Authored by Graham Hancock, 'Fingerprints of the Gods' became a worldwide bestseller, reaching number one in multiple countries. The book presents a controversial theory of a technologically advanced global civilization that existed in prehistory and was destroyed by a cataclysm around the end of the last Ice Age. Hancock argues that the survivors of this civilization traveled the world, leaving behind 'fingerprints' of their knowledge in ancient myths, megalithic structures, and astronomical alignments, which influenced later cultures.
but the next book Fingerprints of the Gods got to number one on the best seller list not only in the UK but also
""The speaker, Graham Hancock, explicitly names this book as his 'next book' after 'The Sign and the Seal' and highlights its commercial success and the controversy it generated. This directly identifies it as a purchasable product."