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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHave 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'?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e is the culmination of everything millions of readers have loved in Hancock's work over the past decades. 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It seems all of Mexico is about to fall into his hands until a report arrives from the coast detailing the arrival of a new force of Spaniards with more than three times his numbers, sent not to strengthen him but to attack him and wrest the conquest from his grasp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFaced with the choice of abject surrender or war with fellow Spaniards, Cortes chooses war and marches out to do battle. 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Twenty years on, Hancock returns with the sequel to his seminal work filled with completely new scientific and archaeological evidence, which has only recently come to light. This paperback edition is updated with a new chapter revealing more fascinating revelations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNear the end of the last Ice Age 12,800 years ago, a giant comet that had entered the solar system from deep space thousands of years earlier, broke into multiple fragments. Some of these struck the Earth causing a global cataclysm on a scale unseen since the extinction of the dinosaurs. 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