Atlantis in western Anatolia
The case for placing Plato's Atlantis in Asia Minor, centred on Ephesus, Apasa and Arzawa, and the author's reading of the terms Libya and Ethiopia.
Press & Interviews
A research archive for conversation
Journalists, bloggers, podcast hosts, and researchers are warmly invited to interview Nicholas Costa about the archive's research questions. This page gathers the background for a first conversation, and every enquiry is answered personally.
Featured appearance
Two podcast conversations with Ancient Origins
Nicholas Costa has already done two podcasts with Ancient Origins. In these conversations he discussed the project's research questions with the Ancient Origins audience, from Atlantis and Bronze Age catastrophe to mythic memory and the ancient sky.
Ancient Origins: Talk to an ExpertInterview topics
Two catastrophe horizons
The proposed airbursts above Ephesus in 1327 BC and Olympia in 1284 BC, and the way Tantalus, Pelops and related myths are read alongside them.
St. Paul, Athene and sacred geography
How St. Paul's route, Aphrodite, Athene and Plato at Iconium are read as later witnesses to the archive's proposed ancient landscape.
Halley's Comet and mythic memory
How proposed cometary returns are used to read stories of Akhenaten, Sisyphus, Phrixus, Ixion, the Argonauts and Helen as remembered sky events.
For editors and hosts
This archive presents the author's interpretations alongside source material, rather than settled historical consensus. Original writings are preserved unabridged with their own sources linked, so listeners and readers can weigh the argument for themselves. Chronology labels are wayfinding within the project, not claims of verified fact.
When covering the research, describe it as the author's framework and link readers to the writings themselves for the full case and its sources.