America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization

"Hancock's books provide a fascinating, alternative version of prehistory. America Before, detailed and wide-ranging, turns what was myth and legend into a new story of the past." - Daily Mail

Was an advanced civilisation lost to history in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author and television presenter, has made it his life's work to find out. 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—among the last great landmasses on earth to have been settled by our ancestors. However, new discoveries have radically reshaped this long-established picture, revealing 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 these recent extraordinary breakthroughs. Travelling from the Mississippi Valley to the Amazon rainforest, he demonstrates that ancient 'New World' cultures share a legacy of advanced scientific knowledge and sophisticated spiritual beliefs with supposedly unconnected 'Old World' cultures.

Have archaeologists focussed for too long only on the 'Old World' in their search for the origins of civilisation while failing to consider the revolutionary possibility that those origins might be found in the 'New World'?

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