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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 »
Hornrius, Georgius
Georgius Hornius (1620-1670) was a German theologian, historian and geographer. In his 1669 offering, De Originibus Americanis[1412] he opted for America as Atlantis, based on a literal translation of Plato’s text.
>Thorwald C. Franke refers to Horn’s work “De originibus Americanis”, published in 1669, in which the professor “set up the thesis, among other things, that the Americans descended from Phoenicians, Scythians and Asiatics to reconcile biblical chronology and ethnology. Horn equated Plato’s Atlantis with America, whereby he relocated the sinking of Atlantis to the island world of the Gulf of Mexico: a theory by Peter Martyr d’Anghiera (1457-1526) said that these islands once formed a contiguous mainland. According to Horn, what the Egyptian priest said to Solon only applies to America.“(a)<
(a) Georg Horn – Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog) *