F.K. Sterling
Twelve thousand years ago, the world as our ancestors knew it ended.As the last Ice Age collapsed, the oceans rose four hundred feet and swallowed the coastlines where humanity lived. Whole countries vanished beneath the waves. Peoples disappeared. And all over the planet, survivors told the same story: of fire falling from the sky, of a great flood, and of wise strangers who came to rebuild civilization.What if those stories were true?In Lost Worlds, F.K. Sterling takes readers on a sweeping journey through the greatest mysteries of the human past, weighing myth, scripture and folklore against the latest discoveries in archaeology and genetics. Walk among the carved pillars of Göbekli Tepe, built before farming existed. Discover why a geologist believes the Great Sphinx is far older than Egyptologists claim. Explore Doggerland, the lost country beneath the North Sea. Meet the Denisovans, a vanished human species that still lives on in our DNA. Follow Homer’s heroes into northern seas, search for the real King Arthur, read the forbidden gospels of Nag Hammadi, and stand before the Watchers and giants of the Book of Enoch.Then cross into stranger territory: ancient astronauts and the Anunnaki, Bigfoot and the hairy wild men of legend, sea serpents, haunted places, shamanic visions, earth energies and crop formations, and the giant skeletons once pulled from America’s mounds. The journey ends in the Ozark Mountains, an ancient high land that survived when others drowned, where bluff shelters hold ten thousand years of human memory.Lost Worlds also confronts the dark side of the search, revealing how myths of a lost northern homeland were twisted into the racial fantasies of the Nazi SS, and why every lost world belongs to all of humanity.Fully sourced, fearless and fair, it presents the mainstream view alongside the bold alternative case, and tells you exactly where the evidence ends and the speculation begins.For readers of Graham Hancock, Nick Redfern and Freddy Silva, Lost Worlds is a thrilling invitation to remember what we have forgotten.
