Archaeology WARNING: They Secretly Found Antarctica 300 Years Before Us - Graham Hancock

0:00This could be the last time I speak about myself, my work, because there's a chance that I might not make it off the operating table this month.

0:09And a journalist who has very bad blood towards me has been trying to publish a story on me for more than two years now.

0:16And it will come out in the next month or two, and I didn't want that to be the last word on my life.

0:21What you want the last word of your life to be?

0:24I'm here to communicate about the possibility of a major forgotten episode at human story.

0:29I'm talking about a lost civilization.

0:32So most people think civilization started 6,000 years ago?

0:35Yes.

0:36But you believe there's strong evidence that there could have been a previous civilization.

0:3920,000 years ago, and I'm going to present the evidence for that here, Stephen.

0:43And it suggests a golden age, where there was no violence, no cruelty, where great healers and sages were at work.

0:49They're extremely sophisticated.

0:51However, if you follow the myths further as I've done, you find something odd happens.

0:55You find that they stepped away from the original purity, and you come culture that begins to impose its power on others around the world.