Product Details

• Actors: Graham Hancock
• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Acorn Media
• VHS Release Date: November 11, 1998
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 1569382611
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #49,644 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Visiting exotic locations across the globe, writer Graham Hancock, in this installment of a series entitled Quest for the Lost Civilization, argues that ancient people built enormous structures that are perfectly aligned to the sun and stars. Two particular sites are singled out for attention, the complex of pyramids and the Sphinx in Egypt and the massive ancient temples at Angkor Wat in Cambodia. Hancock finds similarities in the two ancient landmarks, which seems bizarre when one considers that the cultures that left the structures behind are naturally assumed to have had no contact with each other. Yet, according to Hancock, both sites are modeled on particular constellations in the night sky, and both have startling numerical relationships. Using aerial photography and innovative computer graphics, Hancock illustrates the patterns he has found in Egypt and Cambodia, and he concludes that an advanced ancient society, far older than we have ever suspected, spread celestial knowledge around the globe as early as 10,500 B.C. Hancock, of course, has his skeptics, and to his credit he includes a segment in this documentary in which noted Egyptologists scoff at his conclusions. This is an entertaining and provocative look at material that is bound to raise eyebrows. --Robert J. McNamara

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent-Professional Scientific Research, February 17, 2000

By	Felecia L. Palmer - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quest for the Lost Civilization - Forgotten Knowledge [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The three tape series goes beyond eye opening.The author does an excellent job at presenting a new theory on ancient civilizations that you have to see to believe. Once he is through you will never be able to cuddle up comfortably in your old beliefs. He is thorough and the evidence is convincing and astounding.Go ahead and free your mind. It's worth it.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very compelling evidence of a lost civilization, January 24, 2003

By	J. Eppers (Salem, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Quest for The Lost Civilization - Ancient Mariners [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I saw "Quest for The Lost Civilization - Ancient Mariners" on the Science channel (may have been called Discovery Science at the time). This program has some very suprsing evidence which links Angkor, Giza, and Easter island to each other. It also suggests that the Aztecs and Mayans may have been in this same group. The stars and geometery linked these places together. They had similiar culture and traditions.

All this may sound far fetched, but it isnt. This program is very interesting and I higly reccomend it to anyone with interest in ancient civilizations, archeology, and historical fiction. I have yet to see the other "Quest for the Lost Civilization" movies, but I believe fans of those will also love this one.

Were the Ancients really linked together? do they know something we do not? It's all very thought provoking and yet we may never solve it. Just remeber how many times we have overlooked things in are history or made up other things in order to solve the unexplained.

3.0 out of 5 stars the beer can hypothesis, May 17, 2009

By	R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Quest for the Lost Civilization - Forgotten Knowledge [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The beer can hypothesis is that high civilizations leave
"beer cans" or wine amphora ( the Greeks and Romans):
that is some durable artifacts that were in common use by a lot of people.
Since now such artifacts excepts flint spear points and venus carvings come from dating sediments at the 10500 bc geological level, the idea of a civilization at that level is just pretty much unfounded in actual archaeological fact?