This could be

the last time that I speak about myself,

my work, because there's a chance that I

might not make it off the operating

table this month. And a journalist who

has very bad blood towards me has been

trying to publish a story on me for more

than 2 years now, and it will come out

in the next [music] month or two, and I

didn't want that to be the last word on

my life.

>> What do you want the last word of your

life to be?

>> I'm here to communicate about the

possibility of a major forgotten episode

in human history. I'm talking about a

lost civilization.

>> So, most people think civilization

started 6,000 years ago.

>> Yes.

>> But, you believe there's strong evidence

that there could have been a previous

civilization.

>> 20,000 [music] years ago, and I'm going

to present the evidence for that here,

Stephen. And it suggests a golden age

where there was no violence, no cruelty,

where great healers and sages were at

work. They're extremely sophisticated.

[music] However, if you follow the myths

further, as I've done, you find

something odd happens. You find that

they stepped away from the original

purity and become a culture that begins

to impose its power on others around the

world. And then, sewn into those myths

is scientific information which record a

gigantic cataclysm all but wiping out

the human race.

>> If what you're saying is true, what does

that mean for our lives? I guess also

our future.

>> Well, there's always this feeling in the

myths that we brought [music] this upon

ourselves. And when I look at our

civilization today, I see a civilization

[music] that ticks all the mythological

boxes for the next lost civilization,

and that we are most likely to be the

cause of that cataclysm ourselves,

unless we wake up.

>> Graham Hancock, what will you care about

on your last day?

>> Most of all,