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1 Graham Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 1 FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS Also by Graham Hancock Journey Through Pakistan Ethiopia: The Challenge of Hunger AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic Lords of Poverty African Ark: Peoples of the Horn The Sign and the Seal: A Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant The Message of the Sphinx (with Robert Bauval)Graham Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 2 Fingerprints of the Gods Graham Hancock Photographs by Santha Faiia Three Rivers Press New YorkGraham Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 3 Copyright 1995 by Graham Hancock All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

2 Published by Three Rivers Press, a division of Crown Publishers, Inc., 201 East 50th Street, New York, New York 10022. Member of the Crown Publishing Group. Originally published in Great Britain by William Heinemann, Ltd., an imprint of Reed Consumer Books Ltd., in 1995. First American hardcover edition published by Crown Publishers, Inc., in 1995. Random House, Inc. New York, Toronto, London, Sydney, Auckland THREE RIVERS PRESS and colophon are trademarks of Crown Publishers, Inc. Printed in the United States of America Line illustrations by R. J. Cook Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hancock, Graham. Fingerprints of the gods / by Graham Hancock. 1st American ed.

3 Includes index. 1. Lost continents. 2. Civilization, Ancient. 3. Antarctica-Discovery and exploration. 4. World maps To 1800. I. Title. 1995 930-dc20 95-6964 ISBN 0-517-88729-0 15 14 13 12 11 10 Graham Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 4 For Santha .. for being there. With all my Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 5 Contents Contents ..5 Part I ..12 Chapter 1 ..13 Ancient sources ..14 A man ahead of his time ..19 Piri Reis and his Legacy of a lost civilization?..21 Chapter 2 ..23 Ross Sea ..24 Mercator and The epoch of the South Sea levels and ice Chapter 3 ..35 The mysteries of Precision The lost mathematicians ..39 Part II ..42 Chapter 4 ..43 The riddle of the lines.

4 43 Linemakers, map-makers ..48 Chapter 5 ..50 Foam of the Sea ..50 Citadel of The bearded Chapter 6 ..54 Civilizing The work of demons?..57 Chapter 7 ..60 Casting down the Ancient traditions ..62 Time Machu Picchu dreaming ..64 Jigsaw Chapter 8 ..68 Rumours of a cataclysm ..69 Chapter 9 ..73 Boats, water and Reed boats of Road to Tiahuanaco ..76 Chapter 10 ..77 Sunken Pyramid ..79 Gateway of the Sun ..81 Chapter 11 ..83 Fish-garbed Images of extinct Chapter 12 ..92 Graham Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 6 Struggle and abandonment ..94 An artificial language ..97 Part Chapter 13 ..100 Slaughterhouses ..101 Children of the Fifth Sun ..103 Chapter 14.

5 107 Viracocha s Mexican twin ..107 Cosmic Fire Serpent Sanctuary ..112 Chapter 15 ..114 Tears for the Gigantic men of deformed Pyramids upon Chapter 16 ..122 Santiago Tres Chapter 17 ..127 San La Deus ex Whispers of ancient Chapter 18 ..136 Hypothetical third party ..138 Villahermosa to Chapter 19 ..143 Monte Alban: the downfall of masterful men ..148 Legacy ..149 Chapter 20 ..151 Pacal s tomb ..152 Pyramid of the A science of prophecy ..157 Chapter 21 ..158 Knowledge out of Someone else s science?..161 Chapter 22 ..165 The Citadel, the Temple and the Map of Egypt and Mexico more coincidences?..168 Hints of forgotten Chapter 23 ..174 Erasing messages from the Eternal Mathematical Part IV.

6 183 Chapter 24 ..184 And the ark went upon the face of the Central America ..187 South North Water water everywhere ..190 Greece, India and Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 7 On the trail of a Chapter 25 ..197 Indescribable cold, fire, earthquakes and derangement of the skies ..199 A monster chased the Chapter 26 ..203 Cinderella s slipper ..205 Chapter 27 ..207 Alaska and Siberia: the sudden freeze ..208 A thousand Krakatoas, all at Global flooding ..212 A token of good Part V ..219 Chapter 28 ..222 The wild celestial dance ..222 Recondite The wobble of a deformed A great secret of the Chapter 29 ..232 When did the ancients first work out precession?.

7 235 Chapter 30 ..240 At the mill with slaves ..242 Openers of the way ..246 Chapter 31 ..250 Computing the Great Return ..251 Better than Times of Dogs, uncles and revenge ..258 Scientists with something to Chapter 32 ..262 A message in the bottle of Mill of Part VI ..267 Chapter 33 ..268 Inexplicable precision ..269 Black hole in Ships in the desert ..272 Chapter 34 ..274 Time and Rampant The guardian and the Under Egyptian Thinking like giants ..281 Chapter 35 ..283 Trivializing the The cupboard was Bottlenecks in the Not like other tombs ..291 A certain smell ..292 Chapter 36 ..297 A singular oppression ..297 The moving finger writes and having writ it moves Pandora s Chapter 37.

8 305 The Beacon ..305 Graham Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 8 Mind games of the pyramid builders ..307 Unknown dark The Queen s Chapter 38 ..316 Antechamber ..317 Stone enigmas ..319 Ceremony of the The Chapter 39 ..328 Temple of the Lord of Rostau ..332 Vastly, remotely, fabulously ancient ..333 Whose Sphinx is it anyway? ..335 Part VII ..339 Chapter 40 ..340 Bauval s Stars and West s Stones ..341 The way of the jackal ..345 Chapter 41 ..347 Connections and similarities ..349 Gift of the Gods? ..350 Chapter 42 ..354 Broken images of a lost technology?..355 Repositories of a lost science?..356 The train of the Sun and the dweller in Millions of years and the movements of the stars.

9 361 Copies, or translations?..363 Last records of the First Time?..364 Chapter 43 ..367 Records of Gods, Demigods and Spirits of the Dead ..369 Diodorus Siculus and The Turin Papyrus and the Palermo Chapter 44 ..375 Breath of the divine serpent ..376 Osiris and the Lords of Eternity ..378 Serene stability ..381 Chapter 45 ..383 Atef Seventeen centuries of The most ancient stone building in Frankfort s Setting sail across seas of sand and Chapter 46 ..397 Kick-start ..398 Climate Unseen connections?..400 Where is the rest of this civilization? ..400 Chapter 47 ..402 John Robert Schoch s geology: Unriddling the Legendary Magellan and the first dinosaur bone.

10 408 The problem of Hancock FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS 9 Second opinion ..411 Chapter 48 ..413 Geodetic marker ..414 Doing things by degrees ..416 The Pyramid/Earth ratio ..417 Matching fingerprints?..419 Navigators in the Boat of Millions of The signature of a distant Chapter 49 ..425 The Orion The First The The cult ..431 The machine ..434 The second Forcing the question ..440 Part Chapter 50 ..442 Geophysical impossibilities ..442 Library angels ..444 The missing piece of the Gravitational The lost Chapter 51 ..450 A lifeless polar Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit Exhibit 10 ..457 The icy Mars and Memories of the polar dawn?