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" "Connecting the great universal myths of cataclysm, is it possible that
such coincidences that cannot be coincidences, and accidents that cannot
be accidents, could denote the global influence of an ancient, though as
yet unidentified, guiding hand? If so, could it be that same hand, during
and after the last Ice Age, which drew the series of highly accurate and
technically advanced world maps reviewed in Part I? And might not that
same hand have left its ghostly fingerprints on another body of universal
myths? those concerning the death and resurrection of gods, and great
trees around which the earth and heavens turn, and whirlpools, and
churns, and drills, and other similar revolving, grinding contrivances?
Graham Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British writer who promotes pseudoarchaeological and other pseudoscientific theories involving ancient civilizations and hypothetical lost lands. He has been the subject of the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse (2022).
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Now we know that man is more than two million years old,' exlaimed Heyerdahl, 'it would be very strange if our ancestors lived like primitive food collectors for all that time until suddenly they started in the Nile valley, in Mesopotamia and even in the Indus valley, to build a civilization at peak level pretty much at the same time. And there's a question I ask that I never get an answer to. The tombs from the first kingdom of Sumer are full of beautiful ornaments and treasures made of gold, silver, platinum, and semi-precious stones — things you don't find in Mesopotamia. All you find there is mud and water — good for planting but not much else. How did they suddenly learn — in that one generation just about — where to go to find gold and all these other things? To do that they must have known the geography of wide areas, and that takes time. So there must have been something before.