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Link: Atlantis and the end of the ice age
32 MB
13 min
© Ulf Erlingsson, 2006-2008
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A video documentary with animated paleogeography
It explains how the tale originated, by examining what happened in northwestern Europe and North America from the late part of the last ice age up to historic times. It identifies all the locations and times in Plato's tale. Plato wrote in Critias and Timaeus that Atlantis lasted for a long time and covered a vast area, and this hypothesis is consistent with that statement.
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