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Gobekli Tepe: Gradual evolution? Or transfer of technology? Or both?
“Gobekli Tepe changes everything.” – Ian Hodder, Stanford University.1 In Episode 5 of my documentary series Ancient Apocalypse, released on Netflix in November 2022, I speak of GobekIi T...
Response by Graham Hancock (GH) to the open letter to Netflix dated 30th November 2022 from the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) concerning the eight-part docuseries Ancient Apocalypse presented by Graham Hancock
Link to Netflix, Ancient Apocalypse: https://www.netflix.com/title/81211003 Link to SAA open letter: https://documents.saa.org/container/docs/default-source/doc-governmentaffairs/saa-letter-ancient...
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Debate: Author Graham Hancock vs Archaeologist Flint Dibble on the Joe Rogan Experience, October 2023
I put this out across my social media on Sunday 22nd January 2023: Twitter Facebook author page Facebook personal page Here are clickable links from the post: Joe Rogan Experience Episode 1897 of 1...
For the Record
An important issue of censorship raised in my Netflix docuseries Ancient Apocalypse was the fact that I and my film crew from ITN Productions were banned from filming at Serpent Mound in Ohio. In e...
Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
My Netflix docuseries Ancient Apocalypse (https://www.netflix.com/title/81211003), stirred up a hornet’s nest when it was released on November 11th 2022. Immediately – in some cases eve...
The Amazon Mystery
In my 2019 book America Before I devote seven chapters, more than 90 pages, to the implications of recent remarkable discoveries in the Amazon rainforest. These include great cities overgrown by th...
Beyond the Brain: Graham Hancock and Rupert Sheldrake explore the mystery of consciousness
Consciousness – we all have it, yet it’s one of the greatest mysteries of science. Exactly what it is, how it works, what it’s for, and what its implications are for our understanding of “r...
Karahan Tepe, Gobekli Tepe’s 12,000-years-old “Sister Site”, Begins To Reveal Its Secrets
By Graham Hancock Photographs by Santha Faiia For more than a year I’ve been deeply immersed in a major new project that involves Karahan Tepe, in Turkey’s Anatolia region, it’s b...
Message from a Mastodon
Recent scientific news (see here: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/stones-mastodon-bones-debate-america-first-settlers) strongly supports the controversial claim in my 2019 book AMERICA BEFORE t...
Crick’s LSD
“God wanted to hide his secrets in a secure place. ‘Would I put them on the moon?’ He reflected. ‘But then, one day human beings could get there, and it could be that those who would arrive...
Love not fear…
There has never been a time of greater potential for the liberation of the human spirit than the time we live in today, and never a moment when the human spirit has stood in greater jeopardy. Huge ...
Were psychedelics used in the ancient world?
Were psychedelics used in the ancient world? Here’s the 4-minute answer I gave to that question when I was interviewed at the Glastonbury Festival (hence background music) in June 2016. The t...
Archaeology and War God
Synchronicity! I’m settling down to start work on the first chapter of Volume 4 of my War God series of novels about the Spanish conquest of Mexico when a report pops up in my newsfeed announcing...
Important New Book By Mainstream Geologist Provides Huge Support For Comet Impact And Global Cataclysm 12,800 Years Ago
Did impacts and airbursts from multiple fragments of a disintegrating comet cause the onset of the Younger Dryas global cataclysm 12,800 years ago? After more than a decade of acrimonious scientifi...
Stuff just keeps on getting older…
Photo: In this picture, probably taken in 1957, I’m in India with my father Donald Macarthur Hancock and my mother Muriel Bruce Hancock. How the years have passed. How fleeting is the precious gi...
Response from Graham Hancock to the Society for American Archaeology
I can only be grateful to the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), the professional association for the archaeology of the Americas, for devoting no less than 27 pages of the November issue of i...
Video trailer for America Before and full details of my forthcoming events
Embedded in this post is a link to a short video trailer for America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization. The book will be published in April. More information on its contents: https...
Speaking tour — America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization
I’ll be on a speaking tour in the UK late-March to mid-April and then in North America from 19 April through 4 June. Please join me if you can! US and Canada events will be posted shortly mea...
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Returning to Ayahuasca after three years away — night 4
I’ve had beautiful and traumatic experiences with Ayahuasca this week at Rythmia in Costa Rica. Santha and I and our daughter Shanti have been part of a group of close to 100 people and every...
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Returning to Ayahuasca after three years away — nights 2 and 3
In my previous post (https://goo.gl/ZsQoJq) concerning Monday night’s Ayahuasca session here at Rythmia in Costa Rica I promised I would report back after the Tuesday night session. I didn...
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Returning to Ayahuasca after three years away
After more than three years away from the brew, I drank Ayahuasca here in Costa Rica last night (Monday 26 Nov) at Rythmia (https://rythmialifeadvancementcenters.com/). I’m pleased to report ...
On Writing (2)
I’m at home in the UK completing the writing my next book, ‘America Before’. Over past few days, digging into the mystery of the incredible Newark and High Bank earthworks in Ohio...
The Wild Ride
I don’t mean to be morbid! I mean to celebrate the miracle and the mystery of life. As to death… well it’s anybody’s guess. Maybe we are meat robots, all matter, no spirit. ...
