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

unrelated cultures living thousands of years in the future.<br />

Not for the first time I felt myself confronted by the dizzying possibility<br />

that an entire episode in the story of mankind might have been forgotten.<br />

Indeed it seemed to me then, as I overlooked the mathematical city of the<br />

gods from the summit of the Pyramid of the Moon, that our species could<br />

have been afflicted with some terrible amnesia and that the dark period<br />

so blithely and dismissively referred to as ‘prehistory’ might turn out to<br />

conceal unimagined truths about our own past.<br />

What is prehistory, after all, if not a time forgotten—a time for which we<br />

have no records? What is prehistory if not an epoch of impenetrable<br />

obscurity through which our ancestors passed but about which we have<br />

no conscious remembrance? It was out of this epoch of obscurity,<br />

configured in mathematical code along astronomical and geodetic lines,<br />

that Teotihuacan with all its riddles was sent down to us. And out of that<br />

same epoch came the great Olmec sculptures, the inexplicably precise<br />

and accurate calendar the Mayans inherited from their predecessors, the<br />

inscrutable geoglyphs of Nazca, the mysterious Andean city of<br />

Tiahuanaco ... and so many other marvels of which we do not know the<br />

provenance.<br />

It is almost as though we have awakened into the daylight of history<br />

from a long and troubled sleep, and yet continue to be disturbed by the<br />

faint but haunting echoes of our dreams ...<br />

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