The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet - Hardcover

Hancock, Graham; Bauval, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0609600869 ISBN 13: 9780609600863

Publisher: Crown Pub, 1998

Synopsis

Investigates evidence that links ancient Egyptian monuments with mysterious pyramidal structures and a Sphinx-like "face" photographed on the surface of Mars

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About the Author:

GRAHAM HANCOCK is a former East African correspondent for The Economist and has traveled around the world writing books and filming movies on archaeological discoveries and their connection to our distant past. He is the author of the best-selling Fingerprints of the Gods and The Sign and the Seal, and the coauthor of The Message of the Sphinx. He lives in Devon, England.

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Mystery, investigative archaeologist Graham Hancock treats our growing knowledge of Martian topography as a Rosetta Stone we can use to decode mysteries as old as the human imagination. He examines the current landscape of Mars and discovers evidence that the planet was once home to a lush environment of dense atmo-sphere and flowing rivers, lakes, and oceans. He asks questions, based on growing evidence, that cannot be dismissed: Has Mars ever sustained higher forms of life? How might the secret history of Mars be intertwined with Earth's own past and future?

In his most riveting and revealing book yet, Hancock points to the intriguing possibility that ancient Martian civilization is communicating with us through the remarkable structures it left behind. Megaliths found on the parched shores of Cydonia, a former Martian ocean, mirror the geometrical conventions of the pyramids at Egypt's Giza necropolis. Especially startling is a Sphinx-like structure depicting a face with distinguishabl

About this edition

• Publisher: Crown Pub
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0609600869
• ISBN 13: 9780609600863
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 344