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

the Queen’s Chamber. At the same time serious efforts should be made<br />

to investigate the contents of the large, square-edged and apparently<br />

man-made cavity in the bedrock, deep beneath the paws of the Sphinx,<br />

that was discovered when a seismic survey was carried out at the site in<br />

1993. 33<br />

Last but not least, far away from Giza, I suspect that our efforts might<br />

also be repaid if we were to undertake a proper investigation of the subglacial<br />

landscapes of Antarctica—much the most likely continent to hide<br />

the complete remains of a lost civilization. If we could establish what<br />

destroyed that civilization, then we might be in a better position to save<br />

ourselves from a similar cataclysmic fate.<br />

In making these latter suggestions I am, of course, fully aware that<br />

there are many who will be scornful and will assert the uniformitarian<br />

view that ‘all things will continue as they have done since the beginning<br />

of creation.’ 34 But I am also aware that such ‘scoffers in the last days’ 35 are<br />

those who for one reason or another are deaf to the testimony of our<br />

forgotten ancestors. As we have seen, this testimony appears to be trying<br />

to tell us that a hideous calamity has indeed descended upon mankind<br />

from time to time, that on each occasion it has afflicted us suddenly,<br />

without warning and without mercy, like a thief in the night, and that it<br />

will certainly recur at some point in the future, obliging us—unless we are<br />

well prepared—to begin again like orphaned children in complete<br />

ignorance of our true heritage.<br />

Walking in the last days<br />

Hopi Indian Reservation, May 1994: Across the high plains of Arizona, for<br />

days and days and days, a desolate wind had been blowing. As we drove<br />

across those plains towards the tiny village of Shungopovi, I went over in<br />

my mind all I had seen and done in the previous five years: my travels,<br />

my research, the false starts and dead-ends I had encountered, the lucky<br />

breaks, the moments when everything had come together, the moments<br />

when everything seemed about to fall apart.<br />

I had travelled a long road to get here, I realized—far longer than the<br />

300-mile freeway that had whisked us up into these austere badlands<br />

from Phoenix, the state capital. Nor did I expect to return with any great<br />

degree of enlightenment.<br />

Nevertheless, I had made this journey because the science of prophecy<br />

is still believed to be alive among the Hopi: Pueblo Indians, distantly<br />

related to the Aztecs of Mexico, whose numbers have been reduced by<br />

33 Mystery of the Sphinx, NBC-TV, 1993.<br />

34 2 Peter 3:4.<br />

35 2 Peter 3:3.<br />

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