{"id":1904,"date":"2010-05-28T14:20:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T14:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2026-09-24T21:02:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T20:02:48","slug":"identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity of the Atlanteans"},"content":{"rendered":"

The <\/strong>I<\/strong>dentity of the <\/strong>A<\/strong>tlanteans <\/strong>has produced a range of speculative suggestions nearly as extensive as that of the proposed locations for Plato\u2019s lost island. However, it is highly probable that we already know who the Atlanteans were, but under a different name, without realising any connection!<\/p>\n

The list below includes some of the more popular suggestions and as such is not necessarily exhaustive. While researchers have proposed particular locations for Atlantis, not all have identified an archaeologically identified culture to go with their chosen location. The problem is that most of the places suggested have endured successive invasions over the millennia by different peoples.<\/p>\n

It would seem therefore that the most fruitful approach to solving the problem of identifying the Atlanteans would be to first focus on trying to determine the date of the demise of Atlantis. This should reduce the number of possible candidates, making it easier to identify the Atlanteans.<\/p>\n

After that, I would suggest treating the Atlantean invasion as a criminal attack.<\/p>\n

Identifying motive, means and opportunity usually solves crimes. Motivation for the invasion of another nation can follow from the difficulties arising from events such as crop failure, climate change, population pressure or political upheavals. The means to invade require manpower, military technology and transportation. Opportunity is usually offered by proximity, military intelligence and\/or weaknesses in your prospective opponents. An empire that extended up to Tyrrhenia and the border of Libya would be in an ideal position to know the strength and vulnerabilities of Athens and Egypt. However, it seems strange that Atlantis would have attacked both Athens and Egypt simultaneously, as a war launched on two fronts is recognised as a strategy for potential disaster, as Herr Hitler discovered millennia later. This alliance of Athens and Egypt against a common enemy is not supported by our current knowledge of their respective histories. This would seem to indicate either an invention or the exercising of literary licence by either Plato or the Egyptian priests. However, the Atlantis ‘alliance’ probably allowed independent military action by its constituent members, as centralised ‘command and control’ at that time, without modern communications, would have been difficult, if not impossible.<\/p>\n

A final point to consider is that the historical Atlanteans were a military alliance, and as such may have included more than one or none of those listed here. The mythological Atlanteans, who included the five sets of male twins and their successors would be expected to share a common culture, whereas military coalitions are frequently more disparate.<\/p>\n

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Basques: <\/strong>William Lewy d\u2019Abartiague, Edward Taylor Fletcher<\/a><\/p>\n

Berbers: <\/strong>Alberto Arecchi<\/a>, Alf Bajocco<\/a>, Ulrich Hofmann<\/a>, Jacques Gossart<\/a>, Ibn Khaldun<\/a><\/p>\n

British: <\/strong>William Comyns Beaumont<\/a>, E. J. de Meester<\/a>, Donald Ingram<\/a>, George H. Cooper<\/a>, Anthony Roberts<\/a>, Paul Dunbavin<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cro-Magnons:<\/strong> R. Cedric Leonard<\/a>, Theosophists<\/a>, Georges Poisson<\/a>, Robert B. Stacy-Judd<\/a>, \u00a0Kurt Bilau<\/a>, Louis Charpentier<\/a><\/p>\n

Etruscans<\/strong><\/a>: Richard W. Welch<\/a>, Frank Joseph\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Guanches: <\/strong>B. L. Bogaevsky<\/a>, Bory de Saint Vincent<\/a>, Boris F. Dobrynin<\/a>, Eug\u00e8ne P\u00e9got-Ogier<\/a><\/p>\n

Irish: <\/strong>Ulf Erlingsson<\/a>, George H. Cooper<\/a>, John Whitehurst<\/a>, Thomas Dietrich<\/a>, Padraig A. \u00d3 S\u00edoch\u00e1in<\/a>, Lewis Spence<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Maltese: <\/strong>Anton Mifsud<\/a>, Francis Xavier Aloisio<\/a>, Kevin Falzon<\/a>, Bibischok<\/a>, Joseph Bosco<\/a>, David Calvert-Orange<\/a>, Giorgio Grongnet de Vasse<\/a>, Albert Nikas<\/a>, Joseph S. Ellul<\/a>, Francis Galea<\/a>, Tammam Kisrawi<\/a>, Charles Savona-Ventura<\/a>, Hubert Zeitlmair<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

