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R(ich) <\/strong>M<\/strong>cQuillen <\/strong>is an American investigator who has cogently argued for an Egyptian location for Atlantis. He has diligently gathered an impressive array of evidence from classical writers<\/a> including Hellanicus<\/a>, <\/strong>Solinus<\/a> and Aeschylus to support his view and arranged the morass that is Greek mythology<\/a> to construct a credible timeframe for the Atlantis narrative.<\/p>\r\n

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However, McQuillen is not the first to locate Atlantis in or near Egypt<\/a>, in fact, the earliest I have found is in the late 19th century by A.N. Karnozhitsky<\/a>, while the most recent was published by Diego Ratti<\/a> in 2021.<\/p>\r\n

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McQuillen places the Pillars of Heracles<\/a> at Canopus, which was formerly in the Western Nile delta but is now submerged about 6.5 km from the coast in the Bay of Aboukir. He is also of the opinion that the Egyptians used lunar \u2018years\u2019 rather than solar years bringing the backdrop to the Atlantis story into the 2nd<\/sup> millennium BC. However, he now seems to favour the ‘factor ten’ <\/a><\/span>interpretation of Plato’s date.<\/p>\r\n

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McQuillen locates Atlantis at Pharos<\/a>, which was near modern Alexandria. His website(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> is well worth a visit.<\/p>\r\n

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Extensive underwater excavations in the region have been undertaken in recent years by Franck Goddio and his team with remarkable results (<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

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It is also worth noting that the late Ulf Richter<\/a> reasoned that a river delta was the most likely topographical setting for Atlantis (c)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

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In March 2022 McQuillen added six papers(d-i) <\/sup> expanding on background details employed in his interpretation of the Atlantis story. All six are available on the Academia.edu<\/em> website. <\/b><\/p>\r\n

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In 2020, McQuillen published A Simple Chronology of Greek Mythology<\/em>(k)<\/sup> adding <\/b>a further paper(j)<\/sup> in 2022 that offered a radical reappraisal of Biblical chronology that included the following.<\/p>\r\n

1 People have been questioning Standard Biblical Chronology (the literal times), for 2000 years, and yet this\u00a0still\u00a0persists\u00a0in modern Biblical Archaeology<\/em><\/p>\r\n

2 I have thrown out the early dates entirely and introduced a different paradigm to try to find some of these elusive characters. This paper talks about the Pre-Noachian Kings, like Cainan, and links him to the real-world Syrian Hyksos King Khyan, and finds archaeological evidence of the existence of other Hyksos Kings.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

3 It links the flood of Noah<\/a> to the flood of Ahmose and Atrahasis, and shows it to be a real flood caused by Santorini.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

4 It finds Jacob at the same time as the Israel stele of Merneptah. It finds Joseph as the Semitic Pharoah Siptah, whose mother has the same name as Jacob\u2019s second wife. It finds Moses around the time of the Smallpox plague in Egypt (ranging from Ramses 4 to 9)(1182?1136BC)<\/em>.<\/p>\r\n

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In his paper ‘Perfecting Plato’ McQuillen is critical of some available translations available to us, of passages in Plato’s Atlantis texts. In his summary of the paper “There are a bunch of controversial passages within the Timaeus. This has led to 50k books on the topic with a bunch of different interpretations of the same passages. These stem from mistranslations, intentional mistakes, wild speculation, etc\u2026 The purpose of this paper is to identify and correct the mistakes and add additional insight. The Timaeus is long and in most parts well-translated and irrelevant, so I\u2019m selecting only interesting passages, where I can add insight.\u00a0 I\u2019m using the Bury Translation, with a little bit of Calcidius thrown in.<\/em><\/p>\r\n

Plato\u2019s myth has been described as a fable and a description of an idealized society.\u00a0 Instead, it was intended as a story about 18th dynasty Egypt, and its interactions with the Haunebu (Aegaens). The past is often romanticized and idealized in the history books; History is written by the winners.”<\/em> He then proceeded to comment on a number of specific passages in Timaeus(h)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

