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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Radford, Benjamin (N)

Benjamin.RadfordBenjamin Radford is typical of today’s Atlantis sceptics, who are happy to dismiss Plato’s story as a morality tale(a). I consider this rather glib, as it is so often overlooked that while the ‘bad’ Atlanteans were destroyed, the ‘good’ Athenians military were also dispatched. Not much of a reward for virtue! Over a century ago Radford would have been equally dismissive of Heinrich Schliemann’s search for Troy. But then, I suppose that Radford, like so many others, is only interested in generating column inches!

(a) https://www.livescience.com/23217-lost-city-of-atlantis.html