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Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America Paperback – May 24, 2004

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Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Bud-dhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the Celts of the British Isles; and even the Mississippi Indians of pre-Columbus Illinois, simply dream the same dreams and envision the same structures?

Robert M. Schoch-one of the world's preeminent geologists in recasting the date of the building of the Great Sphinx-believes otherwise. In this dramatic and 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 Eastern continent, primarily Southeast Asia, and spread the idea of pyramids across the globe, particularly to the New World of the Americas where they abounded until the days of the Conquistadors.
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"In Voyages, we become companions on the planet's greatest adventure."

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Robert M. Schoch, a full-time faculty member at the College of General Studies at Boston University since 1984, earned his Ph.D. in geology and geophysics at Yale University. Dr. Schoch has been quoted extensively in the media for his work on the Sphinx, and he was featured on the Emmy-winning documentary The Mystery of the Sphinx, hosted by Charlton Heston.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group; Reprint edition (May 24, 2004)
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  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1585423203
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1585423200
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Karla Crum
5.0 out of 5 stars Professional and fun to read
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2022
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The book is written by a professional who provides ideas and reasons about possibilities without being dogmatic.
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shelly turco
5.0 out of 5 stars OPEN YOUR EYES
Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2021
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Great book! Open your eyes sheep..... there is much more to this world that we know of. Authority figures have lied to us long enough..... do your own research. This book is a great example of what we were not taught in school! Well written.
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rick, montana
4.0 out of 5 stars Get it together, Amazon!!
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I purchased this book recently, and it stated "with 16 pages of photos". There are no photos in the paperback edition, only hardcover. At the time, it stated the above. Amazon, c'mon do right to your customers. I apologize to the seller for my sharp criticism. The book in itself, very fascinating read, but would have been better with photos, which I can't afford. But please readers, the book is good, enjoy.
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K. Ryan Kane
5.0 out of 5 stars This is a great book to begin your study on all the groups ...
Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2018
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This book isn't just about pyramids. It talks a lot about all the different groups and waves of people who traveled to the American continent, mostly the Latin American areas. There is so much information contained therein that I intend to read this book again. This is a great book to begin your study on all the groups who traveled to Latin America.
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Robert R.
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2015
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Very well written, personable, and good research. Several references were made about Noah and Moses as if they were valid historical people and their related events, which most scholars agree were 'lifted' from Sumerian and Akkadian legends. Doesn't give much credit to Zechariah Sitchin, never even mentions Enlil and Enki - it's like talking about Kennedy's last trip to Dallas without mentioning the Grassy Knoll.
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FuryofGod
3.0 out of 5 stars Interesting....interesting.....what?!
Reviewed in the United States on July 5, 2011
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I'm not really sure what to think of this book. At first it is utterly fascinating and the whole text is filled with brilliant ideas and information....but it gets murky really fast and there are forced connections between different pyramid building cultures which very well may have been unconnected to each other across the ages. This book deserves a few rereads, but I'm kinda disappointed Schoch, who seems so level headed would make dangerous leaps of logic as if asking for Egyptologists, like the ever smug Hawas, to trip him up and pluck the delicate cords that hold parts of this theory together. There is a brilliant and well research core idea, surrounded by useless and unnecessary conjecture, but that is how it works sometimes...
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Violet Bunny
5.0 out of 5 stars An Enjoyable Read
Reviewed in the United States on December 6, 2015
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A fascinating look at the cult of the pyramid builders in ancient history who traveled the globe, leaving pyramids in their wake. Schoch makes a valid argument for early cultures crossing the oceans & transplanting their civilizations around the world.
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Sailorman
4.0 out of 5 stars Great speculation from the "Alternative Camp"
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2008
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According to John Anthony West it was not until the second half of the twentieth century that "guerilla scholarship" became a noticeable, if uncoordinated force in modern science. Guerilla scholarship of course, refers to the alternative camp or those that challenge orthodox views in science, archeology, anthropology, etc. If this book doesn't fall into the guerilla scholarship or alternative camp category it comes really close.

Author Dr. Robert Schoch is of course the archeologist who some years ago, along with John Anthony West, shocked the scientific community and infuriated Dr. Zahi Hawass, Egypt's Director of Antiquity, by claiming that the Sphinx's construction predated Khufu, its alleged builder, by 3,000 years or more. While the controversy surrounding those claims has resulted in numerous books, both, pro and con, with no real accepted conclusions, in this book Schoch tries to develop the hypothesis that all of the pyramids constructed around the world have a common origin in Sundaland, which was inundated under 250 feet of water after the last ice age. If somebody could come across a pyramid or two (2), that predated the great pyramid, under that 250 feet of water it would certainly help Schoch's case, but be that as it may, Schoch, while not proving his hypothesis, does present a pretty convincing argument in support of his speculation.

