Author, Graham Hancock traverses
the world and explains his controversial
theory that an ancient civilization of 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.
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.