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Apr 16, 2024 · I agreed to discuss archaeology with pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on the mega-popular but controversial podcast the Joe Rogan Experience. Celebrity author Hancock has made a fortune writing sensationalized books that claim a “lost” ice age civilization once existed—without any direct evidence for this society.
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.”
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:
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.
- An 'Alternative' History
- Series 'Furthest from The Truth'
- Moves from The Pseudoscience Playbook
- Debunking Hancock's Claims
- 'Racist' Advanced Civilisation Myth
- Natural For History of Flooding to Be Exaggerated
In the first episode, Hancock offers up a revised version of Indo-Pacific history. "In a cold and forbidding world, this huge South East Asian landmass would have been amongst several warm and inviting locations where early humans might have had a real stab at developing an advanced and sophisticated civilisation," he says. Using two lesser-known a...
Professor Nunn says Nan Madol, in the Federated States of Micronesia's Pohnpei, was built by ancestors of present day Pohnpeians, with construction beginning about 1,000 years ago. It's been dubbed by some as the "eighth wonder of the world" and others as the "Venice of the Pacific". The reference to Venice comes from the canals that connect 93 man...
Mark McCoy, an expert in Pacific Island archaeology from the Southern Methodist University, says Ancient Apocalypse uses classic moves from the pseudoscience playbook. "The production value is high … presenting itself as sort of a factual series," he says. "Another one is, of course, to demonise the experts – 'the experts are always against me', an...
Gunung Padang is a megalithic complex built of earth and stone on an extinct volcano about 90 kilometres from Indonesia's capital Jakarta in West Java. Hancock suggests the "blocks of columnar basal", or volcanic rock, used in both Gunung Padang and Nan Madol is proof of megalith architecture from a lost civilisation. Professor McCoy points out tha...
Professor Nunn says theories about who built Nan Madol strip Indigenous peoples of their rich histories and can be traced back to "racist philosophies" and "white supremacist ideologies" of the 19th century. According to these theories, "it's simply not possible for people who were not Europeans to have built such incredible structures", he says. P...
Professor Nunn, who has written books about ancient societies lost to sea level rises, said Hancock's global flood theory is "simply a geological impossibility". He says sometimes people exaggerate details for the sake of a good story, and that this human quirk helps explain the global flood myth. "When there was a devastating flood locally, it was...
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Nov 18, 2022 · Author Graham Hancock is back, defending his well-trodden theory about an advanced global ice age civilisation, which he connects in Ancient Apocalypse to the legend of Atlantis. His argument,...
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Jun 9, 2023 · Who are the “magicians of the gods,” in Graham Hancock's alternative history series Ancient Apocalype on Netflix, and where did they come from?
