Graham Hancock

Claims made

• Human footprints at White Sands, New Mexico, were dated to roughly 21,000-23,000 years before present (Bennett et al., Science 2021), with independent pollen and luminescence ages reaffirming the chronology in 2023.

  FACT documented 2024

  • 1:20:30 Graham Hancock: The Great Pyramid Is a “Stargate” for Consciousness! · Graham Hancock ▶

    You can't date the footprint, but you can date seeds that are embedded within them. And those seeds that that's been done multiple times now. Even

• Hancock states he has never claimed to have proved the existence of a lost civilization - 'I have never made such a claim... This is a work in progress.'

  FACT well-supported 2024

  • 1:18:58 Graham Hancock: The Great Pyramid Is a “Stargate” for Consciousness! · Graham Hancock ▶

    they misrepresent me as somebody who's saying, "I've proved the existence of a lost civilization." I have never made

• Holen et al. (Nature 2017) claimed 130,000-year-old human activity at the Cerutti mastodon site; mainstream archaeology remains unconvinced the bone breakage is human.

  FACT well-supported 2024

  • 1:21:02 Graham Hancock: The Great Pyramid Is a “Stargate” for Consciousness! · Graham Hancock ▶

    what is still not accepted by the majority of archaeologists is even much older evidence for humans in the Americas going back as much as 130,000 years into the past, 10 times older than the supposed first habitation of the Americas

• The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis is a live, published scientific hypothesis - with named proxy evidence (nanodiamonds, meltglass, platinum spikes, microspherules) and named critics (Holliday et al. 2023 'Comprehensive refutation') and named rebuttals from the Comet Research Group.

  FACT well-supported 2022

  • 0:02:10 Graham Hancock: Aliens, Atlantis & the Apocalypse · Graham Hancock ▶

    asteroid from the torrid meteor stream hit the earth causing a global cataclysm

• Göbekli Tepe, dated c. 9500-8000 BC, is the oldest known large megalithic ceremonial complex.

  FACT well-supported 2022

  • 0:03:47 Graham Hancock: Aliens, Atlantis & the Apocalypse · Graham Hancock ▶

    you're a hunter-gatherer and you wake up one morning and think oh I'm just going to build the largest megalithic site that will ever be seen anywhere in the world Tepe was excavated in the 90s

• No intact pharaonic burial has ever been found in the Great Pyramid; Caliph al-Ma'mun's forced entry c. 820 AD reportedly found it empty.

  FACT well-supported 2024

  • 0:17:15 Graham Hancock: The Great Pyramid Is a “Stargate” for Consciousness! · Graham Hancock ▶

    Mamun broke in to the Great Pyramid and they found it empty. They they were expecting to find enormous treasures and wealth and instead they found it a completely empty building with with nothing inside it at

• Plato's date for Atlantis's destruction (9,000 years before Solon's reported 600 BC visit to Sais, i.e. c. 9600 BC ≈ 11,600 BP) lands within decades of the documented Meltwater Pulse 1B sea-level rise.

  FACT well-supported 2022

  • 0:18:02 Graham Hancock: Aliens, Atlantis & the Apocalypse · Graham Hancock ▶

    years ago and just as the younger dryas began cataclysmically with a sea level rise twelve thousand eight hundred years ago it also ended cataclysmically with an even more massive sea level rise eleven thousand six hundred years ago and that massive sea level rise has a name you'll just call it melt water pulse 1B it's well documented nobody disputes that there was a melt water pulse 1B

• Hancock's Plato-Solon-Atlantis date math is textually accurate (9,000 years before Solon's ~600 BC = ~9,600 BC ≈ meltwater pulse 1B), and Hancock marks the Atlantis identification itself as speculation on camera.

  INFERENCE contested 2022

  • 0:17:31 Graham Hancock: Aliens, Atlantis & the Apocalypse · Graham Hancock ▶

    9 000 years ago now immediately that's a date we can convert into our calendar