A Submarine Captain Figures Out Atlantis

Nobody Remembers

What happens if you’re not a historian, but you come up with a theory in history that nobody has thought of? Sometimes in history you find out years after the fact, that what all scholars believed was true, was in fact, NOT the real history.

Well, that’s what Gavin Menzies has discovered…a theory of what Stonehenge was all about, and what it’s real purpose was, and Nobody Thinks what he says makes pretty good common sense.

First a little background on Gavin. He served in the Royal Navy for two decades, becoming a submarine captain, and so it was his love of the sea that sparked the theory that Stonehenge was not designed by some witty Druids, but by a seafaring group of Greeks called the Minoans. According to his research the Minoans were building palaces with paved streets, baths and functioning sewers long before Athens was at its height of glory.

(Gavin also portends that the Chinese had circumnavigated the globe a century before Magellan. They discovered America, and had reached  Australia 350 years before Britain’s Captain Cook, but that’s another book.)

These energetic people of Crete, were, according to Gavin, the greatest boatman and sailors in western history, and they had harbors all up and down the sea coasts all the way up to England.  Homer describes Crete providing 80 sips from seven ports of the Trojan War.

Gavin claims that they invented writing, before the Egyptians, in fact as proof of them trading with the Egyptians, the Minoans are pictured in Egyptian paintings. He also quotes many a famous Greek historian as to their gifts to the world.

“Minos was the first person to organize a navy that controlled the great part of what is now called the Hellenic Sea.”

And then they went on to perfecting bronze. Herodotus talks about the “men of bronze who sold their fighting skills to the pharaohs of Egypt.”

Gavin explains that since the two elements that make up bronze; tin and copper, are not usually found in the same place, the Minoans went sailing to find the best supply, so therefore it was not coincidence that among all the Stone formations in Europe, close by them all, are mines of tin or copper.

Crete the birthplace of Minoan and the lynchpin of the Bronze Age had no copper in usable amounts, so they learn how to built fantastic boats. Gavin knows a good boat, and he thought their boats could have even sailed to Lake Superior.

But, a good sailor needs a good compass, and that’s what all those stone formations all over Europe were really for: reading the stars.

“The Minoans needed to read the stars without that they couldn’t navigate. Astronomic stone circles could have been used to determine latitude and longitude and the dates of the equinoxes and to predict the position of the sun and the moon and their eclipses way into the future.”

So there you have it. These guys were going from country to country, picking up tin and bronze, trading in ivory, and amber, and other fun stuff, and then reading the ‘stones’ to know how to navigate home.

Makes sense to me. Why else would someone drag all those big stones for no other reason than to just have ceremonies?

Gavin backs up his claims that the Minoans were the true Atlantis’ in his book “The Lost Empire of Atlantis.”

But if you are looking for a fairy tale, you won’t find it in Gavin’s book. Just a curious submarine captain, who did a lot of research, and came up with some very sound speculation. Hey, I’m convinced. I can’t wait to read his theory on who really built the Pyramids.

May 16, 2013 Posted by Joyanna Adams | World History | History, The Lost City of Atlantis | 1 Comment