Chariots of the Gods?
Chariots of the Gods?
What it claims
The English Wikipedia summarizes this as a book that explains ancient ruins as the work of aliens.Author Erich von Däniken claims aliens either built the pyramids and the Moai statues, or taught humans how to build them.He reads the Nazca Lines as a spaceship runway and the Ark of the Covenant as an alien communication device.Scholars, including Carl Sagan, criticized the book as pseudoscience.It nonetheless sold 70 million copies by 2017.
How the post is built
It lists ruins from different continents side by side in a single list.The pyramids, Stonehenge, the Moai, and the Nazca Lines all appear in the same line.
How it connects
It selects only ruins it declares impossible for ancient technology to have built.It then treats this curated list as evidence of alien visitation.