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  64. www.atlantisquest.com

  65. Ibid.

  66. The Tunguska explosion. NASA Science News web site. science@NASAnews, 2008.

  67. The Atlantis Blueprint, by Rand Flem Ath and Colin Wilson: Little, Brown and Company, 2000.

  68. Underworld, Flooded Kingdoms of The Ice Age, by Graham Hancock: Penguin, 2003.

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  69. Discovered at Largo Velho, Muges, in Portugal. Dated to the Mesolithic period.

  70. Heyerdahl organized several investigations between 1991 and 1998 by teams of archaeologists who eventually contradicted his views. They thought the step pyramids were constructed by Spanish farmers using the rocks they were clearing from the fields. Heyerdahl pointed out that this did not account for the east-west astronomical alignment, the shaped corner stones, staircases, and flat platforms on the tops. The area containing the pyramids is now an ethnographic park devoted to Thor Heyerdahl and his beliefs.

  71. From Marvelous Things Heard, one of several books that are attributed to Pseudo-Aristotle authors.

  72. volcanoline.com/madeira. The last volcanic eruptions were in the west-central part of Madeira; they created cinder cones and lava flows.

  73. The Atlantis Effect, by Dr. Roger Coghill: Ker Menez, Lower Race, Pontypool, UK.

  74. Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis, by Drs. Greg and Lora Little and John Van Auken: ARE Press, 2006.

  75. Ibid.

  76. Underworld, Flooded Kingdoms of The Ice Age, by Graham Hancock: Penguin, 2003.

  77. Edgar Cayce’s Atlantis, by Drs. Greg and Lora Little and John Van Auken: ARE Press, 2006.

  78. Underworld, Flooded Kingdoms of The Ice Age, by Graham Hancock: Penguin, 2003.

  79. Gateway to Atlantis, by Andrew Collins: Headline Book Publishing, 2000.

  80. The Grave Creek Tablet was discovered in 1838 in West Virginia, U.S.A. It is a small sandstone disc and is inscribed on one side with alphabetic characters. It was found during excavations at the Grave Creek Mound (69 feet high and 295 feet in diameter). Although the tablet is now missing, a plaster cast and a photograph exist in the Smithsonian Museum.

  81. ARE (Association for Research and Enlightenment) web site.

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  82. Arganthonius was thought to have lived from 670 to 550 B.C. Although this sea battle is often referred to, I can find no suggested date for when it happened.

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  83. http://www.whowerethephoenicians.com. Diodorus Siculus, Plato, and Tacitus all subscribed to the belief that the alphabetic letters were brought to Phoenicia from Egypt. Interestingly, Eusebius quotes a fragment from Sanchoniathon that Thoth, the Egyptian, was “the teacher of the Phoenicians in the art of writing.” In view of the ancient alphabetic characters found in Egypt by archaeologist William Flinders Petrie, and of the fact that the Egyptian god Thoth originally ruled in a western land, this is very significant.

  84. Tacitus was a Roman historian who lived from A.D. 56 to 117.

  85. Strabo recorded this, among many other interesting facts about southwest Iberia, in his Geographica. His descriptions are uncannily similar to Plato’s description of Atlantis.

  86. This was carved on reindeer bone. That animal has not populated southern France and northern Spain since the glacial period, so the dating of this discovery can hardly be disputed.

  87. Discovered in 1916 at Banca Deta, Corunna, in Galicia, northern Spain.

  88. www.antiquos.com Georgeos Diaz Montexano.

  89. William Flinders Petrie (1853–1942) was the pioneer of methodology in archaeology. He lived in Egypt for long periods and explored extensively throughout the country. The British Museum has a special Flinders Petrie section.

  90. Manetho was an ancient Greek who lived in the third century B.C. and wrote the famous Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt).

  91. The Turin King list is thought to date from the reign of Rameses II. It is now in the Egizio museum in Turin. It covers the period from the ancient god–kings of Egypt to the seventeenth dynasty.

