Atlantis
A Lost Civilization The Atlantis Encyclopedia is a result of more than two decades of continuous studyand international travel. It began in 1980, when I started picking up clues to the lostcivilization in locations from the ruins of Troy and Egypt’s desert pyramids, to Morocco’ sunderground shrine and Britain’s Stonehenge, beyond to the mountaintop city of Peru and a ceremonial center in the jungles of Guatemala. My quest took me to Polynesia’scannibal temple, the seldom seen solar monuments of Japan’s remote forests, and the golden pillar of Thailand. I sought out credible proof in my own country, traveling fromcoast to coast, finding telltale evidence among the world’s most northerly pyramids,in Wisconsin; at Ohio’s Great Serpent Mound; and in the ruins of North America’s oldest city, in Louisiana. I participated in diving expeditions to the Bahamas, Yucatan,the Canary Islands, the Aegean Sea, and the PacificOcean. Decades of these on-site explorations was combined with research in