ANNOUNCEMENT OF "ATLANTIS: NEW HYPOTHESIS" - 3rd EDITION
 
I would like to offer to your attention the text of the third edition
of my Atlantis hypothesis. If you are interested, let me know, and I
will send it to you by e-mail (about 48.3 kB). The first edition was
sent as a brochure "Returning to the Enigma of Plato's Atlantis" to
Ancient History Departments of some Universities and to Geographical
Societies of a number of countries in June 1995. The magazine version
of it is coming out in the May issue of "Vokrug Sveta" ("Around the
World", Magazine of Travels, Adventures and SF) - a kind of Russian
"National Geographic". The second one was published under the title
"Atlantis: New Hypothesis" in some newsgroups and mailing lists in
February - March 1996. In the present edition I am trying to provide
answers to most of the questions I was asked after those publications.
Besides, I have since found some materials illustrating some of my
suggestions. I can also send some of them to you as the following
supplements:
 
1. The map of Northern Atlantic (atlantic.gif - 69 kB) - a fragment
of slide15.gif of MGG Relief Globe Slide Set which can be found at
 
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html
or
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/MGG/images/slide_set1
 
2. The map of the Celtic Shelf (celtic.gif - 13 kB) made from gridded
data extracted from ETOPO5 data base for 46 - 53 N and 3 - 13 W at
 
http://modb.oce.ulg.ac.be/Bathymetry.html
 
3. Paleooceanographic data - file sealevel.txt (80 kB) compiled from
rsl.readme and sealevel.dat from Relative Sea Level Database which
can be found at
 
ftp://ftp.ngdc.noaa.gov/paleo/paleocean/relative_sea_level
 
I compared two English translations of Plato's "Timaeus" and "Critias"
(by T. Taylor and D. Lee), analysed some passages using the Greek and
Latin texts (with the linguistic advice from Prof. Garntsev of the
Faculty of Philosophy, MGU), compared my findings with some
geological, paleooceanographic and paleoclimatic data, and as a result
put forward a hypothesis that Plato's narration of Atlantis should be
interpreted to mean that Atlantis may have been situated on what is
now known as the Celtic Shelf.
 
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Regards,
        Viatcheslav Koudriavtsev
 
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