The lost empire of Atlantis history's greatest mystery revealed
Through an examination of new documentary and academic research, metallurgy, ancient shipbuilding and navigation techniques, archaeological artifacts, and cutting-edge DNA evidence, Menzies uncovers a trading empire that spanned from the Mediterranean, to the Great Lakes in North America, to Kerala...
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New York :
William Morrow,
[2011]
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Discovery: the Minoan Civilisation: An adventure on Crete ; Under the volcano ; The search for the Minoan naval base ; Return to Phaestos ; The ancient scholars speak ; The missing link ; Who were the Minoans? The DNA trail
- Exploration: Voyages to the Near East: The lost wreck and the buried treasure trove ; Sailing from Byzantium ; Life in the library ; A place of many names and many nations ; A ship in the desert ; New worlds for old ; Rich, exotic lands ; Proud Nineveh ; The key to India? ; Indian Ocean trade in the Bronze Age ; The truth is in the trade
- Journeys West: Nec plus ultra: entering the Atlantic ; A folk memory of home? ; Spain and La Tauromaquia ; Blazing the trail to Dover ; The land of running silver ; A labyrinth in Dragon Country ; Strange beasts and astrolabes
- Examining the Heavens: Seeing the skies in stone ... ; Mediterranean and Atlantic megaliths ; Stonehenge: the master work ; From the Med to the megalith ; The land that time forgot ; The bronze boy
- The Reaches of Empire: The seekers set sail ; A metallurgical mystery ; Adventures by water ; A heavy load indeed ; Into the deep unknown ; So: the proof
- The Legacy: The spots marked 'X' ; A new beginning ; A return to Crete ; The legacy of hope
- Timeline
- Epilogue: Plato and Atlantis, the lost paradise.
