Atlantis The Lost Continent Finally Found

by SANTOS, ARYSIO

• ISBN13: 9781556439568
• ISBN10: 1556439563
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-03-01
• Publisher: North Atlantic Books
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Summary

The late author Arysio Santos was a highly regarded climatologist, geologist, and nuclear physicist. He was also a scholar of history, folklore, languages, and the occult. In this groundbreaking study of Atlantis, he draws on all these disciplines, as well as ancient maps, Plators"s dialogues, and folkloric narratives, to provide the most compelling case yet of the disappearance of an entire civilization. Professor Santos demonstrates that Plators"s dating of Atlantisrs"s disappearance in 11,600 BP (before present) precisely corresponds to the catastrophic end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, as well as a historic flood event of cataclysmic proportions. The rising of the sea level by nearly 500 feet, he argues, submerged continent-sized lands-including Atlantis, which he connects with the biblical Garden of Eden. Provocative chapters cover such topics as the continentrs"s appearance in ancient maps, Indonesia as the true site of Eden, American interpretations of Atlantis, the four rivers of paradise, and more, giving a clear form to the ghostly outline of this fabled land.

Author Biography

A gifted linguist whose mastery of Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and Dravida facilitated his lifelong study of Atlantis, Arysio Santos also ran the most popular website on the subject, www.atlan.org, with more than 2 million visitors to date.

Table of Contents

Dedication and Acknowledgements	p. iii
Preface	p. v
Introduction	p. 1
The True History of Atlantis	p. 29
Indonesia as the True Site of Eden	p. 30
Atlantis and the "Atlantic Ocean"	p. 43
What Really Happened During the Pleistocene?	p. 60
Indonesian Atlantis and the Four Rivers of Paradise	p. 75
Ancient Cosmograms, Maps and Symbolisms	p. 83
Atlantis in America	p. 84
Atlantis in Ancient Cosmograms	p. 96
Atlantis in Ancient Maps	p. 110
The Many Pillars of Hercules	p. 126
Atlantis in Minoan Symbolism	p. 143
The Many Sites of Atlantis	p. 151
The Atlantic Ocean of the Ancients	p. 152
The True Pillars of Hercules	p. 173
The Celtic Shelf, Morocco and Tartessos	p. 206
Antarctica and the Arctic Ocean	p. 218
Paradise and the Far Eastern Atlantis	p. 233
Diodorus Siculus on Atlantis	p. 234
The Jewish Encyclopedia on the True Site of Eden	p. 270
The Case of Taprobane and Sunda Strait	p. 284
Bibliography	p. 297
Endnotes	p. 303
Subject Index	p. 347
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