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By (author) Sitchin Zecharia

Short /annotation:
The paperback release of the second volume of Sitchin’s autobiographical account of the investigations and discoveries that led to The Earth Chronicles series.

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In Journeys to the Mythical Pastthe renowned researcher of antiquity Zecharia Sitchin reveals, for the first time, the existence of a secret chamber in Egypt’s Great Pyramid, and he tells his own story of an indefatigable dedication to finding the truth that almost cost him his life–accidentally or otherwise–when uncovering secrets of the Giza pyramids and Sphinx. Exposing hidden artifacts that contradict establishment assumptions or that baffle scientists, Sitchin’s firsthand accounts of his explorations take the reader into the inner workings of the Vatican, the enigma of a futuristic computer from millennia ago, and the secret handiwork of a Divine Architect at Stonehenge, at Malta, and at a site in the Americas. Looking deep into antiquity, Sitchin offers astounding evidence that links the Nazca lines and a baffling adjoining site to the Departure from Earth of the Anunnaki, the ancient gods who, he believes, vowed to Return.

Table of contents:

1 The Great Pyramid Forgery

2 Puzzling Cavities, Mysterious Sand

3 The Secret Chamber

4 The Fateful Day

5 OOPs in the Cairo Museum

6 Enigmas Made of Stone

7 The Iceman of the Alps

8 Insights to History

9 Vatican Encounters

10 Stargazers and Skymaps

11 Antikythera: A Computer Before Its Time

12 Nazca: Where the Gods Left Earth

Postscript: Prophecies of the Return

Review quote:
“It is well worth the price of admission to witness this bestselling author, investigator, and scholar in action, up-close and personal.”

Biographical note:
Zecharia Sitchin (1920-2010), born in Russia and raised in Palestine, had a comprehensive knowledge of modern and ancient Hebrew and other Semitic and European languages, the Old Testament, and the history, archaeology, and culture of the Near East. He was distinguished by his ability to read and translate Sumerian and other ancient texts. A journalist and editor in Israel for many years, he later made his home in New York City.

Excerpt:

Chapter 1

The Great Pyramid Forgery

Spending weeks at a time in the British Museum Library in London, poring over countless books on the Giza pyramids backwards–from the latest to the earliest, I found that all the textbooks reported that Herodotus, the Greek historian-geographer, was told by his guides that the Great Pyramid was built by Khufu when he visited Egypt in the fifth century B.C. Some textbooks asserted that the royal name of Khufu was actually found inscribed within the Great Pyramid; they also used to state that a coffin lid bearing the name “Menkaura” was discovered inside the Third Pyramid. Could anyone argue with that?
The fact that later textbooks ceased referring to the information about the Menkaura coffin lid intrigued me. Why was such physical evidence no longer mentioned? Searching for an answer in issues of scholarly journals, I unearthed the whole story. The original find was made in 1837 by two Englishmen who resifted debris inside the Third Pyramid. Textbooks accepted this as proof of the pyramid builder’s identity for more than a century–until modern carbon dating methods established that the coffin lid was not from 2600 B.C. but from circa 660 B.C. (when a later Pharaoh also called himself Menkaura).
The 1837 “find” was therefore dropped from textbooks (and the British Museum removed the coffin lid from its catalogue); but the circumstances intrigued me. Why did all previo