Archaeology

New Light on an Old Legend, very numerous illustrations (14 in colour) from photographs, artefacts, line-drawings, sketch plans and diagrams, maps, appendix giving extracts from Plato relevant to the Atlantis legend, notes, bibliography, index, 224 pp, red boards in d/w, bottom edge of d/w stained from damp, but the covers of the book and the bottom margins of pages show only the very faintest damp-markings, closed edges of pages very slightly spotted, otherwise in very good condition, Book Club Associates by arrangement with Thames and Hudson 1973

24.6 x 18.3 cm, 870g, SBN 50039 005 3

See the description below from the dustwrapper flap. This is one of two books which appeared in 1969 (the other being ‘Atlantis – The Truth Behind the Legend’ by Galanopoulos and Bacon) arguing that Atlantis was the Greek island now known as Santorini. The island was an extinct volcano which exploded unexpectedly around 1470 BC, causing a tsunami which led to the collapse of the Minoan civilization in Crete.

Long out of print.