NO ATLANTIS
There never was a lost continent of Atlantis, Dr. George Clapp Vaillant of Philadelphia, director of the University of Philadelphia Museum, declared recently. Plato created the fiction of a lost land in the Atlantic Ocean, west of the Pillars of Hercules, now known as the Strait of Gibraltar, "to put over certain ideas and to break down the idea that the Egyptians had an older civilisation than the Greeks." The written records of the Egyptians, Sumerians and Babylonians, which go back long before the founding of Greek civilisation, contain no reference to Atlantis or to Athens. Plato was boosting his home town.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 29, 3 February 1945, Page 8
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