Graham Hancock Bio
Graham Bruce Hancock is a British writer and journalist. Hancock specializes in pseudoscientific theories involving ancient civilizations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths, and astronomical or astrological data from the past.
One theme of his works suggests a connection with a ‘mother culture’ from which he believes other ancient civilizations sprang. An example of pseudoarchaeology, his work has neither been peer-reviewed nor published in academic journals.
Graham Hancock Age
Graham Hancock was born on 2 August 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland. He spent his foundational years in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Hancock is 68 years old as of 2019.
Graham Hancock Alma Mata
Hancock returned to the Uk and in 1973 he graduated from Durham University with a First Class Honors degree in Sociology.
Graham Hancock Wife
Graham Hancock is married to Santha Faiia. Santha Faiia is a Malaysian of Tamil origin from Penang, Malaysia. She is also a professional photographer specializing in ancient cultures and monuments.
In 1992 Faiia’s work illustrated The Sign and the Seal and Fingerprints of the Gods in 1995. In 1998 her major book of photographs Heaven’s Mirror was published. Faiia’s images from sacred sites as far afield as the temples of Angkor in Cambodia and the great pyramids of Giza in Egypt brought to life a lost world and ‘achieved the rare feat of making you feel you are there’.
Faiia worked closely with Hancock on Underworld which was published in 2002. The photographs of the many ancient underwater ruins off the coast of Japan, all around the Pacific, off Indonesia and Malaysia, off India and in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic and the Caribbean all added a whole new dimension to her work.
She also photographed Supernatural which was published in 2005, putting unique images of the ancient rock art of South Africa before a global public. Hancock and Faiia have six children.
Graham Hancock Career
Hancock worked for many British papers a journalist, including The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. From 1976 to 1979 Hancock co-edited New Internationalist magazine and as of 1983 to 1983 he served as the East Africa correspondent of The Economist.
Since 1990 his works have majored on speculative connections he makes between various archaeological, historical, and cross-cultural phenomena. Hancock sees himself as an unconventional thinker raising controversial questions about Humanity’s past. Before 1990 his works focused on economic and social development.
Graham Hancock Books
Hancock books include;
Ethiopia: The Challenge of Hunger. (1985) by Graham Hancock.
AIDS: The Deadly Epidemic. (1986) by Graham Hancock.
Lords of Poverty: The Power, Prestige, and Corruption of the International Aid Business. (1989) by Graham Hancock.
The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. (1992) by Graham Hancock.
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization. (1995) by Graham Hancock.
The Message of the Sphinx: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind. (1996) by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval.
Keeper of Genesis: A Quest for the Hidden Legacy of Mankind. (1996) by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval.
The Mars Mystery: A Tale of the End of Two Worlds. (1998) by Graham Hancock
Heaven’s Mirror: Quest for the Lost Civilization. (1998) by Graham Hancock and Santha Faiia.
Fingerprints of the Gods: The Quest Continues (New Updated Edition) (2001) by Graham Hancock and Santha Faiia.
Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization. (2002) by Graham Hancock
Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith. (2004) by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval.
Supernatural: Meeting with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. (2005) by Graham Hancock.
Entangled: The Eater of Souls. (2010) by Graham Hancock
War God: Nights of the Witch. (2013)by Graham Hancock
Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilisation. (2015) by
Graham Hancock.
America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization (2019) by Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock America Before
The major theme for America Before is Hancock’s aggrievement against archaeologists. Hancock complains about the archaeological methods of analysis and the use of stylistic differences to identify cultural changes.
“When I wonder, will archaeologists take to heart the old dictum that absence of evidence is not the same thing as evidence of absence, and learn the lessons that their own profession has repeatedly taught—namely that the next turn of the excavator’s spade can change everything?
So little of the surface area of our planet has been subjected to any kind of archaeological investigation at all that it would be more logical to regard every major conclusion reached by this discipline as provisional—particularly when we are dealing with a period as remote, as tumultuous, and as little understood as the Ice Age. (p. 153)
“In other words, genetics, unlike archaeology, is a hard science where the pronouncements of experts are based on facts, measurements, and replicable experimentation rather than inferences or preconceived opinions,” he writes (p. 113).
Graham Hancock Ted Talk
Graham Hancock presented a talk on “The war on consciousness” on 12 January 2013 describing the transformative impact that ayahuasca which contains the drug DMT had had on him. He argued that responsible adult usage of such drugs was a fundamental right.
The talk was posted on the TEDx youtube channel on 13 February 2013 and was viewed more than 130,000 times on YouTube.However TEDx later on 14 March 2013 deleted the talk from their youtube channel.
