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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... read more
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First Sentence edit
I'm in southern Peru, flying over the Nazca lines.
Table of Contents edit
Acknowledgements
New Introduction
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
4. Flight of the Condor
5. The Inca Trail to the Past
6. He Came in a Time of Chaos
7. Were There Giants Then?
8. The Lake at the Roof of the World
9. Once and Future King
10. The City at the Gate of the Sun
11. Intimations of Antiquity
12. The End of the Viracochas
Part III
Plumed Serpent: Central America
13. Blood and Time at the End of the World
14. People of the Serpent
15. Mexican Babel
16. Serpent Sanctuary
17. The Olmec Enigma
18. Conspicuous Strangers
19. Adventures in the Underworld, Journeys to the Stars
20. Children of the First Men
21. A Computer for Calculating the End of the World
22. City of the Gods
23. The Sun and the Moon and the Way of the Dead
Part IV:
The Mystery of 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
28. The Machinery of Heaven
29. The First Crack in an Ancient Code
30. The Cosmic Tree and the Mill of the Gods
31. The Osiris Numbers
32. Speaking to the Unborn
Part IV: 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
40. Are There Any Secrets Left in Egypt?
41. City of the Sun, Chamber of the Jacal
42. Anachronisms and Enigmas
43. Looking for the First Time
44. Gods of the First Time
45. The Works of Men and Gods
46. The Eleveth Millenium BC
47. Sphinx
48. Earth Measurers
49. 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
References
Selected Bibliography
Index
Appendix I: BBC Horizon Hancock Interview Transcripts
Appendix II: What is Radiocarbon Dating and is it a Reliable Method of Dating Archeological Sites? By Sean Hancock
Appendix III: An Interpretation and Critique of the Radiocarbon Database for Tiahuanaco. By Sean Hancock
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Original Language: English
Publisher: Heinemann
Country: England
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 043431336X
Page Count: 578
Publisher: Heinemann
Country: England
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 043431336X
Page Count: 578
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- Books › Religion & Spirituality › Religious Studies › Controversial Knowledge
- Books › Nonfiction › Social Sciences › Anthropology
- Books › History › World
- Books › History › Ancient
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