If you liked Chariots of the Gods, try Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods. I don't believe it, but it's a well written book with a fascinating claim.
Yeah - I'm not 100% sure where I stand, but I remember reading Fingerprints of the Gods back in the early 2000s - I think it was the first sizeable nonfiction book I ever read, and I remember it had this deep impact on the way I looked at things. I've since read the follow-on books to Fingerprints and while what he poses could make sense, the issue is the lack of good, irrefutable evidence and that's what helps the diehard critics. What he's positing goes well against established orthodox archaeology and history, and it riles people up.
Still love reading back through those books every so often.
But once he started chiming in on Ancient Aliens, I was like eeehhhhh...... c'mon dude.
If this is your first exposure to his non-Ancient Aliens stuff though and you haven't read or heard of his books:
He has other books, but these form the "core" of the base theory that he forms in Fingerprints.
I highly recommend reading through his work. Interesting stuff.
Maybe start here :
Fingerprints of the Gods https://www.amazon.com/dp/0517887290/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_8PFC3HSAYNFRYDRT97KV
That nut Graham Hancock wrote a couple of books peddling that theory. Interesting read, but about as fact based as The DaVinci Code.
Great Ancient archeology books
Both by Graham Hancock
Well, there is a lot to it but the basic gist of it is that Graham Hancock gained prominence when he wrote Fingerprints of the Gods which, in a nutshell, argues that there have been ancient civilizations that have been lost in time and that the established academic timeline of civilized humanity is incorrect.
He has written some other things that are more "out there" and that he readily admits to them being a stretch but that's what I love about Hancock: he has a lot of humility. He isn't staunch in his arrogance like so many Egyptologists and historians that believe that the established knowledge of academia is completely foolproof and correct. Look at this wooden idol. Or take a look at Gobekli Tepe. Haven't heard of it? Of course not! It completely throws our established timeline out the window. MOST people have never heard of it but it's much older than Stonehenge. That's by design.
Anyhow, I don't agree with all of the things Hancock throws out there but I absolutely adore his approach to this stuff and his ability to question everything we've come up with so far in charting our history as a species. He's my favorite guest on the Joe Rogan podcast. You should listen to them with an open mind.
Why downvote me for talking about someone else's book? It's just a book and I'm only saying that this article supports his theory. I can't even say if I believe Mr. Hancock, but I did find his ideas interesting. Here are some links if you'd like to inform yourself more about what you are attacking: http://www.amazon.com/Fingerprints-Gods-Graham-Hancock/dp/0517887290 http://www.grahamhancock.com/library/fotg/default.htm
The mysteries described within <em>Fingerprints Of The Gods</em>, including a recurring legend of a dwarf who could move huge stones that weighed many tons simply by whistling in order to build Mayan and Aztec and other South American structures of ancient, extinct civilizations, hieroglyphs of alien-looking creatures with some kind of "fire sticks" that could slice through flesh and rock, how Antarctica was most likely completely free of ice as little as thousands rather than millions of years ago, the Nazca lines, and lots of other mysteries from antiquity.
Mirrors within mirrors, when you have two mirrors facing each other to infinity.
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