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Mystery of Atlantis
As Man rushes headlong into the future, his horizons expand backwards into the past. Why has Atlantis possessed the minds and imaginations of great thinkers for millennia? And why does the very idea seam so hauntingly familiar - as if deep buried in our memories?
In this carefully researched book Charles Berlitz lays bare all the evidence. There has to be a missing cultural and biological link between the Old World and the New - how else to explain the strange and ancient similarities. Now recent finds have confirmed that a super-civilization of advanced technical skill did exist ten thousand years before the Greeks. But what inconceivable catastrophe destroyed it - and why - still defies account. It is the greatest mystery the world has ever known.
In this carefully researched book Charles Berlitz lays bare all the evidence. There has to be a missing cultural and biological link between the Old World and the New - how else to explain the strange and ancient similarities. Now recent finds have confirmed that a super-civilization of advanced technical skill did exist ten thousand years before the Greeks. But what inconceivable catastrophe destroyed it - and why - still defies account. It is the greatest mystery the world has ever known.
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Charles Berlitz
119 books72 followersBorn in NYC, Berlitz was the grandson of Maximilien Berlitz, who founded the Berlitz Language Schools. As a child, Charles was raised in a household in which (by father's orders) every relative & servant spoke to Charles in a different language. He reached adolescence speaking eight languages fluently. In adulthood, he recalled having had the delusion that every human spoke a different language, & wondering why he didn't have his own like everyone else. His father spoke to him in German, his grandfather in Russian, his nanny in Spanish.
He began working for the family's Berlitz School of Languages, during college breaks. The publishing house, of which he was vice president, sold, among other things, tourist phrase books & pocket dictionaries, several of which he authored. He also played a key role in developing record & tape language courses. He left the company in the late 1960s, not long after he sold the company to publishing firm Crowell, Collier & Macmillan. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale Univ.
Berlitz was a writer on anomalous phenomena. He wrote a number of books on Atlantis. In his book The Mystery of Atlantis, he used evidence from geophysics, psychic studies, classical literature, tribal lore, archeology & mysteries & concluded that Atlantis was real. Berlitz also attempted to link the Bermuda Triangle to Atlantis. He claimed to have located Atlantis undersea in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. He was also an ancient astronaut proponent who believed that extraterrestrials had visited earth.
Berlitz spent 13 years on active duty in the US Army, mostly in intelligence. In 1950, he married Valerie Seary, with whom he had a daughter, Lynn. He died in 2003 at the age of 89 at University Hospital in Tamarac, FL.
He began working for the family's Berlitz School of Languages, during college breaks. The publishing house, of which he was vice president, sold, among other things, tourist phrase books & pocket dictionaries, several of which he authored. He also played a key role in developing record & tape language courses. He left the company in the late 1960s, not long after he sold the company to publishing firm Crowell, Collier & Macmillan. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale Univ.
Berlitz was a writer on anomalous phenomena. He wrote a number of books on Atlantis. In his book The Mystery of Atlantis, he used evidence from geophysics, psychic studies, classical literature, tribal lore, archeology & mysteries & concluded that Atlantis was real. Berlitz also attempted to link the Bermuda Triangle to Atlantis. He claimed to have located Atlantis undersea in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. He was also an ancient astronaut proponent who believed that extraterrestrials had visited earth.
Berlitz spent 13 years on active duty in the US Army, mostly in intelligence. In 1950, he married Valerie Seary, with whom he had a daughter, Lynn. He died in 2003 at the age of 89 at University Hospital in Tamarac, FL.
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August 17, 2017
I used to believe a lot of stuff - my mind was so open that it became a sort of virtual dustbin, with all kinds of junk falling into it! Atlantis was part of that phase. I really believed that the island could have existed, and avidly devoured this book. If I had written a review at that point of time, it would have been five stars.
Now that I have put a scepticism filter on top of my open mind (of a very fine mesh size, too), I can see the book as a collection of highly conjectural speculations based on very tenuous evidence. However, the book is an enjoyable read so I am giving it three stars.
