Articles & essays
In revisiting a selection of published works for this website, I've taken the opportunity to revise and expand some of them. More will be added in the coming weeks and months.
The extra space means that many new images are also included, and I've tried to credit and properly link these, where appropriate.
In the wake of extremist assaults on historic monuments and culture in Iraq, the origins of iconoclasm in the deeper history of the region, and beyond are examined.
Atlantean Brass and other ancient metals
A year’s worth of extraordinary discoveries in the field of ancient metallurgy, and how they reflect on OOPARTS, out-of-place-artefacts.
Inventing the Middle Ages
The perfectly incredible Phantom Time hypothesis, an
academic theory to explain gaps in knowledge of the
late Dark Ages. Is it possible that an era was fabricated by royal edict?
Who built the Antikythera Mechanism?
The workings of world's most famous out-of-place-artefact have finally been solved. Who had the means and motive to make such a marvel?
A word with Alan Moore
Interview with the comics writer and mage of Northampton on the eve of publication of Lost Girls after fifteen years in the making.
Burning Issue
While anecdotal evidence for Spontaneous Human Combustion is reasonably solid, the subject is beyond
conventional science and denied. Is the disturbing truth being hushed-up?
Lost Graffiti of the Templars
Rediscovering traces of the Knights Templar and Hospitallers at a prison in the Dordogne, and at an English church and preceptory.
