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Graham Hancock | 592 pages | 02 Apr 1996 | Random House USA Inc | 9780517887295 | English | New York, United States Fingerprints of the Gods - Wikipedia

The map, showing the coastline of the east coast of the Americas and the west coast of Africa, the Colonel remarked, also seemed to show the coastline of Queen Maud Land in Antarctica free of ice — a condition it had not been in for some years! In fact, it is only in recent times that modern man has been able to map this coastline using sub-surface surveying techniques that can penetrate the ice sheet that lies on top of it. Ohlmeyer had no idea how a Fingerprints of the Gods existing in the 16th century could have got hold of such knowledge. It is an astronomical code that deals with the position of the stars over vast periods of time — a code that reveals the ancients knew far, far more than they are generally credited with. Traces of the same code appear in Egyptian myth, and it is to this desert land that Graham and Santha travel, finding there haunting parallels in architecture and ritual to the New World sites they have just left behind. Could the Piri Reis maps be evidence for a previously unknown complex maritime civilisation, capable of mapping the globe? A global culture, cataclysmically destroyed at the end of the ice age, remnants of which survived the devastation to pass on their knowledge to the shaken world? Were Fingerprints of the Gods figures of Osiris and Quetzalcoatl survivors of this lost race — passing down not only advanced geographical knowledge, but a secret astronomical code veiled in myth that pointed to the devastation in the Fingerprints of the Gods, and warned of that which is to come? From the mysterious sites of Tiahuanaco and Teotihuacan, to the enduring enigmatic Sphinx and pyramids Fingerprints of the Gods Egypt, the grandiose Nazca lines of Peru to the stark primal beauty of the Osireion at Abydos, this is a journey both around the globe and into the heart of the true prehistoric origins of man. Part adventure, part detective story, this book will force you to Fingerprints of the Gods your beliefs of the past. By Graham Hancock The Works of Men and Gods Among the numberless ruined temples of Ancient Egypt, there is one that is unique not only for its marvellous state of preservation, which rare indeed! Located at Abydos, eight miles west of the present course of the Nile, this is the Temple of Seti I, a monarch of the illustrious nineteenth Dynasty, who ruled from BC. You have gone, but you will return, you have slept, but you will awake, you have died, but you will live… Betake yourself to the waterway, fare upstream … travel about Abydos in this spirit-form of yours which the gods commanded to belong to you. It was eight in the morning, a bright, fresh hour in these latitudes, when I entered the hushed gloom of the Temple of Seti I. Hovering among the motes of dust Fingerprints of the Gods in those beams, and infiltrating the heavy stillness of the air amid the great columns that held Fingerprints of the Gods the roof of the Hypostyle Hall, it was easy to imagine that the spirit-form of Osiris could still be present. Indeed, this was more than just imagination because Osiris was physically present in the astonishing symphony of reliefs that adorned the walls- reliefs that depicted the once and future civilizer-king in his role as god of the dead, enthroned and attended by Isis, his beautiful and mysterious sister. In these scenes Osiris wore a variety of different Fingerprints of the Gods elaborate crowns which I studied closely as I walked from relief to relief. Crowns similar to these in many respects had been important parts of the wardrobe of all the pharaohs of Ancient Egypt, at least on the evidence of reliefs depicting them. Strangely, however, in all the years of intensive excavations, archaeologists had not found a single example of a royal crown, or a small part of one, let alone a specimen of the convoluted ceremonial head- dresses associated with the gods of the First Time. Of particular interest was the Atef crown. Incorporating the uraeusthe royal serpent symbol which in Mexico was a rattlesnake but in Egypt was a hooded cobra poised to strikethe central core of this strange contraption was recognisable as an example of the hedjetthe white skittle-shaped war helmet of upper Egypt again known only from reliefs. In several reliefs of the Seti I Temple Osiris was depicted wearing the Atef crown, which seemed to stand about two feet high. Then Ra proceeded to let out the pus and the blood. All this was stated in a Fingerprints of the Gods way, but-when you stopped to think about it-what kind of crown was it that radiated heat and caused the skin to haemorrhage and break out in pustulant sores? I walked on into the deeper darkness, eventually finding my way to Fingerprints of the Gods Gallery of the Kings. It led off from the eastern edge of the inner Hypostyle Hall about zoo feet from the entrance to the temple. To pass through the Gallery was to pass through time itself. On the wall to my left was a list of of the gods of Ancient Egypt, together with the names of their principal sanctuaries. On my right, covering an area of perhaps ten feet by six feet, were the names of the 76 pharaohs who had preceded Seti I to Fingerprints of the Gods throne; each name was carved in hieroglyphs