Lex Fridman Podcast #449 (10/16/2024) – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization

Lex Fridman Podcast #449 (10/16/2024) – Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History

Graham Hancock a journalist and author who for over 30 years has explored the controversial possibility that there existed a lost civilization during the last Ice Age, and that it was destroyed in a global cataclysm some 12,000 years ago. He is the presenter of the Netflix documentary series “Ancient Apocalypse”, the 2nd season of which has just been released.

Book mentioned:

– Fingerprints of the Gods

OUTLINE:

00:00 – Introduction

09:58 – Lost Ice Age civilization

17:03 – Göbekli Tepe

29:07 – Early humans

34:07 – Astronomical symbolism

45:36 – Younger Dryas impact hypothesis

1:03:55 – The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx of Giza

1:24:29 – Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest

1:33:49 – Response to critics

1:57:56 – Panspermia

2:05:22 – Shamanism

2:29:22 – How the Great Pyramid was built

2:36:41 – Mortality