At the height of the last Ice Age, the islands were connected by a landbridge to the Sicilian mainland, because of the lower sea level<\/a>(c)<\/sup>. They have been suggested by Andis Kaulins<\/a>(<\/sup>a<\/sup>)<\/sup> as the location of the kingdom of Gadirus, who was\u00a0the twin brother of Atlas, the first king of Atlantis. Until recently, it was generally accepted that the However, there has been growing support for the idea of the Pillars, referred to by Solon\/Plato, being situated in the Central Mediterranean, at either the Strait of Messina<\/a> or the Strait of Sicily<\/a>, the latter supported by Andis Kaulins, who goes further and suggests a link between Tartessos<\/a> and ancient Carthage<\/a> across the Strait in Tunisia<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n More recently, Albert Nikas<\/a> has argued cogently(<\/sup>b<\/sup>)<\/sup> for placing the Pillars of Heracles in the vicinity of the Egadi Islands and identifying them with Plato\u2019s Gades<\/a> and then concluded that Malta had been \u2018the island in front of the Pillars\u2019 and was Atlantis.<\/p>\r\n ><\/span><\/strong>Ernle Bradford<\/a> made one passing reference to Atlantis in Ulysses Found<\/em> [1011<\/a>.57]<\/sup> which may be of interest to supporters of a Central Mediterranean<\/a> Atlantis. When discussing the Egadi Islands off the west coast of Sicily he describes Levanzo, the smallest of the group as being \u201conce joined to Sicily, and the island was surrounded by a large fertile plain. Levanzo, in fact, was joined to more than Sicily. Between this western corner of the Sicilian coast and the Cape Bon peninsula in <\/em>Tunisia<\/em> there once lay rich and fertile valleys-perhaps, who knows, long lost Atlantis?\u201d <\/em>This would seem to be close to the views of Alberto Arecchi<\/a> and others.<<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\r\n If the name of the\u00a0Egadi Islands is more than just evocative of Plato’s Gades and since Gades has also been associated with Erytheia<\/a> in the story of the ‘Trials of Hercules’, then if Izabol Apulia’s<\/a> Map Mistress <\/em>website is correct in locating Erytheia(d)<\/sup> between Pantelleria<\/a> and the Egadi Islands it would confine all <\/em><\/strong>the ‘Trials’ in the Central and Eastern Mediterranean, consequently, locating the Pillars of Heracles somewhere in that region.<\/p>\r\n Opposite the Egadi Islands on the mainland of Sicily is the port of Marsala(e)<\/sup>, which has also been identified, by Massimo Rapisarda<\/a>, as another possible location for Atlantis.<\/p>\r\n (a<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> Pillars of Heracles – Alternative Location (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\r\n (b<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> http:\/\/atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com\/index.php\/topic,20615.0.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n (c<\/span><\/sup>) <\/sup>http:\/\/www.sci-news.com\/archaeology\/article00749.html<\/a><\/p>\r\n (d<\/span><\/sup>)<\/sup> Pantelleria & Erytheia: Southwest Sicily Sunken Coastline to Tunisia (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\r\n![\"egadi](\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/egadi-2-300x284.jpg\")
<\/a>realm of Gadirus<\/a> had been situated in the vicinity of modern Cadiz<\/a>, known in ancient times as Gades<\/a>. This idea was enhanced by its proximity to the Strait of Gibraltar, deemed by many to be the site of the Pillars of Heracles.<\/p>\r\n