BA (Hons), Trinity College Dublin, 1982; PhD, University of Cambridge, 1986.

Born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1961, Lloyd D. Graham is now based in Sydney, Australia. Until Oct 2014 he was a biomedical research scientist at CSIRO, working mainly in molecular biology and protein chemistry; his scientific publications are listed here. In 2017, he was a member of the Colvera team that won the Eureka Prize for Innovation in Medical Research and the CSIRO Entrepreneurship Award. Lloyd took early retirement to focus on his interests in the arts and humanities, as described below.

Lloyd is currently a Professional Member of the International Association of Egyptologists and an Associate Member of the USA-based Societas Magica. In addition, he was a member of Macquarie University's Ancient History Association (MAHA) and its University Students for Egyptological Research (USER) society while these were active, and is a former Committee Member of the university's Society for the Study of Early Christianity (SSEC). He remains a member of the university's Rundle Foundation of Egyptian Archaeology. Between 2015 and 2022, Lloyd undertook 23 units of Ancient History via the university's Continuing Education program and, from 2015 to 2025, studied biannually in the Macquarie Ancient Languages School [1]. From 2020 to 2025, he was also a member of Sydney University's Near Eastern Archaeology Foundation (NEAF). Online, Lloyd is a co-administrator for the Facebook group "Egyptology in Australasia" (1500+ members), a member of the Facebook group Islamic Occultism, the Administrator of the Knowledge Commons group "Magic: Ancient and Modern", and a contributor to the Million Image Database. His arts/humanities publications are primarily hosted in his Academia portfolio; most are also available via his Knowledge Commons profile and are listed in his ORCID profile.

Lloyd has had articles published in Literature and Theology (OUP), Prague Egyptological Studies, Trabajos de Egiptología, Göttinger Miszellen, JEOL, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections, Birmingham Egyptology Journal, Eikón Imago, Australian Aboriginal Studies, MC (now Modern Believing), Giluy Milta B'alma (Institute of Microfilmed Hebrew Manuscripts, NLI), Journal of Vampire Studies, The Esoteric Quarterly, Academia Letters, Epigraphic Society Occasional Papers, Mythos Journal, Jones’ Celtic Encyclopedia, Ethnic Jewels Magazine, AusAnthrop, Fickle Muses, Clavis, PornSaints, and Lamhfada: An Online Magazine of Myth and Story. Lloyd's arts/humanities portfolio on Academia is frequently in the top 0.5% of the platform's traffic, with almost 5000 followers and over 281,000 views to date.

In 2020, Lloyd completed a book which surveys the history of his surname; it is titled House GRAHAM: From the Antonine Wall to the Temple of Hymen. The full PDF is available free of charge from Academia, from Scribd and from the Clan Graham Society, while print versions of the book are available for purchase from Lulu Press. It is reviewed here.

Over the years, Lloyd's poems have appeared in eight journals or online poetry forums. He won the poetry prize in both of the science-based creative writing competitions held by CSIRO. Some of his poems are listed in the AustLit database.

In Jul-Aug 2015, Lloyd's collection of Western Desert Aboriginal art formed the EarthSong exhibition at the McGlade Gallery which accompanied the Australian Catholic University's 25th anniversary conference, titled Grounding the Sacred. In Nov 2016, his collection of talismans, amulets and magical documents was exhibited at Macquarie University under the title TALISMANIA. This display illustrated the survival of magical traditions associated with Judaism, Christianity and Islam into recent times by presenting 74 artefacts (19th - 21st century) from the Middle East, Türkiye, the Levant, Africa, Eastern Europe and south-east Asia. In Aug 2017, Lloyd delivered a talk on the princess-priestesses of ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia to the University Students for Egyptological Research (USER) group at Macquarie University.

Some of Lloyd’s digital art is featured on the Mythical Ireland website and has been used by the Royal Irish Academy. He designed the conference logo for the 10th Human Leukocyte Differentiation Antigen Workshop (HLDA10), an international biomedical symposium held in 2014. Lloyd is also proud to have two oil paintings in the permanent collection of the Museum of Bad Art (MoBA) near Boston, MA, one of which is reproduced in the book Museum of Bad Art: Masterworks (2008, 2021). Other art and photography projects can be seen in his deviantART gallery.

His unusual leisure-time activities have included rehearsing for World War III as a Warning Officer with UKWMO at Ayr Group Control, and singing Carmina Burana with the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs at the Sydney Opera House.

Pages created with extensive content:

Tingari; Ecdysone receptor; Danny Malboeuf

Major contribution to:

Wati kutjara; Bioadhesives; 20-hydroxyecdysone; Zdzisław Beksiński

Minor contribution to:

Lake Mackay; Tjurunga; Kukatja; Geoffrey Bardon; Lebor Gabála Érenn; Grigori; Ecdysone; Ecdysteroids; Ultraspiracle; Rainbow serpent; Ness (Irish mythology); Robert Blust; Oilliphéist; Alessandra Nibbi; Sophia (wisdom); Muqattaʿat; Gorgoneion; Tablet of Destinies (mythic item); Nāradasmṛti; Gortacashel; Newgrange, Watcher (angel); Visionary art; Drumcar (Kinawley); Drumcullion; Corranearty; Aṉangu.

List of (non-science) publications

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