Our Unknown Ancient Past

The Edfu Temple is an Egyptian temple located on the west bank of the Nile in Edfu. The Temple's inscribed building texts preserve information about the Island of Creation and thus give credit to Plato's story about Atlantis.  Although the two stories provided by the Edfu Texts and Plato are different, there are many stunning similarities. In fact, if you break down both stories, their core is exactly the same: An island emerges from the sea through divine power. There is a mountain in the island’s center and a reed pillar which marked the center and the god's seat of power. Divine people (the Primeval Ones) populate the island and are led by a god (the Earth God) and they rule from the central mountain. A physical disaster eventually strikes brought on by a divine power. As a result the island sinks under the waves and its inhabitants are gone. In Plato’s story the god leading the Atlanteans is Poseidon. His descendants are naturally divine beings instead of ordinary peopl...

The Pleiades is the most obvious cluster to the naked eye in the night sky. This Greek name, according to the Oxford dictionary, probably derives from plein ("to sail") because of the cluster's importance in delimiting the sailing season in the Mediterranean Sea: "the season of navigation began with their heliacal rising". The earliest-known depiction of the Pleiades is the Nebra sky disk, a Northern German Bronze Age artifact of 1600 BC. According to Greek mythology the Pleiades were seven sisters, whose father was the Titan Atlas. Those were Maia (mother of Hermes), Electra, Taygete, Alcyone, Celaeno, Sterope and Merope, the youngest of the Pleiades who faded away because she was becoming mortal as a result of having married Sisyphus. In my book I discussed how these seven daughters of Atlas "gave birth to prominent sons, others of which became founders of nations and others founders of cities", as Diodorus Siculus put it. I also noted the suspiciou...

"Destruction of Atlantis by a great earthquake and tsunami? A geological analysis of the Spartel Bank hypothesis", this is the title of a research paper by the Research Director of the "French National Centre for Scientific Research". Quite an eye-opener I would dare say, as the paper examines the geological plausibility of the Atlantis story, based on geological evidence. The paper starts by stating: "Numerous geographical similarities exist between Plato’s descriptions of Atlantis and a paleoisland (Spartel) in the western Straits of Gibraltar. The dialogues recount a catastrophic event that submerged the island ca. 11.6 ka in a single day and night, due to violent earthquakes and floods. This sudden destruction is consistent with a great earthquake (M . 8.5) and tsunami, as in the Gulf of Cadiz region in 1755 when tsunami runup heights reached 10 m. Great earthquakes (M 8–9) and tsunamis occur in the Gulf of Cadiz with a repeat time of 1.5–2 k.y., according...

There was once an island right next to the Straits of Gibraltar, from the side of the Atlantic. That island sunk approximately 12.000 years ago, around 10.000 BC. And most importantly, all this has been scientifically proven. No, I am not talking about Atlantis, but rather about Spartel island . A paleoisland that sunk around the same time as Atlantis, which according to Plato was around 9.600 BC. So, at the same period with the sinking of Atlantis, we now know for a fact that there was another - smaller - island in the Atlantic, close to the Gibraltar Straits, that sunk. What an amazing coincidence to add to our pile of countless coincidences that prove Plato was telling the truth all along. Something major happened back then to sink Spartel and that same thing could very well have had the same effect for many islands in that area. The other interesting part with the story of Spartel island is that the water there is very shallow, as the island's highest peak is just 56 meters bel...

Plato, in his story of Atlantis, says that ships from all over the world were visiting the busy port of Atlantis in order to trade. Skeptics find this idea of primitive seafaring absurd and, for them, it is one more reason why Atlantis could never have existed. Archaeological findings in the areas of Plakias and Preveli of Crete, attributed to Homo Heidelbergensis and Homo Erectus, show that these two species had reached Crete by sea 130.000 to 700.000 years ago . The Paleolithic positions which were investigated were in caves that at that time were coastal. It is worth noting here that Crete has been an island for the past 5 million years and it was also quite far from the nearest land. The sea level might have been lower back then compared to today, but the sea is so deep in that area that the change in sea level does not have such a great effect on the distance from Peloponnese (the nearest Greek mainland) to Crete. And while there are a couple of islands (Kythera and Antikythera) i...

According to Plato, Athens was once very different than today, and even than his own time. He describes in Critias how Attica had a very different morphology 9.000 years before his time (thus around 9.500 BC). Here is the ancient text: "But because there were many cataclysms during the nine thousand years – that is how many have passed until today – the soil during those years and due to those events was moving away from higher grounds and did not accumulate on the ground, as it happens in other places, but it always slipped away in large quantities and disappeared into the depths of the sea. This way, as it happens on small islands, what is left, compared to what there was in the past, resembles a skeleton of a sick body, as the soil, being fertile and soft, was carried away and only the shallow crust of the earth was left behind. But during those ancient times our land, as it was still intact, instead of mountains and the nowadays dry lands had tall muddy hills, and those plains...

  As a person I am always suspicious of coincidence. Whenever I hear this word, an alarm sets off in my head. In my book “ Our Unknown Ancient Past: Thoughts and Reflections on the Unexplained Mysteries of Prehistory ” I state that it cannot be a coincidence that Plato’s date of Atlantis’ destruction (9.600 BC) is spot on, coinciding with the abrupt end of the Younger Dryas (9.600 BC). Chances are that this is no coincidence, but what exactly are those chances? Here I would now like to elaborate on that.   Let’s agree that Plato being precise means that his date is plus/minus 100 years off from the actual date that the Younger Dryas ended. We could define this 200-year period to be even shorter but let us take the least favorable scenario. Now, there are 47 such periods within the range of 600 BC (when Solon heard the story of Atlantis from the Egyptian priest) up to 10.000 BC. Why take 10.000 BC and not 15.000 or 20.000? Well, Plato could have placed Atlantis even further...

In my book Our Unknown Ancient Past I argue that Azores was part of Atlantis. I presented a lot of evidence, but now I would like to discuss some aspects in more details. The entire Azores Plateau, as we read in a Nature.com article discussing the Plateau's geology, covers an area of approximately 400.000 km 2 . The Azores Plateau has an almost triangular shape, but assuming, for simplicity reasons, that we are dealing with a circular area, that circle has a 632 km radius. This is remarkably close to the size of Atlantis provided by Plato. In the relative Wikipedia article you can see for yourself that according to Plato Atlantis was an island ~700 klm wide, mostly consisting of mountains on the northern part and along the shore, encompassing a long narrow plain on the south which stretched a distance of 3.000 stadia (555 klm) on one side and 2.000 stadia (370 klm) on the other. I myself have never been to the Azores, but nowadays, with the Internet, you can find so much in...

As we know, Plato places the destruction of Atlantis at 9.600 BC. This specific date happens to also be the abrupt end of Younger Dryas. Although this is direct, there is another hint given by Plato which places the end of Atlantis to the end of Younger Dryas. Plato tells us that sometime after the defeat of the Atlanteans at the hands of the Athenians, Atlantis sunk to the sea within a terrible day and night of earthquakes and floods. The Atlanteans were not however the only victims of this catastrophe, as the entire Athenian army was lost under the waves. So the same catastrophe affected in the same way two rather distant areas of the earth, Atlantis being on the Atlantic Ocean just outside the straits of Gibraltar, and Athens being in the east Mediterranean. This implies that this catastrophic event affected a large part of the globe. And what event could have had such widespread effects? Precisely, the end of Younger Dryas. So if someone wants to argue that the date of 9.600 BC was...