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In 2024, McQuillen published a new paper(l)<\/sup> focused on the work of Manetho<\/a>.\u00a0 “This paper explores other Egyptan Sources to\u00a0verif<\/em>y\u00a0the veracity of\u00a0Pla<\/em>t<\/em>o\u2019s tale;\u00a0specifically, inte<\/em>nds a lot of\u00a0the peculia<\/em>rites in Plato\u2019s text, that also exist in\u00a0Manetho\u2019s writngs.\u00a0Plato says this tale <\/em>comes from Solon in the days of Amasis; there are,\u00a0in fact, Egyptan elements within this tale which were not invented by Plato, and can be confirmed to also exis<\/em>t<\/em> in the Egyptan writngs from Manetho and others<\/em>.\u00a0Manet<\/em>ho specifically does menton 9000 years, and a\u00a0war, and a flood, and a\u00a0city, similar <\/em>t<\/em>o <\/em>Plato.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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In this more recent paper, he identifies Avaris<\/a> as the City of Atlantis although as you can see above he previously(2007) named Pharos, near Alexandria. In the same paper he also identifies the Atlantean Gadir<\/a> with Rhakotis, an ancient city near Alexandria.<\/p>\r\n

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In 2020, McQuillen published the first draft of A Simple Chronology of Greek Mythology, <\/em>in which he was inspired by Herodotus to develop his own methodology and applied it to the histories of Athens, Crete and Egypt(m). He concluded “<\/em>I have attempted to create a mythological timeframe for a majority of the Greek Mythological Kings in Greece. These timeframes have been tied to real world events like Troy. They have been synchronized with known timeframes of Egyptian Pharaohs. I list the kings of 20 different ancient cities and attempted to synchronize their history. I have created a framework to compare likes with likes and show when and where one might expect to find these names in Archaeology.”<\/em><\/p>\r\n

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>><\/span><\/strong>In 2025 McQuillen published a new paper in which he claimed that “t<\/em>he story of Atlantis is a history of 18<\/em>th <\/em>dynasty Egypt in its entirety and some of their interactions with Greece from a Greek Mythological Perspective,” <\/em>and \u00a0that “t<\/em>he story of Atlantis actually names 3 disparate groups as Atlanteans: A) Syrian Hyksos. B) Egyptian Pharaohs. C) Aeolian Greeks. <\/em>This conflation is the single biggest problem with the Atlantis story, in my opinion.”<\/em> (o)<\/sup><<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

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Also in 2025, the Hungarian researcher, S\u00e1ndor Csizi published a paper with the enticing title of The Last Port of Atlantis<\/em>, referring to Pharos(n)<\/sup>.<\/p>\r\n

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(a) <\/sup>http:\/\/gizacalc.freehostia.com\/Atlantis.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(<\/sup>b<\/sup>) <\/sup>Franck Goddio: Homepage (archive.org)<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n

(c) <\/sup>http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210625010715\/https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/archive-6142\/<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(d) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/43493561\/A_Simple_Chronology_of_Greek_Mythology_First_Draft<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

(e) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/69049558\/Dissecting_Diodorus_The_Legend_of_Myrina_and_Orus<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(f) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/76436465\/Finding_a_God_Phaethon_King_Tut_and_the_Amarna_Period {link broken}
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(g) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/76548637\/Defining_Danaus_and_Egyptus<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(h) <\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/76880053\/Perfecting_Plato_A_colorful_commentary_on_the_Timaeus<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\r\n

(i) <\/sup>(DOC) Perfecting Plato: A colorful commentary on the Critias – Part 1 (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(j) <\/sup>(99+) A Simple Chronology for Biblical Archaeology | Rich McQuillen – Academia.edu<\/a><\/p>\r\n

(k)<\/sup> https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/43493561\/A_Simple_Chronology_of_Greek_Mythology_-First_Draft<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

(l) <\/sup> (99+) Manifesting with Manetho: Finding commonality from Plato’s Atlantis and Egyptian Sources | Rich McQuillen – Academia.edu (link broken)
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(m) <\/sup>(99+) A Simple Chronology of Greek Mythology -First Draft | Rich McQuillen – Academia.edu<\/a>
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(n) <\/sup>https:\/\/www.academia.edu\/128445192\/THE_LAST_PORT_OF_ATLANTIS<\/a>
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(o)<\/sup> (76) Rebuilding Atlantis with the help of Hatshepsut (academia.edu)<\/a><\/p>\r\n

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