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GRAHAM HANCOCK is the author of the major international
bestsellers The
Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints
of the Gods and Heaven's
Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies
worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. His public
lectures and TV appearances, including the three-hour series Quest
For The Lost Civilisation, have put his ideas before audiences of
tens of millions. He has become recognised as an unconventional
thinker who raises legitimate questions about humanity's history and
prehistory and offers an increasingly popular challenge to the
entrenched views of orthodox scholars.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock's early years were spent in
India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Later he went to school
and university in the northern English city of Durham and graduated
from Durham University in 1973 with First Class Honours in
Sociology. He went on to pursue a career in quality journalism,
writing for many of Britain's leading newspapers including The
Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and
The Guardian. He was co-editor of New Internationalist
magazine from 1976-1979 and East Africa correspondent of The
Economist from 1981-1983.
In the early 1980's Hancock's writing began to move consistently
in the direction of books. His first book (Journey Through
Pakistan, with photographers Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts)
was published in 1981. It was followed by Under Ethiopian Skies
(1983), Ethiopia: The Challenge of Hunger (1984), and AIDS:
The Deadly Epidemic (1986). In 1987 Hancock began work on his
widely-acclaimed critique of foreign aid, Lords of Poverty,
which was published in 1989. African Ark (with
photographers Angela Fisher and Carol Beckwith) was published in
1990.
Hancock's breakthrough to bestseller status came in 1992 with the
publication of The
Sign and the Seal : The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant,
his epic investigation into the mystique
and whereabouts today of the lost Ark of the Covenant. 'Hancock has
invented a new genre,' commented The Guardian, 'an intellectual
whodunit by a do-it-yourself sleuth.' Fingerprints
of the Gods, published in 1995 confirmed Hancock's growing
reputation. Described as 'one of the intellectual landmarks of the
decade' by the Literary Review, this book has now sold more than
three million copies and continues to be in demand all around the
world. Subsequent works such as Keeper
of Genesis (The Message of the Sphinx in the US) with
co-author Robert Bauval, and Heaven's
Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization , with photographer Santha Faiia, have also been
Number 1 bestsellers, the latter accompanied by Hancock's three-part
television series Quest For the Lost Civilisation.
With Santha Faiia, Hancock is now involved in the preparation of
a major new book and TV series, tentatively titled Underworld:
The Mysterious Origins of Civilisation. It's a worldwide diving
adventure, looking for underwater ruins all around the globe - the
ultimate proof of the existence of a lost civilisation more than
12,000 years ago.
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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins
of Civilisation
Graham
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A physical and intellectual journey, a worldwide exploration
diving for the underwater ruins of a lost civilization, this
book follows clues in ancient scriptures and mythology and
in the scientific evidence of the flood that swept the Earth
at the end of the last Ice Age. This text explores the
question of early humans swept away by the catastrophe.
In this book he argues that far from springing
out of nowhere some 6,000 or 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia,
civilisation has been with mankind for many millennia
longer. With the aid of a geologist at Durham University,
Hancock examines which coastal areas vanished beneath the
sea as the ice melted at the end of the last Ice Age, a
catastrophic inundation he finds in the Flood myths of most
of the world's traditional religions. And then he goes
diving and finds, in some cases, incontrovertible ruins; in
other cases the piles of stone might well be natural rock
formations, but Hancock argues for their human origins.
Hancock accepts that he is neither a historian,
an archaeologist nor a geologist. Some of his arguments tend
to be rather speculative, and some of his conclusions may
well be wrong--it's not always a good thing to ignore the
experts! But in this massive book--well over 700 pages--he
does provide sufficient evidence for flooded ruins that
ought to be studied by real scholars. And if a few cherished
paradigms are overturned in the process, surely this is what
science is all about...
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Mars
Mystery : The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet
Graham Hancock,
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Hancock believes that certain formations on the
Martian surface are the remnants of an ancient
civilization--one strikingly similar to ancient Egypt--that
was destroyed by a cataclysmic deep impact. His ultimate
point is that we should be paying more attention to our
planetary neighbours and the skies above, lest we suffer the
same fate as the Martians. Hancock raises many intriguing
questions in this synthesis of unorthodox Mars theory...
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Keeper
of Genesis
Graham Hancock,
Robert Bauval
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When and where did history begin? When was the
genesis of civilization in Egypt? This text presents
historical and scientific detective work, which provides a
startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts
and other archaic Egyptian scriptures. The first chapter of
the book deals with the mathematical and geographical
anomalies evidently associated with the Giza necropolis. But
where the book breaks away from any other of the authors
works is the in-depth study of the remnants of Egyptian
texts, the insights into the dualistic nature of Egyptian
consciousness and way of life. The reader is able to glimpse
a fraction of the connection the highest orders of Egyptian
civilisation felt towards the natural world and its
universal celestial cycles, and mankind's inevitable place
in the grand scheme, the quest for the immortality of the
soul...
