Synopses & Reviews
The new masterwork that rewrites American history, from the internationally bestselling author whose controversial take on the past has been vindicated by recent discoveries.
Was a technologically and spiritually advanced civilization destroyed in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? In America Before, Graham Hancock draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.
This new investigation uses the same methods as his previous bestsellers to unveil paradigm-busting discoveries, amongst them that humans have been in the Americas for more than 100,000 years longer than we’ve been taught, that the Amazon rainforest in prehistory was filled with great cities and immense monuments, and that the Americas — long neglected — in fact played a central role in the poorly-understood story of human origins and the origins of civilization.
The research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the breakthroughs in this story. From the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, ancient ‘New World’ cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected ‘Old World’ cultures. Hancock follows the clues to their source in the devastated heartland of the lost civilization.
This is a culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock’s body of work, namely an exploration of the mystery of ancient civilizations, amazing discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
About the Author
GRAHAM HANCOCK is the author of several international non-fiction bestsellers, including Magicians of the Gods, The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, The Message of the Sphinx, and Heaven's Mirror, and two epic adventure novels. His books have sold more than seven million copies worldwide and have been translated into 30 languages. He has become recognized as an unconventional thinker who raises resonant questions about humanity's past and about our present predicament.