Was There An Advanced Civilization That Predates Humanity?

When it comes to the hypothesis related to advanced societies before the emergence of mankind, Graham Hancock is often mentioned as a connoisseur.
Despite the fact that some skeptics regard the opinion of prehistoric societies and their possibly advanced technology as “pseudo-science”, there is actually certain evidence of advanced technological mechanisms in the distant past.
If we eliminate the idea of aliens who came to instruct our ancestors, some of the ideas that Hancock has contributed over time remain as a result.
Some of the viewpoints that Hancock has gradually come up with remain as a result, should we discard the idea that aliens had arrived in Earth to instruct our predecessors.

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We often learn from chroniclers that pre-primitive accomplishment by our ancestors weren’t technically advanced; however, the megaliths, relics and thought processes, as best as can be determined, appear mysteriously out-of-sync with what was reached by our prehistoric predecessors.
That might suggest something existing before our modern civilization capacity and the achievement it had made somewhat following 10,000 BC.
The underground and underwater structures and some blatant artifacts would seem to have a premise based on the knowledge that was once known, and showing up in situ or in ancient texts that have gone missing because of human destruction or environmental catastrophes.

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For example, they include the fire that wiped out the works in the Library of Alexandria (48 BC) or the Eruption of Vesuvius (79 AD), not to mention the great flood registered in ancient texts as a “mythic” event that “destroyed the (known) world.”
The Göbekli Tepe structures indicate a pre-10,000 society with an interesting, and out-of-sync mindset just before the Sumerian (Mesopotamian) societies appeared, from which we have records and evidence.
If one takes Erich von Däniken’s “theories” in “Chariots of the Gods?” and supplant them, replace them, with Graham Hancock’s thinking, the idea of an earlier, brighter humanity was extant on the Earth, one will have something not as rabid as the ET thesis.

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But what could happen to that brilliant and amazing ancient human civilization? It is a very difficult answer to give. However, as in any society that reaches a high point, problems like environmental adversities, overpopulation, wars, etc. arise.
And although we do not have an answer to this enigma, we can sketch some possibilities by observing the current scenario and complementing it with past findings. Possibly history repeats itself, the history of our civilization.