I was recently interviewed by Josh and Christina Peck about this aspect of my forthcoming book, Reversing Hermon: Enoch, the Watchers, and the Forgotten Mission of Jesus Christ . Enjoy!
Archaeoastronomy
Mike Interviewed on the Alexxcast
You can listen to the interview here. The planned subject was ancient astronaut material, but the interview wound up going in all sorts of directions. Toward the end I talk about the importance of peer-review in scholarly publishing. I mentioned Robert Bauval’s...
Ancient Astrology as a Common Root for Science and Pseudo-Science
That’s the title of this essay from the Electronic Journal of Folklore. The essay is from vol. 15 (published in 2000). It’s also available in PDF. It’s a good overview of ancient astronomy / astrology and gets into familiar concepts and themes that...
The Alleged Alignment of the Giza Pyramids with the Constellation Orion
This past weekend I spent some time revisiting Stuart Robbins’ excellent Exposing PseudoAstronomy podcast. On of his May 2012 episodes was on the alleged “Orion Correlation” promoted in print and online by Robert Bauval. The basic idea is that the...
New Scholarly Paper on Archaeoastronomy and Pyramid Alignment
Pretty sweet – thanks to the “Talking Pyramids” blog for this one. After you’ve read the story at the link above, here are the papers: The shorter version The actual journal article. Editor’s note: broken links removed.