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HANCOCK is the author of the major international bestsellers The Sign
and The Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, and Heaven's Mirror. His books
have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been
translated into 27 languages. His public lectures, radio and TV
appearances, including two major TV series for Channel 4 in the UK and
The Learning Channel in the US - Quest For The Lost Civilisation and
Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age - have put his ideas before audiences of
tens of millions. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker
who raises controversial questions about humanity's past.
Born
in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock's early years were spent in India, where
his father worked as a surgeon. Later he went to school and university
in the northern English city of Durham and graduated from Durham
University in 1973 with First Class Honours in Sociology. He went on to
pursue a career in quality journalism, writing for many of Britain's
leading newspapers including The Times, The Sunday Times, The
Independent, and The Guardian. He was co-editor of New Internationalist
magazine from 1976-1979 and East Africa correspondent of The Economist
from 1981-1983.
In the early 1980's Hancock's writing began to
move consistently in the direction of books. His first book (Journey
Through Pakistan, with photographers Mohamed Amin and Duncan Willetts)
was published in 1981. It was followed by Under Ethiopian Skies (1983),
co-authored with Richard Pankhurst and photographed by Duncan Willets ,
Ethiopia: The Challenge of Hunger (1984), and AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic
(1986) co-authored with Enver Carim. In 1987 Hancock began work on his
widely-acclaimed critique of foreign aid, Lords of Poverty, which was
published in 1989. African Ark (with photographers Angela Fisher and
Carol Beckwith) was published in 1990.
Hancock's breakthrough to
bestseller status came in 1992 with the publication of The Sign and The
Seal, his epic investigation into the mystique and whereabouts today of
the lost Ark of the Covenant. 'Hancock has invented a new genre,'
commented The Guardian, 'an intellectual whodunit by a do-it-yourself
sleuth.' Fingerprints of the Gods, published in 1995 confirmed Hancock's
growing reputation. Described as 'one of the intellectual landmarks of
the decade' by the Literary Review, this book has now sold more than
three million copies and continues to be in demand all around the world.
Subsequent works such as Keeper Of Genesis (The Message of the Sphinx
in the US) with co-author Robert Bauval, and Heaven's Mirror, with
photographer Santha Faiia, have also been Number 1 bestsellers, the
latter accompanied by Hancock's three-part television series Quest For
the Lost Civilisation.
In 2002 Hancock published Underworld:
Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age to great critical acclaim, and hosted
the accompanying major TV series. This was the culmination of years of
research and on-hand dives at ancient underwater ruins. Arguing that
many of the clues to the origin of civilization lay underwater, on
coastal regions once above water but flooded at the end of the last Ice
age, Underworld offered tangible archaeological evidence that myths and
legends of ancient floods were not to be dismissed out of hand.
Graham's
next venture Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith, co-authored by
Robert Bauval, was published in 2004. This work, a decade in
preparation, returns to the themes last dealt with in Keeper Of Genesis,
seeking further evidence for the continuation of a secret astronomical
cult into modern times. It is a roller-coaster intellectual journey
through the back streets and rat runs of history to uncover the traces
in architecture and monuments of a secret religion that has shaped the
world.
In 2005 Graham published Supernatural: Meetings with The
Ancient Teachers of Mankind, an investigation of shamanism and the
origins of religion. This controversial book suggests that experiences
in altered states of consciousness have played a fundamental role in the
evolution of human culture, and that other realities - indeed parallel
worlds - surround us all the time but are not normally accessible to our
senses.
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