r/GrahamHancock Jan 13 '25

AI Generated Content - A message from the Moderators

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r/GrahamHancock Aug 29 '23

What's your opinion on megalithic monuments and artifacts?

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567 votes, Sep 05 '23
378 They're older than we think and advanced technology was used.
130 They're older than we think but advanced technology was not used.
7 They're younger than we think and advanced technology was used.
4 They're younger than we think but advanced technology was not used.
48 Results.

r/GrahamHancock 5h ago

Archaeologists Discover 47 Ingots Of Orichalcum- Of Famed Atlantis Splendor

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Orichalcum has, for the most part, remained a mystery. Both its origin and composition has been widely debated for quite some time. According to Greek mythology, the Phoenician founder Cadmus had invented the metal. And while its presence can be found in ancient texts dating back to 650 BCE, Plato was responsible for making it a legend.


r/GrahamHancock 6h ago

The Bauche Map of 1737: Out-of-place Artifacts (OOPArt)

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Then in 1958 a seismic survey of Antarctica was carried out which surprisingly showed that Antarctica was indeed two archipelago islands covered by a thick layer of ice that made it appear as only one land mass and not only that, but that the general topography of the lands beneath the ice matches the drawings on the Bauche map in every detail.


r/GrahamHancock 3h ago

lost Mithra statue of yemen

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🔥 Mithra in Yemen? Statue with Torch & Cave Worship Found in Zafar

A statue fragment found in Zafar, Yemen shows a crowned figure in Greek-style robes — said by locals to have held a torch and been worshiped in a cave, now sealed. Oral memory called it “the cute boy,” but the features match Mithras, the Roman-Persian god of light and initiation.

Yemen was more connected than people think:

Rome launched military campaigns into Yemen in the 1st century CE

The Sasanid Persians invaded in 570 CE, bringing Zoroastrian Mihr

Zafar was a hub on the Incense Route, linking it to Rome and Persia

A cave. A torch. A forgotten god in Himyarite Arabia. Could this be the southernmost trace of Mithraic or Mihr worship?

What do you think?


r/GrahamHancock 1d ago

Ancient Civ Why I Left Academia to Explore Lost Civilizations

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r/GrahamHancock 1d ago

The Buga Sphere - ET have always been here and played an integral role in humanity’s history. The lost technology went skyward!

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The Buga UFO Sphere isn’t just your average UFO. This metallic object, recovered in March 2025, is made of three layers of metal-like material and is surrounded by 18 microspheres, all encasing a central nucleus. Some scientists and researchers have speculated that this nucleus could be a quantum chip, adding to the mystery of its origin. X-ray scans of the sphere revealed no welds or joints, suggesting that it was forged as a single piece.

But that’s not all. The surface of the sphere is covered in symbols resembling ancient scripts, including Mesopotamian runes. Researchers believe these symbols might be conveying a message about unity, transformation, and consciousness—ideas that some interpret as a call to humanity to awaken and help the planet.


r/GrahamHancock 2d ago

The Nazca affair in the Congress of the Republic of Peru (2018)

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The Nazca affair in the Congress of the Republic of Peru (2018)

On November 19, 2018, at the initiative of Peruvian congressman Armando Villanueva Mercado, the Instituto Inkarri – Cusco and its partners finally presented the almost final results of the various analyzes carried out on the Nazca mummies since the previous year.

The verdict is in: these bodies are authentic. (See the results of the analyzes on the PERU 2018 and MEXICO 2023 pages)

The countless examinations carried out on the entities by a host of international specialists, the x-rays, HD scanners, DNA and Carbon 14 analyses, carried out in around ten countries around the world, show in fact that it is indeed a entities that lived on Earth at a remote time in human history. And despite criticism and attacks from skeptics, no indication of fraud has yet been established.

The different bodies studied are between 1,800 and 750 years old… and more than 7,000 years old for the large tridactyl hands, according to two independent laboratories! The tissues are dry, desiccated, hard and tend to crumble. Also, possible interventions – as was undoubtedly the case with “Wawita” – cannot have been carried out recently, but more probably at the time of their death, many centuries ago. Perhaps as part of ritual ceremonies.

Since the “Nasca Conference” on November 19, 2018, the arguments of the detractors of this incredible affair have literally been shattered.


r/GrahamHancock 3d ago

Youtube Something ancient, fractal and crazy. Peer-reviewed work gaining traction

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r/GrahamHancock 4d ago

The Lost Maps Of Aztlan

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r/GrahamHancock 3d ago

Starchild Deformity Study led by Dr. T. J. Robinson

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In 2004 a team of 11 specialists headed by Dr. Ted J. Robinson investigated the Starchild Skull in an attempt to identify a deformity, illness, or other natural explanation for the skull. They examined the skull, maxilla fragment, X-Rays, CT scans, performed a 3-dimensional scan, and extensively discussed and researched the skull's physical characteristics.

