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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.”
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.
- 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 · 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...
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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.
He seemingly is disregarded by "real" archaeologists, and he is constantly criticising them. Why is that? Why do archaeologists not take his discoveries and value them? And why is he treated like a kook?
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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,...
