Jordi Guri Harth
The Author
I was born in Barcelona in 1966. During my formative years in high school, a charismatic history teacher inspired me to study the subject further. So upon completing my military duty in the navy, I enrolled in the university of Salamanca to study History. However, during my third year, due to unforeseen events, I had to discontinue my studies and relocate to England. There, I pursued a carrier in hospitality management. History seemed to be something lost in my young past. Or so I thought.
As life would have it, ten years later a serendipitous encounter with a Cypriot woman, who is now my wife, brought me to the island of Cyprus. This new relocation was also a new chapter in my life. This new land was a wonderland of history, mythology and archeology. My passion ignited once again and augmented by the mythological element that intermingles with the history of this place, I embarked on a 17-year journey of research and study. Early on, I realised that mythology may well be the oral transmission of history. The deeper I delved in history, the more gaps I encountered in the official historical narrative. Intrigued, I decided to use mythology as a means to bridge these gaps. By doing so, I realised that ancient literature was full of previously unnoticed historical facts.
When at times I shared and discussed my findings and theories with family, friends, historians and archaeologists, I was urged to put it in writing. Although I have researched into many ancient myths, I have decided that for this first written endeavour, it would be more fitting to look to the story that dwelled with the origin of civilization; and as Plato said, Atlantis is where ancient Greeks and Egyptians cultures originated.
This book is a labour of love. My research is based mostly in ancient texts, modern science and at times just on plain common sense. I hope that my arguments are compelling enough, even if it would be only to induce you to read or research the ancient sources.
