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Journalist Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age. | Journalist [[People:Graham Hancock|Graham Hancock]] travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age. | ||
Hancock's hypothesis are the basis of Ancient Apocalypse, a 2022 documentary series produced by Netflix. In the series, Hancock argues that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors introduced agriculture, monumental architecture and astronomy to hunter-gatherers around the world. He attempts to show how several ancient monuments are evidence of this, and claims that archaeologists are ignoring or covering-up this alleged evidence. It incorporates ideas from the Comet Research Group (CRG), including the controversial [[Younger Dryas impact hypothesis]]. | Hancock's hypothesis are the basis of Ancient Apocalypse, a 2022 documentary series produced by Netflix. In the series, Hancock argues that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors introduced agriculture, monumental architecture and astronomy to hunter-gatherers around the world. He attempts to show how several ancient monuments are evidence of this, and claims that archaeologists are ignoring or covering-up this alleged evidence. It incorporates ideas from the Comet Research Group (CRG), including the controversial [[Younger Dryas impact hypothesis]]. | ||
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'''''Ancient Apocalypse''''' is a 2022 documentary series about the hypothesis of British writer [[Graham Hancock]]. | '''''Ancient Apocalypse''''' is a 2022 documentary series about the hypothesis of British writer [[People:Graham Hancock|Graham Hancock]]. | ||
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Revision as of 03:22, 24 January 2023
Journalist Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age. Hancock's hypothesis are the basis of Ancient Apocalypse, a 2022 documentary series produced by Netflix. In the series, Hancock argues that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors introduced agriculture, monumental architecture and astronomy to hunter-gatherers around the world. He attempts to show how several ancient monuments are evidence of this, and claims that archaeologists are ignoring or covering-up this alleged evidence. It incorporates ideas from the Comet Research Group (CRG), including the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis.
Ancient Apocalypse is a 2022 documentary series about the hypothesis of British writer Graham Hancock.
Synopsis
In the series, Hancock's hypothesis that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors introduced agriculture, monumental architecture and astronomy to hunter-gatherers around the world. He presents several ancient monuments as evidence of this, and claims that archaeologists are ignoring or covering-up this alleged evidence. It incorporates ideas from the Comet Research Group, including the controversial Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, which attributes climate change at the end of the Pleistocene to a massive meteor bombardment.
Production and release
The series was produced by ITN Productions, and released by Netflix on 10 November 2022. Hancock's son Sean Hancock is "senior manager of unscripted originals" at Netflix.
It was the second most-watched series on Netflix in its week of release. Top 10 Shows and Movies: New Releases and Trending Today, November 15.
Episodes
| Episodes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Episode number | Title | Subjects | |
| 1 | Once There Was a Flood | Gunung Padang, Sundaland, Nan Madol | |
| 2 | Survivor in a Time of Chaos | Cholula (Mesoamerican site), Great Pyramid of Cholula, Texcotzingo, Xochicalco | |
| 3 | Sirius Rising | Megalithic Temples of Malta, Malta Cart Ruts, Għar Dalam, Sirius | |
| 4 | Ghosts of a Drowned World | Bimini Road, Piri Reis map of 1513, Shark Island (Bimini) | |
| 5 | Legacy of the Sages | Göbekli Tepe, Karahan Tepe | |
| 6 | America's Lost Civilization | Poverty Point, Serpent Mound, Mound Builders, Clovis culture | |
| 7 | Fatal Winter | Derinkuyu, Kaymakli Underground City, Nevşehir | |
| 8 | Cataclysm and Rebirth | Channeled Scablands, Missoula Floods, Murray Springs Clovis Site, Younger Dryas, Younger Dryas impact hypothesis | |
