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If any of this sounds familiar, its because much of it is not new. Indeed this book constantly cites other related literature to support its ideas, bringing in such writers as Graham Hancock, Michael Baigent and Robert Bauval. Rejecting some especially outlandish theories, The Atlantis Blueprint shows a will to speak sensibly and it is easy to agree that conventional science has historically underestimated our earliest ancestors and that archaeology is now pushing back the age of civilisation. Readers would need to be experts in a wide variety of disciplines to assess exactly how much scepticism this book deserves, but many will possess enough general knowledge to debate with parts of it. The Atlantis Blueprint is, whatever else, a thought-provoking assemblage of fringe science theories on some of the worlds most enduring mysteries. And, we remember, some of sciences most brilliant theories were derided in their time. --Karen Tiley
If an advanced civilisation was trying to leave a message for future generations they could never be sure that their units of measurement would be the same as the ones that evolved after they perished. Two things, however, would never change: the dimensions of the Earth and the science of geometry. The distance from the Equator to the pole will always be the same no matter what number system is used. And this distance can always be divided geometrically.
When it comes to latitude, the Earth's dimensions are fixed by the Equator, all latitudes defined as being north or south of it. Longitude is a different problem. In her bestselling book Longitude Dava Sobel explains how "The thorniest problem of the 18th century was how to determine longitude. Many thousands of lives had been lost at sea over the centuries due to the inability to determine an east-west position".
The decision of what line of longitude should be zero (known as the Prime Meridian) was based upon commercial rather than geographic considerations - the British Empire was at its height in the 1880s and many British ships dropped anchor in Greenwich harbour. But what instead if the line of longitude that runs through the Great Pyramid at Giza had been declared the Prime Meridian? The Great Pyramid is arguably the best-built surveying station and monument that has ever been erected. More land lies directly east, west, north and south of Giza than any other location on the Earth's surface. The Atlantis Blueprint argues that there was an ancient global grid and that a long-lost civilisation was aware of the exact dimensions of the Earth. The Great Pyramid, by rights, should have had the honour of the designation "longitude zero" - not Greenwich.
In The Atlantis Blueprint we will show how these ancient structures are ultimately linked to a vast geographic survey. We have deciphered the code which ties these mysterious sites together as part of an ambitious enterprise undertaken by scientists from Atlantis. The Atlantis Blueprint can be 'back-engineered' to locate 'lost' sacred sites in the jungles of Brazil, beneath the sands of the Sahara Desert and under the ice of Antarctica.
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