Other miraculous structures that von Däniken considers to be artifacts of evidence to support his theory include England's Stonehenge, the Moai statues of Easter Island and the numerous Nazca Lines of Peru. That's right, humans could never have thought of using slaves and ramps to haul big stone blocks without a few courteous E.T.s. Such achievements we were apparently too stupid to hack by ourselves include the construction of the Great Pyramids of Giza, which he suggests would have taken centuries to build with the technology Egyptians had at the time. Much of the book's hypothesis is based around the assumption that earlier eras of man did not possess the capacity to accomplish the wonders they did, with alien intervention being the only probable explanation. Coincidentally arriving the same year as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey depicted a mysterious alien monolith influencing early cave-dwelling hominoid monkey men, author Erich von Däniken's 1968 book Chariots of the Gods? (the question mark was removed in some later editions) sought to impart daring new revelations of how extraterrestrial life had a sphere of influence on man's development at crucial stages of civilization.
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