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Graham Hancock – FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS

Contents

Contents .......................................................................................................................5
Acknowledgements......................................................................................................10
Part I ...........................................................................................................................12
Chapter 1 ................................................................................................................13
Ancient sources ...................................................................................................14
A man ahead of his time ......................................................................................19
Piri Reis and his sources.......................................................................................21
Legacy of a lost civilization? .................................................................................21
Chapter 2 ................................................................................................................23
Ross Sea ..............................................................................................................24
Mercator and Buache............................................................................................25
The epoch of the map-makers..............................................................................27
South America......................................................................................................31
Sea levels and ice ages.........................................................................................32
Chapter 3 ................................................................................................................35
The mysteries of longitude...................................................................................35
Precision instruments...........................................................................................38
The lost mathematicians ......................................................................................39
Part II ..........................................................................................................................42
Chapter 4 ................................................................................................................43
The riddle of the lines ..........................................................................................43
Linemakers, map-makers .....................................................................................48
Chapter 5 ................................................................................................................50
‘Foam of the Sea’ .................................................................................................50
Citadel of Viracocha .............................................................................................51
The bearded stranger...........................................................................................52
Chapter 6 ................................................................................................................54
Civilizing mission.................................................................................................56
The work of demons?...........................................................................................57
Chapter 7 ................................................................................................................60
Casting down the giants.......................................................................................60
Ancient traditions ................................................................................................62
Time capsule........................................................................................................63
Machu Picchu dreaming .......................................................................................64
Jigsaw puzzle.......................................................................................................66
Chapter 8 ................................................................................................................68
Rumours of a cataclysm .......................................................................................69
Chapter 9 ................................................................................................................73
Boats, water and salvation....................................................................................73
Reed boats of Suriqui ...........................................................................................75
Road to Tiahuanaco ... .........................................................................................76
Chapter 10 ..............................................................................................................77
Sunken temple .....................................................................................................78
Pyramid ...............................................................................................................79
Gateway of the Sun ..............................................................................................81
Chapter 11 ..............................................................................................................83
Fish-garbed figures ..............................................................................................85
Images of extinct species.....................................................................................87
Chapter 12 ..............................................................................................................92

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