The Atlantis Blueprint Unlocking the Ancient Mysteries of a Long-Lost Civilization

CAN ARCHAEOLOGY'S GREATEST MYSTERIES BE TRACED BACK TO THE LOST CIVILIZATION OF ATLANTIS? The Great Pyramid. Stonehenge. Machu Picchu. For centuries, these and other sacred sites have attracted pilgrims, scholars, and adventurers drawn by the possibility that their true spiritual and technological secrets remain hidden. Who could have built these elaborate monuments? How did they do it? And what were their incomprehensible efforts and sacrifices designed to accomplish? Now comes a revolutionary theory that connects these mysteries to reveal a hidden global pattern--the ancient work of an advanced civilization whose warnings of planetary cataclysm now reverberate across one hundred millennia. Here is startling evidence of an intelligent society dating back as much as 100,000 years--one that sailed the oceans of the world, building monuments to preserve and communicate its remarkable wisdom. The Atlantis Blueprintis the authors' term for a complex network of connections between these sacred sites that trace back to Atlantis: a sophisticated maritime society that charted the globe from its home base in Antarctica...until it was obliterated by devastating global changes it anticipated but could not escape. Opening up a Pandora's box of ancient mysteries, lost worlds, and millennial riddles,The Atlantis Blueprintis a story as controversial, fascinating, dangerous--and inspiring--as any ever told.

Colin Wilson, author of such international bestsellers as <b>The Outsider</b> and <b>The Occult</b>, also writes on archaeology, astronomy, and cosmology. His recent book, <b>From Atlantis to the Sphinx</b>, reached number five on the London <i>Times</i> bestseller list. He lives in Cornwall, England, with his wife.<br><br>Rand Flem-Ath, a Canadian librarian, is one of the world's leading researchers in catastrophe myths; he is the author of <b>When the Sky Fell: In Search of Atlantis</b>. He lives on Vancouver Island with his wife, Rose, and their two dogs and two cats.<br><br><br><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>