Sicily was probably first suggested as having a link with Atlantis by Phyllis Young Forsyth[266]. She believes that Plato wrote the Atlantis story as an anti-war allegory partly based on his own experiences with the king of Syracuse. More recently a number of other 
writers have put Sicily forward as a location for Atlantis. In the main, it has been European investigators who have advocated such a Sicilian connection and some have gone further and proposed a landbridge with Tunisia within the memory of man.
Dr. Peter Jakubowski also offers(a) Sicily and the Malta Plateau as the location of Atlantis. He proposes a cosmic impact in the Atlantic which closed the Strait of Gibraltar around 4800 BC. When the dam eventually broke, the Mediterranean to the west of Sicily began to fill. This was then followed by the breaching of the land bridge between Sicily and Africa and finally the dam in the Bosporus broke, flooding what was a much smaller Black Sea than we have today. Jakubowski’s site is apparently a reworking of Axel Hausmann’s book. Patrick Archer has adopted the idea of a Sicilian landbridge and promotes the idea that the breaching of it and its consequences were the inspiration for the biblical Deluge(e).
Alberto Arecchi(b) has added his voice in support of this Sicilian landbridge linking Italy with Africa and places Atlantis off the coast of modern Tunisia.
Another exponent of a relatively recent collapse of the Gibraltar Dam is the previously mentioned Axel Hausmann(371) who locates Atlantis between Sicily and Malta.
Alfred E. Schmeck has written(542), in German, a detailed look at Sicily as the inspiration for Plato’s narrative.
Thorwald C. Franke has a good balanced website(c), in German and English, supporting the idea of a Bronze Age Sicilian Atlantis. For topographical reasons he places the city on the Plains of Catania on the east coast of the island. He sees that the importance of Atlantis within his hypothesis “is the transfer of culture from the eastern to the Western Mediterranean, e.g. there can be found parallels between the culture of the Etruscans, whose role in bringing eastern culture to the west is widely acknowledged.”
Sicily is also home to a number of step pyramids similar to the Canarian examples(d). Antoine Gigal, the French explorer and writer, offers on her website(f) an extensively illustrated article about 23 previously unrecorded Sicilian pyramids as well as seven pyramids on Mauritius(g).
Quite recently a bronze object with a 13th century BC Sicilian connection was found off the coast of Devon in the UK, suggesting ancient trade between the central Mediterranean and Britain.
(b) http://www.liutprand.it/Atlantis.htm
(c) http://www.thorwalds-internetseiten.de
(d) http://www.european-pyramids.eu/wb/pages/european-pyramids/italy/sicily.php?lang=DE
(e) http://patrickofatlantis.com/
(f) http://www.gigalresearch.com/uk/pyramides-sicile.php
(g) http://www.gigalresearch.com/uk/pyramides-maurice.php
Also See: Pantelleria
