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What if everything we have been taught about the origins of human civilization is wrong? What if the first great civilization did not emerge in Sumer or ancient Egypt, but thousands of years earlier, during the final centuries of the Ice Age? And what if the gods remembered by our ancestors were not imaginary beings, but the last survivors of a forgotten world?
In this archived live stream, Graham Hancock takes us into one of the most controversial mysteries of human history: the possibility that an advanced prehistoric civilization existed long before the civilizations recognised by conventional archaeology. A civilization whose knowledge of astronomy, mathematics, architecture, navigation and the heavens may have survived in the myths, monuments and sacred traditions of later peoples.
From the astonishing stone circles of Göbekli Tepe to the pyramids of Egypt, the ancient temples of the Americas and the strange similarities between creation myths separated by oceans, Hancock questions whether humanity's earliest achievements tell only part of the story. Why do so many ancient cultures remember a devastating flood? Why do their legends speak of mysterious teachers arriving from distant lands, bringing agriculture, astronomy, laws and the knowledge needed to build civilization? And why do stories of vanished kingdoms, divine instructors and catastrophic destruction appear in traditions across the world?
At the centre of Hancock's controversial hypothesis lies an extraordinary possibility: around 12,000 years ago, during the turbulent end of the last Ice Age, a forgotten civilization may have suffered a catastrophe that destroyed its cities and scattered its survivors. The dramatic climatic changes associated with the Younger Dryas, rising sea levels and the disappearance of vast coastal territories provide the historical setting for his proposed ancient apocalypse.
Could the survivors have travelled across the oceans, carrying fragments of their lost knowledge to the ancestors of the Egyptians, Sumerians, Maya and other ancient peoples? Were the mysterious gods and civilizing heroes of ancient mythology memories of real individuals whose knowledge seemed almost supernatural to those who encountered them? Could the astronomical alignments of ancient monuments, extraordinary feats of stone construction and accounts of destruction by water and fire preserve clues to a chapter of human history that remains undiscovered?
These are disputed ideas, not established archaeological findings, and many of Hancock's interpretations are rejected by specialists. Yet the questions they raise have attracted millions of readers and viewers who wonder whether the accepted chronology of civilization is the whole story.
Graham Hancock: The Great Secret – Lost Knowledge of the First Gods brings together ancient mysteries, forgotten mythology, prehistoric catastrophe, monumental architecture and the search for a civilization that may have disappeared thousands of years before recorded history began.
Were the first gods simply myths, or were they the remembered survivors of a world that vanished 12,000 years ago?
An archived live stream for anyone who has ever questioned how civilization began, what humanity may have forgotten, and whether the greatest archaeological discovery of all is still waiting to be made.
