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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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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October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
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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
Transcript:
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CONTACT LEX:
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EPISODE LINKS:
Graham's Website: https://grahamhancock.com/
Ancient Apocalypse (Season 2): https://netflix.com/title/81211003
Graham's YouTube: https://youtube.com/GrahamHancockDotCom
Graham's X: https://x.com/Graham__Hancock
Graham's Facebook: https://facebook.com/Author.GrahamHancock
Fingerprints of the Gods (book): https://amzn.to/4eM3QXC
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@geamgwer
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
На территории турции так ничего турецкого никогда и не находили
@xcron2000
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
The biggest victim/has no evidence individual of all time. List one actual piece of real evidence this guy has of an alternative civilization? And go….
@RobertMacDonald-dv8rs
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Sorry for the typos but this word check can mess up the script
@RobertMacDonald-dv8rs
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
There is certainly a lot of mystery about the ancient past and the discovered lead to more questions and discoveries it se ms graham Hancock leaves no stone unturned H s so well spent Ken and leading such a charmed life keep searching
@TheHousie23
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Jesus and its mummy and daddy is very upset
@crazybuda1
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Isac Newton , Cronology of Ancient Kingdoms, please keep yourself on the path…
@DuartChannel
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Instead of moral lessons wouldn't it be good if the visionary realms could teach you more useful things in general
@Sagaru_Agaru
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
@Obichniy_strannik
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Вам бы русский ютуб посмотреть, не придумывали глупостей тогда
@ChuckyJustice-y6b
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Graham is the absolute worst
@JohnClark-e1d6u
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
He is a narcissist
@lexangel1500
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
LLANGANATES SECTET PYRAMID 🇪🇨
https://youtu.be/MMSODrnPy3w
@1akeelmd
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Just love to listen to Graham Hancock.
@slargo83
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Now they're saying 600,000 years ago.
@psychicspy
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
I found what appears to be the wreckage of a crashed O'Neill Cylinder Generational Starship, just off the East coast of Florida.
It's over 60 miles in length, ten miles in diameter and comprised of multiple ring sections that are themselves three miles long.
Each ring section has interlocking features that are half a mile across.
The tube wall is approximately a mile thick.
28°21'14"N 76°11'53"W
@IE360
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Wasn't Flint Dibble named in the Epstein files?
@skateboston420
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
People on Reddit love to call Graham a "hack" and a "charlatan". He's the real deal and I've read Magicians of the Gods, it was written for the geologists and scientists; it's scientifically dense.
@namanjyoti2432
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
10:20
@harkelin
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
😂😂😂😂😂
@TheBIeu
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Graham Hancock is a flat earth truther for slightly smarter people.
If you can’t see how analogous to flat earth this shit is, you may be too far gone.
@texas_tankie
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Please get Milo Rossi on the pod.
@__-qb8sd
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Sir….deep down….what you have encountered and what you have experienced in your life….in your final conclusion of the episode…you might be on to the right path…i can not fathom your knowledge or experience or journey you had or having right now….but Sir you are on to something….hats off sir…sometimes you are wrong sometimes you are right…but hats off SIR
@Lee-i4l4d
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Why would you talk to this grifter.
@albin2232
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
We have no history.
@lk29392
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Never met someone that I simultaneously feel agreement with and a sense that the guy is full of sh*t. It is a skill he has for sure.
@anandvenkatakrishnan5856
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
72/2=36; 72+36=108, yes. The backwards motion of the gamma point is 1*/ 72 years. 72×365.25 days = 26,297 years. 72×365 days = 25,920 year, yes. This was known as "Ayanamsa" in India. I paste, what the google defined as: "The word ayanamsa (ayanāṁśa) comes from Sanskrit. It is a compound of two words: ayana, meaning "movement" or "walk" (referring to the path or turning of the sun), and amsa, meaning a "part," "portion," or "component". Together, it translates literally to a "portion of the ayana" or the measured component of the sun's shifting path, representing the mathematical value used in Hindu astronomy and astrology to account for the precession of the equinoxes."
