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TECHNOLOGY OF THE GODS

The Incredible Sciences of the Ancients

David Hatcher Childress

Acknowledgements

Many thanks to all the authors who helped this author, including
Christopher Dunn, Andrew Tomas, Ivan T. Sanderson, Charles Berlitz, J.
Manson Valentine, Alfred Bielek, Ruth Hover-McKinley, Flavia Anderson,
Jerry Ziegler, John Michell, William Corliss, the A.R.E. of Virginia Beach,
Doug Kenyon and Atlantis Rising, and many others.
Thanks also to all those who helped me in the production of this book,
including Ranney Moss, Jennifer Bolm, Harry Osoff, and Chas Berlin.
Many thanks for your contributions.

Dedication

To all scientist-philosophers everywhere who continue to study, learn and
grow.
May they take us to infinity and beyond.

TECHNOLOGY OF THE GODS

Copyright 2000 David Hatcher Childress

First Printing

April 2000

ISBN 0-932813-73-9

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And here, ...my dear Watson, we come into those
realms of conjecture where the most logical minds may be at fault;
each may form its own hypothesis upon the present evidence,
and yours is as likely to be correct as mine.

Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Empty House

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down
I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Groucho Marx

All are architects of fate,
Working in these walls of time:
Some with massive deeds and great;
Some with lesser rhyme.

Longfellow, The Builders

Preface

Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.

Seneca (5 BC-65AD), Epistle 90

Welcome to the controversial and fascinating world of ancient technology. In this book we will explore the many bits of evidence that lead us to the astounding conclusion that ancient man was virtually as sophisticated as we are todayat least someone, from somewhere, was here using high technology. This technology included everything from electricity to heavy machinery and aircraft.

The topics of ancient flight, ancient atomic wars, ancient electricity and such, will seem odd to many people, especially highly educated readers. To many, these topics seem too incredible to even discuss; yet, as we shall see, there is a lot of evidence pointing to a technologically advanced past. Every culture in the world seems to have legends of ancient flight and a golden civilization before our own. Separating fact from fiction is the difficult part. A coherent time-line of the ancient past would also be helpful. Hopefully, new dating techniques such as the chlorine 23 method will accurately pinpoint when rock was hewn from its quarry and erected. Since the most ancient man-made artifacts are monuments in stone, this will give us information to accurately date the megalith masterminds and the dawn of their vanished civilization.

As a reporter, I am interested in the strange and unusual. I am also interested in the facts. In this book, I have tried to include those stories, artifacts, and places that seemed the most important and could be largely verified. Admittedly, there is much speculation in this book, and I invite readers to speculate as they will. Like all scientists the readers of this book will sift through the information presented, take that which seems reasonable to them, and file it in with their existing computer files to be accessed again later and modified as necessary. Other information they will discard and ignore.

Throughout this book, a number of ancient texts are mentioned. Spelling varies in some cases such as Rg Veda and Rig Veda. We have used the more common and easy spelling whenever possible, but we have left the original authors spelling in the extensive sources quoted in this book. We have tried to include most of the sourcebooks mentioned within the text in the bibliography, but in some cases this was impossible. Books that are mentioned by other authors within the text are referenced to the quoters book.

Special thanks to the Sanskrit scholar Ramachandra Dikshitar, the Oxford professor who wrote War in Ancient India. In a special chapter in the Oxford edition of his book, he waxed poetic over his countrys contribution to aviationinventing it! Said the proud historian back in 1944: No question can be more interesting in the present circumstances of the world than Indias contribution to the science of aeronautics. There are numerous illustrations in our vast Puranic and epic literature to show how well and wonderfully the ancient Indians conquered the air. To glibly characterize everything found in this literature as imaginary and summarily dismiss it as unreal has been the practice of both Western and Eastern scholars until very recently. The very idea indeed was ridiculed and people went so far as to assert that it was physically impossible for man to use flying machines. But today what with balloons, aeroplanes and other flying machines, a great change has come over our ideas on the subject.100

Sadly, Dr. Dikshitar was indeed ridiculed by his fellow Oxford scholars at times, but the texts speak for themselves. What was a scientific-minded scholar to doignore the evidence? Most did, in fact.

In approaching the subject of advanced ancient technology I have decided to start with simple but necessary technology, such as irrigation, water and sewage, and then move to the basic combination for advanced technology: metallurgy and electricity. With it established in the readers mind that the ancients may well have had complicated metal machinesand electricityI then move on to the fantastic possibilities of ancient flight, atomic warfare and the idea of a world-wide power system.

Hey, its a wild ride through ancient history, but its my story, and Im sticking to it. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction.

The Enigma of Ancient Technology

As we acquire knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious.

Will Durant

I think, myself, that in 1903, we passed through the remains of a powdered worldleft over from an ancient inter-planetary dispute, brooding in space....

Charles Fort

Was the Science of Egypt Inherited from an Earlier Culture?

In my searches for lost cities and mysteries of the past, I have often found clues to the technology of the ancients. These clues can be in the form of depictions of ancient devices in rock paintings or carvings (such as the electric devices at the Temple of Hathor in Egypt) or as small models of devices (such as the miniature solid gold airplanes at the Bogota Gold Museum) or in the stories from ancient texts (such as the Ramayana or even the Bible).

In this book I would like to recap some of the evidence for ancient technology and for advanced ancient cultures in the past. What is amazing about the modern world versus the ancient one is that in the modern world, the average citizen has access to advanced technology such as electricity, a personal vehicle, telephone, fax, and computer technology. In the ancient world, high technology was largely denied the masses. In fact it was often used in temples and ceremonies to gain power over people by amazing or terrifying them; this was part of worship and mystery.