Graham Hancock: They May Have Secretly Found Antarctica 300 Years Before Us

• Video: Archaeology Warning: They May Have Secretly Found Antarctica 300 Years Before Us! — Graham Hancock by The Diary Of A CEO (1:56:40)
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Summary

Graham Hancock on The Diary Of A CEO podcast, framed as a possible “last word” (he mentions an upcoming risky operation and a hostile journalist’s pending story).

His thesis — a forgotten lost civilization:

• Mainstream view: civilization began ~6,000 years ago. Hancock argues there’s strong evidence for an advanced civilization ~20,000 years ago.
• He describes a mythological “golden age” — no violence or cruelty, sophisticated healers and sages.
• The myths then turn: the culture “stepped away from its original purity” and began imposing its power on others worldwide.
• Sewn into those myths is what he reads as scientific information recording a gigantic cataclysm that nearly wiped out the human race — with the recurring theme that “we brought this upon ourselves.”
• His warning: today’s civilization “ticks all the mythological boxes for the next lost civilization,” and we’re most likely to be the cause of our own cataclysm — unless we wake up.

(Evidence discussed includes maps suggesting Antarctica was charted centuries before its official discovery — the hook of the episode title.)