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Know_files/FINGERPRINTS OF THE GODS.pdf - D Ank Unlimited

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

hidden from view from 4000 BC (when the advancing ice sheet covered it)<br />

until it was revealed again as a result of the comprehensive seismic<br />

survey of Queen Maud Land carried out during 1949 by a joint British-<br />

Swedish scientific reconnaissance team. 21<br />

If Piri Reis had been the only cartographer with access to such<br />

anomalous information, it would be wrong to place any great weight on<br />

his map. At the most one might say, ‘Perhaps it is significant but, then<br />

again, perhaps it is just a coincidence.’ However, the Turkish admiral was<br />

by no means alone in the possession of seemingly impossible and<br />

inexplicable geographical knowledge. It would be futile to speculate<br />

further than Hapgood has already done as to what ‘underground stream’<br />

could have carried and preserved such knowledge through the ages,<br />

transmitting fragments of it from culture to culture and from epoch to<br />

epoch. Whatever the mechanism, the fact is that a number of other<br />

cartographers seem to have been privy to the same curious secrets.<br />

Is it possible that all these map-makers could have partaken, perhaps<br />

unknowingly, in the bountiful scientific legacy of a vanished civilization?<br />

21 Ibid., pp. 76-7 and 231-2.<br />

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