The book does get a bit tedious and overlong at times, particularly in the sections on comets and geology. I thought one of the most interesting things I learned was that the Egyptian God of wisdom and writing Thoth was given his teachings by 7 men, the Magicians. I enjoyed Hancock's accounts of the various sites in south America, Baalbek and Gobekli Tepi. ![]() Hancock never misses an opportunity to trumpet all the occasions in which he has been proven right since "Fingerprints of the Gods" While Hancock's fervour is understandable it comes of as somewhat unprofessional when he uses favourable adjectives for scholars he agrees with and stops just short of name calling for the mainstream. He is certainly right in questioning Egyptology, a branch of Science so closed off and unaccountable it barely deserves to be called as such. He practically sneers every time he says the words "mainstream archaeology" or "mainstream Egyptology". Hancock is a passionate writer and reader of his writing in the audiobook. He writes a sort of first person travelogue as he investigates, drawing the reader in to the discovery. Hancock is a skilled writer and endeavours to take the reader along with him as he visits these ancient sites, Gobekli Tepi as well as sites I had not heard of such as Baalbek in Lebanon and Gunung Padang in Indonesia. The keepers of this ancient knowledge are Hancock's titular "Magicians". We might as well use "the A word" and say Atlantis. That humanity had achieved a certain level of technology before the end of the last ice age and that rising sea levels and climate change decimated this society and forced it to slowly rebuild. Cue Georgio - "IT WAS ALIENS BRO".Ī much more logical interpretation is that civilisation did not evolve linearly. If you've ever watched an episode of "Ancient Aliens" you know that the further back we go in Egypt's history, the more advanced the architecture and craftsmanship were, while in dynastic Egypt the buildings and art were much cruder. Hancock's previous book "Fingerprints of the Gods" expounds on the research of John Anthony West, that Egypt is much older than previously believed. The continued excavation of the greatest modern archaeological discovery, the temple Gobekli Tepi in Turkey (built around 12000 years ago), at a time when humans were supposed to be primitive hunter gatherers only supports this theory further. There is also plenty of evidence showing the sphinx was being restored in 2500BC when it was supposedly brand new. The premise of West and Schoch's research is that the body of the Sphinx and the Sphinx enclosure bare the unmistakable marks of rain erosion not sand erosion and thus that the Sphinx could not have been built in 2500BC as conventional Egyptology tells us but dates to a much older time when Egypt was rain forest, to at least 9700BC. Also worth watching are the "Magical Egypt" series from JA West and "The Pyramid Code" on Netflix that features Hancock. ![]() ![]() Other than a highly unfortunate detour into "the face on Mars" it remains an excellent documentary, narrated by Charlton Heston. If you are not, watch the documentary "The Mystery of the sphinx" on Youtube. If you are familiar with the research of Hancock, John Anthony West and geologist Robert Schoch this will come as no surprise. Civilisation is much older than it appears, or as Hancock loves to point out "stuff just keeps on getting older".
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