The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients - Technology of the Gods

There's only one God, sorry guys. :-(
You know what all these Alien pushers forget or just don't know is that when God made man, aka Adam, he used 100% of his brain. So did all the kids he had. We use maybe 5-10% max! These people were ALL geniuses! Don't you think they could build all the cities of old!

I love this book! David Childress is an Indiana-Jones type character, who travels the world exploring and finding interesting information that we would not normally find ourselves.
How about ancient atomic wars that devastated and wiped out people? What? You mean that before 1945, there was other civilizations on planet Earth that had this same atomic knowledge? YES. It seems abundantly clear that this is what happened in the deep past.
And when we do not remember our history, we will find that we just may repeat it. This concept of "repeating the past we have forgotten about" fits in with the writings of Joe Scogna, such as The Threat of the Poison Reign and SAF Simplified, both books from the store.
Childress details the incredible scientific knowledge of ancient peoples as you have not read these before. Excellent book!

I enjoyed parts of this book but other sections left me wondering, especially towards the end of the book when the pyramids were turned into generators by the author. A pretty good stretch of the imagination, to say the least.

Since I was born and raised in Wyoming and not too far from where the Pedro Mountain mummy was found, I found that the information about the discovery of this strange creature all the more interesting and somewhat more believable but do wonder at where this mummy could have disappeared to. I also found out about the huge stones at Baalbek in Lebanon and wonder about the civilization that could have produced such stones and moved and set them into a wall when the people that live there now are hard pressed to get four camel turds to stand up in one pile. The same is true of Egypt, where I have been to amaze at what these ancient people were able to accomplish. How they were able to dig the tunnels and chambers out of the sandstone in the Valley of the Kings and paint them with detailed scenes, such as the view of the starlight sky in Seti the First's tomb. One can only wonder at what source of light that they had to do this that did not emit smoke to blacken and foul the air in these caverns.

The author raises many questions but doesn't answer many because I guess no one can have the correct answer. He gives sources that one can go to for other's views on the questions that he raise. I liked some of the quotes that he prefaced the chapters with, such as:
As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious. Will Durant
Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearance of magic. Arthur C. Clark
....That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all of your life, but in a different way. Doris Lessing

This book is worth reading and most should find out many things that they were unaware of and isn't that why people read such books?

David Childress in "Technology of the Gods: The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients" presents a fascinating compilation of inconsistencies that appear in the archaeological record of the ancient past that deviate from main stream knowledge in the world of academia. Childress does a good job presenting a wide variety of views on humanity's hidden past that in many cases is right in front of us, just being interpreted in a different way.

Childress briefly touches upon an assortment of speculative high technology present in ancient times. He quotes other authors very extensively and he presents very little of his own analysis and research.

The book would have been easier to follow if a map would have been inserted in the beginning and if the illustrations were listed and had been larger. Also it would have helped if they followed along beside the text alleviating the problem of flipping back and forth to find them.

His sources in the bibliography make it easy to do further research on specific topics for follow-up. However, because there is no index it is difficult to look up specific information to be used for reference. Unfortunately as some others have mentioned the margins leave little room for personal notes and comments to be entered for my own reference. For both those reasons my copy now has numerous "Post Its" for my own indexing and notes. As others have pointed out the book could have been edited a little better, there are sentences that are annoying to read because they distract the reader from the subject matter. The little pictures on many pages with no captions were a little annoying at first, but I got over it as I became absorbed in the text.

