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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 »
W.J.Colville
Colville, W.J.
William Wilberforce Juvenal Colville (1862-1917) was a prolific 
English author, usually described as a Universal Spiritualist. In 1884 he delivered a lecture in London entitled The Lost Continent, Atlantis [1220] and two years later in San Francisco, in a more extended form.
He was greatly influenced by Ignatius Donnelly’s then recently published book and he also opted for the Azores as the remnants of Atlantis,*describing Plato’s Island as ‘a bridge’ between Europe and America and speculating that “‘l’he fact of the existence of Atlantis as a centre of civilization, and a great sea~ of commerce between the eastern and western hemispheres, can alone satisfactorily account for the wonderful resemblance between the extant traces of antique civilizations on both sides of the world.”*