Ancient Apocalypse (2022)

Genre

documentary film, documentary television program

Country

United States

Length

2 seasons, 14 episodes

Rated

M18

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 98 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Graham Hancock presents his theory that an advanced civilization existed during the last ice age. He visits archaeological sites and natural features to argue that survivors of a comet impact passed their knowledge to ancient cultures. The series claims archaeologists are ignoring this evidence.

speculativeprovocativeargumentativemysteriousskepticalconspiratorialdramaticunsettling

What happens

Ancient Apocalypse is a television series, classified by its publisher Netflix as a documentary, where the British writer Graham Hancock presents his pseudoarchaeological theory that there was an advanced civilization during the last ice age and that it was destroyed as a result of meteor impacts around 12,000 years ago. He argues that the survivors passed on their knowledge to hunter-gatherers around the world, giving rise to all earliest known civilizations. The episodes feature Hancock visiting archaeological sites and natural features which he claims show evidence of this. He repeatedly alleges that archaeologists are ignoring or covering up the evidence. The series presents pseudoscientific claims that lack evidence, cherry picks, and fails to present the counter-evidence. Archaeologists and other experts also criticised the program for delegitimising the achievements of Indigenous peoples. Some non-academic reviewers also found the theories unconvincing and criticized Hancock's complaints about 'mainstream archaeology' as one-sided and evocative of conspiracy theories. Some experts featured in the first series complained that footage of them was presented in a misleading way. The first season of the series, produced by ITN Productions, was released on Netflix in November 2022. A second season, featuring actor Keanu Reeves alongside Hancock, is focused on the Americas and was released in October 2024. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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