Voyages of the Pyramid Builders

by Robert M. Schoch and Robert Aquinas McNally

Book Overview

Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Bud-dhists; the Maya, Inca,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585422037
• ISBN13: 9781585422036
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Voyages of the Pyramid Builders is Tantalizing

VOYAGES of the PYRAMID BUILDERS Authored by Robert M. Schoch, Ph, D. with Robert Aquinas McNally © 2003 Tarcher / Putnam of Penguin Putnam Inc. Review by Dr. Colette M. Dowell, N.D. Voyages of the Pyramid Builders, is a truly tantalizing comprehensive body of scholarly research addressing ancient origins of man's complexity of global migration and the art of pyramid building. Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., along with the help of Robert Aquinas McNally, has astonishingly compiled research and data that engages and teaches the reader about many diverse disciplines of studies. These collaborated studies portray a new compelling theory of ancient civilizations intertwining ancestral relationships, traveling around the world building pyramidal structures. Pyramids are an ideology of many peoples throughout many millenniums. Nearly on every continent there stands some form of pyramids. What instigated these ancient people to travel the extreme distances over land masses and water through out the millenniums and how did they accomplish this? Why would they bring along with them the tradition of building temples constructed like pyramids? Many questions are still in need of answers, but as time progresses many unsolved mysteries will be understood and our minds will be enriched with a greater understanding of our past. " Science is less a body of knowledge than an attitude, a willingness to lift the sacred veil and look behind it. That is what Voyages of the Pyramid Builders does. It offers the challenge of a fresh look and the thrill of exploring the new and unexpected." Shoch is a very curious, serious and studious scientist. He is not a person whom constructs theories and molds data like clay to form a false model to substantiate his claims, nor does he hold to any unrealistic views on any subject matter that would indoctrinate his own theoretical studies. He is pure; he does not seek admiration for his research and does not display a narcissist idiopathy of unfounded hypothetical scientific surrealism. Schoch is an Educator, a Scientist, a Professor, a real demure person who wants to share his personal curiosities that led him to study the higher realms of Science, Philosophy and Sacred Texts. Voyages of the Pyramid Builders is an indication of the immense knowledge and spirit Schoch possesses and his ability to integrate the two as a driving force enabling him to coordinate evidence between historical events and modern day scientific analyses. His willingness and dedication has led him to uncover truths as mysterious pieces of a very shattered puzzle that have either been lost in time, or have never been discovered and realized in the first place. Schoch's understanding of early sea faring and land migrating civilizations building sacred monuments and temples such as pyramids across land masses and major oceans to other continents is clearly based from gathering data from a multitude of fastidiously documented and undocumented research fr

Beautifully Written

I am a friend of the authors, so take this with a pinch of salt, but to the reader who called the book "dry, dry, dry" I can only respond with this line from Kirkus Reviews: "The presentation of this material is as entertaining as science-writing gets." I enjoyed this book throughly and found it a real pot boiler. Friend or not, that's the real deal.

Newsflash: Islands Not Settled By Walkers<br>

Robert Schoch has done an admirable job in collating data from the Earth's odd corners. This book is one of the best ever books on ancient navigation, and also on catastrophism. Interdisciplinary and of wide scope, it's better and more focused than his earlier popular work, _Voices of the Rocks_ (ISBN: 0609603698).Schoch isn't the first to raise the prospect of an ancient megalith building, seafaring civilization. He's not the first to come around to a catastrophic way of looking at the past, in historic or prehistoric times. But his presentation and credentials lend much higher credibility and a higher profile to such ideas.From the work with proxy data in tree rings etc, to anthropological studies around the world, to exploration of the continental shelf, this scientist has produced what is easily the best of a problematical genre, as well as being a work of popular science. So much debris has been penned regarding the origin of the Great Pyramid, alleged astrological links with ancient structures (Tiahuanaco, Stonehenge, Giza, etc), and precolumbian navigation (those works written from a political rather than scientific or linguistic perspective), this book by Schoch is a new light in an ancient sky.As Schoch recounts, Homo Erectus was crossing miles of open sea 800,000 or more years ago. But we're supposed to believe that crossing open sea was abandoned thereafter in the SW Pacific for at least 750,000 years, then abandoned again for at least another 47,000 years, and Australia was settled just twice during that nearly one million year period.My reservations about this book involve Schoch's use of the conventional pseudochronology of the ancient Near East. But had he been interested in anything else, his book wouldn't stand a chance. As it is, the book's enemies will continue to forge links for their Marley-banshee chains. Recommended.

A great read

This is a fascinating book. The authors explore the idea that early civilizations were in much greater contact than we know, and that the pyramids are evidence of this contact. The idea sounds speculative, even crazy, but they back it with so much carefully selected and weighed evidence that I found myself nodding and saying yes, yes, yes. Even better, the book is a great read; I had trouble putting it down. All science writing should be so good.

Bringing Ancient History to Life

This is a terrific book! It provides a fascinating and convincing view of ancient history that upends many of our previous assumptions. It is extremely well-written and even manages to be suspensful! I had a hard time putting it down!I highly recommend it for anyone interested in the origins and history of civilization.