TED’s scientific advisors who viewed the talk expressed concerns about it saying, it suggested a world view in which DMT can connect users directly to “seemingly intelligent entities which communicate with us telepathically.”
TED’s advisors recommended that the talk should not be distributed without being framed with caution. They invited scientists, skeptics, knowledge-seekers and supporters — and Graham himself if he was willing — to view and discuss this talk.
Graham Hancock Fingerprints Of The Gods
Fingerprints of the Gods is a non-fiction research work by Graham Hancock published in 1995. The book is subtitled The Evidence of Earth’s Lost Civilization.
Hancock writes in a down-to-earth first-person storyline style telling about the mysterious, ancient but highly advanced civilization had existed in prehistory. One which served as the common ancestor civilization to all succeeding known ancient historical ones.
The author suggests that sometime around the end of the last Ice Age this civilization ended in cataclysm, but passed on to its inheritor’s profound knowledge of such things as astronomy, architecture, and mathematics.
The story begins with ancient maps showing Antarctica to once be in a temperate zone till the earth’s crust displaces it to the Antarctic polar ice-cap where a lost civilization may be buried under two miles of glacial ice. Hancock uses simple, straightforward language to communicate his clear concepts about lost people.
Graham Hancock Supernatural
“Supernatural: of or relating to things that cannot be explained according to natural laws.” Less than 50,000 years ago mankind had no art, no religion, no sophisticated symbolism, no innovative thinking.
Then, in a dramatic and electrifying change, described by scientists as the greatest riddle in human history, all the skills and qualities that we value most highly in ourselves appeared already fully formed, as though bestowed on us by hidden powers.
In Supernatural Graham Hancock sets out to investigate this mysterious before-and-after moment and to discover the truth about the influences that gave birth to the modern human mind.
His quest takes him on a journey of adventure and detection from the stunningly beautiful painted caves of prehistoric France, Spain, and Italy to remote rock shelters in the mountains of South Africa where he finds a treasure trove of extraordinary Stone Age art.
He uncovers clues that lead him to travel to the depths of the Amazon rainforest to drink the powerful plant hallucinogen Ayahuasca with Indian shamans, whose paintings contain images of supernatural beings identical to the animal-human hybrids depicted in prehistoric caves and rock shelters.
And hallucinogens such as mescaline, also produce visionary encounters with exactly the same beings. Scientists at the cutting edge of consciousness research have begun to consider the possibility that such hallucinations may be real perceptions of other dimensions.
Could the supernaturals first depicted in the painted caves and rock shelters be the ancient teachers of mankind? Could it be that human evolution is not just the blind, meaningless process that Darwin identified, but something else, more purposive and intelligent, that we have barely even begun to understand?
Graham Hancock Underworld
What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found—until now.
In this explosive new work of archaeological detection, bestselling author and renowned explorer Graham Hancock embark on a captivating underwater voyage to find the ruins of a mythical lost civilization hidden for thousands of years beneath the world’s oceans.
Guided by cutting-edge science, innovative computer-mapping techniques, and the latest archaeological scholarship, Hancock examines the mystery at the end of the last Ice Age and delivers astonishing revelations that challenge our long-held views about the existence of a sunken universe built on the ocean floor.
Filled with exhilarating accounts of his own participation in dives off the coast of Japan, as well as in the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, and the Arabian Sea, we watch as Hancock discovers underwater ruins exactly where the ancient myths say they should be—submerged kingdoms that archaeologists never thought existed.
You will be captivated by Underworld, a provocative book that is both a compelling piece of hard evidence for a fascinating forgotten episode in human history and a completely new explanation for the origins of civilization as we know it.
Graham Hancock Net Worth
Events-featured Graham Hancock
Graham Hancock is a British writer and journalist who has a net worth of $2 million.
Graham Hancock News
Graham Hancock will speak about and sign his new book, America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization, on Wednesday, May 8th, 2019 at 7:30 pm at First Congregational Church (1128 Pine St).
America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization rewrites American history as we know it and is the culmination of everything that millions of readers have loved in Hancock’s body of work over the past decades, namely a mind-dilating exploration of the mystery of ancient civilizations, amazing archaeological discoveries and profound implications for how we lead our lives today.
Was a technologically and spiritually advanced civilization destroyed in the global cataclysm that ended the last Ice Age? Graham Hancock, the internationally bestselling author whose controversial take on the past, once anathema to archaeologists, has been overwhelmingly vindicated by recent discoveries, has made it his life’s work to find out — and in America Before, he draws on the latest archaeological and DNA evidence to bring his quest to a stunning conclusion.
Tickets to attend are $10. Books at the event will be 20% off!
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