Voyages of the Pyramid Builders by Robert Schoch with Robert Aquinas McNally, Penguin Putnam/Tarcher, $24.95, ISBN 1585422037 Reviewed by Peter James
IN THE early 1990s geologist Robert Schoch invaded the limelight with a sensational claim about the Sphinx. In his view the monument’s heavy erosion shows that it was carved millennia earlier than the accepted date of about 2500 BC. Voyages of the Pyramid Builders rehearses the arguments and offers answers to his critics. Here Schoch moves his interest from the Sphinx to the pyramids, tackling what he perceives as another major puzzle: the widespread distribution of ancient pyramid-shaped structures…
