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Michael William Duncan (born February 14, 1980) is an American political history podcaster and author. A self-described "complete history geek", [2] after not finding any Roman history podcasts in 2007, Duncan began The History of Rome, a narrative podcast chronicling events from the founding of Rome until the collapse of the Western Roman Empire.
Edwin Lawrence Barnhart (born October 29, 1968) is an American archaeologist and explorer specializing in ancient civilizations of the Americas. He is the founder and director of the Maya Exploration Center, president of Ancient Explorations, and fellow of the Explorers Club.
The Silurian hypothesis is a thought experiment, [1] which assesses modern science's ability to detect evidence of a prior advanced civilization, perhaps several million years ago. The most probable clues for such a civilization could be carbon , radioactive elements or temperature variation.
In 2024, Dibble appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast opposite Graham Hancock, who is a popular promotor of the pseudo archaeological theory that there once existed an advanced Ice Age civilization that was destroyed in a global cataclysm, as popularized on Ancient Apocalypse, a 2022 documentary series produced by Netflix.
Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) [1] is a British writer who promotes pseudoscientific [2] [3] ideas about ancient civilizations and hypothetical lost lands. [4] Hancock proposes that an advanced civilization with spiritual technology existed during the last Ice Age until it was destroyed following comet impacts around 12,900 years ago, at the onset of the Younger Dryas.
David Crowther of The History of England podcast has mentioned Duncan as an influence, [11] [12] as has Peter Adamson of the podcast: The History of Philosophy without any Gaps. Isaac Meyer of the History of Japan podcast has mentioned in a few episodes that The History of Rome podcast inspired the "A day in the life of..." episodes.
Some of these civilizations had long ceased to function by the time of the first permanent European arrivals (c. late 15th – early 16th centuries), and are known only through archaeological investigations or oral history from nations today. Others were contemporary with this period, and are also known from historical accounts of the time.
He had observed a number of very fine silver objects from ancient Iraq, plated with very thin layers of gold, and speculated that they were electroplated. In 1938 he authored a paper [ 10 ] [ 11 ] offering the hypothesis that they may have formed a galvanic cell , perhaps used for electroplating gold onto silver objects. [ 2 ]