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Graham Hancock Searches for His Lost Civilization in the Sahara

11/26/2025

In social media postings earlier this week, Graham Hancock said that his new book, set to be published in the spring of 2027, will explore the claim that evidence for an advanced lost civilization can be found beneath the Sahara Desert, which was a fertile plain five thousand years ago. “I'm baffled by mainstream archaeology’s lack of curiosity regarding the prehistory of the Sahara,” Hancock wrote following a trip to the Egyptian Sahara this month. After opining that the desertification of the Sahara correlated with the beginning of Dynastic Egypt, Hancock added that “there are many mysterious connections -- to ancient Mesopotamia, Anatolia, India, China and South America -- that make this part of a much bigger story.”

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Review of "Age of Disclosure": An "Ancient Aliens" Episode with Better Lighting

11/22/2025

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For all the bluster surrounding Age of Disclosure, the new UFO disclosure documentary, the most telling part of the entire film comes in the first few minutes, when we plunge into a bunch of storytelling valorizing Lue Elizondo’s now-familiar story of leaving the Pentagon to promote UFO research. In other words, you know from the very first moments that if this documentary had anything other than the same old stories we have heard for nearly a decade, filmmaker Dan Farah would have put it first. Instead, we get an episode of Ancient Aliens with better production values—but the same amount of evidence, and, indeed, in most cases, the same supposed evidence that already appeared on Ancient Aliens.

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Celebrating One Year of "Jimmy"

11/20/2025

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Yesterday marked one year since the publication of Jimmy: The Secret Life of James Dean. I was planning to mark the occasion yesterday, but my son had another day off school for a teacher conference, and I ran out of time. I suppose it’s something of a win that the new revelations reported in the book have been accepted to the point that they are now referred to as common knowledge that everyone already knew. I can’t count how many YouTube videos have referenced them, typically without crediting me, and the new information has made its way into magazine articles and features the world over, notably earlier this fall on the seventieth anniversary of James Dean’s death.

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NBC's "Today" Show Runs Credulous Report Claiming "Proof" of Noah's Ark

11/10/2025

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Early this morning, NBC’s Today show broadcast a piece profiling “Christian researcher” Andrew Jones, who has long claimed that a natural formation in Turkey is Noah’s Ark. The “Today In-Depth” report, broadcast during the 7:30 ET half hour, saw international correspondent Keir Simmons deliver a one-sided live report from the Durupinar formation near Mount Ararat, claiming the site to be the Ark. “A group of American Christians believe they have new evidence that that is the wreckage of Noah's Ark here in these mountains,” Simmons told Today anchors Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin, and Carson Daly.

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Malaysian Professor Claims Romans Learned Shipbuilding from Malay Peoples

11/10/2025

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Professors at the International Islamic University Malaysia are urging the school’s administrators to investigate associate professor Solehah Yaacob, claiming the lecturer in Arabic brought the school into disrepute by claiming that the Romans learned the art of shipbuilding from the ancient Malays in a social media video originally shot in 2022 but which went viral last month. “The credibility of our institution depends on the integrity, accountability and professionalism of its academic staff,” faculty wrote in a social media post last week.

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Review of Ancient Aliens S21E17: “Secrets of Japan”

11/7/2025

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The History channel moved Ancient Aliens yet again following its week off, shifting the show from 8 PM to 9 PM, sandwiched between reruns. I suppose there must be some ratings reason for it, but since Nielsen stopped reporting cable ratings (highlights for sports and cable news are released a week after), I’m not sure how Ancient Aliens currently performs. Not that many people would notice much of a difference between new episodes and reruns anyway. This week’s episode is a case in point. “Secrets of Japan” follows the season’s pattern of organizing episodes by geographic region but otherwise remaking past productions. “Secrets of Japan” calls to mind the 2017 episode “A Spaceship Made of Stone,” which similarly was devoted to Japan, though the former episode leaned more into ancient material and this week’s episode into modern UFO sightings. (Some of the same Japanese talking heads even appear in both.)

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Filmmaker Claims "New Evidence" of Egyptian Atlantis Knowledge, But It's Just Plato

11/5/2025

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Giorgio Tsoukalos recently started referring to the December 2017 New York Times story that launched the current wave of Congressional UFO interest as “the Pentagon Papers,” and that wasn’t even the dumbest thing a fringe pseudo-historian said this past week. When I saw the Daily Mail headline promising “Astonishing New Evidence of Atlantis Reveals Advanced Civilization Preserved by Ancient Egypt’s Priests,” I will admit that I did not have terribly high hopes. It is the Daily Mail after all. But, truly, the article, available only to premium subscribers (a free version is archived here), boggles the mind. You will never believe that the Mail considers “new”—or pretends to, since it’s obvious that reporter Stacy Liberatore understands that it’s bullshit but had to write it anyway.

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Graham Hancock Searches for His Lost Civilization in the Sahara

Review of "Age of Disclosure": An "Ancient Aliens" Episode with Better Lighting

Celebrating One Year of "Jimmy"

NBC's "Today" Show Runs Credulous Report Claiming "Proof" of Noah's Ark

Malaysian Professor Claims Romans Learned Shipbuilding from Malay Peoples

Review of Ancient Aliens S21E17: “Secrets of Japan”

Filmmaker Claims "New Evidence" of Egyptian Atlantis Knowledge, But It's Just Plato

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