Kosmos: Ancient Mysteries

Were the pyramids built by visitors from the stars? Did the Nazca lines guide spacecraft? Kosmos takes the great questions of ancient mysteries seriously, and answers them with something better than certainty: the full picture. Kosmos is an atlas of nearly 1,900 ancient sites, out-of-place artifacts and enigmas. Every entry is read through three lenses: • The theory: what ancient astronaut and alternative-history authors such as Erich von Däniken, Zecharia Sitchin or Graham Hancock have claimed, attributed to them. • The evidence: what archaeology and history have established about who built it, when and how. • The cosmist lens: a reflection inspired by Russian Cosmism, the movement of Fedorov, Tsiolkovsky and Vernadsky that dreamed of humanity reaching the stars. Compare them and draw your own conclusions. THE ATLAS Explore the world on a map, from Giza and Nazca to Göbekli Tepe, Puma Punku, Baalbek, Stonehenge and Easter Island. Featured sites come with iconic relief, the lid of Pakal's tomb, the Nazca "astronaut", the Vulture Stone. Ta screen and zoom in. ENIGMAS The Dogon and the Sirius mystery, the Ananas, Ezekiel's wheel, Oannes, Atlantis and more, each linked to the places and OUT-OF-PLACE ARTIFACTS The Antikythera mechanism, the Baghdad b the Saqqara bird, the Nebra sky disc and other objects that have fuelled speculat TRIVIA AND MAP MODE Test yourself with ten-question games butify a site from its photo, guess whichmonument is older, recall who proposed aations found. In map mode, find famoussites by tapping the globe; the closer yu score. RUSSIAN COSMISM Meet the thinkers who imagined humanity dorov's Common Task to Tsiolkovsky'srocket equation, and follow the road frond Gagarin. AND ALSO • Search across everything, without worr • English and Spanish. • No account, no ads, no tracking. Kosmos presents fringe theories as claimever as facts. Many texts were draftedwith the help of artificial intelligencehen edited. Images come from WikimediaCommons, each one credited with its auth