I find it interesting, I don’t know enough about ancient history to say if they are right or wrong. I also haven't read all of his stuff, I’ve only seen his interviews with rogan.
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He also has an excellent show on Netflix.
Yes. Highly recommend the show Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix. Definitely not educated enough on the subject, but it got my attention.
You should check out Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix, very good summary of his decades of work
Not only is this theory wrong -- the large preponderance of archeological and genetic evidence points against out -- it is also born out of racism and colonialism
When Europeans first came to the places like the Americas they refused to accept that the ancestors of the indigenous people they found there were responsible for the impressive mounds and pyramids and other evidence of a sophisticated culture
It fitted better onto their world view (and justified the atrocities against the indigenous) to think that a previous white civilization had spread around the world seeding civilizations, but then had been wiped out in a catastrophe
This theory was widespread in 19th century scientists circles, but as evidence gathered, by the twentieth century, scientists had found that all those impressive moments were built by the ancestors of the indigenous peoples
https://slate.com/culture/2022/11/ancient-apocalypse-graham-hancock-netflix-theory-explained.html
Slate, trusted mouthpiece for fiat academia. Again, I don’t know enough on this topic to aggressively argue one way or another, but I can tell you there was no mention of the ancient cultures that he claims came earlier than the “scientific consensus” were of any specific ethnicity or origin. In fact, he points out how diverse they were. I’m not even sure what you are saying here.