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Summary: It is a must read
Review: This book is changed my life. For me, it became a Bible. I have read it several times and have no doubt, it is the most exciting literature I have ever read. Since then I've explored Graham Hancock's all the other works about the same subject. I'm glad I discovered them.
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Summary: Unbiased Articulation
Review: I consider this a masterpiece of well documented information for every antropoligical student and those interested in learning more on originals and cultures. I find that the author presents his research with an unbiased approach. He articulates very well the different views of cultures from their way of though to influence in worldview in an unbiased way. Also he outlines the various issues and lets the reader decide. This book has greatly helped pull together the various puzzling findings from personal study and learning. Great book for everyone, specially to those who love cultures, history and languages.
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Summary: They all laughed at Christopher Columbus....
Review: History is full of examples of the disparagement of a new theory by entrenched academia. The theory of repeated ice-ages, the theory of tectonic plate movements, the theory that the earth is round and orbits the sun - I could go on all day. Every time, those who considered themselves the experts in these fields poured scorn and ridicule on whomever had the nerve to challenge the accepted wisdom. Reading some of these reviews, I see nothing much has changed. I would challenge the mockers to provide alternative theories for who made the ancient maps and the pyramids of Giza being linked to pi, which wasn't discovered until the Greeks (according to conventional wisdom). We'd have difficulty nowadays getting the architectural tolerances to be built into a six million ton, perfectly aligned, perfectly angled pyramid. I don't believe the Egyptians were capable of this degree of sophistication. I found this book to be un-putdownable. It was totally enthralling. There is too much in this world that has never been successfully explained. Von Daniken started the debate, but he was too strident. Hancock is a little repetitive, but he does succeed in making a very good case. I'd thoroughly recommend this book to anyone with an open mind.
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Summary: The Review By Trotta
Review: This book is class! it changed me totally it tells you about our forgotten past and reveals plenty of secrets but some of the secrets are quite hard to come to terms with such as the worlds gonna end by 2012 AD,the worst thing is that he backs up every thing with concrete evidence. See You All in Hell!
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Summary: Not bad for a joke book
Review: Please remember that Hancock is first and foremost a journalist. His scholarly credentials on ancient archaeology are highly questionable and his theories have been laughed out of academic circles.There is absolutely no evidence to support his assumptions, and enough has been written to refute Hancock that I won't try here except to say that this book is sure to appeal to those who want to believe and who are unfamiliar with the facts of anthropology and archaeology. The idea that ancient man had any help -- much less access to higher technology -- flies in the face of every dig in the Middle East and mocks the thousands of hard-working archaeologists engaged in legitimate work. Keep this one in the Joke Book stack because it doesn't deserve any better.
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Summary: Definately makes you think.
Review: When I first read this book, I was overjoyed. I had been doing a little research of my own into various incongruities of ancient myths and legends. Then, Fingerprints of the Gods came out and took everything I had researched about 10 steps further. Graham Hancock has managed to make this book both a great reference guide as well as a fascinating read. My copy is now stained, tattered, and highlighted, and I never want to give it up. I'd recommend this book to anyone.
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Summary: I take Credit Cards
Review: About 6000 years ago there was explosion of knowledge across the globe. Erich VanDaniken claims it could have come from aliens in "chariots of the gods". Now, we have Graham Hancock who says this knowledge must have been 'given to the world by a lost civilation', of wich he knows nothing about and rarely writes about. Whom this "3rd party" civilization is, was, or how it happened isnt mentioned either...
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Summary: Fascinating reading!
Review: I borrowed this book from the library and loved it so much that I have to buy it! Definately worth reading...
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Summary: Do unto others as you wan them to do unto you
Review: Yes there are lots of you who critisize, actually morons like you critisized just about anything or any book, well the same way you ask this authors for evidence, why dont you put some evidence that disproves the book of your own?? bah...it is easy to be a critic it is hard to do something, it is a FACT that college students who want to obtain a MAsters degree or perhaps a PHD not to mention people already established in public office at universities and other intitutions dont want to touch this type of subject why? well you gotta eat pay the rent and send yoour kinds to college, and to do that, if your boss tells you that the Matans were Stupid idiots savages who liked performing sacrificies I am quite sure that is what you gonna write and tell people about... Also many of you dont want to believe this pathetic World could come to an end and with it you small lives also, so its better to belive some GOOD GOD is out there some where looking over you and watching so that nothing bad happens....HAHA... I have not read this book but I reaad others by him and even if they are 60% right about what they say at least I get to see other posibilities, things that could have been, All yoou guys should get together and since you are SO intelligente build a pyramid bigger abd better than Giza because let me tell ya you got lots of things the little small primitive egyptians did not have such as trucks, airplains, cranes, computers......WOW lets go man lets build a Pyramid that will dwarf GYZA yuo can do it ..MORONS.. I am acimputer programmer in case you wonder my back ground and have lots of background in mathematics..
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Summary: Interesting but Poorly Written
Review: Graham Hancock succeeds in highlighting some curious aspects of ancient civilizations that seem to defy conventional thought on the antiquity of mathematics, astronomy, and architecture. His narrative loses more then it gains, however, because of poor writing and shoddy scholarship. A careful reading of the book, along with its footnotes, will highlight the decidedly unadvanced writing style of the author. It is apparent that Hancock does not know or follow the rules of citing references, as there are many statements of fact that should be cited that are not. Additionally his chapter on the ice ages and the end of the ice ages is filled with factual errors that significantly weaken his theory that ancient North Americans were continually subjected to earthquakes, volcanoes, and catastrophic floods which gave rise to great flood myths. Floods happened on millenial scales, not human scales, as melt water built up behind ice dams, and earthquakes were no more commen then they are today. Hancock goes on to make many more statements in this book that are either incorrect or not buttressed by his footnotes. His use of obsolete references coupled with overuse of a few sources detracts significantly from his work. Overall this book raises interesting notions but is so poorly written and filled with so many misreferenced or not referenced statements, not to mention some blatent factual errors, that it cannot be taken as a serious work of scholarship.
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