Gavin Menzies - The Lost Empire of Atlantis: The Secrets of Historys Most Enduring Mystery Revealed

THE
LOST EMPIRE
OF ATLANTIS

HISTORYS GREATEST
MYSTERY REVEALED

GAVIN MENZIES

This book is dedicated to my beloved wife Marcella, who has travelled with me on the journeys related in this book and through life.

Here is her name in Minoan Linear A script.

Contents

The illustrations are inspired by the wonderful frescoes at Thera, Knossos and Tell el-Daba and drawn by Catherine Grant (www.catherinezoraida.com)

Book I: Minoan ladies in all their finery

Book II: Lions pouncing on their prey at Tell el-Daba

Book III: Minoan bull leaping Knossos

Book IV: The Prince of Lilies

Book V: An ocean-going Minoan ship

Book VI: The Phaestos Disc

The following images from the frescoes are found throughout the book:

Swallow

Blue lion

Small boat from the flotilla fresco

Fisherman

Antelope

Jumping deer

Partridges

First plate section

The Pyramid of Khufu, photograph by Digr

Syrian with his son and man of Keftiu with rhyton. Tomb of Menkheperraseneb, Egypt, Thebes, reign of Thutmose III. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogers Fund, 1930 (30.4.55) The Metropolitan Museum of Art

View of Palace of Knossos, photograph by Eigene Aufnahme

Arthur Evans bust, photograph by Peterak

Bull head rhyton from Knossos, photograph by Jerzy Strzelecki

Phaestos disc side A, photograph by PRA

Phaestos disc Side B, photograph by PRA

View of Palace of Phaestos, photograph by Eigene Aufnahme

Axe in the form of a panther, Heraklion Museum, Crete Nick Kaye www.flickr.com/people/nickkaye. All rights reserved

Dolphin fresco at Knossos Getty Images

The throne room at Knossos, photograph by Lapplaender

Pithoi in storeroom at Knossos 2000 Grisel Gonzalez. All Rights Reserved

Jewellery in the Aigina Treasure, the Master of Animals at the British Museum, photograph by Bkwillwm

Minoan bee brooch, Heraklion Museum, photograph by Andree Stephan

Golden bee pendant, Heraklion Museum, Crete Nick Kaye

The Minoan flotilla, Ch. Doumas, The Wall Paintings of Thera, Idryma TherasPetros M. Nomikos, Athens 1992

Uluburun wreck copper ingots and other artefacts, Bodrum Museum of Underwater Archaeology, photographs by Gavin Menzies

Al-Midamman bronze hoard photographs, Brian Boyle Royal Ontario Museum

Second plate section

The Hagia Triada sarcophagus Nick Kaye

Sculpted stone sunflower juxtaposed with live sunflower, Halebid, Karnataka, India Carl L. Johannessen

Wall sculpture from Hoysala Dynasty Halebid temple at Somnathpur, India, showing maize ears Carl L. Johannessen

Stone carving at Pattadakal temple, India, shows a parrot perched on a sunflower Carl L. Johannessen

Stone carving of a pineapple in a cave temple in Udaiguri, India The American Institute of Indian Studies

Francisco Jos de Goya y Lucientes, The Agility and Audacity of Juanito Apini in the Ring at Madrid, plate 20 from the series La Tauromaquia, 18141816. Etching and aquatint. Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, Algur H. Meadows Collection, MM.67.07.20. Photography by Michael Bodycomb

Minoan bull leaper, British Museum, photograph by Mike Peel

Minoan bull leaper, Heraklion Museum, photograph by Jerzy Strzelecki.

Dover ship Dover Museum and Bronze Age Boat Gallery

The Nebra disc, photograph by Rainer Zenz

Stonehenge, photograph by Stefan Khn

A selection of photographs from the Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes includes:

227: Upton Lovell G2 Amber space-plate necklace with complex borings

599: Wilton, Bronze looped palstave

616: Rushall Down, Disc-headed bronze pin

340: Upton Lovell G1, Faience beads

159: Wilsford G56, Bronze dagger

266: Winterbourne Stoke G5, Bronze dagger

623: Found between Salisbury and Amesbury, Bronze bracelet

166: Wilsford G23, Bronze crutch-headed pin with hollow, open-ended head

237: Shrewton G27, Stone battle axe

All images Wiltshire Heritage Museum, Devizes

Comparisons of Stonehenge, Uluburun and Great Lakes copper tools and implements:

Coiled snake effigy (Uluburun wreck and Great Lakes)

Animal weights at the British museum, the Uluburun wreck and the Great Lakes.

Conical points (Uluburun wreck and Great Lakes)

Triangulate spear head (Uluburun wreck and Great Lakes)

Gaff hooks (Uluburun wreck and Great Lakes)

Bronze knives (Uluburun wreck and Great Lakes)

To view photographs of Great Lakes copper tools and come to your own conclusions, please visit www.copperculture.zoomshare.com

The Amesbury archer, Salisbury Museum, photograph by Ian Hudson

Antikythera device, photograph by Marsyas

The Isopata ring, Heraklion Museum, Crete Nick Kaye. All rights reserved

Minoan Crete and Santorini

Mediterranean Winds

Minoan Trade Empire in the Mediterranean

Turkey and the Near East

Egypt and route to India

Spain and Portugal

British Isles

Stone circle found around the world in the Minoans wake

The Great Lakes

Distribution of Haplotype X2