Product Details

• Format: Color, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Allumination
• VHS Release Date: November 30, 1999
• Run Time: 52 minutes
• ASIN: 1575236966
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #453,445 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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What riddle did a schoolboy solve that an 85-year-old millionaire could not? It took him 16 years, but schoolboy Michael Ventris cracked the code of Linear B, which millionaire explorer Arthur Evans had puzzled over for decades. Evans was obsessed by the belief that a Mediterranean civilization had predated the Greeks, providing the real-life basis for Plato's legend of Atlantis and figures such as Daedalus, Icarus, Theseus, and the Minotaur. His obsession led him to Crete, where he haggled successfully to purchase the site of Knossos, historical home of the Minoans.

Atlantis traces the history of Evans's excavations of Minoan ruins--a culture with exquisite frescoes, warehouses of grain, honey, oil, and wine, running water and sewage drains, and writing systems Linear A and B. Learn why a society that thrived for 5,000 years suddenly vanished in 1400 B.C. Discover Evans's controversial plan to reconstruct Knossos and return it to its former glory. This video will appeal to armchair archaeologists, Greek mythology buffs, and those curious about Minoan culture, but the real treasure of Atlantis is the footage of spectacularly well- preserved, vividly colored Minoan art frescoes and interior design. --Tara Chace

From the back cover

ATLANTIS: MYSTERY OF THE MINOANS. Millionaire Arthur Evans is consumed by the belief that the legends of Greece point to an earlier civilization that formed the basis for the legend of the Lost Continent of Atlantis. He spends his life and most of his fortune, uncovering this earliest of all European societies. Deciphering the artifacts of this unknown culture, Evans finds clues that his "Minoans" (named for the legendary king, Minos) produced a highly-evolved, intelligent an artistic society that reached out through trade and disappeared forever in mysterious circumstances. Atlantis presents the story of a vanished race whose epic history was long believed to be nothing more than myths--fanciful inventions from the songs of poets.