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> [“in order that the lower edge of each stone should hitch like a pawl into a ratchet cut into the top of the walls; hence no stone can press on the one below it, so as to cause a cumulative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/in-order-that-the-lower-edge-of-each-stone-should-hitch-like-a-pawl/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

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## More by Graham Hancock

> [Whether Earth was deliberately terraformed, in other words, or whether it was seeded with the spores of life from crashed comets or whether, indeed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/whether-earth-was-deliberately-terraformed-in-other-words-or-whether/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [I don't believe that consciousness is generated by the brain. I believe that the brain is more of a reciever of consciousness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/i-don-t-believe-that-consciousness-is-generated-by-the-brain-i/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [“The same solution--that Easter Island was once part of a much larger landmass--would also explain another, very different puzzle, namely the so-called Rongo Rongo…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/the-same-solution-that-easter-island-was-once-part-of-a-much-larger/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [“What is remarkable is that there are no traces of evolution from simple to sophisticated, and the same is true of mathematics, medicine, astronomy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/what-is-remarkable-is-that-there-are-no-traces-of-evolution-from/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [ “Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent, \[...\] came to teach \[the ancient inhabitants of Mexico\] the benefits of settled agriculture and the skills necessary to build… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/quetzalcoatl-the-feathered-serpent-came-to-teach-the-ancient/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [ “What would have made \[seeing Göbekli Tepe from Harran\] easier, in antiquity, would have been a tall tower annexed to the temple that once… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/what-would-have-made-seeing-g-bekli-tepe-from-harran-easier-in/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [“At Göbekli Tepe there is a creature, sculted in high-relief, identified by Klaus Schmidt as a beast of prey with splayed claws and powerful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/at-g-bekli-tepe-there-is-a-creature-sculted-in-high-relief-identified/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [I believe we are a species with amnesia, I think we have forgotten our roots and our origins. I think we are quite lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/i-believe-we-are-a-species-with-amnesia-i-think-we-have-forgotten-our/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [Do we as adults have the right to make decisions about what we put in our own bodies and what we experience with our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/do-we-as-adults-have-the-right-to-make-decisions-about-what-we-put-in/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [“The "Garcilaso" mentioned by Markham is the chronicler Garcilaso Inca de la Vega, the son of a Spanish conquistador and an Inca princess, a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/the-garcilaso-mentioned-by-markham-is-the-chronicler-garcilaso-inca/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [Science has often resisted new ideas and fought bitterly to prevent them coming on board.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/science-has-often-resisted-new-ideas-and-fought-bitterly-to-prevent/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [My sense is that we are missing a huge part of the human story. I think it's possible, indeed probable, that we are a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/my-sense-is-that-we-are-missing-a-huge-part-of-the-human-story-i/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [People think I'm a freemason, and I'm not. People think I believe the end of the world is coming on 21 December 2012, and I don't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/people-think-i-m-a-freemason-and-i-m-not-people-think-i-believe-the/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [“at Heliopolis, where the Pyramid Texts were compiled, and announced ahead of time to all the other major temples up and down the Nile.53…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/at-heliopolis-where-the-pyramid-texts-were-compiled-and-announced/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

> [“Bauval found that the Pyramids/Orion’s Belt correlation was general and obvious in all epochs, but specific and exact in only one: At 10,450 BC…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/graham-hancock/bauval-found-that-the-pyramids-orion-s-belt-correlation-was-general/)

[Graham Hancock](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/graham-hancock/)

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