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Graham Hancock
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British author who promotes pseudoscientific theories
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Graham Hancock, born in Edinburgh on 2 August 1950, is a British journalist, writer and non-fiction writer who works in the fields of pseudohistory and pseudoarchaeology. He was educated at Durham University, began his career in 1985, and received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.
His works include Supernatural, The Sign and the Seal and Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 2 August 1950
- Works
- 128
Top works
- Supernatural
- Sign and the Seal
- Les mystères des premiers peuplements
- Shi luo de yue gui
- Supernatural: Meetings with the Ancient Teachers of Mankind
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Film & TV
Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock’s early years were spent in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Later he went to school and university in the northern English city of Durham and graduated from Durham University in 1973 with First Class Honours in Sociology. He went on to pursue a career in quality journalism, writing for many of Britain’s leading newspapers including The Times, The…
Known for
- Paul American — Self (archive footage)2025
- Ancient Apocalypse — Self2022
- Journeys to the Edge of Consciousness — Himself2019
- Chasing the Present — Self2019
- Medicamentele străvechi — Himself2019
- Reconnect: The Movie — Himself2019
- Psyched Out — Himself2018
- Psychedelica — Self2018
- Time Is Art: Synchronicity and the Collective Dream2015
- DMT: The Spirit Molecule — Self - Writer2010
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Key facts
- Born
- Graham Bruce Hancock , ( 1950-08-02 ) 2 August 1950 (age 75) , Edinburgh , Scotland
- Education
- Durham University
- Occupation
- Journalist
- Notable work
- The Sign and the Seal (1992) Fingerprints of the Gods (1995) Magicians of the Gods (2015)
- Television
- Ancient Apocalypse (2022)
- Spouse
- Santha Faiia
- Website
- grahamhancock .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Bruce
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Edinburgh
- Educated at
- Durham University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- pseudoarchaeology
- Official website
- grahamhancock.com
- Image
- Graham-Hancock (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1950-08-02
- Commons category
- Graham Hancock
- start of work period
- 1985-00-00
- name in native language
- Graham Hancock
- social media followers
- 458000
- writing language
- English language
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British author known for promoting pseudoscientific explanations of ancient civilisations and hypothetical lost lands. Hancock argues that an advanced society with spiritual technology thrived during the last Ice Age until comet impacts triggered the Younger Dryas about 12,900 years ago. He maintains that survivors of the disaster shared their knowledge with hunter-gatherer communities in regions such as ancient Egypt, Sumer, and Mesoamerica, sparking the earliest known civilisations.
Born in Edinburgh, Hancock studied sociology at Durham University before working as a journalist for several British newspapers and magazines. His first three books examined international development, including Lords of Poverty (1989), a well-received critique of corruption in the aid system. Beginning with The Sign and the Seal in 1992, he shifted to speculative accounts of human prehistory and ancient civilisations, publishing a dozen books that include Fingerprints of the Gods and Magicians of the Gods.
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