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The quest for “lost” continents and their civilizations has continued ever since the Greek philosopher Plato came up with the idea in the fourth century, B.C. Since then thousands of books and articles have been written on the subject and researchers have combed the globe searching for the site of Atlantis, or one of its variations. It seems nearly everyone has a different idea of the exact location. Some have written elaborate descriptions of the highly civilized peoples who are said to have inhabited these ancient home-lands. The subject is vast and complex. Here we can look only briefly at some of these attempts to locate “lost” continents.

In previous articles in this review we have looked at some of the ways in which people have sometimes attempted to suppress or rewrite history to make one side look better than the other. That is not to say that the revision of history is always a bad thing. Sometimes new information comes to light or further reflection results in the legitimate correction of errors in the historical records. However, recent attempts by the Russian mathematician A. Fomenco and his colleagues to rewrite the whole of global history are particularly disquieting because of the broad scope of the project and strident claims of absolute scientific accuracy.

Centuries ago, when the Aztecs discovered it, the ancient city had been burned and abandoned. A haze of mystery still surrounds this magnificent site. Even though experts believe Teotihuacán’s original builders came to the site over 2,700 years ago we don’t know where they came from or where they went.  We don’t even know what language they spoke.

If you thought Columbus was the first to discover the New World in 1492, you haven’t read the works of Barry Fell and his co-workers. In America B.C. Fell offered what he and his followers regarded as proof many groups of people from different parts of the world landed in the Americas centuries before Columbus. Among these were the Celts, a distinctive nomadic warlike people bound together more by common cultural and linguistic ties than by political affiliations. The main period of Celtic expansion probably took place around 400 to 200 B.C. Most Celtic scholars would contend these Celtic migrations were confined to Europe and did not include trans-oceanic voyages before Columbus. Fell, however, asserted Celtic language and culture were important in the New World by 3000 B.C., a claim entirely at odds with standard Celtic history.