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Fingerprints of the gods
The Quest for Earth's Lost Civilization
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Your book Fingerprints of the Gods I've said it before when you've been on the podcast before changed my single-handedly change my ideas about history.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2014 Listen at 2:57:30 What they say about it
- Read it in the nineties“read his book in the 90s”8
- Changed view of history“changed the way I look at history”5
- Initially attacked as pseudoscience“attacked by archaeology”5
The best things said about it
When I read Fingerprints of the Gods it was to me it was one of those books I just couldn't put down and was so mind-blowing.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Nov 2016 And if you don't know who Graham Hancock is Graham Hancock is probably uh the one guy who's influenced my view of History more than anybody ever it's from this book Fingerprints of the Gods.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2011 And to get started on Graham if you you you've got to get this Fingerprints of the Gods it's uh one of my all-time favorite books if I was leaving and going to go on the space station for the rest of my life I'd bring that one with me.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Sep 2011 I mean I found out about his original book Fingerprints of the Gods in the 90s and I remember reading it and uh people were like ridiculing it saying oh that's preposterous that's pseudoscience everything in that book has now been proven to be true.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Mar 2023 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.
The fact that i could introduce people to you because your first book that i read of you Fingerprints of the Gods changed my view of the world i mean i remember putting that book down after i was finishing going wow.
Joe Rogan The Joe Rogan Experience · Apr 2019 Where and when it comes up
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Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock is an alternative history bestseller that argues an advanced, forgotten global civilization was wiped out by a cataclysm at the end of the last ice age. The book has been passionately championed by Joe Rogan across numerous episodes of The Joe Rogan Experience as a monumental work that completely reshaped his understanding of human history. Rogan has frequently recalled how unputdownable and mind-blowing he found the book when he first read it, noting that it single-handedly changed his worldview and ultimately inspired him to invite Hancock onto his podcast. Ben Bowlin also recommended the massive alternative history text on Stuff They Don't Want You To Know while discussing revisionist theories regarding ancient civilizations in Antarctica. Throughout these podcast discussions, speakers have emphasized the massive commercial success of the book, which has sold millions of copies worldwide, and praised its ability to challenge mainstream archaeological narratives. The text is continually held up as the definitive entry point into alternative historical inquiry, influencing countless readers to question conventional timelines of human development and ancient engineering.
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Joe Rogan and your book Fingerprints of the Gods I've said it before when you've been on the podcast before changed m… 33
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“So I had already read Fingerprints of the Gods and I was a huge Graham Hancock fan and all my friends that like had studied actual history in college were always very offended by my ideas”
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“I'd seen speeches and I'm like, I want to know like what do you know? What do you think's going on? And uh he's another guy incredibly curious and absolutely fascinated with his his takes on ancient history.”
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“That was when fingerprints of the gods came out that this was like maybe the beginnings of the whatever they were doing in Gobecapp. So I think Fingerprints of the Gods might have been even before.”
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“And if this Stella is accurate and this was also in Fingerprints of the Gods, Graham Hancock's book.”
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“I got into Graham Hancock stuff I think in the '9s Fingerprints of the Gods came out and I [ __ ] loved it. I I was so fascinated by”
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“I was so pumped cuz I'd read his book in the 90s. I read Same. Yeah. Fingerprints of the Gods.”
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“well you were one of the you like me um were one of the early readers of Fingerprints of the Gods and that sort of how you got into this whole subject”
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“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.”
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“well it's also the reality of your book in 1995 being dismissed and now you see so much evidence it shows that it's true”
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“I tell people about this book he wrote called Fingerprints of the Gods an amazing book”
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“I mean I found out about his original book Fingerprints of the Gods in the 90s and I remember reading it”
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“I mean I found out about his original book Fingerprints of the Gods in the 90s and I remember reading it and uh people were like ridiculing it saying oh that's preposterous that's pseudoscience everything in that book has now been proven to be true”
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“yes I mean you go back to Fingerprints of the Gods I read about that in the '90s I read that book in the 90s and that's when I got really into his stuff”
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“for the longest time he you know when he wrote the first book which was Fingerprints of the Gods he was uh widely criticized”
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“like I know Fingerprints of the Gods You released in the '90s”
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“like I know Fingerprints of the Gods You released in the '90s it was9 1995 that's when I I first read it and became obsessed”
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“because i had read fingerprints of the gods i had read you know his whole idea of this restarting of civilization”
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“I believe it's I always say footprints of the gods, but it's really fingerprints of the gods.”