Maya: <\/strong>Robert B. Stacy-Judd<\/a>, Charles Gates Dawes<\/a>, Colin Wilson<\/a>, Adrian Gilbert<\/a>, L. M. Hosea<\/a>, Augustus le Plongeon<\/a>, Teobert Maler<\/a>, Joachim Rittstieg<\/a>, Lewis Spence<\/a>, Edward Herbert Thompson<\/a>, Jean-Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rick de Waldeck<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Megalith Builders: <\/strong>Lucien Gerardin<\/a>, Paolo Marini<\/a>, Sylvain Tristan<\/a>, Jean Deruelle<\/a>, Alan Butler, Alfred deGrazia<\/a>, Helmut Tributsch<\/a>, Hank Harrison<\/a>, Walter Schilling<\/a>, Robert Temple<\/a>, Manuel Vega<\/a><\/p>\n

Minoans: <\/strong>K.T. Frost<\/a>, James Baikie<\/a>, Walter Leaf<\/a>, Edwin Balch<\/a>, Donald A. Mackenzie<\/a>, Ralph Magoffin<\/a>, Spyridon Marinatos<\/a>, Georges Poisson<\/a>, Wilhelm Brandenstein<\/a>, A. Galanopoulos<\/a>, J. G. Bennett<\/a>, Rhys Carpenter<\/a>, P.B.S. Andrews<\/a>, Edward Bacon<\/a>, Willy Ley<\/a>, J.V. Luce<\/a>, James W. Mavor<\/a>, Henry M. Eichner<\/a>, Prince Michael of Greece<\/a>, Nicholas Platon<\/a>, N.W. Tschoegl<\/a>, Richard Mooney, Rupert Furneaux<\/a>, Martin Ebon<\/a>, Francis Hitching<\/a>, Charles Pellegrino<\/a>, Rodney Castleden<\/a>, Graham Phillips<\/a>, Jacques Lebeau<\/a>, Luana Monte<\/a>, Fredrik Bruins<\/a>, Gavin Menzies<\/a>, Lee R. Kerr<\/a>, Daniel P. Buckley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Persians: <\/strong>August Hunt<\/a>, Pierre-Andr\u00e9 Latreille<\/a>, William Henry Babcock<\/a>, Hans Diller<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Phoenicians: <\/strong>Jonas Bergman<\/a>, Robert Prutz, <\/a><\/p>\n

Sardinians: <\/strong>Paolo Valente Poddighe<\/a>, Robert Paul Ishoy<\/a>, Sergio Frau<\/a>, Mario Tozzi<\/a>, Diego Silvio Novo<\/a>, Antonio Usai<\/a>, Giuseppe Mura<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sicilians: <\/strong>Phyllis Young Forsyth<\/a>, Thorwald C. Franke<\/a>, Axel Hausmann<\/a>, \u00a0Peter Jakubowski<\/a>, Alfred E. Schmeck<\/a>, M. Rapisarda<\/a>,<\/p>\n

Swedes:<\/strong> Johannes Bureus<\/a>, Olaf Rudbeck<\/a><\/p>\n

Sea Peoples: <\/strong>Wilhelm Christ<\/a>, J\u00fcrgen Spanuth<\/a>, Spyridon Marinatos<\/a>, Rainer W. K\u00fchne<\/a>, John V. Luce<\/a>, Theodor Gomperz<\/a>, Herwig\u00a0G\u00f6rgemanns<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>, <\/strong>Tony O’Connell,\u00a0<\/strong>Sean Welsh<\/a>, <\/strong>Thorwald C. Franke<\/a>, <\/strong>Werner Wickboldt<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trojans:<\/strong> Eberhard Zangger<\/a>, Erich von D\u00e4niken<\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Identity of the Atlanteans has produced a range of speculative suggestions nearly as extensive as that of the proposed locations for Plato\u2019s lost island. However, it is highly probable that we already know who the Atlanteans were, but under a different name, without realising any connection! 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