If you want to study ancient history, you have to be able to read Egyptian Heiroglyphs. You are kidding yourself if you think otherwise. This is the conclusion I've come to. I learnt the basics years ago when I was staying in Luxor, and left it there, as most people do. Well, after finding reference after reference in Egypt in my other reseearch, and being frustrated at not being able to find translations, or read them myself, I've decided to take it further. My plan was to f

I find it somewhat embarrassing that in 2023 we are still talking about "the lost Island of Atlantis", when Plato left us a detailed description of it and its location in his dialogues, other sources point to the same area, and we can literally see the ringed city from space. Given all of the controversy and speculation, you may be surprised to learn in this article that the location is described in quite some detail at the first mention of Atlantis in the Timaeus dialogue. T

In a previous article we learned of references in the Egyptian coffin texts that describe Osiris as the "foremost of the westerners". We know now that North Africa was green and fertile in the predynastic times of Osiris, thousands of years before the dynastic Egyptians. It is in this context, when substantially more of North Africa was inhabitable that Osiris is described as a 'westerner", and the most likely meaning is referring to someone from the western side of the conti

I realise it's heresy at the moment to suggest there is a connection between Egypt and Atlantis, but this would change overnight if the city of Atlantis is found in Northwest Africa, and we discover that predynastic Egyptian history leads to the same place. With a historical Atlantis in the Northwest, the prospect of survivors of the decimated city migrating to the Northeast and integrating into embryonic Egypt becomes a real possibility, and an inevitability when you conside

There was a lot of excitement amongst ancient history enthusiasts online, when the Richat structure, otherwise known as the Eye of the Sahara in Mauritania, was suggested as a possible location for Atlantis. To test the theory, it is necessary to find a good level of agreement between features observable at the site and the descriptions given in Plato's Timaeus and Critias dialogues. In this article I present satellite imagery showing a probable canal system and ancient farms

When a friend of mine says “this is going to sound crazy, but I swear it’s true”, I am inclined to give him the benefit of the doubt. If my friend’s name is Plato (technically Critias via Plato), and what he says has profound implications for mankind, then I ought to have the wisdom to give it careful consideration before writing it off as fiction. In this article I investigate the plausibility of Plato's Timaeus and Critias dialogues being exactly what they appear to be, whi