The Sunken Kingdom: Atlantis Mystery Solved - Brossura

James, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0712674993 ISBN 13: 9780712674997

Casa editrice: Pimlico, 1996

Riassunto

Reviewing previous theories about the site of Plato's city of Atlantis - some fantastic, some rational - this work offers a solution to the mystery that has baffled historians and archaeologists for centuries. That solution lies in the catastrophic destruction of a late-Bronze Age civilization close to the modern Turkish port of Izmir. The author takes readers on a journey between historical sources in Greece and Egypt, offering evidence of geological disaster in the Near East, focusing on the derivation of the word "atlas", and identifying Tantalus, founder of the Hittite kingdom of Lydia in Asia Minor, with the ruler of Atlantis.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Pimlico
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0712674993
• ISBN 13: 9780712674997
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352