Graham Hancock is a British writer and journalist whose work explores the possibility of a lost civilisation of the last Ice Age. His ideas reached a huge new audience through his conversation with Steven Bartlett on The Diary of a CEO and the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse. If that episode sparked your curiosity, here is where to go deeper — the books, in the order we’d read them.
1. Fingerprints of the Gods — start here
The book that started it all (1995): the global case for an advanced culture erased at the end of the Ice Age. The foundation for everything Hancock discusses with Bartlett.
2. Magicians of the Gods
The sequel (2015), built around the Younger Dryas comet-impact evidence he walks Bartlett through — the cataclysm that may have wiped the slate clean.
3. America Before: The Key to Earth’s Lost Civilization
His most recent major thesis (2019): evidence for an advanced culture in the ancient Americas, and why the story of the New World may be far older than we think.
4. Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization
Submerged ruins and the flooding at the end of the Ice Age — the underwater half of the lost-civilisation puzzle.
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