José Álvarez López (1922-2007) was an Argentinean physicist and an author of books on a range of subjects including the Great Pyramid, the Kabbalah as well as two volumes about Atlantis, Reconstruccion de Atlantida (The Reconstruction of Atlantis)^[448] and the earlier Realidad de Atlantida (The Reality of Atlantis)^[447]. López suggests that the Garden of Eden, Homer’s Scheria and Atlantis were different names for the same place, which was situated in the Atlantic and destroyed 12,000 years ago.