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Fingerprints
of the Gods
Graham Hancock, Santha Faiia
Also available as audio book:
Fingerprints of the Gods
Narrator: Peter Reckell
Provider: Audio Literature
Media Type: Audiobook
Running Time: 3 hours
Format: Audible speech
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A global tour of the legends and myths of the
world, collating their common threads and scientific
evidence to compose a credible theory that an advanced
civilization once flourished on earth but was extinguished
at the end of the last ice age. All that remains of this
antediluvian culture are the "fingerprints"
Hancock identifies in various phenomena that have puzzled
mankind throughout recorded history. He reveals strange
echoes of a society of navigators and builders that
flourished up to about 12 000 years ago, gradually building
up a compelling argument for the existence of a
prehistorical civilization. By examining phenomena around
the world, from the Nazca drawings in Peru to the pyramids
of Egypt, he interprets these "fingerprints" as
ancient signs, or misunderstood teachings left by our
unknown ancestors in order to communicate with modern
generations. This, and Hancock's other books like his
latest, "Underworld," threatens to overturn
conventional explanations of our past and stretch the
horizons of our future. Meticulously referenced, and often
scientific and technical, "Fingerprints" is
consistently captivating because Hancock embroiders the
narrative with colourful analogies and travelogue, making it
easier to understand his point and leaving the reader
impressed by the mysterious patterns he unravels. Lavishly
enhanced by photographs and illustrations, the book contains
extensive references, a vast bibliography and an index....
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The
Sign and the Seal : The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant
Graham Hancock
The dramatic story of the discovery of the most
important archaeological find since the opening of
Tutankhamen's tomb. On a quest for the ark, archaeologist
Hancock journeyed to a remote corner of Ethiopia, where he
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The fact of the Lost Ark of the Covenant is one
of the grant historical mysteries of all time. To believers,
the Ark is the legendary vessel holding the stone tablets of
the Ten Commandments. The Bible contains hundreds of
references to the Ark's power to level mountains, destroy
armies, and lay waste to cities. The Ark itself, however,
mysteriously disappears from recorded history sometime after
the building of the Temple of Solomon.
After ten years of searching through the dusty
archives of Europe and the Middle East, as well as braving
the real-life dangers of a bloody civil war in Ethiopia,
Graham Hancock has succeeded where scores of others have
failed. This intrepid journalist has tracked down the true
story behind the myths and legends -- revealing where the
Ark is today, how it got there, and why it remains hidden.
Part fascinating scholarship and part
entertaining adventure yarn, tying together some of the most
intriguing tales of all time this book will appeal to anyone
fascinated by the revelation of hidden truths, the discovery
of secret mysteries.
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Heaven's
Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization
Graham Hancock, Santha Faiia
In a book that is the culmination of his life's work,
the author reveals the secrets that connect monuments of ancient
civilizations throughout the world. 250 color illustrations. 5 maps.
50 diagrams (hardcover edition).
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In Heaven's Mirror, author Graham Hancock
continues the quest to rediscover the hidden legacy of
mankind--the revelation that the cultures we refer to as
ancient were, in fact, the heirs to a far older forgotten
civilization and the inheritors of its archaic, mystical
wisdom.
Working with photographer Santha Faiia, Hancock
traces a network of sacred sites around the globe on a
spectacular voyage of discovery that takes us from the
pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt to the enigmatic
statues of Easter Island, from the haunting ruins of
pre-Columbian America to the splendors of Angkor Wat, in
order to crack the code of our lost ancestors. It is an
odyssey that leads to sunken monuments and hidden
chambers--a journey through myth and magic, and astounding
archaeological revelations, that forces us to rethink our
entire conception of the origins of civilization.
The first fully illustrated book by Graham
Hancock, Heaven's Mirror is a stunning and illuminating tour
into the spirituality of the ancients--a search for a secret
written in the language of astronomy and recorded in the
very foundations of the holiest sites of antiquity:
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A secret that speaks of a mysterious
connection between earth and heaven.
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A secret that transforms temples into stars
and men into gods.
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The deepest and darkest secret of our
forgotten past.
What would these fifteen gigantic Moai on
Easter Island say if they could speak?
The only voice left to these statues and other ancient
monoliths is that of the astronomical alignments that govern
them. These alignments point to a common link, reveal a
shockingly sophisticated understanding of the solar system,
and perhaps even encompass the Holy Grail of immortality.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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The
Message of the Sphinx : A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of
Mankind
Graham
Hancock, Robert Bauval
Argues that the ancient structures at Giza,
including the pyramids and the Sphinx, may be much older
than originally thought, and discusses a mysterious
underground chamber recently detected beneath the Sphinx.
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In this riveting account of historical and
archaeological investigation, the authors present hard
evidence that the Sphinx, the Pyramids, and the other
monuments at Giza are of far more ancient origin than
previously believed. Complete with evidence of a conspiracy
between the Egyptology establishment and various
confidential organizations to keep the secrets of the
Pyramids from the world, The Message of the Sphinx is also a
modern-day detective story. of photos.
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