  92. Discovered in 1878 by Dr. Rene Verneau.

  93. The Atlantis Effect, by Dr. Roger Coghill: Ker Menez, Lower Race, Pontypool, UK.

  94. Mysteries of Ancient South America, by Harold T. Wilkins: Rider & Co., 1945.

  95. Researches into the Early Inhabitants of Spain, by Wilhelm von Humboldt, 1821. The Basque Language: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1957.

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  96. The ancient Indian book The Mahabharata records that the leaders of the Adityas, the very ancient Indian rulers, were white with light red or light brown hair.

  97. There are many pyramids around Xian in Qui Chan Province in China. The pyramids are officially thought to be mausoleums of the Quin Dynasty. They are close to the Tarim Basin, where two tall, red-haired mummies were found, one female and one male. The Tarim Mummies, co-authored by Professor Victor Mair of the University of Pennsylvania.

  98. Aku Aku, the Secrets of Easter Island, by Thor Heyerdahl: Penguin, 1972.

  99. From the Ashes of Angels, by Andrew Collins: Michael Joseph, 1996.

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  100. Uriel’s Machine, by Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight: Element Books, 2000.

  101. From the Ashes of Angels, by Andrew Collins: Michael Joseph, 1996.

  102. The Atlantis Encyclopedia, by Frank Joseph: New Age Books, 2005.

  103. Treasures of Lost Races, by Rene Noobergen: Teach Services, 2001. Ancient Bulgaria’s Golden Treasures, by Colin Renfrew: National Geographic. Wikipedia: “Varna Necropolis.”

  104. Temples of Ancient Gods, by Michael Tellinger: Zulu Planet Publications, 2010.

  105. The 12th Planet, by Zecharia Sitchin: Avon, 1976. (Book 1 of “The Earth Chronicles” series.)

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  106. Atlantis, Lost Kingdom of the Andes, by Jim Allen: Floris Books, 2009.

  107. Fingerprints of the Gods, by Graham Hancock: William Heinemann, 1995.

  108. Keeper of Genesis, by Robert Bauval and Graham Hancock.

  109. Fingerprints of the Gods, by Graham Hancock: William Heinemann, 1995.

  110. Ibid.

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  111. Atlantis Effect, by Dr. Roger Coghill: Ker Menez, Lower Race, Pontypool, UK.

  112. These reliefs are referred to in many books and web sites, such as: “A Short History of Ancient Electricity,” www.bibliotecapleyades.net/; harunyaha.com/en/works/13770/light-bulbs-were-used-for

  113. Ibid.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I would like to thank the following who have assisted greatly in putting together over twenty years of research into what I hope is a persuasive and enjoyable book:

  My Algarve editor, Elaine Edgely, and Jonathan Veale for his encouragement and sound advice. Neil Simpson for his invaluable help with the final shaping of the manuscript and my agent, Andrew Lownie, for his wise counseling, patience, and perseverance.

  Particularly my wife, Margaret, for her help and tolerance.

  INDEX

  Page references in italics refer to illustrations.

