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Title: Heaven's Mirror : Quest for the Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock ISBN: 0-609-80477-4 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 26 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (49 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Bring A Calculator.
Comment: Hancock's basic premise is that an ancient civilization built monuments around the world that are astronomically aligned to the year 10,500BC (thus backdating human history several thousand years.) And somehow these monuments are linked to the search for immortality.
Hancock and his wife travel around the world and try to tie a lot of historical sites together with magic numbers (72 being the most prevalent but any even number being almost as good.) The problem I had was that the linking of the monuments to stars degrades as the book moves along. The link is clear in Egypt, possibly present in Mexico, requires squinting in Cambodia, and then devolves to a lot of "as ifs" and "rough alignments".
The pictures in the book are pretty even if they don't always offer the clearest view of the idea the book is trying to convey. Most of the diagrams involving star alignments are oversimplified and practically useless.
This book barely advances the ideas put forth in "Fingerprints of the Gods". It mainly takes the format of "Message of the Sphinx" and applies it to other mysterious places around the earth.
Rating: 5
Summary: A new theory of Ancient Civilization which merits attention
Comment: This is no mere picture book and Hancock is no Velikovsky. This book has a message of pivotal importance to all humans. It rolls back the horizon of human knowledge to unknown epochs, to a prior high-civilization with technological skills we may not even possess today. Hancock's claim is no less than that. He proves that the monumental layouts of ancient Tiwanaku, Gizeh and Ankor are actually based on star-patterns from 10,500 B.C. and that they contain the coded numbers of the earth's 26,000 year precessional zodiac cycle. Talk about ante-diluvian amnesia! If this theory is correct, then a high civilization existed at or before the 11th Millennium B.C., located in the equatorial regions, with the ability to travel world-wide, while most other humans were still in the stone age. One may ask why are there no inscriptions in stone from this civilization? That mystery may be resolved in due course. More importantly, I think this basic hypothesis is very plausible. With new dating techniques, we must now reevaluate the entire basis of pre-history which, until now, been based on stale eurocentric + mid-eastern cultural preconceptions limited to notions about ice caps and Cro-Magnons inexplicably leading to the rise of the Sumerians, Babylonians, through a series of Indus valley migrations. These findings will surely force the world's archeologists to reappraise those areas of the planet not covered by ice in the period 20,000 to 10,000 BC. I predict that the impact of this theory over the long term may mirror that of Darwin's Origin of the Species. Heaven's Mirror is a disturbing master-work in every respect. My sincere wish is that conventional archeologists should hold back from scorning Mr. Hancock. I ask them to open up to the new evidence with equanimity and address it with a scientific rather than emotive response.
Rating: 5
Summary: Fascinating for history buffs and window shoppers alike
Comment: What Hancock and Faiia do in this book is, in my opinion, amazing. Not only is this book beautifully illustrated, it does what few books can - it teaches us the history of various cultures, AND keeps us interested at the same time, with fascinating theories and factual evidence that is hard to dispute. I actually felt chills when the authors presented the relationship of the various sites on the globe to one another. The two achieve seemless transition and the book is divided very usefully into "parts" based on each civilization. Well worth the read, even if you have a busy schedule
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Title: Underworld : The Mysterious Origins of Civilization by Graham Hancock ISBN: 1400046122 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Fingerprints of the Gods : The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock ISBN: 0517887290 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 02 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Message of the Sphinx : A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind by Robert Bauval, Graham Hancock ISBN: 0517888521 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 27 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Mars Mystery : The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet by Graham Hancock ISBN: 0609802232 Publisher: Three Rivers Press Pub. Date: 07 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings: Evidence of Advanced Civilization in the Ice Age by Charles H. Hapgood ISBN: 0932813429 Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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