Now that I have put a scepticism filter on top of my open mind (of a very fine mesh size, too), I can see the book as a collection of highly conjectural speculations based on very tenuous evidence. However, the book is an enjoyable read so I am giving it three stars.
September 3, 2018
Misteriosa Atlantide, dove sei? Palesati! Ti aspettiamo!
Influenzato all'epoca dai documentari di Giacobbo e di Mistero (eh sì, quando ancora Giacobbo parlava quasi sempre di alieni!) mi accinsi a leggere questo libro, non ricordo neanche dove lo acquistai. Dopo anni mi ritrovo a scrivere una recensione su questo libro, e ti vado a scoprire che l'autore fu noto per i suoi controversi bestseller di divulgazione misteriologica e "archeologia misteriosa", ovvero una branca della pseudoscienza che si basa solo su teorie che non hanno uno straccio di prova.
In questa opera l'autore ha raccolto un marasma di prove (secondo lui lo sono) che proverebbero l'esistenza di questo continente mitico scomparso, e lo fa coincidere nel Triangolo delle Bermude (ovvero Atlantide si trova sotto il livello del mare del Triangolo delle Bermude, qualche volontario si vuole immolare per vedere se è vero?). Berlitz era inoltre un sostenitore della teoria degli antichi astronauti e credeva che gli extraterrestri avessero visitato la terra.
Influenzato all'epoca dai documentari di Giacobbo e di Mistero (eh sì, quando ancora Giacobbo parlava quasi sempre di alieni!) mi accinsi a leggere questo libro, non ricordo neanche dove lo acquistai. Dopo anni mi ritrovo a scrivere una recensione su questo libro, e ti vado a scoprire che l'autore fu noto per i suoi controversi bestseller di divulgazione misteriologica e "archeologia misteriosa", ovvero una branca della pseudoscienza che si basa solo su teorie che non hanno uno straccio di prova.
In questa opera l'autore ha raccolto un marasma di prove (secondo lui lo sono) che proverebbero l'esistenza di questo continente mitico scomparso, e lo fa coincidere nel Triangolo delle Bermude (ovvero Atlantide si trova sotto il livello del mare del Triangolo delle Bermude, qualche volontario si vuole immolare per vedere se è vero?). Berlitz era inoltre un sostenitore della teoria degli antichi astronauti e credeva che gli extraterrestri avessero visitato la terra.
March 6, 2021
This was a uh. Interesting book.
I cant say it was hocus pocus nor can I say it was a carefully thought out scholarly work. I will say it is a good compendium for the research out there in support of the Atlantean theory. Berlitz certainly knows what’s going on, and he delights his readers with bits linguistics, archaeology, oceanology, geology, and anthropology to outline the Quest.
However, it is a jumbled, somewhat incoherent outline and there is no real linear, logical method of writing. It is instead very sporadic and sometimes repetitive conjectures and theories from prominent scholars or occultists. Berlitz does not shy away from either camp, and I will say he does a good job of explaining the various theories and isolated pieces of evidence. Apparently he spoke 30 languages so he definitely had the linguistics aspect of Atlantology down pat.
I enjoyed the book, and found a lot of information and further reading material from the book, it isn’t exactly a waste of time. I really don’t think any book is if we are in the right perspective.
I cant say it was hocus pocus nor can I say it was a carefully thought out scholarly work. I will say it is a good compendium for the research out there in support of the Atlantean theory. Berlitz certainly knows what’s going on, and he delights his readers with bits linguistics, archaeology, oceanology, geology, and anthropology to outline the Quest.
However, it is a jumbled, somewhat incoherent outline and there is no real linear, logical method of writing. It is instead very sporadic and sometimes repetitive conjectures and theories from prominent scholars or occultists. Berlitz does not shy away from either camp, and I will say he does a good job of explaining the various theories and isolated pieces of evidence. Apparently he spoke 30 languages so he definitely had the linguistics aspect of Atlantology down pat.
