![]() Trailer for Graham Hancock’s Netflix series, Ancient Apocalypse. “Perhaps,” Hancock posits in the first episode, “the extremely defensive, arrogant, and patronising attitude of mainstream academia is stopping us from considering that possibility”. ![]() The reason little evidence exists, he says, is because it is under the sea or was destroyed by the cataclysm. The survivors of this advanced civilisation, according to Hancock, introduced agriculture, architecture, astronomy, arts, maths and the knowledge of “civilisation” to “simple” hunter gatherers. ![]() His argument, as laid out in this show and in several books, is that this advanced civilisation was destroyed in a cataclysmic flood. ![]() As an archaeologist committed to public engagement who strongly believes in the relevance of studying ancient people, I feel a full-throated defence is necessary.Īuthor 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. Netflix’s enormously popular new show, Ancient Apocalypse, is an all out attack on archaeologists. ![]()
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