Before the Pharaohs

This is, unfortunately, one of the most boring books I have ever read. I bought the book thinking it might have some really interesting things about as far as the origins of Egyptian civilization goes (along the lines of Atlantis, UFOs, etc). The book is not only boring, but the most interesting material is at the end part of the book. The organization of the material in the book leaves a lot to be desired.

The book starts out with some material on the questionable age of the Sphinx. This is the material related to the theory that the Sphinx is much older than is commonly accepted. The book takes over sixty pages to go into that material, however, and the approach is just too dry, too complicated, and too detailed to remain interesting to anyone other than someone whose passionate interest is geology.

The next two chapters, generally, deal with astronomy and the pyramids. Chapter six goes into intense detail about how the Great Pyramid was supposedly a device used to generate energy.

Energy for what? The author goes into great detail about how the energy was produced in the Great Pyramid, but fails to really establish what any such energy was actually used for. Why produce considerable energy if you have nothing to use it on?

The next chapters deal with the origin of Egyptian civilization itself and goes into very great detail on skull shapes and the place of Cro-Magnon man in relation to the development of Egyptian civilization, along with a possible Mayan/Egyptian connection. The book also goes into considerable detail about the Mediterranean area and a possible land bridge between Gibraltar and Africa that gave way due to a great earthquake and caused sudden, massive flooding in the Mediterranean area.

What the author should have done was to start off the book stating his main premises that related to the early civilization of Egypt, then looked at the evidence supporting his premises (geological, biological and cultural evidence), and left out the material on the pyramid as an energy-producing device, and left out the Mayan/Egyptian crossover material since it's speculative and doesn't really seem to have very much to do with the origin of Egyptian civilization itself.

Altogether one of the most disappointing books I've read in a long time.


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