Summary of Graham Hancock's Fingerprints of the Gods

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Book Preview: #1 The claim that the lower part of the map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land Antarctica is reasonable. The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition in 1949.

#2 The best evidence suggests that Queen Maud Land, and the neighboring regions shown on the map, passed through a long ice-free period which may not have ended until about six thousand years ago.

#3 The Piri Reis map, which is a genuine document, was made at Constantinople in AD 1513. It focuses on the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. It is not possible to pinpoint the earliest date that such a task could have been accomplished, but it seems that the Queen Maud Land littoral may have remained unglaciated for at least 9000 years.

#4 The evidence of a lost technology supports and gives credence to many of the other hypotheses that have been brought forward about a lost civilization in remote times. However, no further scientific research has been done into these anomalous early maps.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Mar 3, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669355120

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Contents

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Insights from Chapter 5

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Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The claim that the lower part of the map portrays the Princess Martha Coast of Queen Maud Land Antarctica is reasonable. The geographical detail shown in the lower part of the map agrees with the results of the seismic profile made across the top of the ice-cap by the Swedish-British Antarctic Expedition in 1949.

#2

The best evidence suggests that Queen Maud Land, and the neighboring regions shown on the map, passed through a long ice-free period which may not have ended until about six thousand years ago.

#3

The Piri Reis map, which is a genuine document, was made at Constantinople in AD 1513. It focuses on the western coast of Africa, the eastern coast of South America, and the northern coast of Antarctica. It is not possible to pinpoint the earliest date that such a task could have been accomplished, but it seems that the Queen Maud Land littoral may have remained unglaciated for at least 9000 years.

#4

The evidence of a lost technology supports and gives credence to many of the other hypotheses that have been brought forward about a lost civilization in remote times. However, no further scientific research has been done into these anomalous early maps.

#5

The late Charles Hapgood taught the history of science at Keene College, New Hampshire, USA. He was not a geologist, or an ancient historian. However, he wrote a book in 1953 which explained how and why large parts of Antarctica could have remained ice-free until 4000 BC, together with many other anomalies of earth science.

#6

The academic consensus is that civilization first developed in the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East, and that it culminated in the emergence of the first true civilizations around 3000 BC.

#7

The source maps Piri Reis used to draw up his 1513 map were most likely lodged in the Imperial Library at Constantinople, to which he had access. Those sources no longer exist, or at least have not been found.

#8

The Piri Reis map depicts the subglacial topography of Queen Maud Land Antarctica, which was hidden from view until it was revealed as a result of the comprehensive seismic survey of Queen Maud Land carried out in 1949.

#9

The Oronteus Finaeus Map, drawn in 1531, showed non-glacial conditions in coastal regions of Antarctica. It appeared to document the surprising proposition that Antarctica was visited and perhaps settled by men when it was largely non-glacial.

#10

The Ross Sea evidence supports the notion that Antarctica was mapped by some unknown civilization during the ice-free period which ended around 4000 BC. The sediments showed numerous clearly demarcated layers of stratification reflecting different environmental conditions in different epochs.

#11

The sixteenth-century cartographer Gerard Kremer, otherwise known as Mercator, included the Oronteus Finaeus map in his Atlas of 1569. He also depicted the Antarctic on several he himself drew in the same year.

#12

The big problem raised by the Buache/IGY evidence is that those landmasses do seem to have been mapped when they were free of ice. This confronts scholars with two mutually contradictory propositions.

#13

If we are to go along with orthodox geologists and accept that millions of years have passed since Antarctica was last completely free of ice, then all the evidence of human evolution must be wrong.

#14

The Piri Reis, Oronteus Finaeus, Mercator, and Buache Maps all suggest that Antarctica was continuously surveyed over a period of several thousands of years as the ice-cap gradually spread outwards from the interior, increasing its grip with every passing millennium but not engulfing all the coasts of the southern continent until around 4000 BC.

#15

The Piri Reis Map contains more mysteries than just Antarctica. It demonstrates an uncanny knowledge of South America, and not only of its eastern coast but of the Andes mountains on the western side of the continent, which were unknown at that time.

#16

Many sixteenth-century maps look as though they were based on accurate world surveys conducted during the last Ice Age. One was compiled by the Turk Hadji Ahmed in 1559, and it shows a strip of territory connecting Alaska and Siberia.

#17

The sixteenth-century geographer Mercator was the first to draw a map of Antarctica, which he did based on the ancient sources he had at his disposal. However, he was less accurate in his portrayal of western South America than an earlier map drawn by him in 1538 based on the sources he had available.

#18

The problem of longitude, defined as the distance in degrees east or west of the prime meridian, was solved in the eighteenth century with the invention of accurate marine chronometers. Until then, cartographers and navigators were unable to fix longitude with any kind of precision.

#19

The first chronometer was invented in the 1720s, and it took almost forty years for Harrison to meet the standards set by the British Board of Longitude. His elegant Chronometer No. 4 was used on board HMS Deptford in 1761, and nine days into the voyage, on the