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  THE MARS MYSTERY

  The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet

  By Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval

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  THE MESSAGE OF THE SPHINX

  A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind

  By Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval

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  The excerpt from the poem “High Flight” by John Gillespie Magee, Jr., is reprinted with permission from the International Herald Tribune.

  Copyright © 1998 by Graham Hancock

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  Originally published in hardcover by Crown Publishers in 1998.

  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Hancock, Graham.

  The mars mystery : the secret connection between earth and the red

  planet / Graham Hancock.

  p. cm.

  1. Mars (Planet)—Surface. 2. Mars (Planet)—Geology. 3. Great Sphinx (Egypt). 4. Egyptology. 5. Life on other planets.

  I. Title.

  QB641.H317 1998

  999’.23—dc21 98-17933

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