If you can find a copy, "Atlantis of the North" by
Jurgen Spanuth
Amazon.com: Atlantis of the north (9780442213664): Jurgen Spanuth: Books
I've seen the one-hour TV specials on Atlantis and it doesn't do the story justice. It's refer to as a story told by Plato, when actually, it's a story of the
Greek Statesman Solon. When Solon visited
Egypt in the 5th century B.C., the Egyptian record keepers (priest) regarded him with much respect, as he was a descendant of the great city of Athens, which was one of the few Polis (City States) that resisted the invasion of the Atlantians (again, this is according to the Egyptian records). Here is where the story originates,
not as I've seen it repetitively wrong, with
Plato. The dates of this invasion correlate to approximately the time of the great eruption of
Thera (circa 1200- 1100 B.C.) in the Mediterranean. The Thera catastrophe sent Greece and most of the ancient Mediterranean into a dark age. The knowledge of Ancient
Greek writing "Linear B" disappears forever, it's only 600 years later, that we see the Greeks adopt the Phonetician Alphabet.
Much of the dismissal of the Atlantis story is due to the dating of the event. Jurgen Spanuth makes a very valid point in his book. Our Western calendar, differs from the Eastern calendar. We record time by the earth's revolutions around the sun. Even to this day, some cultures record time by moon cycles (e.g. we're all familiar with The Muslim calendar and the month of Ramadan). The ancient Egyptians recorded time by moon cycles, and herein lies one of the fundamental problems with the dating of the event.
This is just one example of how Jurgen Spanuth is able to put the Atlantis story into perspective: it was his life's work. I would so bold as to say, any
serious study of the Atlantis story starts with reading Spanuth's "Atlantis Of The North".
