Was An Ancient Civilisation In Antarctica Wiped Out By A Comet 13,000 Years Ago?

Thousands of years before the wheel was invented, a highly advanced civilisation flourished in Antarctica - before being wiped out by a deadly ball of ice from space.

That's the theory behind a new book, 'Magicians of the Gods', which claims that a comet strike put paid to a civilsation which has been unknown to modern man.

Controversial author Graham Hancock claims that our modern knowledge of mathematics and architecture is actually a hand-me-down from this lost civilisation.

Hancock claims to have found a ‘smoking gun’ which proves a highly advanced civilisation existed in Antarctica 13,000 years ago - before being wiped out by a comet strike.

Hancock claims that our knowledge of astronomy and mathematics comes from this ‘lost’ civilisation.

Hancock’s book Fingerprints of the Gods sold three million copies in 1995.

He told The Sunday Times, ‘But what I lacked was a smoking gun. Now we have it.

‘A series of papers in geophysics and geological journals have been bringing forward evidence that the Earth was indeed hit by a comet 12,800 years ago, which is exactly what I proposed in my book.’

His new book, Magicians of the Gods, will be published in September.