graham hancock underworld flooded kingdoms of the ice age

I also described some of the other rock-hewn underwater structures that we dived at with our Japanese colleagues at other locations in the Ryukyus – notably at Kerama, Aguni and Chatan at the northern end of the archipelago.

I described in Chapter One how Santha and I learned to dive, and the remarkable synchronicities and good fortune that brought us to Yonaguni in March 1997 to begin a systematic programme of underwater photography and research there that was to continue until mid-2001. And I realised that it would rewrite prehistory if it could indeed be proved to be man-made. I felt an immediate compulsion to explore the beautiful and mysterious structure that beckoned so alluringly from the photographs.

This was the moment, if there ever was just one moment, when the “Underworld” quest began for me and when much that I had learnt in previous years in many different countries began to swing sharply into focus and make sense. I was in Tokyo in 1996 when the photojournalist Ken Shindo showed me the first images I had ever seen of an awe-inspiring terraced structure, apparently a man-made monument of some kind, lying at depths of up to 30 metres off the Japanese island of Yonaguni at the remote south-west end of the Ryukyu archipelago. Dr Wolf Wichmann, geologist, Yonaguni, March 2001

The question was, or is still, is it and, if yes, to what extent is it made by man or overworked by man? This is the question. Here then, is compelling hard evidence for a fascinating forgotten episode in human history, and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilisation as we know it.Chapter Twenty-Seven Confronting Yonaguni And when he dives, Graham Hancock discovers the ruins of underwater cities exactly where the myths say they should be - in the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, off the coasts of Japan, in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. Using the latest computer techniques to map the world's changing coastlines, he finds astonishing correspondences with ancient flood myths. Guided by cutting-edge science, Hancock examines the great mystery of the end of the last Ice Age. In Underworld Graham Hancock continues his quest for a great lost pre-historic civilisation - and by going underwater, where almost a thousand ancient myths from every part of the globe attest that the ruins of a lost civilisation, obliterated in a universal flood, are to be found. Print Underworld : Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age

Graham hancock underworld flooded kingdoms of the ice age