He writes primarily about the history of Freemasonry as well as the Neolithic period, ancient engineering, and archaeoastronomy.

Lomas gained a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Salford before being awarded a PhD for his research into solid state physics and crystalline structures.

[citation needed] He lectured on Information Systems at the University of Bradford's School of Management.

For example, the redaction of a document called "The Masonic Testament" by Lomas and co-author Christopher Knight, in their Book of Hiram (2003), from fragments of old manuscripts and ritual,[4] has been described as "An invention by the highly imaginative authors ... which has no historical validity".

[5] A review from The Square, reprinted on Lomas' website states that Turning the Hiram Key "should be viewed as an invitation to think, rather than a prescriptive statement".