About the Book: The Mystery of Skara Brae
In 3200 BC, Orkney Island off the coast of Northern Scotland was home to a small
farming village called Skara Brae. For reasons unknown, after nearly six
centuries of continuous habitation, the village was abandoned around 2600 BC and
its stone structures covered over--perhaps deliberately, like the structures at
Gobekli Tepe. Although now well-excavated, very little is known about the
peaceful people who lived at Skara Brae or their origins. Who were they and
where did they go? Drawing on his in-depth knowledge of the connections between
the cosmology and linguistics of Egyptian, Dogon, Chinese, and Vedic traditions,
Laird Scranton