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Atlantis Rediscovered: An Orbis Enigma Book (Orbis Enigma Series)

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This book is probably one of the most convincing books I have ever read on the Atlantis subject.
Why? The author sticks to Plato's original text and description of Atlantis and has managed to methodically take each single one of them to build a complete puzzle out of them that brings a new solution to the yet unsolved greatest enigma of history. Other authors have been using part of Plato's descriptions and voluntarily omitted some others. In Atlantis rediscovered, all of them are used to build the solution, from the date, to the size of the island and even plants and elephants.

Not only has he been able to prove that Atlantis is not just a myth and locate the lost island of Atlantis (in the Indian Ocean next to Yemen), but more interestingly he has developed very convincing theories about where they initially originated from (Indus Valley) and what the survivors of the great Atlantis civilization have become (the Phoenicians). He is using the latest archeological discoveries, submarine maps and scientific elements to demonstrate his theory.

His book had a great success in France and triggered several articles in specialized history magazines. He is the fist one to place Atlantis in the Indian Ocean and to try to tie connections with the Indus Valley and the Phoenicians.
Read the book and I am sure that you will be as convinced and amazed by Jacques Hebert's theory as I was.

JJ Hébert has finally located Atlantis. He locates it in the discussions of Solon with an Egyptian priest who had access to centuries-old scrolls. While most scholars had insisted Atlantis be situated west of the Straits of Gibraltar (which doesn't make any sense, since the Greeks never ventured beyond Gibraltar), the author puts forward a very convincing case: Atlantis, according to Hebert, actually lay in the Indian Ocean, and present-day Socotra, an island off Yemen, is its main remnant. Moreover, argues Hebert, the Atlantean civilization hailed from the Indus Valley, in Northern India. The area is highly seismic and the Atlanteans, like the Yemenis centuries after them, had a vast commercial empire extending into the Mediterranean. Very convincing.