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Graham Hancock's pseudoarchaeological series 'Ancient Apocalypse' renewed for season 2 at Netflix - Not a surprise considering its success, but still disappointing

www.whats-on-netflix.com 'Ancient Apocalypse' Documentary Series Renewed for Season 2 at Netflix

The controversial yet popular documentary series Ancient Apocalypse has been renewed for a season 2 at Netflix, What’s on Netflix has learned. First released on Netflix on November 10th, 2022, the series became one of...

Milo Rossi, aka Miniminuteman, a YouTuber with an archaeology degree did a multi-part deep dive into exactly all of the things Graham Hancock got wrong or just plain lied about and I highly recommend it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iCIZQX9i1A

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Recommendation #2 here. The deep dive was very well made.
For context:

Flint Dibble on his controversial Joe Rogan debate with Graham Hancock | indy100
- just because we can’t currently prove the presence of such a civilisation, doesn’t mean it didn’t exist.
  
  What kind of utterly moronic argument is that?
  
  The kind that will keep a religion going for centuries.
  
  To be fair (/s), we haven’t dug up the whole Sahara yet.
  
  True, but there's also absolutely no reason to act like it did exist. Russell's Teapot and all.

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