Book · 2025 · History
Fingerprints of the gods
The Quest for Earth's Lost Civilization
Why people recommend it
Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock is a popular alternative history book that presents theories regarding a lost and advanced civilization destroyed by a global cataclysm at the end of the last ice age. The book has been frequently discussed and praised on various podcast episodes. On The Joe Rogan Experience, guest Luke Caverns recalled reading the book when he was sixteen years old, describing it like reading a textbook for fun and noting how deeply it inspired him. Joe Rogan has repeatedly brought up the book across multiple episodes, mentioning to guests like AJ Gentile and Bert Kreischer that he originally discovered and read Hancock's work back in the 1990s. During an interview with Jimmy Corsetti and Dan Richards, Rogan referenced Hancock's arguments concerning a missing chapter in human history and the mysterious construction of the Great Pyramid. On Modern Wisdom, Graham Hancock himself discussed Fingerprints of the Gods with the host, highlighting its massive international success and top bestseller rankings in the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, and several other countries. Furthermore, during his appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience, Hancock explicitly cited the book as the printed reference where he previously documented specific stone artifacts while searching for images to share with the podcast host and audience during the live recording.
Who recommended it
- Luke Caverns Discussed
- Joe Rogan Discussed
Luke Caverns — 1 mention
“I mean gosh, I read Fingerprints of the Gods when I was 16. I remember like sitting on the couch after school and reading it and my dad's like comes up to me he's like that's a big book and I go I know it's like I'm reading a textbook for fun you know and it was uh it was”
Joe Rogan — 1 mention
“I was so pumped cuz I'd read his book in the 90s. I read Same. Yeah. Fingerprints of the Gods.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker — 11
“And you know whenever I um you know so so growing up I mean gosh I read Fingerprints of the Gods when I was 16. I remember like sitting on the couch after school and reading it and my dad's like comes up to me he's like that's a big book and I go I know it's like I'm reading”
“Like when Graham Hancock says that there's a missing chapter of human history, like this is reality. We don't know how they built the Great Pyramid.”
“But the next book, Fingerprints of the Gods, got to number one on the bestseller list, not just in the UK, but also in six other countries, including Italy and Japan.”
“I've written about it in Fingerprints of the Gods. Let's see if Jamie has already found it.”
“and the you know we talked about that with graham on here and that's actually what inspired graham to come back to his original idea that he had proposed in fingerprints of the gods back in 95 or 96”
“like I know Fingerprints of the Gods You released in the '90s”
“I mean I found out about his original book Fingerprints of the Gods in the 90s and I remember reading it”
“I read a book by someone who you had on this podcast a while ago whose name i'm gonna forget... graham hancock exactly... and i mean some of his theories seemed a little tenuous but some of them were fascinating like evidence of civilizations being in places you know tens of thousands of years before”
“I've written a large number of books with thousands of footnotes; for those who'd like to evaluate my work, do check out the books. It can't possibly be sampled here, just as Flint's can't, on the basis of a three-hour show. But I think we've done well, and I believe there is some kind of meeting of minds. I like”
“I had picked up one of Graham's books I believe it's I always say footprints of the gods but it's really fingerprints of the gods I'm pretty sure and the book was about ancient civilizations and it was all about how there's some there's a massive amount of evidence that points to the possibility that Earth experienced some sort of”
“It made sense to me in 1995 when i wrote fingerprints of the gods but there was no compelling evidence for a global cataclysm”