Nigel Appleby (a.k.a. Major Niall Arden) is the ‘author’ of Hall of the Gods^[076], which purported to identify the location, in Egypt, of the Hall of Records, which is supposed to contain the accumulated knowledge of an advanced worldwide civilisation that preceded the ancient Egyptians. Shortly after the publication of the book the publishers had to withdraw it from sale following claims of plagiarism by a number of other authors^(a). Picknett and Prince reveal some of the details of this episode in their Stargate Conspiracy ^[705.97].

            The book includes a claim that Atlantis is just a ‘symbolic name’ for this early civilisation and that evidence for this civilisation now lies under the Antarctic ice sheets.

^(a) http://www.mail-archive.com/ctrl@listserv.aol.com/msg03919.html