{"id":20990,"date":"2013-05-12T06:26:54","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T05:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=20990"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:31:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:31:27","slug":"nicholls-melvin-n","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/nicholls-melvin-n\/","title":{"rendered":"Nicholls, Melville"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mel<\/a>Melville<\/b> Nicholls <\/b>is a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado, where he studies atmospheric science, mainly relating to hurricanes. In May 2013, he published Children of the Sea God<\/i><\/i>[944<\/a>] <\/sup>as a Kindle ebook. One of his main contentions is that Atlantis existed\u00a0 during the early Bronze Age <\/a>at the time of the Bell Beaker culture, which he claims originated in Portugal<\/a> around 2800 BC.<\/p>\n

He also contends that Britain <\/a>was the large island of Atlantis described by Plato. However he also proposes that the main port city of Atlantis, with the concentric rings<\/a> of land and water was situated in southwest Spain near Gibraltar. He proposes that this port was destroyed by an event such as a tsunami.<\/a><\/p>\n

While all these features have been proposed individually as characteristics of Atlantis, Nicholls brings them together in a comprehensive theory, but not without indulging in a liberal amount of speculation.<\/p>\n

He devotes a considerable amount of space attempting to link Stonehenge<\/a> with the Atlanteans. While I was not won over by Nicholl\u2019s book, it is worth a read and might best be studied along with Donald Ingram\u2019s <\/a>book, The Unlost Island<\/i>[665<\/a>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

The idea of\u00a0 \u2018two\u2019 Atlantises was probably first promoted by Lewis Spence <\/a>and more recently by Karl J\u00fcrgen Hepke<\/a>. In fact, were\u00a0there\u00a0not ten Atlantises?<\/p>\n

In November 2013, Nicholls published a second ebook, The Real and Imaginary Atlantis[945<\/a>]<\/sup><\/span>, <\/i>in which he revisits his theory of a British\/Spanish Atlantis and its relationship to the Bell Beaker People. In conclusion, he seems to reluctantly write that \u201cI still<\/em> come down in favor of the theory that Plato invented the story as the one most likely to be correct.\u201d<\/em><\/i><\/p>\n

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Melville Nicholls is a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado, where he studies atmospheric science, mainly relating to hurricanes. In May 2013, he published Children of the Sea God[944] as a Kindle ebook. One of his main contentions is that Atlantis existed\u00a0 during the early Bronze Age at the time of the Bell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[2139,290,125,367,1895,426,78,2138,866,876,1252,1217],"class_list":["post-20990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bell-beaker-people","tag-britain","tag-bronze-age","tag-concentric-rings","tag-donald-ingram","tag-karl-hepke","tag-lewis-spence","tag-melville-nicholls","tag-portugal","tag-stonehenge","tag-strait-of-gibraltar","tag-tsunami"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20990"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67661,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20990\/revisions\/67661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}