The Mystery of Atlantis [antikvár]

ForewordAs mankind rushes headlong into the future and into limitless space, his horizons have also expanded backward. He has become increasingly interested in his own past. The boimdaries of early civilization have been pushed backward with each year. And as new discoveries are made and new carbon 14 readings (which help to determine the age of certain artifacts) are taken, it appears that man was civilized, in varying degrees, thousands of years before the period we have customarily assumed, and not always in the favorite spots we have usually consideredsuch as the Fertile Crescent of the Middle East.Where then was the first civilization? Were the other early civilizations "exported" from a central point? Was there an older, wiser culture that helped to form Egypt, Sumeria, Crete, Etruria, the Mediterranean Islands and adjacent shores, and even influenced the cultures of the Americas?To these questions there comes a faint but pervasive