Graham Hancock

Graham Bruce Hancock is a British writer born on 2 August 1950. He is known for promoting pseudoscientific theories related to ancient civilizations and lost lands. Hancock suggests that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, with survivors passing on their knowledge to hunter-gatherers, leading to the earliest known civilizations in Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica. After studying sociology at Durham University, Hancock worked as a journalist for various British newspapers and magazines. Initially focusing on international development, he shifted his focus to speculative accounts of human prehistory and ancient civilizations. Hancock has authored several books, including Lords of Poverty (1989), The Sign and the Seal (1992), Fingerprints of the Gods, and Magicians of the Gods.