Ancient Apocalypse by Graham Hancock
A review of a Netflix documentary series
I am no stranger to Graham Hancock and his ideas. Since his banned TED talk surfaced on the net, I’ve been closely following his media appearances and reading his books. The fact that many established institutions tried to silence him has made him all the more interesting to me. There are few things as sweet as a forbidden fruit, right?
For anyone new to this topic. Graham Hancock is a British journalist who, for the past 30-something years, has researched the origins of human civilization. He is not an archeologist or a historian, but he does do his homework in both fields. His basic premise is that there must have been an advanced civilization already present during the last ice age, which then vanished in the apocalyptic events known today as the Younger Dryas. That civilization lived along with many more “primitive” hunter-gatherer tribes, much like we do today. Once their doom was evident, the survivors of this civilization tried to pass on their knowledge onto the surviving tribes; they taught them how to build with megaliths, instructed them on agriculture and law, and told them stories which were then passed on as myths.
The stories of the “lost paradise,” the cataclysmic flooding (like Noah’s ark), or the teachers coming across the sea with the gift of…
