Graham Hancock is the author of the leading international bestseller The Sign and The Seal, Fingerprints and Mirror of Heaven. More than five million copies of his books have been published worldwide and translated into 27 languages. His thoughts are communicated to tens of millions of people through public lectures, radio and television programs. His thoughts are also used in major television series for the British Channel 4 and the American Learning Channel: Quest for the Lost Civilization and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age. He is a recognized unconventional thinker who deals with controversial issues of human history.

Origin of Graham Hancock

He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and spent his childhood in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. He attended a school in North Durham, Durham, and graduated from the 1973 at Durham University with a degree in sociology. He began his career in the field of serious journalism and wrote for a number of leading British journals such as The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Guardian. In the years 1976-1979 was the co-publisher of New Internationalist and 1981-1983, a South African newsletter for The Economist.

At the beginning of 80. flight 20. Hancock began to gradually shift attention to writing books. The first (Journey Through Pakistan, along with photographers Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts) released 1981. Followed by the book Under Ethiopian Skies (1983), which he wrote with Richard Pankhurst and accompanied by a photograph of Duncan Willetse. Ethiopia: The Challenge of Hunger (1984) and AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic (1986), in which he participated with Enver Carim. In 1987, he began working on his widely acclaimed criticism of foreign aid, Lords of Poverty, released in 1989. A year later followed the book African Ark (with photographs by Angely Fisher and Carol Beckwith).

Bestsellers

Hancock's breakthrough in the world of bestseller was in 1992, when he released The Sign and The Seal. This is an epic quest for the mystery of the lost Arch. "Hancock invented a new genre"Wrote The Guardian.

According to the Literary Review, "one of the intellectual milestones of the decade" has sold over three million copies and is still interested in it all over the world. The following works as Keeper Of Genesis written with Robert Bauval a Mirror of Heaven: Search for a Lost Civilization with photos of Santhy Faiia have also become major bestselling artists. The other one is complemented by Hancock's three-part television series Quest For The Lost Civilization.

Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age

In 2002, Hancock released the book Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age, which met with an enthusiastic response from critics. He also made a big TV series on the subject. It was the culmination of years of research and diving to underwater ancient ruins. Hancock asserts here that many guides to the origin of our civilization are underwater. More specifically, in the coastal areas that were mainland than the last ice age flooded the water. It also presents specific archeological evidence that myths and legends about ancient floods can not simply be dismissed.

Another act of Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith, on which Hancock again worked with Robert Bauval, was released in 2004 after ten years of preparation. He returns to the themes he dealt with in the work of Keeper Of Genesis, and looks for further evidence of the survival of a secret astronomical cult in modern times. It's a brave intellectual journey to the alleyways of our history where the author in architecture and monuments reveals the traces of the secret religion that shapes our world.

Finding a supernatural: meeting with ancient humanity teachers

In 2005, Search for the Supernatural: a meeting with ancient humanity teachers, Hancock's research on the subject of shamanism and the origins of religion. This controversial book suggests that experience with altered states of consciousness plays a crucial role in the development of human culture that and we are constantly enveloping other realities - some parallel worlds - but our senses are mostly hidden.