From Atlantis to the Sphinx
"In this compelling book, Colin Wilson argue that thousands of years before ancient Egypt and Greece held sway, there was a great civilisation whose ships travelled the world from China to the South Pole (which was the free of ice), and whose advanced knowledge of science, mathematics and astronomy was passed on to descendants who escaped to Egypt and South America." "Yet the most important fact to emerge from these new discoveries is that the 'old ones' possessed a completely different knowledge system from ours. Compared with modern man, they were as alien as Martians. It was this knowledge system, argues Colin Wilson, that enabled them to move stones weighing a thousand tons, to drill a granite coffin with an accuracy that still baffles modern engineers and to hollow out stone vases whose long necks will not admit even a child's finger." "From Atlantis to the Sphinx sets out to reconstruct that ancient knowledge. In a fascinating exploration of the remote depths of history, here is a groundbreaking attempt to understand how these long-forgotten people thought, felt and communicated with the universe."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1996
Virgin, London, 1996