Nationality American Name John West | Role Author | |
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Born 1932New York, United States ( 1932 ) Books The traveler's key to ancient Egypt, The Case for Astrology, Osborne's army, Serpent in the sky, La Serpiente Celeste Awards News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Research Similar People | ||
Joe Rogan Experience #852 - John Anthony West
John Anthony West (born July 9, 1932 in New York City) is an American author, lecturer, guide and a proponent of the Sphinx water erosion hypothesis in geology. His early career was as a copywriter in Manhattan and as a science fiction writer. He received a Hugo Award Honorable Mention in 1962.
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- Joe Rogan Experience 852 John Anthony West
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In 1993 his work with Robert M. Schoch, a geologist and associate professor of natural science at the College of General Studies at Boston University was presented by Charlton Heston, the host in an NBC special called “The Mystery of the Sphinx” that won West a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Best Research and a nomination for Best Documentary. The documentary contends that the main type of weathering evident on the Great Sphinx and surrounding enclosure walls could only have been caused by prolonged and extensive rainfall during the time period from 10,000 to 5000 BCE and was carved out of limestone bedrock by an ancient advanced culture (such as the Heavy Neolithic Qaraoun culture). This challenged the conventional dating of the carving of the statue circa 2500 BCE. West suggested that the Sphinx may be over twice as old as originally determined, whereas Schoch made a more conservative determination of between 5000 and 7000 BCE.
Joe Rogan Experience #226 - John Anthony West
Criticism
Peter Green of the University of Texas at Austin has been critical of West. In a 1979 exchange of letters in the New York Review of Books, Green drew attention to what he considered to be numerous problems with West's work, including unconscious prejudices, "wildly speculative" ideas and lack of scientific evidence, as well as a tendency towards conspiracy theories in respect of orthodox Egyptology.
Works
West's writing career spans two periods, the first half as a science fiction short story writer and the second half as a non-fiction book author: the former from 1961 to 1980, and the latter essentially from 1980 to 2007. He won an Honorable Mention for Best Short Fiction towards the 1962 Hugo Award for his early short story "The Fiesta at Managuay" (1961).
Books
Call Out the Malicia is West's first published book and is a collection of his short stories.