British author known for unconventional interpretations of ancient literature and mythology, including 'Beowulf & Grendel' (reading the epic as evidence of a conflict between two prehistoric religious cults) and 'Warriors of the Wasteland' (tracing Grail-legend elements to Bronze Age sacrificial ritual). Co-authored 'The Mars Mystery' with Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval.
John Grigsby is a British author whose books argue for unconventional readings of ancient literature, myth, and ritual. In 'Beowulf & Grendel' he argues that the Anglo-Saxon epic preserves traces of a conflict between an older agricultural cult and a newer warrior cult beneath its Christian-era rewriting; in 'Warriors of the Wasteland' he traces elements of the Grail legends back to Bronze Age sacrificial rites associated with Stonehenge. He is a co-author, with Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval, of 'The Mars Mystery: A Tale of the End of Two Worlds' (1998), which links Martian surface imagery to speculative catastrophist and ancient-civilization narratives.