Atlantis Rediscovered

For those who don't believe that Plato's Atlantis was a Utopian construct, French author Hebert's intriguing little monograph points to the origin of the legendary empire in the discussions of the Athenian Solon with an Egyptian priest who had access to ancient scrolls. Centuries of subsequent theories extending to the present have placed Atlantis west of the Straits of Gibraltar. The author, a Parisian police official, suggests that it actually lay in the Indian Ocean, that the island of Socotra off the coast of Yemen is a remnant and that""Atlantean"" civilization derived from the civilization of India's Indus Valley. The area is sufficiently seismic to have produced the overnight cataclysm of legend, and if Atlantis had a commercial empire extending into the Mediterranean, it could easily have come into conflict with Athens, another part of the legend. Finally, the author speculates not implausibly that Atlantis established a colony at the eastern end of the Mediterranean, and that the descendants of Atlantis followed its seafaring tradition to become the Phoenicians. Some readers will cringe at the mention of noted cultists such as Velikovsky, but this study offers a lot more than the usual farrago-of-nonsense to be found in most books on Atlantis.