What I found most intriguing was Chapter 7 "The Earth As A Giant Power Plant", in particular Christopher Dunn's theories about the level of ancient society's advancement using only tools and artifacts that have been found to date. Dunn, a British engineer applies his expertise in modern machining and engineering methods to try and determine how ancient artifacts were produce or erected. Something to make one think is Dunn's assertion in regards to Egyptian Pyramids and other large monument is "For the most part, primitive tools that are discovered are considered contemporaneous with the artifacts of the same period. Yet during this period in Egyptian history, artifacts were produced in prolific number with no tools surviving to explain their creation" (page 365). The precision that he and others claim in regards to the fitting of cut stone is incredible. If nothing else will gap your attention as it did mine is another assertion by Dunn "In the Great Pyramid alone, there are an estimated 2,300,000 blocks of stone, both limestone and granite, weighing between 2 tons and 70 tons each. That is a mountain of evidence, and there are no tools surviving to explain its creation" (page279). The are some copper tools, some, that have survived, but with the tens of thousands of workers that main stream archaeologist claim were needed to built the Pyramids there should be mountain of tools left behind. Archaeologists have more evidence of Clovis points than tools used thousands of years latter. Dunn's contention is that Egyptians must have had other forms of technology that we have still not found.

The book was fascinating to read, notwithstanding the problems I listed above. The pictures and illustrations while disappointing in size and clarity were interesting. While I may not agree on some of the subject matter it gave me a starting point to do further reading on many of the issues Childress presents. Readers of this book have to decide for themselves the evidence presented by Childress. I give it 4 stars because the material is interesting and begs further research.

This is a great first introduction to the fact that ancient peoples had benefit of higher technologies that gave them unlimited sources of energy to power light and tools and machinery to travel across the planet and even into the space beyond this Earth. I have had several copies of this book. Many of the publications that I purchase seem to just disappear one day. They are taken by interested individuals that don't want to return them. So I Have had a few of David's books that have just walked away.. If they walk away you know that they are awesome. I always purchase them again and again. I use them as reference guides. You will too, and maybe even purchase them for as gift for friends and family who need to become enlightened to the truth. If you see this book, grab it fast and read it several times. Refer to it whenever anyone tells you that our current technology is the best human kind has every experienced. We need to rediscovered these technologies and learn what ancient civilizations did to provide heat and light for themselves because they didn't leave any pollution or any carbon footprint that was damaging to the atmosphere which does not mean that they lived in crude conditions.

I've always been interested in this particular topic and what I've read of this intriguing 'sample', leaves me hungry for more. The price of admission, however, is too steep for this particular pensioner. I'll have to wait in the hope that it will become available in 'Kindle Unlimited' or the public library.

I have read most of Childress's books and enjoyed all of them because he tells a good story and has a good descriptive talent. The subject matter covers my particular interests. I am used to the faults in the books such repetitive writing and poor editing. However, I think that in the Technology of the Gods he has reached low in these problems. He repeats himself many times. He includes the same picture several times, in particular, the pyramid as an energy source. Even the books listed for further reading he lists A.C.Clarkes Mysterious World at least 4 times. Is this just padding? I really don't care very much with the style of picture he uses for his illustrations. Some are completely useless because of size and indistinct reproduction. Some look as the had been produced using his thumb as a brush for black ink.
Having said all that would I recommend the book? Yes. his good points make up for the criticisms. The first half is more interesting (to me) than the last part where he covers pyramids and archeology. Not much technology but a lot of speculation. I make these criticisms in the hope that somehow Childress will get to hear them and make some effort to improve on his future books. I really dislike poor editing. It gives the impression of rushing through notes just to get a book published.
I enjoyed the book overall.
M.S.

From ancient atomic weapons to virmanas to a 1000 year old iron monument in India that never rust despite being in a region that gets monsoons David brings all kinds of cool stuff to this piece of wierdness. This book is not so much as explaining why as telling you what was. Alot of his odd little stories are in Micheal Cremos Forbidden Archealogy but there are some really wierd one's like when they where blasting a mountain that was millions of years old in wyoming and they found a little cave in the blast site with the mummy of a little human like being sitting in the lotus position that was only 12 inchs high you gotta see the picture of this little guy he looks like Yoda! This is a neat book that is what it is fun strange stories.

