Hit Netflix documentary Ancient Apocalypse promotes white supremacy and racist conspiracy theories, archaeologists - including a Research Fellow at Cardiff University - are claiming. However, an independent researcher and author has said such claims are fuelled by "jealousy" - and that bringing in "woke argument" is "nothing short of desperation on the part of academia".
The show, narrated by author Graham Hancock, theorises that an advanced civilisation was all but wiped out by catastrophic climate change and floods around 12,800 years ago. Mr Hancock suggests this 'ancient apocalypse' was caused by a series of comet strikes that triggered a 1,000 year long mini ice age - a period known as the Younger Dryas.
He believes that survivors from a lost 'high culture' then helped re-start civilisation, sharing their knowledge and skills with the tribes of hunter gatherers who mainstream archaeologists and academics insist were the only human cultures that existed at the end of this ice age.
