Book by Graham Hancock, 1995, arguing that maps, myths, monuments and numbers scattered across four continents are the signature of one advanced civilisation destroyed at the end of the last Ice Age.
It is the book that carried the lost-civilisation idea to a mass readership, and much of its chain runs through authorities that have since been reassessed, Charles Hapgood above all. See Lost Civilization Hypothesis, Piri Reis Map, Earth-Crust Displacement and Precession of the Equinoxes.
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Graham Hancock · Lost Civilization Hypothesis · Piri Reis Map · Earth-Crust Displacement · Precession of the Equinoxes · Charles Hapgood · Puma Punku · Teotihuacan · Arthur Posnansky · Hamlet’s Mill · Maya Long Count · Quetzalcoatl