Laird Scranton

Laird Scranton (Vassar College 1975) is the author of a series of books and other writings on ancient cosmology and language. These include articles published in the University of Chicago’s Anthropology News academic journal, Temple University’s Encyclopedia of African Religion and the Encyclopedia Britainnica. He is featured in John Anthony West’s Magical Egypt documentary series and in Carmen Boulter’s documentary The Pyramid Code. He is a frequent guest on a wide range of radio and podcast interview shows including Red Ice Radio in Europe, Art Bell’s Desert at Midnight, and Coast-to-Coast Radio and Gaia TV's Beyond Belief with George Noory. He is also a frequent presenter at conferences whose focus is on ancient knowledge. These include Walter Cruttenden’s Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge (CPAK), the A.R.E.’s Ancient Mysteries Conference, Scotty Roberts and John Ward’s Paradigm Symposium, the Fringe New Jersey Conference, and James Swager's Megalithic Odyssey Symposium, in Marlborough, England. His books include: The Science of the Dogon (2006) (Republished edition of Hidden Meanings (2003)) Sacred Symbols of the Dogon (2007) The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol (2010) The Velikovsky Heresies (2012) China's Cosmological Prehistory (2014) Point of Origin(2015) The Mystery of Skara Brae (2016) Seeking the Primordial (2017) Decoding Maori Cosmology (May 2018) Ganesha: The Scientific Symbolism of a Hindu God (2019) Primal Wisdom of the Ancients 2020) Tracing Orkney's Origins (2020) Amma and the Spark of the Universe (Due Fall 2021) His work is also featured in two books called Forbidden Science (2008) and Lost Secrets of the Gods (2014). He helped co-author Ed Nightingale’s book The Giza Template (2014).

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