Just to clarify: when I started my research over a year ago, I initially also started out with the 12.000 years hypothesis. I spent all of my summer in 2023 researching, preparing and writing an academically cited video-essay about the mesolithic Atlantis hypothesis (12.000 years, African Humid, Younger Dryas, Milankovich, Phaëton etc.). However, as my research progressed and I discussed it with one of my old friends who studies history, I realised that it was actually impossible for this theory to be true and also linked to the Atlantis story (

Chronology⁠

Order of transmission of the story⁠

). This really taught me that sometimes you need to kill your darlings, even though you put a lot of time and effort into them and are proud of it.

When investing time and resources into something that relies on certain presuppositions, it can be very difficult to accept having to reject those presuppositions. However, this doesn’t need to be the end and can actually be a correcting force that moves you into the direction of truth that might be even more amazing and realistic. This reluctance to let go is also known as ‘sunk cost fallacy’, because you realise you invested resources into something with a dead end, which makes it seem wasted. However, it is not wasted, but rather a lesson to be able to grow to a whole new level, and this is essentially what I want to pass on to you as well.

Another psychological trap to watch out for is the ‘Texas sharpshooter fallacy’, where people go into some research with strong presuppositions, which makes them ONLY look for evidence where it matches their expectations, and either convince themselves, or miss out on the actual evidence before their eyes, which can only be seen from a different lens.

To me, our collaboration would seem the most logical in the following way, if you agree. Your cinematographic skills, knowledge of media and technology, and importantly, your footage of the fortresses at the Richat, are clearly your strongest assets. In this regard you are superior to me, since I can edit videos a little bit and talk into a camera, but I cannot produce compelling media like you can. However, my most valuable assets are my extensive academic research and background knowledge. I have read several books and countless articles around this topic, obsessively combed the internet for any trace of relevant evidence, and combined this into a large interdisciplinary, but most importantly, historically grounded and empirically verified body of research. Because the neolithic and the bronze age are exponentially larger topics with way more complexity and historical evidence, this is really a separate research in itself besides the 12.000-year-mesolithic-Atlantis-Richat speculation with which I began. Since your research still focuses on this period, I think my research is a perfect match to add more solid research where you lack it, and similarly you can provide the documentary skills and footage and personal experience at the Richat which I lack. If we team up to make a feature length or mini-series documentary, with professional citations, solid historical research, concrete evidence and amazing drone shots and visuals, I think this could really become a next-level gem of a documentary :)

Make a feature length documentary, possibly a mini-series?

Upload it to Youtube? Premium or open access?

Netflix? Research budget? (Compare: Ancient Apocalypse Hancock; Saqqara Tomb)

National Geographic? (Compare: Atlas of Cursed Places;

Atlantis Rising 2017⁠

)

Gaia streaming? (Compare:

Visiting Atlantis⁠

)

History Channel?

EPIC IDEA: USE VIDEO EDITING AI ON THE DRONE SHOTS OF THE FORTRESSES, AND ASK IT TO REPLACE THE DESERT WITH A SAVANNAH/OASIS ENVIRONMENT, FILL THE CIRCULAR DITCHES WITH RIVERS AND EDIT NEOLITHIC SOLDIERS AND CATTLE IN THE FORTRESSES:

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Academics, researchers and relevant institutions to reach out to:

Name

Profession

Website

Country

Augustin W. Holl

gaochang@xmu.edu.cn

Anthropologist and archaeologist of Western Africa, including Tichitt culture

Cameroon, China (Xiamen)

Kevin Macdonald

kevin.macdonald@ucl.ac.uk

Professor of African Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology Gordon Square, University College London, Institute of Archaeology

UK (London)

Yves Gauthier

yves.gauthier8@wanadoo.fr

Saharan prehistoric archaeologist

France?

