Ancient Apocalypse - First Season English Subtitles

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- Happy?
- Yep.

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- All right, here we go.
- And take one.

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How would you describe yourself?

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How would I describe myself?

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You've been described
as a pseudo-archaeologist.

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- I have.
- Someone who cherry-picks your data.

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Your books are read by millions,
but dismissed by academics.

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Did you know that you were
picking a fight with academia?

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Are we a species with amnesia?

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Could we have forgotten
a vital part of our own story?

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I'm Graham Hancock,

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and many archaeologists
hate me for trying to find out.

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The notion of a lost
advanced civilization of the Ice Age

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is extremely threatening
to mainstream archaeology

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because it rips the ground out
from under that entire discipline.

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It removes the foundation.

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I don't care about that.

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One of the problems I have

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with the mainstream view
of the development of civilization

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is the notion that
our own civilization in the 21st century

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is the apex and the pinnacle
of human achievement.

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This makes us very conceited,
it makes us very big-headed.

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We look back on the past, as though
our ancestors were always simpler than us,

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had less knowledge than us,
had less ability than us.

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It hasn't just been
a straight-line evolutionary progress

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If you look me up on Wikipedia,

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you'll find that I am described as a
pseudoarchaeologist or a pseudoscientist.

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I find this frankly absurd.

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I'm no more a pseudoscientist
than a dolphin is a pseudo-fish.

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I'm an investigative reporter.

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My job is to investigate
the official story.

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What is there in the past

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that the existing model
of prehistory doesn't explain?

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Anomalies and paradoxes
are of great interest.

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Electricity works wonders for us.

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Humans have become a 24/7 species.

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But our canopy of lights cuts us off

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from one of the most magnificent aspects
of living on this planet…

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the night sky.

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To the ancients,

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stargazing would have been
the greatest show on Earth,

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the most entertaining way
to pass their long, dark nights.

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They'd have known
every turn of the Milky Way,

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When did humans
first reach the Americas?

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If you were at school
any time between roughly 1960 and 2010,

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chances are you were taught this story.

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That during the last Ice Age,
bands of hunter-gatherers

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passed over a land bridge
connecting Asia to North America,

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where the Bering Strait is now.

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And that somewhere around
13,000 years ago as the ice melted,

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they migrated south
into the American Heartland.

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What I'm suggesting is that
something that we would recognize

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as an advanced civilization
existed during the Ice Age.

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I'm not saying that they flew to the moon.

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But what I'm saying is that they were
far, far, far more advanced

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in terms of scientific knowledge.

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Knowledge of the Earth,
knowledge of the universe,

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than we're taught.

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And capable of
astounding feats of engineering,

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like the site I'm heading to

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At sites all around the globe,
we've seen what I believe

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are the fingerprints
of a lost civilization

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dating back to the last Ice Age.

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The last great mystery is

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what happened
to this advanced civilization?

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There may be clues
in the origin myths of ancient cultures,

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because many of them
tell the same basic story.

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According to these legends,

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once upon a time,