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• authored by Graham Hancock

 

• Great Pyramids Of Giza

 
• Antarctica
• Machu Picchu

 
• Angkor Wat
• Stonehenge

 
• Mayans

 

• _Hamlet's Mill_ by Giogio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend
• track _Taking Fingerprints Of The Stars_ MP3 by Accelera Deck off of _Disquieting_ 12" on FWD (2000)
• ambient track _A Glimmer Of Forgotten Ancestors_ MP3 (192k)(23:30)(33megs) by Mark Van Hoen off of _Last Flowers From The Darkness_ on Touch (1996)
• video _Monuments To Life Part 1_ (vhs/ntsc) - Graham Hancock lecture at Leeds
• video _Monuments To Life Part 2_ (vhs/ntsc) - Robert Bauval lecture at Leeds
• p. 468 - Albert Einstein as supporter of earth-crust displacement theory.

Contents

Part I
Introduction: The Mystery of the Maps

1. A Map of Hidden Places
2. Rivers in the Southern Continent
3. Fingerprints of a Lost Science

Part II
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

Part III
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

Part IV
The Mystery of the Myths 1: A Species with Amnesia

24. Echoes of our Dreams
25. The Many Masks of the Apocalypse
26. A Species Born in the Earth's Long Winter
27. The Face of the Earth was Darkened and a Black Rain Began to Fall

Part V
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

Part VI
The Giza Invitation: Egypt 1

33. Cardinal Points
34. Mansion of Eternity
35. Tombs and Tombs Only?
36. Anomalies
37. Made by Some God
38. Interactive Three-Dimensional Game
39. Place of the Beginning

Part VII
Lord of Eternity: Egypt 2

• Are There Any Secret Left in Egypt?
• City of the Son, 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 Millenium BC
• Sphinx

 

• Earth Measures
• The Power of the Thing

Part VIII
Conclusion: Where's the Body?

50. Not a Needle in a Haystack
51. The Hammer and the Pendulum
52. Like a Thief in the Night

Selected Bibliography

Index

'They knew their epochs,' said Bauval, 'and the clock that they used was the natural clock of the stars. Their working language was precessional astronomy and these monuments express that language in a very clear, unambiguous, scientific manner. They were also highly skilled surveyors - I mean the people who originally prepared the site and laid out the orientations for the pyramids - because they worked to an exacting geometry and because they knew how to align the base-platforms, or whatever it was they built, perfectly to the cardinal points.'

'Do you think they also know that they were marking out the site of the Great Pyramid on latitude 30 degrees North?'

Bauval laughed: 'I'm certain they knew. I think they knew everything about the shape of the earth. They knew their astronomy.  They had a good understanding of the solar system and of celestial mechanics. They were also incredibly accurate and incredibly precise in everything they did. So, all in all, I don't think anything really happened here by chance - at least not between 10,450 and 2450 BC. I get the feeling that everything was planned, intended, carefully worked out...Indeed I get the feeling that they were fulfilling a long-term objective - some kind of purpose, if you like, and that they brought this to fruition inthe third millennium BC...'

Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling  evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory.

A search for evidence of a prehistoric, advanced civilization speculates about an Atlantis-like world buried beneath Antarctic ice and makes predictions about forthcoming geological disasters.

In _Fingerprints of the Gods_, Graham 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 ruins as farapart as Egypt's Great Sphinx, the strange Andean temples of Tiahuanaco, and Mexico's awe-inspiring Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, he reveals not only the clear fingerprints of  an as-yet-unidentified civilization of remote antiquity, but also disquieting signs of its vast  sophistication, technological advancement, and evolved scientific knowledge. Could the storyof mankind be far older and far more mysterious than we have previously believed? Using  tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths,  Hancock presents a devastating case to suggest that it is. 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...

Travelling first to South and Meso-America, Graham finds evidence of myths of a white-skinned 'god' named Quetzalcoatl or 'Viracocha' who came from a drowned land bringing knowledge of farming and culture after a great flood. Tied in with these myths Graham begins to crack an ancient code imprinted in these ancient tales that refer to the 'great mill' of the heavens.

It is an astronomical code that deals with the position of the stars over vast periods of time - a code that reveals the ancients knew far, far more than they are generally credited with. Traces of the same code appear in Egyptian myth, and it is to this desert land that Graham and Santha travel, finding there haunting parallels in architecture and ritual to the New World sites they have just left behind.

Moreover, the whole layout of the Giza plateau seems to point to a date many thousands of years earlier than the date of its supposed construction - a date revealed in the astronomical alignments of the Pyramids, the 'mansions of a million years', home of the god Osiris, the bringer of agriculture to the Egyptians, like Quetzalcoatl, after a flood.
 

Could the Piri Reis maps be evidence for a previously unknown complex maritime civilisation, capable of mapping the globe? A global culture, cataclysmically destroyed at the end of the ice age, remnants of which survived the devastation to pass on their knowledge to the shaken world?

Were the figures of Osiris and Quetzalcoatl survivors of this lost race - passing down not only advanced geographical knowledge, but a secret astronomical code veiled in myth that pointed to the devastation in the past, and warned of that which is to come?

From the mysterious sites of Tiahuanaco and Teotihuacan, to the enduring enigmatic Sphinx and pyramids of Egypt, the grandiose Nazca lines of Peru to the stark primal beauty of the Osireion at Abydos, this is a journey both around the globe and into the heart of the true prehistoric origins of man. Part adventure, part detective story, this book will force you to revaluate your beliefs of the past.

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