Peter James
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Peter James is a British author and historian who has advanced several controversial theories about the chronology of Mediterranean civilizations, the Middle East, and Egypt. His theories are not generally accepted by mainstream historians or Egyptologists.
In his best known work, Centuries of Darkness, he challenges the traditional chronology of mainstream archaeology. In particular, he advances the idea that the Dark Ages never occurred, arising solely from a misreading of key elements of Egyptian history. This theory is a revision of Immanuel Velikovsky's rejected "Revised Chronology".[1]
James has also hypothesized about the location of Atlantis. By first claiming that references to mythological Tartarus by Plato were in fact meant to identify a Lydian king by the same name, he goes on to identify Atlantis with a hypothetical lost temple city called Tantalis, corresponding to modern-day Manisa in Turkey.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Morkot, Robert, Peter James, Nikos Kokkinos and Colin Renfrew (1993). Centuries of Darkness: A Challenge to the Chronology of Old World Archaeology. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 978-0813519517.
- ^ James, Peter (1995). The Sunken Kingdom. The Atlantis Mystery Solved. Jonathan Cape.
