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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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Antelo Justiano, David
David Antelo Justiano (1971- ) is a Bolivian engineer who has identified a plain in the Beni region of Bolivia, north-east of La Paz, as that referred to by Plato as being adjacent to Atlantis. Antelo has posted a video on YouTube(a), which offers a comparison of the topography of the region with Plato’s description of Atlantis. It includes a network of pre-Columbian waterways and a 
circular feature, which might have been the city. Antelo gives the following co-ordinates for the acropolis, 13° 09′ 35.6” S and 65º 33′ 36 .5” W.
Allan & Delair note that the Beni Basin is also home to features comparable with the Carolina Bays of North America[014.287]. In August 2013 the discovery was announced(d) of middens in the Beni region that were dated to 8000 BC.
Jim Allen, is the leading advocate of Atlantis in the Andes, specifically on the Altiplano to the west of Lake Poopo. Allen refutes Antelo’s claim at the end of a website(b) dealing with Plato’s Plain of Atlantis.
>However, the following excerpt from one of Allen’s essays(f) seems contradictory – “To the NW of the marsh exists the Beni and Mojos territories in Bolivia where recent archaeology reveals another unknown civilisation which dug canals connecting complete river systems and created a system of agriculture using raised plots extending throughout Bolivia into Amazonia.
Marshes are good places for the growing of reeds, excellent for constructing the giant reed ships which may have roamed the world’s oceans and this civilisation which existed on mounds in the Beni region has as yet no name, but as their lands are under water due to flooding for several months of the year, surely there can be no better name than people of Atlantis”<
Antelo published his thesis in 2008 in a book entitled La Conspiración Atlante (The Atlantis Conspiracy).
In 2021, Antelo published Atlantida – Los Paraisos Perdidos: Civilización Hidráulica de los Antis (Atlantis – Paradise Lost: Hydraulic Civilization of the Antis).[1933] A YouTube clip (in Spanish) offers further information(e).
(a) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAvqvI-ZQU
(b) https://web.archive.org/web/20200707234820/http://www.atlantisbolivia.org/plaincomparison.htm
(c) https://noatlantida.galeon.com/Index.htm (Spanish) (offline October ’14)
(d) https://www.livescience.com/39269-ancient-trash-heaps-reveal-human-settlement.html
(e) ATLANTIS MOXOS – YouTube (Spanish)
(f) http://www.geocities.ws/myessays/LocationofTarshish.htm *