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In *Underworld*, Graham Hancock explores the hypothesis that many ancient flood legends reflect real submerged landscapes left after the last Ice Age. By combining contemporary stratigraphic geology, computer‑generated shoreline models, and direct underwater fieldwork in the Mediterranean, Atlantic, and Arabian seas, he examines the plausibility of vast, formerly habitable regions now lost beneath 15 million square miles of sea. The book presents Hancock’s observations from diving expeditions, contextualizes them within the broader field of submerged‑land archaeology, and discusses how these findings might reshape understandings of early human civilization.
First publish date: 2002
Genre: History/Ancient History
Authors: Graham Hancock
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