The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind

Hancock, Graham;Bauval, Robert

ISBN 10: 0517705036 / ISBN 13: 9780517705032

Published by Crown Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1996

About this Item

Moderate cover, edge wear, crease. Pages very good. Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval posit that the Sphinx and the other monuments of the necropolis at Giza are actually an analog - astrotheological monuments - of the constellations as they appeared in the year 10,500 B.C.E., thus making these structures three times as old as they are commonly believed to be. Several photo plates. Illustrations throughout. 362 pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind
• Publisher: Crown Publishers, New York, New York, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517705036
• ISBN 13: 9780517705032
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

In The Message of the Sphinx, Robert Bauval, author of The Orion Mystery, and Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods, present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work that unravels the millennial code embodied in these structures. Using sophisticated computer simulations of ancient skies, they unravel the riddle of the Sphinx, and they present a startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures.
These texts serve as an ingenious treasure trail, and as the authors reveal, a covert treasure hunt has been under way for the last twenty years at the pyramids and the Sphinx - a hunt involving senior Egyptologists, high government officials, and a wealthy esoteric organization behind the scenes.
What are they looking for? What is contained in the rectangular chamber that seismic surveys have located in the bedrock far below the paws of the Sphinx? What lies behind the mysterious door recently discovered at the end of a previously unexplored shaft deep inside the Great Pyramid? And does mankind have a rendezvous with destiny - a rendezvous not in the future, but in the distant past, at a precise place and time?

About the Author

Graham Hancock was formerly East Africa Correspondent for The Economist and covered the Ogaden war between Somalia and Ethiopia for the London Sunday Times.  His books include African Ark:  Peoples of the Horn, the widely acclaimed Lords of Poverty, which earned the 1990 H.L. Mencken Award (honorable mention) for an outstanding book of journalism,  The Sign and the Seal (Crown, 1992), the international bestseller that documented his real-life quest for the lost Ark of the Covenant, and the recent number-one bestseller, Fingerprints of the Gods (Crown 1995).

Hancock has recently appeared on the NBC special "The Mysterious Origins of Man" and on the CBS special "Mysteries of the Millennium."  He has also appeared on television with Michael Palin in his "