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Summary: Great information, but sometimes confusing to the layman
Review: I read this book with great interest. I am a fan of Mr. Hancock's work since reading Fingerprints of the God's. I have always been one who has sought out different theories especially when surrounded by the narrow minded. I have worked with archeologists over the years and find them very narrow minded overall. Many just parrot what they have been taught. I feel very strongly this "blinds" them to looking at things from different angles just as Mr. Hancock and others (Richard Hoagland, Charles Hapgood, etc) have. Just like Robin Williams did in Dead Poets Society, you have to get up on the desk and get a new perspective on the facts. Mr. Hancock does just that. He is putting together the great global picture puzzle of our past and its starting to come into focus. Its rather ironic that he's a journalist not an archeologist. I hope more scientist will begin to investigate his findings if for no other reason than to try to disprove him. As for this particular book I did enjoy reading it however it often times left me in the dust with the details. I think better diagrams and more of them may have helped. Being a visual person I have to see the spacial relationships in an illustration in order to understand the text. Otherwise as usual Mr. Hancock makes his point, gives the facts, and let's the reader decide. Well done.
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Summary: Highly believable, very compelling and excellent.
Review: The conspiracy theory the author presents seems a touch paranoid, concentrate instead on the vast ingenuity these ancient people displayed, the idea of creating an earthly replica of the heavens is stunning and beyond monumental. The book literally rearranges the chronology of Mankind and shows that we could all be much older and much wiser than we ever gave ourselves credit for.
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Summary: Great and Compelling yet misunderstood
Review: This book is filled with a lot of evidence supporting MR. Hancock's theory of an ancient civilization. He presents his evidence and lets you decide. But readers criticize him for having some outlandish theories. The point of the book is not to get to believe everything he says but rather to get you interested in what he has to say. His entire purpose (as in ALL his books)is get the readers to question conventional wisdom as he has done, and I believe he has done a very good job. Even if you don't believe what he has to say there is still a lot of interesting info on ancient Egypt.
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Summary: Interesting and factual
Review: I found this book very factual. Its a perfect book as it puts forth a convincing scientific argument on the existance of a Civilization long before current recorded history says - in agreement with an earlier book of Hancock's (Fingerprints of the Gods). It however amazes me that the authors did not link the two books together in some way apart from both the books mentioning the possible existance of an advanced civilization around 10,000 BC. One of the Apendices to the book talks about the discovery of Pyramid and Sphinx like structures on Mars surface by probes sent there by NASA. Guess I'll have to read Mars Mystery to get that part of the authors' argument.
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Summary: Getting closer to the truth...
Review: Interesting reading material. Yet the last piece of the jigsaw puzzle is still missing. Personally speaking, I believe it can be found and will. However I don't believe its in written text. I believe it will come via the subconscious mind if the body is correctly placed in an energy field within the sphynx. I am a clairvoyant from Durban S. Africa.
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Summary: Provocative
Review: Thoroughly provocative - challenging the entire model of ancient history and what we think we know about human achievements over the past 6,000 years. Some of his theories could use serious and sober second thought (e.g. the Giza configuation as a mirror of Orions' belt) and a little more science. In fact the whole book requires some rigorous egyptological analysis based on 20th century discovery. But I have to say that the book challenges our models and for that fact alone we need to pay attention to its conclusions. Intellectual challenge is important and throws the ball back at people like Mark Lerner.
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Summary: Great and Interesting read
Review: I had purchased this book after skimming the first chapter at a local bookstore. A great read with quite a lot of information and interesting tidbits. A great read!
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Summary: Worth buying and reading!
Review: I found this hardback in a small 'book nook' type place, skimmed the first chapter and immediately purchased it. The authors do a first rate job in bringing together multi-disciplinary evidence and presenting it in an exceedingly easy to read manner. Not that they 'dumb down' the data. Rather, that they use a 'front-porch swing' conversational tone, such that even a lowly high school graduate like me can understand what could be highly technical information. They make a very convincing case for heretofore unknown civilization(s). As for those who lump Hancock/Bauval with the people who search for Atlantis, I say, "Copernicus. The Church. Who's laughing now?"
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Summary: Bravo to Hancock! and those like him.
Review: My hat is off to this author for at least trying to get us to look at other possibilities! Some do it with non-fiction like Hancock, others are forced to cloak it under the veil of 'fiction'. Try reading Robert Doherty's AREA 51 and AREA 51 THE REPLY. I'm looking forward to the rest of the books in that series as well as Hancock's next.
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Summary: Fascinating and entertaining
Review: This is an absolutely delightful and fascinating synthesis of geological,astonomical and archaelogical evidence. It is a bold attempt to debunk the conventional and traditional view that the structures on the Giza plateau are only the funerary tombs of dead kings. By publishing the book in popular motif, Hancock and Bauval have succeeded in breaking through the arrogance and stuffiness of heavy structured academic form and argument and this makes the book entertaining and wonderful to read. I appaud the authors in not reaching too far into the speculative and sticking to the evidence through a multi-discilinary synthesis. I'm looking forward to Hancock's new book on his on-going quest for lost civilisations. The two authors make a wonderful team.
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