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. Four 8-page photo inserts.
Chapter 1. A Map of Hidden Places
Chapter 2. Rivers in the Southern Continent
Chapter 3. Fingerprints of a Lost Science
Chapter 4. Flight of the Condor
Chapter 5. The Inca Trail to the Past
Chapter 6. He Came in a Time of Chaos
Chapter 7. Were There Giants Then?
Chapter 8. The Lake at the Roof of the World
Chapter 9. Once and Future King
Chapter 10. The City at the Gate of the Sun
Chapter 11. Intimations of Antiquity
Chapter 12. The End of the Viracochas
Chapter 13. Blood and Time at the End of the World
Chapter 14. People of the Serpent
Chapter 18. Conspicuous Strangers
Chapter 19. Adventures in the Underworld, Journeys to the Stars
Chapter 20. Children of the First Men
Chapter 21. A Computer for Calculating the End of the World
Chapter 23. The Sun and the Moon and the Way of the Dead
Chapter 24. Echoes of Our Dreams
Chapter 25. The Many Masks of the Apocalypse
Chapter 26. A Species Born in the Earth’s Long Winter
Chapter 27. The Face of the Earth was Darkened and a Black Rain Began to Fall
Chapter 28. The Machinery of Heaven
Chapter 29. The First Crack in an Ancient Code
Chapter 30. The Cosmic Tree and the Mill of the Gods
Chapter 31. The Osiris Numbers
Chapter 32. Speaking to the Unborn
Chapter 34. Mansion of Eternity
Chapter 35. Tombs and Tombs Only?
Chapter 38. Interactive Three-Dimensional Game
Chapter 39. Place of the Beginning
Chapter 40. Are There Any Secrets Left in Egypt?
Chapter 41. City of the Sun, Chamber of the Jackal
Chapter 42. Anachronisms and Enigmas
Chapter 43. Looking for the First Time
Chapter 44. Gods of the First Time
Chapter 45. The Works of Men and Gods
Chapter 46. The Eleventh Millennium BC
Chapter 49. The Power of the Thing
Chapter 50. Not a Needle in a Haystack
Chapter 51. The Hammer and the Pendulum
Chapter 52. Like a Thief in the Night