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| 85106a9 | I observe out of the corner of my eye that the man with the notebook is walking towards me and obviously intends to introduce himself. Why do human beings have to , I find myself wondering. Is it really necessary for us to make these noises? | introversion solitude talking | Graham Hancock | |
| fbcadd6 | We know from Glenn Milne's inundation data that Gozo and Malta were indeed one big island during the Ice Age, down to approximately 13,500 years ago, and that they did not take on their present form as an archipelago of three islands (with little Comino in between) until around 11,000 years ago. Accordingly, if the medieval tradition of Malta and Gozo as one big island is not a complete invention -- and why should it be? -- then, 'fantastic.. | deluges heritage ice-age ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations progress underwater-ruins | Graham Hancock | |
| 56bd73c | Egyptologic"--i.e. that special form of reasoning, with a built-in double standard, deployed only by Egyptologists." | Graham Hancock | ||
| 38b38ba | Viable offspring capable of reproduction resulted from all these liaisons and in August 2018, Denisova Cave obliged yet again by yielding up a bone fragment, more than 50,000 years old and in sufficiently good condition for genome sequencing. It turned out to have belonged to a female, about 13 years of age, who had a Neanderthal mother and a Denisovan father.57 | Graham Hancock | ||
| 86fe744 | If the normal portolano is indeed derived from the lost atlas of Marinus of Tyre, then it follows that other high-quality maps of regions much further afield than the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, and indeed a world map, might also have been preserved by the Arabs -- for we know from Ptolemy's testimony that other Marinus maps, including a world map, did once exist. It will therefore do no harm to keep an open mind to the possibility tha.. | heritage ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations portolano-charts | Graham Hancock | |
| ab4660e | Having a shared common source, or deriving from different but closely similar sources, provides a simple explanation for why the Cantino and Reinal maps are so much alike in almost all respects and also, crucially, why both contain similar mistakes. As I was already aware from Sharif Sakr's first report [...] these mistakes include the absence of the Kathiawar peninsula with its characteristic Gulfs of Kutch and Cambay; a distinct bulge in .. | deluges heritage ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations | Graham Hancock | |
| 87bfbed | Though [Marco] Polo himself states frankly that he has never visited Japan -- and thus that what he has to say about it is second-hand and perhaps inaccurate -- the notion of the mysterious island kingdom of Cipango that he planted in European consciousness at the end of the thirteenth century was later one of several powerful influences that spurred Christopher Columbus forward in his crossings of the Atlantic at the end of the fifteenth c.. | consciousness exploration inaccuracy influences mystery | Graham Hancock | |
| 9ea8d10 | 1. Ceylon was believed by Marco Polo to have been one-third larger in the past than it had become by his day -- with extensive lands to the north of the present island said to have been 'submerged under the sea'. In the process its circumference was reduced in size from 3600 units of measurement to 2400 units of measurement, i.e. by one-third. 2. Maps were in use amongst mariners in the Indian Ocean when Marco Polo was there -- either or .. | ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations | Graham Hancock | |
| 8ed0b2d | Traditions, with all their folksy redolences, are relatively safe matters for scholars to speculate about. Maps and nautical charts on the other hand -- especially accurate, sophisticated maps of the kind used by Guzarate to chart Vasco da Gama's course from Malindi to Calicut in 1498 -- are quite another matter. If maps have indeed come down to us containing recognizable representations of Ice Age topography -- as arguably may be the case .. | cartography establishment heritage ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations prehistory traditions | Graham Hancock | |
| 71416f2 | The suspicion that European travellers in the Indian Ocean in the sixteenth century may from time to time have stumbled across charts and maps containing the remnants of a lost geography (perhaps even the maps of Marinus of Tyre, said to have been superior to those of Ptolemy) is intriguingly enhanced by the first of Alfonso de Albuquerque's two letters. It introduces a 'piece of a map' that Albuquerque has acquired in his travels in the In.. | ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations | Graham Hancock | |
| cd8f2c3 | After supper walk a mile. | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| e316c9a | Nature too unkind;That made no medicine for a troubled mind! | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| 3edbad8 | According to the Greek historian Diodorus Siculus, writing in the first century BC, 'There lies out in the deep off Libya [Africa] an island of considerable size, and situated as it is in the ocean it is a distant from Libya a voyage of a number of days to the west. Its land is fruitful, much of it being mountainous and not a little being a level plain of surpassing beauty. Through it flow navigable rivers ...' Diodorus goes on to tell us h.. | discovery exploration history refuge seafarers | Graham Hancock | |
| 3d8a792 | In 1512, in handwritten notes on an enigmatic map that he had prepared showing the newly discovered Americas, the Turkish Admiral Piri Reis offered an intriguing answer to all these questions -- at any rate for the particular case of Christopher Colombus, the most recent and most renowned of the ancient Atlantic dreamers. Piri's note, one of many on the same map, is written over the interior of Brazil: 'Apparently a Genoese infidel, by the .. | enigma geography heritage ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations lost-knowledge | Graham Hancock | |
