Beyond Traditional Interpretations,Mauro Biglino (born 13 September 1950) is an Italian author, essayist, and translator.[1] Much of his work focuses on the theories concerning the Bible and church history, including conspiracy theories, ufology, and the pseudoscientific speculation of ancient astronauts.[1] As he himself declared, his ideas are mostly based on the literary works of fringe theorists Erich von Däniken and Zecharia Sitchin.[1] Biglino has also been involved in producing Italian interlinear editions of the Twelve Minor Prophets for Edizioni San Paolo in Cinisello Balsamo, Italy.[2]

He wrote the volume Chiesa Cattolica e Massoneria ("Catholic Church and Freemasonry"), where he declared to have been a Freemason and member of the Italian Freemasonry for more than ten years until the 2000s.[1][3][4]

Graham Bruce Hancock (born 2 August 1950) is a British writer who promotes pseudoscientific[2][3] theories involving ancient civilizations and hypothetical lost lands.[4] Hancock speculates that an advanced ice age civilization was destroyed in a cataclysm, but that its survivors passed on their knowledge to hunter-gatherers, giving rise to the earliest known civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Mesoamerica.[5][6]

Born in Edinburgh, Hancock studied sociology at Durham University before working as a journalist, writing for a number of British newspapers and magazines. His first three books dealt with international development, including Lords of Poverty (1989), a well-received critique of corruption in the aid system. Beginning with The Sign and the Seal in 1992, he shifted focus to speculative accounts of human prehistory and ancient civilisations, on which he has written a dozen books, most notably Fingerprints of the Gods and Magicians of the Gods. His ideas have been the subject of several films, including the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse (2022), and Hancock makes regular appearances on the podcast The Joe Rogan Experience to discuss them. He has also written two fantasy novels and in 2013 delivered a controversial TEDx talk promoting the use of the psychoactive drink ayahuasca.

Reviews of Hancock's interpretations of archaeological evidence and historic documents have identified them as a form of pseudoarchaeology[7][8] or pseudohistory[9][10] containing confirmation bias supporting preconceived conclusions by ignoring context, cherry picking, or misinterpreting evidence, and withholding critical countervailing data.[11][12] His writings have neither undergone scholarly peer review nor been published in academic journals.[13]

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