Graham Hancock, the controversial author, has found more evidence to support his claim of the lost civilization which was destroyed by a comet 13,000 years ago.

Hancock is releasing his latest work, titled ‘Magicians of the Gods’, containing series of geophysics and geological papers that prove his stance. Hancock argues that the existence of the comet has been masked because it struck ice and did not leave a crater.

The confident author, citing scientific and archaeological research, stated, “In 1995, I wrote a book about all the clues, the ‘fingerprints’, that pointed to the existence of this lost civilization. But what I lacked was a smoking gun. Now we have it”.

Hancock, has been critically acclaimed for propounding this theory of extermination of a highly advanced ancient race on Earth by a comet, in his controversial, 1995 book, titled ‘Fingerprints of the Gods’. The book claimed that though an ancient culture in Antarctica was wiped out by the striking of the comet, the subjects such as astronomy and mathematics were passed to later civilizations.

Hancock was ridiculed by several academics. Paul V Heinrich, a US geologist, stated that rather than stumbling upon an archaeological mystery, Hancock has merely created one. A BBC Horizon programme even had plans to dismiss the theory. However, the book was a commercial success, with over three million copies sold.

Now, that this former journalist, 20 years later, has amassed more clues, he is all set to publish a 500-page sequel titled ‘Magicians of the Gods’, claiming to prove his critics wrong.

Hancock stressed that lately, 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 he proposed in his book in 1995.

Nonetheless, Hancock is also prepared for another round of condemnation when his book releases this September.