America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization rewrites continental American history as we know it and is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock's work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mystery of ancient civilizations, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today. Stunning new archaeological discoveries in North and South America together with new genetic evidence, have launched a revolution in our understanding of the remote past of our species and of the origins of civilization. Apart from a few intriguing headlines the global public has not been well informed about the shattering implications of the latest research. Until very recently it was believed that the Americas were amongst the last great landmasses on earth to have been inhabited by humans - who were thought to have arrived exclusively on foot from northeast Asia around 13,000 years ago by crossing the Bering Straits which formed a land-bridge to Alaska during the lowered sea-levels of the Ice Age. By contrast, anatomically modern humans, originating in Africa, are believed to have reached Europe, Asia, and even Australia, as far back as 60,000 years ago. We now know that something of immense importance is missing from this long-established picture, and that the Americas were first peopled more than 130,000 years ago - many tens of thousands of years before human settlements became established elsewhere. In America Before Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author whose controversial take on the past, once anathema to archaeologists, has been overwhelmingly vindicated by recent discoveries, draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest for evidence of a spiritually advanced civilization destroyed in the global cataclysm to a stunning conclusion.