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(More customer reviews)I was doing research on the pre-dynastic history of Egypt. I got caught up in the question that has defied archaeologists and historians alike: Where did the ancestors of the ancient Egyptians originate?Ancient Egyptian Civilization seems to have burst on the scene fully developed, from nowhere. It seems unlikely that the aboriginal cultures of Africa provided the root for this ancient and highly developed civilization. I could never accept that the ancient Egyptians were the descendants of extraterrestrials.Who, then were the real ancestors of the ancient Egyptian civilization?August Le Plongeon provided a most plausible answer. Exploring Central America, the home of the ancient Mayas, along with his wife Alice and writing of his exploits during the last quarter of the ninteenth century, Le Plongeon formulated his theory that the ancient Egyptians were the descendants of Mayan Colonists from that strange and fascinating civilization of Central America. Mayan culture has many similarties in common with ancient Egypt. Both civilizations built pyramids of impressive proportions. Both possessed a highly developed religion and an astounding body of mathematical and scientific knowledge. Both possessed a glyph type writing. Mayan words appear in the Egyptian language too frequently to be coincidence. The evidence is almost overwhelming!Many of Le Plongeon's contemporaries and today's scholars consider him an eccentric, not to be taken too seriously. On this point the call is up to the reader.Le Plongeon's theories can't be ignored! They are more than worthy of consideration.Apparently Le Plongeon had no fear of the Roman Church, he makes no attempt to hide his contempt for the Church, and its priests accompaning the Spanish military invaders of the Mayan Empire. Le Plongeon has a tendancy to tell it like he sees it and let the chips fall where they may. Refreshing!After reading Le Plongeon's book I can understand why this might not be a popular volume with the Roman Church. Fortunately in this country we don't ban or burn books, or the people who write such books, not yet!
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By Augustus Le Plongeon, M.D.Introductory Preface by Manly P. HallThe premise for this book is best summarized in the words of itsauthor, who writes: "Plutarch, in his Life of Solon, informs us thatPsenophis and Sonchis-one a priest of Heliopolis, and the other ofSais-told the Athenian legislator that 9,000 years before his visit toEgypt, on account of the submergence of the Island of Atlantis (Landof Mu of the Mayas) all communications had been interrupted with theWestern countries. If the Egyptians learned the art of writing fromthe Mayas, as no doubt they did, it must have been in times anteriorto the cataclysm. In this we would find the explanation of whyidentical characters are being found on the most ancient monuments ofEgypt and those of Mayach, having the same meaning and containing therelation of the same cosmogonical traditions." Illustrated.
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