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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 »
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 »
Esther Boise Van Deman
Magoffin, Ralph van Deman
Ralph van Deman Magoffin (1874-1942) was the nephew of Esther Boise Van Deman (1862–1937), a 
leading archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
In his own right, Magoffin was a professor of classical archaeology at John Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and was also honorary president of the Archaeological Institute of America.
He is credited by Hatcher Childress[620.101] as having been a supporter of Crete as the location of Atlantis, in his 1929 book, The Romance of Archaeology [1383]+. This idea was very much in vogue in the early decades of the 20th century. In fact, the following year Magoffin expanded on his views in his Lure and Lore of Archaeology [1384.34]+ when he wrote that Atlantis was “first probably a traditionalized Crete, and then successively Sicily and one of the Cape Verde islands, as discovery compelled Atlantis to recede westward ahead of geographical certainty.”
[1383] Read online: https://archive.org/details/romanceofarchaeo00mago *
[1384] https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b3143453;view=1up;seq=1 *