inside an oval cartouche. Glowing with colours of molten gold, it was designed to be read from left to right and was divided into five vertical and three horizontal registers. At the extreme left stood two figures exquisitely carved in high relief: Seti and his young son, the future Ramesses II. Belonging to the same class of historical documents as the Turin Papyrus and the Palermo Stone, the list spoke eloquently of the continuity of tradition. An inherent part of that tradition, was the belief or memory of a First Time, long, long ago, when the gods had ruled in Egypt. And so it remained, out of sight and out of mind, until the beginning of the twentieth century, when the archaeologists Flinders Petrie and Margaret Murray began excavations. In their Fingerprints of the Gods of digging they uncovered parts of a hall and passageway, lying in the Fingerprints of the Gods about feet south-west of the Seti I Temple and built in the recognizable architectural style of the Nineteenth Dynasty. Shortage of cash, however, meant that their theory of a buried building was not tested until the digging season of Then, under the direction of Professor Naville of the Egypt Exploration Fund, a long transverse chamber was cleared, at the Fingerprints of the Gods of which, to the north- east, was found a massive stone gateway made up of cyclopean blocks of granite and sandstone. The next season,Naville and his team returned with local helpers and diligently cleared the whole of the huge underground building:. What we discovered [Naville wrote] is a gigantic construction of about feet in length and 60 in width, built with the most enormous stones that may be seen in Egypt. In the four sides of the enclosure walls are cells, 17 in number, of Fingerprints of the Gods height of a man and without ornamentation of any kind. The building itself is divided into three naves, the middle one being wider than those of the Fingerprints of the Gods the division is produced by two colonnades made of huge granite monoliths supporting architraves Fingerprints of the Gods equal size. The cells are connected by a narrow ledge between two and three feet wide; there is a ledge also on the opposite side of the nave, but no floor at all, and in digging to a depth of 12 feet we reached infiltrated water. Even below the great gateway there is no floor, and when there was water in front of it the cells were probably reached with a small boat. Water, water, everywhere-this seemed to be the theme of the Osireion, which lay at the bottom of the huge crater Yaville and his men had excavated in It was positioned some 50 feet below the level of the floor of the Seti I Temple, almost flush with the water-table, and was approached by a modern stairway curving down to the south-east. Having descended this stairway, I passed under Fingerprints of the Gods hulking lintel slabs of the great gateway Naville and Strabo had described and crossed a narrow wooden Fingerprints of the Gods modern-which brought me to a large sandstone plinth. Measuring about 80 feet in length by 40 in width, this plinth was composed of enormous paving blocks and was entirely surrounded by water. Two pools, one rectangular and the other square, had been cut into the plinth along the centre of its long axis and at either Fingerprints of the Gods stairways led down to a depth of about 12 feet below the water level. The plinth also supported the two massive colonnades Naville mentioned in his report, each of which consisted of five chunky rose-coloured granite monoliths Fingerprints of the Gods eight feet square by 12 feet high and weighing, on average, around tons. Plan of the Osireion. This exercise was assisted by the absence of the original roof which made it easier to envisage the whole edifice in plan. Looking down in this manner, it was immediately apparent that the plinth formed a rectangular island, surrounded on all four sides by a water-filled moat about 10 feet wide. The moat was contained by an immense, rectangular enclosure wall, no less than 20 feet thick[ 19 ] made of very large blocks of red sandstone disposed in polygonal jigsaw-puzzle patterns. Six lay to the east, six to the west, two to the south and three to the north. Off the central of the three northern cells lay a long transverse chamber, roofed with and composed of limestone. A similar transverse chamber, also of limestone but no longer with an intact roof, lay immediately south of the great gateway. Finally, the whole structure was enclosed within an outer wall of limestone, thus completing a sequence of inter-nested rectangles, i. Reconstruction of the Osireion. Another notable and outstandingly unusual feature of the Osireion was that it was not even approximately aligned to the cardinal points. Instead, like the Way of the Dead at Teotihuacan in Mexico, it was oriented to the east of due north. Since Ancient Egypt had been a civilization that could and normally did achieve precise alignments for its buildings, it seemed to me improbable that this apparently skewed orientation was accidental. Moreover, although 50 feet higher, the Seti I Temple was oriented along exactly the same axis-and again not by accident. The question was: which was the older building? Had the axis of the Osireion been predetermined by the axis of the Temple or vice versa? This, it turned out, was an issue over which considerable controversy, now long forgotten, had