ROBERT BAUVAL
Robert Bauval was born in Alexandria, Egypt in 1948. His mother was Maltese, and his father Belgian-Italian. Bauval's ancestry in Egypt goes back to 1785. Bauval was schooled at the British Boys School in Alexandria. He left Egypt in 1967 and went to England where he continued his studies at the Franciscan College in Buckinghamshire. In 1973 he obtained a Higher National Diploma in Building Management with Distinction from the University of the Southbank in London. Bauval also holds a Postgraduate Diploma in European Marketing with Distinction from the University of Buckingham. He is fluent in English, French, Italian and Arabic, and also speaks some Spanish. He worked as a building engineer in England, the Sultanate of Oman, Iran, Sudan, Guinea and Ivory Coast, Saudi Arabia and France.
In 1983 Bauval developed a theory that correlates the three pyramids of Giza in Egypt with the three stars of Orion’s Belt and, with the support of Egyptologist Sir I.E.S. Edwards, published a paper in the Oxford Journal in 1989. Bauval’s theory is now internationally known as ‘The Orion Correlation Theory’ (OCT). In 1994 Bauval published his first book, The Orion Mystery (with Adrian Gilbert), which was a No.1 bestseller in the UK, and also an international bestseller translated in more than twenty-five languages. He co-authored and authored several other bestsellers:
Keeper of Genesis (1996), Secret Chamber (1999), Talisman (2004), The Egypt Code (2006), Black Genesis (2011), Breaking the Mirror of Heaven (2012), The Master Game (2012), Imhotep the African (2013), The Vatican Heresy ( 2014); Secret Chamber Revisited (2014) The Soul of Egypt (Oct 2015), Sphinx: In search for the Origins of Civilization (Winter 2016). He is currently working on a book with astrobiologist professor Chandra Wickramasinghe. Bauval has appeared on many National and International television channels including BBC, ABC, NBC, Fox-TV, CNN, RAI, HISTORY CHANNEL, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC, DISCOVERY CHANNEL, FRANCE A3, and CHANNEL FOUR UK. Bauval lives with his wife Michele in Southern Spain, near Malaga. They have two children, Candice and Jonathan, who live in England.