Person

Graham Hancock

British writer, born in Edinburgh in 1950, formerly East Africa correspondent for The Economist. Since The Sign and the Seal (1992) and Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) he has argued that human history is missing a chapter: an advanced civilization of the last Ice Age, destroyed by a cosmic catastrophe about 12,800 years ago. In The Mars Mystery (1998) he brought the Face and pyramids of Cydonia into the same story. His Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse made him a household name.

On the record

His books: The Sign and the Seal (1992), Fingerprints of the Gods (1995), The Mars Mystery (1998), Underworld (2002), Supernatural (2005), Magicians of the Gods (2015), America Before (2019).
Ancient Apocalypse, Netflix, 2022 and 2024.

Claims (3)

A lost Ice Age civilization seeded later cultures.analysisSourced, unconfirmedGraham Hancock

The Younger Dryas impact ended it.Younger Dryas impactanalysisSourced, unconfirmedGraham Hancock

Mars and Earth share a history of catastrophe and monuments.analysisSourced, unconfirmedGraham Hancock

What Graham Hancock said (3 claims)

“A lost Ice Age civilization with advanced knowledge of the sky.”analysisSourced, unconfirmedFingerprints of the Gods

“Its builders were heirs of the lost civilization.”analysisSourced, unconfirmedGöbekli Tepe

“The impact destroyed an advanced Ice Age civilization and caused the flood myths found worldwide.”analysisSourced, unconfirmedYounger Dryas impact

Cases (6)

Sources

Wikipedia: Graham Hancock