Whatās the worst history book youāve ever read?
I read Chariots of the Gods by Erich von Daniken a long time ago. Ya know that wanker and con man who started all this ancient aliens bullshit where aliens were responsible for building all the great ancient monuments of the world except the ones white people built. What a load of horse puckey! A lot of his claims are based on his interpretation of ancient Sumerian texts even though he has no background in ancient Sumerian cuneiform and there is no evidence that he knows fuckall how to read and interpret Sumerian cuneiform anymore than I know how to interpret Rapa Nui. And he single handidly opened a Pandora's box of pseudohistory bullshit all because of that one book.
Just so you all know Erich von Daniken was a lifelong con man and huckster. Until his book sales made him wealthy, he was constantly being prosecuted and did prison time for fraud, forgery, embezzlement, falsifying records to take out loans, and jewelry theft. His second book was written while in an Austrian prison. Here's a photo of him from 1969 where he was just released from a Swiss prison only to be taken into custody by Austrian authorities to be prosecuted for crimes in Austria.
So if you're all into this ancient aliens bullshit I would take this into account when it comes to Erich von Daniken's credibility.
