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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 »
Gypsies and Atlantis
Gypsies or Roma People and Atlantis are not normally associated, although the idea of a link was expressed in the science fiction novel by Robert Silverberg in his 1986 Star of Gypsies, in which he has gypsies arriving on earth from the stars and establishing Atlantis. The more conventional idea was to consider gypsies originating in India or Lower Egypt. Such speculation has now been overtaken by science, which confirms that their true home to have been in India 1000 years ago(a).
An unusual suggestion was recently made that the Roma migrated from India, eventually reaching the Mediterranean, where they became the Sea Peoples(b). However, this idea fails on two counts, namely, the date is wrong and I am not aware that the Roma had a seafaring culture!
In the July 1950 edition of Egerton Sykes’ Atlantis newsletter, an article by Vera Garner Howe speculated that gypsies may have been refugees from sunken Atlantis. She offers little to support this contention and in fact, she ends up doing more to reinforce the theory of the Indian origins, now proven correct by DNA studies.
>(a) Europe’s Roma Gypsies Migrated From Punjab 1,000 Years Ago!Daily Sikh Updates (archive.org)<
(b) Catastrophic English: India In Greece | MalagaBay (archive.org)