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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 »
Borchart, Samuel
Samuel Borchart (1599-1667) was a renowned Huguenot pastor and biblical scholar who 
produced his two-volume Geographia Sacra seu Phaleg et Canaan (Caen. 1646), which was a very influential work during the 17th century. Among his assertions was that the ancient Spanish province of Dertossa was named after Tarshish, as its name was a corruption of Tartessa meaning ‘Little’ Tartessos.
Borchart along with his pupil Pierre Daniel Huet also claimed that the Phoenicians had settled in America, an idea that has been revived from time to time up to the present day. Borchart and Huet also promoted the idea that the Atlantis story was reflected in the patriarchal history recorded in the Bible. Lewis Spence accuses[259.33] Borchart and Huet as well as Vossius of ‘ingenious misreadings’ of scripture to support their contention.