Graham Hancock

“Gobekli Tepe is discovered. It dates to 11,600 years ago. It's more than 5,000 years older than the supposedly oldest megalithic architecture in the world. And…”

Hancock claims Gobekli Tepe's site had no prior evidence of agriculture and that agriculture appeared simultaneously with the site's construction, implying the monument predates and causes farming.

“we get a group of more than 60 major scientists who are seriously proposing that the Earth was hit by multiple fragments of a giant comet 12,800 years ago, and…”

Hancock claims over 60 scientists have proposed the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, that a comet impact 12,800 years ago caused sea level rise and megafauna extinction.

“At a place called Jakosar in the Amazon, you can find a square perfectly enclosing a circle. Now, that is an exercise called squaring the circle that our acade…”

Hancock claims an Amazonian earthwork site demonstrates the geometric 'squaring the circle' concept predating the Greeks, who are credited by academics as first performing it.

“San Diego Natural History Museum, and a bunch of other very high-level paleontologists, published in Nature magazine evidence for human presence in North Ameri…”

Hancock claims a 2017 Nature paper on the Cerutti Mastodon site presents accepted evidence of human presence in North America 130,000 years ago.

“we can say that a city like London, which had a population of roughly 50,000 in the 16th century, there were cities of that size all over the Amazon, huge numb…”

Hancock claims pre-Columbian Amazon cities rivaled 16th-century London in size and the Amazon's total population exceeded 20 million people.