Fingerprints of the Gods - Graham Hancock

Graham Hancocks work has always been bordering on the controversial, as far as the main stream academic world is concerned, but that has always been the price paid for pushing the boundaries. Academic frontiers tend to travel at the same rate as the worlds techtonic plates and any idea that tries to travel faster than the speed of academia are fair game from powers that be. Where as in some of Hancocks books such as Underworld or Sign and the Seal, the new theories presented dont require too much of a leap of faith to follow, with this book there is a lot of grand new ideas to try to take on board. That said at over 600 pages there is a lot of room to throughly explore ...  Read the complete review

"Fingerprints of the Gods" is Graham Hancocks first foray (and best in, my opinion) into the "alternative" history of the Planet. In Fingerprints, he hypothesises that the "Gods" were in fact Flesh and Blood Gods who were survivors of a previous catastrophe. The catastrophe in question being the "biblical" flood. After the flood, throughout the world similar "myths" appear of the teachers or gods who came from the waters as saviours of the world. Viracocha, Quetzacoatl, Noah etc. Throughout the world Ancient sites have survived the ravages of time and still puzzle us as to how these Ancient Monument could possibly have ...  Read the complete review

Have you ever wondered about the seventh wonder? This book gives you an insight into a possible meaning behind various geographical locations containing ancient buildings such as the great sphinx and pyramids of Egypt. This suprising book from author Graham Hancock connects various aspects of suedo history, ancient songs, biblical texts and great monuments. Sounds silly? After you have finished the book you may not think so. Graham goes about pointing out that there have been civilizations before our own, some maybe even more powerful. Some of the evidence that springs to light after his lengthy research can at times be quite eerie, but not infalable, which ...  Read the complete review

Anyone with an interest in the ancient civilisations should read this book. Surely, Hancock's theory sounds too goody-goody to be true. Essentially, Hancock revives the idea of the Global Village, with one civilisation escaping a major catastrophy and relocating around the world and teaching undeveloped people how to read the stars. It would be nice that once upon time our ancestors were really nice people devoted to men's progress and teaching. Whether you believe this theory or not is beyond the reason why I believe this books is fantastic. What makes is special is Hancock's determination to overthrow some of the stale historical studies ...  Read the complete review

I read this book in early 1996 and again earlier this year and it is a rip roaring read, no mistake. The case Hancock makes for his theory that civilisation has not been the result of several easy steps from stone age to now but was instead the result of a much older, forgotten civilisation is very persuading. But the danger with these non-academic (and I speak as an academic) books is that they have not undergone the usual peer assessment rounds that academic research gets. True sometimes the back biting and such like in academia has held theories back (Einstein once pointed out that radical (but correct) ideas are not accepted by its antagonists, instead the antagonist ...  Read the complete review