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S1/E3: TikTok Has Officially Canceled the Ancient Egyptians
Hancock's been doing the podcast rounds again and TikTok has helpfully distilled his arguments into sixty-second clips set against the Jurassic Park soundtrack. The consensus appears to be that the ancient Egyptians were not smart enough to build the things they literally built and left extensive records of building. Today we're going back to the actual archaeology and birth of real forgotten technology that's worth remembering and replacing this inane quest for meaning, begi
Feb 2, 2023


S1/E2: The Giants Called, They Want Their Dignity Back
Ancient Apocalypse is still trending, so archaeologists have spent the last six weeks publishing increasingly exasperated rebuttals and secretly enjoying leave of their dusty cubicles. The internet's response has been to invent a race of twelve-foot humans. All of this has caused me to soak deeply in epsom salts and ponder the modern day technology that's eating its own tail. Let's deconstruct the anatomy of viral myth-baiting. Plus I'll get you behind the scenes to see three
Jan 12, 2023


S1/E1: Netflix Thinks the Egyptians Had Lasers. Let's Talk.
Graham Hancock has a Netflix budget now, which means the lost civilisation crowd has never looked more expensive or been more wrong. The show wants you to believe ancient people couldn't have built the pyramids without laser drills, antigravity cranes, or a helping hand from beings beyond the stars. Today we're looking at what Bronze Age technology was genuinely capable of and why handing the credit to aliens is, weirdly, the least interesting explanation available. Plus I ta
Dec 15, 2022
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