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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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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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Mattingly, Alan
Alan Mattingly is the author of Plato’s Atlantis and the Sea Peoples: A Review of Context and Evidence [1948]. I have been unable to find any information about him, which is unfortunate as I consider this one of the best Atlantis-related books to be published in quite some time. Currently, it is just available as a Kindle ebook.
Mattingly offers a carefully constructed forensic examination of Plato’s text and cautiously concludes that Atlantis lay in the region of the Gulf of Gabes with some of the Sea Peoples occupying territory between there and the western approaches to the Nile Delta.