Graham Hancock and his highly plausible “pseudoscience”

Graham Hancock has stirred up quite the buzz and ire from academics/liberals alike apparently for his highly plausible but not fully evidence-backed theories about the origins of civilization and mankind.. The latest genre presenting his valid hunches comes in the form of a Netflix special called Ancient Apocolypse, where Graham, taking us on a tour of a series of suspiciously advanced, EVEN-MORE-ancient-than-previously-thought monuments, posits that civilization actually began far earlier than currently asserted, much to the close-minded vitriol of archaeological experts. Weirdly enough, it seems that archaeologists assume that just because evidence does not exist, that Graham has somehow been proven wrong, when in reality Graham’s theories completely make sense and align in many ways that for which we just don’t have direct evidence yet. Archaeologists present a childish logical fallacy of a kibosh in an arena that should know and be better. Any shrewd debater can see that if they could disprove Graham, they would simply reveal contradictory evidence or reasoning instead of going straight to moral posturing from authority… keep poking Graham 🙂

Graham begins the series at Gunung Padang in Indonesia. There he explains that while a bunch of blocks atop the hill appear to be… just a bunch of stone blocks strewn randomly atop of a hill, upon further inspection are stone pillars of a man-made temple, dating back as far as 28,000 years ago. The stones are not native to any region nearby, and are all shaped into rectangular pillars or steps. Right angles are very rarely found as precisely in nature as these stones are, and are laid in a very deliberate-looking, fence-like enclosure intuitive to human buildings or spaces. But that’s not all, using ground penetrating radar, a sonar-esque surveying tool to detect the density of spaces, Graham’s Indonesian collaborators were able to find subterranean enclosures beneath the stone ararngement of similar proportions and pattern, and carbon dating ones beneath that dating back even farther in history. Archaeologists are skeptical, but following transitive, inductive logic, if evidence suggests one thing is possible, it is worth considering as a theory and option. It is highly likely and plausible “our” ancestors moved stones for as many years necessary to build important structures (just as we do on a much more efficient timeframe today), reforming and adjusting them over time into the now ancient monuments as we know them today. Do we even need to look any further than the phrase “Rome wasn’t built in a day?” Finding that the foremost top enclosure is man-made, and then finding through radar previous similar versions of the same structure dating back earlier underneath…… I mean come on, you tell me where there is smoke there isn’t fire..

Next we head to the temple pyramid of Cholula in Mexico, which, similarly to the GPR discoveries of Gunung Padung, reveals man made structures dating back 2400 years underneath what was otherwise thought to just be a hill. This one, though causing the most outrage in liberal circles, actually is Graham’s weakest example, considering that it doesn’t really present much evidence from the time period, but does contain lore similar to other temples and cultures across the world, that DO date back farther to an older period of history, describing serpent imagery and a god man, in Ancient Mexican case, Quetzalcoatl, coming to the people, or a giant, granting them great civilization-building knowledge and wisdom. Graham’s theory is based upon an advanced civilization surviving the transition out of what geologists and archaeologists call the Younger Dryas. This was essentially sudden mini ice age that occurred suddenly causing massive flooding, shifts in climate conditions, and sea levels. There is very similar ubiquitous, ancient, international imagery of serpents representing natural cataclysms, and fables of flooding, with giants or gods coming with great knowledge of building blocks of civilization all suspiciously dating back to this time period…This is of course further elaborated upon in other monuments to come.

