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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 »
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Platon, Nikoloas
Nikoloas Platon (1909-1992) was born in Cephalonia, Greece and educated in Greece and France. From 1930 to 1935 he was Assistant Curator of Antiquities for Crete and Curator of Antiquities in the Heraklion Museum fron 1939 to 1961.and Director of the Heraklion Museum. He carried out excavations at Zakros on Crete, where he discovered a Minoan palace. His 1971 report of the work at Zakros includes a chapter devoted to Atlantis. Platon (whose name is French for Plato) found himself compelled to recognise[511] many similarities between Minoan Crete and Plato’s Atlantis.