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“the fact that i could introduce people to you because your first book that i read of you fingerprints of the gods changed my view of the world i mean i remember putting that book down after i was finishing going wow”
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“absolutely without it how could you have ever done fingerprints of the guys”
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“when I read fingerprints of the gods it was to me it was one of those books I just couldn't put down and was so mind-blowing”
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“I could remember reading magicians maybe it was magicians of the gods or fingerprints his first first one thinking I think it's Footprints of the Gods right was it fingerprints no fingerprints finger fingerprints”
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“Graham Hancock wrote this book called Fingerprints of the Gods it was a really controversial book in the 90s and then now he has a new one called magicians of the Gods which is it sort of shows how much of his early work that was like widely criticized was actually substantiated now by science”
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“Graham Hancock just wrote a book about it called The Magicians of the Gods and he had an old one that was super popular it sold like millions and millions of copies called Fingerprints of the Gods”
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“Graham if if you don't know Graham Hancock grah Graham wrote an amazing book called The Fingerprints of the Gods and fingerprints of the gods or Footprints of the Gods fingerprints I think it's I think it's footprint”
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“and your book Fingerprints of the Gods I've said it before when you've been on the podcast before changed my single-handedly change my ideas about history”
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“Graham Hancock is this famous dude who wrote this book called Fingerprints of the Gods brilliant brilliant guy”
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“I before that I had no idea that there were so many mysteries in in terms of like how ancient structures were constructed you know who the people were that actually designed them and built them and it's it's an amazing part of uh the history of the human race”
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“that book Fingerprints of the Gods changed the way I look at history”
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“and if you don't know who Graham Hancock is Graham Hancock is probably uh the one guy who's influenced my view of History more than anybody ever it's from this book Fingerprints of the Gods and fingerprints of the Gods is uh what is it so like 5 million copies or something crazy like that”
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“and to get started on Graham if you you you've got to get this Fingerprints of the Gods it's uh one of my all-time favorite books if I was leaving and going to go on the space station for the rest of my life I'd bring that one with me”
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“and this guy Graham Hancock is responsible from his book Fingerprints of the Gods completely changing the way I look at at civilization”
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“and he's this genius writer who wrote These fascinating books about ancient human history called Fingerprints of the Gods”
Ben Bowlin it's a sequel to A book he wrote In 1995 called Fingerprints of the Gods the evidence of Earth's lost civil… 1
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“it's a sequel to A book he wrote In 1995 called Fingerprints of the Gods the evidence of Earth's lost civilizations this book is massive if you are interested in this sort of alternative history revisionist stuff this what ify you have atast heard of this B Fingerprints of the Gods if interested in this and you have not read”
Dan Richards and Graham speculated in that book that it might be because of you know radiation sickness or something his… 3
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“and it's uh but there's a lot of evidence um in that book that was really interesting like uh the uh Knights Templar uh statues and stuff and in old uh Old Paris Cathedrals that would LED Graham to to Ethiopia”
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“and what Graham mentions in the book it's an interesting point is um the Bible records Moses going up to Mount Si coming down with the Ten Commandments getting mad in at the uh Israelites worshiping a golden calf and he breaks the Ten Commandments and then goes back up the mountain and comes back down after another week or”
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“and Graham speculated in that book that it might be because of you know radiation sickness or something his face was covered in sores for the rest of his life”
Graham Hancock But the next book, Fingerprints of the Gods, got to number one on the bestseller list, not just in the UK,… 3
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“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.”
