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Ebook About Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is. “A fancy piece of historical sleuthing . . . intriguing and entertaining and sturdy enough to give a long pause for thought.”—Kirkus Reviews In Fingerprints of the Gods, Hancock embarks on a worldwide quest to put together all the pieces of the vast and fascinating jigsaw of mankind’s hidden past. In ancient monuments as far apart as Egypt’s Great Sphinx, the strange Andean ruins of Tihuanaco, and Mexico’s awe-inspiring Temples of the Sun and Moon, he reveals not only the clear fingerprints of an as-yet-unidentified civilization of remote antiquity, but also startling evidence of its vast sophistication, technological advancement, and evolved scientific knowledge. A record-breaking number one bestseller in Britain, Fingerprints of the Gods contains the makings of an intellectual revolution, a dramatic and irreversible change in the way that we understand our past—and so our future. And Fingerprints of God tells us something more. As we recover the truth about prehistory, and discover the real meaning of ancient myths and monuments, it becomes apparent that a warning has been handed down to us, a warning of terrible cataclysm that afflicts the Earth in great cycles at irregular intervals of time—a cataclysm that may be about to recur. “Readers will hugely enjoy their quest in these pages of inspired storytelling.”—The Times (UK)Book Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization Review :
So a little background, I have always been obsessed with unexplained phenomena. As a 10 year-old boy, I would walk to the public library and check out multiple books on the Loch Ness Monster, Sasquatch, The Pyramids, Easter Island, etc.... It was just ingrained in me that if there was a TV show on about these types of things, or a book that just came out, I was all over it. There's my starting point. Lately, this stuff has been extremely in-style with the popularity of shows like Ancient Aliens. So believe me, I get it and I love it. Graham Hancock is a guy that comes across as one of the more measured and if you will "less crazy" purveyors of ancient phenomena. Everybody knows Giorgio Tsoukalos because of the crazy hair and the bombastic statements. Hancock is sort of the professorial-looking dude who actually looks and sounds like he knows what he's talking about. So it was with great pleasure that I came across Fingerprints of the Gods. It is a book that has been out for some 20 odd years but I never got around to checking it out. Well all I will say is that if you love finding out a lot about the ruins of Machu Pichu, the mysterious Nazca Lines of Peru, how Antarctica was at one time not covered with ice and mapped out this way by explorers as recently as 600 years ago, the ancient pyramids of Giza, Easter Island, etc.... then you need to read this book. Hancock does a great job of presenting his theories while never portraying them as the only definitive answer. I had a lot of fun reading each chapter and then going online to "fact-check" what Graham had just presented. Of course the orthodox historians had perfectly reasonable explanations and also more believable ones, but it was very entertaining to compare the two schools of thought. I'm not naive, I know that Hancock's theories are simply to spark the imagination and most-likely pretty far from the actual truth. This doesn't mean that I didn't get a heck of a lot of enjoyment out of reading Fingerprints of the Gods though. Just take it with a grain of salt. But if you are into this kind of thing, this is about as good as it gets. I'm looking forward to reading the sequel Magicians of the Gods. I bought this because my teenage grandson read it and was telling me about it and I wanted to be able to discuss it with him. I haven't finished it yet but Amazon invited me to review it and I can pretty well see where it is going, so here goes:It is fanciful at best. On content I would give it one star. However, it is fairly readable so I have it a second star for that. At least it is readable if you don't get too distracted by Mr. Hancock's leaps of logic and making of factual statements with no support or with pseudo scientific support. So if you are reading it for entertainment only and are scientifically and historically literate enough to recognize horse pooh when you step in it, you might find it interesting. As science or as history, however, it is worthless or worse than worthless. For example:1. The book is replete with footnotes. However, if you look at the works cited, they all seem to be secondary sources of the same ilk as Mr. Hancock's work. That is, they are not scholarly works or even popularized versions of mainstream scholarship: they are books by other writers peddling fantastic theories. He even cites to Immanuel Velikovsky for heaven's sake. If there is a purported body of "scientific theory" of the 20th century that has been more thoroughly discredited than Velikovsky, I would be hard pressed to imagine what it might be.2. The world is full of coincidences. Occasionally a coincidence in the subject matter of archaeology, evolutionary biology, or some other historical science is theoretically meaningful. Often it is just a coincidence. It takes (1) judgement based on experience and training in the relevant field and (2) evidence; to tell the difference. Mr. Hancock has neither; but every coincidence is meaningful to him. Some artifact of pre-Inca archaeology is similar to another artifact of pre-Sumerian archaeology? Voila! The ancestors of the Sumerians and the ancestors of the Quechuans must have been in contact with each other!! Maybe even they were parts of the same civilization!! Which must have been incredibly advanced to have left descendants in both Peru and Mesopotamia!!Or maybe not, but that does not slow Mr. Hancock down.3. And there is a map (a bonafide one) of the world that was produced by an Ottoman admiral in Constantinople in 1513. It is called the Piri Reis Map. It shows a land mass in the south Atlantic that has no discernable similarity to the shape of Antarctica as we know it but which Hancock asserts is a good match for what Antarctica would look like if it were ice free. He bases that on a (supposed) letter to a Professor Charles Hapgood (from whom Mr. Hancock borrows wholesale and who seems to have had a bit of a penchant for crackpot ideas) from a Lt. Colonel of the US Air Force in 1960. The Colonel is identified as an officer in a reconnaisance squadron assigned to an airbase in Massachusetts. The Colonel is quoted as saying that the land mass on the Piri Reis map shows "remarkable similarity" to what the shape of the coastline of Antarctica is under the icecap based on a British-Swedish study in 1949.Okay, one might say. So what? The Piri Reis map (of which only a fragment is extant, btw) is not exactly a model of accuracy in most ways. It fairly plausibly shows far-Western Europe, West Africa and the coast of Brazil. If you compare it with a modern map, you can see those outlines easily but everything else that it shows is little more than random squiggles and rough guesses. And anyone who has looked at a few antique maps will know that ancient mapmakers had a penchant for filling in the blank areas about which they had no information with fanciful things. So the good Ottoman Admiral filled in his map with a hypothetical land mass and at least in the opinion of one otherwise obscure Air Force officer from 60 years ago, hit it lucky and filled in the blank space with something that might look like the coast of Antarctica would look like (there are a number of reasons for being skeptical of the Colonel's conclusion starting with but not ending with the actual existence of such a letter from such a colonel) if it were ice free. An interesting but not very profound coincidence if that is all there is to note. (there is not actually even that much to note, but that is another matter).But for Mr. Hancock this is a eureka! moment. It is obvious to him that the Piri Reis map must be based on older sources that were made when Antarctica or at least its coast was ICE FREE! He then disregards the mountain of geological evidence and professional opinion that Antarctica's ice cap has been in place for a lot longer than civilization has been around as "the conventional wisdom." He then observes that map-making is a sophisticated civilizational skill. So, Voila! whenever it may have been that the Antarctic ice sheet had retreated from the shores of the continent, there must have been a technically competent civilization in existence at the same time! Because how else could the Admiral's source maps have shown the ice free coast so accurately?And I could go on, but enough is enough; suffice it to say that the foregoing is Mr. Hancock's standard procedure. Find an anomaly or a coincidence, hypothesize an explanation for it that disregards accepted scholarship as well as common sense and build castles in the air from there. Entertaining? For some. Science? No, not even close. Historically plausible? Not on your life. Factual? Not remotely. 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