Introduction, pg. ixx: "It took courage to write this book, and it will take courage to read it. Because its theories and proofs do not fit into the mosaic of traditional archaeology, constructed so laboriously and firmly cemented down, scholars will call it nonsense and put it on the index of those books which are better left unmentioned. Laymen will withdraw into the snail shell of their familiar world when face with the probability that finding out about our past will be even more mysterious and adventurous than finding out about the future.
Nevertheless, one thing is certain. There is something inconsistent about our past, that past that lies thousands and millions of years behind us. The past teemed with unknown gods who visited the primeval earth in manned spaceships."

Chapter 1, pg. 6: "We - the paragons of creation? - took 400,000 years to reach our present state and our...