An old millennium is about to go with the wind! A fresh millennium is about to come! On this special day at the end of the century, when poor and intelligent human beings are still troubled by the sequelae of modern civilization such as "Computer Millennium Bug", AIDS, and El Niño phenomenon, on the other side of the ocean in Britain, a world-renowned cultural bestseller... The author of the book, Graham Hancock, used his affectionate and penetrating gaze to pass through the bottomless black hole of time and illuminate the secret realm of ancient human civilization. Where did our ancestors come from?

Where are young humans going? How old is the ancient civilization? How young is a young civilization? Opening a serious textbook on the history of human civilization development, we know: our earth is five billion years old, our ancestors jumped from the trees, our ancient civilization, of course, is the civilization created by our ancestors.But how are they created?This is the subject that our descendants are constantly pursuing.Ever since, we have our archaeology, history, astronomy, religion, mythology, philosophy, mathematics, geophysics, astrophysics... but…… According to our traditional theories of history, architecture and mechanics, the ancient Egyptians must have been slash-and-burn farming more than 8,000 years ago. With their extremely limited manpower and wisdom, how could they build huge stones weighing 250 tons into Into such a lofty pyramid?And, why is the Sphinx facing the Leo constellation in the vast starry sky?

According to our traditional geological theory, the surface of the Antarctic continent is covered with white ice. We first used advanced electromagnetic waves to measure the rivers, estuaries, mountains and hills under the thick ice after World War II.However, what makes us puzzling is that the latest archaeological discovery is that as early as the 16th century, ancient cartographers have drawn extremely accurate maps of Antarctica under the thick ice layer based on mysterious and untraceable ancient documents... According to the traditional view of civilization, the Mayans in Central America were a corner forgotten by modern civilization. They could only do fishing, hunting and farming so simply.However, the facts have made a big joke for us who think we are the most intelligent: the astronomical and mathematical knowledge of the ancient Mayans who calculated the earth and predicted the "end of the world" has amazed today's mathematicians and astronomers...

We can't explain why there is always a torrential flood in hundreds of national myths around the world, and of course the poor "Noah's Ark" floating in the torrential flood... We can't explain why: in the myths and legends of hundreds of nations around the world, why there is always black rain from the sky, the sky tilts to the northwest, and the earth sinks to the southeast, there are always heavenly soldiers, gods, ghosts and ghosts... About the Holy Feathered Serpent... About the magical Pandora's box... About the esoteric astronomical codes... About the incredible Heluo Books...

About the room of the mysterious jackal... About the Babel Pyramids or the Walk of the Dead in Mexico... About the unimaginable Lotterdamus "end of the world" prophecy... about…… What are they?What are they not? He (they) are the "fingerprints of God"?Are they not "God's fingerprints"?Why not ask why? Faced with such an irresistible temptation of ancient civilizations, our Graham Hancock mustered up the courage to rewrite the history of human civilization development, "thousands of years up and down, thousands of miles across", and went deep into the existing He explores almost all the ancient civilizations in secret places. With his eyes, he stands at the height of cosmic civilization to observe the incredible ancient human civilizations that cannot be explained by all kinds of modern civilizations on the earth. He uses geophysics, astronomy, archaeology, human Theories, religion, mythology, architecture, etc., asked a solid and thorough question of why not why!

As for Graham Hancock's conclusion, we might as well use the doctrine advocated by Mr. Lu Xun, use it first to extract the essence, and then calmly discard the dross. Never splash the dirty water in the bathtub, even the children in the bathtub will be disturbed. throw it together... It is with such an intention that we publish this book.What needs to be explained is: when editing this book, in order to preserve the prose style of the original English book and the characteristics of the original translation, we published it under the copyright owner Mr. Graham Hancock and the traditional Chinese version copyright owner Taiwan Xianzhi. Under the premise of the authorization of the Enterprise Co., Ltd., the "acres", "feet" and "inches" in the original book that do not conform to the legal measurement units of our country are retained and converted into the legal measurement units of our country, but the original Chinese translation Some words and names of race, ethnicity, and region, such as "surprise", "Mayan", "Andes", etc., have been slightly changed in terms of words according to the reading habits of readers in mainland my country, hereby explain.

editor In Beijing at the end of 1998