The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest For the Hidden Legacy of Mankind [FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Hancock, Graham; Bauval, Robert

Verlag: Crown Publishers, Inc., New York, 1996

Beschreibung

As new condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock; Author Dedication; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Conclusion; Appendix 1: The Scales of the World; Appendix 2: Precession, Proper Motion and Obliquity; Appendix 3: Correspondence with Mark Lehner; Appendix 4: Harnessing Time with the Stars; Appendix 5: Carbon-dating the Great Pyramid; References; Selected Bibliography and Index. Illustrated with diagrams, drawings and a section of black-and-white photographic plates. "Guardian of the ancient mysteries, the keeper of secrets .For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Egypt has gazed toward the east, its eyes focused on eternity, reading a message in the stars that mankind has long forgotten. And today, as our civilization stands poised at the end of a great cycle, it is a message that beckons insistently to be understood. All the clues are in place. Geology and archeo-astronomy have already indicated that the lion-bodied Sphinx may be vastly older than Egyptologists currently believe, dated not from 2500 B.C., but from 10,500 B.C. -- the beginning of the astrological Age of Leo. And we now know that the three pyramids of Giza, standing on high ground half a mile to the west of the Sphinx, are in fact a precise map of the three stars of Orion's belt, formed in 15 million tons of solid stone. Are these monuments trying tell us something? And, if so, what? In The Message of the Sphinx, Robert Bauval, author of The Orion Mystery, and Graham Hancock, author of Figerprints of the Gods, present a tour de force of hsitorical and scientific detective work that unravels the millennial code embodied in these sturctures. Using sophisticated computer simulations of ancient skies, they unravel the riddle of the Sphinx, and they present a startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian scriptures. These texts serve as an ingenious treasure trail, and as the authors reveal, a covert treasure hunt has been undererway for the last twenty years at the pyramids and the Sphinx -- a hunt involving senior Egyptologists, high government officials, and a wealthy esoteric organization behind the scenes. What are they looking for? What is contained in the rectangular chamber that seismic surveys have located in the bedrock far below the paws of the Sphinx? What lies behind the mysterious door recently discovered at the end of a previously unexplored shaft deep inside the Great Pyramid? And does mankind have a rendezvous with destiny -- a rendezvous not in the future, but in the distant past, at a precise place and time? The secrets can be kept no longer. The Message of the Sphinx brings them to light." -- from the inner front jacket flap.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 006976

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest For the Hidden Legacy of Mankind [FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Verlag: Crown Publishers, Inc., New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
• Einband: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Foltz, Brad (jacket design); Michaels, Christian (jacket photography)
• Zustand: As New
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine