JOURNEY THROUGH TIME - RE-WRITING HISTORY (Heavens Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock, Santha Faiia)

Member Name: hazzeryoda

Product:	Heavens Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization - Graham Hancock, Santha Faiia
Date:	14/12/00 (140 review reads)
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Advantages: very impressive, well researched, valuable content, interesting, fantastic photography

Disadvantages: may seem a tough book to get through,

Graham Hancock has always been under pressure and mockery from critics and scientist's. This is due to the challenging nature of his books, books which have really taken a lifetime's researching and a great deal of passion.
For a long time, ancient history has been looked upon and flexible or sketchily mapped out, yet still somehow the theories, research and assumptions are taken as definite.
When someone, and Hancock is definitely not on his own, challenges these ideas, there is bound to be upset; and upset there was.
I believe that people are being need an open mind whilst taking in the evidence. No matter how much we can predict what it was like in those times, we will never know for sure, so how can people so readily dismiss things, when even the principles of the new ideas stare us in the face.
Don't get me wrong, I remain agnostic toward the whole debate and have my own thoughts, but I stay hopeful for the new theories of these many well reasearched people as there is a lot of very interesting material.

This book, on which the compelling TV documentaries were orginally based sees Hancock, his wife and team scour many intriguing archaeological sites both well-known and lesser-known for clues to the ancient civilisation. The book is based around the challenging idea that many millennia ago, before the ancient Egyptians and before the rise of the Mayans, the Cambodians and civilizations of Oceania, there was an even more ancient and intelligent near-global civilization.
The book says that these well-known 'ancient' civilizations were only inheritors of these people.

Packed with beautiful, stirring photographs from the corners of the globe, serving as the perfect accompaniment to such descriptive and compelling text, it is a joy to read. Hancock takes you on a voyage of discovery which blows away the myths of the preconceived past.
The evidence is everywhere and collated in such a way that really buil
ds up an impressive picture about the supposed civilization.
Comparisons are drawn of customs and aspects of the great ancients civilisations which are exactly the same, yet on the other side of the world. It was thought that they could not traverse the globe in those times.
It is also suggested, with the usual amount of backing up and evidence that this race was very educated, more even than the Egyptians and more so than even ourselves: the Mayans, inheritors of past technology had a calendar which was more accurate than our own and had a greater understanding of contellations and processes.

This may seems scant and slightly unimpressive, but wait until you read the book. The book never really preaches, but lays down the very intelligent and documented facts and findings. This book challenges many to rethink present conceptions of the earth's past. I think that it is a very important book, something which can teach everyone of us something about the world; historians cannot shy away from other theories and evidence, and should keep an open mind.

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