Books
about Sophisticated Ancients
Maps
of the Ancient Sea Kings by Charles Hapgod
"The
evidence presented by the ancient maps appears to suggest the existence in remote
times, before the
rise of any known cultures, of a true civilization,
of an advanced kind, which either was localised in one
area but had
worldwide commerce, or was, in a real sense, a worldwide culture."
This
classic 1966 book is back in print after 20 years. Hapgood produces concrete evidence
of an advanced world-wide civilization existing many thousands of years before
ancient Egypt. He shows us and deconstructs many beautiful maps like the Piri
Reis, Hadji Ahmed and Oronteus Fineaus. The Americas were mapped thousands of
years prior to Columbus. Antarctica was mapped when its coasts were free of ice.
The book that inspired Hancock and the Flem-Aths.
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The Piri Reis Map of 1513 by Gregory C. McIntosh & Norman J. W. Thrower
The authors are experts on antique maps. I've yet to hear anything else
about this book, feel free to contact
me if you have read it.
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Between
the Lines: The Mystery of the Giant Land Drawings of Nazca by Anthony F. Aveni
Writing for a wide public audience, Aveni begins by establishing the
Nazca Lines as a true wonder of the ancient world.
He describes how viewers across the centuries have tried to interpret the lines
and debunks the wilder theories. Then he vividly recounts his own years of exploration
at Nasca in collaboration with other investigators and the discoveries that have
answered many of the riddles about who made the Nasca Lines, when, and for what
purposes. This fascinating overview of what the leading expert and his colleagues
currently understand about the lines is required reading for everyone intrigued
by ancient mysteries.
Anthony F. Aveni is the Russell B. Colgate Professor
of Astronomy and Anthropology at Colgate University in New York. Available
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More excellent
books on the Nazca Lines:
"Markings:
Aerial Views of Sacred Landscapes"
by Marylin
Bridges, Maria Reiche & Lucy Lippard
"Lines to the Mountain Gods: Nazca and the Mysteries of Peru"
by Evan Haddingham
"Pathways to the Gods: The Mystery of the Nazca Lines"
by
Tony Morrison
"Archaeology & Pottery of Nazca, Peru: Alfred L. Kroeber's 1926 Expedition"
"The Lines of Nazca: Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society. Vol 183"
Edited by Anthony Aveni
"Broken Images: The Figured Lanscape of Nazca"
by David Parker
et al
"The Mysteries of the Andes"
by Robert Charroux
"The Mystery of the Nazca Lines"
by Tony Morrison
"The Nazca Lines: a new perspective on their origin and meaning"
by Johan Reinhard
Eden in the East : The Drowned Continent of Southeast Asia by Stephen
Oppenheimer
Physician Stephen Oppenheimer offers
scientific evidence that challenges the established and conventional view of prehistory--evidence
that relocates the "cradle of civilization" to Southeast Asia. Based on extensive
research in ethnography, archaeology, oceanography, mythology, linguistics, and
DNA analysis, this is a fascinating, ground-breaking study.
With a big
focus on global floods, and the myths of great floods - from every continent!
Available
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Technology of the Gods : The Incredible Secrets of the Ancients by David Hatcher
Childress
Popular Lost Cities author David Childress opens the door to
the amazing world of ancient technology, from the computers of the ancient world
to the "flying machines of the gods." Technology of the Gods explores the technology
that was allegedly used in Atlantis and the theory that the Great Pyramid of Egypt
was originally a gigantic power station. Childress also uncovers many other mysteries,
including:
*the technology of ancient flight
*how the ancients
used electricity
*megalithic building techniques
*the use of crystal
lenses and the fire from the gods
*ancient evidence of high-tech weapons,
including atomic weapons
*the role of modern inventors, such as Nikola Tesla,
in bringing ancient technology into modern use
*impossible artifacts,
and more, much more. Childress has done it again! From beginning to end,
Technology of the Gods is filled with facts, keen observations and tales that
challenge modern assumptions in a humorous, intelligent and compelling way that
is quintessential Childress.
Childress has written
many great books - great because they have lots of stories that you'd never
find in mainstream works, yet are not make-believe like the von Daniken types
churn out.
A
Hitchhiker's Guide to Armageddon
Lost
Cities and Ancient Mysteries of South America
Lost
Cities of North and Central America
Lost
Cities of Africa and Arabia
Lost
Cities of Atlantis Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean
Lost
Cities of Ancient Lemuria and the Pacific
Lost
Cities of China, Central Asia and India
Ancient
Micronesia & the Lost City of Nan Madol : Including Palau, Yap, Kosrae, Chuuk
& the Marianas
Vimana
Aircraft of Ancient India and Atlantis
Ancient
Tonga & the Lost City of Mu'a : Including Samoa, Fiji, & Rarotongan
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Fingerprints
of the Gods by Graham Hancock The bestselling author
of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting
puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence
of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and
obliterated from human memory.
