Ancient Apocalypse’ and the Ugly Battle Between Alternative and Mainstream Archaeology
Greg Taylor Tuesday, December 20th
'The Most Dangerous Show on Netflix'?
Progressives criticized Ancient Apocalypse because it challenged their most basic assumptions.
Kenneth Schrupp
Dec 21, 2022
Attack of the Archaeologists
A professional society of academics whines publicly they feel demeaned by Graham Hancock. Does that validate his ideas?
Mark Hammons Dec 7, 2022
A Series About the Origins of Ancient Civilzations is Being Called 'the Most Dangerous Show on Netflix,' Because We've All Gone Insane Jerry Thornton 12/01/2022
These Netflix Documentaries Are Hits. Scientists Hate Them.
Aylin WoodwardJan 20, 2024 Wall Street Journal
Good article that covers problems related to recent widely mediatized Graham_Hancock-Archaeologist debate
Kenneth Feder is failing on Atlantis
A critical commentary on Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries
Thorwald C. Franke 3 October 2021
Cornelius Holtorf (2005) Beyond crusades: how (not) to engage with alternative archaeologies, World Archaeology, 37:4, 544-551
Doctor Huguet: Ignatius Donnelly on Being Black
John R. Bovee Minnesota History Summer 1969 286-94
In every intelligent white man the intelligent black man will find a defender; and the reign of peace and love and brotherhood will begin
I agree that Atlantis theory should be de-colonialized, but claims by archaeologists that Ignatius Donnelly's work has white supremacy issues seem to me unproven, needs more work. His Doctor Huguet novel 1891, is strongly anti-racist
JS Patterson American Quarterly 22, 4 1970
In terms of the need for inter-disciplinary studies, and what I've been writing about on the importance of esoteric studies in history and politics, see:
Egil Asprem Esoteric Knowledge, Alternative Spirituality, and Conspiracy Theories January 10, 2022
Canadian
radio current affairs show, Ideas, not bad, could be worse, they mention
Blavatsky a few times, not accurate, but tolerable, well-produced.
Atlantis and the Apocalypse: The World of Pseudo-Archaeology
Besides, the CBC radio program, here's another pro-mainstream archaeology piece, not bad, it gets into the history and socio-political issues of the question.
The exception, of course, is within the narrow world of ancient mysteries-themed New Age media. This fall, in New Dawn magazine and reprinted this week on Graham Hancock’s website, David Thrussell, an Australian composer, published a retrospective on Ancient Apocalypse
in which he attacked me personally for advocating “totalitarian” ideas
in an effort to suppress Hancock’s alternative history in the name of
purifying the body of humanity from the disease of intellectual dissent:
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