I clearly expected a more reliable, truly scientific book. Don't shoot the messenger, this is yellow press at its "best". You expect to read about "ancient computers" and find out meant is Stonehenge, only because astronomy can be predicted with it... The "best-selling" (as in sell the headline best) author - and yes, he's a journalist - hardly leaves anything out, which makes a fine sensation: flying carpets, Perseus' invisible making helmet, manbird Garuda's space travel to the Pole Star 58 lights years away, Icarus flying to close to the sun, King Solomon traveling in aircrafts, an ancient H-bomb knocking out the power plant in a pyramid (still standing).... you name it, and David Hatcher Childress will tell you, it's all true.

His proof is usually a bit lacking. Either in the tune of: "I once saw a levitating lama"; via free spaces in ancient cities around the world without further circumstantial hints have to be nothing else, but landing grounds for air and space ships; to the causal relationship string of thought that the A-bomb on Hiroshima caused some sand to turn crystally salty, the SIMILAR LOOKING salty area around the Dead Sea must have been caused by the ancient nuking of Sodom and Gomorrha, which turned organic material (Lot's wife) into the very same salt, too (but her family could escape the blast, I presume...). His credo by his very own (quoted) words: "The absence of proof is no proof of the proof's absence." Oh, I forgot: The usual unusual item to have been found by private citizens have been lost by now (Including the biggest megaliths ever known, which couldn't get transported by modern means!) or the owners refuse any examination... He's not shying away to present pictures supporting his theory, captioning them with the small print "POSSIBLE secret chambers beneath the Sphinx" (highlight by myself). Mentioning the pictures: Most of them are depicted twice or even four times without any apparent reason, which remains one of the biggest mysteries in this book.

In principle I know that "the ancients" had been MUCH more sophisticated than presented and/or believed by orthodox "science". This book simply is not the way to present that knowledge, for hardly any real knowledge gets included. The author himself terms it "speculation" once in a while. Some curious phenomena are merely mentioned in a sentence, a paragraph or a sub chapter of 2 or 3 pages. The only somewhat in depth analysis by comparison is a lengthy some 30 page quote from a another book, The Giza Power Plant : Technologies of Ancient Egypt, which at least offers a cohesive theory to work with. Some true discoveries, such as the very real antikythera mechanism device found in an ancient Greek ship wreck, are intermingled with fantasy. Also the ancient Egyptian source for the word "soap" is revealed, which is nice. However, most unsolved mysteries are hilariously distorted by wild fiction fevers. The thing with speculation is: Nearly always, it will lead to the realization later that it was a very funny imagination, even should the direction of thought have been somewhat based on reality. For that, in depth science has to get applied, usually over many years to come to worthy conclusions, usually not expected from the start. The author, however, doesn't engage in science. He merely compiles sensationalist stories, concocted for the Atlantis and UFO philes. He is actually doing a mighty disservice to progressive/alternative science.

Take the title page as an example. The Egyptians depicted are supposed to hold light bulbs. The cover image has been distorted, within the book it becomes clear that these light bulbs are human sized. Why that huge? The symbolic Djed-pillars they are resting on are supposed to be electric generators (yet holding the GLASS then, according to this interpretation on the back cover, i.e. no metal necessary for the electricity to flow). It is a bit bold to interpret ancient temple wall paintings and hyroglyphs of what they remind of in the modern world. It would be even bold to interpret the really depicted things literally. To me, this looks like serpents in a container or symbolic flower, but I wouldn't dare to aver this impression as such. The author doesn't provide ANY context of that image. His knowledge about Egypt seems to be very limited anyway, as he terms the GODDESS Isis/Aset a priestess. She and other facets of the goddess(es) are supposed to wear very real electric light or crystal lenses on their heads. Now we know the reason for the distortion into a real life priestess, killing all the symbolism. In that row of "priestesses" depicted one has a lioness' head. He doesn't refer to how he blinds THAT literally...