I enjoyed the book, and found a lot of information and further reading material from the book, it isn’t exactly a waste of time. I really don’t think any book is if we are in the right perspective.
January 12, 2026
Questo libro nasce con un’ambizione chiara: fare ordine nel mito di Atlantide, scandagliando ipotesi, testimonianze, suggestioni archeologiche e storiche. Il problema è che, arrivati in fondo, quell’ordine non arriva mai davvero.
La lettura procede come una lunga accumulazione di dati, teorie contrapposte, indizi che sembrano portare da qualche parte e poi si dissolvono nel loro stesso contrario. Alla fine resta la sensazione di una grande confusione, più che di una rivelazione. Mi aspettavo un tentativo più rigoroso, o almeno una presa di posizione più netta.
Il fascino del mistero, paradossalmente, ne esce indebolito: troppe possibilità, troppe strade aperte, nessuna davvero convincente. Forse Atlantide funziona meglio quando resta leggenda, evocazione, simbolo. Non quando viene sezionata senza riuscire a essere spiegata.
A questo punto, molto meglio lasciare Atlantide al suo mistero.
La lettura procede come una lunga accumulazione di dati, teorie contrapposte, indizi che sembrano portare da qualche parte e poi si dissolvono nel loro stesso contrario. Alla fine resta la sensazione di una grande confusione, più che di una rivelazione. Mi aspettavo un tentativo più rigoroso, o almeno una presa di posizione più netta.
Il fascino del mistero, paradossalmente, ne esce indebolito: troppe possibilità, troppe strade aperte, nessuna davvero convincente. Forse Atlantide funziona meglio quando resta leggenda, evocazione, simbolo. Non quando viene sezionata senza riuscire a essere spiegata.
A questo punto, molto meglio lasciare Atlantide al suo mistero.
August 22, 2018
Un libro por lo menos interesante que desarrolla unas cuantas teorías y puntos de vista de distintas disciplinas sobre la posibilidad de la existencia de la Atlántida. Siempre sentí curiosidad sobre la Atlántida y en este libro se (re)avivaron bastante. Por otra parte, al tratarse de un libro relativamente viejo, maneja un montón de hipótesis y cuestiones inconsistentes y falaces, hoy en día ya resueltas. Así y todo, se las arregla para dejarte con la intriga de la posibilidad de una civilización sumergida. Explícitamente, diré que no me gustó que el autor haya utilizado algunas fuentes pseudocientíficas e incluso 'paranomarles' en algunos (no en todos) sus capítulos (eso le bajó un par de puntos). Hoy en día, un libro de esta naturaleza quizás no hubiera tenido la 'fama' que tuvo en el momento de su publicación, pero creo que, si bien el paso de los años le dio con todo, cumple su objetivo maestro que es alimentar la curiosidad del lector.
January 1, 2017
Fans of History Channel's "Ancient Aliens" series will be intrigued by the information in this book. Although this publication is somewhat outdated, the author wrote of sources which can still be relevant today. He skillfully combined Plato's original account with more modern developments. I was especially fascinated by the linguistic and anthropological knowledge which was conveyed. The only criticism I will make is that the writing was a bit too repetitive. Yes, I appreciated how Mr. Berlitz was trying to tie his points together, but I was starting to feel a sense of déjà vu while reading the last few chapters. Nonetheless, it was an entertaining book.
November 12, 2024
El autor es de mis favoritos de teorías de conspiración pero este era muy histórico y se hacía denso de leer
September 7, 2023
I did not enjoy reading this book at all. Instead of simply writing a book about some interesting facts regarding the Atlantis debate, Berlitz appears to pick a side early on and then tries to convince us to believe in its existence.
It started out nicely. After an introductory chapter, Berlitz quoted some fragments from Plato about Atlantis and analysed some of its details. At that point, Atlantis was defined to be a wealthy island/continent in the middle of the Atlantic with a civilization far more advanced than any other during its existence, which ended suddenly by some kind of disaster. Sounds simple enough, I'd say, but not quite so...
