Robert E. Howard, Graham Hancock and the Lost Civilization of the Ice Age

In 1932, Robert E. Howard wrote an essay describing an advanced civilization at the end of the last Ice Age, destroyed by catastrophe and flooding, followed by a final period of glaciation. He called it the Hyborian Age. Today, Graham Hancock argues for essentially the same sequence of events using modern geological evidence. But Howard got there first, drawing on sources that go back over a century.

In this video, I trace the intellectual roots of Howard's fictional prehistory through Ignatius Donnelly, the Theosophical tradition, Charles Hapgood, Jack London, Yogi Ramacharaka and B.G. Tilak, who argued that Vedic myths preserved memories of an Arctic civilization destroyed by glaciation.

Featuring rare first editions from my personal collection including the 1938 LANY first publication of "The Hyborian Age," one of fewer than ten known copies.

The Hyborian Age Facsimile Edition:
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*About Jeffrey Shanks:*
Jeffrey Shanks is a professional archaeologist and award-winning historian specializing in the intersection of anthropology and 20th-century pulp fiction. A leading authority on Robert E. Howard, Jeffrey is a multiple-time REH Foundation Award winner and was nominated for a Bran Stoker Award for the essay collection _The Unique Legacy of Weird Tales_ . He is a regular contributor to the _Conan the Barbarian_ comics from Titan Comics.
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