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Marco Vagato, welcome. How are you?

Good, good. Thank you Richard for having me on the show. It was a pleasure.

I first learned, as many people did, about Atlantis through Plato.

What did Plato tell us about Atlantis and how did he find out about Atlantis?

Plato is probably the most famous source about Atlantis, at least the one that most people

will have heard about. Plato actually wrote in the 4th century BC, and he talks about

Atlantis in a set of dialogues, the emails and the Cretzias, which was left unfinished

at a time of Plato's death. Plato actually never claimed to have a benty or made up the story

of Atlantis. He actually suggested the origin of the story with Egyptian, and that it was a

handed down to his own great grandfather, Solon, by the Egyptian grace of Heliopolis.

Of course, Plato, being a philosopher, adapted the story to his moralistic view, to his philosophical

teachings, but there can be no doubt that the core of the story was Egyptian. We also have

evidence from the Temple of Edfu in a self-ordered Egypt in Appalachia, of a very similar account

that might have been the inspiration of Plato's story of Atlantis, which is contained in the

so-called Edfu-Building Death, which similarly described a lost land of the gods that was

destroyed in Cataclysm, in the primeval age of thousands and thousands of years ago.

So the Temple of Edfu offers kind of an origin story of how Atlantis began, its initial

occupants and so forth, but it's interesting that it describes the original

inhabitants, if I can use that word, as sort of spiritual beings. Absolutely.

Absolutely. Actually, it's quite possible that the version of the account that was preserved

on the walls of the Temple of Edfu was just one version of an account that had different

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