MICHAEL MARTNEZ. BLANCO
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Is "Atlantology" on the wrong track? Have we ignored transcendental inconsistencies in Plato's story? Do we have the right historical maps? What if th
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e key to solving the enigma is not to be found in the famous Strait of Gibraltar, but in the unknown and unexplored Strait of Coria? Where does the trail of the tsunami that would have drastically ended the Chalcolithic Empire? Does the city of Seville perhaps harbor the vestiges of Atlantis? The Platonic dialogues Timaeus and Critias put us on the trail of a fascinating lost civilization that even today remains shrouded in the nebula of myth. Fantasy or reality? Among those who have bravely set out to scrutinize it from the prism of science in recent times, many specialists, weighed down by an ahistorical and inaccurate interpretation of the written sources, have overlooked crucial details that, as with Schulten in his search for Tartessos, would have brought them closer to the truth. The present work, the result of almost thirty years of work, consolidates an unusual turn in research which, as opposed to the idea of the Gulf of Cádiz, points to ancient Híspalis as the Atlantean epicenter: through a rigorous analysis of the texts and their translations, and an interdisciplinary look at the latest geological and archaeological findings, the author reconstructs in an unprecedented way the map and the events described by the philosopher and, contrasting them, portrays the nature of Atlantis to us as never before. A commercial emporium to the southwest of the Iberian peninsula? Seville as a large island in the Atlantic Ocean? Elephants in Valencina, aurochs sacrificed? The Ivory Lady, a symbol of female domination? Natural catastrophe and mud as outcomes? Atlantis now seems further from fable and closer to scientific evidence.
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