Axel Hausmann (1939- ) is a German physics professor at the Technical University of Aachen.  He has identified a circular underwater feature 20 miles due south of Syracuse in Sicily (36°45’N & 15°18’E) as the possible location of Plato’s city of Atlantis and south of that again existed the plain of Atlantis extending as far as Malta. He contends that Atlantis had an area of influence that stretched from Tunisia to Italy including Malta and Sicily.  He erroneously claimed in a paper presented to the 2005 Atlantis Conference to be the first to suggest the central Mediterranean region as a runner in the Atlantis Stakes.

Hausmann places the Pillars of Heracles in northeast Tunisia on Cape Bon’. He dates the submergence of Atlantis to around 3500 BC, based on the assumption that Plato’s ‘years’ were Egyptian seasons (three per solar year).  He perceives the remarkable megalithic temples on Malta & Gozo as the remnants of Atlantis and anticipates similar discoveries on Sicily.

He speculates that the famous cart-ruts of Malta were irrigation channels^[629.356], ignoring the fact that they follow the natural undulations of the landscape, unless he thinks that these Maltese Atlanteans found a way to make water flow uphill.

Hausmann also follow the suggestion of the late Ulf Richter who argued that the linear measurements of Atlantis used the Egyptian khet (52m)as the unit of measurement rather than the Greek stade (175m).

Hausmann proposes that the survivors of the catastrophe migrated to Crete, Egypt and Syria where they provided the stimulus for the subsequent civilisations of Egypt, Minoan Crete and Sumer. He specifically identifies the Phaistos Disk^[372]as possibly having been brought to Crete by Atlantean refugees and also presented a paper on this idea to the 2005 Atlantis Conference. He has written a number of books including a second volume more directly related to Atlantis, Atlantis – Die Versunkene Wiege der Kulturen (Atlantis-The Sunken Cradle of Culture) ^[371].