{"id":2875,"date":"2010-06-05T18:48:57","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T18:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/booysen-riaan\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T07:43:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:43:59","slug":"booysen-riaan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/booysen-riaan\/","title":{"rendered":"Booysen, Riaan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"booysen\"<\/a>Riaan <\/strong>B<\/strong>ooysen <\/strong>is a South African researcher (and avid tennis fan) who has written articles on a number of ancient mysteries,\u00a0which can be found on his website(e<\/sup>)<\/sup>.\u00a0Among his controversial ideas are that the Queen of Sheba, Nefertiti and Helen of Troy were a single person(d)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

He offers a major paper on Atlantis(a)<\/sup>, in which he bravely identifies its location \u00a0as an extensive landmass which included present day Australia<\/a>. Unlike other writers who have offered similar suggestions based on guesswork, Booysen presents a more coherent thesis, based on the geology of the South Pacific and early cartography<\/a>.<\/p>\n

His theory requires a radical redating of the Antarctic<\/a> ice cap, which has led to continued debate on the internet(c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

Booysen has now (Nov 2023) developed his Atlantis theories further and published them in book form, Atlantis Revealed<\/em> [<\/sup><\/a>2079<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup><\/a> explaining that “I have since (end 2022) decided to revisit and thoroughly study and expand, where necessary, my Atlantis theory once more, with the intent of having it formally published. My latest studies include significantly more information than previously available on my website, and several additional hypotheses about the fate of the Atlanteans after their continent had been \u2018sunk\u2019. This occurred when a comet glanced off the face of the earth ca. 11,600 years ago, knocking a dent of around 8,000m in its crust and thereby \u2018sinking\u2019 Atlantis (parts of Terra Australis are clearly visible on NASA\u2019s submarine topography maps of the world).”<\/em><\/p>\n

Booysen published another contentious offering in 2013, entitled Thera and the Exodus <\/em>[<\/sup>1025<\/sup><\/a>] <\/sup> in which he argues that there were at least two Theran<\/a> eruptions w<\/strong>hich\u00a0led to two\u00a0<\/strong>separate\u00a0\u2018Exodus<\/a>\u2019\u00a0events by the biblical Israelites, whom he identifies as the Hyksos<\/a>!<\/p>\n

He dates these events to ca. 1613 & 1450 BC.<\/p>\n

Booysen has now commented on negative feedback from his book(b)<\/span><\/span><\/sup><\/span>.<\/p>\n

A year later he ventured into even more contentious territory with the publication of BARBELO – The Story of Jesus Christ, now available as a free ebook(f)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n

(a) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090720202053\/https:\/\/www.riaanbooysen.com\/terra-aus<\/a> See (g)<\/sup>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

(b) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.riaanbooysen.com\/thera<\/a><\/p>\n

(c) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.unexplained-mysteries.com\/forum\/index.php?showtopic=265894&st=0<\/a><\/p>\n

(d) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.grahamhancock.com\/forum\/BooysenR1.php<\/a><\/p>\n

(e) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.riaanbooysen.com\/theories<\/a><\/p>\n

(f)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.riaanbooysen.com\/barbelo<\/a><\/p>\n

(g)<\/sup> https:\/\/riaanbooysen.com\/atlantis<\/a>
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