Denmark is seldom mentioned in connection with Atlantis. Consequently, I was intrigued when I came across a reference to such a connection by Ronan Coghlan ^[727]. He found that the Catalan Wikipedia “says there was a legend placing Atlantis in Denmark, but cites no authority”.

In 2025, it was announced that a submerged Stone Age settlement had been discovered in the Bay of Aarhus off the east coast of Denmark and dated to around 6500 BC^(a). Interesting, but, unlikely to be Atlantis. It is possibly more likely to be related to the flooding Sundaland.

^(a) https://fortune.com/2025/08/26/denmark-stone-age-neolithic-atlantis-deep-sea-dive/

Chris Tolworthy is the author of a variety books, both fictional and historical, He has recently published a trilogy with a similar theme; The Bible: It’s All True, Prophesy: It’s All True and Atlantis: It’s All True ^[2126].

The Atlantis volume^(a) can be divided into two halves, the first offers a lengthy series of weakly supported statements regarding Plato’s Atlantis, with minimal reference to Plato’s text. My interest in the book dissipated on the first page of the Introduction, where the author arbitrarily, without any justification, accepts the tenth millennium BC of the time of the war between Atlantis and Egypt.

The first half begins with the identification of Lake Tritonis as the location of Atlantis, which Tolworthy seems to think has been deliberately ignored by scholars. By contrast, I, with many others, have also supported the idea of northwest Africa as part of the Atlantean alliance

The second half was a more extensive rant against establishment figures, politicians, scholars, scientists and their universities.

^(a) https://www.tedagame.com/books/Atlantis.pdf

Elan Moritz is the author of Atlantis Revisited ^[2125], one of the first, if not the first, Atlantis-related book to be written with the assistance of AI. Leaving that aside, in his review of the book^(a), Thorwald C. Franke highlights the sceptical bias of the book’s content and commented,

“Besides this, you cannot avoid reading books written by real people. Only then you can build up a real understanding. Slowly and painfully. Over many years. There is no “royal road” to real science. AI may support you to find contents and conclusions more quickly than it was possible in the past, but you still have to read and think on your own. Otherwise you will end up with a lot of popular mistakes, as can be seen in this book, but not with any genuine understanding of what is really going on.”

^(a) https://www.atlantis-scout.de/atlantis-elan-moritz-engl.htm

Archaeology has, so far, little to offer by way of a solution to the mystery of Atlantis. This does not mean that ‘Atlantis’ did not exist, but only that there is no record of any entity known by that name employed by classical authors. This is in no way surprising, as Plato explained that names in the original narrative given to Solon by the Egyptian priests had been Hellenised by Plato and/or Solon (Critias 113a). 

It is more than likely that before it was Hellenised, ‘Atlantis’ was known by a number of other names to different peoples using a variety of languages.

A good example of this today is the land where ’Dutch’ people come from has been known variously as ‘The Low Countries’, ’Holland’ or ’The Netherlands’. My own country has been known as ‘Ireland‘, ‘Erin‘, and ‘Hibernia’ and its people are often referred to as ’Celtic’, ’Irish’, or sometimes ’Paddys’ in Britain or ’Micks’ in America.

Multiplying the number of possible alternative names is the fact that Plato’s Atlantis was comprised of a confederation of ten different constituents. no doubt, each with different names and possibly languages..Rational commentators are usually inclined to date the war with Atlantis to the latter half of the 2nd millennium BC. Coincidentally, around the same time the Trojan War was a conflict involving combatants on both sides from a variety of regions. Similarly, we are told that the Sea Peoples, a military alliance that attacked Egypt twice were also comprised of fighters from a number of different states. Extensive military alliances would appear to have been the norm then.

If the Atlantean warriors were just as diverse as the Sea Peoples and Atlantis or its capital was submerged, where does archaeology start to look? Frankly, underwater archaeology is slow and expensive and at its present state of development is not in a position to offer much in the search for Atlantis. However, the inevitable technological advances of the future should offer more cost-effective underwater exploration. Right now, archaeology has not much to offer the ongoing quest for Atlantis.

Glenn R. Morrow (1895-1973) was a renowned American Plato scholar^(a). In Thorwald C. Franke’s Newsletter #242, he noted that there was unexpected evidence that Morrow was favourably disposed to accepting the existence of Atlantis^(b) and clearly leaned towards the Minoan Hypothesis.

^(a) https://archives.upenn.edu/exhibits/penn-people/biography/glenn-raymond-morrow/

^(b) https://www.atlantis-scout.de/atlantis-morrow-engl.htm

?Friedrich Ast (1778-1841) is described by Atlantisforschung as a German classicist and philosopher who became known primarily as a historian of philosophy and a researcher of Plato.

Ast also addressed the Atlantis problem in his publication Plato’s Leben und Schriften (1816).  According to Thorwald C. Franke[1255.349], Ast spoke out “against Hissmann‘s ‘ unconditional’ rejection of the Atlantis tradition. He considered Plato’s Atlantis to be a mythical legend, the historical core of which is obscure information about islands in the west, be it the Canaries or the Azores or America itself. According to Ast, Plato himself brought this information with him from Egypt. Ast opposed the then widespread view that the Atlantis story was depicted on the peplos of the small Panatheniads, as reported by the Scholiast.”

(a) Friedrich Ast – Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog)

Halford John Mackinder  (1861-1947) was a highly respected British geographer. In his 1902, Britain and the British Seas ^[2121] he refers several times to a very ancient ‘Atlantis’ situated in the North Atlantic between Greenland and Scotland. He uses the term to describe a long-lost geographical feature and nowhere refers to Plato.

Claudius Ptolemy (100-170) was a most famous astronomer and geographer whose influence continued until the sixteenth century, One of his best known innovations was the idea of recording geographical locations using latitude and longitude.

It is generally accepted that the Maltese archipelago was once fully connected and considerably extended southwards. Ptolemy writing in the 2nd century AD records this southern extension of the islands as being enjoyed by human inhabitants and its existence orally transmitted into historical times. Ptolemy gives coordinates for the latitude of the temple of Hercules ten minutes (10’) south of the present landmass or about 11 miles^(a) .

^(a) Malta: Echoes of Plato’s Island (The Prehistoric Society of Malta, 2001) p.23