Stieglitz, Robert

Robert Stieglitz is Professor Emeritus of Ancient Mediterranean Civilisations at Rutgers University. He is a specialist in ancient seafaring. He contends that the Sea Peoples included the Philistines^(a).

He appeared on the BBC documentary, Helike – The Real Atlantis and while he is obviously an Atlantis sceptic, when pressed he responded that since “Helike was the only city to disappear without a trace in one night, so if there’s a grain of truth at all to the story of Atlantis it’s the disappearance of Helike which inspired in Plato to write the myth of Atlantis.”^(b) He subsequently developed this idea into a lecture^(c).

Stieglitz has also authored a paper concerning the migrations that took place in the ancient Near East, 3500-500 BC^(d).

^(a) AIA Event Listings – Sea Peoples in the Promised Land – [node:field-sponsor] (archive.org)

^(b) (BBC Jan 10, 2002) https://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2001/heliketrans.shtml

^(c) https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/tickets/reserve.aspx?performanceNumber=229270&utm_source=RAad&utm_content=FEauto&utm_campaign=featevent  (link broken)

^(d) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/270377741_Migrations_in_the_Ancient_Near_East