![]() ![]() ![]() The volume continues Hancock’s quest to find a lost civilization of high technology that he believes vanished during the Ice Age and was remembered only in a universal myth of the Great Flood. Hancock’s new book, Magicians of the Gods (2015), is a direct sequel to Fingerprints, and a stepsibling to its earlier sequels, such as Heaven’s Mirror (1998) and Underworld (2002). Hancock updated Donnelly with fresher falsehoods and cleverly avoided the name “Atlantis” in a failed bid for mainstream credibility. ![]() In 1995, he channeled Ignatius Donnelly and essentially rewrote Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (1882) as Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), the book on which he made his reputation. He began his fringe history career recreating Indiana Jones’s search for the Ark of the Covenant in The Sign and the Seal (1991), moved now to Ethiopia with more than a hint of Alan Quartermain’s hunt for King Solomon’s Mines, and a dash of the flair for propaganda he brought to his previous job working (not coincidentally) for Ethiopia’s dictator. The Empire may be gone, but Hancock’s books have some of the same imperial ambitions and ethnocentric flaws. He presents himself as a scholar-adventurer, trekking like Richard Burton to strange lands at the ends of the earth and sending back to London reports about what is going on across the Empire. There has always been a whiff of the Victorian about Graham Hancock. ![]()
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