"In this episode Graham & the band discuss the mystery of the possible survival of death by human consciousness, the ancient Egyptian quest for the immortality of the soul, the encoding of advanced scientific information in ancient myths, some of the evidence from ancient Egypt and the Andes for the existence of a lost civilisation, and the danger, unless we change our ways, that our own civilisation could become the next Atlantis." Don Jenkins, Turbowolf manager. First episode can be found here.

Turbowolf Interviews Graham Hancock Episode 1
Graham Hancock, I think, is the best of the "alternate archaeology" writers. He's generally dismissed by mainstream authorities as a "pseudoarcheologist," rightly so, perhaps, but he's done a lot of interesting research into lost civilizations and ancient mysteries, and his books are well written and entertaining.
Hancock's definitely unconventional, arguing, for instance, that humans have been around for much longer than currently believed and that there was a very ancient, technologically advanced "mother civilization" that existed as far back as the Paleolithic. I can believe that human society is older than anyone currently suspects, but when Hancock starts speculating, for example, that the Ark of the Covenant could have been a form of ancient technology, he loses me completely.
I do agree with him when he argues against "...an entrenched belief system about the human condition and about our collective past in which modern advanced civilization is seen as the product of thousands of years of linear social and technological evolution--'onwards and upwards'...from stupid old cave men to smart old us." (Source: The Official Graham Hancock Website) For what it's worth, I don't buy that, either.
Note: Turbowolf is a UK rock band.
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