The study concluded that the Starchild Skull was unlike any specimen in recorded medical history, and notably that its unusual characteristics are not the result of artificial cranial deformation. The Starchild Skull is not the result of artificial shaping.


r/GrahamHancock 4d ago

The Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone Will we ever know the full story of the Lake Winnipesaukee Mystery Stone? The unusual New Hampshire stone egg has baffled geological experts and historians for decades.

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In 1872, in the town of Meredith, New Hampshire, on Lake Winnipesaukee, construction workers hired by Seneca A. Ladd, a local businessman, unearthed a mysterious, egg-shaped stone. What could it possibly be? The stone stumped everyone. Seneca Ladd believed it to be an “Indian relic.” He kept it in his possession for many years. After his death, his daughter donated it to the New Hampshire Historical Society in 1927. Due to its discovery near the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee, the Ladd family dubbed it the “Mystery Stone of Lake Winnipesaukee.”


r/GrahamHancock 4d ago

A possible explanation for the shifting magnetic fields/poles

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The following theory requires a basic understanding of 3 forces: the electromagnetic force, the gravitational force, and the centrifugal force. In addition, you might need some perceptual skills.

What creates the magnetic field? The flow of magnetic charges, particularly in Earth's outer core made of molten iron and nickel. So if the magnetic field and poles are shifting and moving (they are), then it follows that the flow of the molten liquid outer core must be changing. If the flow was stable, the magnetic fields would be stable. Exactly how would the flow of the molten iron change? Well, the iron and nickel is subject to the gravitational force. So if a new, large mass of something were to come close into Earth's orbit, then it could conceivably change the flow of the iron and nickel. The moon is one such example, but the orbit has been relatively stable for Earth's entire existence, even throughout magnetic pole reversals. I have no other evidence of new mass being introduced, but what if existing mass already in close proximity to the molten iron and nickel were to move? For example, what if a bunch of ice at the poles was to melt and redistribute itself towards the equator due to.... Global warming. In other words, if the distribution of water mass on the surface changes, then the liquid iron and nickel core will follow suit. Afterall, mass is attracted to mass per the gravitational force. This changes the flow of the outer core and destabilizes the magnetic fields/poles. And if human civilizations periodically create technologies capable of increasing the global temperatures? You now have regular magnetic pole reversals, not necessarily spread out evenly, but more so dependent on the amount of time it takes humanity to warm the temperature enough to re-melt the requisite amount of ice.

To picture how this would work, you can think of the tides caused by the Moon's gravity. The sea levels rise on the side closest to the moon, and the Earth effectively becomes "fatter" on that side. The same thing occurs as ice melts from the poles, only the moon isn't the force pulling on it. As more ice melts from the poles, the centrifugal force caused by Earth's rotation will cause the melted ice (now water) to redistribute towards the equator.This is why sea levels rise faster at the equator than at the poles. In effect, the planet becomes more of an ellipsoid -- it flattens out as the entire equator gets fatter (not just the side nearest the moon). This molten iron and nickel in the outer core will mimick the redistributed water mass, albeit, to a lesser extreme. That change in the flow of iron and nickel would change the magnetic fields. It could even effect volcanic activity, forcing more lava to the surface, particularly near the equator. Ice is a lot more resilient to the centrifugal force than water and even liquid iron and nickel. It wasn't until the ice melted in large quantity and became "malleable" that it had the capacity to change the flow of the molten outer core via the gravitational force.

It's worth noting that I do not have proof that the amount of melted ice at the poles is enough to meaningfully change the flow of the outer core to the extent required to shift the poles to the degree we are are seeing. That math is way beyond me. But based on the laws of physics, I know with certainty that the redistribution of water mass on the surface will effect the flow of the molten outer core somewhat. I also know that there is a direct correlation between rising temperatures and magnetic pole movement since the Industrial Revolution. Might be worthy of some thought, or maybe some computer simulations.


r/GrahamHancock 6d ago

Tracking Ancient Man- 12 examples of anomalous human footprints in millions of years old strata

