Comments on: Von Daniken & Voynich update… http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/07/von-daniken-voynich-update The latest news, views, research and reviews on uncracked historical ciphers... Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:49:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ernest Lillie http://www.ciphermysteries.com/2009/06/07/von-daniken-voynich-update/comment-page-1#comment-5746 Ernest Lillie Wed, 10 Jun 2009 09:12:50 +0000 http://www.ciphermysteries.com/?p=1629#comment-5746 While von Daniken does get you to realize that there are a lot of facets of history that don't quite fit --- his theories do an immense disservice to the simple fact that humans throughout history have been able to come up with both bizarre ideas and stupendous feats of engineering all on their own without any assistance from ancient "little green men". The sad fact is that the interest generated by the whole "Ancient Astronaut Phenomenon" side-tracked a lot of genuine research. The study of medieval "Portolan Maps" detailed in Charles Hapgood's book "Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings" being a prominent example. While von Daniken does get you to realize that there are a lot of facets of history that don’t quite fit — his theories do an immense disservice to the simple fact that humans throughout history have been able to come up with both bizarre ideas and stupendous feats of engineering all on their own without any assistance from ancient “little green men”.

The sad fact is that the interest generated by the whole “Ancient Astronaut Phenomenon” side-tracked a lot of genuine research. The study of medieval “Portolan Maps” detailed in Charles Hapgood’s book “Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings” being a prominent example.

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