[pepsi_junkie]

Conspiracy theories take root — with help from Joe Rogan Graham Hancock, a British journalist and star of the controversial Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse, has theorized — without empirical evidence — that Gobekli Tepe was built by a "lost civilization" wiped out by an Ice Age cataclysm.

Right, real archaeologists always have empirical evidence for their statements that everything they find that's unusual or unexpected is a religious ceremonial thing.

[Fai Mao]

Two words: Henrich Schielman

He wasn’t an archaeologist, and yet he discovered the city of Troy and that the Trojan War was probably a real event.