Sungods in Exile is a book published pseudonymously in 1978 under the name David Agamon, allegedly from the notes of a Dr Karyl Robin-Evans whom Agamonclaimed was a professor at Oxford University.
The book tells of a 1947 expedition to
Tibet in which the scientist visited
Bayan Har Mountains. Robin-Evansclaimed that the
Dropa tribe was of extraterrestrialorigin and had crashed on Earth. The book featuredphotographs of the tribe and the alleged Dropa stoneswhich contained messages from the extraterrestrials.
Although researchers were unable to locate Dr KarylRobin-Evans, the Dropa stones appeared regularly in theUFO subculture and author
Hartwig Hausdorf popularized the story in his 1998 book
The Chinese Roswell. Later variations of the story added a fictional Professor Tsum Um Nui of the Beijing Academy for Ancient Studies who decoded the language of the stones.
In 1995, British author David Gamon admitted in Fortean Times that he had written Sungods in Exile as a hoax under the Agamon pseudonym,[1] inspired by the popularity of Erich von Däniken and his books on ancient astronauts. The source material for the story was taken from a 1960s magazine article in Russian Digest, and a 1973 French science fiction novel Les disques de Biem-Kara, (The discs of Biem-Kara), by Daniel Piret.
