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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 »
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Beisswenger, Heidrun

beisswengerHeidrun Beisswenger (1935- ) is a retired German schoolteacher who has written on a range of subjects including Atlantis. She closely follows the ideas of Jürgen Spanuth, locating Atlantis in the region of Helgoland and claiming that it was destroyed by a meteorite. She accepts Spanuth’s date of 1200 BC as the date of Atlantis’ demise as well as identifying amber as orichalcum. However, she allows her inventive side to take over when she claims that Diodorus Siculus visited Helgoland(a), which was not something that Spanuth had ever suggested.

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