Usually the book is about phenomena AS OF YET unexplained (= in 2000 when the book was published originally). Occasionally, it DEFIES any existing scientific knowledge. For example he avers the Mediterranean would have been a dry valley with some lakes, inhabited by an ancient ancient civilization he calls Osirian. (Even though the reference to the mythical first ruler of pre-dynastic Egypt having turned into a god tells the diametrically opposed story of Egypt coming OUT of the water - the growing Nile Delta). I call the Mediterranean a lake myself, yet, tectonics teach that it used to be an OCEAN getting closed. Unorthodox views describe that process a bit variated, yet, it never has been a dry valley, even though the sea level (all over the world) was a bit lower at times.

The author also falls for historic legends (i.e. errors): One example would be the supposed burning of the library in Alexandria by Muslim conquerors. In reality, the re-built library had been re-burned the last time seven centuries before their arrival - by Christian fanatics. (The first time by Julius Caesar as punishment for not submitting quickly enough.) The poisoning of Alexander the Great is controversial at best. And Archimedes constructed a lot of (wooden) machines with which to destroy ships, yet no giant lenses were used to burn any fleet. None of the contemporary historians discribing his gadgets report such lenses, but many centuries later, this myth came to life. Hence it is funny reading this book averring (relatively) sophisticated technology involuntarily based on basically a fairy tale, exposing the very carelessness of the author's approach to scientific findings.

So why did I give any stars at all? Actually, I give 2.5 not 3. One star is obligatory. Half a star is for the principle of challenging orthodox believes, suggesting the ancients didn't know anything. An additional star is for providing information to be looked up independently with more trustworthy sources. For example I had never heard about the Iron Pillar of Delhi, which mysteriously has remained rost free and is some 97% pure iron, which is difficult or should be impossible to produce in these quantities. Two years after the publishing of the book, that mystery seems to have been solved: The ancient melting process of producing iron had been fundamentally different, leaving MUCH more phosphor in the product. That in turn caused a very thin, but very effective protective film to develop on the surface. So: Yes, we didn't know and the product is superior to modern corrosion stricken iron, yet the wild speculation in this book has proven to be just that. I am glad to have been introduced to the (lack of) knowledge about vitrified forts and Libyan Desert Glass (in Egypt), which obviously formed while exposing rock/sand to enormous heat. More theories exist than described in the book, which avers nuclear warfare, because no vulcanic or meteor crater has been found. Yet, as inconsistent as the book gets, existing craters elsewhere are supposed to be caused by nuclear bombs... By the way, the sinking of ships and planes in the Bermuda Triangle has been solved in the meanwhile as well. Gases breaking through the ocean floor temporarily cause such vessels not be supported any more by the transformed water and air. The referenced example of a squadron disappearing has been reconstructed by now as an error of judgement by the leading pilot flying in the wrong direction, though.

I have to close. If you are interested in REAL, in-depth and as of today judged unorthodox science revealing ancient ancient technology, forget this book and read instead the 1966 Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age and the 2004 Civilization One: The World Is Not as You Thought It Was. Then you WON'T have to wonder wether in 2,000 years someone interprets Star Trek and Harry Potter as the real state of technology of today...

I bought this book with great anticipation...was on the waiting list for months! When it finally became available I couldn't wait to read it. I flipped through it in even more anticipation at the fantastic pictures and illustrations once I got it.
I have to say I was thrilled and dissappointed all at once. The content of the book was absolutely fascinating. The author stirred up subjects that totally engulfed me; but as I'd read into each, I found him wandering off into some other rather uninteresting part of the subject and leaving me dieing to get back to the origional thought...which he often didn't. I got the feeling that he hurried the book and that it never really got edited... Thoughts ran off the page and never got finished; as if pages were missing from the printing.
I'd like to see this entire book re-thought and rewritten, because the CONTENT of the book is astounding to say the least. I'd recommend it to anyone who's digging into ancient history/origins because it has so much interesting material. But I would certainly warn them that it's not a well written or easy to follow book. I actually found myself getting bored with the author's wandering thoughts, especially when he teased with a fascinating subject, then wandered off to la la land.

