Hi everybody, welcome to Dance Know's History and a lot of people getting touched on the

social media at the moment and asking about the hit Netflix series presented by the Brit

Graham Hancock. It's called Ancient Apocalypse and it's been described as the most dangerous

show on the channel. He comes up with some unsubstantiated theories about ancient civilizations

he's incredibly rude about the professionals that work in this field, historians and archaeologists

who devoted their lives to interrogating evidence, becoming area specialists. He has breathed

life into conspiracy theories, which although not obvious to many viewers the programs have

a long and very dark past. In response to many of the requests, I decided that we would

have an episode of this podcast talking about not his series, but about archaeology itself,

about how we can be sure about things, how we should treat new discoveries and developments

and whether archaeologists are in fact gatekeepers protecting their interpretation of the past

and refusing to engage with new evidence. Flint Dibble is an archaeologist at Cardiff

University. He's a phenomenal presence on social media. He's videos and posts reach

many many people all over the world. His work focuses on ancient Greece. Please become

a vocal and prominent critic of the show Ancient Apocalypse. And I want to get him on the podcast

and not go for a debunking session because many of you want to watch the TV, but just

talk about archaeology and its wider sense. And how we should think about the gathering

of evidence, being certain about the past, being wrong and being open to new ideas. We

start by talking about something that seems to loom very large in the work of Hancock

and many others, and that is the lost city of Atlantis. What's all that about? Enjoy.

The thing I find interesting is like I was reading another day of the show. I was

reading a lot of the news about the KPG boundary, the gigantic impact event that killed us.

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