Episode · Stuff They Don't Want You To Know · 2024-01-30
Books mentioned on CLASSIC: Ancient Civilizations in Antarctica?
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Ben Bowlin recommended Fingerprints of the gods by Graham Hancock, and discussed Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock, Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Däniken, and At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Magicians of the Gods
Magicians of the Gods by Graham Hancock is a work of alternative history that presents arguments for a lost, advanced ancient civilization destroyed by a global cataclysm caused by a comet impact.
Discussed“so he wrote a book called magicians of the Gods the Forgotten wisdom of Earth's lost civilizations in 201 title tile and it's an update it's a sequel to A book he wrote In 1995 called Fingerprints of the Gods the evidence of Earth's lost civilizations”
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Fingerprints of the gods
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.
Recommended“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”
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Chariots of the Gods?
Chariots of the Gods? by Erich von Daniken is a well-known alternative history book that posits ancient civilizations were influenced by extraterrestrial visitors.
Discussed“and it's not it's not uh taken very seriously by a lot of mainstream archaeologists do and anthropologists even doe primarily to the fact that these are kind of like Chariots of the Gods by Eric Von danin these arguments are made based on his interpretation of what he sees”
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At the Mountains of Madness
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P.
Discussed“is HP Lovecraft hey the author of the mountains of Madness uh famous author terrible person inspired millions of people with his story”
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