I consider most of them to be really lovable and harmless weirdos, especially since they get little (sometimes too little) attention.
In the case of Graham Hancock, whose work I focused on this week, it's different: this man reaches millions and wreaks havoc with his drivel.
Hancock is a kind of British Erich von Däniken and is now allowed to bring his fairy tales about a lost civilization to the people in the new »Netflix« format »Ancient Apocalypse« (in German »On the trail of lost civilizations«).
The series has been in the top ten in several countries and is a complete scandal.
Mainly because Hancock constantly rants in "lateral thinker" fashion about "conventional" archaeologists who supposedly obfuscate the truth to protect their own theories.
If you are even a little familiar with the discipline, it is best to switch off.
Also because, in my experience, reputable archaeologists struggle for the truth with great effort, now with many high-tech methods.
Don't want to be misunderstood: Hancock is free to advance any ancient Atlantis theory he wants, but he should stop slandering others.
Otherwise the suspicion remains that what really matters to him isn't what really happened, but rather ratings and money.
Far less annoying, but also a case of pseudo-archaeology, is the latest theory from a researcher well-known in archaeological circles: Kathleen Martínez, a lawyer from the Dominican Republic, who acquired her knowledge primarily through self-study.
At the beginning of the 2000s, Martínez probably got an excavation license in Egypt mainly through perseverance and since then he has been looking for the grave of one of the most famous people in world history: Cleopatra.
Read what Martínez came up with here.
Heartfelt
Yours, Guido Kleinhubbert
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picture of the week
There may be golf courses that are ecologically correct - this one is not one of them: The course is located in southern California and thus in a region for which meteorologists are expecting the fourth drought year in a row.
Even in Central Europe, where it rains significantly more, an average of around 35 million liters per year are needed to irrigate an 18-hole course;
directly in the desert there should be significantly more.
No wonder that in other dry regions, for example in Spain, there have already been protests about the water-wasting greens.
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