William Bruce Masse is an environmental archaeologist with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He turned to mythology as means of unravelling some of the world’s historical mysteries. In particular he studied 175 flood myths among which two gave clues to a major event that occurred in 2807 BC, which Masse linked to a cometary impact south of Madagascar creating the Burckle Crater and producing a 600 foot tsunami  which swept around the world. Masse implied a connection with the destruction of Atlantis when he co-authored a paper that was presented to the 2005 Atlantis Conference^[629] on the Burckle Crater.