Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., is the director of the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham. A professor of applied mathematics and astronomy, he has taught at the University College Cardiff and the University of Cambridge. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Astrobiology and Outreach and lives in Cardiff, Wales. Egyptian-born Robert Bauval holds a higher diploma in construction engineering from the University of the Southbank in London. He has researched Egyptology since 1983 and is the author and co-author of numerous books, including The Orion Mystery and Black Genesis. He lives in Spain.

“Beginning in the 1960s, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., together with Fred Hoyle systematically founded the new science of astrobiology. Their discoveries and explanations--reported in numerous scientific papers and eloquently written books--put them in a class of their own, in the same pantheon of scientific immortals as Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and Charles Darwin. And now, the brilliant astrophysicist and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., has joined with Robert Bauval in bringing Cosmic Womb to a new early 21st-century audience. Cosmic Womb is required reading for all those who want to understand the origins of life on Earth and throughout the cosmos. It is that important.”

• PUBLISHER’S PREFACE A Mystery of the Third Kind Acknowledgments PA RT I Origins of Life in the Cosmos By Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. Prologue 1 Definite Knowledge vs. Speculation 2 Unraveling of a Controversy 3 History of Panspermia 4 Cosmic Coincidences, God, Creationism, and Consciousness 5 Bacteria Entering Earth 6 Alien Planets and Alien Intelligence 7 Earth’s Continually Changing Conditions PA R T IIIntelligent Speculation Based on Cutting-Edge Science By Robert Bauval Prologue 8 The “Coincidence Pigeons” 9 Physics and Synchronicity 10 The Next Frontier of Knowledge 11 The Archives of the Mind Conclusion: Forecasting the Future BY CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE Epilogue APPENDIX I The Concavity of the Great Pyramid: A Design Feature? DID THE DESIGNER KNOW THE METER UNIT? BY JEAN-PAUL BAUVAL APPENDIX II The Location of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid BY JEAN-PAUL BAUVAL APPENDIX III The Great Pyramid of Giza: New Facts, Discoveries, and Theories BY GARY OSBORN Notes Bibliography Index

Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., is the director of the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham. A professor of applied mathematics and astronomy, he has taught at the University College Cardiff and the University of Cambridge. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Astrobiology and Outreach and lives in Cardiff, Wales. Egyptian-born Robert Bauval holds a higher diploma in construction engineering from the University of the Southbank in London. He has researched Egyptology since 1983 and is the author and co-author of numerous books, including The Orion Mystery and Black Genesis. He lives in Spain.

“Beginning in the 1960s, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., together with Fred Hoyle systematically founded the new science of astrobiology. Their discoveries and explanations--reported in numerous scientific papers and eloquently written books--put them in a class of their own, in the same pantheon of scientific immortals as Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and Charles Darwin. And now, the brilliant astrophysicist and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., has joined with Robert Bauval in bringing Cosmic Womb to a new early 21st-century audience. Cosmic Womb is required reading for all those who want to understand the origins of life on Earth and throughout the cosmos. It is that important.”

• PUBLISHER’S PREFACE A Mystery of the Third Kind Acknowledgments PA RT I Origins of Life in the Cosmos By Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. Prologue 1 Definite Knowledge vs. Speculation 2 Unraveling of a Controversy 3 History of Panspermia 4 Cosmic Coincidences, God, Creationism, and Consciousness 5 Bacteria Entering Earth 6 Alien Planets and Alien Intelligence 7 Earth’s Continually Changing Conditions PA R T IIIntelligent Speculation Based on Cutting-Edge Science By Robert Bauval Prologue 8 The “Coincidence Pigeons” 9 Physics and Synchronicity 10 The Next Frontier of Knowledge 11 The Archives of the Mind Conclusion: Forecasting the Future BY CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE Epilogue APPENDIX I The Concavity of the Great Pyramid: A Design Feature? DID THE DESIGNER KNOW THE METER UNIT? BY JEAN-PAUL BAUVAL APPENDIX II The Location of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid BY JEAN-PAUL BAUVAL APPENDIX III The Great Pyramid of Giza: New Facts, Discoveries, and Theories BY GARY OSBORN Notes Bibliography Index

Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., is the director of the Centre for Astrobiology at the University of Buckingham. A professor of applied mathematics and astronomy, he has taught at the University College Cardiff and the University of Cambridge. He is also the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Astrobiology and Outreach and lives in Cardiff, Wales. Egyptian-born Robert Bauval holds a higher diploma in construction engineering from the University of the Southbank in London. He has researched Egyptology since 1983 and is the author and co-author of numerous books, including The Orion Mystery and Black Genesis. He lives in Spain.

“Beginning in the 1960s, Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., together with Fred Hoyle systematically founded the new science of astrobiology. Their discoveries and explanations--reported in numerous scientific papers and eloquently written books--put them in a class of their own, in the same pantheon of scientific immortals as Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, Johannes Kepler, Isaac Newton, and Charles Darwin. And now, the brilliant astrophysicist and astrobiologist Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D., has joined with Robert Bauval in bringing Cosmic Womb to a new early 21st-century audience. Cosmic Womb is required reading for all those who want to understand the origins of life on Earth and throughout the cosmos. It is that important.”

• PUBLISHER’S PREFACE A Mystery of the Third Kind Acknowledgments PA RT I Origins of Life in the Cosmos By Chandra Wickramasinghe, Ph.D. Prologue 1 Definite Knowledge vs. Speculation 2 Unraveling of a Controversy 3 History of Panspermia 4 Cosmic Coincidences, God, Creationism, and Consciousness 5 Bacteria Entering Earth 6 Alien Planets and Alien Intelligence 7 Earth’s Continually Changing Conditions PA R T IIIntelligent Speculation Based on Cutting-Edge Science By Robert Bauval Prologue 8 The “Coincidence Pigeons” 9 Physics and Synchronicity 10 The Next Frontier of Knowledge 11 The Archives of the Mind Conclusion: Forecasting the Future BY CHANDRA WICKRAMASINGHE Epilogue APPENDIX I The Concavity of the Great Pyramid: A Design Feature? DID THE DESIGNER KNOW THE METER UNIT? BY JEAN-PAUL BAUVAL APPENDIX II The Location of the King’s Chamber in the Great Pyramid BY JEAN-PAUL BAUVAL APPENDIX III The Great Pyramid of Giza: New Facts, Discoveries, and Theories BY GARY OSBORN Notes Bibliography Index