Graham next travels to Malta, where giant megalithic structures stand, but without reliable on-site carbon dating to place them back in to history. Artifacts from around the site can be found as old as 5000 BC, but Graham speaks with an anthropologist who finds remains on the island of a Neanderthal tool in a cave dating back tens of thousands of years…immediately throwing us into the rat race of possibilities as to potential for prehistoric human exploits on the island. Graham finds ruts in the ground that lead into the ocean, drawn in curiously human looking/intuitive lines. All designs would suggest these are man-made and not very natural, seeing some right angle etched grooves like from carts into the land. This could rationally date back to an ancient time before the last ice age where sea levels were lower. We finally catch up to the temples of Malta, where Graham studies the alignment of the temples with another scientist Reedjik, a proponent of the Sirius rising theory, which pretty believably posits that the temples were aligned around the brightest star in the sky at the time, Sirius. Adjusting for the rotation of the Earth back to the time period (precession), the oldest temple, Hagar Qim, and the newer temples also align in chronological order with the respective location of Sirius in the sky at the time, passing through the center entrances, from about 9000 to 4000 BC.. There were multiple temples constructed in each site too, with one of the temples, Ggigantija, also containing serpent carvings. All help support the theory that the first people to start civilization had good awareness of the cosmos. Graham also brings up the mythological and superstitious parallel that Maltese fisherman have the eye of Horus, an Egyptian god, as a charm decorated on boats to provide protection and bountiful luck. Egypt also uses the eye of Horus for the SAME PURPOSE and also placed high importance on the star Sirius, using it to signal when the Nile would flood. But the tell-tale lore doesn’t stop there. The Egyptian myth of Osiris, the father of Horus, begins with Osiris coming down from the heavens to help Isis, his sister, rule an uncivilized people. Osiris brings them culture, and teaches them of agriculture and law. He then leaves Egypt to sail the world spreading this knowledge.

We find Graham next in a peculiar part of the Bahamas called Bimini Road, where an underground formation of megalithic rocks looks a little too suspiciously man-made looking to ignore. The formation contains many different rocks and large stones all positioned and shaped in right angles to form a road-looking structure. Not only that, upon further inspection there are revealed to be smaller support rocks underneath said massive megalithic rocks to level them out and make them an even platform, visually conducive to a walking path. Like we have already addressed, right angles do not very naturally occur in nature without a rare, strong, or deliberate force behind it. Also curriooussslllyyy, this intuitive-looking, humaninstic pathway was ABOVE sea levels during the end of the last ice age, aka the Younger Dryas. Even more eerily damning, Graham consults a colleague to take a look at the oldest maps on record we have, and we can see what is a very similar depiction of Bimini road as mapped land on the Piri Reis map from the 16th century, based on findings, copying and borrowing from previous maps considered ancient at the time!! The Piri Reis map contains depictions of what would be a land bridge to Antarctica pretty accurately for the time period of –any guesses as to when?– yup, the END OF THE LAST ICE AGE. Archaeologists excuse this as a doodle. The Finnaeus Orontius map from 1531, also contains depictions of Antarctica, even labelled so, with a pretty accurate coastline for the last ice age. This is all before the West finally”discovered” Antarctica in person in the 19th century. Through transitive property, it is all too suspect to see that humans probably had some mapped or common knowledge of geography during the end of the last ice age that they passed on, and these very likely could be evidence of existence of a lost civilization and its respective lost exploits, which later in the episode, Graham reveeals to essentially be Atlantis. We have records of Plato telling of his ancestor Solon visiting Egypt in 600 BC. There Solon visited a temple where they spoke of the lost and advanced civilization of Atlantis, which came unfortunately crashing down from flooding and cataclysms from –sensing a running theme?– 9000 years before… which would place it…aaaaatttt the start of the Younger Dryas. From what we have learned, this is already documented natural phenomena to have occurred at that time period, pretty interesting if it is a giant lie they happened to pick a time period where those events ACTUALLY occurred… that we have heard other cultures also mention around the world also coinciding in the SAME time frame… Idk about you, but if you have a shred of inductive reasoning, this suggests some seriously interesting lost information about our anthropological and archaeological past.

