A gigantic cosmic impact, when large fragments of a disintegrating comet hit the North American ice cap approximately 12,800 years ago, is identified in my forthcoming book "Magicians of the Gods" as the smoking gun that sparked off a global cataclysm of flood and fire in which an advanced civilization of the last Ice Age, hitherto only remembered in 'myths', was wiped out. The scientific case for a comet impact 12,800 years ago has now been further reinforced by a landmark paper in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" (PNAS) the official journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Details of the new paper here: http://phys.org/news/2015-07-cataclysmic-event-age.html and an abstract here:http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/07/21/1507146112.
"Magicians of the Gods" is in the final run-up to publication on 10 September in the UK and 10 November in the US and is available for pre-order through the various links set out on this page :http://grahamhancock.com/magicians/. Heartfelt thanks to all those who have already supported my work by pre-ordering Magicians and thanks in advance if you intend to pre-order now. We are poised on the edge of a major paradigm shift in our understanding of our own past. Now that we know that an extinction level event occurred in our historical backyard -- just 12,800 years ago -- 'history' is never going to look quite the same again. It may take some time until the implications of the new scientific findings have been fully taken on board by archaeologists and historians who will, no doubt, continue meanwhile to make the absurd and arrogant claim that a lost civilization 'just isn't possible'. Magicians of the Gods refutes such claims with overwhelming new evidence.
At the end of the Pleistocene period, approximately 12,800 years ago—give or take a few centuries—a cosmic impact triggered an abrupt cooling episode that earth scientists refer to as the Younger Dryas.
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