Books
One technology and one region per volume. Every claim sourced, and a list at the back of every claim that could not be.
Book 1 · On sale now
Atlantis, the Younger Dryas and the lost civilisation debate, checked one claim at a time
The alternative-history canon, each claim put at full strength alongside its counter-case, then a verdict and a specific statement of what would change our mind. Both sides get equal space, measured rather than estimated.
Book 2 · On sale now
Ancient Egypt, the pyramids, and what the machines can see through rock
Radar, muon tomography and satellite survey across Egypt and the Sahara. Including the void found inside the Great Pyramid by counting cosmic ray particles, which is the strongest single argument for this whole method, and the blank that the same technique drew on a different pyramid in 1970.
Book 3 · On sale now
Reading the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the texts nobody can open
Machine reading of carbonised and fragmentary ancient text. The Herculaneum scrolls, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the scripts that a century of effort has still not deciphered.
Book 4 · On sale now
Lost cities, ancient civilisations, and what the machines found under the jungle
Lidar. What stripping the trees off a landscape did to our estimates of how many people lived in the Maya lowlands, Amazonia and Angkor, told by someone who runs the same surveys and publishes his own false positives.
All four are written and all four are now on sale in Kindle and paperback. They share a method and a set of run logs, not a plot, so each one stands alone and the numbering is publication order rather than a reading order. Cover plate on book 1: Maiden Castle, Environment Agency LIDAR Composite DTM 1m, Open Government Licence v3, rendered by us at four azimuths.
There is a fifth thing, and it is not a book to read but one to look at: the Atlas puts a historical map beside the modern instrument's view of the same ground, and adjudicates the difference.
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