The Mars Mystery - Graham Hancock

Mars: the fiery-red planet that has burned itself into our imaginations from the earliest myths to the latest Hollywood movies. But it also houses secret, mysteriously intertwined with our own past and future -a secret that we ignore at our peril. The Mars scientists and astronauts know today is a hell-world ravaged by storms: merciless, bleak and uninhabitable. But it was not always so. For there is increasing evidence from NASA that life once existed on Mars, including photographs of a mile-long sculpted 'face' and nearby 'pyramids' on the surface of the planet. The Mars Mystery presents the latest scientific evidence of a hidden menace lurking in our solar system - the pieces of a giant comet that passed close to Mars, and to the Earth, some 20.000 years ago and broke up into huge fragments. The evidence suggests that intense bombardment of these fragments destroyed a great civilization on Earth and 'killed our neighbouring planet Mars at around the same time - not millions of years ago, as most scientists suppose, but very recently. As the authors move towards a literally earth-shattering conclusion, they discover a web of strange occurrences concerning NASA, the American government and clandestine work taking place at the Giza plateau in Egypt, that raise questions about our planet's cataclysmic past and its future.

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