Night and day, month after month, year after year, our ancestors
dutifully recorded the passage of time on clay tablets, watching the
heavens from stage towers and pyramids and from megalithic monuments
whose incredible size and precise architecture boggle the mind. . . .
Who were the builders of these mysterious structures? What was their
purpose? Whose signature is indelibly written on these timeless stones,
and who was the Divine Architect? Why was Stonehenge and its likes built
by ancient civilizations at the very same time--4,100 years ago? What is
their message for our time? With these questions in mind, Zecharia
Sitchin, renowned researcher of past ages, takes us on a journey through
the records of time in this, the fifth book of his Earth Chronicles
series. Drawing deeply on Sumerian and Egyptian writings, millenia-old
artifacts, and sacred architecture ranging from ancient Mesopotamia to
pre-Columbian civilizations in the Americas, this bestselling scholar
provides astounding insights into the origins of the calendar,
astronomy, and astrology. He takes readers to the climax circa 2100 b.c.
when Marduk, the Babylonian national god, attained supremacy on Earth
and proclaimed the New Age of Aries--after which society, religion,
science, and the status of women were never the same.