  A

  Aaron, 208

  Academos, 10

  academy, Plato’s, 10, 13, 76

  Acropolis, 19, 251

  Aegean islands/seas, 59, 161, 167

  Africa, 31, 35, 93, 94, 229–30

  Age of Discoveries, 155

  agriculture, 9, 88–89, 101, 139, 194, 200, 215

  Akritori, Greece, 24, 25

  Aku-Aku: The Secret of Easter Island (Heyer-dahl), 198

  Alaska (United States), 140–41

  Alatuir, 214, 239

  Albufeira, Algarve, Portugal, 101

  Alcalar, Algarve, Portugal, 96, 213

  Alexander the Great, 10

  Algarve region (the Algarve), Portugal: agriculture in, 89; alphabet/script and, 177–78, 179, 181, 183, 185, 186, 187, 189–90; Anibal, as boys’ name in, 94; Atlantis in, 59, 77, 169, 224; carob used in, 92; Celts and, 172, 234; climate in, 86, 147; earthquakes in, 6, 33
–39, 43, 87, 137, 138–39, 144; elephants in, 93–94; fault line in/near, 137, 150; floodplains in, 101–2; funeral slab found in, 56; grave uncovered in, 154; herons in, 198; Libyans in, 172; mines/mining in, 81, 82; the Moors and, 47, 110; mountains in, 73, 146–47; museum in, housing necropolis, 55; Muslims in, 46–47, 48; plains (planato) in seabeds off coast of, 68–69, 137; Plato’s description and, 144; precious metals in, 79; rock in, 100–101; script on Grave Creek Tablet and, 164; seismic activity in, 6, 7; standing stones (menhirs) in, 4, 5, 206, 209, 210, 211, 213; step-pyramids in, 146–47; submerged area in, 40–45, 44, 73, 145, 147; Tartessos’ reach to, 54, 171; timber in, 92; tribes in, 110, 172, 172; tsunamis in, 37, 40, 70, 138; wild Iberian lynx breeding centers in, 94

  Algiers, Algeria, 35

  Allen, Jim (Lost Kingdom of the Andes), 218

  Allerød period, 87

  Almodôvar, Portugal, 177, 189

  Almohads, 47

  almonds, 90

  Almovarids, 47

  Alonquian Indian tribe, 164–65

  alphabet/characters/script: pre-10,600 b.c., 181, 181; 4000 b.c., 181–82; pre-3000 b.c, 183, 184; pre-1600 b.c., 185; 950 b.c., 186; 3500 b.c, 187; 2500 b.c. to 400 b.c., 189–91; Algarve region and, 177–78, 179, 181, 183, 185, 186, 187, 189–90; of ancient cultures, 177; Basque language, 191; blond-haired/red-haired peoples and, 202; on bone dagger, 181, 181; on broken stone, 5, 175, 177; Castelo, Carlos Alberto Basilio, and, 179–81, 184, 185, 186, 190; of Coniis/Kuniis, 50, 82; on Crete, 230; on dolmen, 181; Egyptians and, 182, 183; on funerary slab, from Algarve region, 56; Futharc, 185; Germans and, 185; on Grave Creek Tablet, 164; Greeks and, 177, 178, 179, 182, 183, 190, 191; of Guanches, 152; on herouns, 189–90; Iberia and, 177–78, 183, 185, 186, 187, 191, 192; on Israeli pottery (“Goliath” shard), 186, 187; Leonard, R. Cedric, and, 63; Libyan, 187; mystery of, 133; northeastern script, 178; Philistines and, 186; Phoenicians and, 5, 50, 179, 184, 186, 188, 188–89, 190, 191; Plato’s clues about, 177; on pottery remains from India/Pakistan, 187–89, 188; Proto-Canaanite, 186; runes, 185; Scandinavians and, 185; Southwest Script/southwestern script, 50, 177–78, 187, 188, 189, 202; on stag bone, 181; on statue, on Corvo Island, 156; on stone splinters, 182; story about, 176; of Tartessians, 173; of Turditanians, 54; Western, 50, 177, 178, 191, 192

  Altiplano, region in South America, 199, 218, 223

  Alvão Natural Park, Portugal, 181

  Alvor, Algarve, Portugal, 70, 93–94, 96, 123

  Amazons (Greek female warriors), 154

  America: Alonquian Indian tribe in, 164–65; Atlanteans’ migration/visit to, 6, 13, 61, 165, 167; Columbus, Christopher, sailing to, 155; DNA markers and, 165; fault line in, 37; Minoans trading with, 167; Phoenicians’ travel to, 61; Plato and, 174

  the Americas, 74, 89, 155, 156, 166

  Ampheres, 248

  Ana River (presently Guadiana River), Portuguese/Spanish border, 51, 75, 81, 103, 145, 204

  Anatolia region, 25, 28, 63, 76

  Andalucía, southernmost region of Spain: Atalaya and, 239; Celts originating from, 234; climate in, 86; fault line through, 36; island and, 69; Plato and, 68, 71, 73, 77

