Frank Joseph (real name Francis Joseph Collin) presents in this book the most comprehensive modern defense of Plato's Atlantis as a real historical civilization that disappeared in a catastrophe around 1628–1600 BC.
The book represents the most ambitious attempt by the Baigent-Leigh duo (authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail) to show how Western culture, art, science, and politics from the Renaissance to the present day are actually the fruit of a single, millennia-old o