Atlantis Found
1st edition hardcover cover
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| Author | Clive Cussler |
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| Cover artist | Lawrence Ratzkin |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Series | Dirk Pitt Novels |
| Genre | Adventure, Thriller |
| Publisher | G. P. Putnam's Sons |
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December 6, 1999 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 534 Pages (Hardcover) |
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| OCLC | 41967119 |
| 813/.54 21 | |
| LC Class | PS3553.U75 A94 1999 |
| Preceded by | Flood Tide |
| Followed by | Valhalla Rising |
Atlantis Found is a 1999 novel by Clive Cussler, the fifteenth book in the Dirk Pitt series.
In 7120 BC, a comet hit North America, abruptly ending several advanced civilizations.
In 1858 AD, a whaling vessel discovers a 1770s merchant ship frozen in Antarctic ice, included on this ship is a polished obsidian skull.
A group of U.S. scientists discover a mysterious underground chamber in Colorado, including a polished obsidian skull. They are attacked and left to drown, but U.S. National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA) Special Projects Director Dirk Pitt saves them.
Both skulls found are given to NUMA for study and analysis and a theory about the possibility of them being Atlantean in origin develops.
Another chamber, like the one the scientists found, is discovered on a remote island and Al and Rudi Gunn head there. They make a significant find and are attacked by the same group as the scientists. Meanwhile, Pitt is aboard an icebreaker in Antarctica searching for the 1770s merchant ship. He finds the ship and narrowly escapes disaster. A German U-boat (missing since 1945) is destroyed. Pitt dives on it and recovers the body of a female officer.
The skulls are examined. Inscription symbols are found and they work on finding translations. Inside geometrically exact globes are found, however, the continents and coastlines are different from current globes.
Pitt returns to D.C. and interrupts someone (a twin to the U-boat officer) stealing the latest report from the NUMA director's office. She is captured and blood tests show they are enhanced as well as genetically identical (cousins not sisters). The women are members of the Wolf family (descendents of Nazi escapees). They run Destiny Enterprises, a corporation based in Argentina that is rumored to include Fourth Empire Holdings from Nazi Germany.
The chambers turn out to be the work of a civilization calling themselves the Amenes (pronounced Ah-Meen-Eez). A nation of seafarers and wisemen who discovered and traded with most of the world. The comet from the beginning of the book caused a worldwide disaster that wiped out most of their civilization. It also had a twin, which returned to space. The few Amenes that survived built the chambers to pass on information of the twin comets return and the catastrophe. This information is given to an observatory to be checked.
Dirk meets Karl Wolf (C.E.O. of Destiny Enterprises Limited) and mentions the potential catastrophe. Wolf's reply implies that his family is planning to capitalize on the disaster.
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