Graham Hancock
One of the most successful fringe writers of recent years, Graham Hancock is a leading light of a group of people who like to call themselves the ‘New Egyptologists’ to give a spurious sense of academic credibility. Others include his contemporary David Rohl, who has proposed a radical new chronology of Egyptian history to align it with the chronology of the Old Testament by reducing the dates of Egyptian kings. Hancock also tries to establish an alternative chronology, but it is one that pushes back some of Egypt’s most familiar monuments into a very distant past. Hancock’s body of work does not confine itself to Egypt; we see the usual suspects: Tiahuanaco, Mexican pyramids, early modern maps and so on – and we even see some new ones, such as flooded ‘cities’ in the Bay of Cambay, submerged ‘structures’ off the coast of Japan and even pyramids on Mars!
Among Hancock’s many complaints about orthodox Egyptologists and archaeologists is that they have consistently underestimated the scientific knowledge of ancient societies. Paradoxically, though, this persuades him that this knowledge was developed not by those societies already recognised by the archaeologists, but by an earlier civilisation not accepted by them. He claims to find evidence for his so-called ‘lost civilisation’ all over the world. The very vastness of his approach can make it difficult to deal with simply. A comprehensive analysis of his works would require a massive book, since it would need not only to refute his claims but also to present the comprehensive contextual evidence to show why his ideas cannot stand up.
Hi, genuinely interested in how archeology has dated the great pyramid. Far as I know, reliance is placed on the cartouche discovered in one of the internal chambers in late 1800s. But this article by archeologists seems to rely on flecks of wood and other datable material picked from the exterior of the pyramid. Which makes a huge assumption, that anything dropped there was dropped during the construction and not a thousand years later.
http://www.archaeology.org/9909/abstracts/pyramids.html
From what I understand of the page to which you’ve linked, the Great Pyramid wasn’t specifically targeted; instead, it looks like a programme of dating all the Old Kingdom pyramids. It was done not by using “flecks of wood and other datable material picked from the exterior” (your words) but on organic materials incorporated into mortars and plasters used within the structures. Contrary to what a lot of ‘alternative’ archaeologists assert, mortar was used in pyramid construction, although not between every block in the way that we use bricks and mortar. Flecks of carbonised wood, straw and so on can be extracted and dated.
I found the lost civilisations documentary very interresting and he provides some evidence of his own.
in my opinion he did nothing but state facts about astronomy, he didnt use carbon dating because it would make his story fail. he also states things like aliens and weird stuff like that, but he also says that the story doesnt fit for him.
i have read into a lot of this lemuria and other weird crap, but Graham does not say anything about the civilisation itself untill the last part, now i found that MU probably wouldnt have existed with help from your website and knowledge about the authors, but he does provide a lot of information about star systems and their position concerning the time they where built and the time that the star system would have been in the same line as the building. that for all of those things was 10.500 BC. i found that interresting, since the only thing he does is push back the dates of construction to 10.500 BC even with things that are created 800 years ago
i also found something about Göbekli Tepe, which is pretty interresting
theres no proof for most of these things but i found the Quest For The Lost Civilisation a very good watch and i think people should watch it with a skeptic eye. most things he does not state as facts but as a possibility. i found the information he provides as facts pretty interresting, i think it could be very possible that humans have lived longer on this planet, then previously thought, but i also think it is possible (this is more probable) that the people who sell these stories are merely trying to make money from their fantasy that they hope so badly to be true.
there is one thing i would like to know:
Do you Keith Fitzpatrick-Matthews, think that there is a possibility for all this? or is it just a spin off from the truth?
and im not asking for only facts, but for a personal perception of all this.
Is it possible that all these people just ignore modern day science and geology, or is it actually possible?
Thank you for the video. Hancock´s research like some other authors is intended to accumulate evidence, pose questions and try some hypotheses. It is, as it happens in other branches of knowledge, a legitimate attempt to burst the bubble of official science and its rigid, boring and scholastic methods that pretend to discard anything that is not born from the method designed by Galileo (this pretention of uniqueness and absoluteness as one of its features inherited from its predecessor: the Christian Church).
It would be long just to quote many breakthroughs in current science that have been incepted from the plain curiosity and audacious open-mindedness (which have also been battled fiercely by the corresponding elites of those times). Western science is -apart from honest scholars- a body of elitism, corruption and participation in mass control, and no wonder that anything uncomfortable for its status and dogmatic foundations should be written off. This pretention to write off any other possibility is even more ridiculous in the case of sciences as Archealogy, Anthropology or Economics in which most of its main methods are mere worthless myths with enormous mass manipulative value and minuscule practical value.