Following our plucky protagonist, we end up in Turkey, looking at the oldest recorded megalithic structures in the world, We start at Karahan Tepe, with two chambers said to have been build 11,600 years ago. Ground penetrating radar estimates there to be 20 more unexplored chambers in the vicinity around, which, logically, could exist to be even older. One of the exposed chambers has a figure of a serpent-like head protruding from the wall. Graham and another colleague speak about how these were not built by a farming people yet, and agriculture burst on to the scene right afterwards. Graham suggests this to be an example of a transfer of technology, and that;s exactly what local folklore suggests. Graham speaks of a Mesopotamian myth of a band of wise knowledgable ancients, called the Apkallu: 7 bearded, robed sages who instructed the natives on the ways of civilization after unruly uncivilized humans were punished by the Gods with A BIG FLOOD. The leader was named Oannes, and said to have risen out of the sea., depicted as half man half fish. He taught the people agriculture, architecture and astronomy. Not even inducing any narrative into these structures we can actually carbon date confirm them back to 12,000 years ago. Next we find ourselves at a kind of sister site megalithic site called Gobekli Tepe. There are similarly multiple enclosures built, and with ground penetrating radar mannnyuyy other enclosures are found to be buried underneath and around the other enclosures encompassing a massive area of terrain, with some 200 other pillars surveyed to exist buried… Imagine what we could see of the enclosures that had already been buried BEFORE these uncovered enclosures existing in what is already technically prehistory.!!!!! Smh. Anyway, looking into the structures built we can see ornate carvings of animal imagery on many pillars, including serpents raining from the sky dominating the imagery. Similar to Malta, all of these temples trace back to believable neolithic time periods with each of their respective entrances aligning with Sirius appearance in the sky. The oldest enclosure D even has animal markings of what would become popular constellations proportionately carved in relative position to each other analogous to their EXACT CALCULATED PLACEMENT IN THE SKY AT THE TIME IN HISTORY on the summer solstice, dating back to 10,900 BC which is 1000 years earlier than what the supposed start date of construction of Gobekli Tepe. What is significant about this date ? OHHH YEAAHHHH THE YOUNGER DRYAS, where natural sudden cataclysms set the world into a chaotic state for animals across the world, leaving humanity in a state of high demand for effective survival skills and knowledge, and like we’ve said, serpents appear to not just be a local, ancient symbol of hostile cataclysm…

Graham takes us next to Ohio, USA, where we find ancient sites of human created mounds and rock formations at Poverty Point dating back thousands of years. The oldest of these mounds date back to 1700 BC through oldest artifacts found around the area. The largest mound at Poverty Point stood at once to be 100 feet high. From there today you can still see all the land around you, and all the horizons in a 360 degree view. This makes it a particularly advantageous place to stargaze. Archaeologists don’t like officially declare it, or pay lip service to it, but all of the mounds line up exactly with the various solstices throughout the year. in a massive area totaling 43 acres. We also find in the area large circles and formations similar to those of Woodhenge also found at Stonehenge. These were also dedicated towards observing the solstices and astronomy. There are many other mounds found all throughout America dating back to ancient times. Graham next heads to the most mystical and astronomically indicative of these mounds, still located in Ohio, called Serpent Mound. It’s a magnificent, elegant 400m long effigy mound in the shape of a serpent, perched atop a forested ridge. The ancients seem to place great importance on sites construction at higher elevation across the globe. Similar to Poverty Point, the area is now surrounded by trees, but he believes the ancients would have stripped back the trees to be able to utilize these mounds for exacting stargazing. Experts estimate the site to be built around 1000 AD, but Graham asserts this probably isn’t correct. Other archaeological samples IN THE AREA date back to the 4th century BC.. Like we have discussed for other structures, our ancestors had fewer priorities higher than planning for and attempting to control the hostile environment around them. This architectural progress could have taken place cumulatively over many generations, seeing as the civilization would continue to use it for scientific planning. In a weirdly telling move, Graham is banned from visiting Serpent Mound by the caretakers on charges that his (highly probable) narrative does not agree with them socio-politically, and they do not wish to partake in helping propagate it. No matter, drone shots of this site do it fantastic visual justice. Similar to other structures we have talked about, Graham and his renegade scientific buddies find crooks in the snake’s shape to perfectly align with different solstices and anchor-point cardinal directions when viewed from the end of the mound, with the mouth of the serpent pointing to the sunset on the Summer Solstice. This was a very important date for ancient cultures, a time of celebration of knowing the longest day of daylight had occurred, and thereafter would shrink. No wonder so many cultures incorporate light into now Winter Solstice celebrations dating back to ancient times.. Seasonal affect disorder has actually just…kinda been around forever apparently. Graham again emphasizes that with the removal of the trees this would have been quite the impressive powerful view to behold. (If the ancients had had our cultural dating practices this very well would have been the “I know a spot” of the ancient dating world). The biggest kicker of all in this astronomical coincidence…their exact alignment is currently off by a couple degrees thanks to precession, or the geological changing alignment of the constellations due to earths rotation on its axis. The precise alignment of each mound would align perfectly… retroactively calculated… to be 12,800 years ago, during

the

YOUNGER.

DRYAS.

