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Business Hook packages Graham Hancock’s argument for viewers who have not read the books. He appears as a British journalist born in 1950, known first for reporting on foreign aid, including a 1989 attack on corruption, then turning in 1992 toward deep time. The core claim is an advanced society of the last ice age, broken by comet strikes, with pieces of its knowledge lingering in Egypt, the Andes, and Mesoamerica. Critics in the narration call the work pseudoscience and too fond of hidden knowledge. The positive case here is navigation. Ocean skill is pushed behind the famous Pacific voyagers, and Egyptians with boats are not assumed to have stayed inshore. Old charts, traced to the lost library at Alexandria, are said to get longitude right before the chronometer and to draw a southern frozen land before 1820. A road of stones in the Bahamas is offered as a coast mapped while it still stood above the sea.
Key points
- Hancock is introduced as a journalist who moved from aid reporting to ice age civilization in the early 1990s.
- The lost culture is described as advanced for the stone age and as broken by comet strikes.
- The film notes that many specialists reject the case as pseudoscience.
- Ocean skill is pushed back behind later Pacific voyagers, and Egyptian boats are not assumed to have stayed inshore.
- Old maps are said to show longitude early and a southern land before nineteenth century discovery.
- A Bahama stone road is offered as a coast mapped while it was still above the sea.
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He believes an advanced civilization lived during the last ice age
Business Hook, Hancock on ice age maps
The film states his central claim of an advanced ice age society. Watch at 1:17
There's no reason to believe the Egyptians didn't know how to sail
Business Hook, Hancock on ice age maps
Egyptian boats are treated as evidence they could have crossed open water. Watch at 4:36
The map shows the Bimini Road above water
Business Hook, Hancock on ice age maps
On the old chart the Bahama road is still dry land. Watch at 7:09
an ancient civilization once knew how to map the world
Business Hook, Hancock on ice age maps
The charts are read as proof of an older worldwide mapmaking culture. Watch at 9:31
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