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Illustrations Erich von Daniken in front of the Temple of the Inscriptions at Palenque (Mexico). Stone Age cave painting of man floating in the air. Figure of rock painting wearing what seems to be a space suit with steering gear on his shoulders and antennae on his protective helmet. A monument to the space-travelling gods? The Venus of Willendorf. Man or hybrid of man and animal? Female figure with four faces and a solar symbol. A Sunday archaeologist on a journey of discovery through Mexico. Fresco from Sehar in the Tassili mountains. Erich von Daniken measuring the cyclopean walls above Sacsayhuaman (Peru). Block of stone, the size of a four-storey house, with steps made with great accuracy. Monoliths: Thrones for giants? Rock that s seems to have been cut through as if it were butter. Celebrated calendar of Sacsayhuaman. j Erich von Daniken with a an Indian on the plateau of Tiahuanaco. A great stone—What held it together? The Gate of the Sun at Tiahuanaco. Fragment of a Tiahuanaco statue. Man and naked female figure from Auanrhet, Tassili. Cajamarquilla near Lima (Peru). Fox-holes? Grain silos? Close-up of a hole. Aztec ceremonial disc of serpentine. Milestone of King Melichkhon. Rock painting from Auanrhet, Tassili, about 8,000 years old. The great Martian God. Space travellers from a rock drawing in Val Camonica (Italy). Rock painting found 25 miles south of Fergana (Uzbeck, USSR). Circular Mayan calendar. Two Assyrian cylinder seals. Stone Ball standing outside a building in San Jose (Costa Rica) as a decoration. A gigantic landmark on the solitary bay south of Pisco (Peru). If you fly over the plain of Nazca, it looks like an immense airfield with radiating and converging landing strips. An ape, about 260 feet high, included in a geometrical system of lines drawn with extreme accuracy. Tracks running absolutely parallel and continuing up a neighbouring mountainside. Pictures scratched on the hillsides near Nazca. Worshipping figures in a rock drawing in Peru. The Dragon Monolith in the Olmec Park of Villahermosa (Mexico). The gigantic figures in this picturesque group seem to be wearing space-suits. The famous ‘water conduits' of Tiahuanaco. The angled section of a 'water conduit’ from Tiahuanaco. A massive block of stone with sharp-edged grooves. With what were they shaped? Statute from Tiahuanaco.