Prof David Jacques’ field of research explores the use of the Stonehenge landscape in the Mesolithic period (8500 BC-4000 BC). Since 2005 he has been project director of the internationally important Mesolithic archaeological site of Blick Mead, around a mile from Stonehenge. His team has discovered the oldest occupation site in the Stonehenge area, likely where the communities who built the first monuments at Stonehenge lived. These discoveries have contributed significantly to a new understanding of the Stonehenge landscape's initial settlement patterns and practices. Prof Jacques’ project at Stonehenge won Current Archaeology magazine's Research Project of the Year in 2018, and David won the Archaeologist of the Year award in 2023.

Andrew Collins is one of the world’s most renowned authorities on the world of Göbekli Tepe, being the first ancient mysteries writer to feature it in book form within his 2006 book The Cygnus Mystery. He has gained a strong reputation for reporting the facts correctly and in a manner accessible to a general audience. Andrew is also a lead proponent of the concept of a lost civilization and has a massive following on social media and on YouTube, where he regularly posts videos on the latest discoveries in the ancient mysteries subject. Andrew is also the codiscoverer, along with Egyptological researcher Nigel Skinner Simpson, of a huge cave complex located within the shadow of the Great Pyramid in Egypt and known today as Collins’s Cave. He co-founded the Origins Conference in 2013 and founded the legendary Questing Conferencs in London. He currently lives near the Essex seaside town of Leigh-on-Sea, and his website is www.andrewcollins.com

Hugh Newman is an explorer, megalithomaniac and author of Göbekli Tepe and Karahan Tepe: The World's First Megaliths (Wooden Books, October 2023), Earth Grids: The Secret Pattern of Gaia’s Sacred Sites (2008), Stone Circles (2017) and co-author of Giants on Record (2015), Megalith: Studies in Stone (2018), Geomancy (2021) and The Giants of Stonehenge and Ancient Britain (2021). He has been a regular guest on History Channel’s Ancient Aliens and numerous other TV shows. He lives very close to Stonehenge. www.megalithomania.co.uk

Jj Ainsworth is a researcher and explorer based in the US, who is an expert on ancient symbolism and connections between sites worldwide. She has featured on numerous radio shows, has published articles on www.ancient-origins.net, and presented at conferences in the UK and US.

Deborah Cartwright has worked with author Andrew Collins on various quests including events surrounding the search for the Seventh Sword (the story outlined in his book of the same name). A key figure in the psychic questing community since in the 1990s, Deborah provided inspiration and key ideas for Andrew’s books The Circlemakers, The Second Coming and From the Ashes of Angels. This collaborative research into the prehistoric origins of civilisation continued with her involvement in his book Denisovan Origins, co-authored with Greg L. Little. Deborah worked extensively on the Rosslyn Chapel Project between 1992 to 2003 on the subject of the mystical beliefs and practices of the Knights Templar and Sinclair family for key figures of the project. They included Niven Sinclair, author Stephen Prior, historian Robert Brydon and the then curator of the chapel, Judith Fiskin. She obtained an honours degree in Modern Continental Philosophy and studied esoteric psychology through the Theosophical Society. It was these combined studies that led to her non-fiction book The Inward Revolution, co-authored with popular writer Storm Constantine, which stands as a unique perspective of alternative psychology and modern existentialism. She is also a landscape photographer. Her work can be seen at www.earthquestphotography.com

SPECIAL GUESTS FROM ITALY - The Khafre Research Project Team for the first time in the UK

Dr. Filippo Biondi is an aerospace angineer and specialist on remote sensing as well as being a geospatial analyst, who, alomg with his team, used Synthetic Aperture Radar Doppler Tomography and discovered mega-structures under Khafre's Pyramid on the Giza Plateau using satellite scanning technology. In 2018, he completed a master’s degree in Space Engineering and International Space Law at the University of Tor Vergata (Italy). In 2024, he obtained a master’s degree in Quantum Optics and Information from the Faculty of Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy). With extensive experience in advanced radar processing and satellite-based sensing systems, Dr. Biondi applies aerospace technologies to terrestrial analysis—leading to discoveries previously invisible to archaeology. He teaches at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

Armando Mei is a researcher known for investigating ancient Egyptian mysteries with fresh eyes and a deep respect for ancient texts. Mei brings a cross-disciplinary approach to one of the most enigmatic regions on Earth. For five years he collaborated with prof. Lloyd Knutson (scientist and former at Smithsonian Institution Washington, and 99th president of Entomological Society of America) and has authored several books.