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Sanchuniathon

Published June 10, 2010

Sanchuniathon (c. 13-14th cent. BC) was a Phoenician writer whose>>work is now lost(d) and only available through the writings of Eusebius (4th cent. AD)(c)<<and Philo of Byblos (c. 100 AD), who claimed to have translated his Phoenicia from the original text(a) .

Sanchuniathon, writing 600 years before Plato was born, refers to the original kings of Egypt calling them ‘Aleteans’. Some have speculated that this was an early form or corruption of ‘Atlanteans’.>>The phoenicia.org suggests that the Phoenician gods were also Kings of Atlantis!(b)<<

(a) See: https://web.archive.org/web/20180316015132/https://www.q-mag.org/sanchunjaton-phoenicia-and-hesiod.html

(b) Plato’s Atlantis and The Kings of Atlantis, Gods of the Phoenicians

(c) Sanchoniatho’s Phoenician History : AncientHistoryWorks : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive *

(d) Cory’s ancient fragments of the Phoenician, Carthaginian, Babylonian, Egyptian, and other authors : Cory, Isaac Preston, 1802-1842 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive  (p.xxxii) *