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THE MYSTERY OF ATLANTIS 185
Others went around Africa to Ceylon and the occidental part of
India, where they constructed more than 2,000 megaliths. Some
went farther on and reached Tibet, which explains how the
authors of the Tibetan bible knew with such certainty the date of
the great disaster of Atlantis and all the other precise details.
A very interesting book was published some time ago that registers
the distribution of megalithic monuments all around the
world and tells us that an enormous dolmen with a stone cover
plate weighing 600 tons stands in eastern Korea, so it seems that
refugees from the sunken Atlantis even got as far as that.
Until recently the general opinion was that the megalithic
monuments of Europe were no more than about 3,000 years old,
so nobody associated them v^dth Atlantis that disappeared 12,000
years ago. But now when we have the first
really existed we also have discoveries
proofs that Atlantis
indicating that some of
the dolmens and menhirs are at least 10,000 years old or older.
The young British archaeologist Colin Renfrew threw out all the
old traditions and came up with a book proving that the megaliths
of France, Spain, and Wales are much older than the tombs
of Mycenae, the ziggurats of Mesopotamia, or even the pyramids
of Egypt.
In other words, our civilization
was not bom in the Middle
East, to be brought north into Europe. Just the opposite—it
started in Western Europe and went down southeast toward
Greece, Crete, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and western India.
Some who do not believe that Atlantis really existed might ask
how come no artifacts have ever been found from the lost
continent that could have been brought to Europe or the Mediterranean
basin before the destruction of Atlantis. I have asked
this question myself and I think that I have found an answer. No
material except solid rock, which is not easily transported, and
maybe solid gold, can last for 12,000 years. Most other materials
oxidize and turn to dust. Besides, it is quite possible that some
objects that fill our museums as unidentified primitive art and
pagan idols are indeed remnants of Atlantis. The pure gold
tablets in the museum in Cuenca are one example of such possibility.
So were the many hieroglyph-covered gold statues and
tablets that the Spanish conquistadors melted into ingots, de-