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events have found of in the archaeological layers of Ras Shamra in Syria and of the island of Cyprus (Enkomi-Alasia) by the recent French excavations conf. and the discovery of texts contemporary with the end of the XIIIe century and the beginning of the XIIe at Ugarit confirm the reality of these climatic and seismic catastrophes during during which empires such as that of the Hittites and civilisations highly developed to literary activities astonishingly developed in Anatolia, at Ugarit like that of Ugarit have disappeared without leaving disappeared forever.
in Timaeus and Critiasaccording to the information / gathered from the / priests and historiographers / Egyptian (Timaeus, 23)Egyptian, 9000 / before the Athenian eraequipped with bronze weapons, / and already knowing iron,The professor has undertaken to extend his research to Crete Mycenaean Greece for where the upheavals of the end of the XIIIe and the beginning of the XIIe c. have also left distinct traces in the deposits archaeological of<s>/ and the archaeological sites of this period. It is practically certain that the events reported by Plato and according to Solon of Athens (640-558) relating to the disappearance of Atlantis during « earthquakes dreadful and cataclysms »/ and the movement movements<s>/ of the Atlantides Atlanteans across Asia Minor southern towards Egypt se situate also<s>/ in the same context historical and and historical archaeological. The date indicated by Plato Solon, 9000 and 8000 years before the era of Athens and the Egyptian era/ (Timaeus, 23) is clearly erroneous, because at this period for the disappearance of Atlantis and the heroic defence of the Athenians against the Atlanteans: 8000 years before the era is obviously clearly erroneous. For at this remote antiquity remote remote, there could not exist either states states like Athens and the<s> / kingdom of Atlantis/ Greek states and like Athens having an army possessing of armed troops, and having built a the fortress on the Acropolis, nor the city of Athens, nor the kingdom of Atlantis as they are described in the account of Solon reported from Egypt could not exist.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain