Fingerprints of the Gods The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization

by HANCOCK, GRAHAM

• ISBN13: 9780517887295
• ISBN10: 0517887290
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-04-02
• Publisher: Crown

Summary

The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. 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. Four 8-page photo inserts.

Author Biography

Graham Hancock was formerly East Africa correspondent for The Economist and a correspondent for the London Sunday Times. He has appeared on television with Michael Palin in his recent Pole to Pole series, and on the BBC and CNN, as well as the National Geographic's Explorer series.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Introduction: The Mystery of the Maps	p. 1
A Map of Hidden Places	p. 3
Rivers in the Southern Continent	p. 14
Fingerprints of a Lost Science	p. 26
Foam of the Sea: Peru and Bolivia	p. 33
Flight of the Condor	p. 35
The Inca Trail to the Past	p. 42
He Came in a Time of Chaos	p. 46
Were There Giants Then?	p. 53
The Lake at the Roof of the World	p. 62
Once and Future King	p. 67
The City at the Gate of the Sun	p. 72
Intimations of Antiquity	p. 78
The End of the Viracochas	p. 87
Plumed Serpent: Central America	p. 93
Blood and Time at the End of the World	p. 95
People of the Serpent	p. 102
Mexican Babel	p. 109
Serpent Sanctuary	p. 118
The Olmec Enigma	p. 123
Conspicuous Strangers	p. 132
Adventures in the Underworld, Journeys to the Stars	p. 140
Children of the First Men	p. 148
A Computer for Calculating the End of the World	p. 156
City of the Gods	p. 164
The Sun and the Moon and the Way of the Dead	p. 174
The Mystery of the Myths: 1. A Species with Amnesia	p. 185
Echoes of Our Dreams	p. 187
The Many Masks of the Apocalypse	p. 200
A Species Born in the Earth's Long Winter	p. 207
The Face of the Earth was Darkened and a Black Rain Began to Fall	p. 212
The Mystery of the Myths: 2. The Precessional Code	p. 225
The Machinery of Heaven	p. 227
The First Crack in an Ancient Code	p. 238
The Cosmic Tree and the Mill of the Gods	p. 246
The Osiris Numbers	p. 256
Speaking to the Unborn	p. 268
The Giza Invitation: Egypt 1	p. 273
Cardinal Points	p. 275
Mansion of Eternity	p. 282
Tombs and Tombs Only?	p. 292
Anomalies	p. 307
Made by Some God	p. 315
Interactive Three-Dimensional Game	p. 327
Place of the Beginning	p. 339
Lord of Eternity: Egypt 2	p. 351
Are There Any Secrets Left in Egypt?	p. 353
City of the Sun, Chamber of the Jackal	p. 360
Anachronisms and Enigmas	p. 367
Looking for the First Time	p. 381
Gods of the First Time	p. 388
The Works of Men and Gods	p. 396
The Eleventh Millennium BC	p. 411
Sphinx	p. 417
Earth Measurers	p. 429
The Power of the Thing	p. 442
Conclusion: Where's the Body?	p. 459
Not a Needle in a Haystack	p. 461
The Hammer and the Pendulum	p. 471
Like a Thief in the Night	p. 487
References	p. 507
Selected Bibiography	p. 555
Index	p. 563
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