THE GREAT PYRAMID AS A HEADQUARTERS FOR ASTRONAUTS:
Many believe the ancient Egyptians were incapable of building the pyramids and look to external intervention for answers. The early pyramidologists, John Taylor and Charles Piazzi Smyth, for example, thought that only through divine intervention could the Egyptians have acquired the necessary knowledge to build these wonders. Erich von Daeniken, author of the book Chariots of the Gods, has put a different twist on this. He maintains that what the ancient Egyptians would call gods were actually extraterrestrial astronauts who used their superior technology to construct the pyramids. The extraterrestrials built the pyramids as landing platforms for their spacecraft, or to possibly tap the energy of the [G 029/ Van Allen belt] - the pyramid acting like the insulation of an electric wire. Although his theories are based on circumstantial evidence and treat the subject with very little depth, von Daeniken has shown us that important questions about ancient civilizations still need to be answered.
