Graham Hancock on pyramids, Atlantis, and God

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Graham Hancock, speaking with Piers Morgan, defends a case he has pressed for decades. Archaeology, he says, is wrong to dismiss a missing ice-age culture just because nobody has dug it up. The Great Pyramid was not, in his view, a pharaoh’s tomb finished in one short reign. Scale its original height by 43200, he says, and the result matches the distance from Earth’s center to the pole, from the same number family as the sky’s slow wobble and myths counted by seventy twos. Plato’s island, for him, belongs with flood memories told worldwide. An Edfu text remembers a drowned homeland and seven sages who later reached Egypt. He proposes instead a shamanic people with star knowledge, mostly destroyed in the Younger Dryas, about 12800 to 11600 years ago. Survivors replanted those skills at Gobekli Tepe, and he dates the Sphinx’s worn body to a wetter Sahara, following Robert Schoch. He prefers Crick’s purposeful seeding of life to chance chemistry, calls himself spiritual rather than creedal, and says awareness outlasts the body.

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Hancock rejects the view that a forgotten ice-age society would already have been dug up if it had existed.
He treats the Great Pyramid as a monument that stores Earth’s size and the slow shift of the stars, not as a rushed royal grave.
Atlantis, for him, is one flood memory among many, kin to an Edfu account of sages fleeing a drowned island for Egypt.
He pictures a shamanic people with advanced sky lore, wrecked in the Younger Dryas, whose survivors he links to Gobekli Tepe and to a Sphinx cut in a greener Sahara.
He denies that chanting lifted the stones, sides with Crick’s purposeful seeding of life, and calls himself spiritual without a single creed.
Climate, in his account, has always swung hard, so he will not rush to blame only modern industry.