Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock (born August 2, 1950) is a British author, journalist, and public speaker known for promoting fringe theories regarding ancient civilizations and lost ice-age cultures. Formerly a East Africa correspondent for The Economist and writer for major British publications, he transitioned into speculative history with his 1995 international bestseller Fingerprints of the Gods. Hancock posits that an advanced, forgotten mother culture was destroyed by a cataclysmic event around 12,000 years ago, leaving behind survivors who transferred technical and astronomical knowledge to early human societies. Though his theories and Netflix documentary series Ancient Apocalypse are widely dismissed by mainstream archaeologists and historians as pseudoscientific, Hancock maintains a massive global audience through frequent appearances on popular podcasts like The Joe Rogan Experience and public debates with academic critics.