Underworld

The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

By: Graham Hancock

Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman

From Graham Hancock, best-selling author of Fingerprints of the Gods, comes a mesmerizing book that takes us on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a lost civilization that's been hidden for thousands of years beneath the world's oceans.

While Graham Hancock is no stranger to stirring up heated controversy among scientific experts, his books and television documentaries have intrigued millions of people around the world and influenced many to rethink their views about the origins of human civilization. Now he returns with an explosive new work of archaeological detection. In Underworld, Hancock continues his remarkable quest underwater, where, according to almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe, the ruins of a lost civilization, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found.

Guided by cutting-edge science and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock begins his mission to discover the truth about these myths and examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age. As the glaciers melted between 17,000 and 7,000 years ago, sea levels rose and more than 15 million square miles of habitable land were submerged underwater, resulting in a radical change to the Earth's shape and the conditions in which people could live. Using the latest computer techniques to map the world's changing coastlines, Hancock finds astonishing correspondences with the ancient flood myths.

Filled with thrilling accounts of his own participation in dives off the coast of Japan, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Arabian Sea, we watch as Hancock discovers underwater ruins exactly where the myths say they should be-sunken kingdoms that archaeologists never thought existed. Fans of Hancock's previous adventures will find themselves immersed in Underworld, a provocative book that provides both compelling hard evidence for a fascinating, forgotten episode in human history, and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilization as we know it.

©2002 Graham Hancock (P)2019 Tantor

Critic reviews

"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 shibboleth, taking a run at entrenched thinking in archeology, geology and astronomy." (The Globe and Mail)

Believe him or not, he makes a point

this is not the first Graham Hancock novel I've read. came across Graham while listening to a Joe Rogan podcast and I've been hooked on his theories ever since. his book clearly defines all the weird underwater structures that exist in archaeology wants to ignore. while still leaving the possibility that some of these structures are just natural coincidences. definitely a good listen, if you want to further in trench yourself in grand hancocks antedeluvian civilization theory

Amazing!

Like all that is produced by Graham - it is simply amazing and keeps you captivated until the very last minute! Thank you!

wow what a great book

I just wish the was an update for 2019. so much had happened since 2002 and I'll bet that more had been found and better research had been done.

this book really covers all the angles and uses science and logic to rule out imaginative explanations for their findings.

SUPERB! A refreshingly HONEST search for the TRUTH

I absolutely love this book! Listening a 2nd time! Happily anticipating listening to the Author's other books.

A richly detailed account of the research of submerged cities and temples that Humanity has largely forgotten. Very thoroughly and beautifully done!

Bravo!

Was this the first draft?

I’m a big fan of Graham Hancock. I read all his books, watched his TV show and his JRE interviews. The book is a classic Hancock work, just as expected, very interesting and written beautifully. However, it seems that it didn’t go through any editing. I believe just the first round of editing would reduce the book from a painful 30h to a very enjoyable 15-16h. It’s not that the book has too much info, it’s that too much time is wasted on quotes and dialogues, which are written verbatim, completely unnecessary and not to the benefit of the listener. It ruins the flow and makes me lose interest and just wait for them to stop “talking” so I could continue listening to the rest of the book. 90% of it could be taken out easily.