America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

Graham Hancock

Apr 2019 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Graham Hancock

About this audiobook

From the host of Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse

This program is read by the author.

Was an advanced civilization lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author, has made it his life's work to find out--and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.

We’ve been taught that North and South America were empty of humans until around 13,000 years ago--amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. But new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture and we know now that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago--many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere.

Hancock's research takes us on a series of journeys and encounters with the scientists responsible for the recent extraordinary breakthroughs. In the process, from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he reveals that ancient "New World" cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected "Old World" cultures. Have archaeologists focused for too long only on the "Old World" in their search for the origins of civilization while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might in fact be found in the "New World"?

America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization is the culmination of everything that millions of listeners have loved in Hancock's body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mysteries of the past, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.

Ratings and reviews

Good Read or Listen Rather: Well written\read by Mr Hancock. I am really enjoying this book, the author has an uncanny ability to make topics that are typically mundane sound more entertaining. There are areas I feel where while trying to establish a logic trail where he kind of goes into the weeds a bit. Specifically the in depth DNA sequencing conversations. After 40 minutes of in depth DNA conversions I found my mind wandering off. I understand he is establishing evidence trails to support further theories but for the laymen it can be trying. This is a small detail and a small part of the read. I find this book incredibly entertaining on the whole.

if your a fan, find a way to justify the cost and pay it u kno your going to and it is worth it. Graham Hancock is an anomaly in and of himself, obviously we all have an interest in Hancock's subject matter but, there is dry boring material that absolutely cant be left out when presenting his arguments but because of Hancock's intellect, wit, and sarcasm on display in his writing style, I find it hard to put any number of his writing down. America Before does not disappoint 5 stars all day

Amazingly well researched, read, and put together. Been of a similar mind for many years and it feels nice that someone is actually looking into this, more plausible imo, version of our origins. Loved it 🙏

About the author

GRAHAM HANCOCK is the author of the major international non-fiction bestsellers Magicians of the Gods, The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, The Message of the Sphinx, Heaven's Mirror, Underworld and Supernatural, and of the epic adventure novels Entangled and War God. His books have sold more than seven million copies worldwide and have been translated into thirty languages. His public lectures, radio and TV appearances, including two major TV series, Quest For The Lost Civilisation and Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age, as well as his strong presence on the internet, have put his ideas before audiences of tens of millions. He has become recognised as an unconventional thinker who raises resonant questions about humanity's past and about our present predicament.