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Nov 18, 2022 · Netflix’s new hit Ancient Apocalypse is an odd duck: a docuseries filmed in many gorgeous and historic locations (Turkey, Mexico, Indonesia, … uh, Ohio) that advances a provocative thesis aimed...
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Ancient Apocalypse is a 2022 Netflix series, where the British writer Graham Hancock presents his pseudoarchaeological theories about the existence of an advanced civilization active during the last ice age.
- The Pseudo Fish Defence
- Dangers of Pseudo Archaeology
- The Murky Origins of Hancock’s Theories
In the opening dialogue of Ancient Apocalypse, Hancock rejects being identified as an archaeologist or scientist. Instead, he calls himself a journalist who is “investigating human prehistory”. A canny choice, as the label “journalist” helps Hancock rebut being characterised as a “pseudo archaeologist” or “pseudo scientist”, which, as he puts it hi...
In the last decade we have seen how conspiracy theories and distrust in experts impacts the world around us. And research has shown how pseudo archaeology – especially when couched in anti-intellectual rhetoric – can overlap with more dangerous conspiracy thinking. Of course, archaeologists frequently admit when we have been wrong. Any academic tea...
Hancock claims in his book Magicians of the Gods that as the “implications” of his theories “have not yet been taken into account at all by historians and archaeologists, we are obliged to contemplate the possibility that everything we have been taught about the origins of civilisation could be wrong”. However, archaeologists have repeatedly addres...
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Dec 14, 2022 · In Ancient Apocalypse, British journalist Graham Hancock proposes a similar advanced civilization “lost to history” — wiped out by a cataclysmic event 12,000 years ago. He travels the world attempting to prove its existence.
Dec 9, 2022 · Ancient Apocalypse is based on the destruction of a sophisticated Ice Age society in a cataclysmic disaster. People around the world learned new technologies from the...
What if everything we know about prehistoric humans is wrong? Journalist Graham Hancock visits archeological sites around the world to uncover whether a civi...
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Dec 15, 2022 · In "Ancient Apocalypse," British journalist Graham Hancock proposes a similar advanced civilization "lost to history"—wiped out by a cataclysmic event 12,000 years ago. He travels the world...
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