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NEWS October 2024
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 »
Griffiths, John Gwyn
John Gwyn Griffiths (1911-2004) was Professor Emeritus of Classics and 
Egyptology at the University of Wales, Swanseaand also a poet and political activist. A number of his essays have been collected and published in one volume, Atlantis and Egypt[346], in which the first essay discusses the probability of an Egyptian origin for Plato’s Atlantis tale.*This interesting paper can be read on the JSTOR website(a).*
Commenting on the date of the demise of Atlantis, Griffiths points out that the Egyptian hieroglyphics for 100 and 1000 are quite distinctive and assuming that the original story was inscribed in that format there was no good reason to alter Plato’s date from 9000 to 900 years before Solon’s visit to Egypt.
*(a) Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte Bd. 34, H. 1 (1st Qtr., 1985), pp. 3-28* See: JSTOR