  Andes, mountain range in South America, 83

  Andhakas, 238

  Andros, island in Bahamas, 29, 161, 162, 164

  Andros Platform, 161, 162

  Anibal, as boys’ name, 94

  animals, 16–17, 20, 22, 92–96, 140–41, 211, 249, 251. See also specific types of

  Antarctica, 28, 63, 74, 75, 142

  ante, 164

  Antilia, “legendary” island in the Caribbean, 163–64

  Antilles islands, 163, 198, 201

  aqueducts, 119–20, 251

  Arade River, Algarve, Portugal: battery technology and, 226; defensive emplacements and, 129; earlier coastline/plain and, 43, 73, 130, 131; flooding and, 212; as freshwater source, 140; geological activity and, 139; Phoenicians and, 123; Rocha Negra (“Black Rock”) and, 121; Silves and, 115

  Arcachon, Gironde, France, 70

  ARE (Association for Research and Enlightenment), 165

  argan, 169, 173

  Arganthonius, 53–54, 107, 168–71, 172–73, 182

  Aristotle, 10, 153

  Armação de Pêra, Silves, Portugal, 70

  asclepius, 209, 210

  Asia, 75, 76, 77, 92, 232, 243, 245

  Association for Research and Enlightenment (ARE), 165

  asteroid strike, 141–42

  astronomy, 55, 200, 201, 218

  atala/Atala (The White Island), 182, 198, 238, 239

  Atalaia/Atalaya, 239

  Athens, Greece, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 247

  Atlantic Ocean/the Atlantic: Algarve region coastline and, 39, 68; in ancient manuscripts, 63; Atlantean civilization/race and, 165, 166, 167, 202; Atlantis in, 63, 67; author’s theory about, 57, 234; Azores Islands’ mountaintops and, 27; Columbus, Christopher, and, 155–56; Egyptian priest’s reference to, 11, 26; fault line in, 36; genetic studies of populations in areas of, 202; Gorringe Bank submerged in, 36; Iberia and, 243; islands/isles in, 149, 150, 153; Kolaios in, 54; map of, from Order of Christ, 155; mountains in, 74; naming of, 16; Order of Christ map of, 155; Phoenicians in, 61, 174; in Plato’s accounts: Atlantean civilization size/spread across, 8, 13, 14, 60–61, 167, 245; Atlas and, 248; clues unified to support theory about, 231; Gades’ region and, 84; geography and, 13, 62, 63, 67, 68, 149; from Greek knowledge, 174; the Mediterranean and, 59; mountains in, 74; navigability and, 71; Santorini, Greece, and, 26; Spartel in, 241; root language spread and, 179; sediment samples from seabed of, 38; Straits of Gibraltar geography and, 166; tsunami in, 37; Western Ocean reference and, by Egyptians, 64

  Atlantis: The Antediluvian World (Donnelly), 23 The Atlantis Blueprint (Flem-Ath and Wilson), 28

  The Atlantis Effect (Coghill), 108, 185

  Atlantis in Andalucía (reprinted as Atlantis in Spain) (Wishaw), 58

  Atlantoi, 154

  Atlas (king): Cádiz and, 105; defense of Atlantis and, 128; heirs of, 248–49, 255; map books and, 234; Plato’s clues and, 15, 16, 30, 62, 84, 104; as ruler, 248; Seville and, 107; standing stone (menhir) and, 217

  Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa: agriculture in, 166; Almohads from, 47; Atlantean race and, 202; Berbers from, 151, 166, 174, 190, 197; Libyans from, 55; water collection and, 100

  atomic warfare, in ancient civilization, 237–38

  Autochthon, 248

  Avebury, 221

  Aylattes, 186

  Aymara Indians, 189

  Azaes, 248

  Azores Islands, Portugal, 27, 36, 149, 150, 156, 157, 167

  Aztecs, 198, 220

  Aztlán peoples, 198

  B

  Babylon, 52

  Baghdad, Iraq, 225

  The Bahamas, 158, 163, 196, 201

  Balkans/Balkan region, 203, 214, 223

  Bancal Deta, Galicia, Spain, 181

  Basques, 165, 191, 202, 204

  Bates, Oric, 219

  battery technology, 225–26

  Bauval, Robert, and Graham Hancock (Keeper of Genesis), 220

  BBC documentary/Web site, 27, 187, 188

  Beja, Alentejo, Portugal, 49

  Belgrade, Serbia, 214

  Berbers: alphabet/script and, 191; Atala and, 182, 238; Atlantean race and, 197, 198, 202–3; from Atlas Mountains, 151, 166, 174, 190, 197; Aztlan and, 198; Guanches and, 151, 190, 202, 203; Muslims and, 47

