Robert Bauval is an author, lecturer, and Ancient Egypt researcher, best known for his Orion Correlation Theory. Bauval was born in Alexandria, Egypy. He attended the Franciscan College in Buckinghamshire, England. He has spent most of his engineering career living and working in the Middle East and Africa as a construction engineer. In late 1992 Bauval contacted Adrian Gilbert; they went on to write The Orion Mystery together, which became an international bestseller. He has also co-authored three books with Graham Hancock, Breaking The Mirror Of Heaven: The Conspiracy To Suppress The Voice Of Ancient Egypt with Ahmed Osman and 2 books with Thomas Brophy including Imhotep the African: Architect of the Cosmos.