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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 »
Tacitus, Cornelius
Cornelius Tacitus (56-120 AD) was one of the greatest of the Latin historians. In his book Germania, he wrote (chap 34/35) that the ‘Pillars of Hercules’ were located in the land of the Frisians near the Rhine. This is just one classical reference that highlights the fact that Gibraltar was not the only possible site of these landmarks. It would appear that the ‘Pillars’ may have existed at the same time at a number of locations or changed their position over time.
Tacitus’ reference to the racial purity of the German tribes, “being free from all taint of intermarriages with foreign nations, and they appear as a distinct, unmixed race, like none but themselves” was used by Nazis such as Himmler to bolster their warped racial views.(a)
(a) Wonderpedia #30, November, 2014.