  Bergman, Jonas, 78

  Berlitz, Charles, 23

  Bimini, islands in Bahamas, 29, 159, 160, 163

  The Bimini Road, 159, 159–60, 161

  Blackett, Baram, Adrian Gilbert, and Alan Wilson (The Holy Kingdom), 51

  blond-haired/red-haired peoples: in ancient civilizations, 234; Atlanteans and, 196–99, 203, 205, 233; gene for, 202; Guanches, 151, 214; in Middle East, 204; Plato and, 201; Poseidon and, 203; Thracians, 203, 214

  BMC Revolutionary Biology, 203

  Bolivia, 218, 223

  bone dagger, writing on, 181, 181


  Bongard family, 4

  The Book of Judges, 197

  Book of the Dead, 68

  The book of the taking of Ireland (Lebor Gabata Erre), 197

  books about Atlantis, 23–24, 27. See also specific titles

  Bosnia, 215, 221

  boundaries of Atlantis: Algarve region and, 242; Bahamas and, 196; Egypt and, 16, 165, 185, 245, 248; Gades and, 62; Iberia and, 242; the Mediterranean and, 196, 201; Morocco and, 242; Spain and, 242; Tyrrhenia and, 16, 165, 245, 248

  Bremen, Germany, 46

  Britain/Great Britain/British Isles: alphabet/script and, 191; Atlantean race and, 202; Atlantis near, 27, 28; author in, 7; Celts and, 51, 202; Himilco voyage and, 71; military assistance to Portugal and, 46; standing stones (menhirs) in, 55; straits in, 71; trade with, 174; tsunami in, 37

  Brittany, France, 51, 55, 191, 202

  bronze production, in Iberia, 25, 52

  Brutus, 51, 203

  building construction/methods, 218–19

  Bulgaria/Bulgarians, 203, 215

  bulls, 22, 94–95, 167, 254

  Buyan (or Bouyan), legendary island, 214

  C

  Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain: Arganthonius in/near, 52, 54, 170, 171; Atlantis near, 77; Carthaginians in, 52; as citadel, 105; earthquake in Bay of, 229; Gaderius and, 104; Gades’ region and, 62, 84, 166; geography of, 30; island near, 73; Keuhne, Rainer, theory about, 30; Niebla and, 108; Phoenicians in, 52, 54, 61, 174; Poseidon’s offspring near, 30; Sarmast, Robert, theory about, 24; sediment samples from, 38; Semites in, 171; Tartessians/Tartessos and, 53, 171, 172, 172; tsunami affecting, 138; wild life near, 95

  caduceus, 209, 209, 210, 213

  Caesar, Julius, 49, 50, 81

  calçadas, 121

  calcos, 82, 83

  Caldas de Monchique, Algarve, Portugal, 93, 119

  Cambay, Gulf of, India, 28–29, 187, 240

  Canaanite script, 186

  Canada, 25, 37, 167

  canals/reservoirs (water channels), 97–103, 117, 139, 224, 226, 249–50, 251, 253

  Canary Islands: alphabet/script and, 177, 185, 190; Atlantean race and, 196, 197, 202, 203; Atlantis extending to, 31, 149–52, 150, 166, 167; Guanches in, 214; pyramids in, 220, 233; submerged areas and, 69, 74

  La Capella, 107

  Caribbean/Caribbean Islands: Atlantean Empire and, 162, 163, 164, 165, 166, 167; Catés statue pointed to, 159; Columbus, Christopher, in, 165; Plato and, 149; tsunami in, 37