Rodney Castleden (1945- ) has been researching prehistory for the past twenty-five years and has written books on such diverse subjects^(a)  as Stonehenge, Knossos and the Mycenaeans^[226] . He is the author of a well-received volume, Atlantis Destroyed^[225] in which he advocates the idea that the destruction of Minoan Crete provided the inspiration for Plato’s Atlantis.

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