Timaeus and Critias

Bernie Taylor on Plato’s Lost Blueprint: Have We Found the Real Atlantis?

Aeon Byte Gnostic RadioOct 6, 2026

Researcher Bernie Taylor argues that Plato built his Atlantis story from real sources, including earlier writers and the ruins of Malta's ancient megalithic temples. He says Plato's dates were metaphor rather than fact, and he highlights Maltese features such as bull imagery and red-painted temples that match Plato's description. He also presents a star-based dating theory that would push the temples back to the era of Gobekli Tepe, far older than archaeologists currently accept.