34 Facts About Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock speculates that survivors of this cataclysm passed on their knowledge to primitive hunter-gatherers around the world, giving rise to all the earliest known civilizations.

Graham Hancock portrays himself as a culture hero who fights the "dogmatism" of academics, presenting his work as more valid than professional archaeology and as "a path to truly understanding reality and the spiritual elements denied by materialist science", though he often cites science in support of his ideas.

Graham Hancock has not submitted his writings for scholarly peer review, and they have not been published in academic journals.

Graham Hancock has written two fantasy novels and in 2013 delivered a controversial TEDx talk promoting the use of the psychoactive drink ayahuasca.

Graham Hancock's ideas have been the subject of several films as well as the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse.

Graham Hancock makes regular appearances on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss his work.

Graham Bruce Hancock was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1950.

Graham Hancock moved to India with his parents at the age of three, where his father worked as a surgeon.

Graham Hancock co-edited New Internationalist magazine from 1976 to 1979 and was the East Africa correspondent of The Economist from 1981 to 1983.

Critics agreed that Graham Hancock's work was a powerful critique of the international aid system, though a number disagreed with Graham Hancock's thesis that aid was inherently bad.

Graham Hancock was additionally criticized for having links to then dictator of Ethiopia Mengistu Haile Mariam, which caused controversy when Hancock wrote a favourable profile of Barre for The Independent, as, by his own admission, "various aspects of my trip were facilitated by the [Barre] regime".

Graham Hancock admitted that he "definitely made a mistake" by establishing links to Mengistu.

Since 1990, Graham Hancock's works have focused mainly on speculative connections he makes between various archaeological, historical, and cross-cultural phenomena.

Graham Hancock wrote and presented the documentaries Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age and Quest for the Lost Civilization.

Graham Hancock's ideas are built with references to myths, pseudoscience, outdated scientific models, and cutting-edge science depending on what suits his claims.

Graham Hancock aims to erode trust in known facts and archaeological expertise, and he responds to criticism with accusations of censorship.

Graham Hancock's main thesis throughout most of his work is that there was an advanced civilization during the last Ice Age, which was destroyed as a result of a widespread natural disaster, causing the small number of survivors to travel the world, spreading their knowledge and giving rise to the earliest known civilizations.

Graham Hancock argues that the civilization was destroyed around 12,000 years ago by sudden climate change during the Younger Dryas cool period, which he attributes to an impact winter caused by a massive meteor bombardment.

Graham Hancock believes the monuments they built encode astronomical data to warn future humans.

Graham Hancock believes that these events are preserved in various myths, such as Plato's story of Atlantis, and that the Atlanteans were remembered as "magicians and gods".

Graham Hancock has accepted the fringe theories of other Atlantis proponents regarding several historic sites.

Graham Hancock believes that the technology his lost Ice Age civilization possessed was primarily spiritual.

Graham Hancock suggests that the teachings of Atlanteans to later civilizations were "geometric, astronomical and spiritual" in nature, which were faciltated by the use of psychotropic plants used to access the Otherworld, allowing them to commune with souls and "powerful nonphysical beings".

Graham Hancock proposed that they were able to move and shape large stones with the help of meditation and psychoactive plants, and asserted that granite blocks of the Great Pyramid of Giza were moved by "priests chanting", suggesting a form of acoustic levitation.

Graham Hancock has distanced himself from this claim, yet failed to explain how a fully competent local population could serve as evidence for a lost civilization that transferred superior science and technology to them.

Graham Hancock has based some of his work on outdated race science and has argued for the presence of indigenous "Caucasoids" and "Negroids" in the Americas prior to 1492, which he claims are depicted in indigenous American art and mythology.

Graham Hancock has denied that he is racist, and he has expressed support for native rights.

One of the many recurring themes in several of Graham Hancock's works has been an exposition on Robert Bauval's Orion correlation theory.

Graham Hancock and Bauval's OCT was the subject of Atlantis Reborn, an episode of the BBC documentary series Horizon broadcast in 1999.

The programme was critical of the theory, demonstrating that the constellation Leo could be found amongst famous landmarks in New York and alleging that Graham Hancock had selectively moved or ignored the locations of temples to support his argument.

Graham Hancock's theories are the basis of Ancient Apocalypse, a 2022 documentary series produced by Netflix, where Graham Hancock's son Sean is "senior manager of unscripted originals".

Graham Hancock gave a TEDx lecture titled "The War on Consciousness", in which he described his use of ayahuasca, an Amazonian brew containing a hallucinogenic compound DMT, and argued that adults should be allowed to responsibly use it for self-improvement and spiritual growth.

Graham Hancock stated that for 24 years he was "pretty much permanently stoned" on cannabis, and that in 2011, six years after his first use of ayahuasca, it enabled him to stop using cannabis.

Graham Hancock has appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast several times.