A new study has revealed that a deadly ball of ice from space wiped out a highly advanced civilization flourished in Antarctica about 13000 years ago.

The proof to support this claim was found by Graham Hancock, the author of a controversial 1995 book titled ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’. However, academics, and a BBC Horizon program aimed to demolish his theory despite three million copies of his books were sold.

Now, Hancock is set to publish a 500-page sequel titled ‘Magicians of the Gods,’ 20 years later, in which has a strong evidence to prove his critics wrong. The book contains a series of geophysics and geological papers.

Hancock 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”.

The book claims that the comet strike put paid to a civilization which has been unknown to modern man. According to him, our modern knowledge of mathematics and architecture came from this lost civilization.