Fingerprints of the Gods The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
by HANCOCK, GRAHAMEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-04-02
Publisher(s): Crown
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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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