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Apr 16, 2024 · One popular pseudoarchaeologist, with over a million subscribers on social media, claimed I made up my cancer to avoid the Rogan episode. In the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock falsely claims a lost ice age civilization constructed the Sphinx of ancient Egypt. Kitti Boonnitrod/Getty Images.
Nov 18, 2022 · Graham Hancock, the journalist who hosts the series, returns again and again to his anger at this state of affairs and his status as an outsider to “mainstream archaeology,” his assessment of...
- Rebecca Onion
Jan 4, 2023 · In an open letter, the Society for American Archaeology accused journalist Graham Hancock's docuseries of disparaging experts while promoting “racist, white supremacist ideologies.”
- 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 6, 2022 · Hancock posits that a global flood wiped out this civilisation and points to a recurring great flood myth in religions and cultures across the world — from Noah's Ark in the Bible to Deucalion in Greek mythology — as proof.
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