bertiewooster_swgoh t1_ix197di wrote on November 19, 2022 at 11:34 PM

Are you asking this question because of that Netflix series?

Celeste_0211 t1_ix1gru8 wrote on November 20, 2022 at 12:34 AM

Funny enough, I watched a french documentary on TV not so long ago featuring Graham Hancock. I was midly interested until they started to go "Woooo all those archeological sites across the world are located on the same line and the distance between these two sites is the same than the distance between these two other sites and if we multiply that distance by two and divide it by 3 we get Pi ! Coincidence ? I think not!". They deadass put their phone on a specific rock in Eastern Island, opened an app that showed how the magnetic field didn't make sense at this precise location and presented it as a scientific experiment.

It was like watching those silly conspiracy theories videos from early 2010's YouTube but on TV on a major channel. Absolutely astonished that this is allowed.

[deleted] t1_ix1pdvm wrote on November 20, 2022 at 1:43 AM

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Celeste_0211 t1_ix1sbox wrote on November 20, 2022 at 2:07 AM

After a quick research, the man I was talking about is named Graham Hancock and he's not even a professor, just a journalist and writer.

In the documentary, I do admit that he had some interesting observations and raised pertinent questions about Göbekli Tepe in Turkey. However, he lost all credibility when he seriously talked about an ancient continent named "Kumari Kandam", which would be located in present day Indian Ocean, spanning from Madagascar to Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Without dropping the name, he was definitely refering to Atlantis. That was, and still is, pure fantasy and Indian nationalist propaganda to me.

aykavalsokec OP t1_ix2l5v2 wrote on November 20, 2022 at 6:46 AM

I am asking this question because I recently read a book from Oscar Montelius and I am genuinely curious.

Don't worry I won't bring "pseudoarchaeology" into this, whatever that means.