In the following chapters, Berlitz gives an iteration of "arguments" for Atlantis, without much coherence or sometimes even proof. I do give him credit for his rather cautious writing style, explicitly using words and phrases like "probably", "perhaps", "one can suspect"... in nearly all of his direct Atlantis arguments, preventing me from ridiculing him completely or calling him an outright liar.
Arguments or reasoning Berlitz gave, included, but are not limited too:
- We know there were other civilisations thousands of years ago who were very advanced, so Atlantis certainly isn't impossible. (Hold on, I thought the whole thing about Atlantis was its unique advanced technology?)
- New research undersea reveals ancient advanced architecture near the coasts of Spain, Morocco, the Bahamas, etc. (Hold on, I thought we had established that Atlantis was in the middle of the Atlantic?)
- Atlantis could have actually been Antarctica or India. (Seriously?)
Yet, I tried to remain persistent and to struggle through the chapters. I eventually gave up when Berlitz compared a number of dashes carved into a bone to count the days in between two full moons, to an advanced human writing as we know it today, again trying to convince us how civilised ancient people "might" have been.
My advice: do not read this book.
It started out nicely. After an introductory chapter, Berlitz quoted some fragments from Plato about Atlantis and analysed some of its details. At that point, Atlantis was defined to be a wealthy island/continent in the middle of the Atlantic with a civilization far more advanced than any other during its existence, which ended suddenly by some kind of disaster. Sounds simple enough, I'd say, but not quite so...
In the following chapters, Berlitz gives an iteration of "arguments" for Atlantis, without much coherence or sometimes even proof. I do give him credit for his rather cautious writing style, explicitly using words and phrases like "probably", "perhaps", "one can suspect"... in nearly all of his direct Atlantis arguments, preventing me from ridiculing him completely or calling him an outright liar.
Arguments or reasoning Berlitz gave, included, but are not limited too:
- We know there were other civilisations thousands of years ago who were very advanced, so Atlantis certainly isn't impossible. (Hold on, I thought the whole thing about Atlantis was its unique advanced technology?)
- New research undersea reveals ancient advanced architecture near the coasts of Spain, Morocco, the Bahamas, etc. (Hold on, I thought we had established that Atlantis was in the middle of the Atlantic?)
- Atlantis could have actually been Antarctica or India. (Seriously?)
Yet, I tried to remain persistent and to struggle through the chapters. I eventually gave up when Berlitz compared a number of dashes carved into a bone to count the days in between two full moons, to an advanced human writing as we know it today, again trying to convince us how civilised ancient people "might" have been.
My advice: do not read this book.
September 18, 2025
Charles Berlitz is an interesting character. Scion to a worldwide language learning business, and an accomplished polyglot himself (I see estimates that he spoke between 20-30 languages), Berlitz could have just stuck to writing books about French, German, and Japanese acquisition and done just fine. However, he got bit by the conspiracy theory bug, and ended up writing a slew of books about the Bermuda Triangle, Noah's Ark, the Roswell crash, and a host of other unproven (and often, disproven) topics. I've decided to read a bunch of these works, and this 1969 entry on the Atlantis myth was the first he published.
The Atlantis story began with Plato, who described in both Timaeus and Critias a massive land that lay beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the Straight of Gibraltar), somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. It boasted a massive army, and was a champion of culture and the arts. And yet, fatefully, Atlantis and its millions of inhabitants perished in one night, sinking into the sea (like landmasses do?), some 9,000 years before Plato heard about it. Most people just accept that Plato conjured an allegorical land as an object lesson about the ideal state, but little could Plato have known what trouble he would create and the lives he would derail: people who obsess over the Beast of Revelation, or the airspeed velocity of World Trade Center Tower 7, also love to speculate about how Atlantis might have been a real place.
