Page 453 - Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

According to the earth-crust displacement theory, large parts of
Antarctica were positioned outside the Antarctic circle prior to 15,000
BC and thus could have been inhabited, with a climate and resources
suitable for the development of civilization. A cataclysmic slippage of
the crust then shifted the continent to the position it occupies
today—dead centre within the Antarctic circle.
Suppose that, before the displacement of the earth’s crust, a great
civilization had grown up in Antarctica, when much of it was located at
green and pleasant latitudes? If so, that civilization might easily have
been destroyed by the effects of the displacement: the tidal waves, the
hurricane-force winds and electric storms, the volcanic eruptions as
seismic faults split open all around the planet, the darkened skies, and
the remorselessly expanding ice-cap. Moreover, as the millennia passed,
the ruins left behind—the cities, the monuments, the great libraries, and
the engineering works of the destroyed civilization—would have been
ever more deeply buried beneath the mantle of ice.
Little wonder, if the earth-crust displacement theory is correct, that all
that can be found today, scattered around the world, are the tantalizing
fingerprints of the gods. These would be the traces, the echoes of the
works and deeds, the much misunderstood teachings and the
geometrical edifices left behind by the few survivors of Antarctica’s

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