The Search for Lost America
Giza
Ancient Prophecies
The New Atlantis?
Some Ancient References to Land
Beyond the Atlantic Ocean
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| 1. Herodotus | ca. 480 B.C. | Tells of Phœnician trading customs beyond the pillars of Hercules. |
| 2. Avienus | ca. 450 B.C. | Mentions the journey of Himilco and Hanno. |
| 3. Plato | ca. 400 B.C. | Writes dialogues of Atlantis and other continents beyond. |
| 4. Aristotle | ca. 360 B.C. | Says the country outside the Pillars of Hercules is well-wooded, fruitful, and has navigable rivers. |
| 5. Theopompus | ca. 378 B.C. | Describes and island of immense size out in the ocean, inhabited by strange people quite different from the Greeks. |
| 6. Strabo | ca. 100 B.C. | Speaks of Phœnician traffic outside the Strait of Gibraltar and hints of circumnavigation. |
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7. Diodorus Siculus |
ca. 21 B.C. | Describes a great country many days' voyage through the Atlantic, with navigable rivers, big houses, forests, and fruits. Says the Ph©«nicians had discovered the country long ago but had kept its whereabouts secret. |
| 8. Seneca | ca. 30 A.D. | Speculates that there might be land on the other side of the Atlantic. |
| 9. Mela | ca. 44 A.D. | Reports that "Indians" had been carried by high winds across the sea and cast upon the shores of Germany. |
| 10. Plutarch | ca. 70 A.D. | "Far west in the ocean in the latitude of Britain, lie islands beyond which stretches a great continent. Greek language is spoken there." |
| 11. Pausanias | ca. 150 A.D. | "West of the Atlantic are a group of islands whose inhabitants are red-skinned and whose hair is like a horse." |
| 12. Ælianus | ca. 200 A.D. | Reports that among the Phœnicians of Cadiz it was common knowledge that a huge "island" existed out in the Atlantic. |
| 13. Proclus | ca. 440 A.D. | Claims that the new land had stones and pillars erected by the Egyptians and that inscriptions often found on the pillars told of the history of the people. |
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