Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock traveled from the pyramids of Giza to the ruins of Tiwanaku chasing a single question. What if an advanced civilization flourished before the end of the last Ice Age and was destroyed in a global cataclysm? He reads ancient maps, myths, and monumental alignments as surviving fingerprints of that lost culture. Academic archaeology rejects the thesis, and readers should treat it as speculation rather than settled history. As a piece of adventurous argument it is hugely readable, and it set the agenda for decades of alternative history debate.