An A-Z Guide To The Search For Plato's Atlantis

Latest News

  • NEWS October 2024

    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

    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 »
Search

Recent Updates

James Mellaart

Luwians

The Luwians according to the excellent Luwian Studies website(a) were the people who lived in western Asia Minor during the 2nd millennium BCE between the Mycenaeans in Greece and the Hittites in Central Anatolia.” The Luwian city of Troy has been controversially linked with Atlantis by Eberhard Zangger[483][484], who has gone further and proposed that some of the petty kingdoms in the Luwian territory were part of the ‘Sea Peoples’.

Zangger’s claimed that a Luwian linkage with the Sea Peoples had been strongly supported by the work of British archaeologist, James Mellaart (1925-2012). However, after Mellaart’s death, it was found that he had supported much of what he wrote with forged documents. Zangger has offered the sequence of events that led to this discovery and points out that his Sea Peoples theory predates his involvement with Mellaart(b).

In 2016, Zangger published The Luwian Civilisation; The Missing Link in the Agean Bronze Age [1217]. This illustrated book is available on the Academia website(d).

2023 began with an illustrated paper by Zangger, also on the Academia website, offering further insights into the Luwian culture during the Middle and Late Bronze Age(c).

(a) https://luwianstudies.org/the-luwians/who-are-the-luwians/

(b) https://luwianstudies.org/theory-luwians-sea-peoples-invasions-sequence-events/

(c) (99+) Putting the Luwian Culture on the Map | Eberhard Zangger – Academia.edu

(d) (99+) The Luwian Civilization – The Missing Link in the Aegean Bronze Age | Eberhard Zangger – Academia.edu  *