Graham Hancock: Lost Civilization of the Ice Age & Ancient Human History | Lex Fridman Podcast #449

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.
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*OUTLINE:*
0:00 - Introduction
1:34 - Lost Ice Age civilization
8:39 - Göbekli Tepe
20:43 - Early humans
25:43 - Astronomical symbolism
37:11 - Younger Dryas impact hypothesis
55:31 - The Great Pyramid and the Sphinx of Giza
1:16:04 - Sahara Desert and the Amazon rainforest
1:25:25 - Response to critics
1:49:31 - Panspermia
1:56:58 - Shamanism
2:20:58 - How the Great Pyramid was built
2:28:17 - Mortality

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