Underworld, Graham Hancock
Underworld, Graham Hancock
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Underworld
The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

Author: Graham Hancock

Narrator: Dennis Kleinman

Unabridged: 31 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/19/2019


Synopsis

From Graham Hancock, bestselling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans.

While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found.

Guided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. As the glaciers melted between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago, sea levels rose and more than 15 million square miles of habitable land were submerged underwater, resulting in a radical change to the Earth's shape and the conditions in which people could live. Using the latest computer techniques to map the world's changing coastlines, Hancock finds astonishing correspondences with the ancient flood myths.

Filled with thrilling accounts of his own participation in dives off the coast of Japan, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Arabian Sea, we watch as Hancock discovers underwater ruins exactly where the myths say they should be—sunken kingdoms that archaeologists never thought existed. Fans of Hancock's previous adventures will find themselves immersed in Underworld, a provocative book that provides both compelling hard evidence for a fascinating, forgotten episode in human history and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilization as we know it.

About Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock is the author of The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, The Message of the Sphinx, Heaven's Mirror, Supernatural, and other bestselling investigations of historical mysteries.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Howard

5 Stars for Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization (audiobook) by Graham Hancock read by Dennis Kleinman. I’m just fascinated by this subject. Graham Hancock does an amazing job researching early civilizations. This book is a really in-depth look into all the research he has done over se......more

Goodreads review by Jon

An enormous and fantastic early book of Hancock’s path towards proving the existence of lost civilizations. This one was written in the late 90s and very early 2000s, pre 9/11, and its leisurely pace differs from his latter books. I don’t know whether to attribute this to the different mindset prese......more

Goodreads review by Erik

This hefty tome describes Hancock's search for archaeological evidence of human civilizations prior to the rise of Sumer and Egypt. Describing contemporary understandings of geography consequent upon changing climate, his focus is on lands submerged since the last global ice age maximum. This takes......more

In essence this book was Graham Hancock's sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods and in other ways, it's an appendix to that book. In Fingerprints, Graham lays out his fundamental theory: that human civilization is far older than we think, and there existed a world spanning, Ice Age civilization, which......more