{"id":2990,"date":"2010-06-06T16:39:45","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T16:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/chaouat-dr-emile-mir\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T19:13:54","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T19:13:54","slug":"chaouat-dr-emile-mir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/chaouat-dr-emile-mir\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaouat, Dr. \u00c9mile Mir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dr. \u00c9mile Mir <\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>haouat <\/strong>follows the views of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/butavand-ferdinand\/\">Butavand<\/a> and agrees that Plato\u2019s 9,000 years should be taken as months and consequently dates the destruction of Atlantis to 1400 BC. He agrees, in common with many other writers, that the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sahara-desert\/\">Sahara<\/a> once had a large inland sea which contained Atlantis. He believes that its Mediterranean port was located at <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/cerne\/\">Cerne<\/a>. He points out that Athena and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/neith\/\">Neith<\/a>, the goddess of <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/sais-addendum\/\">Sais,<\/a> were identical and suggests that the name of the legendary North African queen Tin Hanan may be a corruption of Athena [(A)tin-ha(nan)]. In 1925,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/de-prorok-count-byron-khun\/\">Byron Khun de Prorok<\/a> claimed to have found the tomb of Tin Hanan, renowned queen of the Tuaregs, in the Hoggar Mountains. Chaouat published his views in a 1953 booklet, <em>Lumi\u00e9re sur <\/em><em>l\u2019Atlantide <\/em><sup>[<\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\"><sup>227<\/sup><\/a><sup>]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/charroux-robert\/\">Robert Charroux<\/a> was intrigued by Chaouat&#8217;s book<sup>[<a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/c\/\">1039<\/a>.122]<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>However, <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/atlantisforschung-de\/\"><em>Atlantisforschung<\/em><\/a> tells us that <em>&#8220;this was apparently only the first volume of a multi-part\u00a0<\/em><em>Atlantological publication series from his pen because WorldCat also contains references to three other related publications of<\/em> <em>his, namely: L&#8217;Atlantide. Deuxi\u00e8me partie (1957), L&#8217;Atlantide. 3. Lumi\u00e8re sur l&#8217;Atlantide, les Atlantes en Afrique, Libye des Anciens (1957) and Lumi\u00e8re sur l&#8217;Atlantide \/ 4, Les Atlantes en Europe (also 1957). Unfortunately, none of these works currently seems to be available in an antiquarian form, but they are at least still available in some university libraries.&#8221;<\/em> <sup>(a)<\/sup><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlantis-forschung.de\/index.php?title=%C3%89mile_Mir_Chaouat\">\u00c9mile Mir Chaouat \u2013 Atlantisforschung.de (atlantis-forschung.de)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. \u00c9mile Mir Chaouat follows the views of Butavand and agrees that Plato\u2019s 9,000 years should be taken as months and consequently dates the destruction of Atlantis to 1400 BC. He agrees, in common with many other writers, that the Sahara once had a large inland sea which contained Atlantis. 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