Temple of the Stars [antikvár]

Many people have had various ideas about the Great Pyramid at Giza, Stonehenge on Salisbury Plain, and that remote, mysterious island called Easter after the day upon which it was discovered by European Man. A goodly number of these people have written books. Impressed with the implications of it all, they have put pen to paper on such subjects as the lost continent of Atlantis, the Arthurian Legends and the fabulous story of Gilgamesh. Hundreds of biographies have been printed giving in great detail the lives of outstanding men and women: Alexander the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, the first Queen Elizabeth - ail have been presented to the public more than onceIn this presumptuous book, the same thing has been attempted in a different way. There is a connection between such widely separated accomplishments as the Great Pyramid and Stonehenge. Through all the megalithic ruins around the world there runs a thin thread of forgotten history that weaves them all together into a pattern that can still be followed in the lives of remarkable men and women. It is an intricate design conceived in the dim, reed-bordered mists of Egyptian antiquity, and it goes forward with our history until we find ourselves being asked to fight for its principles in the name of our own Atomic Future.Nearly any day now we can read in our newspapers of some new archaeological discovery. A few years ago there were the .Dead Sea Scrolls. Then came the discovery of towns in Egypt that were flourishing before the two great kingdoms of the Nile were united. Lost cities have tumed up in South America. Discoveries such as these have changed, what was previously legend into sober, historical fact. Almost any professional archaeologist today can, with a little luck, become another Schliemann and unearth his Troy.In Somerset, in the West of England, there is an amazing example of prehistoric earthworks. It has been called the9