Author, publisher in Bristol, England. Published a number of periodicals about Atlantis, Keely and similar topics. Sykes acquired copies of the Keely photographs from the Library of Congress and reproduced them for his subscribers. Sykes willed his collection to the Edgar Cayce Foundation (A.R.E.) when he died circa 1983. The A.R.E. maintains an "Edgerton Sykes Room" where select items from his collection reside. It was through the Sykes materials Dale Pond discovered Keely in 1984 while volunteering at the A.R.E. Library. The Pond Science Institute has some few Sykes materials in the PSI archives.

Biography: Edgerton Sykes

"The Egerton Sykes Collection at Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. Library in Virginia Beach is one of the largest private collections on Atlantis in the world. British scholar Egerton Sykes amassed a collection consisting of over 6,000 items including books, magazines, maps, newspaper clippings, pamphlets, personal letters, photographs, slides, and unpublished manuscripts. He collected books of classic literature as well as on astronomy, archaeology, evolution, geology, history, and religious and mythological studies. The A.R.E. purchased the collection through member contributions in 1979. The books and magazines were catalogued and the rest of the materials organized in file cabinets. Library volunteer Ginny Williams is currently working to preserve, rehouse, and inventory his personal papers and research using standard archival methods. Upon completion, a finding aid and container list for the previously uncatalogued material will be added to the A.R.E. Library online catalog. This project is being funded by the Douglas and Darian Torrance Library Endowment Fund." [photo and text from Edgar Cayce Facebook group]