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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 »
L.B. Radka
Ley, Willy
Willy Ley (1906-1969) was a German-American science writer, who left Nazi 
Germany in 1935 and eventually ended up in the United States. His great interest was rocketry about which he wrote a number of books on the subject including one with Wernher von Braun. Ley also wrote a regular science column for Galaxy Science Fiction from 1954 until his death.
In the late 1930’s he wrote a number of short articles in English describing the controversial ‘Baghdad Batteries’, which until then had only been discussed in German. One such paper is republished in L.B. Radka’s book[948.151].
In 1969 sixteen of those articles were published in book form with one of them about Atlantis being used for the title, Another Look at Atlantis and Fifteen Other Essays[827]. Ley supported the idea that the eruption of Thera had been the inspiration for Plato’s Atlantis story.