A reader’s starting point
Four questions, one research archive
This archive groups Nicholas Costa's writings into four reading paths. Each path gathers the original writings, preserved unabridged, that explore one question in his research on Atlantis, the Amazons, and the Late Bronze Age world.
A note on how to read this page: it is a guide to the author's interpretations alongside source material, not settled historical consensus. The writings themselves carry the full case and its sources.
The four reading paths
Where would the author place Atlantis?
The case for Western Anatolia, and how sources such as Plato and Isocrates are read within that framework.
Could catastrophe survive in myth?
How proposed Bronze Age airbursts are connected with stories of Tantalus, Pelops and Olympia.
What can later sacred geography preserve?
Later journeys and cult sites read as witnesses to the archive's proposed ancient landscape.
Could myth remember the sky?
Stories of Sisyphus, Phrixus and the Golden Lamb read alongside proposed cometary returns.