Atlantis and the Silver City

ATLANTIS

and the

SILVER CITY

PETER DAUGHTREY

PEGASUS BOOKS

NEW YORK LONDON

For the two bravest people I know, my wife, Margaret, and my sister, Dorothy

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

CHAPTER TWO

IMAGE
1
, p. 21: Timeline.

CHAPTER FOUR

IMAGE
2
, p. 33: Western Europe and North Africa.

IMAGE
3
, p. 36: The position of the Gorringe Bank.

CHAPTER FIVE

IMAGE
4
, p. 44: The seabed off the Algarve and Costa de la Luz coasts.

CHAPTER SIX

IMAGE
5
, p. 56: Libyan Temehu chieftain.

CHAPTER SEVEN

IMAGE
8
, p. 60: Southwest Iberia and the Straits of Gibraltar.

CHAPTER TEN

IMAGE
14
, p. 91: The fruit of the carob tree.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

IMAGE
28
, p. 127: The area around Silves.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

IMAGE
29
, p. 137: Tectonic fault line.

IMAGE
30
, p. 146: The probable extent of the Atlantis homeland.

CHAPTER FIVETEEN

IMAGE
31
, p. 150: Atlantic Islands.

IMAGE
32
, p. 158: The Bahama Islands.

IMAGE
33
, p. 159: The Bimini Road as it is today.

IMAGE
34
, p. 161: Artist’s impression of how the Bimini Road would have looked when in use.

IMAGE
35
, p. 162: Artist’s impression of how the Andros Platform would have looked when in use.

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

IMAGE
36
, p. 172: Tribal groups in southwest Iberia in 200
B.C.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

IMAGE
39
, p. 181: Stone Age bone dagger engraved with ancient alphabet.

IMAGE
40a
, p. 183: Ancient southwestern alphabet compared with others.

IMAGE
40b
, p. 184: Phoenician alphabet.

IMAGE
41
, p. 187: The Goliath shard from 950
B.C.

IMAGE
42
, p. 188: Pottery shard from the Harappan era in Pakistan.

CHAPTER NINETEEN

IMAGE
43
, p. 209: The DNA symbol, the symbol on the egg, and other similar ancient ones.

CHAPTER TWENTY

IMAGES
50a
,
50b,
p. 225: Reliefs from the Egyptian Hathor temple depicting electrical devices.

All other images are in the photo insert.

The photographs are by Peter Daughtrey and the illustrations, maps, and charts are by Peter Daughtrey and Maria Paula Duarte, unless otherwise accredited
.

PART ONE