An A-Z Guide To The Search For Plato's Atlantis

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    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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Bonsor, George (Jorge)

George (Jorge) Edward Bonsor (1855-1930) was born in France to BonsorBritish parents but spent most of his life working as an artist and archaeologist in Spain. In the 1920s Bonsor and Adolph Schulten searched in The Doñana Marshes for Tartessos. An account of Bonsor’s work is available online(a), in Spanish, but it translates quite well with Google. Despite comments recently attributed to Professor Richard Freund, [0879.71] I have no evidence that Bonsor equated Tartessos with Atlantis as Schulten did.

A number of his books, in Spanish, are available online(c).

Karl Juergen Hepke has written an extensive paper (in English) on the work of Bonsor(b).

(a) https://www.juntadeandalucia.es/educacion/vscripts/wbi/w/rec/3121.pdf

(b) search_for_tartessos.E (archive.org)*

(c) jorge-bonsor-18551930-un-academico-correspondiente-de-la-real-academia-de-la-his directory listing (archive.org)*