Edward Bacon (1906-1981) was the archaeological editor of the Illustrated London News for many years and wrote his own^[139] and edited a number of books on archaeology.

He was the co-author with Angelos Georgiou Galanopoulos of a book^[263] supporting a Minoan origin for Plato’s Atlantis story. The basis for their theory is a belief that Plato’s 9,000 years for the time elapsed since the destruction of Atlantis is overstated by a factor of 10. If this were correct, 900 years would bring the date of its demise in line with the date of the massive eruption of Thera. However, there are a number of weaknesses with this theory that are discussed elsewhere.