Thomas Sheridan´s mostly positive review of Graham Hancock´s recent Netflix series "Ancient Apocalypse" (which I haven´t seen).
My current take on the ancient civilization problematique is that "Atlantis" probably never existed...but the anomalies explored by Hancock might be real nevertheless.
Perhaps civilization post-Ice Age is simply older than we hitherto believed, with roots all the way back to the Mesolithic, while the Bronze Age was more advanced than standard history books would allow (more oceanic travel, and so on).
In a sense, that´s actually a more disturbing scenario than the one promoted by Hancock. After all, the Lost Civilization or "Atlantis" had no chance against a gigantic flood perhaps triggered by an impacting comet. But why did the Bronze Age civilization collapse? And how come we don´t know half of its story?
What are the implications that cultures that are obviously part of "our" accepted post-diluvian history can be half forgotten?
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