Author
Shannon Skåer
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One of my favorite books as a kid was The World’s Last Mysteries by Reader’s Digest. It chronicled “ancient civilizations, archaeological discoveries, unexplained catastrophes, and other mysteries from man’s past.” Or, in other words, exactly the kind of thing I geek out over. As an author of historical and science fiction, I enjoy exploring forgotten peoples and vanished places from a Christian worldview informed by creation science.
Rules: no paranormal. No aliens, Bigfoot, or Nephilim. Yes to dinosaurs, DNA analysis and improbable possibilities.
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In the fading days of the Ice Age, a monster is unleashed.
When young Chief Tupak feels the ground shake beneath his feet, he knows something is terribly wrong. The great river is not just rising—it’s coming, a wall of water taller than the trees, faster than an arrow in flight. As an unstoppable deluge crashes toward his village, Tupak must make an impossible choice: follow the advice of the past or forge a new path before the water swallows them all.
Inspired by real catastrophic geology, The Last Climb is a gripping survival story that echoes the legacy of the global flood. With the article What Was the Missoula Flood by Michael Oard, this snapshot of the apocalyptic disaster that shaped the landscape of the Pacific Northwest will be hard to forget.
work in progress:
A one-world government rises from the wilderness. This is the story of the Tower of Babel.
100 years after Noah’s flood, Tasha fights for survival, desperate to be the hero who saves her friends. But what if she’s the villain?
The Antikythera Mechanism: Cicero’s Mic Drop on Modern Science
f you didn’t catch that, Cicero just claimed that anyone with common sense couldn’t fail to see that the universe was created by an intelligent God. It’s almost as if Cicero doesn’t realize that he’s the backward ancient, and modern experts who believe in the modern idea that everything we see is the result of chance are the educated ones.
The Nazca: Climate Fear, Headhunting, and Other Timeless Sports
With normal water sources failing, the Nazca built an elaborate system of underground aqueducts to tap into subterranean aquifers. Tunnels carried the water from village to village. To keep the water flowing, they built “chimneys” into the underground canals in the shape of corkscrewing funnels, which caught prevailing winds and channeled them into the tunnels, increasing air pressure and helping to move water through the aqueducts.
Ancient Cave, No Good Explanation: The Longyou Grottoes
Wu Anai’s life, like the lives of so many rice farmers in central China, afforded few options for entertainment. He awoke, farmed rice, went to sleep, and repeated the process. However, like many of his Western cousins, he found relief from this looping circle of productive boredom in the exciting and honorable sport of fishing….
Ignoble Savage: What the Bible says about Ancient Man
1. Ancient men were just people, and people haven’t changed. Exhibit A: Doodle made by a child over a thousand years ago when he should have been doing his schoolwork. Here, ancient man exhibits classic signs of humanity: as with any modern child, Onfim (he signed it) has made himself the victor. On the top right…
How to catch Ice Age Man using Digital Reindeer
What would happen if we assumed ancient man was intelligent? One man did just that, and I haven’t been able to stop talking about it since, which, incidentally, is a substantial reason to have 10 children, all of which you homeschool. Captive audience. Professor John O’Shea is an archaeologist with the University of Michigan, who…
Billionaires, Please Read: The Lost City of Thônis-Heracleion
I think the super wealthy have an obligation to go forth and entertain the rest of us.
Not through drama (we don’t need rich folks to generate that,) and certainly not by starting wars. History is peppered with the super wealthy acting on the misguided belief that a nice little war would liven us all up.
