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The Stairway to Heaven: The Second Book of the Earth Chronicles (Mass Market Paperback)
by Zecharia Sitchin (Author)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Avon Books; New Ed edition (16 Feb 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0380633396
  • ISBN-13: 978-0380633395
  • Product Dimensions: 16.8 x 10.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  (8 customer reviews)
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A provocative, in-depth look at prehistory proposes solutions to the mysteries of humankind's origins and continual search for immortality by drawing on Mesopotamian epics, Egyptian pyramid texts, Greek myths, and biblical events. Reissue.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Man's search for the immortality of the gods, 29 Nov 2002
By Daniel Jolley "darkgenius" (Shelby, North Carolina USA) - See all my reviews
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In this second entry in the Earth Chronicles series, Sitchin focuses on man's eternal and perpetual search for immortality and ties his findings in with his theories of ancient Sumer and the Annunaki who originally colonized earth. In particular, he discusses Alexander the Great's desperate search for a way to escape an early death as well as Gilgamesh's epic search for everlasting life; more importantly, he provides a map of their quests, identifying their most important destinations with the ancient Sumerian sites he wrote about in The 12th Planet. Basically, the ultimate destinations of the men of legend corresponded to the areas from which the Annunaki journeyed back and forth between earth, their orbiting spacecraft, and their home planet. Having described an intricate grid system accounting for the specific locations of the ancient cities both before and after the Deluge, he makes some fascinating arguments. I was most struck by his conclusion that the new, post-Deluge space port was actually Jerusalem. As always, Sitchin incorporates Biblical texts into his story, revealing compelling connections between the books of the Bible and the ancient records of the earliest Middle Eastern cultures.

I found myself plodding to some degree through the first half of the book, even laying the book aside for a few days, but the latter sections here are quite interesting because they focus on ancient Egypt. Sitchin's discussions of the ancient Egyptian monuments, particularly the Great Pyramids at Giza are enlightening and fascinating. He forcibly argues that the pyramids were never meant to serve as burial places of ancient Egyptians and that the Great Pyramids and the majestic Sphinx were built long before Khufu, Chefren, and other pharaohs of the 4th Dynasty came to power. Egyptologists dispute this conclusion, of course, but the evidence as presented by Sitchin and other scholars is quite strong on this point. Sitchin lays waste to the only real evidence we have that Khufu built the Great P