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Fingerprints of the Gods
Graham Hancock ISBN 0749314540
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Graham Hancock ISBN 0749314540
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This book by Graham Hancock has come up 10 times across 3 different shows: Diary of a CEO, Joe Rogan, Lex Fridman. 4 of those mentions were genuine on-air recommendations, not just passing references. The people who brought it up: Graham Hancock, Joe Rogan, Raul Bilecky, guest. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-04-16 and the most recent from 2026-06-11. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
This book is about the beginning of the human race. How perhaps normal history has left things out, or maybe just left things unexplained. Graham Hancock explains how certain ancient structures all over the world are much older than originally thought, how civilizations who had no means of travel seemed to have communicated in some way. Hancock tries to answer questions we may have never even thought to ask. Were ancient civilizations visited by a superior race? Were these civilizations taught about technology they wouldn't have had?
“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.”— Graham Hancock
The guest here is Graham Hancock: British author and former journalist who has spent 30+ years investigating the possibility of a forgotten advanced civilization predating recorded history. Best known for Fingerprints of the Gods and his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse. Facing risky heart surgery, Graham Hancock makes the case for a lost civilization wiped out by an ancient cataclysm and warns we may be next.
“Fingerprints of the Gods was one of the first books I picked up as a kid. My dad had it in his library and that set me off on a course”— Raul Bilecky
The guest here is Raul Bilecky: A former video editor turned independent archaeological explorer who runs the YouTube channel Pillars of the Past. With Peruvian roots, he uses Google Earth to locate and drone-document unrecorded ancient sites across Peru. Solo explorer Raul Bilecky shows Joe Rogan undocumented Peruvian pyramids, looted mummies, elongated skulls, and a lost cradle of civilization.
“I think in the '9s Fingerprints of the Gods came out and I loved it. I was so fascinated by I couldn't shut the up about it”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Jay Anderson: British alternative-history and UFO researcher behind the YouTube channel Project Unity. He documents megalithic sites in Peru and Egypt and recounts his own UFO 'orb' experiences. Joe Rogan and alternative-history researcher Jay Anderson dig into megalithic mysteries, the Nazca mummies, pyramid scans, plasma intelligence and a deeply skeptical take on UFO disclosure.
“I was so pumped cuz I'd read his book in the 90s. I read Same. Yeah. Fingerprints of the Gods. Amazing book”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is AJ Gentile: Creator and host of The Y Files, a YouTube channel with roughly 4.7 million subscribers that explores weird science, conspiracies, and unexplained phenomena, narrated alongside a talking cartoon fish named Hecklefish. A former TV host, producer, editor, and writer who launched the channel in 2020 after leaving Los Angeles. Joe Rogan and Y Files host AJ Gentile run through a marathon of paranormal and conspiracy rabbit holes, from crop circles and the hollow moon to UFO disinformation and ancient Egypt.
“I've written about it in uh in Fingerprints of the Gods let's see I bet Jamie's already found it”— guest
The guest here is Graham Hancock: British author and journalist known for Fingerprints of the Gods and the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse, proponent of a lost advanced civilization from the last Ice Age. Graham Hancock returns to argue archaeology suppresses evidence of a lost Ice Age civilization, citing Egypt, the Amazon, and global myths.
“but when Fingerprints of the Gods was published in 1995 and became a a global bestseller then I started to attract their attention”— Graham Hancock
The guest here is Graham Hancock: Journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility of an advanced lost civilization during the last Ice Age. He presents the Netflix documentary series Ancient Apocalypse. Graham Hancock argues a lost Ice Age civilization seeded humanity's myths, astronomy, and monuments before a younger-dryas cataclysm destroyed it.
“that's why I ended up writing Fingerprints of the Gods to to put that information before the public to allow people access to information”— Graham Hancock
The guest here is Graham Hancock & Randall Carlson: Graham Hancock is a British author and former journalist behind Fingerprints of the Gods and the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse; Randall Carlson is a geological catastrophism and sacred-geometry researcher. Hancock and Carlson argue a lost Ice Age civilization was destroyed by a comet 12,800 years ago, suppressed by mainstream archaeology.
“I tell people about this book he wrote called Fingerprints of the Gods an amazing book it just shows all this evidence”— Joe Rogan
The guest here is Steven Wright: Deadpan absurdist comedian who started in Boston in 1979, became a standup icon known for surreal one-liners, and author of the novel Harold. Comedy legend Steven Wright joins Joe Rogan to dissect the craft of standup, the legendary 1980s Boston scene, and the creative power of doing nothing.
“the reaction to my proposal that we've forgotten an episode in the human story it's always been hostile since I published Fingerprints”— Graham Hancock
The guest here is Graham Hancock: British author and journalist behind Fingerprints of the Gods and the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse, who champions the lost-civilization hypothesis. Graham Hancock argues archaeology suppresses evidence of an advanced Ice Age civilization wiped out by a comet cataclysm 12,800 years ago.
“When I first started writing about this Fingerprints of the Gods in in 1995 I was immediately attacked by archaeology”— Graham Hancock
The guest here is Graham Hancock & Flint Dibble: Graham Hancock is an alternative-history author (Fingerprints of the Gods, Netflix's Ancient Apocalypse) who argues for a lost advanced Ice Age civilization; Flint Dibble is a professional archaeologist at Cardiff University specializing in ancient food, animal bones, and isotope analysis who argues the mainstream evidence refutes that idea. Archaeologist Flint Dibble debates Graham Hancock on whether a lost Ice Age civilization existed, presenting big-data evidence against it.
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