About the book: 2004 / Do tourists know that in Egypt, under the sands near Saqqara, millions of mummies of all kinds of animals lie? Hidden underground is the real Noah's Ark, which has yet to be discovered! What prompted the ancient Egyptians to embalm millions of birds and hundreds of thousands of crocodiles? Erich von Däniken studied ancient documents that report that there used to be “wonderful beings of many types and different from each other” living on Earth. Are all these creatures generated by human imagination - or did all these monsters really once live on our planet? Yes, they lived, says Däniken in his fascinating book. What luminary of genetic engineering invented and created them? By cleverly combining legends with scientific data, the writer and researcher takes us into a special world where reality turns out to be more interesting than fiction. DIE AUGEN DER SPHINX by Erich von Deniken © 1989 by C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munchen a division of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH The exclusive right to publish the book in Russian belongs to the publishing house "Sofia" Transl. from English — K.: “Sofia” © “Sofia», 2003