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Attack of the Archaeologists
A professional society of academics whines publicly they feel demeaned by Graham Hancock. Does that validate his ideas?
Does an opponent exist to prove you right?
Since the 1990s and much to the disgust of the archaeological establishment, an alternative explanation about prehistoric times has been emerging in public discourse. A journalist named Graham Hancock has led the way with a series of books that have asked questions about the traditional historical narrative.
As Hancock puts it, our culture has amnesia about what happened in the distant past. In a nutshell, he presents considerable arguments that there once was, before us, a world mapping civilization that left as a legacy immense architectural stone works of similar form and structure (think pyramids, for one thing) all over the Earth. These people (assuming they were homo sapiens sapiens) were destroyed in a global cataclysm. This happened possibly 12,000 years ago.
In 2022, Netflix released an 8 episode series called Ancient Apocalypse that features Graham Hancock presenting his ideas. Normally, the disdain of the archaeological establishment goes without saying. However, in this case, they spoke up.
