Serpent in the Sky

“The concept of an older Sphinx could herald the beginning of an exciting new era in the study of ancient Egypt.” —Robert M. Schoch, geologist, associate professor of natural sciences and mathematics, Boston University

If the pharaohs didn’t build the Sphinx, who did? In Serpent in the Sky, author John Anthony West challenges all that has been accepted as dogma concerning ancient Egypt and puts forth his revolutionary reinterpretation of the Egyptian civilization.

In this pioneering study, West documents that:

• Hieroglyphs carry hermetic messages that convey the subtler realities of the sacred science of the pharaohs.
• Egyptian science, medicine, mathematics, and astronomy were more sophisticated than most modern Egyptologists acknowledge.
• Egyptian knowledge of the universe was a legacy from a highly sophisticated civilization that flourished thousands of years before.
• The Great Sphinx represents geological proof that such a civilization existed.

This edition of a modern classic includes an introduction by the author linking Egyptian spiritual science with the perennial wisdom tradition. Also included is an appendix updating West’s work in redating the Sphinx, as well as a new foreword by Graham Hancock.