Books like Magicians of the gods by Graham Hancock

Four young children discover a mysterious letter buried by a knight during a mass killing in the woods in 1327, but its secrets threaten the future of their lives and the kingdom of England.

Graham Hancock tracks the legendary Ark of the Covenant through ancient archives, Ethiopia’s civil war, and mythic lore, uncovering where it may now be hidden.

Zecharia Sitchin's gripping exploration of ancient conflicts, revealing the Earth's violent origins on another world.

Ancient graffiti - hundreds of thousands of informal, ephemeral texts spanning millennia - offer a patchwork of fragmentary conversations in a variety of languages spread across the Mediterranean world. Cut, painted, inked or traced in charcoal, the surviving graffiti present a layer of lived experience in the ancient world unavailable from other sources. Graffiti in Antiquity reveals how and why the inhabitants of Greece and Rome - men and women and free and enslaved - formulated written and visual messages about themselves and the world around them as graffiti.

"Relying on rich literary and historical sources John Aberth brings this period to life. Taking his themes from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he describes how the Great Famine and Black Death swept away nearly half of Europe's population, while the royal houses of England and France were engaged in a Hundred Years War that meant perpetual political strife. Above all loomed the specter of Death, ever present and constantly feared.". "Throughout the later Middle Ages, ordinary people were transformed by these daunting and fearful series of crises, yet in their prayers, chronicles, poetry, and especially their commemorative art are foreshadowings of the age to come. As John Aberth reveals in this informative and sympathetic work, in their struggles we glimpse the birth of the modern."--BOOK JACKET.

An interdisciplinary study of gender, sexuality, and women’s roles in ancient Mesopotamia, offering a feminist theoretical framework and new methodology for Near Eastern antiquity.

Less than fifty thousand years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking. Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as "the greatest riddle in human history," all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers. In Supernatural Graham Hancock sets out to investigate this mysterious "beforeandafter moment" and to discover the truth about the influences that gave birth to the modern human mind. His quest takes him on a detective journey from the stunningly beautiful painted caves of prehistoric France, Spain, and Italy to rock shelters in the mountains of South Africa, where he finds extraordinary Stone Age art. He uncovers clues that lead him to the depths of the Amazon rainforest to drink the powerful hallucinogen Ayahuasca with shamans, whose paintings contain images of "supernatural beings" identical to the animalhuman hybrids depicted in prehistoric caves. Hallucinogens such as mescaline also produce visionary encounters with exactly the same beings. Scientists at the cutting edge of consciousness research have begun to consider the possibility that such hallucinations may be real perceptions of other "dimensions." Could the "supernaturals" first depicted in the painted caves be the ancient teachers of mankind? Could it be that human evolution is not just the "meaningless" process that Darwin identified, but something more purposive and intelligent that we have barely begun to understand? Graham Hancock is the author of Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis, The Mars Mystery, Heaven's Mirror, and Underworld, all number one bestsellers. ***The Guardian*** has credited him with having "invented a new genre—an intellectual who-dunnit by a do-it-yourself sleuth." **Review** "Graham Hancock is no stranger to controversy. The former journalist, whose books have sold five million copies in the past 10 years, has repeatedly dared to challenge scientific shibboleths, taking a run at entrenched thinking in archaeology, geology and astronomy." -***The Globe and Mail*** **Reviewer**: Guy Vincent 5.0 out of 5 stars, Verified Purchase **Pushing the boundaries of psychedelic science** This book was recommended to me by one of the most educated and interesting friends I know - also educated in Western medicine. I would have been resistant to ideas of fairies, aliens and machine elves, had I not experienced similar beings myself, during ayahuasca ceremonies in Peru with Shipibo shamans. This book pushes the boundaries of biophysics, neuroscience and ethnobotany, and opens new ideas for research in psychedelic science. The connections between DMT and DNA make this book worth reading alone. Read this, if you have an open mind, or are curious about our place in the physical and non-physical universes. **Reviewer**: The Diab0lus 5.0 out of 5 stars, Verified Purchase **If you've ever had doubts about the existence of the supernatural world, you wont after reading this** For all you book readers out there who want something good that will blow your mind, I would HIGHLY reccomend this gem. If you want a more in-depth understanding of the supernatural, how it applies to us as humans, and how it all works and functions from a practical and also a theoretical point of view, this is the book for you. Graham Hancock (the author) has always been a respectable and revolutionary archaeologist & investigator and is considered a pioneer in the realm of pre-history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, anthropology, ancient religions & mythology and their origins, the occult, etc. All the hidden knowledge and information about human life on this planet and its origins can all be found in his books. I've always been a skeptical type of person, but all of his work is backed up with a solid foundation of evidence necessary to support it. Every single chapter of every one of h

Edited by Graham Hancock, this anthology gathers 22 voices probing psychedelics—from Amazonian ayahuasca to LSD—examining mind‑altering states, interspecies dialogue, enlightenment and neuro‑risk across South America, the American Southwest, and beyond.

Graham Hancock investigates the mysteries of the Great Sphinx and Giza pyramids, proposing new interpretations of ancient Egyptian texts and astronomical alignments.

The author presents evidence for "the existence of an ancient advanced civilization--not Atlantis--that predates Egyptian, Hittite, and Chinese cultures"--Publisher.

"A Companion to Women in the Ancient World presents an interdisciplinary, methodologically-based collection of newly-commissioned essays from prominent scholars on the study of women in the ancient world."--