Graham Hancock

Not at all. Archaeologists have done some fantastic work. And it's really important work. What I've realized is that there's almost two different mindsets at work here in looking at the past.

Not at all. Archaeologists have done some fantastic work. And it's really important work. What I've realized is that there's almost two different mindsets at work here in looking at the past.

I think archaeology is very determined to demonstrate that it's a science, that it's a hard science, that it's completely rational, that it's all based on scientific method and anything that sounds unscientific, which include myths, must be avoided. And also, I do find that archaeology, and it may be true in other sciences as well, are very reluctant to use the imagination.

I think archaeology is very determined to demonstrate that it's a science, that it's a hard science, that it's completely rational, that it's all based on scientific method and anything that sounds unscientific, which include myths, must be avoided. And also, I do find that archaeology, and it may be true in other sciences as well, are very reluctant to use the imagination.

I think archaeology is very determined to demonstrate that it's a science, that it's a hard science, that it's completely rational, that it's all based on scientific method and anything that sounds unscientific, which include myths, must be avoided. And also, I do find that archaeology, and it may be true in other sciences as well, are very reluctant to use the imagination.

The imagination is seen as a deadly threat. Whereas I think imagination is a really important thing in interpreting the past. We should be open to possibilities rather than coming into what we confront with a closed idea. We should consider how it might have been, what might have happened. Let's use our imagination and think about this. Think what all this means.

The imagination is seen as a deadly threat. Whereas I think imagination is a really important thing in interpreting the past. We should be open to possibilities rather than coming into what we confront with a closed idea. We should consider how it might have been, what might have happened. Let's use our imagination and think about this. Think what all this means.

The imagination is seen as a deadly threat. Whereas I think imagination is a really important thing in interpreting the past. We should be open to possibilities rather than coming into what we confront with a closed idea. We should consider how it might have been, what might have happened. Let's use our imagination and think about this. Think what all this means.

Think what that common iconography all around the world means rather than just saying, oh, it's a coincidence.

Think what that common iconography all around the world means rather than just saying, oh, it's a coincidence.

Think what that common iconography all around the world means rather than just saying, oh, it's a coincidence.

Could be Polynesia, could be Africa. And then there are these other faces which in the video I've put out, I've shown some of these. It's not just myths of a bearded foreigner turning up in the Americas. which Flint Dibble and other archaeologists say were all concocted and invented by the Spaniards. We discussed that during the debate.

Could be Polynesia, could be Africa. And then there are these other faces which in the video I've put out, I've shown some of these. It's not just myths of a bearded foreigner turning up in the Americas. which Flint Dibble and other archaeologists say were all concocted and invented by the Spaniards. We discussed that during the debate.

Could be Polynesia, could be Africa. And then there are these other faces which in the video I've put out, I've shown some of these. It's not just myths of a bearded foreigner turning up in the Americas. which Flint Dibble and other archaeologists say were all concocted and invented by the Spaniards. We discussed that during the debate.

I have a real problem with that because that is patronizing to the indigenous people. I think the myths were there amongst the indigenous people, and I think the Spaniards saw how they could use them, how they could manipulate them. But I don't think they made up the myths and somehow imposed them upon the indigenous people who then believed that they were their own myths.

I have a real problem with that because that is patronizing to the indigenous people. I think the myths were there amongst the indigenous people, and I think the Spaniards saw how they could use them, how they could manipulate them. But I don't think they made up the myths and somehow imposed them upon the indigenous people who then believed that they were their own myths.

I have a real problem with that because that is patronizing to the indigenous people. I think the myths were there amongst the indigenous people, and I think the Spaniards saw how they could use them, how they could manipulate them. But I don't think they made up the myths and somehow imposed them upon the indigenous people who then believed that they were their own myths.

I don't think they were that stupid. They knew what their myths were.

I don't think they were that stupid. They knew what their myths were.

I don't think they were that stupid. They knew what their myths were.