#449 – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

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🗓️ 16 October 2024

⏱️ 162 minutes

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Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last Ice Age, and that it was destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. He is the presenter of the Netflix documentary series "Ancient Apocalypse", the 2nd season of which has just been released.
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OUTLINE:
(00:00) - Introduction
(09:58) - Lost Ice Age civilization
(17:03) - Göbekli Tepe
(29:07) - Early humans
(34:07) - Astronomical symbolism
(45:36) - Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
(1:03:55) - The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx of Giza
(1:24:29) - Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest
(1:33:49) - Response to critics
(1:57:56) - Panspermia
(2:05:22) - Shamanism
(2:29:22) - How the Great Pyramid was built
(2:36:41) - Mortality

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Graham Hancock, a journalist and author who for over 30 years
0:06.7	has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last
0:11.9	Ice Age and that it was destroyed in a global
0:15.5	cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. He is the presenter of the Netflix documentary
0:21.4	series Ancient Apocalypse, the second season of which has just been released, and it's focused on the distant past of the Americas, a topic I recently discussed with the archaeologist Ed Barnhart.
0:37.0	Let me say that Ed represents the kind of archaeologist scholar.
0:42.0	I love talking to on the podcast, extremely knowledgeable,
0:46.0	humble, open-minded, and respectful in disagreement.
0:50.6	I'll do many more podcasts on history including ancient history. Our distant past is full of mysteries and I find it truly exciting to explore those mysteries with people both on the inside and the outside of the mainstream in the various disciplines involved.
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