SCOTTY ROBERTS is the founder and publisher of Intrepid Magazine (www.intrepidmag.com), a journal dedicated to politics, science, culture, ufology, unexplained phenomena, alternative fringe theories, and world mysteries. He is the founder of the Paradigm Symposiums (www.paradigm-symposium.com).
As an accomplished illustrator and designer, Scotty has spent the bulk of the last three decades in advertising and publishing. He is a historian, theologian, researcher, student of Egyptology, and stalwart opponent of “Big ‘S’ Skepticism,” enjoying his role as a “stand-up philosopher.”
Scotty attended Bible college and theological seminary, and worked as a youth pastor for several years alongside his career in advertising and independent comic book publishing. He co-created the highly successful Ancient Heroes trading card series and began development on a line of young readers’ books. He authored and illustrated his first historical novel, The Rollicking Adventures of Tam O’Hare (www.tamohare.com), an anthropomorphized historical novel set in Tudor England, Ireland, and Scotland, which garnered broad attention with teen and college readers.
Scotty is the author of The Rise and Fall of the Nephilim: The Untold Story of Fallen Angels, Giants on the Earth and Their Extraterrestrial Origins and The Secret History of the Reptilians: The Pervasive Presence of the Serpent in Human History, Religion and Alien Mythos.
Scotty lives with his wife and children—who represent for him a hellacious roller coaster of befuddlement and joy—just across the Minnesota border in rural Wisconsin, where he remains an avid Vikings fan and a stranger in a strange land.
JOHN WARD is an archaeologist, anthropologist, explorer, author, and public speaker from Hereford, England, but currently resides in Luxor, Egypt.
Throughout the last 12 years, he has conducted numerous investigations into ancient Egyptian architecture, culture, religion, and its associated symbolism, culminating in various published articles and papers together with scholarly presentations and talks.
These investigations have enabled him to carry out assorted explorations of Egypt’s vast landscape, from the arid deserts of the Western Sahara to the watery depths of the Hellenistic sunken city of Alexandria. Through extreme weather conditions these explorations have provided a wealth of material and archaeological information that contributes to the overall research of ancient Egypt’s rich historical past and how attributes of it have been integrated and assimilated within various cultures throughout history.
He is also currently researching the many mysteries surrounding medieval Templarism and its possible connectivity through symbolism to Egyptian antiquity and its clear links to the various esoteric and hermetic cults throughout the ages.
Currently he is a member of the Gebel el Silsila Survey Project team working at the ancient sandstone quarries—the source for many of the ancient upper Egyptian temples.
John lives on the west bank of Luxor, the former location of ancient Thebes, famous today for its ancient historical sites and tombs, with his partner and their menagerie of animals.