: How ancient cultures used the "fixed" stars to create a stable reference for tracking the slow "wobble" of the Earth (precession).
: Many academic historians and philologists dismissed it for its "chaotic" organization, "pure fantasy" regarding historical timelines, and reliance on tenuous etymological associations. Giorgio de Santillana, Hertha von Dechend - Ham...
The book (1969), co-authored by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, is a seminal and controversial work that argues ancient myths are actually encoded proto-science. Core Thesis : How ancient cultures used the "fixed" stars