It wasn’t made by national geographic, so clearly it’s all pseudoscience! Just kidding, this is great stuff, very well made. People like jason in the comments, along with archeologists holding on for dear life to the current narrative, are why humanity has very clearly been stuck in the same place for the past century. They will tell you this docuseries is bs, they’ll accuse the creators of cherrypicking (lol, as opposed to what, downright ignoring evidence? Good one) that more evidence is needed, etc. but no funds go towards these projects from the known big players, so they have created and maintained a stalemate, where they (at least in their own minds) have the power to shoot down every attempt that is made to present new evidence. The agenda here should be blatantly obvious to anyone with half a brain. As for the motive, one can only guess. I have my suspicions, but this is not the place to discuss them as far as I’m concerned.

You simply can not say “renowned archeologists/the big players don’t confirm this, so it’s not true!” in a time where none of those “renowned” archeologists nor the big players can even be bother to look into this stuff. Time’s up. Mankind has waiting long enough for these clowns to advance the science, and when they refuse to, God knows why, it’s up to others to push the frontlines. This docuseries does that, in a visually pleasing way. I don’t care that dominant players such as national geographic are not involved in this, they’re clearly invested in preserving the currently established knowledge without expanding on it, so it is up to others to pick up the ball. They can claim pseudoscience all they want, slander from fossils who have long given up on even pretending to be engaged in science, is meaningless. Put you money where your mouth is, and if you can’t be bothered to invest in these projects, stfu and sit back while others do the legwork. Simple.

Highly recommend this series, very good stuff. Deserves the attention.

Well, if the Cosmos series is clearly made with the intention to teach and educate, Ancient Apocalypse is meant to sensationalize and somehow shock you. Literally EVERY sentence in the series is accompanied by some cheap, dramatizing and sensationalizing sound effect. A stab, a hit, a deep bass rumbling for effect, it gets highly annoying.
And it's a shame because the chosen subjects are truly amazing and have enough consistency to carry their own weight through the series.
I "met" Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan podcast and every time he was there he made a very serious impression, I regret he had to make Ancient Apocalypse this way and on Netflix. Even the title sounds like (and is!) clickbait. If you can filter all this out, you're in for a historical gem.

Well.... When Hancock is on the Rogan Experience it gets pretty out there. And I don't know how much I want to take him seriously....

.... but then... Göbekli Tepe rewrote a lot didn't it? That pushed the date back. Something was there before it should be there and it was organized and it was big.

And some of what he said in Fingerprints of the Gods sort of holds water.

I mean, geologists and archeologists, geologists and historians clash a lot, and one is trying to keep with a timeline that keeps getting forced back while the other one doesn't have that constraint.

So, where I am POSITIVE it's going to get Ancient Aliens insane as it goes on, I'm also pretty sure he should be taken a little more seriously.