Atlantis was destroyed c 1327 BC © Nicholas Costa 2024

Plato gives specific dates in his narrative as to the catastrophe which overwhelmed Atlantis. They have consistently been ignored or grossly misinterpreted.

He cites ‘9000’ years and his source as an ancient record copied from a temple in Egypt. The ancient Egyptians originally measured time in lunar months. There were approximately 12.3 lunar months in a solar year, by this reckoning and the dates ascribed in antiquity to the mythological characters he cites in the narrative the period under discussion is the 1300’s BC.

This period is covered by Hittite and Egyptian texts. Events for this period centre around the narrative concerning the sudden destruction of Ephesus due to a fireball or air-burst.

Ephesus was located in the ‘land of Atlas’ otherwise historically known as Arzawa and later as Lydia.

There are in fact numerous references in the mythical narratives to this disaster via the exploits of Hercules. At exactly the same point in time military incursions were being made in the region by Ionian Greeks from Ahhiyawa who ultimately took over.

This event was never forgotten. It was one of the key motivators for the birth of Christianity.

Full details can be found in Atlantis, the Amazons, and the Birth of Athene

Tudhaliya was the name adopted by a number of Hittite rulers. They named themselves after a mountain which ‘moved’. Atlas is undoubtedly the Greek version of Tudhaliya. Significantly Hittite power came to the fore immediately following the destruction of Apasa/ Ephesus.