Graham Hancock

Graham Hancock ( born August 2, 1950 in Edinburgh, Scotland ) is a British writer and journalist.

Hancock's chief areas of interest are historical mysteries, stone monuments, megalithic cultures, historical mythology and astronomical and astrological signs from the past. One of the dominant themes of several of his books is suspected by him global context of all historical cultures with a vanished civilization that, there is no more mention due to a kind of collective amnesia, in the historical tradition.

Stylistically Hancock works it certainly was the exact scientific publication.

His previous books have sold more than five million times worldwide and translated into 27 languages. However, his unconventional methods and the conclusions drawn from it in the scientific discussion are not in favor, and he was often criticized as pseudo- archaeologist. Hancock, who himself admits to have no archaeological training, sees his work in his own words as a counterweight to the " unquestioned " acceptance and support of conventional conceptions of the education system, the media and society in general.

In Hancock's publications, the ideas of diffusionism reflect, after the development of human history takes on cultural dissemination of inventions and discoveries, and which is represented in the majority of alternative scientists. This is in contrast to the widespread university base postulates a theory of evolution, i.e., a development due to the possibility of human development. Many critical confrontations therefore depend less against its scientific competence or examined by him facts, but reflect an exploration of the different conclusions of the two views contradict.

  • 3.1 Books
  • 3.2 documentaries

Life

Graham Hancock, was born as the son of Donald and Muriel Hancock. Hancock spent his childhood in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Later, he attended school in Durham in northern England and took up the study of sociology at the University of Durham, which he completed in 1973.

He then began a career as a journalist and wrote for several well-known British newspapers, The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent and The Guardian. He was also a 1976-1979 co-editor of New Internationalist magazine and 1981-1983 East Africa correspondent for the British weekly The Economist. In the 1980s he began to write books. His first book was " journey through Pakistan » (OT: " Journey through Pakistan ").

He is married to the photographer Santha Faiia with which he the book " Mirror of Heaven ": issued (OT « Heaven 's mirror ").

Hancock collaborates with Robert Bauval, with whom he has published three books, and other international experts such as Peter H. Marshall, Javier Sierra, and Joseph Schor and Joseph Jahoda, 1996 triggered a major controversy when she to under the guise of a license version an ordinary examination of Giza to find errors and gaps and mend their permit extended and the soil studied under the Sphinx and claimed to have found a large, man-made cave underneath the front paws, which was exactly at the point where the the medium Edgar Cayce had indicated.

Views and hypotheses

Interpretation of the map of Piri Reis

For Graham Hancock begins his own words, his real interest in the history of mankind with the reading of " Maps of The Ancient Seakings " by Charles Hapgood. Inspired by the work of Charles Hapgood is Graham Hancock believes that the map of Admiral Piri Reis of 1513, which is attributed to the same Turkish admiral and privateer from Constantinople Opel, the coastlines of Antarctica shows ice-free state. According to Charles Hapgood it dated to a possible period 13000-4000 BC A justification consists in a manner described by Charles Hapgood crustal or pole shift, the associated for the sudden end of the last ice age, and with it, global floods and sudden changes in sea level from 12,000 BC was responsible. (Compare also -> localization hypotheses on Atlantis under: Antarctic Atlantis localizations ) The general and accurate picture of the ice-free, the Antarctic continent on non- modern maps, the mapping ice-free Antarctic coastline of Queen Maud Land, whose actual location until was determined a norwegian- swedish- British seismological expedition of 1949, as well as the much better card technology, especially the use of a proper system of longitudes, based on, in the middle ages unknown, mathematical and chronometric options, it evaluates how well Charles Hapgood, as clear indication that the Piri Reis Map much older and more accurate maps of a lost civilization is based.

A glacial -lost civilization

In his books about the prehistory and early history of mankind engages Hancock ideas of Robert Bauval, Robert Schoch, John Anthony West and Charles Hapgood, which in turn deal critically with the official archaeological and geological dating and associated with you historiography, and René Schwaller de Lubicz Adolphe, the detailed publications on the interpretation of sacred geometry, the " sacred geometry " Egyptian monuments published called. Since the current scientific dating methods allow the actual age only for organic materials, eg via the radiocarbon method, they can not serve as the sole evaluation criterion of an age determination of eg megalithic stone buildings. Characteristic of Hancock's interpretation of ancient myths as a reflection of astronomical observations of the heavens is the philosophical work Hamlet 's Mill by Hertha von Dechend and Giorgio de Santillana, the work out the mythology as a carrier ancient knowledge, especially astronomy. Hancock deliberately avoids a superposition of his work with the numerous interpretations of Atlantis as a carrier of the first civilization of mankind, as he believes a dialogue with the most scientists must meet with disapproval. Remnants of these civilizations believed Hancock under water in the coastal areas that were not flooded at the time of glacial lowest values ​​of the sea level. He underwent a dive training in order to investigate the undersea monuments, which he describes in Underworld, themselves can and expects addition to the known locations of sunken cities, eg Pharos in the Mediterranean, Yonaguni in Japan or Poompuhur in India, even more sites, for example, in the Persian Gulf.

