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FROM ATLANTIS TO THE SPHINX
RECOVERING THE LOST WISDOM OF THE ANCIENT WORLD |
| By: |
Colin Wilson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£7.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0753500647 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780753500644 |
| Publisher: |
EBURY PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
20 March, 1997 |
| Pages: |
384 |
| Description: |
Colin Wilson believes that a highly advanced knowledge system, developed by a pre-Ice-Age civilization, was passed on to ancient Egyptians by survivors. This book attempts to reconstruct that knowledge system, and tries to understand how these "old ones" thought. |
| Synopsis: |
Colin Wilson believes that thousands of years before ancient Egypt and Greece became powerful, there was a great civilization whose ships travelled the world. Whereas we have no way of viewing the universe as a whole, these "old ones" possessed a knowledge system that offered a unified view of the universe, which was then passed on to descendants who escaped to Egypt and South America. It was this knowledge system - alien to modern man - that enabled them to move stones weighing a thousand tons. In this exploration of the remote depths of history, Wilson sets out to reconstruct that ancient knowledge. He attempts to understand how the long-forgotten people thought, felt and communicated on a universal plane. |
| Illustrations: |
8pp b&w photographs |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virgin Books |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |