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Graham
Hancock is one of the few great pioneers in alternative history.
Formerly working as a journalist for the big media companies, he set off
on a journey to discover the real truth of our origins. His research is
startling, and quite possibly erases the old narrative of history.
There is evidence that the timeline of
civilization extends much further back than just ten thousand years ago.
The famous ancient monument in Egypt, The Great Sphinx, stands today
showing signs of erosion as if water had been running through its walls
for many years. This of course means that there had to have been long
periods of rainfall in the Sahara Desert at the time it was built, as
water must have been touching it long enough to cause the erosion seen
on the Sphinx.
There has been almost no rain in the
desert for approximately 5,000 years. Was the Sphinx perhaps built at a
much earlier time, like right after the Ice Age when the climate was
drastically different?
We find other evidence of older
civilizations across the world. The Gobleki Tepe is a monument in Turkey
which dates back to approximately 11,000 years ago. It remains show a
structure consisting of carefully engineered stone tablets and carvings
of animals such as lions and gazelles that lived nowhere near Turkey at
the time.
The findings of this structure certainly
suggest that humans were living in a much more advanced society than
previously thought (cave dwellers or early agricultural settlers of
remote numbers of people) due to the higher population and
skill/knowledge set required to create it. And as for where the ancient
peoples came up with the idea to carve those animals out? No idea.
Shockingly, if we keep looking, we find
other traces of civilizations around the world that predate the oldest
known remains, like the Dwarka in India, the 12,000-year-old tunnel
network running from Scotland to Turkey, and many more.
These civilizations even stood out for
their cultural advancement. Most remarkable is the Piri Reis map, put
together by a cartographer in 1513 that accurately depicts the world and
its continents connected, including Antarctica. Antarctica is actually
shown as a habitable place, once housed by humans.
Atlantis?
These are the “fingerprints of the gods,” as Graham Hancock would put it. But where are these fingerprints sourced from?
Graham Hancock contends that Antarctica
was once Atlantis. He believed that the entire continent was once
booming with life until natural disasters changed the climate to the
point that sea levels rose and temperatures dropped.
Was there really an advanced
civilization living on Earth at one time that we haven’t heard of? If
there was, could it have been more advanced than ours? Graham Hancock’s
accumulated evidence certainly creates a strong case for it. His
published books Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, Fingerprints of the Gods, and his newest, Magician of the Gods, go into much further detail about this fascinating alternative history.
“This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable” – Plato
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