Underworld : The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

by HANCOCK, GRAHAM

• ISBN13: 9781400046126
• ISBN10: 1400046122
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Crown Pub

Summary

From Graham Hancock, bestselling author ofFingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans. While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found. Guided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. As the glaciers melted between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago, sea levels rose and more than 15 million square miles of habitable land were submerged underwater, resulting in a radical change to the Earth's shape and the conditions in which people could live. Using the latest computer techniques to map the world's changing coastlines, Hancock finds astonishing correspondences with the ancient flood myths. Filled with thrilling accounts of his own participation in dives off the coast of Japan, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Arabian Sea, we watch as Hancock discovers underwater ruins exactly where the myths say they should besunken kingdoms that archaeologists never thought existed. Fans of Hancock's previous adventures will find themselves immersed in Underworld, a provocative book that provides both compelling hard evidence for a fascinating, forgotten episode in human history and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilization as we know it.

Author Biography

Graham Hancock is the author of a number of bestselling investigations of historical mysteries. These include <b>The Sign and the Seal</b>, <b>The Message of the Sphinx</b>, <b>Fingerprints of the God</b>s,<b> Heaven’s Mirror</b>, and <b>The Mars Mystery</b>. His books have been translated into twenty languages and have sold more than four million copies around the world. He lives in Devon, England.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Initiation
Relics	p. 3
The Riddle of the Antediluvian Cities	p. 24
Meltdown	p. 50
India (1)
Forgotten Cities, Ancient Texts and an Indian Atlantis	p. 89
Pilgrimage to India	p. 110
The Place of the Ship's Descent	p. 129
Lost India	p. 149
The Demon on the Mountain and the Rebirth of Civilization	p. 169
India (2)
Fairytale Kingdom	p. 201
The Mystery of the Red Hill	p. 223
The Quest for Kumari Kandam	p. 245
The Hidden Years	p. 269
Pyramid Islands	p. 275
Ghosts in the Water	p. 289
Malta
Smoke and Fire in Malta	p. 309
Cave of Bones	p. 338
The Thorn in the Flesh	p. 352
The Masque of the Green Book	p. 375
Inundation	p. 413
The Morning of the World	p. 423
Ancient Maps
Terra Incognita	p. 453
The Secret Memories of Maps	p. 488
Looking for the Lost on the Road to Nowhere	p. 504
The Metamorphoses of Antilia	p. 522
Japan, Taiwan, China
The Land Beloved of the Gods	p. 551
Remembrance	p. 577
Confronting Yonaguni	p. 596
Maps of Japan and Taiwan 13,000 Years Ago?	p. 626
Confronting Kerama	p. 640
The Shark at the Gate	p. 655
Postscript: The Underworld in the Gulf of Cambay	p. 675
Online Appendices and Photographs	p. 678
Notes	p. 679
Index	p. 717
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