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

the 1920s). There is still a bohemian feel about the place and until late at<br />

night a current of excitement seems to ripple among the crowds filling its<br />

bars and cafés, narrow cobbled streets, old buildings and spacious<br />

plazas.<br />

We checked into a room overlooking one of the three open courtyards<br />

in the Hotel Las Golondrinas. The bed was comfortable. There were starry<br />

skies overhead. But, tired as I was, I couldn’t sleep.<br />

What kept me awake was the idea of the civilizers ... the bearded gods<br />

and their companions. In Mexico, as in Peru, they seemed to have<br />

confronted failure. That was what the legends implied, and not only the<br />

legends, as I discovered when we reached Monte Alban the next morning.<br />

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