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Empires of Atlantis: rewriting the history of civilization
In a period of less than 10,000 years, our planet could have been struck no fewer than four times by debris from a disintegrating comet circulating in the solar system, each time either destroying or stultifying civilization restarted in the aftermath by surviving Atlantean culture bearers.
This is the engrossing theory put forward by Marco M Vigato in The Empires of Atlantis: The origins of ancient civilizations and mystery traditions throughout the ages, (Bear & Company US $25, January 2022 / UK £18.50, March 2022), an impressively researched, almost encyclopedic, work which for me, as one fascinated by the debate around the origins of civilization, was a riveting read.
Earnest in his exclusive focus on the North Atlantic Ocean as the location of the archetypal lost land where advanced civilizations flourished thousands of years ago, Vigato brings to bear latest discoveries in genetics, anthropology, earth sciences and archaeology.
Essential for the crucible of ongoing debate, he draws together key threads of research and opinion of recent decades with cogent and measured argument, eschewing, significantly, any discussion of ‘ancient aliens’ or ‘transdimensional intelligences’. When he speculates, it remains constructive and refreshingly earthbound, and sustains a compelling vision.
