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Contents<br />
Graham Hancock – <strong>FINGERPRINTS</strong> <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> <strong>GODS</strong><br />
Contents .......................................................................................................................5<br />
Acknowledgements......................................................................................................10<br />
Part I ...........................................................................................................................12<br />
Chapter 1 ................................................................................................................13<br />
Ancient sources ...................................................................................................14<br />
A man ahead of his time ......................................................................................19<br />
Piri Reis and his sources.......................................................................................21<br />
Legacy of a lost civilization? .................................................................................21<br />
Chapter 2 ................................................................................................................23<br />
Ross Sea ..............................................................................................................24<br />
Mercator and Buache............................................................................................25<br />
The epoch of the map-makers ..............................................................................27<br />
South America......................................................................................................31<br />
Sea levels and ice ages .........................................................................................32<br />
Chapter 3 ................................................................................................................35<br />
The mysteries of longitude...................................................................................35<br />
Precision instruments...........................................................................................38<br />
The lost mathematicians ......................................................................................39<br />
Part II ..........................................................................................................................42<br />
Chapter 4 ................................................................................................................43<br />
The riddle of the lines ..........................................................................................43<br />
Linemakers, map-makers .....................................................................................48<br />
Chapter 5 ................................................................................................................50<br />
‘Foam of the Sea’ .................................................................................................50<br />
Citadel of Viracocha .............................................................................................51<br />
The bearded stranger...........................................................................................52<br />
Chapter 6 ................................................................................................................54<br />
Civilizing mission.................................................................................................56<br />
The work of demons? ...........................................................................................57<br />
Chapter 7 ................................................................................................................60<br />
Casting down the giants.......................................................................................60<br />
Ancient traditions ................................................................................................62<br />
Time capsule........................................................................................................63<br />
Machu Picchu dreaming .......................................................................................64<br />
Jigsaw puzzle.......................................................................................................66<br />
Chapter 8 ................................................................................................................68<br />
Rumours of a cataclysm .......................................................................................69<br />
Chapter 9 ................................................................................................................73<br />
Boats, water and salvation....................................................................................73<br />
Reed boats of Suriqui ...........................................................................................75<br />
Road to Tiahuanaco ... .........................................................................................76<br />
Chapter 10 ..............................................................................................................77<br />
Sunken temple .....................................................................................................78<br />
Pyramid ...............................................................................................................79<br />
Gateway of the Sun ..............................................................................................81<br />
Chapter 11 ..............................................................................................................83<br />
Fish-garbed figures ..............................................................................................85<br />
Images of extinct species .....................................................................................87<br />
Chapter 12 ..............................................................................................................92<br />
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