 | Summaries and Customer Reviews are supplied by Amazon.com | The nursery rhyme begins, "In fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Less well-known is the line that follows: "…to learn if the old maps were true." How can there be "old maps" of a land no one knew existed? Were others here before Columbus? What were their reasons for coming and what unexplained artifacts did they leave behind? The oceans were highways to America rather than barriers, and when discoverers put ashore, they were greeted by unusual inhabitants. In Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America, the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia turns his sextant towards this hemisphere. Here is a collection of the most controversial articles selected from seventy issues of the infamous Ancient American magazine. They range from the discovery of Roman relics in Arizona and California's Chinese treasure, to Viking rune-stones in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the mysterious religions of ancient Americans. Many questions will be raised including: What role did extraterrestrials have in the lives of ancient civilizations? What ancient pyramids and towers tell us about the people who built them? Are they some sort of portals to another dimension? What prehistoric technologies have been discovered, and what can they tell us about early settlers, their religious beliefs, and possible other-worldly visitors? Did El Dorado exist, and what of the legendary Fountain of Youth? Was Atlantis in Cuba? What are America’s lost races and what happened to them? Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America brings to the fore the once-hidden true past of America’s earliest civilizations Frank Joseph is the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia (New Page Books), as well as a dozen other books on history, prehistory, and metaphysics. He has been the editor-in-chief of Ancient American magazine since its first issue in 1993. He lives in Wisconsin. Wayne May is the founder-publisher of Ancient American. Laura Lee is the award-winning producer and host of the nationally syndicated "The Laura Lee Show". David Hatcher Childress wrote the best-selling Lost Cities series. Zecharia Sitchin is the author of the best-selling Earth Chronicles series. Andrew Collins is world-renowned for his consistent bestsellers, including Gateway to Atlantis. |
Average Customer Rating:    Reading Interesting perspectives on things. Makes you think. You need an open mind to read this. Don't dismiss until you have read. Maybe there are answers here to answers that historians have been asking. A funny novel Just not what I expected. The writer of this book should be a novelist with all those funny ideas he have.
He is 100% dedicated with telling that all humans come from outer space and will not accept e.g. the bible as truth. Only his own ideas. He does not even accept science....
Crazy book with crazy wild ideas The editor should be embarrased I'm still trying to figure out if the Romans of Arizona used "led" or "lead" to cast their ancient relics...and did the vikings in America use "watAerways"? or where exactly is Lybia\Libya? Is it near the Kelts\Celts? All that and more among other editing mishaps. There is this great thing nowadays called spell check. In the case of "Libya" and "lead" I saw the each 2 alternate spellings for the word used in the same paragraph?!?! Are you kidding me? 2nd graders may do that, but in a book I buy, I expect better. It makes the believability of the book take a huge dive. That's more amazing than some of the conjecture and speculation in some of the articles. Also, just as hastily put together were some of the photos...the quality varies greatly, there are times when I literally said "What the h#ll am I looking at?"...so did the ancient "Lybians" leave behind pixelated postage stamps? Seriously, grade schoolers write more professional looking documents.
First off, the book is a collection of articles from some obscure magazine. I hope the quality of the magazine editing is better. I feel the organization of the sections and some of the selections themselves, could've been better. Most of the articles will have a little background information beforehand, but none have a follow up, which is annoying when articles range from early\mid 90's to 2004, the book came out in 2006 and many articles say "tests\investigations are being done know maybe we'll know something soon". They must not have. The content ranges from very interesting to extremely ridiculously speculative. It really varies depending on the author and subject. Some are things you may already have heard of like the Viking tower in New England, others are incredibly detailed accounts of corn's place in world history. There are cases where I wish the "Dr."s credentials were given in the articles. Mail-order college? Doctor of Philosophy? Anthropology? Archaeology? Home Ec.? I'm still rolling my eyes at the convoluted ideas with the "smiley face" plate, but can not deny the African looking imagery that has been found in Mexico and South America.
Overall it feels like the "editor" threw this together in a weekend in an effort to make a quick buck, which, sadly he got from me. The website for the magazine looks as dated as some of the artifacts included in the book. The only date I see is on it is 5 years old (2004), so it may have went under and the book was the "editors" last hurrah.
I have a read many books on "Alternative History" and this one was executed poorly, there are some very interesting ideas and theories, but overall it is poorly put together, and actually that makes it seem to come across in the end as an amateurish mish-mash, which isn't helping the cause. I haven't even finished it yet, I'm very close to the end, but after a whole 7 pages or so on "led" artifacts, which miraculously become "lead" artifacts on the last page or so, I had to warn others. If the editor isn't even going to try, I say don't buy!
If the "editor in name only" Frank Joseph is reading this... Wil yoo giv mee mi monee bak? Thanc yoo!
Deeply interesting i was very intriqued by this book. Many of the theories are now coming out in the open. Great articles help uncover the truth! Anyone who has more than a passing interest in the real truth of what has actually been dug up by archaeologists & anthropologists for hundreds of years all around the world, should add this book to their collection. It combines articles from various authors and gives a straight-forward, non-technical look at what experts like Dr. Virginia Steen-McIntyre have been proving for years, that there were great civilizations that have existed on earth for thousands of years, long before the so-called "main stream scientific experts" allow to be disseminated to the general public.
I see lots of reviews of books like this one, with uninformed neophytes claiming "how can someone take fables and pass them off as truth". While these same reviewers will spout Bible rhetoric and try to convince everyone that the Bible is truth, but nothing else is. Well, if you can believe in the Bible myth why not Atlantis and the like. Sorry Bible thumpers, but it's pure hypocrisy and you know it.
This is a great book, with honest and true facts and if you don't want to know about the world of the past don't by it. |  |
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