Michael Baigent was born in New Zealand in 1948, but has lived in Britain since 1976. He has written and collaborated in the writing of a number of books, including The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, with Henry Lincoln, which they claimed, unsuccessfully, in court was the inspiration for Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code.

In 1998 he wrote Ancient Traces^[141] about the mysteries of early history in which he reviews many of the Atlantis theories and concludes that an Atlantic solution is the most probable. Commenting on the credibility of Plato’s story he says:

“To express his ideas he usually wrote his books in the form of discussions or arguments between friends and associates. While he pressed many historical stories and legends into service in this way, he has never been found to have invented them”.