Informationen zum Autor Graham Hancock is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal , Fingerprints of the Gods and Heaven's Mirror . His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. He is an extremely successful investigative journalist, having been Editor of Condé Nast's Traveller magazine and East Africa Correspondent for the Economist . His public lectures and TV appearances, including the three-hour series Quest For The Lost Civilization , have put his religious and historical theories before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognized as an unconventional thinker who raises legitimate questions about humanity's history, religion and prehistory and offers an increasingly popular challenge to the entrenched views of orthodox scholars. Klappentext DISCOVER MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING BOOK THAT TURNED HISTORY ON ITS HEAD 'Arresting and audacious' Daily Mail Part intellectual detective story, part history book, Fingerprints of the Gods directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain. This groundbreaking evidence includes: · Accurate ancient maps that show the world as it last looked during the Ice Age, thousands of years before any civilisation capable of making such maps is supposed to have existed. · Evidence of the devastating scientific and astronomical information encoded into prehistoric myths. · The incredible feat of the construction of the great pyramids of Egypt and of megalithic temples on the Giza plateau. · The mysterious astronomical alignments of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx. · The pyramids of the Sun and the Moon in Mexico. · The doomsday calendar and eerie memories of the ancient Maya. · The warning from the Hopi of Arizona. Fingerprints of the Gods is a revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of readers throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society. Praise for Fingerprints of the Gods: 'Both a page-turner, and a groundbreaking work of truly revolutionary research' ***** Reader Review 'An outstanding and beautifully illustrated questioning of our past history' ***** Reader Review 'Both refreshingly rational and personally honest. If you love history and ancient sites... then this book is for you. ' ***** Reader Review ' A master storyteller' ***** Reader Review '[A] truly outstanding read by a pioneer of the genre !' ***** Reader Review ' I can't recommend it enough !' ***** Reader Review Zusammenfassung Exploring the past with hi-tech tools of modern archaeology, geology and astronomy, Hancock exposes an eerie network of connections between Egyptian pyramids, Andean temples, spherical geometry, and astro-navigation. He makes claim for a lost civilization that flourished during the last ice age....

Vorwort
Investigative journalist and bestselling author of controversial history books, including bestseller The Sign and the Seal, uncovers the evidence of Earth's lost civilisation.

Autorentext

Graham Hancock is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods and Heaven's Mirror. His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated into 27 languages. He is an extremely successful investigative journalist, having been Editor of Condé Nast's Traveller magazine and East Africa Correspondent for the Economist. His public lectures and TV appearances, including the three-hour series Quest For The Lost Civilization, have put his religious and historical theories before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognized as an unconventional thinker who raises legitimate questions about humanity's history, religion and prehistory and offers an increasingly popular challenge to the entrenched views of orthodox scholars.

Klappentext

DISCOVER MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING BOOK THAT TURNED HISTORY ON ITS HEAD

'Arresting and audacious' Daily Mail

Part intellectual detective story, part history book, Fingerprints of the Gods directs probing questions at orthodox history, presenting disturbing new evidence that historians have tried - but failed - to explain.

This groundbreaking evidence includes:

· Accurate ancient maps that show the world as it last looked during the Ice Age, thousands of years before any civilisation capable of making such maps is supposed to have existed.
· Evidence of the devastating scientific and astronomical information encoded into prehistoric myths.
· The incredible feat of the construction of the great pyramids of Egypt and of megalithic temples on the Giza plateau.
· The mysterious astronomical alignments of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx.
· The pyramids of the Sun and the Moon in Mexico.
· The doomsday calendar and eerie memories of the ancient Maya.
· The warning from the Hopi of Arizona.

Fingerprints of the Gods is a revolutionary rewrite of history that has persuaded millions of readers throughout the world to change their preconceptions about the history behind modern society.

Praise for Fingerprints of the Gods:

'Both a page-turner, and a groundbreaking work of truly revolutionary research' ***** Reader Review

'An outstanding and beautifully illustrated questioning of our past history' ***** Reader Review

'Both refreshingly rational and personally honest. If you love history and ancient sites... then this book is for you.' ***** Reader Review

'A master storyteller' ***** Reader Review

'[A] truly outstanding read by a pioneer of the genre!' ***** Reader Review

'I can't recommend it enough!' ***** Reader Review

Zusammenfassung
Exploring the past with hi-tech tools of modern archaeology, geology and astronomy, Hancock exposes an eerie network of connections between Egyptian pyramids, Andean temples, spherical geometry, and astro-navigation. He makes claim for a lost civilization that flourished during the last ice age.