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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization |
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Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
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Manufacturer: Crown
Author: Graham Hancock
Binding: Hardcover
Publication Date: 2002-10-15
Publisher: Crown
Label: Crown
Number Of Pages: 784
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Editorial Review:
From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that’s been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world’s oceans.
While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found.
Guided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. As the glaciers melted between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago, sea levels rose and more than 15 million square miles of habitable land were submerged underwater, resulting in a radical change to the Earth’s shape and the conditions in which people could live. Using the latest computer techniques to map the world’s changing coastlines, Hancock finds astonishing correspondences with the ancient flood myths.
Filled with thrilling accounts of his own participation in dives off the coast of Japan, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Arabian Sea, we watch as Hancock discovers underwater ruins exactly where the myths say they should be—sunken kingdoms that archaeologists never thought existed. Fans of Hancock’s previous adventures will find themselves immersed in Underworld, a provocative book that provides both compelling hard evidence for a fascinating, forgotten episode in human history and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilization as we know it.
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Another amazing book from Graham Hancock  2008-06-25
Graham Hanock continues to blow my mind with his brilliant deductions, make you open up for possibilites outside the box. I had first heard about the mindblowing underwater monuments off the Japanese coast. I couldn't put the book down and three of my other family members were pulled into the earthshattering theories that truly make you rethink what exactly occurred in our very ancient past. I couldn't put it down and grew nearly intoxicated on all of the amazing possibilites those monument signfies. I recommen it you can keep an open mind this book will impress and inspire thought for you as wall
Backs up his alternative history with lots of facts and photos  2007-11-17
The photos of underwater dives are what originally interested me in buying the book. Hancock's thorough method of gathering facts to support his version of history are what made me a believer. He inspired me to use my skills in satellite imagery analysis to search for proof from above that civilization is much older than is commonly thought. My search resulted in a book Noah's Ark, Discovering the Science of Man's Oldest Mystery that offers amazing proof that both supports and expands Graham's book.
Long but very important book 2007-04-18
I believe this is a far more important book than most people realize. While the author suffers from a lack of editing and brevity, he more than makes up for it in his subject selection and hands-on detective work. I read the entire book and it was a detailed, highly convincing argument that mankind has done a really slipshod job of investigating our history in terms of looking at the oceans of the world.
I thought the photographs in the book were fantastic and my only complaint is that there weren't more of them! Especially interesting were the underwater photos of Yonaguni which I find almost impossible to believe could be natural phenomena. I wish Mr. Hancock had also put together a DVD release of this material as I think that the actual pictures tell a story that the written word itself can hardly match. The author does actually mention the difficulty of underwater photography in the various locations he travels and this is part of the importance of the book; that is, that we need advances in our ability to image places we are investigating in order to tell the story to the public and thereby capture both imagination and funding in order to continue exploring the hidden history of mankind.
Those who gave this book bad reviews are ignoring the fact that, to my knowledge, modern history has absolutely no explanation at all for formations like Yonaguni, if it is indeed man-made. The author's book is, as far as I can tell, one of the only attempts to provide any kind of real explanation for this. Yonaguni is an anomaly whose only other explanation (that it is a natural formation) is almost impossible to believe.
With some additional editing, etc., in a second edition, this book could easily rate five stars. And the subject matter is important enough that it needs to.
Underworld 2007-03-09
As Far as I know no one else has informed us about all of these underwater places where people, at one time, lived. As always Handcock makes you think.
Drivel  2007-02-14
These books are nonsense. Any books whose titles include any of the words 'mysterious', 'secrets', 'Templar', 'alien', 'code', 'supernatural', 'mythic', 'cosmic', are just giving away the fact that they are unscientific rubbish. They are based on wishes and dreams, but we should all know that children wish, adults decide.
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