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Ancient astronaut theory - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1093 words) |
 | Ancient astronaut theory is a term used to describe the theories of ancient extraterrestrial contact being involved in some way with the origin or development of human culture. |
| Erich von Däniken was foremost in popularizing ancient astronaut theories in the late 1960s and early 1970s with the 1968 publication of his best-selling Chariots of the Gods and its sequels. |
| Evidence for ancient astronauts often consists of allegations that ancient monuments, such as the pyramids of Egypt, or Machu Picchu in Peru, could not have been built without technical abilities beyond those of people at that time. |
| Ancient astronauts - definition of Ancient astronauts in Encyclopedia (910 words) |
| Ancient astronauts are conjectured extraterrestrial visitors to Earth in its distant past, whose existence was advocated by Peter Kolosimo in his 1957 book Il pianeta sconosciuto and later by the better-known Erich von Däniken in his 1968 book Chariots of the Gods and its sequels. |
| The ancient astronaut theory or paleocontact theory says that human beings are either the descendants or creations of aliens who landed on Earth millennia ago, or that much of our culture was given to us by extraterrestrial visitors in the time of pre-history. |
| Some earlier sources--while not referencing ancient astronats per se--suggest the creation of some monuments was beyond human means, such as Saxo Grammaticus' suggestion that giants had created Denmark's massive dolmens, or in tales that Merlin had assembled Stonehenge via magic. |
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