Uncover the Mysteries of Ancient Civilizations with Graham Hancock's MAGICIANS OF THE GODS

ES: just as advertised , no problems

United States on Nov 13, 2023

Pamela Borup: Great book, full of interesting facts and places!

United States on Nov 09, 2023

Edmund Cramp: I've been reading historical descriptions for years now, descriptions of our history are wonderful and I've been studying our history to 60 years now (since I was a kid) and seen so many things that don't always make sense until I read Hancock's explanations ... for example I've been wondering where Atlantis was and never seen any evidence but this book has a wonderful explanation and descriptions of why historians have posted their opinions but not considered all the evidence. This is not a criticism - this is just how we have always had opinions with only a small amount of evidence. Reading this book is so educational and helpful.
Reading this book will make you think and study history so well so you will need to be reading it for months, not just a weekend - and when you have read everything and studied all the questions then you will pretty much know everything about our world.

United States on Oct 03, 2023

Janice D: Graham Hancock is one of my favourite authors. His books are always interesting and easy to read in a conversational style and I have highly recommended "Magicians of the Gods" to everyone I know.

Canada on Aug 22, 2023

anand prasad: Good introduced to Graham Hancock on Joe Rogan’s podcast, saw the documentary and immediately ordered the two books. Received them in time for holiday reading. Will update the review once finished.

India on Dec 09, 2022

Oliver Reichelt: The book is a bright star on the dark sky of denial and lack of knowledge from before the time now recognised as „history“.
It opens the mind to the facts gathered beside the trodden path of institutional science by regarding the phenomena instead of ignoring what „should not be possible“.
We find the Younger Dryas (Ice Age return) as a period of the flood. We find the same sages bringing civilization to all the peoples. We find stubborn ignorance and bureaocracy of universitarian power play and protection of political positions that hampers science.
Hancock writes his voyage of discovery, takes time to make the reader think and grasp with him the revolutionary concepts that can fit the newly found facts.
Not taking this seriously is a lapse of science.

Germany on May 16, 2022

Amazon Customer: Listen, weather you agree with the man's view or not is not up for debate. What Graham does here, and perhaps better than with Fingerprints of the Gods, is eloquently place other people's research before the reader to support a theory that respected academia believe is unfounded and, to some extent, ridiculous. He presents it in a manner that will keep a layman entertained but respectively and diligently states all his references and almost always tries to keep the reader straight on when he is referencing 'facts', quoting a respected authority or stating a conclusion of his own making. He skillfully addresses his theory of a forgotten civilization(s) by placing others research before you rather than starting out with opinions and baseless conclusions. What Graham Hancock wants is to make people think. An intelligent debate so to speak. Don't call the man a hack or worse, simply (like gentleman.... Or gentle lady) debate the evidence he presents. Even if the respected theory is the more credible than Hancocks, I think it will, for the average Joe and Jane (like me) be because we've really and truly given thought to evidence produced (be it in Hancocks favour or not). I gave this 5...

United Kingdom on Jul 07, 2017

ed17331: I very much appreciate Graham Hancock's work and the resulting books. They are always interesting and full of information. I read Fingerprints of the Gods twenty years ago and this new book (Magicians of the Gods) certainly adds new and important information and helps to answer some of the questions leftover from Fingerprints. The scientifically supported Younger-Dryas Comet Impact theory is put forth in detail as a hypothesis for some of the global flooding and civilization destroying changes that may have occurred around 12,000 years ago. I am happy to own this book.

Having said that, I do believe this book is not as good as Fingerprints. I agree with many of the criticisms espoused by the 2-star and 3-star reviews concerning the exposition of the material and the narrative (not the material itself). But rather than rehash those critiques here, I would like to ask for your help in understanding a particular aspect of the book (which I have just finished reading). Thanks in advance to those readers who will respond with helpful comments.

I am referring to a section of Chapter 15 called "Eliminating the impossible" that begins on page 327 and continues to the end of...

United States on Jul 04, 2016

Gary Smith: Review #1: Amazon had this product in stock for what I felt was a price on the the steep side of fair, but I admit I'm not sure how the prices are set, so what do I know? They, and Canada Post, delivered it quickly, also, I received what I had ordered, and it was well packaged, so it survived the trip quite well (nothing broken, missing, crushed, scratched, etc.).

Review #2: Product was 12 cd's of. Mr. Hancock narrating the unabridged copy of his own book No Readers Digest here, you get the works.. He is a good public speaker and he makes this audio book easy to listen to. It was rather like clicking on a 15 hours long radio show on, say, YouTube, without being interrupted by a host asking questions. You got to hear his ideas developed in full, and heard some things that were not in any of the YouTube presentations (or at least not any one I ever listened to). And obviously, at 15 hours long, most people won't get through it in one go. If you intend to marathon it plan accordingly...

There were some parts of the talk where you get the impression there are meant to be photos accompanying the text. An insert with the photos, or a cd with image files on it would have...

Canada on Apr 12, 2016

Suzanne Rice: I was quite skeptical when I first bought this book. In fact, unlike how I usually buy nonfiction books, I decided to buy the Kindle version, fully expecting to get a few pages in, see that it was total hogwash, and return it. However, now that I have finished it, I am considering going back and buying the hard copy of the book. I think it will be a lot easier to see the pictures and flip back and forth as I read it. I would recommend that people buy the hard copy rather than the Kindle version. I think the Kindle versions of books are better suited to books like novels that you read straight through without pictures or wanting to go back and reread parts. Anyway....this book is great! Graham Hancock obviously devoted a huge amount of time and effort to research this book, not only by traveling all over the world, but also through correspondence with other researchers, historians, and scientists, and researching written materials. I think someone like him, who is challenging the accepted chronology and accepted traditions, has to do even more research than the average "mainstream" author to prove his theories and beliefs. "Mainstream" historians' and scientists' work is more...

United States on Jan 02, 2016