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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
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Josef Karst
Karst, Josef
Josef Karst (1871-1963) was a German orientalist, who became a professor of oriental philology at the University of Strasb
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Not too much is known about his life and work, although he is possibly more remembered for his 1931 book, Atlantis under liby-äthiopische Kulturkreis [422], in which he expressed the view that there were two Atlantises, one in North Africa and the other in the Arabian Sea between India and what is now Iran. His ideas were based on his rather eccentric linguistic ideas.>A number of other commentators, such as Jürgen Hepke and Lewis Spence, have also proposed two Atlantises.<
A more extensive look at his Atlantis theories can be found on the atlantisforschung.de website(a).
(a) https://atlantisforschung.de/index.php?title=Joseph_Karst (German)
Joseph Karst – Atlantisforschung.de (atlantisforschung-de.translate.goog) (English) *