One of the hilarious aspects of Atlantis theorizing is that the land has been located almost everywhere on the globe. The island of Thera (which is volcanic, but stubbornly in the wrong direction). Or right beneath the Azores, with the islands as the only peaks left. Or the Americas. Or sitting on the mid-Atlantic ridge. Or hidden under the Sahara. Or in the Arctic. Or even under Antarctica! There are about as many proposed locations as there are investigators, but the one that really cracked me up was the Bahaman island of Bimini, off the coast of Miami. Not only would that place one myth inside another (the Bermuda Triangle), but it was prophesied by psychic Edgar Cayce in the 1930s that Atlantis would arise again near Bimini in 1968. Or so the book jacket said. In the foreword, Cayce's prediction is extended to '68 or '69 (convenient, for a book released in '69). On page 11, Cayce's prediction is moved forward from the 1930s to 1940. But then, in the illustrations section in the middle of the book, Cayce's same prediction is said to have occurred back in 1924. Get your story straight, Berlitz!!
Being a student of language, Berlitz is quite taken with the similar names for various mythical lands in the sea. Avalon, Aztlán, Aralu, Attala (I'm taking his word on these), and of course the Atlantic itself. Berlitz would have been so excited to see the land "Ahtohallan" depicted in Frozen 2. Berlitz speculates about various cognate words across otherwise unrelated languages, and suggests that isolated languages like Basque may be remnants of Atlantean culture, or that we may have inherited our writing systems from Atlantis. There's a later chapter on "Atlantis, Language and the Alphabet", though it mostly sticks to things we know about language, and lets analogy do most of the heavy lifting. Berlitz even shoots down the wilder language-based speculation and errors of earlier theorists, such as Ignatius Donnelly. I find it telling that Berlitz is more reserved when speaking about a discipline he knows well. If only he knew more about geology.
Berlitz is able to admit that many scholars reject the idea of a literal Atlantis, and inserts the occasional statement that he knows this all relies on speculation. For example, "None of the above similarities or seemingly related architectural forms, however, furnishes any proof of the existence of Atlantis. It is, at present, only an assumption, or an 'informed guess' which, if true, would cause many seemingly disconnected bits of information to fall into place." Elsewhere he says, "As psychic research is not yet considered a reliable source for establishing the authority of history, the voluminous psychic material on Atlantis represents a section of Atlantean literature that elicit, at best, a 'no comment' from the archaeological or scientific community." Well done! And yet, one can also detect the constant thumb of the apologist pushing on each piece of evidence to exaggerate the connections and downplay the inconsistencies. It also doesn't matter that many of the proposed theories are contradictory to one another: as long as Berlitz has introduced a shred of likelihood, he's done his job. Berlitz also employs the usual smoke-and-mirrors of conspiracy logic: the condemnation of experts is dismissed by pointing to stories of other discoveries that were once mocked by so-called experts. The lack of corroborating evidence is explained away as evidence that there must have been supporting knowledge at some time, but it's now lost (insert counterfactual story about the sacking of the Library of Alexandria).
Which reminds me: often Berlitz promotes other myths as part of his synthesis. His story about "Amru the Muslim" burning Library of Alexandria scrolls for 6 months is a medieval fiction. In another illustration, he lists the evidence of animal behaviors that might explain the presence of an earlier-but-now-missing landmass, such as eels who swim out to mate in the Sargasso Sea, or birds that loop-de-loop over the Atlantic during their migration. The one that cracked me up was his speculation that lemmings follow each other into the sea, because perhaps in the past they used to swim to Atlantis together. That's silly not just for the nautical distances involved, but even more so because lemmings don't kill themselves en masse. That's a myth (which Disney helped popularize, alas). The Loch Ness Monster even gets a shout-out! Berlitz brings Nessie up as a credible phenomenon when discussing submersibles. In addition to language, he was a diving aficionado, so there's much here about the undersea exploration aspect of Atlantean research.
There's so much more I could mention, but hopefully any student of science and history should see this for the absurd speculation it is. At the very end, Berlitz marvels at all of the new technology for exploration, and says, "The near future will give us the answer." My thought, reading this 56 years later was, "Yeah, I guess it did."
