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Name: Voyages of the Pyramid Builders

Author: Robert M. Schoch
Year: 2003
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Is it a coincidence that pyramids are found across the globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces & times, such as the ancient Egyptians, early Buddhists, the Maya, Inca, Toltecs, Aztecs, British Celts & even the Mississippians of pre-Columbian Illinois, simply dream the same dreams & envision the same structures? Scientist & tenured university professor Robert M. Schoch, a preeminent geologists, believes otherwise. In this meticulously reasoned book, Schoch, like anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl in his classic Kon-Tiki, argues that ancient cultures traveled great distances by sea. Indeed, he believes that primeval sailors traveled from the East, primarily SE Asia, & spread the idea of pyramids across the Earth, involving the human species in a far greater degree of contact & exchange than experts have previously thought possible. Voyages of the Pyramid Builders features 16 pages of color photos & an appendix, "Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza," in which Schoch provides his most up-to-date evidence of the Sphinx's origins.
Introduction
Giza & the question of time
This world's many pyramids
Coincidence or connection? The mythic foundation
The peopling of the Americas
Across the Atlantic to the New World
Across the Pacific to the New World
How the pyramid builders sailed
Fleeing the angry skies
Seeking the source
Civilizations beginning, isolation's end
Appendix: Redating the Great Sphinx of Giza
Acknowledgments
Sources & Readings
Index