Gonzalo J. Linares Matás

gjl41@cam.ac.uk

Archaeologist, remote sensing Tichitt culutre

Spain, UK (Oxford)

El Houssein Abdeina

abdeinaelhoussein@gmail.com

Geologist (PhD) at Nouakchott Al-Aasriya, documented the Richat

Mauritania (Nouakchott)

Sarah Parcak

info@globalxplorer.org

Egyptologist and sattelite archaeologist, estimated Richat fortresses at 5000BP, but sceptic of Atlantis

USA

Roald Docter

Roald.Docter@UGent.be

Phoenician archaeologist

Belgium (Gent)

Harry Stroomer

h.j.stroomer@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Professor of Afroasiatic, Berber languages

Netherlands (Leiden)

Maarten Kossmann

m.g.kossmann@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Professor of Amazigh language and oral tradition

Netherlands (Leiden)

David Miano

https://www.speakpipe.com/davidmiano

Ancient historian and Youtuber World of Antiquity (Richat-Atlantis critic)

USA

Heinz-Günther Nesselrath

HeinzGuenther.Nesselrath@phil.uni-goettingen.de

Classical philologist and Atlantis sceptic

Germany

Colleen Darnell

colleen@colleendarnell.com

Egyptologist (Medinet Habu!) and Youtuber

USA

Thorwald Franke

info@atlantis-scout.de

German Atlantologist, creator of Atlantis-scout

Germany

Tony O’ Connell

Atlantologist, creator of Atlantipedia

Ireland

Archaic Lens (name unknown)

inquire@archaiclens.com

Independent alt-history researcher (visited Richat, working on documentary),

https://www.youtube.com/@ArchaicLens/videos

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USA?

EAMENA

eamena@arch.ox.ac.uk

Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa database

UK (Oxford)

Royal Archaeological Institute

admin@royalarchinst.org

Research grant awards

UK (London)

MAURITANIAN INSTITUTE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

imrs4521@gmail.com

MAURITANIAN OFFICE OF GEOLOGICAL AND MINERAL RESEARCH

Mauritania

MINISTRY OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

infomesrs@mesrs.gov.mr

Mauritania

UNIVERSITY OF NOUAKCHOTT ALAASRIYA

Mauritania (Nouakchott)

National Museum of Mauritania

info@momaa.org

Mauritania (Nouakchott)

There are no rows in this table

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Photograph artefacts in situ with measuring stick and background

Bring metal detector!!

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Why Atlantis Searchers Can't Team Up - The appropriate Atlantis Searchers' Sportsmanship - Atlantis-Scout⁠

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Thorwald Franke on Reddit in response to someone else’s Richat-Atlantis geography hypothesis:

Hey

NukeTheHurricane⁠

, do you really expect me to take your "arguments" seriously? Richat only two rings? Are you blind? The sizes of the various types of stadium are well-known, none fits! How salt water from a river? Where is the opening in the rings? I don't see it. Everything wiped out so that no traces left?! What a nonsensical argument! You cannot believe your arguments yourself!

Me in response to this: Thorwald, would you say that your tone in this comment is in line with the ethics of your 'Research Charter?' Besides, the Minoan civilisation falls terribly short of many of Plato's descriptions (e.g.: elephants, tin, concentric ringed land-feature, being INSIDE of the Pillars of Hercules, rather than OUTSIDE as Plato clearly states, locating them in the Ἀτλαντικῷ πελάγει / Ὠκεανός). Besides, the Richat-Atlantis hypothesis is not tied to the pseudoscientific 12.000 years assumption, and can in fact be decoupled and regarded during the neolithic up to late bronze age period, since the Richat structure remained where it was during this lapse of time, and the Nouakhchottian climate during the Mid-Holocene (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1631071309000996) phase provided a temporary window of seasonal inland rainfall around the Atlantic coast which would drain downhill in rivers into the Atlantic Ocean, as described by Plato. This created a temporary agricultural niche with the invention of pearl millet domestication, and their participation in an interlinked trade network along river drainages might have made them a participant in the broader Atlantic-facade bronze age maritime trading culture.

Besides this, the stadium is a more recent unit of measurement than the supposed late Bronze age timeframe, and would thus be anachronistically used when applied to geographical descriptions of landfeatures from this time. Since the definition of the stadium was so loose, and in this context is used anachronistically, it is more safe to rely on the proportions of the different measurements relative to each other, rather than the exact length of a single stade, and match the described lay-out this way to the geographical relief of the Richat, assuming rainwater collected in rivers at the lowest points, in between the rings, and drained southwards because of the southward slope of the Adrar pleateau.

This whole quasi-mystical desert archaeology field trip reminded me of my favourite ATLA episode:

⁠

https://youtu.be/WLskcGkYQaM?feature=shared⁠

RICHAT DRONE VIEWW

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3ZAdfs0x-Y&t=614s&ab_channel=ItchyBoots⁠

richat drone 9:50-11:00

Put all sources at the end of the video

Animations of sea peoles battles

Edit short reels with summary of arguments to attract attention

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