In ancient ruins as
far apart as Egypt's Great Sphinx, the strange Andean Temples at Tiahuanaco and
Mexico's awe-inspiring Pyramids of the Sun and Moon, he reveals not only the clear
fingerprints of an unknown people who flourished in the last ice age, but also
disquieting signs of high intelligence, technological sophistication and detailed
scientific knowledge of the cosmos eons before any previously known civilisation.
Hancock ties the new evidence together by way of the
theories of Rand and Rose Flem-Ath, who, after Charles Hapgood, studied
medieval maps that show how the earth would have looked 12,000 years ago. And
he uses the most up-to-date techniques of geology and astronomy to show that the
conventionally accepted dating of a number of archaeological sites around the
world cannot possibly be correct - they must be far older than previously thought.
But there is something more, a warning maybe. Some
of the most disturbing issues raised by Fingerprints of the Gods concern the type
and extent of planetary catastrophe that would have had to occur in order to obliterate
almost all traces of a large civilisation. The evidence for such a catastrophe,
and indeed more than one of them is surprisingly strong.
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Heaven's
Mirror : Quest for the Lost Civilization by Graham Hancock & Santha Faiia
In Heaven's Mirror, author Graham Hancock continues
the quest begun in his Fingerprints of the Gods to rediscover the hidden legacy
of mankind - the revelation that the cultures we refer to as ancient were, in
fact, the heirs to a far older forgotten civilization and the inheritors of its
archaic, mystical wisdom. Working with photographer Santha Faiia, Hancock traces
a network of sacred sites around the globe on a spectacular voyage of discovery
that takes us from the pyramids and temples of ancient Egypt to the enigmatic
statues of Easter Island, from the haunting ruins of pre-Columbian America to
the splendors of Angkor Wat, in order to crack the code of our lost ancestors
.
250 color illustrations. 5 maps. 50 diagrams
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Underworld
by Graham Hancock New in 2002, this large book presents
evidence for Hancock's theory that evidence of many advanced ancient civilizations
lies beneath the sea. He spent many years diving off the coasts of India, Malta
and Japan. A spin-off from the Channel 4 TV series of the same name, it reached
#1 in the UK Non-Fiction Bestseller charts
.
Hardcover - 752 pages
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The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgley
A
powerful but polemical tract on behalf of prehistoric culture, intended to show
the importance and relatively advanced nature of Stone Age civilization. Rudgley
(Stone Age Studies/Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Univ.) points out that although
95 percent of humanitys time on the planet preceded the dawn of history, prehistory
has received 5 percent (or less) of scholarly attention. Here he sets about to
rectify things. The author demonstrates at length that the rudiments of civilization,
ranging from astronomy, mathematics, and art to pottery, dentistry, and accounting,
originated in Neolithic cultures.
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Atlantis
in Wisconsin : New Revelations About the Lost Sunken City by Frank Joseph
Somebody excavated half a billion pounds of the
world's highest grade copper from the Upper Great Lakes at the same time Europe
erupted into the Bronze Age. Between both continents, the island of Atlantis was
described by the Greek philosopher, Plato, as rich in mineral wealth. In this
sequel to The Lost Pyramids of Rock Lake, read the untold story of the Ancient
World's greatest mystery.
Illustrated, 204 pp
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Vinland
Sagas : Norse Discovery of America by Magnus Magnusson (Translator)
"The Vinland Sagas" brings together English
translations of two medieval Icelandic sagas: "Graenlendiga Saga" and
"Eirik's Saga." These tales tell the story of the discovery and exploration
of North America by the Norsemen in the 10th and 11th centuries. Together, they
offer fascinating glimpses into a remarkable era in the history of the Americas.
Translators Magnus Magnusson and Hermann Palsson have also
produced a thorough 37-page introduction which discusses the archeological evidence
for the medieval Norse presence in the Americas, the historical development of
the sagas themselves, and the evolution of the saga as a unique genre of literature.
Maps, a chronology, and other resources further enhance this book's usefulness
for students and teachers.
But don't let the scholarly
apparatus fool you into thinking that "The Vinland Sagas" is just a
text for the classroom. The sagas themselves, likely written in the 12th and 13th
centuries, are still great reading all these hundreds of years later. With their
simple, no-nonsense prose style, along with the presence of characters with such
names as "Thorhall the Hunter" and "Aud the Deep-Minded,"
the sagas have a truly unique quality.
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The Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age by Richard Rudgley
A
powerful but polemical tract on behalf of prehistoric culture, intended to show
the importance and relatively advanced nature of Stone Age civilization. Rudgley
(Stone Age Studies/Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford Univ.) points out that although
95 percent of humanitys time on the planet preceded the dawn of history, prehistory
has received 5 percent (or less) of scholarly attention. Here he sets about to
rectify things. The author demonstrates at length that the rudiments of civilization,
ranging from astronomy, mathematics, and art to pottery, dentistry, and accounting,
originated in Neolithic cultures.
