Graham Hancock's multi-million bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods remains an astonishing, deeply controversial, wide-ranging investigation of the mysteries of our past and the evidence for Earth's lost civilization. Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new, scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light...

Near the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. At least eight of the fragments hit the North American ice cap, while further fragments hit the northern European ice cap. The impacts, from comet fragments a mile wide approaching at more than 60,000 miles an hour, generated huge amounts of heat which instantly liquidized millions of square kilometers of ice, destabilizing the Earth's crust and causing the global Deluge that is remembered in myths all around the world. A second series of impacts, equally devastating, causing further cataclysmic flooding, occurred 11,600 years ago, the exact date that Plato gives for the destruction and submergence of Atlantis.

The evidence revealed in this book shows beyond reasonable doubt that an advanced civilization that flourished during the Ice Age was destroyed in the global cataclysms between 12,800 and 11,600 years ago. But there were survivors - known to later cultures by names such as 'the Sages', 'the Magicians', 'the Shining Ones', and 'the Mystery Teachers of Heaven'. They travelled the world in their great ships doing all in their power to keep the spark of civilization burning. They settled at key locations - Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, Baalbek in the Lebanon, Giza in Egypt, ancient Sumer, Mexico, Peru and across the Pacific where a huge pyramid has recently been discovered in Indonesia. Everywhere they went these 'Magicians of the Gods' brought with them the memory of a time when mankind had fallen out of harmony with the universe and paid a heavy price. A memory and a warning to the future...

For the comet that wrought such destruction between 12,800 and 11,600 years may not be done with us yet. Astronomers believe that a 20-mile wide 'dark' fragment of the original giant comet remains hidden within its debris stream and threatens the Earth. An astronomical message encoded at Gobekli Tepe, and in the Sphinx and the pyramids of Egypt,warns that the 'Great Return' will occur in our time...

格雷厄姆-汉考克的数百万册畅销书《众神的指纹》仍然是一部惊人的、深具争议的、对我们的过去之谜和地球失落文明的证据的广泛调查。20年后，汉考克带着他的开创性作品的续集回来了，其中充满了全新的科学和考古证据，这些证据最近才被发现...。

在12800年前的最后一个冰河时代结束时，一颗数千年前从太空深处进入太阳系的巨大彗星分裂成多个碎片。其中一些撞击了地球，造成了自恐龙灭绝以来前所未见的全球大灾难。至少有8个碎片击中了北美的冰盖，而更多的碎片击中了欧洲北部的冰盖。彗星碎片有一英里宽，以每小时6万多英里的速度接近，这些撞击产生了巨大的热量，使数百万平方公里的冰瞬间液化，破坏了地壳的稳定，造成了全球大洪水，在世界各地的神话中都有记载。第二个系列的撞击，同样具有破坏性，造成进一步的灾难性洪水，发生在11,600年前，这正是柏拉图给出的亚特兰蒂斯被摧毁和淹没的确切日期。

本书所揭示的证据表明，毫无疑问，一个在冰河时代繁荣的先进文明在12800年和11600年前的全球大灾难中被摧毁。但也有幸存者--被后来的文化人称为 "圣人"、"魔术师"、"闪耀者 "和 "天堂的神秘教师"。他们乘着他们的大船周游世界，尽其所能地保持文明的火花燃烧。他们在关键地点定居--土耳其的戈贝利特佩、黎巴嫩的巴勒贝克、埃及的吉萨、古苏美尔、墨西哥、秘鲁和太平洋彼岸，最近在印度尼西亚发现了一座巨大的金字塔。这些 "众神的魔术师 "所到之处，都带来了人类与宇宙失和并付出沉重代价的时代记忆。这是一种记忆，也是对未来的一种警告...

因为在12800年和11600年之间造成这种破坏的彗星可能还没有与我们结束。天文学家认为，最初的巨型彗星的一个20英里宽的 "黑暗 "碎片仍然隐藏在其碎片流中，并威胁着地球。Gobekli Tepe以及埃及狮身人面像和金字塔中编码的天文信息警告说，"大回归 "将在我们这个时代发生。