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

Summary

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.

Key takeaways

• 1Plato's Atlantis account appears in the Timaeus and Critias, and Plato holds the Timaeus in Raphael's School of Athens in the Vatican Museums.
• 2Herodotus, writing before Plato, described the Atlantes, a people living near Mount Atlas in North Africa. The Phoenician writer Sanchuniathon described Atlas as an astronomer on a high mountain. Taylor identifies that mountain as Jebel Toubkal in Morocco.
• 3Malta's megalithic temples (Ggantija, Hagar Qim, Mnajdra, Tarxien) were considered the oldest freestanding structures on Earth until Gobekli Tepe was discovered. They feature bull imagery and red paint, both of which echo Plato's Atlantis.
• 4Tore Lomsdalen's work 'Sky and Purpose in Prehistoric Malta' documents equinox and solstice sunrise alignments at the Mnajdra temple.
• 5Tour guide Lenie Reedijk and astronomer Peter Barthel dated the temples by the rising and setting of the star Sirius, proposing dates such as 9150 BCE for Hagar Qim and 5350 BCE for Ggantija North. They argue the temple foundations themselves have never been directly dated.
• 6Taylor argues that Plato's figure of 9,000 years before Solon is a metaphor, so attempts to link Atlantis to comet impacts are misguided.

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