The Atlantis story began with Plato, who described in both Timaeus and Critias a massive land that lay beyond the Pillars of Hercules (the Straight of Gibraltar), somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean. It boasted a massive army, and was a champion of culture and the arts. And yet, fatefully, Atlantis and its millions of inhabitants perished in one night, sinking into the sea (like landmasses do?), some 9,000 years before Plato heard about it. Most people just accept that Plato conjured an allegorical land as an object lesson about the ideal state, but little could Plato have known what trouble he would create and the lives he would derail: people who obsess over the Beast of Revelation, or the airspeed velocity of World Trade Center Tower 7, also love to speculate about how Atlantis might have been a real place.
One of the hilarious aspects of Atlantis theorizing is that the land has been located almost everywhere on the globe. The island of Thera (which is volcanic, but stubbornly in the wrong direction). Or right beneath the Azores, with the islands as the only peaks left. Or the Americas. Or sitting on the mid-Atlantic ridge. Or hidden under the Sahara. Or in the Arctic. Or even under Antarctica! There are about as many proposed locations as there are investigators, but the one that really cracked me up was the Bahaman island of Bimini, off the coast of Miami. Not only would that place one myth inside another (the Bermuda Triangle), but it was prophesied by psychic Edgar Cayce in the 1930s that Atlantis would arise again near Bimini in 1968. Or so the book jacket said. In the foreword, Cayce's prediction is extended to '68 or '69 (convenient, for a book released in '69). On page 11, Cayce's prediction is moved forward from the 1930s to 1940. But then, in the illustrations section in the middle of the book, Cayce's same prediction is said to have occurred back in 1924. Get your story straight, Berlitz!!
Being a student of language, Berlitz is quite taken with the similar names for various mythical lands in the sea. Avalon, Aztlán, Aralu, Attala (I'm taking his word on these), and of course the Atlantic itself. Berlitz would have been so excited to see the land "Ahtohallan" depicted in Frozen 2. Berlitz speculates about various cognate words across otherwise unrelated languages, and suggests that isolated languages like Basque may be remnants of Atlantean culture, or that we may have inherited our writing systems from Atlantis. There's a later chapter on "Atlantis, Language and the Alphabet", though it mostly sticks to things we know about language, and lets analogy do most of the heavy lifting. Berlitz even shoots down the wilder language-based speculation and errors of earlier theorists, such as Ignatius Donnelly. I find it telling that Berlitz is more reserved when speaking about a discipline he knows well. If only he knew more about geology.
Berlitz is able to admit that many scholars reject the idea of a literal Atlantis, and inserts the occasional statement that he knows this all relies on speculation. For example, "None of the above similarities or seemingly related architectural forms, however, furnishes any proof of the existence of Atlantis. It is, at present, only an assumption, or an 'informed guess' which, if true, would cause many seemingly disconnected bits of information to fall into place." Elsewhere he says, "As psychic research is not yet considered a reliable source for establishing the authority of history, the voluminous psychic material on Atlantis represents a section of Atlantean literature that elicit, at best, a 'no comment' from the archaeological or scientific community." Well done! And yet, one can also detect the constant thumb of the apologist pushing on each piece of evidence to exaggerate the connections and downplay the inconsistencies. It also doesn't matter that many of the proposed theories are contradictory to one another: as long as Berlitz has introduced a shred of likelihood, he's done his job. Berlitz also employs the usual smoke-and-mirrors of conspiracy logic: the condemnation of experts is dismissed by pointing to stories of other discoveries that were once mocked by so-called experts. The lack of corroborating evidence is explained away as evidence that there must have been supporting knowledge at some time, but it's now lost (insert counterfactual story about the sacking of the Library of Alexandria).
