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This could be the last time that I speak about myself, my work, because there's a chance that I
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might not make it off the operating table this month. And a journalist who has very bad blood towards me has been
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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
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didn't want that to be the last word on my life. >> What do you want the last word of your
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life to be? >> I'm here to communicate about the possibility of a major forgotten episode
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in human history. I'm talking about a lost civilization. >> So, most people think civilization
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started 6,000 years ago. >> Yes. >> But, you believe there's strong evidence that there could have been a previous
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civilization. >> 20,000 [music] years ago, and I'm going to present the evidence for that here,
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Stephen. And it suggests a golden age where there was no violence, no cruelty, where great healers and sages were at
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work. They're extremely sophisticated. [music] However, if you follow the myths further, as I've done, you find
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something odd happens. You find that they stepped away from the original purity and become a culture that begins
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to impose its power on others around the world. And then, sewn into those myths is scientific information which record a
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gigantic cataclysm all but wiping out the human race. >> If what you're saying is true, what does
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that mean for our lives? I guess also our future. >> Well, there's always this feeling in the
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myths that we brought [music] this upon ourselves. And when I look at our civilization today, I see a civilization
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[music] that ticks all the mythological boxes for the next lost civilization, and that we are most likely to be the
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cause of that cataclysm ourselves, unless we wake up. >> Graham Hancock, what will you care about
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on your last day? >> Most of all,