They came to Earth thousands of years ago to usher in mankind's first New Age of scientific growth and spiritual enlightenment. Under the guidance of these anci ent visitors from the heavens, human civilisation flourished – as revolutionary advances in art, science and thought swept through the inhabited world. And they left behind magnificent monuments –– baffling monoliths and awesome, towering s tructures that stand to this day as testaments to their greatness. In this ext raordinarily documented, meticulously researched work, Zecharia Sitchin draws re markable correlations between the events that shape our civilisation in millenni a past – pinpointing with astonishing accuracy the tumultuous beginning of time as we know it . . . and revealing to us the indisputable signature of extraterre strial god indelibly written in stone.