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  • Magicians of the Gods

  • The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilisation
  • By: Graham Hancock
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  • Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (1,986 ratings)
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Editor reviews

"A great yarn...[Hancock] is a writer with a first-rate feel for colour and ambience..." ( Sunday Times)
"Hancock's book is an absorbing big-picture analysis as well as a cautionary tale." ( Nexus Magazine)

Summary

New archaeological evidence for a pre-historic civilisation updated with two substantial new chapters brimming with recent reporting of fresh scientific advances.

Graham Hancock's multi-million best seller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilisation. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with a book filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light....

The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilisation that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago.

Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap.

The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidised millions of square kilometres of ice, destabilising the Earth's crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world.

A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.

But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilisation burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price.

A memory and a warning to the future.... For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide 'dark' fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt, warns that the 'Great Return' will occur in our time.... 

©2015 Graham Hancock (P)2015 Hodder & Stoughton
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Massive improvement on Finger Print of the Gods

I have followed Graham's works since the mid 90s with a mixture of wonder and disbelief. Many of his concepts are so far from the realms of modern understanding that they instantly get dismissed as crazy.
Many of his previous works held for me a kernel of truth surrounded by lots of ideas that I either did not follow, or found to be less than convincing.
However this book is most certainly his best, aided by further research and discoveries by mainstream science and I both followed and agreed with his reasoning throughout.
In addition he has a very easy to listen to voice which placed emphasis exactly where the author intended it to be placed giving a much more complete vision of the work than would have been the case if an alternate narrator had been used.
Recommended to all except the close minded.

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Audible version hard to follow

Very well narrated by Graham & truly fascinating content but it’s very hard to follow without the images which would accompany the hard copy. I really don’t understand why audible can’t provide them as a supplementary library file as it does with other recordings .

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great

was a good book really interesting and up my street some bits I got lost on but he always summarised it up and I found it a joy to read. top book

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Just brilliant

Be warned, you may have to call in sick once you press play! Mystical, factual, methodical, scientific and slightly alarming. Probably one of the best and arguably, most important books of today. I will deffinately be keeping a close eye on the sky!!

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The story of mankind (an alternative history)

A fascinating romp through the history of mankind via the most mysterious megaliths on the planet. Mr Hancock uses history, science and legend to show evidence and plausibility for a highly civilised society having been wiped out many thousands of years ago. This is a scholarly book which should not be dismissed lightly by academia.
Read by the author the only irritation is his strange habit of changing the vowel sounds in some words.

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Engrossing and Compelling

I found this totally engrossing and compelling. The facts and interpretations presented cast a whole new light on our pre-history and our near future. It questions some of the weaknesses in the scientific approach which have resulted in partisan and irrational arguments being applied to ridicule and dismiss reasonable, and in fact compelling, interpretations of the facts available that are consistent with stories passed down by our ancestors from around the globe. This points to an advanced civilisation being all but wiped out by a comet impact around 12000 years ago and warnings that the same comet may be returning on a collision path in the near future. This book is a brilliant call to arms for the world to unite and avoid this potential catastrophe.

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Our future in our hands

This is a superb book, and an admirable follow up to Hancock's previous books. Maybe a little worrying, but definitely thought provoking.

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Gets you thinking.....

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would definitely recommend this to a friend....it's an interesting and well-reasoned trek through a few millennia of what MIGHT have been.

What did you like best about this story?

I'm of the stout belief that you can't always believe what the mainstream scientists and 'experts' tell us, and I find it refreshing to hear a well rounded, well researched argument for the idea that we're not the first ones to inhabit this big wide world!

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I read Graham Hancock's 'Fingerprints of the Gods' a few years ago and that piqued my curiosity about whether or not mainstream science is in fact telling us all it knows about 'us' and the planet we live on. I found that book a real eye opener and, although I've seen plenty of 'experts' debunk what was written, I still see that book as a well-reasoned argument about us not knowing everything there is to know about how we got here and what has happened to the planet in the short space of time that we (humans) are supposed to have been around.
In Magicians of the Gods, Graham Hancock expands on his original book and brings forward a lot more ideas and evidence of his being right in the first place. To my mind this is not done in an extremist nor amateur way, but with proof and well reasoned arguments as to what he has seen and researched. There will always be 'educated' scholars who will try to argue that if someone says something contrary to their ideas, then those arguments MUST be false because whoever came up with those ideas aren't in the mainstream gang. However, saying that, I find it much more interesting that people like Graham Hancock can make me think that he's on to something out of the ordinary. To that end, this is a very interesting read which I would recommend to anyone with even the slightest interest in 'alternative theories' about who we are and where we came from.

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A must Read

I can't get enough of Graham Hancock's work it truly is remarkable. So many questions from the past left unanswered and brushed under the carpet by the so called experts that believe they know everything. Hancock explores our past and points out so many hidden truths that have been bypassed. Before I found out about Graham hancock (from a Joe rogan podcast) I had no real interest in history, but now I am hooked because of this guy. This book will really open your eyes and make you wonder about our past and ancient origins.

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A Fascinating Subject and Engaging Performance

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I doubt the audio version of this book would have been so captivating, were it not for Graham Hancock, narrating Magicians of the Gods, himself. He is truly engrossed in the subject matter and his knowledge and passion are delivered in a way that I have not heard in other audiobooks; where there may often be a trace of insincerity in the reading.

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