![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But, undeterred, he is back with another Channel 4 series and a vast tablet of a book, called Underworld, that attempts to provide the evidence for his lost civilisation. In 1999 the BBC's Horizon did a demolition job that was applauded by archaeologists and assorted Hancock-haters. ![]() His arguments were treated with derision. It was restated in Heaven's Mirror, a glossy book produced to coincide with a Channel 4 series in 1998. He first expounded the thesis in 1995 in Fingerprints of the Gods (the echo of Erich Von Daniken's pro-alien Chariots of the Gods is unfortunate). Hancock has spent the past 10 years writing books and producing TV programmes which argue that everything we are told about ancient history is wrong: civilisation didn't start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3,500 BC it began 10,000 years before in great cities which subsequently suffered a cataclysm. But his critics would say appearances deceive: he is either a lunatic, a charlatan, or both. Graham Hancock doesn't look mad as he sprawls in an armchair in his small, neat house in Kennington, south London. ![]()
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