Fingerprints of the Gods

Graham Hancock's 1995 argument for a lost advanced civilization destroyed at the end of the last Ice Age — whose survivors spread astronomical and architectural knowledge to early historical civilizations — the best-selling alternative archaeology book.

Creates the modern lost civilization hypothesis — Fingerprints of the Gods synthesizes pole shift theory, Egyptian astronomical alignments, Mayan calendar claims, and Andean archaeology into a single lost civilization narrative that is more internally consistent than any prior alternative archaeology book.