Graham points out further that the location of this serpent is also curious because it was the most northern part of America before the beginning of the great North American Ice sheet of the last Ice Age. Graham goes on to regale us with a myth about ancient times from the Iroquois, natives with the oldest lore still known today, of a village plagued by a serpent, and a warrior sent down to defeat it. Flashes of light occurred in the battle, the constellations were knocked loose from the sky, and massive flooding occurred with much of the people not surviving…It is clear that ancient people all over not only had mystical symbolism and imagery of serpents as part of destructive cataclysms, but told of phenomena that DID happen during the Younger Dryas. Seriously, idk about you but by this point this guy is the Nic Cage of real-life anthropology to me.

Next we head back to Turkey with Graham, this time to Cappodocia. We explore the vast ancient underground tunnel system of Derinkuyu. Turkey has been a hot spot for trade and traffic of human civilization for millenia, so precisely dating back its emergence becomes tricky. The earliest archaeologist experts can reliably date the tunnels back as far as 800 BC, assumed to be used by the Phrygians to hide from Assyrian empire armies. Graham thinks however (surprise surprise) that they’re much older. Archaeologists unearthed stone hand axes as close to a mile away from the tunnels dating back to 9500 BC,. The tunnels stone seals for the “doors” are made of the soft compressed ash stone found throughout ancient Turkey sites, and are very easily be shaped by hand axes such as these, for which there are even MARKINGS of said attempted shaping inside portions of the old parts of Derinkuyu’s tunnels! As archaelogists searched miles around Derinkuyu they also found more tunnels totaling as many as 200 combined sites, able to house up hundreds of thousands of people. One slightly collapsed passage maybe even connects one of the other sites, Kaymakli, to Derinkuyu, some 5 miles away! It sounds like a prodigious undertaking, but humanity is a species of remarkable endurance, and our people had maybe thousands of years to make all these sites. The question though, is why ? Graham saliently points out that these wouldn’t sensibly be to hide from armies, since it’s essentially one choke point at Derinkuyu to siege what could be an entire village. Not smart. He instead points to more recent times how tunnels have been used as places of refuge from cataclysmic events even bigger than just infantry. Graham looks to the whirling dervishes, followers of Sufism, a vestige of the Zoroastrians. Zoroaster, the founder of what’s thought of to be the oldest recorded religion, Zoroastrianism, tells of the founder of civilization, Yima, receiving a warning from the god Ahura Mazda of a fatal winter that was to come. He instructed Yima to build giant networks of underground tunnels called vara, bring 2 of each animal, and packs of all different kinds of seeds for preservation to help survive this winter. Ahura Mazda proclaimed the instigator of this winter to be a serpent in the sky. These are documented effects of the Younger Dryas, 12,000 years ago, in which temperatures across the globe plummeted. Graham promotes this story as an ancient remnant for the reasoning behind these underground cities, and not just a dismissible tall tale. Why so many cultures seem to use imagery of serpents is puzzling, but archtypally could make sense. Natural disasters are devastating and hard to foresee, plan, predict for, similar to the sneaky hard-to-detect threat of a snake, but there is also a more obvious visual parallel similar to disasters coming from the sky…