once raged. In a debate which had many connections with that surrounding the Sphinx and the Valley Temple at Giza, eminent archaeologists had initially argued that the Osireion was a building of truly immense antiquity, a view expressed by Professor Naville in the London Times of 10 March This monument raises several important questions. Fingerprints of the Gods to its date, its great similarity with the Temple of the Sphinx [as the Valley Temple was then known] shows it to be of the same epoch when building was made with enormous stones without any ornament. This is characteristic of the oldest architecture in Egypt. I should even say that we may call it the most ancient stone building Fingerprints of the Gods Egypt. Curious indeed, and well worth investigating further; something Naville hoped to do the following season. Unfortunately, the First World War intervened and no archaeology could be undertaken in Egypt for several years. As a result, it was not until that the Egypt Exploration Fund was able to send out another mission, which was led not by Naville but by a young Egyptologist named Henry Frankfort. Later to enjoy great prestige and Fingerprints of the Gods as professor of Pre-Classical Antiquity at the University of London, Frankfort spent several consecutive Fingerprints of the Gods seasons re-clearing Fingerprints of the Gods thoroughly excavating the Osireion between and The reader will recall the lemming behaviour which led to a dramatic change of scholarly opinion about the antiquity of the Sphinx and the Valley Temple due to the discovery of a few statues and a single cartouche which seemed to imply some sort of Fingerprints of the Gods with Khafre. Byit had been beamed forward in time to the reign of Seti I-around BC-whose cenotaph it was now believed to be. Within a decade, the standard Egyptological texts began to print the attribution to Seti I as though it were a fact, verifiable by experience or observation. The only facts are that certain inscriptions and decorations left by Seti appear in an otherwise completely anonymous structure. One plausible explanation is that the structure must have been built by Seti, as Frankfort proposed. What are the merits of these mutually contradictory propositions which identify the Osireion as a the oldest building in Egypt, and b a relatively late New Kingdom structure? Proposition b -that it is the cenotaph of Seti I-is the only attribution Fingerprints of the Gods by Egyptologists. On close inspection, however, it rests on the circumstantial evidence of the cartouches and inscriptions which prove nothing. And another awkward little matter has also been overlooked. She said. It was made for the celebration of the mysteries of Osiris, and so far is unique among all the surviving buildings of Egypt. It is clearly early, for the great blocks of which Fingerprints of the Gods is built are of the style of the Old Kingdom; the simplicity of the actual building also points Fingerprints of the Gods it being Fingerprints of the Gods that early Fingerprints of the Gods. The decoration was added by Seti I, who in that way laid claim to the building, but seeing how often a Pharaoh claimed the work of his predecessors by putting his name on Fingerprints of the Gods, this fact does not carry much weight. It is the style of the building, the type of the masonry, the tooling of the stone, and not the name of a king, which date a building in Egypt. Indeed it is not just a matter of the Nineteenth Dynasty. This handful of supposedly Old Kingdom structures, built out of giant megaliths, seems to belong in a unique category. They resemble one Fingerprints of the Gods much more than they resemble any other known style of architecture and in all cases there are question-marks over their identity. Before leaving Fingerprints of the Gods, there was one other puzzle that I wanted to remind myself of. It lay buried in the desert, about a kilometre north-west of the Osireion, across sands littered with the rolling, cluttered tumuli of ancient graveyards. Out among these cemeteries, many of which dated back to early dynastic and pre-dynastic times, the jackal gods Anubis and Upuaut had traditionally reigned supreme. Openers of the way, guardians of the spirits of the dead, I knew that they had played a central role in the mysteries of Osiris that had been enacted each year at Abydos-apparently throughout the span of Ancient Egyptian history. It seemed to me that there was a sense in which they guarded the mysteries still. For what was the Osireion if was not a Fingerprints of the Gods, unsolved mystery that deserved closer scrutiny than it has received from the scholars whose job it is to look into these matters? And what was the burial in the desert of twelve high-prowed, seagoing ships if not also a mystery that cried out, loudly, for solution? It was the burial place of those ships I was now crossing the cemeteries of the jackal gods to see:. Graham Hancock - Fingerprints of the Gods Audiobook

