Graham Hancock
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786 appearances
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2 series
first heard Oct 2024
last heard Oct 2024
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First of all, thank you to the viewers of season one of Ancient Apocalypse. And I hope you'll enjoy season two. I hope we're bringing really important new information to the table. And a special request, if you do like it, please give it a thumbs up on Netflix. Season two is all about the Americas. Secondly, I will be doing a speaking event in the U.S.
It'll be the only speaking event that I do in 2025. And that's going to be in Sedona, 19th and 20th of April 2025.
Yeah. Yeah. 19th and 20th of April 2025, and it's going to be called The Fight for the Past, because I believe that's what's going on here. So I hope that people will enjoy the show and express that enjoyment. That would be really, really helpful. I know they will.
And the final thing I want to say is thank you to Keanu Reeves. Thank you to Keanu Reeves for joining me on the show. Keanu reached out to me some years ago because he's making this incredible comic book series called Berserker, B-R-Z-R-K-R, about an immortal warrior who's born 80,000 years ago but has the power of a god and cannot be killed.
And back, I think, in at least two years ago, Keanu reached out to me for some advice, some historical advice on where in the world could such an individual have been born 80,000 years ago. And we talked about that and we exchanged emails and then we had some nice Zoom conversations together. Oh, that's cool. And I sense that this is a very open-minded, very curious, very interesting person.
So when we were doing season two, I did ask him, would you join me and speak about this and speak about your curiosity of the past? And he knew what he was up against. Actually, just before Keanu and I spent a day together filming for season two of Ancient Apocalypse, he'd watched the debate between me and Flint Dibble.
He knew what he was facing getting into this, but he had, again, the courage and the integrity to stand up, to stand by me in that story. And I'm enormously grateful to him for doing that. And I found along the way, I suspected it when we knew each other just by Zoom and by email.
i found along the way what an incredible gentleman keanu reeves is how kind-hearted he is how humble he is how he turned up for the shoot carrying his own baggage um he he's just a gem of a human being and he he radiates kindness and decency and care and love towards others and i feel privileged to have had the opportunity to get to know him uh and i hope our paths will continue to cross in the future that's awesome
Above all, I'm grateful to him.
He's an awesome guy. Everything that people say about Keanu is right. He's a great man.
Thanks, Joe. Thanks for having me back on the show.
It would be better to describe it as a foundational sense of puzzlement and incompleteness in the story that we are taught about our past. which envisages more or less, there have been a few ups and downs, but more or less straightforward evolutionary progress. We start out as hunter-foragers, Then we become agriculturalists. The hunter-forager phase could go back hundreds of thousands of years.
I mean, this is where it's also important to mention that anatomically modern humans were not the only humans. We had Neanderthals from, I don't know, 400,000 years ago to about 40,000 years ago. They were certainly human because anatomically modern humans interbred with them and we carry Neanderthal genes. There were the Denisovans, maybe 300,000 to perhaps even as recently as 30,000 years ago.
And again, interbreeding took place. They're obviously a human species. So, you know, we've got this background of humans who didn't look quite like us. And then we have anatomically modern humans. And I think the earliest anatomically modern human skeletal remains are from Gebeler Hood in Morocco. and date to about 310,000 years ago. So the question is, what were our ancestors doing after that?
And I think we can include the Neanderthals and the Denisovans in that general picture. And why did it take so long? This is one of the puzzles, one of the questions that bother me. Why did it take so long when we have creatures who are physically identical to us?
We cannot actually weigh and measure their brains, but from the work that's been done on the crania, it looks like they had the same brains that we do with the same wiring. So if we've been around for 300,000 plus years at least... And if ultimately in our future was the process to create civilization or civilizations, why didn't it happen sooner? Why did it take so long?
Why was it such a long time? Even the story of anatomically modern humans has kept on changing. I remember a time when it was said that there hadn't been anatomically modern humans before 50,000 years ago. And then it became 196,000 years ago with the findings in Ethiopia and then 310,000 years ago. There's a lot of missing pieces in the puzzle there.
But the big question for me in that timeline is why didn't we do it sooner? Why did it take so long? Why do we wait until after 12,000 years ago, really after 10,000 years ago, to start seeing the beginnings, what are selected as the beginnings of civilization in places like Turkey, for example. And then there's a relatively slow process of adopting agriculture.
And by 6,000 years ago, we see ancient Sumer emerging as a civilization. And we're then in the pre-dynastic period in ancient Egypt as well, 6,000 years ago, beginning to see definite signs of what will become the dynastic civilization of Egypt about 5,000 years ago. And interestingly, round about the same time, you have the Indus Valley civilization popping up out of nowhere.
And by the way, the Indus Valley civilization was a lost civilization. until the 1920s when railway workers accidentally stumbled across some ruins. I've been to Harappa and Mohenjo-daro. And these are extraordinarily beautifully centrally planned cities. Clearly, they're the work of an already sophisticated civilization.
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