Was Atlantis a Bronze Age Metropolis in North Africa?
By Ulrich Hofmann
Paper given at International Conference on The Atlantis Hypothesis: Searching for a Lost Land (2005)
Abstract: No doubt about Plato’s intension: The Atlantis tale was placed to illustrate the ‘Ideal State’ developed in his earlier work ‘Politea’. Repeatedly that fact was used to claim the Atlantis tale was pure fiction. But neither Prehistoric Athens nor the description of Atlantis show sufficient correspondence with the Ideal State. Plato admits the Atlantis tale was unperfect but emphasizes the tale’s merit: its authenticity. When Plato wrote down ‘Critias’ almost any greek might have visited egypt to prove the story either to be right or wrong. None of the critics seems to have taken that point into account. An often neglected detail is, Plato describes Atlantis to have ruled Libya as far as Egypt. That means Atlantis must have been located west of Libya and Libya itself must already have been part of the Atlantean territory. That coincides with a statement of Herodotus who tells about a Libyan people called ‘Atlantioi’ living far in the west of North Africa. Also greek mythology places Atlas near Lake Tritonis in western North Africa.
Plato describes Atlantis as a huge island with a large central plain everywhere surrounded by high mountains. That description matches very well the Maghreb. The Algerian plateau is everywhere surrounded by the chains of the Atlas mountains. The shallow Atlantean sea that should have finally vanished resembles the description of Lake Tritonis which today is identified with Chott el-Djerid. Further details like the elefants of Atlantis correspond very well to the west of North Africa. Infrared satellite images show a huge sunken geological structure consisting of several concentric circles recently discovered in the eastern part of the Algerian plateau. For 100 years already egyptology has knowledge of a mighty ancient power that in fact ruled North Africa from west as far as egypt: Tehenu.
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Was Atlantis a Bronze Age Metropolis in North Africa?
By Ulrich Hofmann
Paper given at International Conference on The Atlantis Hypothesis: Searching for a Lost Land (2005)
Abstract: No doubt about Plato’s intension: The Atlantis tale was placed to illustrate the ‘Ideal State’ developed in his earlier work ‘Politea’. Repeatedly that fact was used to claim the Atlantis tale was pure fiction. But neither Prehistoric Athens nor the description of Atlantis show sufficient correspondence with the Ideal State. Plato admits the Atlantis tale was unperfect but emphasizes the tale’s merit: its authenticity. When Plato wrote down ‘Critias’ almost any greek might have visited egypt to prove the story either to be right or wrong. None of the critics seems to have taken that point into account. An often neglected detail is, Plato describes Atlantis to have ruled Libya as far as Egypt. That means Atlantis must have been located west of Libya and Libya itself must already have been part of the Atlantean territory. That coincides with a statement of Herodotus who tells about a Libyan people called ‘Atlantioi’ living far in the west of North Africa. Also greek mythology places Atlas near Lake Tritonis in western North Africa.
Plato describes Atlantis as a huge island with a large central plain everywhere surrounded by high mountains. That description matches very well the Maghreb. The Algerian plateau is everywhere surrounded by the chains of the Atlas mountains. The shallow Atlantean sea that should have finally vanished resembles the description of Lake Tritonis which today is identified with Chott el-Djerid. Further details like the elefants of Atlantis correspond very well to the west of North Africa. Infrared satellite images show a huge sunken geological structure consisting of several concentric circles recently discovered in the eastern part of the Algerian plateau. For 100 years already egyptology has knowledge of a mighty ancient power that in fact ruled North Africa from west as far as egypt: Tehenu.
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