- Paperback: 624 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd (5 Dec 1996)
- ISBN-10: 0099429381
- ISBN-13: 978-0099429388
- Product Dimensions: 17 x 10.6 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (35 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 380,151 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is fantastic. Not for those with closed minds, to be sure, but for anyone with an interest in the pyramids, Atlantis, the Incas or the Aztecs or who finds the idea that Western science knows the answers depressing this is essential reading. I have read and re-read this book a dozen times and still have no idea how much of Hancock's theory I believe. But at the end of the day, it's intriguing and, dare I say it, entertaining.
The book opens with mediaeval maps which accurately depict the coastline of Antartica, despite the fact that it's been under miles of ice since the dawn of history. Rattling through flood myths which are pretty much identical all over the world, the mysteries of the lines on the Nazca plain, harbours built miles from the coast, pyramids that we could not build today, the precession of the equinoxes and much more Hancock reaches his conclusion in breathless style. (I would say that the conclusion is startling, but you do pretty much see where he's headed from the off.)
Some people will dismiss the whole book as bunkum, saying that you can twist the facts and suppositions to fit whatever theories you like. And they may well be right. But unlike other books which put the pyramids down to little green men from mars or magic, Hancock offers us a more convincing explanation. Even if you accept the 'conventional' ages of the pyramids, then I just cannot understand why the later ones are falling down while the oldest are still in pretty much perfect nick. The story of civilisations all over the world is that we get better at things as time goes on, not worse.
A fascinating and thought provoking read, with a sobering conclusion. Anyone for an end of the world party round at mine in 2012?
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Fingerprints of the Gods seems to be the type of book that is either loved or loathed, either convincing people utterly, or leaving them mocking its credibility. I don't particularly stand in either camp.
Although many of the theories are interesting, and even possible, they are probably not the answers to the mysteries highlighted and the questions asked. Just because there are flaws in accepted Egyptology, that does not mean that a race of super humans built the pyramids.
Hancock raises some very good points, and finds fascinating correlations in the themes of ancient myth. Unfortunately the conclusions he comes up with leave many more questions than you were faced with in the first place, and seem a bit too far fetched to be totally credible. His opinions may point to a different truth than that accepted by the close minded members of the archeological and scientific community, but in taking things too far into the extreme he will not be taken as a credible source by those he seeks to challenge.
The ideas put forward left me with the same feelings I have when reading conspiracy theory websites or books - it all seems possible, but when all weighed up after the event it just all seems too unlikely to wholly believe.
FOTG was definitely an interesting read, but rather than changing my life, as others have stated, it just changed the way I view ancient prehistory and the way it is perceived by modern scholars.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
There will be those who will like a book like this, and there will be those who will never like books that have the capacity of turning one's world view upside down...
It takes an open mind to absorb and evaluate the flood of information presented in this book, a willingness to go beyond what one has learned before as the so-called accepted truth...
It is very much part of the flock-like human character to want to discard the compelling flood of anomalies as irrelevant, dangerous, or worse.
It takes an open mind to absorb and evaluate the flood of information presented in this book, a willingness to go beyond what one has learned before as the so-called accepted truth...
It is very much part of the flock-like human character to want to discard the compelling flood of anomalies as irrelevant, dangerous, or worse.
Some comments in these reviews point in that very direction...
Admittely, the book is written from a "let's show established archaeology how it's done" point of view, a little scholar-bashing if you will, but the long list of hints, proofs, hunches, etc. does make one wonder what might lay under thosemiles of ice over Antarctica.
Let's wait and see what the first digs in Antarctica will produce...
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This book is an eye opener. Read it and be amazed at how little we really know about our distant past. Where did we come from? Who are we? Read more
Published 14 months ago by Tubbs
fingerprin ts of the gods
excellent service item arrived with in two days of ordering. Well wrapped ans protected in jiffy bag. Condition of book exactly as described almost mint condition. Read more
Published on 1 Dec 2009 by Robert Kenneth Mason
Fascinating and Thought-Provoking
Graham Hancock is one of the leaders in the modern "avant garde" school of thought whereby we should question what we are told by "orthodox" science, and take a fresh look at the... Read more
Published on 18 Sep 2008 by AD
I can't believe so many people fall for this
The problem with maintaining an open mind is the tendency for people like Hancock to come along and fill it with rubbish. Read more
Published on 7 Aug 2001 by Chris Potter
Fascinating read which will change your mind
This book is incredibly detailed and contains eyewitness accounts of historical monuments and amazingly interlinking information. Read more
Published on 25 April 2001
Open up, Question and Explore some interesting observations.
O.k - This Review is late - I read the Book back in 1996 when it came out and it amazed me.. This review is in counter to other 'Single Star' and 'negative' views and I will try to... Read more
Published on 27 Mar 2001
Thoroughly researched compelling archive of material.
i have just finished reading `Fingerprints`, and i must say the coherence and flow of data is unsurpassable. Read more
Published on 24 Mar 2001
oh dear, oh dear, oh dear
Graham Hancock may be sincere in his beliefs - the most charitable one could be, is to say that he is misguided. Anything stronger would have me the wrong side of the libel laws. Read more
Published on 28 Feb 2001
EXCELLENT
I am an avid reader and this specific book is one of the best i ever read. Enchanting and mystifying material.Opens the road to future mainstream knowledge. Read more
Published on 9 Jan 2001
A truly awful book.
After trying to read it twice I gave up after section 3. Constant contradictions of his own statements and my disbelief at photos of allegedly "identical" items were too... Read more
Published on 12 Dec 2000
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