Rip-roaring into the final episode, we find ourselves back in America in the Scablands of Washington. Here Graham embarks on a tour to help us better understand a possible reason for this Younger Dryas’ sudden ferocity and occurrence. In the Scablands sits a giant ravine channel, 50 miles long, and 3 miles wide called Grand Coulee. It makes for a very severe-looking, magnificent and almost unearthly sight. Geologists believe Grand Coulee was formed from flooding during the last Ice Age from a gradual process of erosion, but Graham’s similarly inductive friend Randall Carson believes it was very sudden, taking place over a few weeks maybe. The ice sheets in North America caused massive lakes at the southern end of the ice sheets, one of these lakes being called Lake Missoula. Geologists believe an ice dam burst, causing Missoula to flood, sending a body of water half the size of Lake Michigan savagely tearing through the landscape. Randall points out that a few geographical features, one called the Twin Sisters, two peaks with their steep shape, as well as giant ripples at the Camus Prairie, indicative of movement of water (these ones being 30 to 50 feet high and 300 feet wide!!) show that the flood could not have been gradual… The size of this flood truly would have been a Biblical sight to see. Randall thinks not only did Missoula flood, but northern glacial lakes also burst and flooded, and not 15,000 to 18,000 years ago but instead, 12,800 years ago, at the start of the Younger Dryas. Randall conjectures that every single river on Earth combined times 10 would about equal the amount of water that flowed through during this flood. Seeing myself how steep the sides of the Grand Coulee appear to be relative to their width apart from each other, it does suggest a sudden destructive event, unlike the smooth ridges formed when water has been able to take its time coursing through a geographical feature, usually in a smaller width distance. We’re next off to Murray Springs to find out what could have caused this massive unlocking of water. Allen West, another renegade geologist researcher, speaks of the “black mat” evident in the area’s sedimentary layers, our physical records telling the geological stories of years gone-by. This black mat, discovered by reputable geologists in the ’60s, represents an extinction marker, where megafauna (tigers, mammoths etc) remains can be found below (before the black mat causing event) but not above (after). Allen guesses that half of humanity in the northern hemisphere perished because of this event. This black mat is carbon dated back to…any guesses?…yup, the onset of the Younger Dryas. Allen and his team analyze the black mat chemically and find presence of glass spherules, indicating a high temperature event. There was also high quantities of platinum and iridium, substances not ubiquitously found on the planet, indicating a potential cosmic impact. Allen and his team ventured on to find if the black mat was found elsewhere, and it was found ALL THROUGHOUT North America and the Mediterranean and Europe. Graham supposes that there were multiple simultaneous comet debris impacts, probably from Earth coming into contact with the Taurid Meteor stream, that all hit big glaciers throughout the world, causing catastrophic flooding throughout. This would have easily started the onset of the cold temperatures noted as well from the clouding of the atmosphere from impact. This is now known as the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis, and it is still highly controversial. It is highly probable that these serpents tied in allegorically with the sky ancient cultures referred to were fragmented comets. The sites of Gobekli Tepe have constellations documented on the megaliths with longer limbs reaching from the sky that, at the time, when calculated for precession, aligned with the Taurid Meteor stream, indicating very probably in visual symboli ancient pictography that the Taurid Meteor stream emanated from these very constellations. All of these impacts and resulting catastrophes would have been enough to cause havoc for a potentially ancient advanced civilization that could have (if they settled near the coast) been lost due to flooding and sea level rise. Graham ominously concludes the series and episode that ancient cultures at Gobekli Tepe could have also been warning us with their inscriptions at Pillar 43, that when that precise alignment of the constellations occurs, what we now know to be the Taurid Meteor shower could render us in particular vulnerable danger again. The scariest thing is… it tracks scientifically. The constellations of this configuration are back in our solar system view again at this time of writing, this time aligning in our Winter Solstice. Astronomers say we are at higher risk of impacts as this is the thicker part of the Taurid Meteor stream we are coming to.

Watching this series not only helped provide me with head scratching and fiery new information, but also an inspiring important reminder that Graham’s findings represent exactly the type of raw, empirical, narrative crushing archetypal information DMSG reveres that has throughout our history been lost in the tapestry of various times and importance due to wrongful, cultural contempt. Graham, ignoring “politically correct” theories, seeks to find the likely and, depending on your disposition, ugly truth in inductively and empirically questioning how we as humanity tick, function and came to be. DMSG similarly is hungry to devote itself to casting aside caustic theory preventing greater knowledge and efficacy of humanity, in favor of baring, absorbing, and thereafter enlightening as many others as possible with the potentially ugly truthes of the world without shame, finding the likely source in order to address failure and effect progress. Graham and his several co-theorists have found not only potential in areas already searched, but in subterranean and aquatic man made areas completely un-searched because of lazy and arrogant archaeologist culture. Is Graham right ? and did Atlantis manifest in real life? Can’t necessarily be fully sure, but that’s not the most important issue. What is so concerning about our socio-political climate (at the time of this writing) and even more worryingly in what should be scientific circles, is how factually incorrect, emotionally driven narratives are being propagated over spreading known facts that to some may be threatening, and how these emotional, cultural-narrative grippers position themselves as moral authorities, and must eventually be fought at all costs. DMSG cares not what emotions a narrative evokes if it is tested to be viably and statistically true, and better humanity, for that is the ultimate rational super power science has given us: to aspire to become gods of a utopia in generations to come, as our ancestors did before us.