Graham Hancock's "Quest For The Lost Civilization"
Posted by Sane Spirit on Sunday, May 20, 2012
Graham Hancock goes on a global quest tracing remains of a "lost civilization" that may have passed on its legacy to ancient historical cultures all around the world.
From Angkor Wat to the pyramids of Egypt, using astronomical calculations, water erosion patterns on the Sphinx, interpretations of inscriptions in temples and pyramids to show the advanced knowledge of the heavens and constellations which we only duplicated a few centuries ago.
At Yonaguni (Japan), Hancock dives beneath the waves to a submerged step-pyramid structure. It has the appearance of a great work of architecture but if it is man-made then it is the oldest-known monument on earth. Off the Micronesian Island of Pohnpei, near Nan Madol, Hancock explores further the mysterious underwater ruin. Many of the monuments that Hancock goes to ie. the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, and the Pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt, were carefully and accurately laid out on the grounds as images, or ‘copies’ of particular constellations of the stars in the sky--Pyramids copy the belt of Orion, the Sphinx copies the constellation of Leo, and the Angkor temples are laid out in the pattern of Draco.
In part 2, Hancock’s starts in Peru, where the Nazca lines are, he believes, just one of a series of global ground maps of the night sky, part of a world wide grid that is the legacy of an earlier civilization that left clues to its identity throughout the world. Back in Egypt, he shows how the famous King’s Chamber’s shafts are exactly targeted at the stars in the belt of Orion as they would have been in the skies at the date of 10,500 BC. He then looks to explain the recurrence of one symbol – that of a feathered serpent – in Cambodia, Egypt, Central America and South America. And how then to explain the mystery of the massive caved heads left behind by the mysterious Olmec civilization in south America.
Part3: On Easter Island, why did the inhabitants of a remote, tiny, Pacific island carve and place such elaborate statues? The program follows his expedition to the Japanese island of Yonaguni that had been submerged since the sea-levels rose over 10,000 years ago.
From Angkor Wat to the pyramids of Egypt, using astronomical calculations, water erosion patterns on the Sphinx, interpretations of inscriptions in temples and pyramids to show the advanced knowledge of the heavens and constellations which we only duplicated a few centuries ago.
At Yonaguni (Japan), Hancock dives beneath the waves to a submerged step-pyramid structure. It has the appearance of a great work of architecture but if it is man-made then it is the oldest-known monument on earth. Off the Micronesian Island of Pohnpei, near Nan Madol, Hancock explores further the mysterious underwater ruin. Many of the monuments that Hancock goes to ie. the temples of Angkor in Cambodia, and the Pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt, were carefully and accurately laid out on the grounds as images, or ‘copies’ of particular constellations of the stars in the sky--Pyramids copy the belt of Orion, the Sphinx copies the constellation of Leo, and the Angkor temples are laid out in the pattern of Draco.
In part 2, Hancock’s starts in Peru, where the Nazca lines are, he believes, just one of a series of global ground maps of the night sky, part of a world wide grid that is the legacy of an earlier civilization that left clues to its identity throughout the world. Back in Egypt, he shows how the famous King’s Chamber’s shafts are exactly targeted at the stars in the belt of Orion as they would have been in the skies at the date of 10,500 BC. He then looks to explain the recurrence of one symbol – that of a feathered serpent – in Cambodia, Egypt, Central America and South America. And how then to explain the mystery of the massive caved heads left behind by the mysterious Olmec civilization in south America.
Part3: On Easter Island, why did the inhabitants of a remote, tiny, Pacific island carve and place such elaborate statues? The program follows his expedition to the Japanese island of Yonaguni that had been submerged since the sea-levels rose over 10,000 years ago.