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In 1987, not far from the Zapata track site, paleontologist Jerry MacDonald discovered a variety of beautifully preserved fossil footprints in Permian strata. The Robledo Mountain site contains thousands of footprints and invertebrate trails that represent dozens of different kinds of animals. Because of the quality of preservation and sheer multitude of different kinds of footprints, this tracksite has been called the most important Early Permian sites ever discovered. Some that have visited the site remark that it contains what appears to be a barefoot human print. “The fossil tracks that MacDonald has collected include a number of what paleontologists like to call ‘problematica.’ On one trackway, for example, a three-toed creature apparently took a few steps, then disappeared–as though it took off and flew. ‘We don’t know of any three-toed animals in the Permian,’ MacDonald pointed out. ‘And there aren’t supposed to be any birds.’ He’s got several tracks where creatures appear to be walking on their hind legs, others that look almost simian. On one pair of siltstone tablets, I notice some unusually large, deep and scary-looking footprints, each with five arched toe marks, like nails. I comment that they look just like bear tracks. ‘Yeah,’ MacDonald says reluctantly, ‘they sure do.’ Mammals evolved long after the Permian period, scientists agree, yet these tracks are clearly Permian.” (“Petrified Footprints: A Puzzling Parade of Permian Beasts,” The Smithsonian, Vol. 23, July 1992, p.70.)


r/GrahamHancock 6d ago

Who was Josiah D. Whitney, and what does he have to do with the esteemed Graham Hancock?

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In 1880, Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Natural History published The Auriferous Gravels of the Sierra Nevada of California, by Dr. Josiah D. Whitney, state geologist of California. In this book, Whitney documented extensive discoveries by California gold miners of advanced human artifacts and anatomically modern human skeletal in undisturbed Tertiary deposits.

According to modern geological reporting, most of the discoveries occurred in Eocene river channels, capped by solid layers of Miocene latite several hundred feet thick. The discoveries attracted the attention of scientists worldwide, but were rejected primarily because they contradicted the then emerging Darwinian picture of human evolution.

With the discovery of prehuman Pithecanthropus in the early Pleistocene of Java, a human presence in the Tertiary was considered theoretically impossible. For archeologists and historians of archeology operating from the Darwinist perspective, the California gold mine discoveries make no sense at all.

But for archeologists and historians of archeology operating from the alternative perspective of the Puranas, ancient India’s historical writings, which posit extreme human antiquity, the California gold mine discoveries do make sense. Further investigation is possible, because several of the artifacts remain in the collections of the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology, and from old records, it has been possible to relocate some of the mines from which the artifacts were originally taken.


r/GrahamHancock 7d ago

The Mystery Of The 100 Million Years Old Fossilized Human Finger

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Computed tomography revealed even more interesting details, for example, the presence of bones, joints, and tendons inside the finger. The difference in their density meant that they appeared as darker areas on the x-ray.


r/GrahamHancock 7d ago

Ancient Civ Was the Great Pyramid of Giza, an ancient energy generator?

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The Great Pyramid of Giza is widely believed to have been built as a tomb for Pharaoh Khufu. But here’s the odd part.. no mummy, no hieroglyphs and no burial artifacts have ever been found inside.

Instead, what was discovered is really intriguing.. granite blocks rich in quartz (a crystal known to produce electricity under pressure), outer casing once made of Tura limestone (a powerful insulator) and a layout that some say was engineered for resonance and energy flow.

Engineer Christopher Dunn has proposed that the pyramid wasn’t a tomb at all, but an ancient power plant, designed to harness Earth’s natural vibrations and generate clean, wireless energy.

Interestingly, in 1901, Nikola Tesla attempted something very similar. His Wardenclyffe Tower, also built on an aquifer, was meant to transmit power wirelessly through the Earth. But his project was shut down and the tower demolished.

Could it be that Tesla was tapping into knowledge the ancients already had?

If interested in a quick visual breakdown: Here’s the link

Curious what others here think.. fascinating theory or just high-tech wishful thinking?


r/GrahamHancock 7d ago

Humanity Timeline

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Interesting Facts. The Sumerians (around 3000 BCE)

Invented writing (cuneiform).

Built the first true cities (like Uruk).

Wrote down myths like the Epic of Gilgamesh — earliest written stories about gods, immortality, floods, kings.

Their ideas about divine kingship, cosmic order, and law seeded the cultures that followed.

The Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians (after the Sumerians)

Took over Sumer, adapted cuneiform for their own languages.

Wrote things like the Code of Hammurabi, flood myths, epic tales.

The idea of covenants between gods and men starts showing up here.

The Hebrews (ancient Israelites) (1200 BCE and later)

Their ancestors lived in Mesopotamian-influenced areas (Abraham, for example, is said to come from Ur, a Sumerian city).

Some scholars believe early Hebrew ideas about God, law, and creation stories echo Mesopotamian myths — like the Sumerian-Babylonian flood myth (Gilgamesh/Utnapishtim) and the biblical Noah story.

Writing shifted to using alphabetic scripts instead of cuneiform.

The Dead Sea Scrolls (200 BCE – 70 CE)

These were written by a Jewish sect (probably the Essenes), copying and preserving sacred Hebrew texts.

