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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 »
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    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 »
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Patroclus Kampanakis

Kampanakis, Patroclus (L)

Patroclus Kampanakis writing at the end of the 19th century proposed[0421] that Atlantis had been a very large island that virtually spanned the Atlantic between North Africa and South America and produced a map that demonstrated the fertility of his imagination.

Kampanakis mapSince the publication of his book in 1893 various oceanographic expeditions have clearly shown that this view, although supported by a number of others in the late 19th and early 20th centuries , is now untenable.