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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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Platon, Nikolaos
Nikolaos 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 from 1939 to 1961 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 included 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.