Episode 1 - Heaven s Mirror
Visiting exotic locations across the globe, writer Graham Hancock, in this installment of a series entitled Quest for the Lost Civilization, argues that ancient people built enormous structures that are perfectly aligned to the sun and stars. Two particular sites are singled out for attention, the complex of pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt and the massive ancient temples at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Hancock finds similarities in the two ancient landmarks, which seems bizarre when one considers that the cultures that left the structures behind are naturally assumed to have had no contact with each other.
Yet, according to Hancock, both sites are modeled on particular constellations in the night sky, and both have startling numerical relationships. Using aerial photography and innovative computer graphics, Hancock illustrates the patterns he has found in Egypt and Cambodia, and he concludes that an advanced ancient society, far older than we have ever suspected, spread celestial knowledge around the globe as early as 10,500 B.C. Hancock, of course, has his skeptics, and to his credit he includes a segment in this documentary in which noted Egyptologists scoff at his conclusions. This is an entertaining and provocative look at material that is bound to raise eyebrows.
Episode 2 - Forgotten Knowledge
Writer Graham Hancock, the cheerful host of this documentary, takes the viewer on a journey to sites scattered widely across the world while putting forth his theory that an ancient and intelligent lost civilization was responsible for creating some puzzling ruins. At Egypt s Giza plateau, Hancock visits the Great Pyramid, and using computer graphics he explains how the pyramid s location is aligned to particular astronomical constellations. He also notes how the pyramid itself exhibits some sophisticated geometrical relationships that many scholars would credit to the theories of Pythagoras, who lived many centuries after the pyramid was built. In Central America, he discusses similar theories about Mayan pyramids and astronomy, and visiting the Hebrides, he ponders some unusual stone circles built near the North Atlantic. Hancock points out numerous relationships between these widely dispersed structures, and offers his conclusion that a civilization of ancient seafarers who lived around 10,500 B.C. were responsible for spreading the knowledge required to build them. This documentary, one of a three-part series called the Quest for the Lost Civilization is professionally produced, and Hancock s theory, which at first sounds bizarre, is bolstered by his good-humored delivery and his constructive use of graphics to show relationships between ancient structures and their suspected astronomical models
Episode 3 - Ancient Mariners
In this documentary, writer Graham Hancock visits exotic and remote locations to support his theory that very advanced ancient people spread their knowledge throughout much of the world. On Easter Island, Hancock argues that the famed statues are aligned to the sunrise on particular days of the year, and while investigating some recently discovered underwater ruins, he suggests that the structure had been built to align to the Tropic of Cancer. Across the Pacific, in Micronesia, Hancock finds similar evidence of great astronomical knowledge, and he notes that the ancient builders had knowledge of the heavens that would also make them great navigators. What takes his theories to a whole new level of speculation, however, is when he uses computer graphics, showing the world as seen from the North Pole, to demonstrate that Easter Island is located equidistant in longitude between the Egyptian temples of Giza and the Cambodian temples at Angkor Wat. Doing some calculating on star positions in ancient time, Hancock makes the point that all these colossal and complicated structures must have been built at nearly the same time, about 10,500 B.C. Hancock s theory that ancient mariners spread all this knowledge through the entire world may seem crazy at first, but he presents it in an entertaining manner, and even skeptics may enjoy his offbeat presentation.
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