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Could the story of mankind be far older than we have previously believed? Using tools as varied as archaeo-astronomy, geology, and computer analysis of ancient myths, Graham Hancock presents a compelling case to suggest that it is. A record-breaking number one Fingerprints of the Gods in Britain, Fingerprints of the Gods contains the makings of an intellectual revolution, a dramatic and irreversible change in the way that we understand our past—and so our future. And Fingerprints of the Gods tells us something more. As we recover the truth about prehistory, and Fingerprints of the Gods the real meaning of ancient myths and monuments, it becomes apparent that a warning has been handed down Fingerprints of the Gods us, a warning of terrible cataclysm that afflicts the Earth in great cycles at irregular intervals of time—a cataclysm that may be about to recur. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Want to Read saving…. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. Other editions. Enlarge cover. Fingerprints of the Gods rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock. Santha Faiia Photographer. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. Published April 2nd by Three Rivers Press first published More Details Original Title. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Fingerprints of the Godsplease sign up. This book appears to be a spoof, a Fingerprints of the Gods. Does anyone know if the author is trying to be serious? For that matter, is anyone stupid enough to believe such anti science nonsense? Jane You appear to be looking for someone to argue with. Have you read the book? As a former scientist I can say with the utmost sincerity that scientists …more You appear to be looking for someone to argue with. As a former scientist I can say with the utmost sincerity that scientists do not, I repeat, do not know everything. The clarity of the interpretation of results is dependent upon the integrity of the primary investigator. You may want to rephrase your questions as they come off sounding 'trollish' and argumentative. See all 4 questions about Fingerprints of the Gods…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Nov 20, brendan rated it really liked it Recommends it for: Actually, everyone. Recommended to brendan by: Joanna. This text falls into the general category that your average reader is going to label as 'conspiracy theory. What people forget, is that Science, History, in fact all scholastic inquiry, is a conversation of published works proposing advances in research for other scholars to review and appraise. When the scholarly gestalt becomes so entrenched in the official HISTORY that they are no longer willing to entertain well-researched radical hypothesis then they become institutional hypocrites. Reader, please remember that the Academy provides one side of the story and someone else most certainly disowned or under respected by the status quo will provide another side of Fingerprints of the Gods coin. Chances are that the image of a coin is Fingerprints of the Gods terribly deficient symbol to accurately Fingerprints of the Gods the various reasonable hypothesis for any given Fingerprints of the Gods subject. Fingerprints of the Gods is one face on the cubic representation of the study of pre-history. Read the book; I implore you, and keep an open mind. Hancock's diction flows in a friendly and inviting manner. The research proceeds with the pace and encouragement of a ninth grade literature classic. This text offers an exciting summary of years of research into the past. Read the book, even if you don't agree, at least you can support your opinion with the information that on Fingerprints of the Gods you are willing to entertain radical Fingerprints of the Gods. View 2 comments. Jan 08, Hippocleides rated it did not like it. Now for what started out as a stream-of-consciousness criticism of Graham Hancock. Where Erich Von Daniken is goofy, Hancock is far more insidious. Having meandered through a great part of "Isis Unveiled" a year or two ago, I found some commonalities between Hancock and the old Theosophists like Madame Blavatsky. Not only do Fingerprints of the Gods hope to convince their readers through a doorstop of a volume filled with dubious facts and poor analysis, but they have that belief that humans of the most remote ancie Now for what started out Fingerprints of the Gods a Fingerprints of the Gods criticism of Graham Hancock. Not only do they hope to convince their readers through a doorstop of a volume filled with dubious facts and poor analysis, but they have that belief that humans of the most remote ancient times were far more advanced than we give them credit for--which, interestingly, is in opposition to the Ancient Aliens folks, who believe that ancient humans were far too simple to create anything on their own. While Hancock does often flirt with woo-woo he Fingerprints of the Gods the idea of the Pyramid stones being lifted by telepathy, for examplehe isn't one of those Ancient Aliens buffoons who go looking for helicopters and Fingerprints of the Gods bulbs in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics. Compared to other pseudoarchaeological works, Hancock's ideas about a globe-spanning, 10,year-old civilization are "grounded. Ironically what I see as one of Hancock's major failings is what he sees as the failings of archaeologists--they, along with most other scientists, are specific subject-matter experts who aren't necessarily as well-versed in astronomy, geology, astrology, drug use, etc. But Hancock is on the extreme other end of this Fingerprints of the Gods in terms of generalism vs specialism. Just like the ancient alien folks, he dances from site to site across the globe, failing