Sound Bite
Atlantis, the lost island civilization, the sunken Shangri-La ' the legend has beguiled us since Plato mentioned it in the fourth century BC. But did it actually exist?Now, cutting-edge scientific evidence from a wide array of disparate fields combine to cast sensational new light on the mystery.
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Historian Emmet Sweeney persuasively intertwines history and literary references with hard science ' from archaeology and anthropology to genetics and geology ' to prove the existence of an ancient trans-Atlantic link between the Old World and the New.Ã? Sweeney examines:'¢ The geological certainty of a sunken island in the Azores;'¢ The Human Genome Project's startling revelation that 3% of Native American DNA is characteristic of people of south-west Europe and the Atlas Mountains Ã? ' whose inhabitants, as late as Roman times, called themselves 'Atlanteans';'¢ Archaeological and cultural proof of a relationship between the Stone Age and Early Bronze Age civilizations of North America and South-West Europe;'¢ The occurrence of cocaine and tobacco, two American narcotics, in many Egyptian mummies.Piece by piece, Sweeney constructs a compelling case for not just the probability, but the necessity, of an Atlantic stepping-stone, the missing link that transmitted both the culture and biology of Europe to America, millennia before Columbus!Atlantis: The Evidence of Science argues, as never before, that Atlantis should rise to take its place in history, not myth.
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