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“when I first started writing about this Fingerprints of the Gods in in 1995 I was immediately attacked by archaeology”
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“when the New Scientist magazine in Britain which years ago back in the '90s when I published Fingerprints of the Gods was amongst the magazines that attacked my work as quote unquote pseudo scientific”
Randall Carlson and that's actually what inspired graham to come back to his original idea that he had proposed in fingerpr… 3
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“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 was the two things that the discovery of gobekli tepe”
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“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”
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“um we would I could could call him the Landscapes of catastrophe because he's doing his um sequel to Fingerprints of the Gods and you know when he came out with that book in 1995”
Luke Caverns And you know whenever I um you know so so growing up I mean gosh I read Fingerprints of the Gods when I was… 2
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“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”
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“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”
Bert Kreischer I had picked up one of Graham's books I believe it's I always say footprints of the gods but it's really fi… 1
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“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”
Charlie Walker I read a book by someone who you had on this podcast a while ago whose name i'm gonna forget... graham hanc… 1
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“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”
Flint Dibble oh this is from Fingerprints of the Gods no it's from magicians of the Gods 1
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“oh this is from Fingerprints of the Gods no it's from magicians of the Gods”
Raul Bilecky fingerprints of the Gods was one of the first books I picked up as a kid. My dad had it in his library 1
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“fingerprints of the Gods was one of the first books I picked up as a kid. My dad had it in his library”
Tyler Engle It was one Graham's book because I I was uh Fingerprints of the Gods. 1
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“It was one Graham's book because I I was uh Fingerprints of the Gods.”
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Plugged
“the book that put me on the map was Fingerprints of the Gods. And that's the book where I really investigate begin to investigate the possibility of a lost civilization.”
Plugged
“but the next book Fingerprints of the Gods got to number one on the best seller list not only in the UK but also in six other countries including Italy and Japan uh it became a worldwide phenomenon and that attracted the eye of Sauron”
Plugged
“I've written about it in uh in Fingerprints of the Gods”
Plugged
“I've written about it in Fingerprints of the Gods. Let's see if Jamie has already found it.”
Plugged
“and that's what set me on the path to Fingerprints of the Gods and everything that that that followed that”
Plugged
“But when "Fingerprints of the Gods" was published in 1995 and became a global bestseller, then I started to attract their attention, and appear to have been regarded as a threat to them.”
Passing
“Graham everybody knows you you've been on this podcast about 10 times largely thanks to you Joe oh I'm very happy happy to introduce the world to it”
Plugged
“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”
Plugged
“since I published Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995”
Plugged
“they were going back to the Fingerprints of the gods that I wrote In 1995 in which I reported indigenous Traditions”
Plugged
“a year after I published Fingerprints of the Gods”
Plugged
“the first book that really put me on the map and that immediately attracted a lot of criticism was Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995”
Plugged
“could there be something missing from the story of our past and that's that's why I ended up writing Fingerprints of the Gods to to put that information before the public”
Plugged
“It made sense to me in 1995 when i wrote fingerprints of the gods but there was no compelling evidence for a global cataclysm”
Plugged
“it made sense to me in 1995 when i wrote fingerprints of the gods but there was no compelling evidence for a global cataclysm”
Plugged
“that was the essence of my book fingerprints of the gods that was published in 1995 that there has been a huge forgotten episode in human history”
Passing
“and Graham Hancock, uh, author also, uh, fantastic human being, many times, been on this podcast as well.”
Plugged
“Actually, I might even ask Jamie to pull up the um the uh couple of images of Fingerprints of the Gods. That's the book I'm best known for. Uh and when I uh published Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995, essentially I was saying civilization is much older and much more mysterious than we thought.”
Plugged
“Fingerprints of the Gods was published in 1995 which is which is 20 years ago and magicians of the Gods the new book is the sequel to fingerprints”
Passing
“Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock ladies and gentlemen Fingerprints of the Gods available at Amazon”
Plugged
“I am writing a sequel to my best known book undoubtedly is Fingerprints of the Gods um the evidence for Earth LW civilization and what year was that 1995 1995”
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“and it's going to be a great exciting research trip and it's the last research trip for this sequel that I'm writing to fingerprints”
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“But then when I start when I started writing Fingerprints of the Gods, which was the biggest book I've I've ever done, a 5 million copy bestseller all around the world.”