Which reminds me: often Berlitz promotes other myths as part of his synthesis. His story about "Amru the Muslim" burning Library of Alexandria scrolls for 6 months is a medieval fiction. In another illustration, he lists the evidence of animal behaviors that might explain the presence of an earlier-but-now-missing landmass, such as eels who swim out to mate in the Sargasso Sea, or birds that loop-de-loop over the Atlantic during their migration. The one that cracked me up was his speculation that lemmings follow each other into the sea, because perhaps in the past they used to swim to Atlantis together. That's silly not just for the nautical distances involved, but even more so because lemmings don't kill themselves en masse. That's a myth (which Disney helped popularize, alas). The Loch Ness Monster even gets a shout-out! Berlitz brings Nessie up as a credible phenomenon when discussing submersibles. In addition to language, he was a diving aficionado, so there's much here about the undersea exploration aspect of Atlantean research.
There's so much more I could mention, but hopefully any student of science and history should see this for the absurd speculation it is. At the very end, Berlitz marvels at all of the new technology for exploration, and says, "The near future will give us the answer." My thought, reading this 56 years later was, "Yeah, I guess it did."
March 23, 2024
This book is an excellent introduction to the Atlantis lore, it was written in the seventies, so it is seriously outdated, but it is still relevant, focuses a lot on Plato and Plinio the Elder, who are the main sources anyway, and goes on explaining the research made by the Soviet navy and some of their alleged findings, good fun and great read.
February 20, 2025
"La leggenda dell'Atlantide [...] è innegabilmente ricca di vitalità e si rinnova continuamente, come il mito altrettanto noto dell'araba fenice"
Pseudoscienza all'ennesima potenza che distorce le fonti, inventa documenti scomparsi e vaneggia di prove fornite da sedicenti esperti ESP...
Organizzato male e scritto peggio.
Pagliacciata
Pseudoscienza all'ennesima potenza che distorce le fonti, inventa documenti scomparsi e vaneggia di prove fornite da sedicenti esperti ESP...
Organizzato male e scritto peggio.
Pagliacciata
September 17, 2023
Sono scusato. Avevo solo 10 anni quando mi entusiasmai su questo pippone. Avessi saputo che Roberto Giacobbo e le puttanate di Voyager m'attendevano al varco probabilmente mi sarei fatto tatuare titolo e copertina sul perineo.
September 13, 2017
Interessant bok men merkes at den er gammel på noen områder. Men helt grei som innføring i Atlantismyten.
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June 9, 2019I have the german edition: Das Atlantis Raetsel
and 2 different slovenian editions: Atlantida
and 2 different slovenian editions: Atlantida
October 27, 2019
Sem comentários!!!...
Várias visões, e culturas diferentes para poder justificar a "descoberta" de um continente desaparecido... São muitos sinais e muito pouco esclarecimento!
Várias visões, e culturas diferentes para poder justificar a "descoberta" de um continente desaparecido... São muitos sinais e muito pouco esclarecimento!
December 18, 2020
This is a very good overview of a number of Atlantean theories, with just the right amount of detail without going too far down the rabbit hole. It is written in a user-friendly format designed for lay readers, not conspiracy theorists or hard core researchers. It's a great starting point for further reading.
I particularly enjoyed the background on a theory that Atlantis was in southern Spain. Another interesting, albeit small, topic was that of bizarre geological and animal contrasts. There are ancient sea ports and remains of starved mastodons high in the Andes, which suggests massive land shifts such as an earthquake, which could have also flooded coastal regions and islands.
I also liked a chapter that identified common structures, animal life, and languages between the continents, which opens the possibility of another continent that may have settled east and west. For example, perhaps the Atlanteans were pioneers of pyramid building. Perhaps explorers - or refugees - fled east and west and eventually built in their new lands.
Also cool: a legend of an island nation built of concentric circles of land and canals. This was the very Atlantis from Taliesin.
Is it true? I have no idea. I'm not necessarily a believer, but am a daydreamer and like to think of where we came from and what existed before we knew how to record history.
August 23, 2019
Encontré un ejemplar de este título a precio de ganga en una tienda de usados, y lo tuve que comprar. De niño siempre me atrajo todo lo referente a la Atlántida, aunque hoy en día el tema haya caído un poco en desgracia a raíz de la mayor popularidad de otras teorías alternativas (la mayoría mucho más hilarantes, como la tierra plana o los OVNIs). Así y todo, no estaba enterado de todo el abanico de hipótesis que ya en la época en que se escribió este libro se manejaban.
