Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

Hancock (The Sign and the Seal) is an author and researcher on alternative interpretations of human prehistory and archaeology. This title was written to provide evidence of worldwide cataclysmic comet impacts that hit Earth between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago and to provide new interpretations to existing archaeological evidence that the author views as correlated with well-known ancient myths, such as the Noachian Deluge and the destruction of Atlantis. Hancock relies heavily on his prior work, Fingerprints of the Gods, and petulantly assumes that the reader is intimately familiar with its content. This volume is written in diatribe as a message of impending destruction of Earth based on globally disparate geological, environmental, and archaeological knowledge for which Hancock makes connections that counter conventional interpretations. Much of his archaeological evidence is taken from the Near and Middle East at sites such as Göbekli Tepe, Mount Ararat, Mount Judi, and Harran in Turkey; Baalbek in Lebanon; and Mount Hermon in Syria.