Sardinia
In 2002 the Italian journalist Sergio Frau published a book, Le colonne d’Ercole (“Pillars of Hercules”), in which he states that before Eratosthenes, all the ancient Greek writers located the Pillars of Hercules on the Strait of Sicily, while only Alexander the Great’s conquest of the east obliged Eratosthenes to move the pillars at Gibraltar in his description of the world.
According to his thesis, the Atlantis described by Plato could be identified with Sardinia. In fact, a tsunami eradicated Sardinia which destroyed the enigmatic Nuragic civilization. The few survivors migrated to the nearby Italian peninsula, founding the Etruscan civilization, the basis for the later Roman civilization, while other survivors were part of those Sea Peoples that attacked Egypt.
In April 2005, the theories of the Sergio Frau were debated in a high-level conference organised by the UNESCO in Paris. At the same time, an exposition with the major findings of the theory “ATLANTIKA” and its evidence was on display in the UNESCO building to confirm that the organization’s experts took the hypothesis quite seriously, and that this seems not to be “just another Atlantis theory”.
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