to them, and file it in with their existing “computer files” to be accessed again later and modified as necessary. Other information they will discard and ignore.

  Throughout this book, a number of ancient texts are mentioned. Spelling varies in some cases such as Rg Veda and Rig Veda. We have used the more common and easy spelling whenever possible, but we have left the original author’s spelling in the extensive sources quoted in this book. We have tried to include most of the sourcebooks mentioned within the text in the bibliography, but in some cases this was impossible. Books that are mentioned by other authors within the text are referenced to the quoter’s book.

  Special thanks to the Sanskrit scholar Ramachandra Dikshitar, the Oxford professor who wrote War in Ancient India. In a special chapter in the Oxford edition of his book, he waxed poetic over his country’s contribution to aviation—inventing it! Said the proud historian back in 1944: “No question can be more interesting in the present circumstances of the world than India’s contribution to the science of aeronautics. There are numerous illustrations in our vast Puranic and epic literature to show how well and wonderfully the ancient Indians conquered the air. To glibly characterize everything found in this literature as imaginary and summarily dismiss it as unreal has been the practice of both Western and Eastern scholars until very recently. The very idea indeed was ridiculed and people went so far as to assert that it was physically impossible for man to use flying machines. But today what with balloons, aeroplanes and other flying machines, a great change has come over our ideas on the subject.”100

  Sadly, Dr. Dikshitar was indeed ridiculed by his fellow Oxford scholars at times, but the texts speak for themselves. What was a scientific-minded scholar to do—ignore the evidence? Most did, in fact.

  In approaching the subject of advanced ancient technology I have decided to start with simple but necessary technology, such as irrigation, water and sewage, and then move to the basic combination for advanced technology: metallurgy and electricity. With it established in the reader’s mind that the ancients may well have had complicated metal machines—and electricity—I then move on to the fantastic possibilities of ancient flight, atomic warfare and the idea of a world-wide power system.

  Hey, it’s a wild ride through ancient history, but it’s my story, and I’m sticking to it. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

  1.

  The Enigma of Ancient Technology

  As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

  —Will Durant

  I think, myself, that in 1903, we passed through the remains of a powdered world—left over from an ancient inter-planetary dispute, brooding in space....

  —Charles Fort

  Was the Science of Egypt Inherited from an Earlier Culture?

  In my searches for lost cities and mysteries of the past, I have often found clues to the technology of the ancients. These clues can be in the form of depictions of ancient devices in rock paintings or carvings (such as the electric devices at the Temple of Hathor in Egypt) or as small models of devices (such as the miniature solid gold airplanes at the Bogota Gold Museum) or in the stories from ancient texts (such as the Ramayana or even the Bible).

  In this book I would like to recap some of the evidence for ancient technology and for advanced ancient cultures in the past. What is amazing about the modern world versus the ancient one is that in the modern world, the average citizen has access to advanced technology such as electricity, a personal vehicle, telephone, fax, and computer technology. In the ancient world, high technology was largely denied the masses. In fact it was often used in temples and ceremonies to gain power over people by amazing or terrifying them; this was part of worship and mystery.

  The well-known author and presenter of the television documentary Mystery of the Sphinx, John Anthony West, says:Egyptian science, medicine, mathematics and astronomy were all of an exponentially higher order of refinement and sophistication than modern scholars will acknowledge. The whole of Egyptian civilization was based upon a complete and precise understanding of universal laws. And this profound understanding manifested itself in a consistent, coherent and interrelated system that fused science, art and religion into a single organic Unity. In other words, it was exactly the opposite of what we find in the world today.

  Moreover, every aspect of Egyptian knowledge seems to have been complete at the very beginning. The sciences, artistic and architectural techniques and the hieroglyphic system show virtually no signs of a period of ‘development’; indeed, many of the achievements of the earliest dynasties were never surpassed, or even equaled later on. This astonishing fact is readily admitted by orthodox Egyptologists, but the magnitude of the mystery it poses is skillfully understated, while its many implications go unmentioned.

  How does a civilization spring full-blown into being? Look at a 1905 automobile and compare it to a modern one. There is no mistaking the process of ‘development,’ but in Egypt there are no parallels. Everything is right there at the start.

  The answer to the mystery is of course obvious, but because it is repellent to the prevailing cast of modern thinking, it is seldom seriously considered. Egyptian civilization was not a ‘development,’ but a legacy.108

  In his highly rated NBC special of November, 1993, Mystery of the Sphinx, West and his researchers sought to prove that the Sphinx had been severely waterworn and was over 10,000 years old!

  Why don’t you write books people can read?

  —Nora Joyce (to her husband, James)

  The Destruction of Knowledge

  As our technology has gotten more advanced, we have become able to look into the future and into outer space with a view different from that of scientists and thinkers earlier in this century. Similarly, we are now able to look at the past with greater insight and technological know-how. Just as our minds have been able to imagine a future different from that which our grandfathers could envision, we are also able to see a past different from that of the scientists and experts of the turn of the century.

  Just as our scope of the universe has been pushed back to the farthest reaches of space, we are now in a position to push back to the farthest reaches of history. And many researchers are doing just that.

  Atlantis, with its advanced culture, is named in ancient texts. To begin with, it is mentioned in Plato’s dialogues (taken from ancient Egyptian records according to the text), and nearly every ancient culture in the world has myths and legends of an ancient world-before and the cataclysm that destroyed it.

  The Mayans, Aztecs and Hopis believed in the destruction of four or more worlds before our own. The destruction of Atlantis may not even be the most recent cataclysm to befall the earth.

  The most widely-known books in the world such as the Bible, the Mahabharata,the Koran and even the Tao Te Ching all speak of cataclysms and ancient civilizations that were destroyed. Ancient civilizations and stories about them filled thousands, even hundreds of thousands of volumes of books that were kept in libraries around the world in ancient times. Many ancient libraries were so huge that they were famous among local historians. The library at Alexandria is a well-known example.

  Sadly, it is a fact that throughout history, huge archives and libraries have been purposely destroyed. According to the famous astronomer Carl Sagan, a book entitled The True History of Mankind Over the Last 100,000 Years once existed and was housed in the great library in Alexandria, Egypt. Unfortunately, this book, along with thousands of others, was burned by fanatical Christians in the third century AD Any volumes which they might have missed were burned by the Moslems to heat baths a few hundred year
s later.

  All ancient Chinese texts were ordered destroyed in 212 BC by Emperor Chi Huang Ti, the builder of the famous Great Wall. Vast amounts of ancient texts—virtually everything pertaining to history, philosophy, and science—were seized and burnt. Whole libraries, including the royal library, were destroyed. Some of the works of Confucius and Mencius were included in this destruction of knowledge.