Schoch begins with a discussion in review of the theories for the age of Giza and other pyramid type structures around the world. He then provides very convincing evidence for his claim that humans traversed both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans eons before Columbus's 1492 voyage, which is the orthodox view of the first contact with the new world. He discusses how early humans might have accomplished this as well as their possible motives for doing so. Schoch concludes with where they came from, arriving at the common roots in Sundaland 10,000 years ago.

This book probably has some of the longest, impossible to pronounce names, of people and places of any book that I have ever read; and a few maps of various parts of the world, particularly Europe, the Middle and Far East, and South America, would have helped a great deal in developing a mental picture of what was being related. All that aside, the book challenges the mind and causes one to think. I was particularly intrigued by Schoch's explanation as to how Moses was able to convince the pharaoh to allow him and his followers to leave Egypt, as well as Schoch's perfectly plausible explanation of what parted the waters of the Red Sea and subsequently drowned the pharaoh's army when the waters rushed back in.

While maybe not as convincing as Schoch's earlier work, "Voices of the Rocks", Schoch presents convincing arguments and if you are a "guerilla scholar" you're going to love this book.
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りんたまま
5.0 out of 5 stars まだ、状況証拠の段階だけど……
Reviewed in Japan on July 12, 2006
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少なくとも、各分野の最新の研究を総合すると、こういう結論に達するのはそれほど無理があるとは感じなかった。作者自身、物的証拠が足りないことは認めていて、最終的な判断を下すのは、もっと調査・研究が進むのを待たなければならないが。

だが、もしこれが限りなく真相に近いとしたら、私達の歴史観、世界観が一変することだけは確か。それだけの説得力と整合性は充分ある。とにかく、これまでの『定説』を覆すに足るだけの証拠は既に集まりつつある、といっていい。

それにしても、定説って意外と根拠が薄かったりして。むしろ先入観とか予断とか偏見と呼ぶべきものかも。そういうものから自由になりたい人、眼から鱗を落としたい人には、特にお勧めの一冊。

トンデモ本ではありません。念の為。
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Nicholas Kropacek
1.0 out of 5 stars What voyages?
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 31, 2016
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This book is an unchallenging amble through pyramid lore. What is a pyramid? Where are they found? What are they for? Are they connected? This last question, of course, is the big one; ıt’s the whole point of the book. It took a whole 77 pages to get there but after a nod in the direction of where the sensible money would go. “independent inventionalism,” the book just heads off to the standard diffusionist argument the various components of which consume the rest of the book. The authors try to suggest that the diffusion of language and language groups, whith their clear familial connections, around the planet has some relevance for pyramid buiding but they never actually say why we should take this argument as a workable paradigm for the appearance of pyramids, or at least the rough form of pyramids, around the globe. They do what diffusionists typically do, which is to shoot their arrow first, then go and draw the target ring around it. Of course, as modern humans spread out across the planet they took language with them. But as hunter gatherers on the margins of survival, they didn’t take high culture with them. This was a diffusion taking place long before civilisation and around the periphery it tended to be one way culminating, very often, in isolation.

The authors spend a lot of time exploring mythology and different variations of the pyramid theme trying to guide the reader to the conclusion the title of the book demands. Momentarily they actually do touch on the reason humans might build pyramids. This is the apparantly shared human appreciation and affinity for elevation…high places do exert a fascination and pleasure. There is a basic practical point that this book does not consider here. Pyramids (and similar structures) are the product of the desire to build hıgh; to achieve elevation. Our view is distorted by our own fascination with Egypt’s great Pyramids, which are tombs, but most pyramids are in fact platforms. But whether we are talking about the great pyramids of the Americas, Mesopotamian ziggurats or more modest structures like Silbury Hıll in southern England, what we are talking about is a platform. İf your building technology is primitive and your building material is restricted and you want to build high then you must build off a large base. The result is invariably going to be a pyramid or a cone. A pyramid is demonstration of a primitive culture in technological terms no matter how clever or ingenious the construction methods became. These people were primitive not stupid. It isn’t evidence of diffusion in either technology or concept.; it isn’t evidence of a global culture; it isn’t evidence of high technology. The best efforts of pioneers like Thor Heyerdahl have produced no tangible evidence of any kind of link between the Old World and the New, either by land or sea before the modern era. Nor do putative puzzles like the Michigan copper mines. Common sense should tell you that the great distances between these cultures, both in terms of geography and particularly time, means there is no connection. Schoch and McNally don’t make a convincing case either.
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J SAWYER
2.0 out of 5 stars mostly based on other peoples work which i have read before in other more interesting and better researched books
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 9, 2014
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Struggled to fully read this book till the end, mostly based on other peoples work which i have read before in other more interesting and better researched books, some interesting bits but not many, the main theses Ie., that pyramid builders came from the southern hemisphere is not backed by any solid evidence whatsoever its just pure conjecture, as to how it all came to an end Mr Schoch has yet another book out Forgotten Civilization with yet again a completely new and different conclusion as to the end of the last ice age which again i read and again is really nothing more than conjecture.
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