Laird Scranton is an independent software designer from Albany, New York who writes about ancient mysteries, cosmology and language.
His work includes articles published in the University of Chicago's Anthropology News academic journal, in Temple University's Encyclopedia of African Religion, and in the Vassar Quarterly Magazine.
His book The Science of the Dogon was taught at Colgate University under the title, Hidden Meanings: A Study of the Founding Symbols of Civilization. He is featured in John Anthony West's Magical Egypt documentary series and in The Pyramid Code, a series broadcast by the Documentary Channel.
Scranton has also authored, Sacred Symbols of the Dogon: The Key to Advanced Science in the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs, and The Cosmological Origins of Myth and Symbol: From the Dogon and Ancient Egypt to India, Tibet, and China.
His most recent work, The Velikovsky Heresies: Worlds in Collision and Ancient Catastrophes Revisited, provides new evidence from recent space probe missions to support Velikovsky’s theories on the formation of Venus.
He has been interviewed on a variety of radio programs around the world including Red Ice Radio in Sweden. He has presented at conferences on Ancient Mysteries including Walter Cruttenden's annual CPAK (Conference on Precession and Ancient Knowledge) Conference.