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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 »
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    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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Klaproth, Heinrich-Julius von

Heinrich-Julius von Klaproth (1783-1835) was a German orientalist who suggested that Atlantis had been a large island that nearly filled the western Mediterranean basin. He produced a speculative map of this island, which he referred to as Tirrenide (from Tyrrhenia), a term he used to describe the combined and expanded landmasses of Corsica, Sardinia and Menorca. Tirrenide is usually applied to the Italian mainland extended to include Corsica and Sardinia.

Although born in Berlin, Klaproth spent the last twenty years of his life working in Paris.Kalproth