Search results
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.
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.”
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.
Jun 16, 2023 · Hancock’s alternative theory of history is extraordinary, but his evidence isn’t even ordinary. And Hancock doesn’t help his cause when he reveals what he really believes about this lost civilization, which he outlined to Joe Rogan on the eve of the Netflix series, and at the end of America Before:
- 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...
- Flint Dibble
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.
People also ask
Who is Graham Hancock in Ancient Apocalypse?
Who is Graham Hancock?
Where did Graham Hancock film Ancient Apocalypse?
What does Graham Hancock say about the ice age?
Are Hancock's questions undermining science?
Where did Hancock visit in Ancient Apocalypse?
Jan 6, 2023 · British writer Graham Hancock has riled the archaeology community with his Netflix documentary, Ancient Apocalypse. The series follows Hancock to ancient sites around the world in pursuit of...
