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Funny Olde World talks with Jack Kelley about the film The Atlantis Puzzle and the book growing out of it. A researcher the captions call George supplies the Greek they trust. Kelley says a famous Victorian translation dropped the Pillars of Heracles into a sentence on the kings’ realm where the Greek has no such words. Other ancient authors already placed those pillars in more than one region, and Plato may have meant a North African gulf rather than the strait everyone names today. The lost realm, in this picture, is ten kingdoms with a round capital reached by boat, on a green Sahara thousands of years wetter than the desert now, not an island alone in the ocean. Hippo hunters and a West African dugout are his case that boats existed early, though timber rarely survives. Dried lakes and silted channels show the former water without a seminar on orbital cycles. The host thinks scans of the desert, like work on Anatolian mounds, may reveal older towns, even a long route toward Mauritania.
Key points
- Jack Kelley says a standard English Plato inserted the pillars into a sentence the Greek does not contain.
- He argues the pillars were not fixed at Gibraltar, and that Plato may have meant a North African gulf.
- Atlantis, in the film’s picture, is ten kingdoms and a round capital reached by boat during a green Sahara.
- He says the documentary was checked against a large set of papers, including early evidence for boats.
- Former lakes and silted channels, not a lecture on orbital cycles, are his reason for putting water there.
- The host expects more early towns under the desert and treats the case as promising rather than finished.
Short quotes
I have done this and you read other ancient authors they do mention pillars of Heracles at other locations around the Mediterranean and Europe
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He says other ancient writers already put those pillars in more than one region. Watch at 9:36
I think what you're talking about it's the Duna canoe which was found in Nigeria
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A dugout found in Nigeria is his evidence that boats were already in use. Watch at 15:40
I was like it actually doesn't say under the sea it says into the sea
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He reads the Greek as saying the place went into the sea, rather than under it. Watch at 25:10
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