I enjoyed this book immensely, apart from typographical errors poor editing and poor science this is a classic. I think the best bit is "heavy protons in mercury." Does this mean that protons in other elements are lighter?...not...
A more scientific approach such as..this may be...or even, perhaps this could be..or, one interpretation... One doesn't expect too much use of passive voice past impersonal, but it would lend more credibility to some of the shallow arguments presented in this book if this had been done.
I for one certainly believe there is nothing new under the sun. Some of the artifacts presented in this book are extraordinary and require more thorough scientific study and presentation.

"Technology of the Gods" documents many examples of ancient technologies including sophisticated use of optics, magnetism, and electricity.

What I found even more interesting was a special section of some of Tesla's research into similar avenues of research.

It could have used a few more references or explanation of sources, but all in all a very enjoyable introduction into OOPARTS.

Childress had a good title. The headings to his chapters sound great, but it's all sizzle and no steak.

Clark & Agnew's, "The Ark of Millions of Years," fills in all the blanks left by Childress' "Tech." From it I learned why the ancient wars were fought, and who the leaders were. I learned why the pyramids were built, who built them, and why the builders are no longer here.

But, the most important piece, and I mean this one will astound you, is their chapter "The Arrival of Noah." When you learn how the earth was put together and why the human race is here in the first place, it will change everything.

Mr. Childress. Work on a throrough second edition of this book. In the mean time, buy The Ark of Millions of Years. You'll never be the same.

Some of the pictures really make you think, what did the ancients really know. The theories on the pyramids is very original. This whole book is original.Filled with interesting stuff, you'll learn many new ideas from this book.

I am happy that I could find more information about our ancient technologies. This book was a great addition to my collection but lacked the timeline of which the events happened. If you are going to purchase this book I suggest you also purchase Old World Secrets the Omega Project Codes (3rd edition)and New World Bible The Story of the Truth by Brandon Levon. They will give you the insight of how this all played out. They will change the way you see the world

Ancient archaeology is an interesting subject but Childress gets way too technical. He describes the evidence of ancient machinery on the planet and then goes on to describe what it was probably used for, how it was made and why it worked. The jist of these stories is interesting but he just goes on and on and it's rather hard to understand.

This book is filled with incredible and plausible descriptions of technology that has been ignored or explained away by traditional science. A MUST read for anyone that believes there are many secrets hidden in the past.

Although this subject has been explored in many specialized magazines, it is a great experience to read it from one of

the most serious sources. Just objective data is what you will

find which will open your mind to a deeper perspective of

human race achievements and ancient associations.

Far fetched theories, so what? Religions promises are too, still millions go to church. Read this book, it will put some strange thoughts in your brains but again it will make you wonder if everything we learned in school is true.

Everything in this book has been written about already by authors like Erich von Daniken, Charles Berlitz, Alan Landsburg, Andrew Tomas, and countless others. And still nobody has come up with a satisfactory explanation in 30 years...

For those not researching much of what is written in Technology of the Gods, the stories would appear to be so fascinatingly convincing and wild and, for the most part, they are! However, if one were to REALLY do a little research and see how much of what Childress write is actually TRUE, they would find that much (and I would say, most) of it is just plain science fiction. Period. As I read Technology of the Gods, wanted badly to verify the accuracy of what Childress claimed, because as it turned out, the book made ever more outrageous claims as you get deeper and deeper into the book.

I wouldn't know where to start with a review, but a few facts stand out. For one, Childress quotes very extensively (and almost to the point of making his own analysis mute) several authors, such as Andrew Tomas, who have been known to write falsities themselves. Tomas is a good example. Most of what Tomas writes about cannot be tracked down mostly because he never left any sources for his outrageous claims. The "Vedic UFO's" from which Childress gets most of his ancient Indian Vimana ideas from (including illustrations of them) were inspired by a book, Vaimanika Shastra, that was claimed to have been "channeled" by the transcribed author, Pandit Subbaraya Shastry. Childress performs these same erroncies in which claims cannot be traced, verified, or researched. This is not science...this is pseudoscience. Or better yet: science fiction. This is a type of religion, in which you must simply believe what is said and leave it at that.

