Did the Ancients possess highly advanced astronomical and metaphysical knowledge which the modern mind is only just beginning to grasp? Knowledge so vast in scale that it could only be expressed in sacred metaphor and allegory - which contemporary astronomers and astrophysicists have dismissed as ignorant superstition? But might those allegories and their architectural expressions actually reveal a far more comprehensive understanding of ourselves and our place in the local part of the universe? This October, for the first time in such an approach, scholars and scientists will come together in a unique public forum to explore this ancient knowledge from the viewpoint of the Ancients, but in a modern context. Drawing on archaeology, modern computer technology, linguistics, geology and meteorology, they will challenge existing scholarly and scientific assumptions, trying instead to draw together the widespread cultural threads of a common, astronomically based system of ancient knowledge, and put forward some radical new ideas to challenge our fundamental view of, and place in, the known universe.

"Archaeo-Astronomy, Myth & The Ancient Wisdom Tradition" follows in the tradition of the groundbreaking 1977 book "Hamlet's Mill", written by scholars Georgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend. Speakers will include: