Howard Phillips

Giuseppe Haimann, italian artist and explorer of Libya, published in his book "Cirenaica" 1886, an engraving of a megalithic circle at Haua Segal, near Benghazi. What happened to it? Why is it missing in the archeological record and even from the whole internet?

"The Hill of the Graces" book, shows a 1895 picture of a megalithic formation near Cyrene, shaped similar to Stonehenge. The author is archeologist Herbert Weld Blundell, discoverer of the Sumerian Kings prism, but no other info can be found. What happened to those megaliths?

Atlantis in Tunisia-Sicily evokes a resemblance with the much later phoenician empire around Carthage. Phoenicians were related to chaldeans and sumerians. Who were the first seafarers of western Mediterranean? Proto-phoenicians 3.300-2.200 BC could have been the atlanteans.

Diodorus Siculus (Historical Library IV, 85) also narrates the formation of the Strait of Messina, by the hands of the giant Orion. Tectonic plates collide in that region. Earthquakes and volcanic eruptions gave birth to a rich mythology. Pics: Fontana di Orione Orion by Poussin

This is kinda neat. Never really knew how those stones were made even though antique ones are everywhere here as decorations.

But if you actually try for more than a few seconds, you get a much different result. 2/

This map can help to visualize how that coastline was in ancient times.