On writing…
I’ll post these ‘Tips for aspiring writers’ occasionally — a few gleanings from what I’ve learned in nearly 40 years of writing books. My latest non-fiction, Magicians...
Announcing AMERICA BEFORE as the title of my forthcoming book…
Muck, Mammoths and Extinctions: was Alaska the scene of a giant cataclysm at the end of the Ice Age?
REQUEST FOR THE HELP OF THIS COMMUNITY WITH A RESEARCH PROJECT CONNECTED TO THE NEW BOOK ON ANCIENT AMERICA ON WHICH I’M NOW WORKING. Catastrophism: the theory that certain vast geological ch...
Back from the gates of death
Having spent most of the past week at the gates of death, I thought I would take this opportunity to bring friends, readers, allies and critics up to date with what has been happening to me. The ba...
Why Science Should Cherish Its Rebels
There is fierce disagreement amongst mainstream scientists – a disagreement that also divides alternative researchers – around what happened to the Earth, and to humanity, in the closing millen...
Standing Rock: Water Is Life
Standing Rock: Water Is Life Standing Up To Those Who Always Take The Largest Portion Graham Hancock looks into the historical background to the current pipeline dispute in North Dakota and learns ...
Reaching out – the Joe Rogan Experience & beyond. Follow-up & further events
My appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience on Tuesday 15 November with Randall Carlson can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5LCLljJho Amongst other matters, Randall and I raised ...
Cosmic impacts and the past and future of civilization
In my book Magicians of the Gods I examine the paradigm-shifting evidence for a cosmic impact 12,800 years ago, followed by further cataclysmic impacts 11,600 years ago. The argument, strongly supp...
Invitation for comments and suggestions re my planned next book
I’ve decided to devote my next big non-fiction book to the mysteries of ancient America. After my research trip across the channelled scablands of the Pacific Northwest with Randall Carlson, ...
Exclusive: Extract from forthcoming Volume 3 of the War God series by Graham Hancock
I’ve spent the summer writing 16 hours a day 7 days a week completing Volume 3 of my War God series of novels about the Spanish conquest of Mexico. It has been a VERY intense writing experience. ...
New Interview, 11 mins, on RT
“We are living at the time when human beings, finally, are waking up.” The mainstream media usually only report my work to ridicule it, so I was pleased to be asked to do this interview...
More evidence that TED believes it knows what we should think…
TED claims it’s about ideas worth spreading, but this is what TED does to ideas put out on its forum that it judges to be alternative or non-mainstream — see attached screenshot, and fu...
Magicians of the Gods Paperback published UK 11 August
£6.29p on Amazon UK — pre-order the Paperback of Magicians of the Gods, published 11 August: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magicians-Gods-Forgotten-Civilisation-Fingerprints/dp/1444779702?ie=UTF...
New technology to explore mysterious DMT realms.
DMT (dimethyltryptamine), the most powerful hallucinogen known to science, is a rocket-ship to the other side of reality — and that other side is incredibly interesting! I’ve had the privil...
The Watchers?
These Bristlecone Pines, which Santha and I visited on a recent research trip across the US, are so old that the annual growth rings from living and dead trees can be overlapped giving a continuous...
Contact! Plants, Aliens And The Human Future
Recently I spoke in California at “Contact in the Desert”, the “Woodstock of UFO’s and Aliens”. There I made my case that the anomalies of ancient archaeological sites and ancient texts s...
Is The House Of History Built On Foundations Of Sand?
Here’s my TEDX talk on the lost civilization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyfE3IvDWR8 …I dispensed with presentational style, and read the talk, because my concern, with this one, w...
Ancient aliens? Or a lost civilization?
Those of us working on an alternative history of humanity need to hold ourselves to standards of evidence AT LEAST AS HIGH as is demanded of mainstream scholars if we are ever to get history rewrit...
Gobekli Tepe image on Sumerian tablet?
Nice mystery here! I have been contacted by independent researcher MADELEINE DAINES who has has been working through the contents of the Cuneiform Digital Library where she has found a fragment of ...
Stuff just keeps on getting older — the peopling of the Americas
In my new book “Magicians of the Gods” (https://grahamhancock.com/magicians/) I present evidence for the cataclysm of horrific proportions that overwhelmed North America 12,800 years ag...
Ancient Aliens or a Lost Civilization?
Contact in the Desert has been described as the “Woodstock of UFO Conventions”, and is focussed on encounters with aliens, and — in terms of human history — on the “An...
Is there life after death?
My 44 seconds’ worth on this immense subject
Interviews…
Here are a couple of different interviews with me that give a good introductory overview to many different aspects of my work and thinking. The print interview is with New Dawn, and the Youtube int...
Asteroid flyby
Bottom-of-the-barrel UK tabloid The Daily Express describes me — somewhat ungrammatically — as a “former journalist turned pseudo scientists” in the linked article (which otherwise ...
Awakening Osiris
Awakening Osiris: The Egyptian Book of the Deadby Normandi Ellis US UK CA JP DE ES FR IT This beautiful relief, pregnant with meaning, is located on the north wall of the Hypostyle Hall in the Grea...
Near-extinct Amazonian tribe so connected with nature they reportedly breastfeed animals
Beautiful and deeply touching story. Our much vaunted technological civilization behaves as though the Earth is just dead matter conveniently lying around for exploitation by humans, and as though ...