Fingerprints of the gods
a quest for the beginning and the end
by Graham Hancock · first published 1995
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This book is about the beginning of the human race. How perhaps normal history has left things out, or maybe just left things unexplained. Graham Hancock explains how certain ancient structures all over the world are much older than originally thought, how civilizations who had no means of travel seemed to have communicated in some way. Hancock tries to answer questions we may have never even thought to ask. Were ancient civilizations visited by a superior race? Were these civilizations taught about technology they wouldn't have had?
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…researcher Graham Hancock’s take on this. His theories on human history based upon archeological evidence are very interesting. He predicted old new kingdoms were yet to be discovered in Amazon basin. Fingerprints of the Gods was one of his good reads
on “‘Mind blowing’ ancient settlements uncovered in the Amazon” ↗Interestingly I was reading about this this morning whilst reviewing my old crackpot hero Graham Hancock (reading fingerprints of the gods at a young age had me fascinated about this mythical ancient civilisation for which exceptional claims are made but very little evidence). This is a great rebuttal of the whole YDIH. Specifically regarding…
on “Ice” ↗Graham Hancock dedicates at least 10% of his most recent book "Fingerprints of the Gods" to exploring the recent evidence for a cataclysmic meteor impact that catalyzed the precipitous drop in global temperatures we observe 12900 years ago at the "Younger Dryas Boundary." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younger_Dryas#Impact_hypothesi...…
on “Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Could Have Caused 2 Years of Darkness” ↗…reacts to situations where there’s strong arguments for the position, and only invective against: “When I was a teenager I believed in a conspiracy theory. It was the one Graham Hancock wrote about in Fingerprints Of The Gods, sort of a modern update on the Atlantis story. It went something like this: “Did you know that dozens of civilizations around the world have oddly similar legends about a lost continent that sunk under…