That's a reliable scientific reality, and these days people can make with a computer maps of the continents as they were then. Hancock and others have seeded into the public consciousness the knowledge that a lot of the exposed landmass of the earth disappeared during the cataclysmic meltwater pulses that happened from around 12,800 years ago to 8000 years ago.

I went to this one after his latest book “America Before”. You learn what he’s gone through to get his information, but if you are just after the information itself, it might feel superfluous at times.

I don’t know whether to attribute this to the different mindset present in those times before the organized chaos and destruction of 9/11 corrupted the West, or that in his later years Hancock has been more focused on getting his arguments out, but in this one he sets up the places he investigates, the people he meets, how the specific diving attempts go, etc. This one was written in the late 90s and very early 2000s, pre 9/11, and its leisurely pace differs from his latter books.

You will be captivated by Underworld, a provocative book that is both a compelling piece of hard evidence for a fascinating forgotten episode in human history and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilization as we know it.Īn enormous and fantastic early book of Hancock’s path towards proving the existence of lost civilizations. Guided by cutting-edge science, innovative computer-mapping techniques, and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age and delivers astonishing revelations that challenge our long-held views about the existence of a sunken universe built on the ocean floor.įilled with exhilarating accounts of his own participation in dives off the coast of Japan, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Arabian Sea, we watch as Hancock discovers underwater ruins exactly where the ancient myths say they should be-submerged kingdoms that archaeologists never thought existed. In this explosive new work of archaeological detection, bestselling author and renowned explorer Graham Hancock embarks on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a mythical lost civilization hidden for thousands of years beneath the world’s oceans. What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found-until now.

Underworld by graham hancock