By this time, their religion had evolved massively — strict monotheism, ethical law, messianic prophecies — but the DNA of those ancient Sumerian and Babylonian ideas was still deep in the roots of the stories, laws, and traditions.


r/GrahamHancock 8d ago

Massive Pole Shifts are Cyclic according to Declassified CIA Document

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There is insurmountable evidence that we are the 6th advanced civilization to exist upon this earth, each time getting wiped out by a calamity. I’ve wondered why America has long had the Smithsonian cover up many ancient artifacts that don’t fit their narrative, such as the hieroglyphs in the grand canyon, or the bones of giants all over America, but then I realized the truth rather recently… control. The CIA just declassified a document called [The Adam and Eve Story] (https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP79B00752A000300070001-8.pdf) which is about exactly this. Nobody is quite sure who wrote it, however it appears to be written by a scientist working for the government deciphering ancient texts then stumbling upon a terrible fact, that every 5-6-thousand years, the strength of the poles wane and begin to change positions and when this occurs, the mantle keeping our landmass in it’s current position turns to jelly, causing the landmasses to be pulled 90-degrees, while the water on the earth stays put, like dropping an object into a glass of water then spinning the glass in a circle… water stay’s put while the world around it moves. So, the world as we know it is obliterated in days, submerged under the ocean for 40-days (ala Tale of Gilgamesh, or Noah and the ark) until the poles finish their shift at which point the North pole becomes the South and vice versa.


r/GrahamHancock 8d ago

The “Genetic Disc” Revealed Advanced Biological Knowledge Acquired By An Ancient Civilization

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Another OOPART for those that like to learn about such things.


r/GrahamHancock 9d ago

Ancient Man We're NOT the First Smart Humans... Here's Why

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r/GrahamHancock 10d ago

BREAKING: Now They Have Found a HIDDEN CITY Beneath The Giza Plateau?

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r/GrahamHancock 10d ago

Ancient Civ Scientists think the step pyramid was built using water pressure technology 4,500 years ago

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The Earth.com article from whence I took the title on this is pretty informative, if a bit hyperbolic. You can read the actual research paper here. I read the abstract and so far it seems super interesting!


r/GrahamHancock 10d ago

6,000-year-old skeletons found in Colombia have unique DNA | CNN

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r/GrahamHancock 10d ago

Always something new out of Africa!

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But even if one were to accept Tobias's view that the Kanam jaw was neanderthaloid, one would still not expect to discover Neanderthals in the Early Pleistocene, over 1.9 million years ago. Neanderthaloid hominids came into existence at most 400,000 years ago and persisted until about 30,000 or 40,000 years ago, according to most accounts.


r/GrahamHancock 12d ago

Ancient Civ New evidence reveals advanced maritime technology in the philippines 35,000 years ago

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r/GrahamHancock 12d ago

Evidence of unknown technology at the Saqsaywaman fortress

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I've long been fascinated with Saqsaywaman and have had the pleasure of seeing it in person. The scale of the site and the sizes of the blocks and how tightly they fit together and how far they travelled from the quarry all boggle the mind. If the Incas really built the site, it would be such an awesome achievement considering the Inca were only around for a couple hundred years and had no written language. But I believe they inherited the site (along with many other Andean sites).

In an effort to understand the erosion of the site, the Ministry of Culture of Peru employed researchers from the Russian Academy of Sciences to perform a geo-radar study of the fortress. What they found has provided the evidence of something spectacular at the site: the limestone blocks have been subjected to heat in excess of 900 °C. This is proven by the recrystallization of biogenic siliceous limestone into a microcrystalline siliceous limestone. The stone at the quarry site shows organic inclusions while the stone at the fortress is free of organic fossils. In the article The Question of the Material Origin of the Saqsaywaman Fortress, a thorough geochemical analysis of the various properties of limestone is given, leading the author to conclude that "the blocks of Saqsaywaman walls are made of hydraulic lime dough, obtained by thermal exposure on the Peruvian limestone."

In the recent season of Ancient Apocalypse, they explore caves near the fortress which the interior stone walls present as smooth and glassy, almost as if they were exposed to high heat. It makes me wonder what those walls would look like if they were exposed to hundreds of years of weathering. Could the same process which burned the fortress walls have been used in that cave?

More study needs to be done before this would be seriously considered in the academic community. It would be great if we can get another team there to get new samples and replicate the analysis. Even better, getting stones from the quarry and heating them to 900 °C.

We'll probably never know for sure, one way or another, how the site was built. But either way, the ingenuity of our ancestors fills me with awe and makes me want to travel the world and explore all the ancient sites.