Available
cheaper from Amazon or other
bookstores
Forbidden
Archeology by Michael Cremo and Richard Thompson This
pair of scientists spent several years studying material on human origins. The
result was this book, published in 1993. It is an exhaustive study (over 900 pages)
of the history of palaeoanthropology. They assert that man has been around for
more than 10 million years, and show all the evidence that mainstream science
has chosen to ignore. This book caused much controversy...
Available
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Atlantis in America : Navigators of the Ancient World by Ivar Zapp & George
Erikson
Reviewer: A reader from Rome-Italy.
Starting
from the enigma of the strange stone spheres of Costa Rica, the book guides you
through a surprisingly new approach about the origins of our civilization. Every
part fits into an intricated puzzle of events, phisical evidences, ancient traditions
and knowledge, to form an entire new picture of the history of mankind. The book
goes far beyond the "Atlantis" theme and, whether or not you are interested in
the argument, you will certainly find a lot matters to think about. A very stimulating
investigation! Available
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They
Came Before Columbus by Ivan. Van Sertima
This controversial book
by Ivan Van Sertima, the Guyanese historian, linguist, and anthropologist, claims
that Africans had been to the New World centuries before Columbus arrived there
in 1492. Citing--among other things--the huge Negroid-looking Olmec heads of Central
Mexico and the similarities between the Aztec and Egyptian calendars and pyramid
structures, Van Sertima pieces together a hidden history of pre-Columbian contact
between Africans and Native Americans. He also puts forth the possibility that
Columbus may have already known about a route to the Americas from his years in
Africa as a trader in Guinea. The ideas in this book have been debated and discussed
since its first publication in 1976; even those who choose not to believe Van
Sertima's theories should take his argument seriously. Available
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The Chinese Roswell : Ufo Encounters in the Far East by Hartwig Hausdorf
This is a translation into English of a German text by Hartwig Hausdorf that
clearly and concisely describes his investigations into unexplained mysteries
of the Far East. Hausdorf's fascinating descriptions include unusually marked
stone disks found in the Bayan Kara Ula Mountains, the probable existence of Shangri-La,
a 1,000 foot white pyramid in Xian, the origins of the mythology of great winged
dragons, and modern day sightings of possible extraterrestial craft.
I've mainly included this in here due to frustration - the more appropriate books
(here
and here)
purely on the Chinese Pyramids are only available in German. Available
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Warriors
of the Clouds : A Lost Civilization in the Upper Amazon of Peru by Keith Muscutt
A reader from Beverly Hills, Ca:
" I was looking for information
on Machu Picchu, when I came across this gem. The cover stirred up fantasies of
Shangrila. I was intrigued, ordered it, and was delighted.This is a photographic
exploration of Kuelap, a mysterious citadel in the high Andes, discovered seventy
years before Machu Picchu. The Chachapoya, or Cloud People (understandably so-called)
were the inahabitants of this remote and inaccessible area.Keith Muscutt has provided
a detailed and interesting text to accompany this visual feast. He photographs
the present inhabitants of the region, supposedly the ancestors of the builders
of Kuelap. Perhaps or perhaps not, but interesting anyway.The photographs of tombs
built vertically in the cliff side are indescribable. All in all I highly recommend
this, whether the interest is information or pleasure. Both are to be found in
these pages. Thorough and interesting and visually beautiful." Available
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Quest for the Lost Civilization - Boxed Set... hosted by Graham Hancock
In this set of three videotapes, writer Graham Hancock traverses the world
and explains his controversial theory that an ancient civilization, highly intelligent
people who sailed the planet as early as 10,500 B.C., spread advanced astronomical
knowledge and built ancient observatories. Skeptics may scoff, but Hancock earnestly
points out similarities in giant stone structures in the Egyptian desert and Cambodian
jungles, and on Easter Island and in Micronesia, he points out what he considers
evidence of an ancient society of seafarers. His ideas may seem utterly bizarre
at first, but Hancock presents them in an understated and good-natured manner,
and he also makes clever use of computer graphics and aerial photography to illustrate
the startling similarities in ancient structures found from the North Atlantic
to the South Pacific. At times the three documentaries overlap, and at times they
seem like one long program rather than three separate presentations. But throughout,
Hancock raises some puzzling questions, and even if you don't buy his arguments,
bolstered though they are by mathematical equations and astronomical diagrams,
the Quest for the Lost Civilization is an entertaining mixture of archaeology,
astronomy, and speculation
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Mysterious Origins of Man, Volumes 1-3 - Hosted by Charleton Heston
Controversial program that screened on NBC, a companion piece to Forbidden Archeology.
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