El autor comienza con Platón y varios relatos y elementos pseudocientíficos de la antigüedad, pero los va hilando magistralmente con información proporcionada por la oceonografía, la geología, la arqueología, la lingüística y varios otros recursos bastante más serios, lo que torna la idea del continente hundido bastante palpable. De todas formas, siempre se mantiene en una postura mas bien mesurada, tildando de "demasiado optimistas" ciertas investigaciones anteriores poco rigurosas, y favoreciendo claramente a aquellas con más asidero y con base en evidencia algo más concreta. No intenta convencernos de que haya existido: ni siquiera arriesga un juicio aproximado sobre su ubicación: tan solo pone las cartas sobre la mesa (que por momentos pueden ser demasiadas) y nos invita a sacar nuestras propias conclusiones.
October 18, 2012
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2005-2006
Es un tratado, netamente pseudo-científico y que se ve enriquecido, con las aportaciones de muchas ciencias, como la oceanografía, historia, lingüística, antropología, mitografía, literatura y por supuesto la Atlantología. A través de esta monografía se presentan textos clásicos de Platón, las corrientes mas importantes de los últimos tiempos de los estudios oceanográficos, y muchas tradiciones tanto americanas como indoeuropeas, además presenta mapas, dibujos y gráficos muy buenos, es un MUY BUEN LIBRO, que si su tarea es el convencer a los lectores de la existencia de la Atlántida, lo logra y de una manera muy convincente, siempre apegándose a esa lógica pseudocientífica. INTERNET
2005-2006
Es un tratado, netamente pseudo-científico y que se ve enriquecido, con las aportaciones de muchas ciencias, como la oceanografía, historia, lingüística, antropología, mitografía, literatura y por supuesto la Atlantología. A través de esta monografía se presentan textos clásicos de Platón, las corrientes mas importantes de los últimos tiempos de los estudios oceanográficos, y muchas tradiciones tanto americanas como indoeuropeas, además presenta mapas, dibujos y gráficos muy buenos, es un MUY BUEN LIBRO, que si su tarea es el convencer a los lectores de la existencia de la Atlántida, lo logra y de una manera muy convincente, siempre apegándose a esa lógica pseudocientífica. INTERNET
November 12, 2022
Debo decir que este libro no me aporta ninguna sensación nueva de aprendizaje. A pesar de que su conocimiento está desactualizado para lo que se conoce actualmente, el autor no usa evidencias sustentadas por la Ciencia sino por análisis que han conseguido sustentar sus teorías. Más que nada, basa todo el argumento en la narración de Platón sobre la Atlántida, y varios mitos y coincidencias de las culturas antiguas que poblaron la tierra. Sin intentar explicar cómo o por qué. Los capítulos son redundancias de lo expuesto en el prólogo del libro. Sin aportar casi nada nuevo a lo ya aceptado culturalmente.
March 15, 2021
La leyenda del continente desaparecido, que hoy en día vuelve a estar de moda. Destruida en "en un día y una noche", cómo así lo describe Platón (primera persona en plasmarlo históricamente a través de unas cartas halladas que dirigió en sus diálogos a Timeo y Critias). Uno de los misterios del mundo más estudiados e investigados, un gran mito de nuestra civilización. Es un libro verdaderamente interesante. Recomendable.
June 27, 2007
in search for the mysterious city in the depths of the ocean.
October 13, 2009
If you are interested in the mystery that is Atlantis, you might find the information here to be interesting, although it may be a tad outdated.
October 18, 2023
Leído porque mi abuelo me lo regaló. Está entretenido y tiene datos curiosos, pero presiento que la información está algo desactualizada por su año de publicación, lo que le resta peso.
January 23, 2023
Es interesante, te llega a atrapar pero como que después de la página 100 se torna monótono y siento que hablan de lo mismo una y otra vez.
June 8, 2023
Interesante, pero al fin y al cabo pseudocibencia
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