The Egyptian monuments as temporal key

In Egypt, Hancock sees a temporal key to understanding the age dating. The examined by Robert Bauval orientation of the great Giza pyramids after the belt stars of Orion results for the year of construction of the pyramids around 2500 BC no meaningful match. A cover of the stars, however, is achieved for re-calculation by means of the precession in 10,500 BC This age is in the range of glacial melting of the Würm glaciation, the last era of greater global glaciation, which ended about 10,000. The examined by John Anthony West and Robert Schoch traces of erosion of the Sphinx of Giza, which are due to water erosion and occur in any other building of the Giza Plateau, lead by Hancock's final return to the mythical time of the beginning, " Zep Tepi ", the so called. " first time " of Egypt. Hancock does not dispute the dating of the pyramid in the middle of the second millennium, the Sphinx and the surrounding megalithic temples because of erosion but finds older, because the strong water erosion can be explained only in a time of heavy rainfall in the northern Sahara, which to this time for several thousand years had a desert climate. To 10,500 BC there was the geared directly to the east Sphinx, the summer solstice in opposition to the constellation of the Lion and the position of the Orion star with the pyramids and the Milky Way with the Nile in line and formed an exact reflection of the astronomical constellation. The Sphinx as a symbol for the präzessionales Präzessionszeitalter the lion was therefore supplemented as with the pyramids of the dynastic period of Egypt, that the mythological "Time of the Beginning" was represented architecturally.

A world religion of astral deities

Hancock believed that this first civilization was a nautical and cartographic highly developed maritime nation, which has left its mark in the world and for example in the form of Osiris or of the Phoenix myth, or variations of it a permanent part of many have become mythological traditions.

The great proliferation of pyramids or other religious buildings that have astral references in every culture and based on the same geometric principles of alignment to astronomical constellations that are always recurring connected with constellations like Orion, Draco, the Pleiades or Sirius, or exact adjustments after directions and continuous knowledge of the precession of all these cultures, prove to Hancock a single origin. A relationship exists for him even during the longest non-contiguous cultures and there is a connection as well as between the early Egyptian and Mesopotamian cultures of prehistory and the Khmer civilization of Angkor, the Native American cultures of the New World or the Nordic cultural sphere, which occurred only thousands of years later show, however, important similarities.

The geographical spread is similar to the distribution pattern of the heliocentric diffusionism described by William James Perry and Grafton Elliot Smith, however, is not the starting point for Hancock in Egypt but Egyptian culture is only a transit station of a much larger temporal context.

Publications

  • Graham Hancock: Entangled - The Eater of Souls Disinformation Company, October 19, 2010
  • Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval: The key to Sphinx - in search of the secret origin of civilization. (OT: keeper of genesis. ) Kopp, Rottenburg 2008
  • Graham Hancock: Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind. Disinformation Company, September 1, 2006
  • Graham Hancock: The guardians of the sacred seal - in search of the lost ark. (OT: . The sign and the seal) Bastion Luebbe Stars, Bergisch Gladbach 2005
  • Graham Hancock: The guardians of the sacred seal - in search of the lost ark. (OT: The sign and the seal. ) Marix -Verl, Wiesbaden 2004.
  • Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval Talisman - The Sacred Cities and The Secret Faith. 2004
  • Graham Hancock: Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age. 2002
  • Graham Hancock: Unknown Africa - peoples and cultures between the highlands, desert and ocean. (OT: African ark. ) DuMont, Cologne 2000
  • Graham Hancock: Mirror of the Sky - the legacy of the gods; the decryption of the great human mystery. (OT: . Heaven 's mirror ) Lichtenberg, Munich 1998
  • Graham Hancock: The trace of the gods - the sensational legacy of a lost civilization. (OT: Fingerprints of the Gods A Quest for the Beginning and the End. . ) Bastion -Verl. Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1998
  • Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval: The key to Sphinx - in search of the secret origin of civilization. List ( OT: keeper of genesis. ), Munich 1996
  • Graham Hancock: The trace of the gods - the sensational legacy of a lost civilization. (OT: Fingerprints of the Gods ) Luebbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1995
  • Graham Hancock: The great mysteries - Myths and Mysteries. OT: vgs, Cologne 1994
  • Graham Hancock: journey through Pakistan. (OT: Journey through Pakistan ) Country Book, Hannover 1990
  • Graham Hancock: poverty dealer - where our development billion disappear? (OT: Lords of poverty ) Earthscan, Munich 1989

Documentary

  • 2012: Science Or Superstition, 78 minutes ( 2008)
  • 10,500 BC, The Downfall of the First high culture. three -part documentary, German version, 156 minutes ( 2006) Part I: Mirror of Heaven.
  • Part II: Forgotten Knowledge.
  • Part III: Early sailors.
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