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Graham Hancock

Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British writer who promotes pseudoscientific theories involving ancient civilizations and hypothetical lost lands. Hancock speculates that an advanced ice age civilization with spiritual technology was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors passed on their knowledge to hunter-gatherers, giving rise to the earliest known civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica.

Born in Edinburgh, Hancock studied sociology at Durham University before working as a journalist, writing for a number of British newspapers and magazines. His first three books dealt with international development, including ''Lords of Poverty'' (1989), a well-received critique of corruption in the aid system. Beginning with ''The Sign and the Seal'' in 1992, he shifted focus to speculative accounts of human prehistory and ancient civilisations, on which he has written a dozen books, most notably ''Fingerprints of the Gods'' and ''Magicians of the Gods''. His ideas have been the subject of several films, as well as the Netflix series ''Ancient Apocalypse'' (2022), and Hancock makes regular appearances on the podcast ''The Joe Rogan Experience'' to discuss them. He has also written two fantasy novels and in 2013 delivered a controversial TEDx talk promoting the use of the psychoactive drink ayahuasca.

Hancock's interpretations of archaeological evidence and historic documents have been identified as a form of pseudoarchaeology or pseudohistory. They superficially resemble investigative journalism but are biased towards preconceived conclusions by ignoring context, cherry picking or misinterpreting evidence, and withholding critical countervailing data. His writings have neither undergone scholarly peer review nor been published in academic journals. Hancock presents himself as a culture hero who fights the dogmatism of academics, claiming his work to be more valid than the research of professional archaeologists. Provided by Wikipedia