Well, if the Cosmos series is clearly made with the intention to teach and educate, Ancient Apocalypse is meant to sensationalize and somehow shock you. Literally EVERY sentence in the series is accompanied by some cheap, dramatizing and sensationalizing sound effect. A stab, a hit, a deep bass rumbling for effect, it gets highly annoying. And...

Well.... When Hancock is on the Rogan Experience it gets pretty out there. And I don't know how much I want to take him seriously.... .... but then... Göbekli Tepe rewrote a lot didn't it? That pushed the date back. Something was there before it should be there and it was organized and it was big. And some of what he said in Fingerprints...