Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth's Lost Civilization

Very interesting and well-researched! Highly recommend!

I was quite skeptical when I first bought this book. In fact, unlike how I usually buy nonfiction books, I decided to buy the Kindle version, fully expecting to get a few pages in, see that it was total hogwash, and return it. However, now that I have finished it, I am considering going back and buying the hard copy of the book. I think it will be a lot easier to see the pictures and flip back and forth as I read it. I would recommend that people buy the hard copy rather than the Kindle version. I think the Kindle versions of books are better suited to books like novels that you read straight through without pictures or wanting to go back and reread parts. Anyway....this book is great! Graham Hancock obviously devoted a huge amount of time and effort to research this book, not only by traveling all over the world, but also through correspondence with other researchers, historians, and scientists, and researching written materials. I think someone like him, who is challenging the accepted chronology and accepted traditions, has to do even more research than the average "mainstream" author to prove his theories and beliefs. "Mainstream" historians' and scientists' work is more automatically accepted because it's what we've already learned already, so they don't feel like they need to provide such mountains of proof for their work as this author has. He makes many good arguments for there having been an ancient, very advanced society including pointing out all of the similarities in artwork and myths from around the world in cultures that should never have (according to traditional views) had any inkling of each other or each other's characteristics. He makes a good point about Egypt that I've heard from a few others. How is it that the Egyptian culture seems to have sprung up, fully formed? Even Biblical texts, such as the book of Enoch, which I've read in the past, support the belief of some group, whether it be humans, angels, or "gods" that taught mankind the wa...