Graham Hancock
Graham Bruce Hancock is a British author and journalist who promotes pseudoscientific theories involving ancient civilizations and lost lands. Hancock speculates that a prehistoric progenitor civilization gave rise to the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica. Born in Edinburgh, Hancock studied sociology at Durham University before working as a journalist, writing for a number of British newspapers and magazines. His first three books dealt with international development, including Lords of Poverty, a well-received critique of corruption in the aid system. Beginning with The Sign and the Seal in 1992, he shifted focus to speculative accounts of human prehistory and ancient civilisations, on which he has written a dozen books, most notably Fingerprints of the Gods, The Message of the Sphinx, and Magicians of the Gods.
