Magicians of the Gods: Evidence for an Ancient Apocalypse - Updated Edition
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". . . you've blown my mind open in a way that's just driven curiosity." Steven Bartlett, Diary of A CEO podcast interview with Graham Hancock
The revolutionary book that asks if everything we think we know about the origins of civilisation is completely wrong?
More than 12,000 years ago, at the end of the last Ice Age, humanity's story may have changed forever. A giant comet entered our solar system and broke into multiple fragments across the globe, causing a rapid global warming that wiped out all life on earth - or so we thought.
Building upon his million-copy selling book Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock revisits his radical theory that an advanced civilisation existed before the end of the last Ice Age and was largely destroyed by the global catastrophe. With new archaeological discoveries and the latest scientific research, Hancock shows beyond reasonable doubt, that not only did an advanced civilisation exist and flourish during the Ice Age but that some of them survived the catastrophic comet.
Hancock theorises that these survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven', travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilisation burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific in Indonesia. But much of what we knew about their lives had been lost to time, until now.
Magician of the Gods takes readers on a globe-spanning investigation into one of history's greatest mysteries: what if human civilisation is much older than we think?
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About the author
As East Africa correspondent of The Economist in the early eighties Graham Hancock began to write a series of highly acclaimed books on economics, politics and foreign aid. His life took a whole new turn when he became fascinated by rumours that the Ark of the Covenant is real artefact, hidden somewhere in northern Africa. The story of his detective work, tracking it down to its supposed final resting place became the international bestseller The Sign and the Seal (now in production as a feature film.) More bestsellers in the field of 'alternative history' followed, including Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis (the latter co-authored with Robert Bauval) and Heaven's Mirror. In Supernatural he described his experiences journeying to experiment with hallucinogenic drugs amongst tribes people for whom they represent a gateway into supernatural realms. His ideas on exploring new dimensions in consciousness became the subject of his controversial TED talks.
Graham Hancock's books have been translated into twenty-seven languages and have sold over nine million copies worldwide. His public lectures and broadcasts, including two major TV series for Channel 4, Quest for the Lost Civilisation, and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age, have further established his reputation as an unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity`s past.
