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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Atlantis: The world view, then and now., 28 Feb 2004
The Flem-Aths have taken all considerations, situations, world views - mythological and scientific - into account and come up with startling conclusions which show, for the first time perhaps, the unbiased eyes of serious scientific researchers and not pure flights of imagination.Imagination has been brought to bear on the subject matter, however, in a surprisingly sensible way: instead of viewing the written historical 'evidence' provided by Plato with present day eyes, they have managed to conduct such comprehensive research that they are able to present 'the facts' of the writing as they would have been originally seen by the peoples of 'The World' who read it *at the time it was written*, which gives an entirely different view of the clues given to the location of Atlantis. Atlantis was placed in the Atlantic Ocean, beyond the Pillars of Heracles. Simple enough. Except that location to us, *now* is severely limited in comparison to where it had to possibility of being at the time the evidence first came to light (in the time of the Greek, Solon, c. 638-559 B.C.) At that time the 'World was thought to be a circularish island in the midst of a vast ocean. The Pillars of Heracles, at the Western end of the Mediterranean Sea was considered to be the furthest reaches of the known world. The 'Atlantic' ocean was the entire ocean, not the part of it that is named N.Atlantic and S.Atlantic now. This is just one point among many and in conjunction with the evidence of the vastly devastating Earth Crust Displacements, I found the research and conclusions drawn from it, compelling and thought-provoking. Whether you believe or not, this book is definitely worth the read.
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