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OCTOBER 2024 The recent cyber attack on the Internet Archive is deplorable and can be reasonably compared with the repeated burning of the Great Library of Alexandria. I have used the Wayback Machine extensively, but, until the full extent of the permanent damage is clear, I am unable to assess its effect on Atlantipedia. At […]Read More »
Joining The Dots
I have now published my new book, Joining The Dots, which offers a fresh look at the Atlantis mystery. I have addressed the critical questions of when, where and who, using Plato’s own words, tempered with some critical thinking and a modicum of common sense.Read More »
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Ancients
Ancients. The very meaning of this word has been dragged into the Atlantis debate. The argument claims that (i) ’ancient’ means ’of times long past’ (ii) its Latinised form is ’antiants’ (iii) this is linked to ‘atl-antiants’ (iv) in turn this is stretched to mean ‘those that came from Atlantis’. It is this sort of convoluted nonsense that has continued to provide Atlantis sceptics with an endless supply of ammunition.
In reality, the word is derived from a compound of two Latin words ‘ante’ and ‘annus’ that mean ‘before’ and ’year’. It originally had a specific historical meaning of ‘years prior to’ (the fall of the Western Roman Empire).