Another problem I found with Technology of the Gods is that there were half-truths (in which the whole explanation or alternative, and more realistic, answer seems to be ignored and not written about) or there were outright lies associated with many of Childress' claims. Quick examples:

-the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull: was actually bought at an auction by Mitchell himself...not found at an archeological dig, as he claimed. But this explanation is never written about by Childress,

-the "metallic vessel" from Dorchester, MA was found near a mine in loose rubble, not, as Childress claims, "blown out of solid rock",

-the Coso Artifact, was found inside of a ball of hard clay, not, as Childress claims, a geode. Also, the object was found, under intense investigation, to be identical to a, then current, 1920's Champion spark plug, probably from mining equipment of the area. Of course none of this is ever mentioned or written about by Childress,

-the Iron Pillar of Delhi: not rusted due, possibly, to the high content of phosphorus film on its surface from the manufacture of it and also to its thickness. (None mentioned in Technology of the Gods),

and many more! In short, a book would need to be written that described the many inaccuracies and missleading information contained in Technology of the Gods. The book makes for some great science fiction, but not knowing anything about the subject matters written about and not researching any of the claims made by the author will lead one into believing a false religion.

For those not researching much of what is written in Technology of the Gods, the stories would appear to be so fascinatingly convincing and wild and, for the most part, they are! However, if one were to REALLY do a little research and see how much of what Childress write is actually TRUE, they would find that much (and I would say, most) of it is just plain science fiction. Period. As I read Technology of the Gods, wanted badly to verify the accuracy of what Childress claimed, because as it turned out, the book made ever more outrageous claims as you get deeper and deeper into the book.

I wouldn't know where to start with a review, but a few facts stand out. For one, Childress quotes very extensively (and almost to the point of making his own analysis mute) several authors, such as Andrew Tomas, who have been known to write falsities themselves. Tomas is a good example. Most of what Tomas writes about cannot be tracked down mostly because he never left any sources for his outrageous claims. The "Vedic UFO's" from which Childress gets most of his ancient Indian Vimana ideas from (including illustrations of them) were inspired by a book, Vaimanika Shastra, that was claimed to have been "channeled" by the transcribed author, Pandit Subbaraya Shastry. Childress performs these same erroncies in which claims cannot be traced, verified, or researched. This is not science...this is pseudoscience. Or better yet: science fiction. This is a type of religion, in which you must simply believe what is said and leave it at that.

Another problem I found with Technology of the Gods is that there were half-truths (in which the whole explanation or alternative, and more realistic, answer seems to be ignored and not written about) or there were outright lies associated with many of Childress' claims. Quick examples:

-the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull: was actually bought at an auction by Mitchell himself...not found at an archeological dig, as he claimed. But this explanation is never written about by Childress,

-the "metallic vessel" from Dorchester, MA was found near a mine in loose rubble, not, as Childress claims, "blown out of solid rock",

-the Coso Artifact, was found inside of a ball of hard clay, not, as Childress claims, a geode. Also, the object was found, under intense investigation, to be identical to a, then current, 1920's Champion spark plug, probably from mining equipment of the area. Of course none of this is ever mentioned or written about by Childress,

-the Iron Pillar of Delhi: not rusted due, possibly, to the high content of phosphorus film on its surface from the manufacture of it and also to its thickness. (None mentioned in Technology of the Gods),

and many more! In short, a book would need to be written that described the many inaccuracies and missleading information contained in Technology of the Gods. The book makes for some great science fiction, but not knowing anything about the subject matters written about and not researching any of the claims made by the author will lead one into believing a false religion.