![]() One is that I'm a lunatic-fringe train-spotter with an absurd enthusiasm for something ridiculous in the past. "It seems that people talk to me with a preconception about what I am," he says, "and then whatever I say or do doesn't make any difference.There are several preconceptions. But, undeterred, he is back with another Channel 4 series and a vast tablet of a book, called Underworld, that attempts to provide the evidence for his lost civilisation. In 1999 the BBC's Horizon did a demolition job that was applauded by archaeologists and assorted Hancock-haters. His arguments were treated with derision. It was restated in Heaven's Mirror, a glossy book produced to coincide with a Channel 4 series in 1998. ![]() He first expounded the thesis in 1995 in Fingerprints of the Gods (the echo of Erich Von Daniken's pro-alien Chariots of the Gods is unfortunate). ![]() Hancock has spent the past 10 years writing books and producing TV programmes which argue that everything we are told about ancient history is wrong: civilisation didn't start in Sumeria and Egypt around 3,500 BC it began 10,000 years before in great cities which subsequently suffered a cataclysm. But his critics would say appearances deceive: he is either a lunatic, a charlatan, or both. Graham Hancock doesn't look mad as he sprawls in an armchair in his small, neat house in Kennington, south London. ![]()
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