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Any ice-age telepaths out there? Please explain why Netflix is revisiting Ancient Apocalypse | Catherine Bennett

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Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse will be on Netflix on 16 October .

The evergreen eschatologist has long been categorised as a purveyor of pseudoarchaeology.

He claims that after a comet (previously crustal displacement’) totally destroyed a great ice age civilisation, its genius, somehow globetrotting survivors bequeathed loads of enormous monuments, possibly featuring comet warnings, before disappearing.

The Society for American Archaeology ( SAA ) wrote an open letter to Netflix , objecting to the disparagement of archaeologists in Ancient Apocalypse , to its classification as a “docuseries” and to its “injustice” to Indigenous peoples.

The author, defending himself, duly cited the Netflix letter as evidence of his persecution.

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