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Fingerprints of the gods : the quest continues / Graham Hancock ; all photographs by Santha Faiia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London : Century, 2001Copyright date: 1995Description: 578 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780712679060
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • GN751 .H293 2001eb
Contents:
Introduction: The Mystery of the Maps — A Map of Hidden Places — Rivers in the Southern Continent — Fingerprints of a Lost Science — Foam of the Sea: Peru and Bolivia — Flight of the Condor — The Inca Trail to the Past — He Came in a Time of Chaos — Were There Giants Then? — The Lake at the Roof of the World — Once and Future King — The City at the Gate of the Sun — Intimations of Antiquity — The End of the Viracochas — Plumed Serpent: Central America — Blood and Time at the End of the World — People of the Serpent — Mexican Babel — Serpent Sanctuary — The Olmec Enigma — Conspicuous Strangers — Adventures in the Underworld, Journeys to the Stars — Children of the First Men — A Computer for Calculating the End of the World — City of the Gods — The Sun and the Moon and the Way of the Dead — The Mystery of the Myths: 1. A Species with Amnesia — Echoes of Our Dreams — The Many Masks of the Apocalypse — A Species Born in the Earth's Long Winter — The Face of the Earth was Darkened and a Black Rain Began to Fall — The Mystery of the Myths: 2. The Precessional Code — The Machinery of Heaven — The First Crack in an Ancient Code — The Cosmic Tree and the Mill of the Gods — The Osiris Numbers — Speaking to the Unborn — The Giza Invitation: Egypt 1 — Cardinal Points — Mansion of Eternity — Tombs and Tombs Only? — Anomalies — Made by Some God — Interactive Three-Dimensional Game — Place of the Beginning — Lord of Eternity: Egypt 2 — Are There Any Secrets Left in Egypt? — City of the Sun, Chamber of the Jackal — Anachronisms and Enigmas — Looking for the First Time — Gods of the First Time — The Works of Men and Gods — The Eleventh Millennium BC — Sphinx — Earth Measurers — The Power of the Thing — Conclusion: Where's the Body? — Not a Needle in a Haystack — The Hammer and the Pendulum — Like a Thief in the Night.
Summary: The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal looks into the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock aserts that there is evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Ancient myths and monuments also reveal a warning that has been handed down to us -- a warning of terrible cataclysm that afflicts Earth in great cycles at irregular intervals -- a cataclysm that may be about to recur ... While Hancock brings new ideas and great cultural comparisons to the reader, his sources do not always support his assertions. It is questionable whether any of his information is truly fact or simply opinion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: The Mystery of the Maps — A Map of Hidden Places — Rivers in the Southern Continent — Fingerprints of a Lost Science — Foam of the Sea: Peru and Bolivia — Flight of the Condor — The Inca Trail to the Past — He Came in a Time of Chaos — Were There Giants Then? — The Lake at the Roof of the World — Once and Future King — The City at the Gate of the Sun — Intimations of Antiquity — The End of the Viracochas — Plumed Serpent: Central America — Blood and Time at the End of the World — People of the Serpent — Mexican Babel — Serpent Sanctuary — The Olmec Enigma — Conspicuous Strangers — Adventures in the Underworld, Journeys to the Stars — Children of the First Men — A Computer for Calculating the End of the World — City of the Gods — The Sun and the Moon and the Way of the Dead — The Mystery of the Myths: 1. A Species with Amnesia — Echoes of Our Dreams — The Many Masks of the Apocalypse — A Species Born in the Earth's Long Winter — The Face of the Earth was Darkened and a Black Rain Began to Fall — The Mystery of the Myths: 2. The Precessional Code — The Machinery of Heaven — The First Crack in an Ancient Code — The Cosmic Tree and the Mill of the Gods — The Osiris Numbers — Speaking to the Unborn — The Giza Invitation: Egypt 1 — Cardinal Points — Mansion of Eternity — Tombs and Tombs Only? — Anomalies — Made by Some God — Interactive Three-Dimensional Game — Place of the Beginning — Lord of Eternity: Egypt 2 — Are There Any Secrets Left in Egypt? — City of the Sun, Chamber of the Jackal — Anachronisms and Enigmas — Looking for the First Time — Gods of the First Time — The Works of Men and Gods — The Eleventh Millennium BC — Sphinx — Earth Measurers — The Power of the Thing — Conclusion: Where's the Body? — Not a Needle in a Haystack — The Hammer and the Pendulum — Like a Thief in the Night.

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The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal looks into the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock aserts that there is evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Ancient myths and monuments also reveal a warning that has been handed down to us -- a warning of terrible cataclysm that afflicts Earth in great cycles at irregular intervals -- a cataclysm that may be about to recur ... While Hancock brings new ideas and great cultural comparisons to the reader, his sources do not always support his assertions. It is questionable whether any of his information is truly fact or simply opinion.

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