About Us

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Richard received his start in Archaeology in 2016 working with Dr. Gabrielle Barkay at the Temple Mount Sifting project, while Studying Semitic languages including ancient Hebrew, proto-Hebrew, Ugarit, Ge’ez, Sumar-Akkadian, Babylonian, Aramaic and Assyrian. He expanded his language studies to include Classical Greek, koine Greek and proto-Greek (Linear Scripts A and B) and Egyptian Pictographs and Hieroglyphics and Latin. While all the time studying for his Master of Theological Studies at Moody institute, learning the cultures, faiths, and an anthropological understanding of the peoples of the Ancient Near East. His love for Ancient Near East histories led him on a journey through the bronze ages of the Mediterranean area and the trade routes of the Minoan People. This led him to the discovery that these Sea fairing people were trading far beyond the Mediterranean, well inland into Asia, into Europe and eventually into the Americas. It was in 2016 that Richard started noticing commonalities in artifacts and sites throughout the world, so many of them that it excluded the possibilities of coincidence, so much so that he is forcing the discussion of diffusionism, acculturation, and simultaneous invention to be reopened. This has become the topic of Richard's dissertation, and what started this journey of discovery, and a study of passion all started over a discussion of discoveries in beautiful northern Michigan. That has had archaeologists, anthropologists and historians arguing over their meanings. Richard’s hope is to present his findings and defend them to the faculty at the greatest university in Michigan and finally bring an end to the controversies of Michigan’s ancient histories.