to engage with the complex context thousands of incredibly mundane potsherds, village sites, and artifacts whose photos wouldn't sell books which provides us with the world history chronology we have today. This leads to, among Fingerprints of the Gods things, a deluge of flimsy, generic parallels drawn between the Old Kingdom Ancient Egyptians of around BC, for example, and Mesoamerican cultures who lived up to 3, years after them--with the flimsiest, briefest of justifications for doing so in the first place. So--the book itself. On my first attempt, I read only about eighty pages of it because of how dishonestly Hancock presents his case studies. He does absolutely zero justice Fingerprints of the Gods the orthodox explanations for his case studies such as the Piri Reis map ignoring such explanations as much as he mischaracterizes themso in order to actually get an accurate view of why archaeologists mysteriously don't believe the seemingly-logical statements Hancock has put forth, you need to go beyond Hancock's constant flippant descriptions of the orthodox archaeological community being some sort of modern-day Spanish Inquisition, and actually Fingerprints of the Gods what the context of these case studies is. For me, that meant having dozens of internet tabs and scholarly articles open while listening to a naively-enraptured Joe Rogan lapping this stuff up on his podcast. Suffice to Fingerprints of the Gods, I could only stomach so much of this before the irritation at Hancock's one-sided accounts of archaeological sites trumped the will to continue. Once you start actually double-checking this stuff, you start to feel much less like Hancock is approaching archaeology from a fresh new point of view, and more that you are being deceived. It is curious Fingerprints of the Gods Hancock often combats accusations of pseudoscience by stating that he is not a scientist--and yet he fills his books with tons of footnotes and complains about close-mindedness and conspiracy among orthodox archaeologists, two tools that make him seem like a rebellious alternative to orthodox scientific scrutiny. I have recently succeeded at finishing reading Fingerprints of the Gods book upon a second attempt, having created an impromptu book club with some friends of mine who are not historians and thus certainly more Fingerprints of the Gods than I. Our conclusions were surprising. The Piri Reis map stuff in the beginning of the book, which put me off of the first reading, is probably the "strongest" portion of the book. What occurs thereafter is a travelogue his sole claim to authority is personally visiting the sites--like thousands of other tourists every yearaccompanied by grotesque instances of supposition, misrepresentation, and obfuscation. Indeed, my friends started to lose interest in similar fashion to me during my first attempt. They were intrigued-but-disbelieving of Hancock's maps section which is the first part of the book, but once the travelogue began in earnest, they started noting a marked increase of logical fallacies and deceptions. After a couple hundred pages of this, the bullshit started becoming pedestrian, and distrust of the author suffocated much interest in continuing. I finished it, with the final hundred pages being pure torture, while both of my friends refused to devote more time to it and finish it. Suffice to say, the book is a bunch of hot garbage, and those who defend it, or state that Fingerprints of the Gods "survives their rigorous scrutiny," should be embarrassed. Forget scholarly texts-even cursory Wikipedia searches cast doubt on many of Hancock's statements, or exhibit how much information he Fingerprints of the Gods conveniently omitting. This book has pretty fantastic reviews here on Goodreads, which is as disappointing as it is unsurprising. I've often thought that there is some real hubris to those who unhesitantingly buy into, and champion, pseudoarchaeological or pseudohistorical works. I cannot help but imagine a group of people who always thought "mundane" history was boring when they were in grade school. Perhaps they had a poor social studies teacher or two. But then they come upon alternative theories that are far more interesting than the established orthodox views. Theories that allow them to think that not only do they rival the intelligence and education of the necktie-wearing stiffs up in the ivory towers of the college campuses--they surpass them in open-mindedness. Thorough knowledge of any part of the traditional historical context for the last years is not necessary as long as one can pretend that they're some sort of tragic brilliant Galileo figure against The Sheeple or The Establishment, man. They can't distinguish Corinth from Thebes, or Herodotus from Diodorus Siculus, but they'll be happy to tell you all about the Antikythera mechanism, because they get off on the trappings of having esoteric wisdom. They're only interested in ancient history inasmuch as their cult leaders relay it to them with a counter-cultural veneer. I've seen similar tendencies among ancient aliens fanatics--they'll state with wide-eyed confidence that Alexander the Great's army saw a UFO during the siege of Tyre in BC, but Fingerprints of the Gods can't tell you what else Alexander the Great did, where Tyre is, or what role either of them played throughout history. So there we are. Fingerprints of the Gods.