The number 86,200"/day /2=43,200"/12hrs, is popular today's understanding of time: but could not be connected to how the pyramids were built. Ancient Egyptians could not have used this modern number. It is no evidence they intended the Great Pyramid to be a scale model of Earth.
Precession ofcourse, is a different matter. That's really deep.
Thanks Lex for this interesting and inspiring podcast. Graham Hancock is great. He was very near afterall. From Kanchipuram, India…🎉❤
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By the way, Lex is right. The sky was unpolluted before the modern Bourgeois civilization & industrial revolution. Now, we are city dwellers, and living inside this inverted saucer-shaped smog ladden atmospheric pollution. This has put to disadvantage a succession of entire generations of children, including us. We are all deprived of this ancient knowledge and wisdom that came from simple observations of the unpolluted skies of the past. We know technology our ancestors knew the cosmos🎉❤ Thank-you for the spectacular podcast.
@raybo780
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Graham Hancock: The govt controls consciousness, it’s terrible really
Also Graham Hancock: when I am president, i will force, by law, every potential political candidate to do Ayahuasca 10-12 times.
@thomasfarrell7232
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
If a 'parent' civilization existed, it will make the Old Testament look like just another sci-fi book. That's why GH is being attacked and by whom.
@Sbwell5472
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
💯 agree! 👏 2:12:016 To become president or any powerful position or heads of state it should be a law/requirement that one must first undergo the aiawaska ordeal first with 10 or 12 sessions.
@billscannell93
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
The Sphinx, 12,000 years old? That sounds a little… When I heard that, I looked this guy up, and apparently he's known for being "far out," to say the least. 😆
Now Lex, on the off-chance you should read this, don't take it the wrong way, but this ain't the Joe Rogan Show, and you shouldn't try to make it that. There's such a thing as being too open-minded. (In Joe Rogan's case, way, WAY too open-minded. Lol.) No hate to this Hancock guy whatsoever, but I think you should strive to have only credible guests on, especially if you're not going to give us any detailed background information about them first. And ESPECIALLY in this era, when at least half the world already lives in one bizarre fantasy world or another.
@Roskapanda_7
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
And there goes all your credibility.
Might as well interview Joe Rogan on quantum mechanics next.
@Than_While_Gyle
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Ladies and gentlemen- The biggest grifter of all time Graham Hancock 😂
@olandoland9662
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Göbekli Tepe wasn't intentionally buried. Klaus Schmidt suggested this, but recent data suggests it was a natural process caused by a landslide. Furthermore, it wasn't just a religious site, but a settlement with both religious and residential buildings. Many hasty conclusions.
@john07ru
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
Давайте разделим 72 на 2 и прибавим 72. = 104 . А что не на 6 и умножить на 256? Где он такую траву берет? Произвольным делением и умножением можно что угодно получить из 72
@ianmcfeatsmith
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
The Gulf Stream existed during the last Ice Age hence the Caledonian forest around the Hebrides and Sky may have provided a safe haven for the development of an early surviving civilization at about 11,500 years ago in Northern Europe coming across the Dover Causeway from Turkey via Germany. As discussed in my recent book ADVENTURES OF A LOONEY SCOT, this region was never invaded by the Romans; nor by the English/lowland Scots until 1756 and the following Highland Clearances resulted in mass migration of the Scots and Ulster Scots to the colonies, particularly to America. This also took place during the Age of Enlightenment when the Scots were highly literate at this time. These tough resilient and educated Scots with their deep rooted culture, according to Prof Arthur Herman and Tom Devine, 'Created the Modern World and Everything in it,' by means of discovery , creativity and invention, as presented in my book. These range from the inventions of the telephone to steam engines to refrigerators to radar to the BBC, Banks of England and France and the US and Chilean Navies not to mention massive worldwide developments in Health and Welfare.
@nuqwestr
October 13, 2026 at 1:53 am
No biological is going to break the physical laws that frame space, time, mass, and gravity. Your brain has a long history of delusion, self-deception, and falsely making correlations with abstractions like numbers in order to satisfy a need for secret knowledge. It's magic. That would be an interesting subject of study. Big Foot and Fake moon landing believers, let's pop the hood on their brains.