Binding blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Dj now protected inside a cover. The Atlantis legend originated with Plato's accounts written about 2,500 years ago. These were so detailed and convincing that many believed that an Atlantis must have existed. But until now no one has been able to identify its nature and location, although the theories about it abound and indeed our fascination with it continues unabated. The most popularly accepted view is that Atlantis was a continent in the Atlantic ocean, containing a prosperous and advanced civilization, which was wiped out by a single catastrophe over 11,000 years ago. During this disaster the continent drowned in the ocean, where it has remained concealed until the present day. Now Dr Eberhard Zangger, a well-known geoarchaeologist, with many years of fieldwork experience in the Mediterranean, has discovered the true nature of Plato's story and the real location of Atlantis. His refreshingly novel and amazingly simple ideas are set out for the first time in his book, which may have a greater impact on the future study of Mediterranean prehistory than Schliemann's discovery of Troy.

Atlantis History