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Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />

he discovered that oil-drilling by the PEMEX company jeopardized the<br />

ruins. By determined lobbying of the politicians of Tabasco (within which<br />

La Venta lies), he arranged to have the significant finds moved to a park<br />

on the outskirts of the regional capital Villahermosa.<br />

Taken together these finds constitute a precious and irreplaceable<br />

cultural record—or rather a whole library of cultural records—left behind<br />

by a vanished civilization. But nobody knows how to read the language of<br />

these records.<br />

Above left: Profile view of the head of the Great Sphinx at Giza, Egypt.<br />

Above right: Profile view of Olmec Head from La Venta, Mexico. Below<br />

left: Front view of the head of the Sphinx. Below right: Front view of<br />

Olmec Head. Compare also opposite page, top left: Sphinx-like Olmec<br />

sculpture from San Lorenzo, Mexico. Is it possible that the many<br />

similarities between the cultures of pre-Columbian Central America<br />

and Ancient Egypt could have stemmed from an as-yet-unidentified<br />

‘third-party’ civilization that influenced both widely separated<br />

regions at a remote and early date?<br />

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