In October 2011, Menzies released his third book The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed which asserts that the legendary Atlantis was actually the Minoan Civilization, and that it maintained a sea empire extending from its Mediterranean powerbase as far as the shores of America and India.
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