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                        THE ECLECTIC VIEWPOINT
                               presents


             THE QUEST FOR AN ARK AND A LOST CIVILIZATION


Who really carved the Great Sphinx of Egypt and constructed Mexico's
Pyramid of the Sun?   Are we a species with amnesia?  Is it possible
that we could  have forgotten an  entire  epoch in  our own history?
Could  it  be that  a race  of technologically  advanced "supergods"
flourished  during the last  Ice Age and  was destroyed  in a global
cataclysm  more than  12,000 years  ago,  vanishing almost without a
trace?  Did these supergods leave behind "fingerprints" of their ex-
istence and warnings of a  similar fate poised to befall our civili-
zation today?

For  five  years,  best-selling  author  Graham  Hancock  has   been
travelling the globe seeking the answers to these questions.  Now he
has written  a provocative  book,  "Fingerprints Of The Gods," which
challenges the existing wisdoms about our past.   He  has  collected
evidence which  he says points  to a  lost civilization  which ruled
some 15,000 years ago,  and which was ultimately responsible for the
technology behind  such monumental  edifices as the Great Sphinx and
Pyramids of Egypt,  the strange Andean  temples of  Tiahuanaco,  and
Mexico's awesome Pyramids of the Sun and Moon.

Graham Hancock  began his quest for  information about  our  ancient
history in  1983,  when he  embarked on a  search for the Ark of the
Covenant, believed by millions of  Ethiopian  Christians and Jews to
be somewhere in their country.   The search led him through archives
in Europe and to remote corners of the Third World as well as Israel
and Egypt.  In the  course of his investigation  he discovered vital
connections between this powerful sacred object and the Knights Tem-
plar, the legends of the Holy Grail,  Parsifal,  and the saga of the
Falasha Jews in Ethiopia.   Publishing these findings  in his inter-
national best seller, "The Sign And The Seal,"  Hancock is respected
as a painstaking journalist who has an uncanny ability to  "read be-
tween the lines" and see connections others have overlooked.   In  a
review  of  "The Sign And The Seal,"  Hancock  was credited  by  the
London Guardian with having "invented a new genre -- an intellectual
whodunit by a do-it-yourself sleuth..."

Hancock's latest sleuthing as he searches for a "lost civilization,"
is  detailed in  his  recently  released book,  "Fingerprints Of The
Gods," currently the #1 best seller in the United Kingdom.  A master
observer, detective, and storyteller,  Hancock will select from hun-
dreds of slides to illustrate his presentation to The Eclectic View-
point.   These slides, beautifully photographed by his wife,  Santha
Faiia,  will show the massive monuments  and other clues left behind
as "fingerprints" in Egypt,  Mexico,  South America, and other parts
of the world.   Hancock will illustrate and explain the significance
of the research of  archaeo-astronomer  Robert Bauval,  whose recent
best seller,  "The Orion Mystery,"  details  his  discovery that the
three Pyramids at Giza are  laid out in a  precise pattern mimicking
the alignment of the three stars in the  Orion Constellation's belt.

In addition, Hancock will relate legends of mysterious white-skinned
auburn-haired, bearded demi-gods  (Viracocha in the Andes,  Mexico's
Quetzalcoatl, and Osiris in Egypt)  who arrived after a great flood,
bringing with them the gifts of civilization.  Ancient writings con-
cerning the works of Viracocha said,  "As he traversed all the land,
he worked miracles,"  healing  the sick by  touch  and teaching  the
Peruvians varied skills;  metallurgy, farming, animal husbandry, and
the art of writing.  Thousands of years before the Incas, he is said
to have left behind surfaced road networks of 15,000 miles with sus-
pension bridges and tunnels of which only remnants remain today.

Where did these  mysterious strangers originate?    Based on a crust-
displacement theory of the earth's surface and ancient maps that show
Antarctica as a warm weather region 2,000 miles north of it's present
location,  Hancock suggests that this highly intelligent civilization
existed  in Anarctica  10,000-15,000,  years ago and was subsequently
destroyed by a global catastrophe.    He will show us why he believes
this super race of beings was  trying to warn us of an impending dis-
aster that visits the  earth in cycles and  is predicted by the Mayan
Calendar to recur on December 23, 2012.

Graham Hancock was formerly East Africa Correspondent for "The Econo-
mist" and covered the Ogaden war between Somalia and Ethiopia for the
London Sunday Times.  His other books include:  "African Ark: Peoples
Of The Horn;" the widely acclaimed  "Lords Of Poverty,"  which earned
the 1990 H. L. Mencken Award  (honorable mention)  for an outstanding
book of journalism; "Journey Through Pakistan;"  "Ethiopia: The Chal-
lenge Of Hunger;" and "AIDS: The Deadly Epedemic."    He has appeared
on television with Michael Palin in his recent "Pole To Pole," series
and on the BBC and CNN, as well as  National Geographic's  "Explorer"
series in stories related to "The Sign And The Seal."

He lives with his wife, Santha Faiia,  near Exeter in Devon, England,
and is on a  U.S.  tour promoting his new book,  "Fingerprints Of The
Gods."  Books will be available for signing after the lecture.

                            *************

SPEAKER:           Graham Hancock
DATE:              Sunday June 11, 1995
TIME:              7:00 PM
TOPIC:             The Quest for an Ark and a Lost Civilization
LOCATION:          The Unity Church  6525 Forest Lane, Dallas,
Texas
ADMISSION:         $15.00
EV HOTLINE:        (214) 601-7687

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