| a140b6e | Piri Reis is not only remembered for his 1513 map but for another slightly later work, a manual of sailing directions known as the , which also contains references to the book of Columbus. Reported above is Mcintosh's impression from comments made in the that the 'book' Piri is speaking of might have been Ptolemy's . Yet the Turkish scholar Svat Soucek points out that this is not the obvious deduction from the text of the where it tou.. | exploration geography lost-knowledge | Graham Hancock | |
| e64983a | To have followed the speculative vision of Behaim in his famous globe, or of others like him, would have been disastrous, even though their work represents the cream of fifteenth-century mapmaking and was known to Columbus. Indeed, as one commentator has observed, if his chart had been based on the Behaim scenario, 'Columbus could not even have known of the whereabouts of the New World, much less discover it.' Yet not only does he seem to h.. | discovery exploration geography ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations lost-knowledge | Graham Hancock | |
| 2e9793f | It is Professor Fuson's view that Chinese charts of Taiwan and Japan were the source of the 1424 portrayal of Antilia and Satanaze. He makes a very persuasive case that such charts are likely to have originated from the seven spectacular voyages of discovery made by the famous Ming admiral Cheng Ho between 1405 and 1433. [...] Much suggests, however, that Robert Fuson is correct to deduce that the charts of Taiwan and Japan that somehow fou.. | discovery exploration geography ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations lost-knowledge | Graham Hancock | |
| e99c294 | What now appears to be certain is that Neanderthals, Homo sapiens (as modern humans are classified taxonomically), and Denisovans all shared and descended from a common ancestor a million years or so ago.58 The divergence of the Neanderthal line from the modern human line began at least 430,000 years ago, and perhaps as early as 765,000 years ago.59 The divergence of the Neanderthal line from the Denisovan line occurred between 381,000 and .. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 82930c4 | Another scene from universal myth unfolds -- here powerfully reminiscent of the Underworld quests of Orpheus for Eurydice and of Demeter for Persephone. The ancient Japanese recension of this mysteriously global story is given in the and the , where we read that Izanagi, mourning for his dead wife, followed after her to the Land of Yomi in an attempt to bring her back to the world of the living: 'Izanagi-no-Mikoto went after Izanami-no-M.. | lost-knowledge myth myths underworld | Graham Hancock | |
| de86eb5 | I will not delay the reader with lengthy quotations from the very many Taiwanese flood myths that were collected from amongst the indigenous population, primarily by Japanese scholars, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Typically they tell a story of a warning from the gods, the sound of thunder in the sky, terrifying earthquakes, the pouring down of a wall of water which engulfs mankind, and the survival of a remnant who had .. | cataclysm deluges heritage ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations lost-knowledge myths | Graham Hancock | |
| 661f2d6 | If we impose on a map of the earth a 'world grid' with Giza (not Greenwich) as its prime meridian, then hidden relationships become immediately apparent between sites that previously seemed to be on a random, unrelated longitudes. On such a grid, as we've just seen, Tiruvannamalai stands on longitude 48 degrees east, Angkor stands on longitude 72 degrees east and Sao Pa stands out like a sore thumb on longitude 90 degrees east -- all number.. | cartography deep-human-history heritage ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations lost-knowledge monuments | Graham Hancock | |
| 87db96d | On 16 January 2002 India's Minister of Science and Technology released the first results of carbon-dating of the artefacts from the flooded cities of the Gulf of Cambay. The results date the artifacts to 9500 years ago -- 5000 years older than any city so far recognized by archaeologists. | archaeology cataclysm deluges establishment lost-civilizations | Graham Hancock | |
| 39bd866 | I couldn't help but reflect on the significance of the location favored by Plato. I had considered other possibilities, as readers of my previous books know, but I had to admit that an immense island lying far to the west of Europe across the Atlantic Ocean does sound a lot like America. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 627c8e0 | After the first Neanderthal skeletal remains were identified in Europe in the nineteenth century it was, for a very long while, one of the fundamental unquestioned assumptions of archaeology, a matter taken to be self-evidently true, that other "older," "less-evolved" human species never attained, or even in their wildest dreams could hope to aspire, to the same levels of cultural development as Homo sapiens. During more than a century of s.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 0e82b8b | A dominant individual, with a prestigious position, can delay the progress of knowledge for decades but ultimately cannot stop the buildup of contrary evidence and opinions that will lead to a new paradigm. | Graham Hancock | ||
| c21ada2 | Very often these luminous designs, rich in data, take the form of geometry. I speak from experience, having participated in more than seventy ayahuasca sessions since 2003, continuing to work with the brew for the valuable lessons it teaches me long after Supernatural was researched, written, and published. Here's part of my account of the first time I drank ayahuasca in the Amazon: I raise the cup to my lips again. About two thirds of the .. | Graham Hancock | ||
| ccade8f | yaje). | Graham Hancock | ||
| 453d205 | More than seventy different indigenous Amazonian cultures use ayahuasca--many giving different names to the brew (yaje, natema, caapi, cipo, shori, etc.). | Graham Hancock | ||
| c175582 | The suspicion that certain ancient authorities possessed good knowledge of the real shape of the Atlantic and its islands, and of the lands on both sides of it, must also arise from any objective reading of Plato's world-famous account of Atlantis. [...], this story is set around 11,600 years ago -- a date that coincides with a peak episode of global flooding at the end of the Ice Age. The story tells us that 'the island of Atlantis was swa.. | deluges discovery exploration geography ice-age-civilizations lost-civilizations lost-knowledge sea-level-rises | Graham Hancock | |
| b4d2139 | Across the ages and regardless of geography, in everything that really matters, it bears repeating that we are all members of a SINGLE human family--a family of intrepid adventurers who have been exploring the world in one form or another for the best part of a million years.18 In the course of this long odyssey we've moved so far apart, across oceans, over mountains, and to the opposite ends of jungles, deserts, and ice caps that we've for.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 314e82d | Far away from Oshoro in Nara Prefecture on the island of Honshu, there is a sacred mountain called Miwa-Yama. In a pattern with which I was now becoming familiar, this entire pyramid-shaped mountain is considered by Japan's indigenous Shinto religion to be a shrine, possessed by the spirit of a god who 'stayed his soul' within it in ancient times. His correct name is Omononushino-Kami (although he is also popularly known as Daikokusama) and.. | heritage pyramids serpent-people | Graham Hancock | |
| f1e3f22 | After landing and collecting our bags Santha and I were met groundside by our local connection, Sergey Kurgin. I say "connection" because you have to have one if you're going to travel in Russia. You can't just get up and go. Some solid citizen, or business, or tour operator must take responsibility for you and officially invite you, and you must have a prearranged and preplanned itinerary to preapproved destinations or your visa won't be i.. | Graham Hancock | ||
| 8138fc5 | The devil take the hindmost! | Beaumont and Fletcher | ||
| eec197a | I was much older now, settled in a little coastal town called Cabrer, which ironically means go away. It hadn't been spoiled by tourists yet, so maybe the name had some kind of mojo that kept them away. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 13349ec | It was true, so she bought it and nodded her head. In Crystal Falls a fax was high-tech. We had one only because last time I was in Boise I stopped at an Office Depot and picked one up. My money, not department funds, which were non-existent. My salary and Janie's were about all the operating capital allotted law enforcement | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 82fc498 | Katie Wells stood looking out her window down to the street below. She could still feel the effects of the hard-rock miner getting his money's worth in every way he could. Angry that he could not afford the younger, prettier girls of the Golden Nugget like Jolene and Candy, he had taken his frustrations out on her. The man had treated her in a way which he never would have if she hadn't been nearing forty, and slightly overweight. The moon .. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 185a200 | I frowned, staring into the eerie blackness along Route 33 truckers always complained about. It is odd how we rarely encounter true darkness. Somewhere, there is always light; a house, a town, headlights. Not here. Just total and complete darkness. I had been on the night run for months, long enough to get accustomed to total darkness if not entirely comfortable with it. What concerned me was the silence. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| b44dcfb | They had robbed banks and trains for the most part in their journey westward. More than one posse had taken out after them, but none had returned with any of the Taggart men. One posse tracking them from a town near Abilene, Kansas had been found in a Missouri farmer's wheat field where the gang had taken the time to dump their bodies. Six men, one of them a seasoned lawman. All of the men had been shot several times. Wyn had heard from a m.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 50718ee | Man was but an echo, thought Wyn with some awe, a small memory of rocks and mountains and rivers and lakes that had always been, and always would be. Man would come and go, but the land was forever. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 9fcb3c9 | The California Gold Rush, both the first and second one, had inflicted almost as much damage as the bounty. Stream channels where the Diggers fished had been disturbed or re-routed and blasting had damaged the habitat the Diggers fed on. In addition, foods the Diggers gathered from the land had been damaged or destroyed as the way was cleared for cattle, who ate one of the major source of Digger food: the acorn. Worse, as with all Californi.. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| fc64b64 | A good friend is always welcome company. Even when thoughts are sad." She smiled. "Perhaps even mores then." | Bobby Underwood | ||
| c03ae83 | Then something happened which made Callie feel something she'd never felt before. A tall boy close to her own age stepped from the train and gave the big man a hug. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 25f21ed | But I refused. One Ranger, One riot, as the slogan went, and a Ranger always tells the truth. Grandpa had had a bigger influence on me than I knew. They couldn't really fire me, but I agreed to leave voluntarily on the condition that the official file reflected my three years of exemplary service and nothing else. They were glad to accommodate me as long as I didn't darken their door again. | Bobby Underwood | ||
| 6d50c02 | Many men along the trail would discover that a man unafraid of death is the most dangerous man alive. Wyn could never be afraid of death, because he had already died, that night, so long ago. | Bobby Underwood |