Many peoples of the world have legends about a distant lost ancestral home. About the lands where great sages live and where the highest Knowledge comes from. About the mysterious wisdom that is encrypted in texts, architectural structures, patterns. Are the stories about Shambhala, Atlantis, Belovodye just myths? Not quite so Who were the first inhabitants of China and where did they disappear to? What knowledge can be encrypted in the Chinese “Canon of Changes”? Why are there striking similarities between the cultures of Central America and East Asia? Behind the legends of Shambhala there are very real stories about lost lands and kingdoms in China, Central Asia and Tibet. It was a strange era: mysterious giants, mysterious horned ancestors, wise rulers lived on the earth, they possessed great knowledge, but they disappeared in the waves of floods and disasters. And yet traces and legends remain from them. This is discussed in the new bestseller by Professor Alexei Maslov.