Atlantis: From Legend to Discovery

by Andrew Thomas

Why did the Aztecs constantly await the visitations of supreme rulers from an island in the east? Why did the ancient Egyptians believe that their culture-bearer, Thoth, had come from a land in the Western Sea? Andrew Tomas suggests that this land to the east of Mexico and to the west of Egypt was Plato's Atlantis, called Aztlan by the Central Americans.

Why are the sites of London and Paris not buried under ice as they were twelve thousand years ago? Why did the climate of the Atlantic basin suddenly warm up? Because the sinking of Atlantis removed the barrier which had blocked the northward course of the warm Gulf Stream and thus provided the present-day 'central heating' of Europe and America.

In antiquity one can find evidence of progressive scientific concepts. Their presence can be explained by a legacy left from a highly technological civilization which disappeared without a trace to live on only in the folk memories of all peoples.

Genres: Nonfiction, Pseudoscience

Paperback

First published January 1, 1970

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Reviews

[Ευθυμία Δεσποτάκη · Rating 1 out of 5]

Καάπια άλλη στιγμή, θα προσθέσω και το μεταφρασμένο βιβλίο, αλλά δε μπορώ, ΠΡΕΠΕΙ να σας πω ότι έχω διαβάσει ΑΥΤΟ το βιβλίο.

Πολύ γέλιο. Τόσο πολύ γέλιο, που από τις πόσες; χίλιες; παραγράφους που έχει το βιβλίο, οι 350 τελειώνουν με ερώτηση παγίδα. Ενδεικτικό, αλλά και τυχαίο δείγμα:

σελ. 51
Μήπως μιλούν αυτοί οι μύθοι αλληγορικά, για διαστημικές εξέδρες, κοσμικές πτήσεις και κοσμοδρόμια στη γη;

σελ. 86
Πώς έκαναν οι Βραχμάνοι αυτή την ανακάλυψη τη βιολογία (σημ. δική μου κάποιου είδους εμβολιασμό) κάπου 4000 χρόνια πριν από τον Ζέννερ;

(χμ, και ωραία μετάφραση. Ο Τζέννερ, Ζέννερ. Και πιο κάτω λέει για κάποιον Φλάβιο Ιωσήφ. Ο Ιώσηπος είναι μάλλον άγνωστος στον φίλτατο μεταφραστή.)

σελ. 145
Είναι ο θρύλος του Δαίδαλου και του Ίκαρου, που πέταξαν με φτερά από την Κρήτη, μια αντήχηση από το αμυδρό παρελθόν, όταν οι πτήσεις ήταν συνηθισμένες;

Σταματώ εδώ, γιατί είμαι και στο γραφείο και δε με παίρνει να χαχανίζω. Πάντως αυτά τα βιβλία διαβάζονται ευχάριστα μόνο με έναν τρόπο, για να πάρεις ιδέες για το επόμενο φανταστικό σου διήγημα...

[Luigi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Libro interessante scritto bene, pieno di spunti ed esempi che ho potuto verificare constatando gli effettivi dubbi che creano nel cercare delle reali risposte. Alcune tesi sono vecchie e già con risposte, anche bufale, ma il libro ha ormai più di 40 anni ed alcune domande che l'autore si pone hanno avuto le loro risposte nel tempo. Cmq prima lo consiglio, se interessati all'argomento, prima di passare ad autori e libri più recenti.

[Fran · Rating 4 out of 5]

This one got my imagination going, at a time when I was barely a teenager. There's some fine evidence presented here, in my opinion, and much has come to fore since this was published. This is one of the books which opened me up to the possibility of lost history, that our civilisation is not the first in this world, and that Atlantis, an island (or group of mid sized islands) along what is now the north Atlantic ridge, was once a probable reality.

[Darren · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved it. It was very interesting and well written.

[Sara · Rating 4 out of 5]

Tem bastante teorias, e muitas delas interessantes, mas acho que é um livro para ser lido de mente aberta. Mas sem dúvida gostei.

[Mandy · Rating 2 out of 5]

The Mulder in me was very interested in this book, but the Scully was not convinced at all. For instance the 3 Inca mummies that were discovered with traces of blood type A, a blood type that is not found in American Indians. According to this book, this is proof that these mummies were not Incas, and probably came from Atlantis. But maybe there was a disease in the past that affected only Incas with blood type A, and that's the reason why there are no Incas with that blood type today? And that is how it is with all the 'proof' in this book of the existence of Atlantis...

[Joseph Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

a very interesting book!

[Joseph Kevin · Rating 3 out of 5]

mind boggling...

[Paulina · Rating 4 out of 5]

Junto con los de Charles Fort, este ha sido uno de los libros que me han vuelto más rara.
Me gustan las evidencias que presenta, aún si muchas de ellas ya han sido reevaluadas y descartadas.