Enrico Clemente Mattievich Kucich is of Italian descent and lectures at Lima University, in Peru. Professor Kucich follows the work of Henriette Mertz and is convinced that the ancient Greeks discovered America and that a local Peruvian language, Chuetsua, is based on classical Greek. In his book^[400] he locates Troy in America and then equates Atlantis with Troy. In 1986 he wrote a paper^(a) that focussed on orichalcum, which he claimed were mined in the Atlas Mountain that was located in the Peruvian Andes. Originally published in Portuguese his book has been translated into Greek as  well as English.