![]() ![]() ![]() These included Robert Bauval’s Orion correlation, Rand and Rose Flem-Ath’s work on Antarctica and earth-crust displacement, and the geological case presented by John Anthony West and Robert Schoch that the Great Sphinx of Giza might be much older than had hitherto been thought.Īt the same time I was aware of a huge reservoir of popular literature, going back more than a century to the time of Ignatius Donnelly, in which the case for a lost civilisation had been put again and again, in many different ways and from many different angles. In the early 1990’s when I was researching Fingerprints there were a number of new ideas in the air that seemed to me to have an important bearing on the lost civilisation debate. ![]() ![]() I set myself the task of rehabilitating it by gathering together, and passionately championing, all the best evidence and arguments in its favour. I felt that the possibility of a lost civilisation had not been adequately explored or tested by mainstream scholarship. And I wrote the book, quite deliberately, not as a work of science but as a work of advocacy. The central claim of my 1995 book Fingerprints of the Gods is not that there was but that there could have been a lost civilisation, which flourished and was destroyed in remote antiquity. From Fingerprints of the Gods to Underworld An Essay on Methods ![]()
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