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Lost Civilisation
- Position Statement
It is an unfortunate fact of life that Atlantis has become a byword
for the idea of a lost civilisation, and the reader of this website
and my book ‘The Atlantis Secret’ might therefore wonder
whether my decoding of Atlantis, involving as it does a refutation
of the sunken island interpretation, amounts to a veiled attack
on the lost civilisation theory. Such a thought would be ill-conceived,
for it would stem from a confusion of two subjects which, in fact,
represent separate ideas: (a) Atlantis; and (b) lost civilisations.
As I see it, my book on Atlantis underlines the need to separate
these two ideas, and there is nothing within its pages that argues
against the lost civilisation theory per se. On the contrary, I
am of the opinion that there is some good evidence for the existence
of highly advanced, but unidentified, civilisations in the past,
in Egypt for example, and it might well be the case that an undefined
senior culture did bequeath a set of ideas and beliefs to all ancient
civilisations around the globe. But, for Heaven’s sake, let
us stop calling this hypothesised culture ‘Atlantis’ and
find a better name for it.
For a critique of the popular lost civilisation theory, click on Egypt/Lost
Civilisation Critique.
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