Graham Hancock ( born August 2, 1950) is a British writer and reporter. Hancock specializes in theories involving ancient civilizations, stone monuments or megaliths, altered states of consciousness, ancient myths and astronomical/astrological data from the past.
Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Hancock spent his formative years in India, where his father worked as a surgeon. Having returned to the UK, he graduated from Durham University in 1973, receiving a First Class Honors degree in sociology. As a journalist, Hancock worked for many British papers, such as The Times, The Sunday Times, The Independent, and The Guardian. He co-edited New Internationalist magazine from 1976 to 1979 and served as the East Africa correspondent of The Economist from 1981 to 1983.
Hancock describes himself as an “unconventional thinker who raises controversial questions about humanity’s past”. Prior to 1990, his works dealt mainly with problems of economic and social development. Since 1990 his works have focused mainly on connections he makes between various archaeological, historical, and cross-cultural phenomena.
His books include Lords of Poverty, The Sign and the Seal, Fingerprints of the Gods, Keeper of Genesis (released in the US as Message of the Sphinx), The Mars Mystery, Heaven’s Mirror (with wife Santha Faiia), Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization, and Talisman: Sacred Cities, Secret Faith (with co-author Robert Bauval). In 1996 he appeared in The Mysterious Origins of Man. He also wrote and presented the documentaries Underworld: Flooded Kingdoms of the Ice Age(2002) and Quest for the Lost Civilisation (1998).
Hancock’s Supernatural: Meetings With the Ancient Teachers of Mankind, was published in the UK in October 2005 and in the US in 2006. In it, Hancock examines paleolithic cave art in the light of David Lewis-Williams‘ neuropsychological model, exploring its relation to the development of the fully modern human mind.
In 2015, his Magicians of the Gods: The Forgotten Wisdom of Earth’s Lost Civilization was published by St. Martin’s Press.
His first novel, Entangled: The Eater of Souls, the first in a fantasy series, was published in the UK in April 2010 and in the US in October 2010. The novel makes use of Hancock’s prior research interests and as he has noted, “What was there to lose, I asked myself, when my critics already described my factual books as fiction?”
His books have sold more than five million copies worldwide and have been translated to 27 languages.
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