KEEPER OF GENESIS: A QUEST FOR THE HIDDEN LEGACY OF MANKIND.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,3rd reprint.[Originally published by same publisher in same year (1996),this is the 3rd reprint edn in that same year.] FINE/NFINE.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - usually indicates an export edition,and generally believed to precede UK trade issue/ distribution.Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour photographic illustrated front panel of dw/dj,with gilt+white lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no major nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges though lightly toned are still bright and clean; contents bright, tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,publisher's original plain tan cloth boards with bright,crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,4-362pp [paginated] includes Pts I-IV comprising 17 chapters,a conclusion, contemporary b/w photographs in 2 blocks of 8pp apiece,between pp114/5 and pp242/3 respectively,numerous b/w line illustrations+ diagrams etc.,references,a select bibliography and an index; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,separate contents+ illustrations lists/tables,co-author's acknowledgements,individual Pts separator pages and to the rear,8pp blanks.
Guardian of the ancient mysteries,the keeper of secrets. . . For thousands of years the Great Sphinx of Egypt has gazed towards the east,his 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,dating not from 2500 BC,but from 10,500 BC - the beginning of the astrological Age of Leo.We now know, too,that the three pyramids of Giza,standing on high ground half a mile to the west of the Sphinx,are not merely the tombs of megalomaniac Pharaohs but form a precise map of the three stars of Orion's belt in 15 million tons of solid stone.So is somebody trying to tell us something? And,if so,what? In 'Keeper of Genesis',Robert Bauval (author of 'The Orion Mystery') and Graham Hancock (author of 'Fingerprints of the Gods') present a tour de force of historical and scientific detective work,using sophisticated computer simulations of the ancient skies to crack the millennial code that the monuments transcribe,and set out a startling new theory concerning the enigmatic Pyramid Texts and other archaic Egyptian sculptures.These texts serve as an ingenious treasure trail and,as the authors reveal in their shattering conclusion,a covert treasure hunt has been underway for the last twenty years at the pyramids and the Sphinx - a hunt bringing together senior Egyptologists,high government officials, wealthy funders,and a strange esoteric organisation lurking 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. . . Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too!
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