Graham Hancock
Guest on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Graham Hancock is a British author and former journalist known for writing about ancient civilizations, lost history, and alternative theories of human prehistory. He became widely known for books like *Fingerprints of the Gods* and *Magicians of the Gods*, and in 2022 he presented the Netflix series *Ancient Apocalypse*. He is currently recognized as a prominent commentator on controversial archaeological and historical ideas.
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Fingerprints of the Gods👍 Recommends
…listing his major published works on ancient civilizations
“The book that put me on the map was Fingerprints of the Gods and that's the book where I really begin to investigate the possibility of a lost civilization before that came the sign and the seal which was about Ethiopia's claim to possess the lost Ark.”
on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Hamlet's Mill👍 Recommends
…discussing how ancient myths encoded astronomical knowledge about precession
“A very important academic study published in the 1960s, a book called Hamlet's Mill by Giorgio de Santillana, professor of the history of science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Hertha von Deschen, professor of history of science. This is not me speaking. This is major, major historians of science in the 1960s. They found encoded in those myths numbers and imagery that could only relate to one thing. And that's an obscure astronomical phenomenon called the precession of the equinoxes.”
on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Mankind in Amnesia👍 Recommends
…describing his core research question about humanity's lost history
“I'm puzzled by aspects of the human past. There could be, and I think there's a lot to suggest there was, a major forgotten episode in the human story. That's why I refer to us as a species with amnesia. And when I use that phrase, I need to give credit to Emmanuel Velikovsky, who wrote a book called Mankind in Amnesia. I think we are a species with amnesia.”
on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
The Sign and the Seal👍 Recommends
…listing his major published works on ancient civilizations
“The book that put me on the map was Fingerprints of the Gods and that's the book where I really begin to investigate the possibility of a lost civilization before that came the sign and the seal which was about Ethiopia's claim to possess the lost Ark.”
on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett
Underworld👍 Recommends
…describing his book about submerged civilizations on continental shelves
“So Underworld is about all those flooded continental shelves. 27 million square kilometers of continental shelf were flooded at the end of the Ice Age. That's 27 million square kilometers. That's Europe and China and a bit more combined were the best real estate on Earth 20,000 years ago and are all underwater today. And there's signs that there was life there.”
on The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett