Stonehenge: Where Atlantis Died

A novel which is based around Stover's theory that Stonehenge was built as a political structure, for the meeting of tribal chiefs. Set in 1500BC, it tells the story of the battle between the Mycenaean and Atlantean (or Minoan) empires. The Atlanteans control the tin mines reached by way of the river Danube, forcing the Mycenaeans to travel to Britain to mine the tin needed for their bronze weapons, in Cornwall.

When the Cornish mine is raided by Atlantean agents, Ason, son of the Mycenaean king, travels with an Egyptian architect to Britain to get the mine working again. Being too far away from Mycenae to be able to rely on his father's soldiers for protection, Ason must form alliances with Britain's tribal chiefs.

The story centres around both the British site of Stonehenge, and the Atlantean palace on the volcanic island of Thera.

The book includes a bibliography of 'suggested readings', and appendices by Stover which explain the historical evidence for the truth of his theory, and of the background of the story generally, including the site of Atlantis and the nature of its destruction. Stover's political theory of Stonehenge was eventually written up in Stonehenge and the Origins of Western Culture, Heineman, 1978.

Dedication: For our wives Joan Marion Harrison and Takeko Kawai Stover who built Stonehenge with us.

Note: "Portions of this book were formerly published as Stonehenge."

New York: Tor, September 1983, 347pp., ISBN: 0-523-48073-3, pbk. Maps: Jacques Chazaud. Reprinted July 1992 (ISBN: 0-8125-2068-8).

London: Granada, 1985, 352pp., ISBN: 0-586-06204-1, pbk. Cover: Gino d'Achille. Map: Jacques Chazaud.

as: Stonehenge: Atlantiksen Tuho. Finland: WSOY, 1993. Translated by Marja Sinkkonen. [Finnish]

Moscow: 1994, 416pp., ISBN: 5-7221-003-5. [Russian]