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My Take
Graham Hancock is someone I find genuinely entertaining to read while disagreeing with almost everything he argues. His lost-civilization theories, the advanced Ice Age society wiped out by comet impacts, are pseudoscience, and mainstream archaeology has roundly rejected them. But I will not pretend his books are not compelling page-turners, or that his Netflix series did not get a lot of people newly curious about the ancient past. My honest take is to enjoy him as a storyteller and a provocateur, not as a guide to actual history. He is a phenomenon worth understanding, just keep a healthy skepticism close at hand.
Overview
Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British author known for promoting pseudoscientific explanations of ancient civilisations and hypothetical lost lands. Hancock argues that an advanced society with spiritual technology thrived during the last Ice Age until comet impacts triggered the Younger Dryas about 12,900 years ago.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Graham Hancock
- Name (Japanese)
- グラハム・ハンコック
- Reading
- ぐらはむ・はんこっく
- Born
- August 2, 1950 (age 75)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Tiger
- Origin
- Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- journalist / writer / documentary participant / non-fiction writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Durham University
Awards & achievements
- 1991 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.