Journalist and writer Graham Hancock travels the globe hunting for evidence of mysterious, lost civilizations dating back to the last Ice Age.
He attempts to prove that a climatic event 12,000 years ago wiped out an entire civilization far more sophisticated than the simple hunter-gatherers some archaeologists believe lived at that time.
Graham visits Gunung Padang, an Indonesian archeological site, to find proof of a lost civilization — and the potential cataclysm that wiped it out.
Episode 2. Stranger in a Time of Chaos
2022-11-11 · 33 min
In Cholula, Mexico's oldest continuously-inhabited city, the journalist inspects the world's largest pyramid for signs of a forgotten past.
Episode 3. Sirius Rising
2022-11-11 · 31 min
Graham discovers a fascinating pattern that may connect the spectacular megalithic temples of Malta, which he believes to be much older than reported.
Episode 4. Ghosts of a Drowned World
2022-11-11 · 30 min
Few scholars have investigated the Bimini rock formation off the coast of Miami, once fabled to be the road to Atlantis — but Graham dives right in.
Episode 5. Legacy of the Sages
2022-11-11 · 32 min
At Göbekli Tepe, the oldest known megalith in the world, Graham questions if simple hunter-gatherers alone could have built such an advanced structure.
Episode 6. America's Lost Civilization
2022-11-11 · 33 min
Graham visits ancient mounds in North America and wonders if they contain astronomical significance — or even warnings of an apocalyptic climate event.
Episode 7. A Fatal Winter
2022-11-11 · 29 min
The author returns to Turkey to explore Derinkuyu, an ancient underground city and survival bunker that could shelter thousands in times of crisis.
Episode 8. Cataclysm and Rebirth
2022-11-11 · 32 min
In the ancient geological sites of North America, Graham envisions an apocalyptic event that may have changed the Earth — and its inhabitants — forever.
The Americas
6 episodes · 2024
Episode 1. Chapter I
2024-10-16 · 42 min
From ancient footprints to mysterious earthworks, Graham continues his journey into the past alongside experts and curious minds, including Keanu Reeves.
Episode 2. Chapter II
2024-10-16 · 41 min
Graham searches for answers to the questions behind ancient works of art, including 25,000-year-old Amazonian paintings and the megaliths of Rapa Nui.
Episode 3. Chapter III
2024-10-16 · 39 min
Accompanied by local experts, Graham compares ancient oral traditions and learns Sacsayhuamán in Peru may be older than archaeologists ever imagined.
Episode 4. Chapter IV
2024-10-16 · 41 min
Graham learns of a stone-shaping technique now lost to history, and explores how ancient Amazonians managed to thrive in an inhospitable rainforest.
Episode 5. Chapter V
2024-10-16 · 41 min
Although thousands of miles apart, Graham considers the possible link between the shamanistic use of ayahuasca in the Amazon and tobacco in New Mexico.
Episode 6. Chapter VI
2024-10-16 · 40 min
At Mexico's Temple of the Sun, Graham experiences the extent of the Mayans' astronomical expertise and investigates their complex calendar system.
Well, if the Cosmos series is clearly made with the intention to teach and educate, Ancient Apocalypse is meant to sensationalize and somehow shock you. Literally EVERY sentence in the series is accompanied by some cheap, dramatizing and sensationalizing sound effect. A stab, a hit, a deep bass rumbling for effect, it gets highly annoying.
And it's a shame because the chosen subjects are truly amazing and have enough consistency to carry their own weight through the series.
I "met" Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan podcast and every time he was there he made a very serious impression, I regret he had to make Ancient Apocalypse this way and on Netflix. Even the title sounds like (and is!) clickbait. If you can filter all this out, you're in for a historical gem.
Well.... When Hancock is on the Rogan Experience it gets pretty out there. And I don't know how much I want to take him seriously....
.... but then... Göbekli Tepe rewrote a lot didn't it? That pushed the date back. Something was there before it should be there and it was organized and it was big.
And some of what he said in Fingerprints of the Gods sort of holds water.
I mean, geologists and archeologists, geologists and historians clash a lot, and one is trying to keep with a timeline that keeps getting forced back while the other one doesn't have that constraint.
So, where I am POSITIVE it's going to get Ancient Aliens insane as it goes on, I'm also pretty sure he should be taken a little more seriously.
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